Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1912 — Page 3

MILDRED IN VENICE

Did Things Not Strictly in Accordance With Mater’s General Principles. ? , BY IZOLA FORRESTER. "I don't see why it woold Ti». (Wrong—" began Mildred. "I don’t say it was wrong to do It. t mid it would be decidedly outre. Otherwise not in accordance to the mater’s general principles, and you mustn’t do it.” Mildred turned from the lofty embrasured window with a sudden distate for the Grand canal, and its (businesslike gondolas. They had been In Venice two weeks, and already her •very heart strings twanged a song of home longing. Seth regarded her placidly. The family knew that only Beth cou|d adequately care of (Mildred in Venice. He was plump and, normal.-'and thoroughly Indolent It •was as If some one had tied an anchor to a gay little aeroplane, and after two weeks, the anchor was surely dragging. Bren Seth realized that much. "When will mother get here 7” She did not' wait for the answer. “Not until next Thursday, you know she won’t, Turner. And tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. Do you suppose that I am going to sit around this decayed, moldy, miserable, dismal old palace with you and eat oily messes on Thanksgiving day. Well, I won’t, do you understand. I won’t do It.” “He won’t have any turkey, child,” murmured Seth, kindly. “He’s only a poor devil of an architect trying to ■wallow all of Europe on about fifty per.” » y ■ “I’d rather be that than doing Europe as a girl bodyguard." "Strike!" grinned Seth, sitting up.' “Why not? Lord knows you need a bodyguard. Anyone who wants my Job can have It.” “Seth! I think brothers are awfully fussy.” “They're the down-trodden of the earth.” , -

“Won’t you go over now and call on him? His blinds are up." ( "You ought to be ashamed of yourself for watching his blinds. I’m not going.” * , “Don’t. HI Invite him myself, then, but I’m going to eat* the nearest approach to turkey I can find tomorrow, and have Carl Devereaux for dinner, and If you don’t like It, you may go and stuff table d’hote trash With the Spencers.” "Here goes me,” groaned Seth. "What'll I tell him?” “Tell him we are Americans, and lonely, and we want him to come over and talk home things.” The door closed noisily after Seth. Mildred waited a moment, holding her breath at her own temerity; then laughed and returned to the window overlooking the canal. It was sunset. Half #ay down the old palace where they had secured rooms, was Carl Devereaux’s studio. The blinds were up. And while she stood there, he came to the-window, and lounged up on the broad sill, smoking, and watching the bank of red and purple clouds idled up behind the somber old skyline out towards thl islands. r Seth’s gondola was near there. Suddenly Mildred saw a figure of a man outlined for a moment behind Devereaux. The next instant the body of the architect pitched downward from the window Into the waters of the canal. Her clear shriek clipped the air like a bullet, but Seth, laay, easy going Seth, was already on his feet, his -coat half off. He slipped Into the water like a seal. “He didn’t rise because there are stone steps there, and at high tide they’re covered. The devil knew It, too, and figured on his head, striking them.” Seth spoke In a low tone. On the couch In his room lay Devereaux, two English doctors working over him. "We’ll keep him here, if you don’t mind, Millie. American, you know, and all that I’m going to stand by.” “And how you dcolded an hour ago. You old dear thing. Did they get the fellow r Beth shook his head. “They’ll get him at the wharfs. He’s a Sicilian. He cheated Devereaux yesterday In a deal oyer boat fare, and got punched. They don’t understand a punch heire. He was getting even, that’s all. The doctors say he’ll be laid up for a couple of weeks, and I’m going to see him through. He’s one of my frat men. Beat me out of Harvard by four years. Seems a nice sort.” Seth was frowning, and talking In a deep voice, as he always did when he was covering any of his own delinquencies. But Mildred smiled, looking over at the head on the couch pillow. It meant something to this stranger to have Seth Turner for a "frat” pal. The doctors were leaving. While Seth talked to them in the vestibule, she leaned over the face on the pillow. He had turned in falling from the window, and had struck the •tone steps on his shoulder, throwing ft out of Joint, and bruising his whole body badly, but his head was unhurt, and he was conscious. “What did they do with the boy?" His voice eras low and rather husky, j "He hasn’t been taken yet" "Hope he gets away. He only followed his own instinct the same as I did In punching him yesterday. 1 won’t enter a charge." "Seth has, though." He closed his eyes at the swift pain that ran like liquid fire mOag his nerves. *

