Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1913 — Page 2

MEMORY HELD HIM

And His Reverie Took Him Back to a Far-Away Country Home.

By RICHARD POST.

It was a full half hour after the curtain rose when Travis saw her. Even then he was doubtful. In the maze of pretty girls who weaved through the intricate and bewildering combinations of dances and inarches oh the stage he could not be certain that the alight, girlish figure was Cecile Raymond. Now the chorus formed in a billowy line of white and surged forward like a foam-crested wave to the footlights. The girl he watched was third from the end in the second line and the young man could not distinguish her features. “A very common-place chorus,” Miss Davis commented to her escort, as the curtain fell. “I thought that little'brunette near the end in the second row/ was, well — quite pretty," he ventured. Miss Lorene Davis glanced at him sharply. “It’s all a matter of opinion of course,” she replied, acridly. “As for myself, I haven’t seen ever a passably good-looking woman on the stage tonight.” But Ralph Davis was paying scant attention to her remarks. For a moment memory held him. Was it Cecile Raymond? Could it be she? “Why not?” he asked himself bitterly. “Who knows where she went or how far may have fallen since she slipped away from Lancaster two years ago? Then Cecile wished to be a grand opera star.” He smiled with a synicism beyond his years. “They so often end up in the chorus —it may be after all,” he concluded. “If she —” and then his honesty of thought drove back the reproaches he started to heap upon Cecile. “No, it was my fault, just mine,” he admitted. “I was too ambitious, I didn’t dare to ask her when I had little to offer. Cecile on her part was impatient and went away to make a name for herself. It was all my fault,” he repeated, unconscious that he spoke aloud, “What’s your fault?” Miss Davis asked, turning a wondering glance upon him. Ralph came out of his reverie suddenly. “That I didn’t bring a box of candy for you,” he replied with quick self-possession. He hailed a boy and bought an expensive two-pound pack-, age. For an instant Travis’ eyes rested on the woman at his side. Superbly gowned. Miss Davis possessed a regular if somewhat colorless beauty. Her good breeding showed Itself in every line of her face and if there was a certain hardness in her features, too much of a steely glitter in the pale blue eyes, the amount of her father’s fortune atoned for any deficiencies. Certainly, Travis, two years before a nobody and now only a rising young man, perhaps undeservedly credited with two engineering triumphs, should thank his stars of fortune that it was he who was favored to sit at Miss Divis* side. Travis knew well that in the next box was Edgerton Green, contender for the hand of the girl who that evening favored Ralph with her smiles. To be in his place the young man doubted not that Green would have given all he possessed. “Certainly,” Travis reflected, "I should consider myself lucky.” But strangely enough he was dissatisfied. The girl was probably not Cecile. Even If she were, what was she to him? Two years on the stage, in the ballet! With his somewhat austere training he shuddered to think what her life must have been. No; if the dancer should prove to be Cecile, she held no interest for .him. Yet, when the curtain rose, fiFYorgot the woman beside him and with an unconscious eagerness leaned forward in his seat, his eyes strained to catch the first sight of the diminutive figure, third from the end—second row. The pretty conceit of the second act was the appearance of the “Tiger-Lil-les.” The ballet, a few minutes before gowned in dainty white, now appeared in flaming crimson, their heads crowned with scarlet and yellow caps, fashioned in the shape of a lily. Then it was that Travis knew the one whom his eyes sought was indeed Cecile Raymond. The gorgeousness of her costume only accentuated the pallor of her cheeks, the feverish luster of her large, brown eyes, the (lead blackness of her massed hair. Cecile knew him. He read that in the first glance. Despite stage decorum herleyes continually wandered toward his box. She executed the lively, rollicking dance mechanically, keeping time and step with the skill of long habit But the man, leaning forward in his seat, unconscious of the stately girl at his side, of the multitude of men and women about him, knew intuitively that Cecile’s thoughts were with him, as his were with her. In bis reverie fancy took him back 1 once more on a peaceful river in the far-away country of his home —Cecile’s home. They were together, hardly more than boy and girl, in a canoe drifting slowly down the stream. The month was August, the sun agllsten on the swiftly flowing water of midchannel, but they coasted along the bank in the deep shade of the overhanging trees. And there, at the edge of the bushes, tell tiger-lilies grew, their crimson coloring resplendent against the background of green. Together they had picked the lilies—-to-

