Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — Page 2

Sr™ BS 8 i| ". a HEALEY A CLARK, Publishers. RENSSELAER, * INDIANA

EXCUSE ME!

By Rupert Hughes

Oowrigiit,uu,i*rb.4.ityOaX SYNOPSIS. Ueat. Harry Mallory Is ordered to the Phiippines. 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 o 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 ge|t a divorce, boards train in maudlin con* dltion. Later Mrs. Jimmie appears. She is also bound tot 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 cat loose and Temple removes Cides to let Mallory proceed alone, but train starts while they are lost in farewell. Passengers join Malory's classmates in giving couple wedding hazing. Marjorie is distracted. Ira Lathrop, woman-hating bachelor, discovers an old sweetheart, Annie Oattle, a fellowpassenger. Mallory vainly hunts for a preacher among the passengers. Mrs. Wellington hears Little Jimmie's voice, later she meets Mrs. Whitcomb. Mallory reports to Marjorie his failure to And 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. jDr. Temple poses as a physician. Mrs. Temple is induced by Mrs. Wellington to smoke a cigar. Sight of preacher on Station platform raises Mallory’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. Marjorie's Jealousy aroused by Mallory’s baseball Jargon. Marjorie suggests wrecking the train in hopes that accident will produce a preacher. Also tries to induce conductor to hold the train so she can •hop. Marjorie’s dog is missing. She Suits the cord, stopping the train. Conuctor restores dog and lovers quarrel. Lathrop wires for a preacher to marry him and Miss Gattle. Mallory tells Lathrop of his predicament and arranges to borrow the preacher. Kitty Lewellyn, former sweetheart of Mallorv's. Appears and arouses Marjorie’s jealousy. Preacher boards train. After carrying Lathrop and Miss Gattle the freacher escapes Mallory by leaping from moving train’. Mallory's dejection moves Marjorie to reconciliation. TEtf last day on the train brings Mallory the fear of missing his transport. Mallory gets a Nevada marriage license. Marjorie refuses to be married by a divorce drummer. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmie make up. Kitty Lewellyn refuses to return * Mallory's braclet. Robbers hold up the train. -

j CHAPTER XXXVll.—Continued. Marjorie was trying at the same time to compel Mallory to crawl under a seat and to find a place to bide Snoozleums, whom she was warning toot to say a word. Snoozleums, understanding only that his mistress 'was in some distress, refused to stay In his basket and kept offering his services and his attentions. . Suddenly Marjorie realized that Kathleen was trying to taint In Mallory’s arms, and forgot everything else in a determined effort to prevent her. • After the first blood-sweat or abject fright had begun to cool, the passengers came to realize that the invaders were not after lives, but loot. Then came a panic of miserly effort to conceal treasure. Kathleen, finding herself banished from Mallory’s protection, ran to Mrs. Whitcomb, who had given Ashton up as a hopeless task. "What shall we do, oh, what, oh what shall we do, dear Mrs. Wellington t” she cried. “Don’t youfdare call me Mrs. Wellington!” Mrs. Whitcomb screamed; then she began to flutter.- “But we’d better hide what we can. I hope the rah-rah-robbers are ge-gentlemen-men.” She pushed a diamond locket containing a small portrait of Sammy into her back hair, leaving part of the chain dangling. Then she tried to stuff a large handbag Into her stocking. Mrs. Fosdick found her husband at last, for he made a wild dash to her side, embraced her, called her bis wife and defied all the powers of Nevada to tear them apart. He had a brilliant idea. In order to save his fat wallet from capture, be tossed it through an open window. It fell at the feet of one of the robbers as he ran along the side of the car, shooting at such heads as were put out of Windows. He picked It up and dropped it into the feed-bag he had swung at fcis side. Then running on, he clambered over the brass rail of the observation platform and entered the rear of the train, as his confederate, driving the conductor ahead of him, forged his way aft from the front, while a third masquerader aligned the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman and the baggagemen. CHAPTER XXXVIIL. V A r . Hands Up! All thlsUlme Lieutenant Mallory had been thinking as bard as an ofgoer In ah ambuscade. His harrowing experiences sad incessant defeats < the pest days had unnerved him and Slllttsrpd Ms aaif-confidence. He was > v flct itfriH, but intensely

Novelized from the Comedy of the Same-Name ILLUSTRATED Frwm Photographs ol the Play as Produced By Henry W. Strata

sat absent-mindedly patting Marjorie on the back and repeating: - •’Don’t weary, honey; they’re apt going to hurt anybody. They don’t want anything but our money. Don’t worry, I won’t let ’em hurt you.” " But he could not shake off a sense of 'nausea. He felt himself a- representative of the military prowess of the country, and here he was as helpless as a man on parole. The fact that Mallory was a soldier occurred to a number of the passengers simultaneously. They had been trained by early studies In those beautiful works of Action, the school histories of the United States, and by -many Fourths of July, to believe that the American soldier Is an Invincible being, who has never been defeated and jiever known fear. They surged up to Mallory In a wave of hope. Dr. Temple, being nearest, spoke Arst. Having learned by experience that his own prayers were not always answered as be wished, had an impulse to try some weapon he had never used. “Young man,” he pleaded across the back of a seat, “will you kindly lend me a gun?” .