“You’re both good to me.” . “Because you’re one of our own Beth was on his way to see you when tt happened.” “Why?” A little crooked stone curved his llpa “I am not a celebrity In Venice. Travelers do not usually pay me calls, of ceremony.” “Well, to be perfectly frank.” Mildred sat down beside him, her chin on one palm, the toe of her slipper swinging, "I wanted Seth to go over and Invite you to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, hoping that you’d know., where we could get a turkey." He opened bis eyes and looked at her. “I have watched for yon at your window every day since yon came here. Your head makes a spot of red gold against the old wall casement Did you know that your hair la like Titian and Da Vinci put on their women?” Mildred laughed. '1 know what Seth will say if I let you talk, and your temperature runs up.” “Why do you drop red roses down In the canal?” . “Ships of empires, outward bound. Anybody’d guess that I freight them with hopes, and let them sail due south." Seth took possession of the patient, and far Into the night there sat a little, lonely figure at the great old stone casement, looking down at the gayly lighted canal, and the rooms that were dark where Dqvereaux had lived. - She dropped no red roses Into the water that night Two weeks later Carl found her out on the balcony. Behind them, Seth and her mother, who had Joined them from Paris, entertained American friends. , 'T followed you on purpose,” he said. “I haven’t had a chance to speak to you the whole evening until little Kreppels left you to play hi» 'cello solo.” “Don’t you love that?” She lifted her f§ee, eyes half closed, to catch the first thrilling cadences of Chdpln’s "Nocturne in E Flat.” Devereaux plunged hardily, gathering both her hands to his lips. “I loive —you,” he breathed. "I am going back home with you next week. Do, you know why?” “But you mustn’t, . You have two years mote to study here. Oh, Carl —” the name came before she could check it. "Don’t be foolish. Don’t throw It all up, Just to follow me home to the states. Don’t you Jmow—” K “Know what?”

“Don’t you know & girl wants a man to be a winner?” Her eyes, clear dark eyes that never wavered, searched him. ’lf you reaUy care for me, stay and fight” “I can come back and finish ftp afterwards.” “After—” "We are married.” She was silent. He drew her nearer until hls cheek rested against hers. “Do you care that much, dear?” Presently Seth pulled aside the heavy curtains at the window. "You two are missing everything,” he called. “Directly. Seth, directly.” retorted Devereaux, * cheerfully. "Mildred was Just deciding on Venlop for the wedding." (Copyright, 1911, by the McClute Newspaper Syndicate.)

TWAIN HAD HIS REVENGE

How Great American Humorist Got Baok at Chum Who Bald He Was Lazy. When the great man "arrives” the associates of bis boyhood days, who used to iaugh at the idea of hls ever “amounting to anything,” retire unobtrusively to the background. But when the opportunity arises to make an example of some such skeptlcaT old friend, surely no one could rise to the occasion more effectively than did Mark Twain on the occasion described by Albert Bigelow Paine. He came to Keokuk to visit, and was offered five dollars a week and board to remain. He accepted. In the same building was a book store, in which a young man named Edward Brownell clerked. He and Sam Clemens became great charms. Sam read at odd moments at night in bed, voluminously, until very late sometimes. One night Ed Brownell, passing upstairs, to his. room on the fourth floor, poked hls head In at the door. * . “What are you reading, Sam?” he asked. “O, nothing orach —a so-called funny book. One of these days Til write a funnier book than that myself.” Brownell laughed. "No, you won’t Sam,” he said. “You are too lazy ever to write a book.” A good many years later, when the name “Mark Twain” had begun to stand for American humor, the owner of It gave hls “Spanish Islands” lecture in Keokuk. Speaking of the unreliability of the. islanders, he said: “The king is, I believe, the greatest liar on the face of the earth, except one; and I am sorry to locate that one right hers In the city of Keokuk la the person of Ed Brownell.” —Youth’s Companion.

A Hope.

"I ain’t got any sympathy for Turkey; I hope she gets wiped off the map." - "Why?" “If our boy can’t get no more Turkish cigarettes maybe he will stop tbs habit” , '

Cause of It

“My dear Mrs. Jones, why do you look so worried?” “The coal is all out and my hue band is all In."

FDR WASHINGTON’S UNION STATION

THIS Is one of the six statues by Saint Gaudens which are beiiig placed over the entrance to the union station in Washington. The statues weigh about 25 tons each and are among the largest ever cut from single blocks of stone. The inscriptions beneath them were selected by Dr. Charlhß Eliot.

