Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1913 — Page 3

ON SECTION NO. 12

What We, Us and Company Did With a Firm Hand to Guide the Undertaking. BY JOHN PHILIP ORTH. A new railroad bad been surveyed through the country within two miles icf Major Charlton’s country home, tand the retired army officer had made ■a bid for and secured the grading to ■be done on section No. 12. The major was a widower with only ■one child —a daughter named May. iShe had returned from school and was waiting, as all girls must wait, land it was generally understood that ' ehe was rather strong-minded for a young girl, it was rather independence than strong-mindedness. Not Ithat she was mannish, but that she [rode around the country on her pony (without a chaperon, fished, swam and (hunted at her pleasure, and could beat [her father at billiards or at almost (Any other game, When the major fcame home and announced that he ihad secured the contract for section [l2 Miss May applauded.and said: "You will want a bookkeeper and a [paymaster, and I will serve as both.” j “But you don’t understand what rsort of help I must employ.” he replied.

“Foreigners, and mostly Italians. It I will be a tough crowd, but that (doesn’t scare me.” “Too tough a crowd for a girl to be [mixed with. I shall count myself [lucky to get along with a row every [two weeks. I am told that I can’t .carry my contract through, do the [best I can-” “Don’t you believe it, daddy. We, rus and company will start In with a firm hand and not let the padrones or I Black Hand take the authority out iof our hands. .1 shan’t expect to do much bossing, but if called upon to take a hand I shan’t run away from HL” “I shall, of course, get a man for [bookkeeper and cashier," observed the fafher as he turned away. But he did not. From the time the •work began until the office of the contractor was ready to step into. Miss May spent most of her time on the ■ground, suggesting and bossing, and ■when the hour arrived she took, oft lher hat 'and gloves and opened the books and pocketed the key of the ease.

“Waft until you see the sort of laborers that are coming!” said the .major as he shook his head. Two days later 300 men arrived — Italians, Slavs and Huns. -They had their own quarters, but they could not fail to hear of the girl’s presence. Indeed, she must come and go in their full sight. They were a hard lot and one or two men dominated all the others. One of the leaders visited the office to say to the major: “Why you have the girl here?”

i ‘‘She is my daughter.” “It makes no deeference. No girl should be here. She makes mistakes and we are cheated.” “When you think you have been cheated come and tell me so.” “But the men don’t like it You must get a man to take her place.” Two or three of the unsuccesful bidders had evidently tampered with the men with a view of getting up a strike at the very outset. It was a puerile excuse they advanced, and it aroused the major into saying:' “I shall not get a man. If you want to raise a row go ahead!” '"lt Is not me. but the men.” "Tell them to strike at any hour they want to!” "Bully for you, daddy!” exclaimed the daughter as the fellow left the office.

“I didn’t want you to come, but I am not going to let them run you out They won’t strike until they can find a better excuse.” Neither did they. The road-bed for the new railroad ran parallel with the highway for a mile and as Miss May rode to and fro she received black looks and heard, men cursing under their breath. It would have been folly to pay any attention to ft. Nothing more was heard from the leader as to the girl’s leaving, and it was two weeks before another call was made. Then the leader announced: “We were hired to work nine hours a day, and you are making it ten. We must have an hour off or more pay.” “Every man of you was hired for ten hours a day,” replied the major, “and I shall pot shorten the time by a minute nor increase the pay by a cent. “The men are very angry.” ■ ’So am I.” ■ “I think they strike, eh?” “If they want to.” • “If they do then they will break and destroy.” “When they begin to do that there will be some shooting!” “So? So? You are not a wise man." “J am wise enough to see your game.” “Will they strike?” asked the girt of her father. “Sure to, after coming with a third pretext” "And they may even attack us?" “They certainly will,” “And we?” “You had better stay home for a few days. “And miss the row? Well, I guess not! We each have a revolver, and can make It very lively for them.” At 9 o’clock next morning the leader delivered his ultimatum—eight hours a day or a strike. "Strike away!" was the reply of the major.