Mallory answered sullenly: “Mine is in my trunk on the train ahead, damn it. If I had it I’d have a lot of fun.” Mrs. Whitcomb had an inspiration. She ran to her berth, and came back with a tiny silver-plated revolver. “I’ll lend you this. Sammy gave It to me to protect myself In Nevada!” Mallory smiled at the .22-caliber toy, broke it open, and displayed an empty cylinderr=^= “Where are the pills that go with it?” he said. “Oh, Sammy wouldn’t let me have any bullets. He wss afraid I’d hurt myself.” Mallory returned It, with a bow. “It would make an excellent nut-cracker.” “Aren’t you gding to use it?” Mrs. Whitcomb gasped. “It’s empty,” Mallory explained. “But the robbers don’t know that! Couldn’t you just overawe them with it?” “Not with that,” said Mallory, "unless they died laughing.” Mrs. Wellington pushed forward: ‘Then what the devil are you going to do when they come?” Mallory answered meekly: “If they request it, I shall hold up my hands.” “And you won’t resist?” Kathleen gasped * —— “Not a resist.” “And he calls himself a soldier!” she sneered. Mallory writhed, but all he said* was: “A soldier doesn’t have to be a jackass. I know just enough about guns not to- monkey Vith the wrong end of 'em.” »

“Coward!” she flung at him. He turned white, but Marjorie red, and made a leap at her, crying: “He's the bravest man in the world. You say a word, and I’ll scratch your eyes out.” This reheartened Mallory a little, and he laughed nervously, as he restrained her. Kathleen retreated out of danger, with a parting shot: “Our engagement Is off.” "Thanks, ’’ Mallory said, and put out his hand: “Will you return the bracelet?” “I never return such things,’’ said Kathleen. The scene was so painful and such an anachronism that Dr. Temple tried to renew a more pressing subject: “It’s your opinion then that we’d best surrender?” “Of course —since w.e Can’t run.” Wedgewood broke In impatiently: “Well, I consider it a dastardly outrage. I’ll not submit to it. I’m a subject of His Majesty the —” “You're a subject of His Majesty the Man Behind the Gun,” said Mallory. ”1 shall protest, none the less,’’ Wedgewood Insisted. Mallory grinned a little. “Have you any last message to send home to your mother?” Wedgewood was a trifle chilled at this. “D-don’t talk of such things,” he said.

And by this time the train-robbers had hastily worked their way through the other passengers, and reached the frantic inhabitants of the sleeper, "Snowdrop.” “Hands up! Higher!! Hands up!” With a true sense, of the dramatic, the robbers sent ahead of them the most hair-raising yells. They arrived simultaneously at each end of the aisle, and with a few short sharp commands, straightened the disorderly rabble Into a beautiful line, with all palms aloft and all eyes wide. and wild. One robber drOvb ahead of him the conductor and the other drove in Mr. Manning, whom he had -found trying to crawl between the shelves of the linen-closeL The marauders were apparently cattlemen, from their general get-up. Their hats were pulled low, and Just beneath their eyes they had drawn big black silk handkerchiefs, tied behind the ears and hanging to the breast. Over their shoulders they had slung the feed-bags of their horses, to serve as receptacles for their Bwag. Their shirts were chalky with alkali dust. Their legs were encased In heavy chaparejos, and they carried each a pair of well-used Colt’s revolvers that looked as big as artillery. When the passengers had shoved and jostled Into line, one of'the men jabbed the conductor In the back with the muzzle of his gun, and snarled: “Now speak your little piece, like 1 learned It to you.” The conductor, like an awkward schoolboy,' grinned sheepishly, and ■poke, his hands In the air the while: "Ladies and gents, these here parties In the black tidies says they want everybody to hold his or her hands as high as possible till you git permission to lower 'em; they advise you

