Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1913 — Page 3

ENEMY NEXT DOOR

What Happened When He Was Brought to Her Home Near Death’s Door.

By SUSANNE GLENN.

“Good morning,” called the man across the hedge in what Miss Mattie Mayne considered a disagreeably cheerful voice. “Good morning,” he repeated, louder and more cheerfully, as she continued pruning her currant-bushes in silence. She lifted her head then with a dignity that she meant to be chilling, and looked him over critically, before she resumed her pruning. - '“He is one of those men who never can see through anything,” she sighed in exasperation, knowing that Mary Lane was enjoying'her discomfiture from the back porch adjoining. The man, she decided, was big with an all-pervading cheerfulness, and might have been called' good-looking if he had not resembled so much the rest of the Daytons! “I wonder,” he was saying. to himself, “if she can possibly be deaf?” He came quite close to the dividing hedge. “Won’t y° u let me come over and do that for you?” he fairly shouted, and Miss Mattie distinctly heard a surpressed laugh from the Lane back porchWith cheeks entirely scarlet, she approached the hedge, pruning knife in hand. Seldom had she appeared to better advantage, and she was not a plain woman at any time. “I am not deaf,” she explained painstakingly, and in a voice too low for any ears but his. “Could you not see that I did not care to speak to you?" “But why?” he demanded, imitating her tone as well as his good bass voice would allow, ,hls admiration shining openly in his eyes. ‘Td like to come over and do that hard work for you. What is the reason I cannot?” "Because,” said Miss Mattie slowly, “we are enemies.” F “Enemies?” He threw his head suddenly and laughed so unrestrainedly that a head appeared at a nearby window. “Why, my dear young lady, how can we be enemies when we are strangers. If we are to be neighbors—” “But we are not to be neighbors,” she Interrupted coolly. “I have never neighbored with the Daytons. And I beg of you to remember it, and not make me ridiculous before everyone In the street.” And she returned to her pruning without another glance in his direction.

What Philip Dayton thought of this dismissal cannot be recorded, because he had recently come to the old Dayton homestead upon inheriting it at the death of his uncle, and he had made none of the Interested neighbors his confidant. He settled down with a capable housekeeper, and Miss Mayne continually heard him spoken of in the highest terms of approval, all of which she accepted in silence. But it takes two to make a bargain, as she presently began to perceive; she might refuse to be his neighbor, but he certainly had every Intention of being hers. One morning she found on her back porch a basket of such grapes as grew nowhere but in the Dayton garden. “The horrid wretch,” she cried, “not to give me an opportunity to refuse them. Now I shall have to accept, or let them spoil.” And she carried them in reluctantly. -—-- Another morning, following a moonlight night, she found the apples from her. Spy tree in a neat pile at the foot of her back steps. “I Was out there yesterday wondering how I should get them, and I suppose—l was seen! I declare, it is getting so I hardly dare walk about my own garden!” When snow came, which it did early, as if in exasperation, nothing could make him desist from keeping her paths clear. And Miss Mattie attacked her morning work furiously to drown the sound of his shovel, keenly conscious of the peerings and titterings along the street. The Dayton cat, a huge, black creature, seemed to share in the friendliness of his master and haunted her premises persistently, while the Dayton puppy chewed up her door mat and the evening paper. By spring Miss Mattie was actually showing signs of the strain. There was a little pucker of worry between her eyes, and she really dreaded the season of out-door living and garden making. It was a shame, for she was ardently fond of gardening. Happy that she.was free from observation. Miss Mayne dug contentedly in a warm, early bed close to the sheltering hedge. She even Indulged in a little song quite under her breath. Other contented little sounds presently mingled with her own and, turning, she saw, coming through a hole in the hedge, the sprlghtllest of yellow balls of fluff with sharp, inquisitive eyes, and busy feet “Oh, you darlings," cried Miss Mattie, and the chickens ran and picked familiarly at her fingers. “But ycu must go back the way you came, you naughty, runaway babies!** And she began tucking them back through the hole in the hedge. As she stooped to push the last one through, someone's fingers closed over hers and released them as suddenly. Miss Mattle fled precipitately. "How should 1 know he was on the other side coaxing them back?" she cried, washing her hands vehemently. “Oh,