« gether that summer afternoon of the long ago. He wondered idly if the girl on the stage remembered. In the instant something happened. The ballet had swung far to the,left, almost below his box. Suddenly Ce- . die's white face grew even whiter, she swayed and fell in a little heap. The line of dancers swung around and passed her, away to the senter of the stage; Too well trained were thpy to allow even for an instant anything to bre%k the flawless mechanism of their execution. Somebody from the wings would drag out the girl who had fallen; the play must go on. But before a stage hand could reach her Travis had climbed the railing of the box and leaped upon the stage. Bending for an instant over the unconscious girl, he quickly raised the slender form and bore her in his arms, away from the glare of lights and the blatant music to the quiet of a dressing room —any dressing room, it did not matter to the commanding young man, whose face so set and stern made men obey him. “Cecile, Cecile,” he whispered, “my dear little tiger-lily. And the girl opening her eyes, smll-' ing wistfully, understood that he referred not to the tawdry splendor of her garb, but to the days, So many weary weeks and months and years before when they had drifted together on the quiet river and gathered the gorgous lilies on its banks. “I was so tired,” she murmured. “And now you’ve come, Ralph, and it’s all right.” “Starved herself, the poor little thing,” the motherly wardrobe woman explained in a low voice. “She wouldn’t* do like many of the girls,” the woman motioned toward the stage from which waves of applause rolled as the ballet scampered into the wings. “She was paid only fifteen a week and had to provide her own clothes. The chick hasn’t had a square meal in a month. No wonder she fainted dead away.” “It was all a mistake, just a misunderstanding,” Travis said in a low voice and the woman nodded with comprehension. “But it will be all right now, just as she said.” With the tenderness of a woman the young man lifted the slight form and carried her to a couch. Meanwhile in the theater Edgerton Green had taken Travis’ place at Miss Davis’ side. When Ralph thought of the woman he had left alone in the box he regretted his unavoidable rudeness. She was welcome Ito think of him as a cad or howevei else "she pleased. For he had Cecile, he had found again his little girl of the tigerlilies, and amid his happiness nothing else of this world mattered. (Copyright, 1913. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

WERE COMRADES AT DINNER

Rufus’ Claim to Acquaintanceship With British General Had Actual Foundation. . After peace was declared in the War of 1812, Rufus Brown, a lank Vermonter, was waiting with the United States troops at Niagara Falls for orders to return home. Anxious to try a double-barreled gun he had just bought, Rufus obtained permission to cross over into Canada for a day’s shooting. But game was shy, and late in the afternoon, with his gun still untried, as he was returning disgustedly, a crow perched on a tree top not far from British headquarters, tempted him, and he brought it down with one barrel. The shot brought out a British general, who, as Rufus stooped to pick up the crow, said: “That’s a fine gun; will you let me see it?” Rufus handed him the gun, when the general, with sudden fire in his eye, said: “You scoundrel, you have shot my pet crow, and now you’ve got to eat It” Rufus explained, then stormed, then begged, but the general was mad, clear through, and would not let him off until three mouthfuls of raw crow had been gulped down. “There,” he said, handing back the gun, “that will teach you a wholesome lesson.” Rufus walked away two steps, wheeled sharply around, and leveling his gun at the general’s head, said: “Eat the rest of that crow.” The general, in turn, blustered and pleaded, but in vain; he bad to finish the unsavory meal. Next day Rufus was called to American headquarters. There he confronted the angry British general. "Rufus,” said his commanding officer, “this is General Forsythe; do you know him?” “Well,” drawled Rufus, with a twinkle in his eye, “we are sort of acquainted. We dined together yesterday.”