not to resist, because they hate the meat.” -• The impatient robbers, themselves the prey of feartul Khlrtetles. brolw in, barking like a pair of coyotes In a jumble of commands: “Now, line-up with your backs that way, and no back talk. These guns shoot awful easy. And remember, as each party is Anlshed with, they are to turn round and keep ’their hands up, on penalty of glttin’ ’em shot off. Line up! Hands up! Give over there!” Mrs. Jimmie Wellington took her time about moving into position, and her deliberation brought a howl of wrath from the robber: “Get into that line, you!” €s" « Mrs. Wellington whirled on him: "How dare you, you brute7-’--And she turned up her nose at the gun* The anxious conductor Intervened: "Better obey, madame; he’s an ugly lad.” “I don’t mind being robbed,” said Mrs. Jimmie, “but I won’t endure rudeness.” The robber shook his head in despair, and he tried to wither her with sarcasm: “Pardong, mamselly, would you be so kind and condescendin’ as to step Into that there car before 1 blow your husband’s gol-blame head off.” This brought her to terms. She hastened to her place, but put out a restraining hand on Jimmie, who needed no restraint. “Certainly, to save my dear husband. Don’t strike him, Jimmie!” Then each man stuck one revolver into its convenient holster, and, covering the passengers with the other, proceeded to frisk away valuables with a speed and agility that would have looked prettier if those impa-tient-looking muzzles had not pointed there and everywhere with such venomous threats.

And so they worked from each end of the car toward the middle. Their hands ran swiftly over bodies with a loathsome familiarity that could only be resented, not revenged. Their hands dived into pockets, and up sleeves, and into women’s hair, everywhere that a jewel or a bill might be secreted. And always a rough growl or a swing of the revolver silenced any protest. Their heinous fingers had hardly begun to ply, when the solemn stillness was broken by a chuckle and low hoot of laughter, a darkey’s unctuous laughter. At such a place it was more shocking than, at a funeral. “What alls you?” was the nearest robber’s demand. The porter tried to wipe his streaming eyes without lowering his hands, as he chuckled on: “I—I —just thought of sumpum funny.” “Funny!” was the universal groan. “I was just thinking,” the porter snickered, “what mighty poor pickings you-all are goln’ to gif'but of me. Whilst if you had ’a’ waited till I got to .’Wlsco, I’d jest nachelly been oozin’ money.” The robber relieved him of a few dimes and quarters and ordered him to turn round, but the black face whirled back as he heard from the other end of the car Wedgewood’s indignant complaint: "I say, this is an outrage!” “Ah, close your trap and turn round, or I’ll —’’ The porter’s smile died away. “Good Lawd.” he sighed, “they’re goln' to skin that British lion! And I Just wore myself out on him.” The far-reaching effect of the whole procedure was just beginning to dawn on the porter. This little run on the bank meant a - period of financial stringency for him. He watched the hurrying hands a moment or two, then his wrath rose to terrible proportions: “Look here, man,” he- shouted at the robber, “ain’t you-all goln’ to leave these passengers nothin’ a tall?” * “Not on purpose, nigger.” “No small change, or nothin’?” "Nary a red.” “Then, passengers,” the porter proclaimed, while the robber watched him in amazement;.“then, passengers, I want to give you-all fair warnin’ heah and now: No tips, no whiskbroom ! ” Perhaps because their hearts were already overflowing with distress, the passengers endured this appalling threat without comment, and when there was a at the other end of the line, all eyes rolled that way. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

Plan to Make Rome Seaport.

The latest project to make Rome a seaport Is to lay out a port 36 feet deep near Castel Fusaro, formed by running two Jetties out Into the sea for distance, as at the port of Ymuiden, Holland. From the port will lead a ship canal 15 miles long and 200 feet wide and 27 feet deep. At Rome shipping accommodations will be laid out in the river below the city, and this will be connected with the navigable part of the Tiber uy a system of locks. It will cost about $15,000,000 to carry out the project Opponents of the Idea claim it will not pay, but the promoters affirm that when once the city is connected with the Mediterranean there will result s great amount of traffic. * <

Embarrassed Judge.

It would be unkind to give the ngmet of an eminent Massachusetts judge who beckoned an offioer In the couA to him the other day to Inquire the name of a certain man sitting In the courtroom. The judge felt that he knew him very Intimately—and perhaps ought to extend to him some special courtesies —bat, not recalling hie name, could U 9( decide what to do. The officer of the court returned la a few moments with the report thafe the gentleman was a bartender fig Young’s.—Boston Herald.