a friendly enemy Is worse than a grouchy one! i pish he’d go away.” She was preparing snpper, still in a perturbed State of mind, when hurried steps sounded on her front poroh, and hastening forward she beheld two strangers carrying In the limp form of lier enemy next door. “We'll lay him here on the sofa. Ma’am,” they said, "and then get the doctor. He slipped on the crosswalk and the front wheel of the car went over him. He was conscious long enough to tell us where he lived.” And she stood alone, looking at the unconscious man stretched on her hall davenport. The old doctor looked grave. “They made a mistake in the house. If it doesn’t disturb you, I would rather not move him until we see which way it Is going.” “Certainly not,” said Miss Mattie quietly. “Would he be more comfortable in a bed? Have one of the men call his housekeeper.” And she went to lay out fresh linen.. “A Dayton! ” she murmured, in a dazed sort of way, and her cheeks went crimson.

His recovery was tedious at first; when he did begin to mend he begged to be taken home. “Certainly not, untill you are able,” remonstrated Mattie, “unless you are uncomfortable here?” she amended. ~ “I can’t bear to be making you so much trouble,” he said seriously. He seemed to have lost his cheerfulness. At last he was able to sit up and to receive callers, and one day she admitted a stranger who remained for some time. When the man was gone, Philip Dayton called hed to his room. “That man wants to buy my place, Miss Mattie,” he said. “And you are going to sell?” she asked faintly. “That depends. Ido not believe he wants to give what It is worth. Which is the better place of these two?” “Why, yours,” said Miss Mattle. “You like it better?” “Any one can see —” she and stopped. —' “Then suppose you sell him this place,” he suggested, “and we’ll keep the other. I’ll deed it to you.” “Oh,” murmured Miss Mattie, as he took both her hands in his and drew her down upon the edge of his sofa. “Don’t you know,” continued this very domineering man with a return of his old cheerfulness, “that I cannot go back there alone? Don’t you know that you do not want me to, Mattie, dear?” “But, she gasped, “what can I say to Mary Lane —and the others?” “Tell them,” he said, holding her with remarkable strength for a sick man, “that It was the only way you could get rid of the Daytons for neighbors!” (Copyright, 1912, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

GREELEY A NATURAL SPELLER

Said to Have Been Master of the Language When He Was in His Sixth Year. No champion of the old-time spelling matches, perhaps, ever excelled Horace Greeley. He was, in fact, a spelling prodigy. What would the boys and girls of today, who grumble over their daily stint of 20 words, think of a child not yet six years old who could actually spell every word in the language! That is what the young Horace is said to have been able to do. His schooling began in his fourth year, and the art of spelling at once became a passion with him. In school and out, he kept incessantly at its Istudy. Hour after hour he would lie on the floor, spelling over all the difficult words he could find in the few books that the family owned. The fame of his prowess spread. Naturally, Horace was the first one chosen at spelling matches. He had a lisping, whining voice, and spelled his words with the utmost confidence. Sometimes in winter, when the snowdrifts were so deep that one of the big boys had to take him to the school house on his back, the little white-haired fellow would drop asleep between turns. When his word came round, his neighbor would nudge him anxiously; he would wake, spell his word, and drop asleep again at once. So great was the boy’s reputation as a student of unusual powers that the selectment of a neighboring town, in passing a rule forbidding the attendance at the local school of any pupil from outside the township, honored him by adding the clause,. “Excepting only Horace Greeley!”— Youth’s Companion. ■«

Pursuit Vain.

At the corner of West Twenty-fifth street and Detroit avenue, a few nights ago, an automobile, driven faster than it should have been, struck a well-dressed lady and knocked her into the gutter. The driver didn’t stop to see what damage he had done, but put on a little more speed. Luckily, the woman was not much hurt, and a policeman asked her name and address. She refused to give it. The policeman then put out after the machine. “What are you going to do?” asked the victim. "Arrest the driver of that car,” answered the officer. “Oh, please don’t! It won’t do you any good, and it won’t do me any good. The driver of that car was my husband. Let him go!”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Evidently.

*1 always try,” said the egotist, "to see myself as I imagine other people see me.” “Evidently.” replied the modest man, “you have a very poor imagination.”

Among the numerous adjuncts of civilization introduced to the Philippines by the Americans is the talking machine, which the natives look upon as a supernatural affair that Is beyond their understanding. “Where does the voice come from?" is their unvarying question, and some of them declare its owner must be buried in the ground beneath the box. ~ Our photograph pictures a sub-chief of one of the most savage tribes listening to a comic song.

