Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1913 — Page 3

SERIOUSLY NIPPED

It Was No Time for James Henry Canfield to Think of Penitence.

By ERNEST A. YOUNG.

James Henry Canfield, as cashier of the Hepworth Trust company, detectr «d the financial ills of the bank’s trons for eleven months of the year with eyes that were hard, cold and hawk-like. • Then, during his August vacation period at mountain, seashore or homely farm-house resort, the afore-men* tinned eyes became dove-like while he made love to the summer girl. For seven seasons James Henry filled in the August love-making program without getting seriously nipped. He could not even recall the n&mef of more than three of the seven or eight summer sweethearts. Yet all the affairs had seemed serious while they lasted. He remembered their faces and ways much better. In one case it troubled him that the name had dropped from his memory—the one of the two years ago, up at the Lovejoy farm.

It was she who had sent her wedding announcement the following June. He lost the dainty engraved sheet the same day he received it, and for the life of him he could afterward recall only her married surname. He would npt have been sure the wedding notice came from that particular young lady but for the postmark and handwriting. These were the same aB those on an that brought him a blurry smooch intended to represent his own mahly figure In a pose beside the lane fence near the Lovejoy pasture. For she had a camera and snapped everything that came her way. “It wasn’t Margy, nor was It Edith,” debated James Henry when the image of this girl who had figured In the farm epißode persisted in haunting him. It was the end of July and his vacation would begin the next week. A poet card from the Lovejoy farm was inviting him. It wasn't much of a place, except for that girl. Probably, he told himself, he would not be thinking of that summer at all had she not the same as told him, in sending him that wedding announcement, that there had been a, chance for him. "She must have been engaged all the while,” he taunted himself by saying. “While I was flattered with the notion that she was—-er —a bit sore because I didn’t wind up by proposing, she was engaged to this what—d'ye—call—him Rochfort. A peach of a name, anyway; reminds me of a kind of cheese!”

“We’ll go up to the Lovejoy farm, at Ridgeford, this year.” he said to his mother, the morning after the card arrived. “Why to that lonesome place, James Henry?” Mrs.* Canfield demanded. “For eleven months of the year I have no chance to get lonesome,” he argued. “Besides, it isn’t the worst place if you want to loaf around, row a boat, fish, that sort of thing. Truth Is. I’m tired of seeing a lot of people. Society is punk. Say,” he suddenly added, “who was that girl? The one at the Lovejoy farm?” “If I’m not mistaken, there were five young women at the- Lx>vejoy farm ■while we were there,” Mrs. Canfield told him. “Do- you mean the one with the pale blue eyes and faded hair? Or the other blond who talked books and art —?”

“No, no!" snapped James Henry. “The dark one, perhaps, who nagged you—” ** “It doesn’t matter,” he again interrupted. “She wdn’t be there this year, anyway, for she is married. Husband’s name is—-Is Cheese!" He chuckled maliciously as he went down to the bank, leaving his mother wondering. “James Henry certainly needs to get away from business and society and take a complete rest,” she, decided, sympathetically. 7 They were met'at the Ridgeford railway station by the Lovejoy hired man.. with a two-seated democrat. While they were being hauled up the first long hill to the farm thjs man told them that a broken-down Unitarian minister, a young lady and the young lady's aunt were the only boarders already there. Even Mrs. Canfield was not sufficiently interested to ask for further particulars. To escape greetings and introductions, James Henry jumped from the seat of the democrat at the foot of the last hill and proceeded to stretch his legs along the footpath which he had helped to wear, two years before. The path ended at the pebbly shore of the pond, and there was the same row-boat, freshly painted. She wan in the boat, in the act of pushing off; but she waited for him with a bright smile of greeting. James Henry was old enough, and he had been In love times enough,, not to have his heart pound so ridiculously as it did when the boat rocked un-

der them and the pebbly shore receded. For she was rowing and talking precisely as if there had been no twoyear Interruption. They got out on Paradise Island, so christened by her, as he had been vain enough to believe, because of the blissful hours they had spent there together. By this time James Henry had worked himself into quite a; stats of feeling, and with a stage-villain smile, he shoved the empty boat out onto the receding waves. As he faced her she gave him a look, as If she were afraid