Fifteen minutes later every laborer had thrown down his tools and was cheering and whooping.- They made no other demonstration for some time, but at length they formed in a solid body, and armed with picks, shovels, axes and stones moved down on office and surrounded ft. Then the major did a foolish thing, but one perfectly logical from the standpoint of a man of arms. He threw open the door and stood there and defied the mob. He was not armed, but one can’t look for hondr in such a crowd. After a long minute, in which the men hurled a hundred insults at him. the major was struck in the head by a stone and fell back into the office unconscious. Miss May dragged the body back and closed'and locked the door. There was no rush, of the strikers. She went to the telephone and called and the cook, and said: “Mary, ’the men out here have struck and are making awful threats. Go down to the road and tell the first man that comes along that father is badly hurt and I am locked in the office.”

“I get you, and I’ll send a dozen men!” replied the cook as she hung up the trumpet and made a scoot < Miss May was bathing her father’s wound when the whooping re-com-menced and the rocks began to pelt. It was only a temporary structure, and the splinters soon began to fly. Amidst the fusilade the leader of the mob was heard shouting: “Come out here —we want you! If you don’t come out we’ll try dynamite.” “And I’ll try bullets!” said the girl to herself as a rock came through the window and missed her head by an Inch. There were hoots of derision as the soldier’s daughter rested the barrel of her revolver on the sill of the same window and pulld the trigger. She fired low, to take her targets in the legs, and out of six bullets five drew howls of pain. The mob broke back at her shooting, lugging oft the wounded, and after an interval of ten minutes the leader approached under cover of a flag of truce and called out:

“Open the door to us or we use dynamite and blow you all to ” No answer was ventured, and in a quarter of an hour the mob was ready to carry out the threat. One side of the office was without windows, thus making a safe approach, and a man was creeping forward with a charge that would have rent everything to pieces when the panting and/ palefaced girl heard the hoots of an auto, and next moment the popping of revolvers. The cook had obeyed orders nobly. As it chanced, the first auto to come along contained four men. and it needed but a word to send them speeding away. In five minutes after their arrival the mob was in flight.

When four men get together, in an auto or on the street corner, there is at least one young man among them. If asked to go to the rescue of a maid and her father chain-lightning can hardly keep pace with him. It was the young lawyer. Phillip Fayram, in this case. He was on his way over to the county seat to try a case, and the old gray heads' with him were witnesses. Of course they couldn’t see any romance in the rescue, and they even smiled in a cynical and superior way, but others saw things through different eyes.

The strikers came back after two or three days, and the major’s contract was finished without further trouble. The wounded legs went to the hospital to be cured in time, and tn time the warrior-father made reply to a question: “Yes, by George, take her!” . And some time after peace had been restored the leader of the strikers was heard saying to the man who was creeping up to place the dynamite that day: . "You fool —I fool —all fool but the young laidee. She big heroine! She don’t yell and whoop—she shoot!” (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Privato Rafferty Explained.

It was a snowy, windy night and Private Rafferty, on guard, quickly got chilled. x i-x. The snow drifted into his sentrybox until, in sheer desperation, he moved that rude shelter to a sloping position in the lee of the buttress of the wall. 1 From a locker at the foot of the flag, staff he abstracted a large Union Jack, and wrapping this round hlin he crept into the box and tried to make himself comfortable. The time seemed dreadfully long and presently Rafferty dosed off to sleep, to be awakened later by the flash of a lantern in his eyes, and, looking up, he found an officer and the sergeant eyeing him with astonishment. “What’s the meaning of this?" demanded the officer, sternly. But Rafferty did not disturb himself. “Shure," he replied, “I thought ye’d left me to freeze to death so fer convenience I jest laid myself out in ould coffin. An* bebad, ye can plase yerselt about callin' out the flring-party an* going on wld the funeral.”—Tit-Bits.

Studies of the Vernacular.

"Say Jen, wossatchoogot?" “Watchamean?** ** Youreatlnsumpubl "Snuthinbutta wadagQmkit.” “Well, canchagtmmychunk?" "Solllgot." "Yougotchoornervo." "Quitcherflbbin!” “AwcutitouL girls!" warned the floor-walker, who had happened along and overheard the conversation.—Chk cago Tribune.