GIRL AS A CONSCRIPT

Barrack Training Is Advocated in Germany. Adoption of Female Conscription School Urged as Remedy for Decay of the Empire—Will Meet a Social Need in Empire. Berlin, Germany.—Conscription for women —or rather for girls—-is the latest of the great reforms which Germany promises the world. A heated debate has been raging on the subject Scores of distinguished Germans like Field-Marshal Vpn der Goltz, ex-Mlnister of Education Von Moeller, Prof. O. Wltzel, the woman novelist; Dr. Martha Gauthe, all far vor the project, while it Is opposed by a great many others, including the The problem Is well within the range of practical politics, and were it not for the unceasing financial need of Germany it would probably be carried out within a few years. What form exactly conscription for women will take Is still under dispute. A few zealous —mostly suffragettes—seriously propose that women be trained to fight in war. A much larger class —among them Von der Goltz —want women organized into companies and battalions, and drilled and disciplined on military principles, but confined, as far as duties go, to army tailoring, army cooking and sick nursing. The women’s army would be an adjunct to the men army, and all the males of the nation would be free to fight their country’s battles.

Neither of these schemes Is likely to win. The proposal most seriously backed Is that women shall be drilled and disciplined on military lines for the sake of physique and character formation, but that they shall learn nothing except purely domestic duties. Just as men are trained to serve In time of war, women would be trained to serve In time of peace, trained to make better wives, better mothers, better housekeepers, citizens and social workers. They would be taken at the age of eighteen or twenty, drafted into barracks, and for a year or perhaps t two taught by the state on scientific lines all the functions of womankind. Women’s conscription would thus meet a social need. The need is proven by the decline In the birth rate, which has fallen in thirty-five years from 42 per 1,000 to only 30. “That,” says Von der Golts, “is proof of the decay of Germany.” The female conscription school argue that In Germany the stat* always thinks Its function la to fight national evils; therefore, the state must not shrink from attacking the evil of “the dewomanizing of womanhood.” If the natural woman Is dying out, the state must replace her with the state made woman. “The woman conscript is the Ideal of modern Germany." So far the most detailed scheme of female conscription has been worked out by Dr. Kurt Lomann, an ex-official and privy councilor. Lomann Is a competent authority on organization. He stands strongly for. the barracks system. Every girl of eighteen. If not an actual Invalid, Is to enter the barracks for a year. Good character should be the only qualification, because the idea should be circulated that training by the state to an honor, not a punishment u-. The barracks would cost £22,000,000. This would bouse the 250,000 girls who would reach conscript are every year. Probably 250 barracks, each housing 1,000, would be the best distribution. Conscription barracks would be under the charge of matrons; no men would be employed. Also there would be no servants. All work, including gardening and the disposal of rubbish, as well as the secretarial and accountancy work, would be performed by the girts themselves.

LISTENING TO “HIS MASTER’S VOICE”

CALLS HER DEARIE; ARRESTED

Husband Pleads Guilty, Blaming Christmas Spirit, but Spouse Insists It Must Have Been “Spirits." New York.—When a man goes so far as to hail his own wife on the street as “dearie" or “sweetheart,” the offending husband ought to be haled to court Whatever other women’s opinions may be about this, Mrs. Anna McDonaid considered it her duty to do so. with the result that John 8. McDonald found himself trembling before a police magistrate. f Behind him stood a policeman and the complaining wife determined to see justice done. “He ought to know better," she declared. “He Is fortyone years old." “I don’t know why j did it** the husband pleaded. The magistrate could not see that the husband’s greeting was a crime.

DR. ELIOT DECRIES CREEDS

For University Head Says the Heathen World la Not Interested In Trinity or Atonement 0 Wmw Boston.—Dr. Charles W. Eliot, former president of Harvard, addressed the Channing club of Unitarian Ministers, telling them of the religion which be believed the world wants. He said he did not believe that man was altogether born In sin, as the English church prayer book stated It That he called "a most horrible doctrine.” “I believe In good works,” he said. “Work along the lines of the Provident Society of Boston and associated charities constitutes my belief In personal salvation. To do work along social lines is necessary. We want to