Miss Helen and the Tourists.

One day Miss Helen Taft was met by two tourists as she left the White’ House grounds. With that charming and Inexplicable gift for garrulity which tourists develop, they stopped her, and, not knowing that she was the president’s daughter, asked her a lot of questions about the White House. Miss Taft submitted and pointed, out all the various Interesting things about the grounds, where the apartments of the president and his family were situated, and other intimate details. “You seem to know a lot about it, my dear,” said one of the women. ‘Oh,” replied Miss Taft laughingly, “you see, I am one of the assistants to the chief cook.” As she walked away she heard one of the tourists declare: “Quite refined looking,for a tjomee tic.”—Popular Magazine.

Cadets of the military academy at West Point always are cheered when they make a public appearance, but never perhaps have they evoked greater enthusiasm than during the inaugural parade. These future officers of the American army, as may be seen jn the photograph, made a most effective showing.

MEN DOOMED BY FATE

Spanish Prime Minister Foretold His Own Death. Wonderful Prognostications of Mahmoud, an Egyptian Astrologer, Were Verified, When Bourtos Pasha Was Slain. London.—“l know that I am condemned to death, because I possess positive Information that two anarchists have taken an oath to kill me. I know, further, that the anarchist who is to take my life is a man who was banished from Buenos Aires, and that he went thence to Paris and Biarritz, after which the police lost trace of him.” So spoke the late Senor Canalejas, the Spanish prime minister, on Nov. 8, 1912, in a conversation with an intimate friend, and four days later he was shot dead by an assassin while looking in at the window of a book shop. It must be a terrible strain on nerves and pluck to feel, as so many have done, that the sword hangs over their bead, suspended, as it were, by a single hair. But such has been the fate of more than one public man during the past few years, and of scores in earlier days. In February, 1910, Sheik Mahmoud, a well known Egyptian astrologer, went to Boutros Pasha, prime minister of Egypt, and told him that he foresaw his death at the* bands of an assassin. Boutros believed the prophecy and, as every one knows, was foully murdered a few months later. It is worth mentioning that Mahmoud put in print a prediction of the death of King Edward three months before it occurred. He said that it would come to pass in May. By the way, he also foretold in 1910 that King George of Greece would annex three Turkish cities. This also has come true. While on the subject of Turkey and the east, we may say that the late

AMERICAN HIDES FOR KING

Pennsylvania Tannery Gets RushOF decs for Sole Leather to Go to England. Warren, Pa.—A company has issued an order to a tannery at Clarendon to rush work and put on all the men that can be obtained to complete within forty days a special order for 1,200

King George V.

sides of fine sole leather to be shipped to London. This tended leather is for the use of the manufacturer who supplies King George, and is for his exclusive use and for the supplies that are needed for the current year for the royal family and its household.

WEST POINT CADETS MADE FINE SHOWING

King Alexander of Servia fully believed that he would meet with a violent death. Years earlier, in -fact, when 'King Milan, Alexander’s father, was on the throne, a Servian peasant predicted that Milan’s reign would be one of many misfortunes, that he would wage an unsuccessful war, that he would marry, have one son and then be divorced. He ended by prophesying a violent death for the son. Alexander, realizing how true the rest of the predictions had been, frequently spoke to his Intimates of his coming end, but he could hardly have, expected that it would have been attended by suJh horrors as were actually the case. Of all modern stories of doom, none is so terrible as that of the Austrian noble family of Vetzera. The name will be familiar to all readers, because of the Baroness Marie Vetzera, for love of whom the Crown Prince Rudolf killed himself. Every member of that family was beautiful and gifted, yet for generations ill-fate dogged them and none died a natural death. Marie, it is believed, poisoned herself with strychnine, her brother, a fine young officer, was burnt to death in the awful conflagration at the Ring theater; the father, Baron Vetzera, fell dead of sunstroke in a Cairo street. Finally, Jeanne, countess of Bylandt, one of the most beautiful and accomplished women who ever lived, died suddenly in Rome. Polson caused her death, but whether administered intentionally or not none can say.