The photograph shows Antoine Pollak, the foreign inventor, giving his first demonstration of his new invention of photographing the human voice, and Miss Maggie Teyte, the opera singer, who took part In the experiment, which was- held in New York. The receiver of the Poll ak-Virag apparatus consists of a so-called optical tela phone, 1. e., a telephone membrane connected with a small mirror, which reflects a ray of light that is photographed on sensitive paper. The human voice will produce an oscillation In the membrane of the optical telephone, and the mirror will give a true record of this oscillation. This record is a photograph of the human voice.

BODY LEFT TO SCIENCE

Archdeacon Colley Was Champion of Psychic Research.

Eccentric Churchman Who Died Recently in England Requested That His Brain Might Be Inspected After Death.

London. —Archdeacon Colley, who died recently, won notoriety outside the church as a champion of spiritualism, and his challenge to Mr. Maskelyne, which led to the latter’s producing a "spirit form” from, and returning to, his side and the litigation which followed it are fresh in the public mind. ' Eight years ago the archdeacon had his coffin made and stored in the music room of the rectory. In 1904 v he made a will bequeathing his body to the University of Birmingham for dissection. “to be cut up4n the Interests of anatomical and surgical science when I have done with it” In a letter to thp university the archdeacon recalled that as a child he was laid out for dead and narrowly escaped being buried alive, and, therefore asked that “it may be seen that I am really dead.” “Please, again, tell me what I should do,” he wrote, “about giving in a letter or other formal disposal of my mortal remains, to be brought under my band with my coffined body, particulars of what I should write as to mental idiosyncrasies, bias of will, likes and dislikes, with whatever else may be useful when the top of my skull, as we arranged, shall be sawn off, to enable explpration to be made, that it may be known if I am, or have been, any more mad than other people.”

Last New Year’s day the archdeacon was carried round his church in the coffin, or box, clothed as he had .expressed a .wish to be clothed after death —a performance that startled a congregation already accustomed to his eccentricities. "I desired to impress on my parishioners that ‘death is the gate of life,”* he said afterwards. “I expect that after death and a spell of rest —which may be one year or 500—I shall return again for useful work. That is the doctrine I have taught, and the doctrine I believe tn.” In the following months he announced to his congregation at Stockholm that he had resigned -his living and that it was his intention* to go to South Africa, where he had property. During the ’Bos, he said, he bought land near Johannesburg for which before the Boer war he was offered £4.000,000 Of all his extraordinary spiritualistic experiences none is more amazing than his "psychic" parcels post Here is bis own story of his experience: "At Sbuthsea, some years ago, I with no little discomfort wore all day under my clothes and next the skin several yards of white muslin. In the evening, still wearing it, I cycled to Chichester, for a surprise visit to a young woman of my own developing. Making there an unwrapped up small bundle of the attire, and loosely pinning my card to it with no other address, I and a friend and the young woman's sister saw the muslin fade away, disappear, and melt like vapor from the lap of the little medium. “It was then nearly midnight and I had willed the muslin to go to London to a friend. Next day came a telegram from my friend, quickly followed by a letter, to the effect that at the first hotel he had chanced onhaving been to the opera and missed the last train that would have taken htm to his home out of London —the muslin and card so insecurely pinned to it had fallen upon his face as ho had gotten into bed. and seeing my name apd address, ho wired to me the first thing In the morning.” He afterward found that It had tar

PHOTOGRAPHING THE HUMAN VOICE

ken less than five minutes by aerial of about seventy miles from Chichester to secure midnight delivery of the goods in London somewhere at a chance hotel by psychic parcels post

GOVERNOR GRUBS STUMPS

Meanwhile Lawmakers Deliver Bills by Force—Broke Into Private Office.}

Portland, Ore.—“l have been down on my farm grubbing stumps. I was so glad to get away from that bunch I could hardly nerve myself to go back,” said Governor Oswald West here.