SLAVES GET RUBBER

Pitiful Condition of Native Indians Described in Letter. Lured by Promises of High Wages Into a Servitude From Which Only Escape Is Starvation. London. —Revelations concerning the methods of rubber gathering in Peru are made In a remarkable letter in the Times from F. H. Fawcett. It throws a searching light on the situation, showing clearly the huge profits made by the exploiters and their hideous methods of retaining the natives In their service. Here is a summary of how the exploring company which has discovered rubber trees performs its business on returning to civilization: “Agents, half-caste men of straw, with a knowledge of Quichua, were contracted as they still are every year, to secure labor. They are advanced money. They visit Indians on the Altiplanicle, tempt them with the advances of sums unheard of by the poor Indian, highly color the life and profits, make them drunk, perhaps, anyway finally obtain a paper signed, or alleged to have been signed, pledging their miserable possession of a hut, a potato patch and a llama against a contract to gather so many quintals of rubber (a quintal being 100 pounds). "The Indian, on recovery from his debauch, is forcibly dragged away (proceedings at which the law winks) to the rubber estates. “He has to work under half-caste task masters, often mnMl-mnderers, and is required to transport hls own food and rubber (weighing 100 pounds) over trails no reader would care to traverse free from a load:” Men, women and children are bought and sold for personal service. Parents sell daughters; the brutal appreciation of life is such that there is no security In the Peruvian forests for the possession of children. It if a mistake, fie points out, to suppose that it is pnly a degenerate class of Peruvikn who is guilty of abuses. They are perpetuated by foreigners of various nationalities. “Escape for an employe Is very difficult, from many places impossible,” Fawcett says. “They do, however, get away sometimes. “In escaping he abandons everything but life. He can stay and probably! die, knowing he can never be out of debt “For all abuses the owners are responsible, whether they realize how their profits are gained or not The agent on the spot Is not always to blame. His livelihood is bound up in the business. ' “He can, under the guise of honest treatment swindle his ignoranTlsbor force over its accounts and production, and thus keep it in debt and at permanent work.' “Or he can starve it The latter course Is useful when a man’s production does not equal the cost of hls food supply, as it cannot in the rainy season. I have known a force of 300 Indians, who, feeding upon forest leave* died of pure starvation."- .

FIVE MONTHS SPORT OF SEAS

Oil Barge Woodhall, Long Believed Lost Arrives at Trinidad, According to Message. New York. —After battling for five months on a seemingly shipless ocean, Capt Edwin L. Smith of London has arrived at Trinidad with the fifty-five foot oil barge Woodhall, from English shipyards, according to word received by friends here. Bmith dared to pilot the little barge on her perilous trip. Which was proposed to save the expense of towing, where a dozen other London skippers feared to try It It was expected that the trip could be made In forty days, but she met adverse weather and was the sport of the seas. In the meantime the boat had been given up as lost According to the report received here the captain found an American stowaway on board, who helped to deplete the meager supply of provisions. During the last few days the crw had to live on a biscuit and half a cnp of fresh water a day, as they were unable to sight a "ship to aid them.

WEARS BRACELET ON ANKLE

Churchgoers by the Hundreds Gaze Approvingly at Combination of Gold and Hose and Lingerie. 8t Louis, Mo.—With rings her finders and a solid gold bracelet snugly clasping her ankle, Miss Adeline Gritman attracted the off hundreds of churchgoers- as she walked to a drug store recently. The zephyrs were sufficient to place the skirts and lingerie in Just such a position that the ankle and the bracelet displayed their charms, and the combination proved irresistible for even those church bound. “Yes,” assented Miss Gritman, when

PARROT WORKS FOR CITY

‘Teddy” Bosses the Workmen Who Are Paving an Alley In Chicago. Chicago.—“ Teddy” la a parrot and a "boss" of men. City workmen are paving the alley In the rear of the bird’s home, and they get neither time to loaf nor opportunity to fatten their pay envelopes by making the Job last longer, for "Polly” is constantly on the Job "bossing" the men, except, of course, when "Polly" is talking polities. August T. Reich man n, 3014 Clifton avenue, letter carrier at the Lake View sub-station, is the- owner of •’Teddy" and describes the .martinet hold the bird has on the laborers. “Come on, fellows!" the bird demands. At first the men were mystified, and gaxed wonderingly at “Teddy” when they received the command: “Go to work, now. boys!” “Pollyalias “Teddy.” has a good eye for detail, too, her owner declares. Refchmann is off several hours every afternoon and declares he has come home and found his pet conversing and giving orders like this: "What are