Aviator Gllpatrick, With Feminine Passenger, Reaches 5,009 Feet Above Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Cal. —With Miss Margaret Stahl of Jersey City, N. J., as a passenger in his De Perdussin monoplane, John Guy Gllpatrick, the youngest aviator in the world, again

Five Hour Day Is Asked Workers in Massachusetts. To Lead Country Again If Measure Pending In the Legislature la Passed —Other States Aid Reform. New York. —Massachusetts will again lead the country in one part of its child labor laws, according to the national child 'labor committee, if the bill to reduce the hours of work for all under sixteen years becomes law. Massachusetts now has a tenhour day for workers under sixteen, which it is proposed to reduce at one step to a five-hour day, with the requirement that all child workers under sixteen shall attend a part time day school. Other states, meanwhile, are wondering if they can establish the eighthour day, and definite campaigns for this end are on in Arkansas, California, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia and elsewhere. The committee points out that the bills which have already been introduced in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas all include the regulation of street trades provided in the uniform child labor law. This allowc no newsboy under twelve years and no other street trader under fourteen. It also forbids all girls to engage in these occupations before they are sixteen years old. New York, under the recommendation of the state factory investigating commission, is considering bills not only to prohibit child labor in can-

FLYER SETS NEW AIR RECORD

WILL AID CHILDREN

broke the American passenger carrying altitude record. Starting from Fairfax park, the machine reached its highest altitude of 5,009 feet directly over the heart of Los Angeles. The record, however, will not be considered official, because Gilpatrick’s previous record of 4,660 feet was not exceeded by 600 feet, as required by the rules of the International Aeronautical federation.

STRAUS, OIL MAN’S NEIGHBOR

Former American Ambassador to Turkey Buys a Farm Near Tart rytown, N. Y. Tarrytown, N. Y. —Oscar' S. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey and recently the progressive candidate for governor of New York state, is to establish himself here as a close neigh-

Oscar S. Straus.

bor to Johh D. Rockefeller. He has bought the Horton farm, between here and Pleasantville, which is one of the oldest estates in this section. It consists of about eighty acres, for which Mr. Straus is said to have paid $55,000. Mr. Straus said he was going to build a simple summer home.

ncries and tenements, but to reorganize the factory inspection department as an industrial commission with a greatly increased staff of inspectors. Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, North Carolina and others are also talking of measures to make more efficient' their departments of Inspection. In many states, minimum wage boards, pensions for widowed mothers, prohibition of night 'work and methods of determining age of children seeking employment are under discussion. New Hampshire and some of the routhern states will probably raise the age limit for working children from twelve to fourteen years, and it is hoped that a child labor law for territories will be presented to con* gresa A compulsory school attendance law has beet introduced in the North Carolina legislature, and bills are tulked of in South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

DAY OFF PLAN FOR DOCTORS

Berlin Physicians to Try a Scheme to j Gain a Rest—Only Few Are r on Duty. Berlin.—A scheme, which has long been considered by Berlin physicians, is to be tried out, in the Moabit district, when certain doctors will be appointed to answer all calls between noon and midnight on Sunday. It is planned to have different physicians serve each Sunday to the end that others may have a rest one day in the week. If it works out well it will probably be extended to the whole city.