The governor’s outburst came when he, was Informed that the speaker of the house and the president of the senate, with their respective chief clerks, had forced their way into his private office and' left there the bills passed by both houses. The houses then adopted resolutions declaring that these constituted “delivery to the governor,” who has five days after delivery in which to sign or veto them. The legislature normally would have adjourned sine die last Saturday, but for fear the governor, with whom the

majority is' not in accord, would veto many measures, a five-day recess was taken, with intent not to adjourn until the governor had been compelled to pass upon all bills. “I may go away again.” said the governor, “and if I do there will be none of these roughnecks breaking into my office. What they did does not constitute 'delivery.'”

IS GIVEN HONOR MEDAL

Former United States Soldier Who Killed Diablo, Leader of the Apaches, Rewarded. Lonaconing. Md. —William A. Garnett, a newspaper man of Lonaconing, this county, who served in the Eighth United States infantry from 1871 to 1878, has been awarded a medal of honor for his part in the defense of Camp Apache. Arizona. Jan. 9. 1875. Garnett, on that day, when the Apache Indians attacked the post, shot tho Chief Diablo. Garnett was at the corral some distance from the post and saw the Indians advancing. Taking a rifle and some cartridges from the cavalry saddler's shop in the corral, Garnett shot the chief and then ran to the poet and joined his company. The women and children in the poet were locked In tho stone guardhouses, and 200 regulars, under the command of Uapt William Baird. Sixth cavalry, defended the post and drove the Indians away. Captain Baird Is a son of General Absalom Baird, an army corps commander in the Civil war, and a native of Maryland.

Gov. Oswald West.

WARNS ALL EUROPE

Italian Paper Declares Linking of Americas is Menace.

Foreign Nations Are Urged to Consider the Growing Power of United States Over Peoples of ths Hemisphere.

Rome.—That American "Dollar Diplomacy,” working hand in hand with the great private financial Interests of the United States in the commercial development of South and Central America, is creating the most serious problem facing the entire world today, is the declaration of II Popolo Romano, the official organ of the Italian government In a leading article, in which a genuine note of aland is sounded, the paper declares that the continuation of this American policy means the inevitable formation of a gigantic commercial federation of the three Americas in which the United States would naturally play the predominating part

“While Europe is laboring with all its power to resolve the problem of the Balkan adjustment, on which depends in a large measure the' entire continental peace, and while to insure for ourselves the benefits of internal tranquillity we are compelled to spend our best forces in military preparations, the younger » United States, on which the grave problems that harass Europe* do not fall, gives itself to works of growth, of expansion and of development of the means of communication and transportation between the republics of the continent, and to create that union, which in time will be obliged to constitute itself as the Great American Federation, und?r the auspices of the United States of North America. ’

“Toward the carrying out of this conception, in both its political and economical aspects, the gigantic undertaking of the Panama canal, which will shortly be opened to the commerce of the world, and the project of a railroad to connect the continents —a project which is already on Its way to completion—will play a most important part "In addition, there has recently been created, under the initiative of a powerful banking syndicate, a company for putting into direct and rapid communication the republics of Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Bolivia. “Coupled then with the navigation of the Panama canal, It will be an easy matter for the United States to come Into close commercial as well as political contact with the republics of the south by means of the great railways, already under construction, which will link up the two contlnenta

“What la the end toward which thia tenacious work on the part of the United States la leading? It la an end that can be Been with the naked eye. While the United Statee binds more closely together with Its ties of steel the two parts of the continent, and at the same time asserts more strongly than ever its predominating economical and commercial influence in the two Americas, it is to be easily seen that the United States wishes only to exclude from the Americas the governments of Europe, and to exercise on the entire American continent a monopoly for its own profit “This in fact today creates the most serious problem that Is now facing Europe, which has In Central and South America not only a glorious tradition and record of European civilisation. but also gigantic Interests commercially and economically. “At the present moment this Is not tn immediate danger, but It would nevertheless be well for European diplomacy to begin to occupy Itself with the problem—a problem that, at least according to our point of view, is vastly more Important than that of the present one of the Balkans. ’