HIT CONTRACT LABOR

Prison Heads Think Convicts Should Work for State. Some of Subjects Bhould Bs Trained. Others Used for Gain, Is Ides Advanced In Reports Given at Jailers’ Congress. Baltimore. —The contract system of prison labor was condemned in the report of the committee on prison labor presented at the congress of the American Prison association in annual session here. The committee, how.ever, recommended the system when no other means of employment could be provided, believing It preferable to idleness. The employment of prisoners, the report maintained, should be directed entirely by the state and the products of this labor should he disposed of by the state. The first consideration df*every or 1 ganization, the report continued, should be the training of the prisoner, and, after that, financial results. Every prison should be so classified thaffc a certain group of men should at all times be provided with work on farms, roads and other outside work, and a larger portion of each prison should be employed on the state account system. The committee believed It possible for every state having a population of two million inhabitants or more to employ all its convict population In the manufacture of articles for the use of state and its political divisions. James H. Leonard, superintendent Mansfield, was elected president- of the association, and Dr. D. C. Peyton, Jeffersonville, Ind., vice-president. Those re-elected were: Secretary, H. H. Trenton, N. J.; financial secretary, H. H. Shirer, Columbus, Ohio; treasures', Frederick H. Mills, New York.

Paid $579 for Love Powder.

New York. —Because her milkman sweetheart failed to return to her after she had paid $579 for “love powder” to Jane Grindle, Mary Jarrin, housemaid, had the love powder manufacturer arrested.

asked about the Incident, "it did create somewhat of a sensation, but I cannot see why, can you? Now, in New York, where I have lived from time to time, nobody ever thought anything of it, and I woi*o a bracelet most of the time in the same way. “You see, St. Louis is such a small town that anything novel gains so much publicity for one. When I first came to work here I wore many novel Ideas. I have become quite demure in my tastes recently, but I like the bracelet idea. “Really, I think the bracelet looks prettier on the ankle than on the wrist The gold shows off to better advantage over black silk hose than most any other color, but it looks good over pink.”

PROPOSES AS JOKE; ACCEPTED

Girl Disappears, However, and Harvard Btudent Is Borrowful by Loss. . . Cambridge, N. J.—Jimmy Ryan, • Harvard sophomore, is conducting a search for a girl to whom he became engaged the other night, and whom he had never seen before. Ryan and two others were neophytes at a fraternity initiation, and were instructed to ask every girl they met to marry them. One girl—“the handsomest girl I ever saw” —according to Ryan, attracted the youth’s eye in Watertown square, affd on bended knee he begged her to be hls. Much to his surprise and to the chagrin of those in charge of the initiation the girl led him aside and accepted hls proffered heart Then, taking two little pendants from her ears she placed them on those of the entranced Jimmy to bind the agreement and disappeared around tlwTcorner. < Ryan says he will find her If he has to hire a detective.

Hens Are on Btrike.

Washingto.—Eggs will be cheaper and more plentiful as soon as the hens get through molting, according to Dr. H. M. Lanen, government hen expert

you doing? Stay at it Drop that, yoi boob," and terminating chattering* frequently with, “That’s the boy.” ts> “ Teddy* must be honest,” said fit J. Glackin, secretary of the board of local improvements. “The name does not appear pa the city pay rolL This la one tlme the city gets the best of H.”

CORN HUSKERS ARE ON JOB

Rivalry Btarted In Kansas, Henry Hardiek Leading With 160 Bushels a Day. Topeka, Kan.—Rivalry for cornhusking honors among the young fanners of Kansas' has already this year developed many experts in the gentle “shucking.” The beat record thus far was made by Henry Hardiek of Lyons, who picked cleaned and cribbed 160 bushels of corn in ten hours. Hie next best performance was that of Joe Black oi Alden, who bad 132 bushels In ten hours to hls credit. Other good records reported range from 127 dowi to 100 bushels in a ten-hour day.