Hale Scotchman Tells How to Pass Century Mark. Leslie Fraser Duncan, Age Ninetytwo, a Resident of London, Declares People Eat Too Much—He Lives on Two Meals a Day. London.—The secret of health and long life is two meals a day. That has always been my rule, and” —as If to clinch the matter—"l’m the tallest Scotchman In London —six feet six inches in my socks!” “Leslie Fraser Duncan, ninety-two, with flowing white beard and a face glowing with health, thus gave the secret of his vigor. "I began It as a boy,” he said. "From when I was five years old, at my birthplace near Elgin, I used to walk six miles to school and six miles back, every day for twelve years— Just 400,000 miles in all—and that was on two meals a day. At eight In the morning I breakfasted on porridge, milk and barley scones. Then I had nothing till about eight In the evening, when I had more porridge or brose. On that fare I grew to be six feet tall at sixteen, strong and hearty, and now f am six feet six inches. "In 1845 I came to London, and all through a busy career of fifty years I worked twelve and fifteen hours a day. Now I get up at noon, and my invariable diet, on which I hope to pass the century, for I am well and happy, to: "One o’clock—Breakfast, three boiled eggs, tea, and three slices of thin bread and butter. "Two o'clock —Glass of milk. "Four o’clock—Glass of milk. "Five o'clock —Tea, one boiled egg. tea and thin bread and butter. k t . . “Eight o’clock —Dinner, one boiled egg and thin bread and butter. “I have not touched meat for seven years, and I did not eat it until 1 was twenty. 1 never smoked, except for a

SECRET OF HEALTH

get more vigor and vitality in good works. Ido not believe in hell, or, as the Baptists are now calling it, 'the underworld.’

“You cannot go to the Chinese or Japanese with your doctrines that are mere traditions. Take the doctrine of justification by faith, or the atonement, or the doctrine of the Trinity, etc. These are not acceptable to the Chinese or Japanese minds. They find more in Confucianism or Buddhism than in this teaching. But tell the heathern Chinese that you believe In good works, and that you do not accept the inferiority of women, and he then listens to you. “The heathen world does not want a creed. The Apostles Creed is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough, say many Chinese and Japanese teachers.”

PATRICK MEETS HIS CHILD

Greets Daughter, Now 18, from Whom He Was Parted by Prison St. Louis. —For the first time since she was a child 4 years old. Miss Lillian Patrick and her father, Albert T. Patrick, recently pardoned by Gov. Dix of New York, met here. The young woman, now 18 yean old, arrived from Denver, Colo., with Patrick's mother, Mrs. Edward T. Patrick. They are at the home of John T. Milliken, Patrick’s brother-in-law. Patrick’s plans for the near future are still unformed, he said. It is probable that within a week he will either return’ td New York or be joined here by his wife, he believes. /

Girl Saved by Fur Boa.

Montclair, N. J. —Min Florence C. Sheldon, who fell through the thin lee covering Inverness lake, threw an end of her fur boa to rescuers who dared not venture upon the ice, and they used it for a life line and pulled her to safety.

year when I was a young man in Edinburgh, and I have rarely touched alcohol. For years my drinking has been confined to four glasses of champagne a year—one on my birthday, one on my wife's birthday, one on Christmas day, and one on New Year's day. “It is true that my business career was confined to the days before modern rush, and I have never used a telephone; but it is over-eating, not rush, that ages men. They tell me that they feel old at fifty—and then I find they eat five meals a day!**

PALACES ON PERU PLATEAU

Explorer Tells of Buried . Inca City Uncovered In Jungle—Had Trouble with Offiotals. New York. —Professor Hiram Bingham, head of the Yale Peruvian expedition, which has been conducting archaeiogical exploration work in the interior of Peru, reached New York with other members of the party from Colon. Professor Bingham said the exploration was conducted chiefly at. Machu Picchu, the burled Inca city, discovered on the previous expedition, which stands on a plateau surrounded by precipices two thousand feet In height The jungle was cleared away and more than one hundred burial caves were discovered. Ruins of baths, houses and palaces also were laid bare, and practically the entire city uncovered. Professor Bingham added that the jungle will soon cover them again, unless steps are taken by the Peruvian government to keep them open. "On this trip," said Professor Bingham, “we had a good deal of trouble with the Peruvian government On the two expeditions I had previously made into Peru I had no trouble at all, but the mlnistery had changed and those 1B power at present were not at all friendly to American exploration