AROUND THE CAMP FIRE

WOMEN AT ARMY ROLL CALL Mrs. John H. McKay Tells How Bhe Answered for Her Sick Husband at Camp Randall, Wis. For six months in tbe year 1865 Mrs. John H. McKay, who now lives at 6816 Wentworth avenue, answered at the dally roll call of Camp Randall, Madison, Wis., in company with z the soldiers of the camp. She did this in order that her husband, who died nine years ago, might not become technically a deserter from the army. “We were living in LeClairs,* lowa, in 1864,” said Mrs. McKay. “My husband had tried to enlist in Wisconsin and lowa, but he could not nieet thd physical requirements. In October of 1864 he succeeded in entering the Ninth Illinois regiment. He went to Rock Island ,to enlist and then came back to LeClaire. The next day he went to be sworn in and expected to return to say good-bye to me. I waited on the river bank for him that evening, and the man who had gone with him came back alone, and said that my husband had already been sent to Quincy on the way to Springfield. “He went south into Tennessee. I have all the letters that he wrote to me then. Not one of them was lost, and every one of my letetrs reached him. I had gone back to Madison with my two children and was living with my parents. I used to send him 50 cents and two or three postage stamps in every letter, and I think that the money kept him alive. “I intended to go to Tennessee as an army nurse with the wife of the governor of Wisconsin, but the governor was drowned at St. Louis and I had to take care of his wife. I became a nurse at Madison and saved all the money I could. There were many southern sympathisers in Madison—copperheads, they were called —and I was sometimes ordered out of sick rooms when the patients found out that my husband was in the northern army. "My husband was sick and he was at last sent tn tha hnanitnl at laWat-

"My husband was sick and he was at last sent to the hospital at Jeffersonville, Ind. The matron there wrote me a letter saying that she hoped I would raise my children so that they would |neet their father in heaven, because he would be there by the time I got her letter. I remember at about that time seeing my father coming from the postoffice with tears In his eyes and I called out to him: ‘Oh, is John dead?* and he said: ‘No, he’s a little better, but Abraham Lincoln la killed.* That was in the middle of April. “I was going to go to Jeffersonville, but my brother-in-law offered to go instead, and I gave him money to bring back my husband or his body. My brother-in-law went there and at first he could not get into the hospital. He inquired about his brother and twice he was told that my husband was in the deadhouse, but, as it turned out, it was another man of exactly the same name. My husband was still living, but the doctor said it would not be for long. His brother nursed him for four weeks and then brought him to Madison. On the way they stopped in Chicago and my husband managed to get a big meal of sausage and pancakes while his brother was not looking. "In Madison I took my husband home. He was assigned to Camp Randall, but the officers at the camp said I could take him to the house if I would report at the camp every day, so that he would not be a deserted. So every morning before breakfast I went down to the camp and in through the gate, where no other women were allowed to pass, and I answered for him at roll call. My father or my sister or my brother-in-law often went with me, but they were not allowed to enter the camp. Because he was allowed to stay at home my husband was saved to live almost forty years.”

Matrimonial Advice.

For awhile during the Civil ww General Fremont was without a command. One day, in discussing Fremont’s ease with George W. Julian, President Lincoln said he did not know where to place him, and that it reminded him of the old man who advised his son to take a wife, to which the young man responded: “All right. Whose wife, shall I taker*

He Would Give a Try.

After the war "Zip” Crowley of a New York regiment, got into trouble, and at the trial the judge asked: “Do you wish to challenge any of the jury?” “Zip" looked them over carefully and answered: ‘ “Well, Ol'm not exactly wot y*u c’uld call In training, but I wouldn’t mind a round or two wld th fat old geezer in tbe corner."

Lack of Holes.”

A delegation of faultfinders called upon President Lincoln, and inquired why certain generals were not given! commands. “The fact Is,” replied the president **l have not more pegs than 1 have holes to put them In."

The Difference.

“That management thought the no* play was a scream ” “Well, was nr “They tried It on the dog and it turned out to ba a howl."