FOUR KINDS OF BREAD

SOME VARIATIONS OF WELLCALLED "STAFF OF LIFE.” ■.. .•' / * ’jjBBS H Directions for Making Ordinary Table* Necessity—Concocted From Sour Milk or Oatmoal—Walnut Brown Bread Is Recommended. Raised . Breads—Two cakes of compressed yeast, one tablespoon salt, one pint sweet milk, a piece of lard size of an egg, quart of warm water, two tablespoons sugar. Put the yeast in one pint of warm water early In the morning, let it stand a half hour in a warm place; stir Into this mixture one and a half pints of flour; let stand about three-quarters of an hour or until full of bubbles. Add to the above one. pint of warm water, one pint of scalded milk, sugar and salt; beat together; stir in all the “raise bread flour” it will take; turn out on the bread board and cut and knead, working in the lard until smooth. Let rise until light, or about .six hours, molding in loaves with tire hands, not kneading on the board. Set to rise. When the tin is two-thirds full, brash over with melted lard; set in a hot oven, with the door open, for ten minutes; close the door and bake tor three-quarters of an hour; take out and brush over with melted butter, break apart and cool. Bour Milk Bread.—One cup of cornmeal, one teaspoon salt, one cup rye flour* one teaspoon .soda, one cup graham flour,, one-half cup molasses, one cup raisins, one pint sour milk. Mix the ingredients. Steam for three hours, then remove the cover from the crust. > Oatmeal Bread.—One quart of boiling water turned on one pint of rolled oats. Let stand until bool. The® add one-half of a yeast cake dissolved in a little water, one-half enp of molasses, one quart of entire wheat flour, one quart of sifted flour and salt to taste. Raise over night, stir down, raise again,' Btir down, drop in bread tins, raise again and bake for about 40 minutes. Walnut Brown Bread. —Two cups of graham flour, one and a half cups of white flour, two cups of sweet milk, one-half cup of brown sugar, one-half cup of molasses, one cup of walnuts chopped fine, one teaspoon of salt, one large teaspoon of soda. Beat light. Bake in one loaf for one hour.

Helpful Hints.

Beetles can be exterminated from any room if the place they infest is sprinkled with ground borax mixed with common brown sugar. When the flesh is bruised It should be bathed freely and at once with very hot water. This will prevent congestion and the ugly discoloration. To sweeten rancid butter, melt the butter, skim it, then place a piece of light brown toast in it, and in a few minutes the toast will have absorbed the unpleasant taste and smell. To prevent frying fish from becoming greasy and sodden, have the fat in which it Is to be fried almost boiling hot before putting the fish In the pan. A blue smoke will be rising from the fat when it is in the proper condition. Alum water is good to use for rinsing curtains and muslin hangings, children’s dresses and pinafores, in order to render them non-inflammable. Two ounces of alum should be dissolved in one gallon of water and be used in the rinsing process. 7

Nut Loaf or Vegetable Turkey.

Mix together three cups chopped nuts, three cups dry breadcrumbs, thre cups of milk, one tablespoon of butter dissolved In some of the milk, one and one-half teaspoons of finelypowdered sage or poultry seasoning, two teaspoons of salt. Lastly, stir ill six well-beaten eggs. Bake , twenty minutes Ip a brisk oven and servie hot with brown gravy and cranberry Jelly. Half of this recipe makes a large quantity. I bake mine in a loaf pah. Brown Gravy—To each eup of war ter take three tablespoonfuls of peanut meal, add when boiling. Thicken with browned flour and season to taste.

Hamburg Eggs.

Cream two tablespoonfuls of butter, four tablespoonfuls of soft bread crumbs and a teaspoonful of minced parsley, seasoning to taste with salt, paprika ahd celery salt. Work all to a smooth paste and with it line small individual patty pans that have been brushed with melted butter; break an egg carefully into each, and after dusting lightly with salt, cover with a mixture of melted butter and browned bread crumbs, cooking for six minutes in a hot oven. Serve in the pans garnished with parsley.

Cheese Straws.

Use two ounces of butter, two ounces pi grated cheese. I use the American cheese, four ounces of flour, one egg, salt and white popper to taste and a dash of cayenne. Work the ingredients with your hand They become Vi a smooth dough. Roll the dough out thin, cu* in straws four inches long and bake on tin sheets in a quick oven.

Delicious Luncheon Dish.

Beat two eggs and add to them a pint of hot milk. Put In the bottom of a pudding dish four slices of stale bread two Inches square. Grate over them one-fourth pound of cheese and over the whole pour the hot m’ik and eggs. Bake 20\minut»s and serve hot

When You Are Ironing.

When ironing stand on a soft thl£k rug; your feet will not get so tired.