TO TAKE OUT STAINS

SIMPLE AGENTS THAT MAY BE* EMPLOYED BY HOUSEWIFE. Good Idea Is to Have a Set of Rules _That May Be Posted In a Conspicuous Position About the House. It is hard for even the housewife! of large experience to remember ex-< actly the simple agents for removing! various stains. Knowlege of the av-i erage maid or laundress is still more limited, hence a device which serves in one house as a constant jog to the memory. -It' is a set of rules printed upon a yard of the blackboard cloth j used on schoolroom walls. Instead of writing with chalk, print! the rules neatly' in the form of ai table in white oil paint, thinned with; turpentine. This medium, if properly! is permanent;, it cannot be dls-i turbed either by steam or by rubbing. After allowing it to dry forfour or five days it may- be lacjied, on the kitchen wall, inclosed in ai frame of plain pine picture molding. Here is a copy of the table for any) one who may care to make one: Ink Stains —Soak in sour milk. If a dark stain remains, rinse in a weak! solution of chloride of lime. Blood Stains—Soak in cold salt water, then wash in warm water with! plenty of soap; afterward boil. Grass Stains—Saturate the spot! thoroughly with kerosene, then put< tn the washtub. lodine Stains —Wash with alcohoL then rinse in soapy water. __ Hot Tea and Coffee Stains—-Soak the. stained fabric in cold “water, wring,, spread out and pour a few drops of! glycerine on each spot.' Let it standi several hours, then wash tvith coldi water and soap. Iron Rust —Soak the stain thoroughly with lemon juice, sprinkle with salt and bleach for several hours in thei sun. Grease Spots—Hot water and soap generally remove’ these. |f fixed by long standing, use ether, chloroform or naptha. All three of these must be> used away from either fire or artificial light. Pitch, Wheel Grease, Tar Stains — Soften the stains with lard, 1 then soak in turpentine. Scrape off carefully with a knife all the loose surface dirt; sponge clean with turpentine and rub gently till dry. ' Mildew —Soak in a weak solution of chloride of lime for several hours. Rinse in cold water. Sewing Machine Oil Stains —Rub with lard. Let stand for several hours, then wash with cold water and soap. Scorch Stains—Wet the scorched place, rub with soap and and bleach in the sun. Fruit Stains —Stretch the fabric containing the stain over the mouth of a basin and pour boiling water on the stain. In cold weathe* fruit spots can frequently be removed by hanging l the stained garments out-of-doors over night. If the stain has been fixed by time, soak the article in a weak solution of oxalic acid or hold the spot over the fumes of sulphur.

Fricaseed Chicken.

Fricaseed chicken, considering what can be done with it, is not expensive. A three or four pound fowl cut into pieces, stewed and served with plenty ©f good cream gravy poured over toast or biscuit will be sufficient for six persons and, in addition, enough will be left for another meal of chicken pie or cream chicken. Another good way is to steam it. whole instead of cutting it into pieces.. Then, when the chicken is tender, put two or three strips of bacon on top of it and place it in a hot oven until it is a light brown. Chicken prepared in this way will bV as fender as a. high-priced roasting chicken.

Cream of Carrot Soup.

Slice three medium-sized carrots and put in a saucepan with one cupful of water, a slice of onion and a bay leaf. Cover the pan and cook until tender, rub through a strainer, reserving the water in which the carrots are cooked, and then put the carrots and water over the fire. If the mixture is too thick, add a cupful of boiling water. Heat one and one-half ta'blespoonful of buttqr, adding the carrot mixture. Beat until thick and boiling. Just before serving add a level tablespoonful of salt, a little pepper, a cupful of hot milk and a half cupful of cream.—Woman’s World.

Virginia Stuffed Ham.

Put one ham into boiling water and cook three hours; cool and remove the skin and bone. Make a dressing of a loaf of white bread, three onions (chopped fine), one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon each celery seed, sage and thyme, and a little pepper and salt Make a deep incision in ham and remove the bone. Fill the cavity with the dressing. Sprinkle with brown sugar and bake slowly for two and a half hours. Baste with the liquor in which the ham was boiled.

Kitchen Keynote.

The filets of six anchovies, pounded ’ with an ounce of butter, cayenne pepper and a little nutmeg, rubbed through a sieve, spread on thin crackers and heated in an oven, are fine to serve before a meal.

Egg Sauce.

One-third of** cupful of butter, twothirds of * cupful of *ug*r and two egg* well beaten. Pour on thia fnlvture one cupful of boiling water, flavor with nutmeg and vanilla and cook two minute*.