HOBSON IS SNUBBED

Invitation to a Luncheon in Denver Is Recalled. Santiago Bay Hero le Surprised at Insult Offered by Chamber of Commerce In the Western City. Denver.—Capt. Richmond Pierson Hobson, feted, dined and cheered by hundreds of trousands of American citizens and kissed by hundreds of beautiful women In recognition of his heroic deed in bottling up. Cevera’s fleet in the harbor of Santiago during the SpanishAmerican war, has been snubbed by the Denver chamber of commerce. An Invitation to luncheon, extended Captain Hobson on behalf of the chamber of commerce, was withdrawn, summarily and within an hour of the scheduled hour of the luncheon, because of protests of 40 hotel and case proprietors to President E. J. Yetter of the chamber. The hotel and case proprietors Insisted that Captain Hobson be barred from the program, presumably because of his mission in Colorado. Shortly after Captain Hobson’s arrival at the Brown Palace hotel he was summoned to the telephone and was informed by an official of the chamber of commerce that, after due consideration, the speakers’ committee had determined to eliminate him from the program because of the policy of the chamber, which is that it shall not indulge in pleasantries per talning to politics. “It is the Arst time In my experience that I have been snubbed in this way,” said Captain Hobson at the Brown a few moments later. "Certainly, I might have been credited with sufficient tact and decency to be trusted not to speak before such a gathering on the liquor question. As an Invited guest I should have been the last to mention such a subject, realizing that there might be some present to whom the discussion of such a matjter would be distasteful. “My subject was to have been ‘The Merchant Marine, the Panama Canal and Coast Defenses.’ “If I tvas not wanted, why was the Invitation extended; or, if the invitation was extended in temporary aber-

RECALLS FIGHT WITH INDIANS

Record of Fort Ridgely Fight Is Preserved in Special Edition Issued by the Fairfax Standard. St. Paul.—ln commemoration of the battle of Fort Ridgely which occurred Aug. 22, 1862, Asa M. Wallace, a deputy state fire marshal and publisher of the Fairfax Standard, has Issued a special edition of-his paper, in which he gives a full account of the incidents which led up to the brief but bloody war between the white settlers and Indians around New Ulm, Redwood Falla, or Redwood Agency, as the place was known then, located about seven miles south of the present town of Fairfax. The souvenir edition Is nearly printed on heavy book paper, and there are a number of Illustrations. Several special articles are contributed by well-known men who were In Minnesota' at the time, and some of whom took part in the battles. Then there are reports from the officers In command; Lieut. John F. Bishop at Redwood, with the heroic Captain Marsh, Lieut. T. J. Sheehan at Fort Ridgely, Col. C. F. Flandrau at New Ulm, and others. The battles are said to have been among the most bloody o t, those fought between the whites and Indians. Over 3,000 men, women and children fell victims to the savages. The struggle attracted little attention at the time, for the Civil war was In progress, but It was no less Important than bloody, for it subdued the savages and saved southwestern Minnesota to the whites.

MAN IS TIRED OF AMERICA

Minneapolis Delivery Wagon Driver Charges That His Employer■,Violated the Immigration Law. Minneapolis.—ls James Fenlon were an artist, an actor or an opera singer he would not have recourse to the courts, hut he declares through his attorney that he Is simply a delivery wagon driver and therefore feels he shonld be deported -and should receive a SI,OOO judgment from his employer. It is the first case in the history of federal jurisprudence in Minnesota where anyone him asked for deportation. Fenlon, through his attorney, has brought complaint In federal court against J. C., Wilson, charging violation of the immigration acL The complaint declares that In 1911 Wilson Induced Fenlon to migrate from hlB home In Greenock, Scotland, to the United States, promising that If He would come to Minneapolis he would give him a job as a delivery wagon driver at sl2 a week. According to the complaint, it was understood the transportation expenses were to be paid back out of Fenlon’s wages Fenlon, however. Is said to have become dissatisfied and has brought suit under the law whereby none but actors, opera singers or artists may be brought into the country under such s labor agreement without violation of 'be Up migration laws.

GENERAL POST OFFICE IN STAMBOUL

This is the beautiful general post office of Stamboul, as the Turks call Constantinople.

ration upon the part of some one, why was I not given an opportunity to withdraw gracefully? It might have been arranged so that I could have been given an intimation of the situation, that I might have missed connections and have been unable to arrive in time for the luncheon, or so that I might have rearranged my plans.” The captain was visibly perturbed, and It was apparent that his feelings had been Injured greatly. Almost at

once, however, he shook off all out-can falls.