SERVE FOR BREAKFAST

SOME RECIPES THAT ARE WELL WORTH CONSIDERATION. Egg Cutlets Will Be Found a Worthy Change From the Old StylesFrench Cooks Send Hints Con- >" ceming Other Dishes. Egg Cutlets. —Chop up three hardboiled eggs very fine and mix wlth. a this two tablespoons lyead crumbs,, one tablespoon grated cheese, a half gill curry sauce, dne tablespoon cream and the yolk of one egg. Shape into small cutlets or balk, flour, egg and bread crumbs them, then fry; then drain well and sferve, garnished with fried parsley. .... Coquilles of Eggs.—Moisten some anchovy butter with sufficient good white sauce to bring It to the proper consistency; then stir into this some sliced hard boiled eggs; place this mixture in well buttered shells, sprinkle the top of each shell with bread crumbs and, if liked, a little grated cheese; dot tiny pieces of butter over the surface and heat in the oven. For the anchovy butter, wash, bone and pound four anchovies; rub this up smoothly with from two to two and a half ounces of butter and use. Shrimp butter is also excellent used in the same way. Oeufs Mollets. —Break some fresh eggs into a pan of boiling water and simmer them very gently fdr five minutes, after which lift them out very carefully, and place them in cold water for ten minutes. Have ready some small fire-proof dishes, place on egg in each, pour a little tomato sauce over and around them and just put them in the oven till thoroughly hot, and serve. Oeufs a la Llvournaise. —Butter a fire-proof dish, dust it with a seasoning of salt and red pepper and sprinkle some finely chopped mushrooms on this; then slip four whole eggs' into this dish, being careful not to break them; season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and pour a spoon of cream over each; then place in the oven till the eggs are set. Pass a redhot shovel or salamander over them to color them, and serve. Oeufs a la Creole. —Cook a pan of tomatoes with one green pepper (shredded} until the tomato is reduced by half, then pour it on to five rounds of buttered toast and place on each of these a poached egg and keep hot. Meanwhile melt' one ounce of butter- in a pan over the fire and let it color; then add a tablespoon of either lemon juice or vinegar; let it all some jusf to the boil and pour it over the eggs, seasoning them with salt and pepper.*

Rice and Mushroom Croquettes.

Peel and cut one-half of a pound of mushrooms into small pieces, add two tablespoonfuls of butter and simmer, covered, for half an hour. Add one-half of a cupful of well-washed rice, one tablespoonful of finely chopped onion, one-half teaspoonful of'salt, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of white pepper and one pint of water, and simmer until the rice is tender. More water may be added if necessary to keep from burning. When done, stir in two well beaten eggs; take quickly from the fire, add one tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley and put away until cold and firm. Form into small croquettes, dip each into slightly beaten egg, roll in fine crumbs and fry in smoking hot fat

Date Charlotte.

Half a pound of good dates, one cupful and a half of water, three tablespoonfuls of honey, the strained juice of one orange, a few drops of red coloring, one heaping tablespoonful of gelatin and two cupfuls of whipped cream. Take the stones out of the dates. Put the water, honey and gelatin into a saucepan, then add the dates, cut in halves, the orange juice and the red coloring. Cook slowly until the dates are soft Pour into a wet ring mold and set away tn a cool place. Turn out when set and serve with the whipped cream in the center. —Marion Harris Nell.

White Cake.

Cream tour ounces of crisco or other shortening with one and one-half cups of finest granulated sugar and one-half teaspoon salt, add water and flour alternately, using altogether three-fourths cup of water and three cups of cake flour which has been sifted with three level teaspoonfuls baking powder. Add last the whites of six eggs beaten until stiff, and flavor with one teaspoon vanilla. Bake in two layers, placing the tins in a cool oven, and gradually increase the heat. Put together with any icing desired.

Walnut Wafers.

Cream one-half cupful butter and add gradually, while beating constantly, one cupful of sugar. Then add twb eggs, well beaten, two squares of chocolate, melted, one cupful of ehopped English walnut meats, onefourth teaspoonful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of vanilla and two-thirds cupful of bread flour. Drop by teaspoonfuls on a buttered tin sheet, about two inches apart, and bake in a moderate oven.

Yankee Crout.

Slice one-half of a head of a good, solid cabbage and three medium-slsed onions; put into a small agateware kettle, add one cup of vinegar, one teaspoon of salt, lard the slse of a walnut (beef drippings are preferable if you have them); a good sprinkling of pepper; cover with boiling water and cook two hours.