BIG FLOCK OF WHITE SWANS

Twenty Pounders 4hot in a Line-Up an Eighth of a Mile Long on the Susquehanna River. York, Pa. —Gunners along the Susquehanna river are making- the moßt of a visit of big v’hite swans. A flock in which seventy-seven of the Btately birds were counted was seen upon the swollen stream near Long Level. The birds were spread' out In a file about an eighth of a mile long. Two that were killed by the Lucas brothers, residing in this vicinity, each tipped the scale at twenty pounds. In four shots John Shank, pilot of the Wild Cat Falls ferryboat, killed three swans and crippled a fourth. The three birds weighed forty pounds, the largest being a seventeen pounder.

HIRES HUSBAND FROM JAIL

Wife Purchases Convicted Man’s Services for SSOO a Month— Spouse Bold Liquor. Asheville, N. C.—Placing a much higher value on his services than any one else, Mrs. P. H. Thrash hired her husband from thq board of county commissioners for one month for (500, strictly cash In advance. Thrash, a man worth $60,000 and well connected, had been found guilty of keeping liquor to sell to retailers

FALL ON NAIL KILLS BOY

Rusty Puncture of His Hip Finally Develops Lockjaw in Eleven-Year-Old Youth. South Bethlehem, Pa. —Suffering terribly, little eleven-year-old Robert E. Berg has died at his parents’ home here of lockjaw. Several days ago the lad. while .playing at the South Beth lehem brewery, fell and landed on his elde on a rusty nail. The nail penetrated the hip a considerable distance, but the wound was healing nicely and all danger was thought to have passed, when suddenly tetanus developed.

WOMEN ARE TO REVEAL AGES

Penny for Every Year and One for Those Longed For, to Be Assessed Guests at Tea Party. * ______ SI Connersvllle, lnd. —The clubwomen of Connersvllle are expected to reveal their exact ages at a colonial tea party at the home of Mrs. Essie Shively. It Is made obligatory on each guest to bring as many pennies as she Is years old. In addition to these she Is also to bring a penny for each’ additional year she wishes to live. The money thus accumulated Is latended as a part of a larger sum being raised to aid poor girls In Indiana.

ward appearance of resentment at the treatment and began a discussion of politics, the beauties of Denver, the war cloud Covering over the Balkans and Europe and other subjects of general interest!

Suicide Goes Over Falls.

Niagara Falls. N. Y.—Christian Kledehn, forty-five years old, a city fireman, committed suicide on Sunday by Jumping into the river near Prospect Point and going over the Ameri-

SHE BALKED AT SIXTEENTH

Wife Willing to Cook for FJfteen Boarders, But No More—Files Suit for Divorce. \ Muncle, Ind. —Here is the point that Judge Frank Ellis of the circuit court mus decide: 13 a wife, who Is caring for the wants of fifteen boarders, justified in rebelling when her husband insists that she shall also cook for the sixteenth and take care of his rooms? Has the husband, on her refusal, the right to threaten her with physical violence? The suit Is that of Sarah against Charles Williams for divorce. Mrs. Williams says that she is willing to take care of fifteen boarders and roomers, and asked for no assistance, but the sixteenth boarder was the figurative straw that broke the camel’s back. On the Introduction of the sixteenth boarder she says she rebelled, and that the husband cursed and abused her.

in his prohibition sectioh and' sentenced by Judge Long In superior court to pay a fine of $2,000, costs amounting to S4OO and to be imprisoned In jail thirty days; but upon the tearful petition of the wife the judge stipulated that if the county commissioners chose to do so they might hire the defendant for his term to -the highest bidder, but not less than S6OO. The board decided to take the money and in default of other bids the defendant was struck 6ff to the wife for S6OO, which she promptly paid.

IT WAS POISON, NOT SMOKE

Mothers Flog Boys, Not Knowing They Had Eaten Roots, and Later Bummon Doctors. * Bloomsburg, Pa. —Eating yellow dock roots, which they mistook for artichokes, six Bloomsburg boys reach* ed their homes to become deathly sick. —- p. Several of the mothers at first concluded that they had been smoking, and the youngsters came in for a chastisement. Their condition soon became such, however, that doctors were hastily summoned, and for a time it was feared they all would die. The boys affected were Raymond For, Irwin and Harry Whennan, William Lawless, George FoUmer and Rutter Ohl.

TRAPPED IN PIT WITH SNAKES

Victim Rescued by Three Boys After Twenty-four Hours' Imprisonment With Reptiles. « . Sal Id a. Colo—W. J. Burrows, a hotel clerk, was rescued from a mine pit, where he had been Imprisoned twenty-four hours with snakes and rats. He fell into the pit, twelve feet deep, while taking a walk in the mountains. and after entering the deserted mine, using lighted matches to guide him. His cries were heard by threa bojfr, who rescued hiss.