.be was not quite right in his mind. The stage villain smile was not reassuring, but she decided not to show any misgivings. _ “Doubtless you have a plan for getting me bach in lime for supper, Mr. Confleld?” she suggested. • “That isn’t worrying me,” *he replied, malevolently. “The wind may shift and drift the boat back to u* by the timp lam ready to go.” , “Oh, I would never have thought of that,” she contoMed. She seated herself on the ground as if she were perfectly consented to wait. “You probably do not care to recall the thirty-first of August, 1910, when you and I. were last together at this very spot?" said Capfleld. “And how black the sky grew, with yellow clouds that rolled over and over , like wreaths of smoke?” she prompted. “And how you rowed back with might and main because it lookef like a hurricane and I was frightened? But it wasn’t much of a storm,' aftet* all.” “It was enough of one to save mo from giving you a chance to laugh at me. I was on the verge of proposing to you that afternoon,” She was gazing out toward the boat, which seemed to have met a head-wind that whirled it around and around halfway between the island and,.shore.

“I will admit," continued James Henry, brazenly, "that it was not the first occasion when I contemplated proposing marriage; nor were you the first intended victim. But the other times I was restrained by inward doubts instead of by the interposition of a thunderstorm. And the other times I was glad afterward that I did not commit myself. With you, I meant to find another opportunity.” He could see the color flaming in her cheeks, while she kept her eyes upon the boat. He imagined she was praying that it might drift back so as to allow her a chance to escape. But he fplt that she deserved to listen to all he had to say. "I was looking forward to seeing you the next summer,” James Henry, went on, pitilessly. “You sent me that announcement the next June, and at the time I supposed I would be able to cast the episode out of my mind. I divided my August vacation between mountains and seashore and returned to work as a relief to my nerves.

"The rest of my confession is, that I decided to spend a month here this year, solely because I believed I would find where we were together, and living that season over again in memory than I could enjoy anywhere else, i hardly need to say I never dreamed of meeting you here.” "Why not?” phe asked. "I came last year, as you might have found out had you taken the trouble to — to—” "Acknowledge the announcement of your marriage,” Buppll6d''lsmea Henry in a frigid tone. <;■* “The announcement of my marriage!” she exclaimed. J “You sent it, didn’t you? Aren’t you Mrs. Roland Rochford? Have l—am I—?” “Yes, you have, and you are!” She sprang up and pointed at the boat while the wind blew freshly in their faces. “It is coming back,” she cried, gleefully. “The wind has Bhifted.”

It .was no time for'iames Henry to think of penitence, for opposite feelings were rampant. She did not try to escape from arms, nor did she even pretend she wanted Jo. “That was Nellie Vanston’s wedding,” she told him as soon as he would let her say anything coherent. “I sent you the announcement, to ha sure, for I knew she wanted you to knoW she got sorftebody after all the book and art talk she wasted on you. And to think you mistook her name for mine!” The boat’s keel scraped on the gravel at their feet; but they were slow rowing back. As they went up the footpath'toward the house James Henry abruptly paused. “We’re engaged now, aren’t we?” he pleaded. “Why, I suppose so.” “I Just wanted to put it that way to my mother, but —er—“ he laughed sheepishly, “truth is, if I was to be electrocuted for it. I oan’t recall your name! Actually, I’m in doubt betwixt Sibyl and Grace —” “You deserve never to hear it!” she cried. ' Mrs. Canfield met them at the door with both hands outstretched in greeting. “Marion Leslie, you dear!” she murmured. (Copyright, 191 S, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Sea Shells Instead of Glass.

As a substitute for glass, sea shells are used to splendid advantage in the Philippines. The windows in the main entrance of the Philippine General hospital. Manila, are probably as fine a modern example of the use of sea shells as can be obtained. The seashell windows may also be seen at their best in the old churches. Manila alone uses in the neighborhood of 6,000,000 Kapas shells each year for windows. The largefct-slzed shells will square about three Inches. These sell for from $4 to $5 per 1,000, according to quality. Shells that will form panes of about two square Inches sell for anywhere from $1.50 to $3 per 1,000, and are used for ordinary purposes, in dwellings, stores, and the like. The shells are translucent and the light comes through them in C soft pearlgray tone.

Lack of Time.

Benton—Have you tried all the remedies that your friends have reoommended for four rheumatism? Tulser —Great Scott, no’ I haven’t had the pesky disease more than three years.

WASHINGTON SOCIETY PLAYS TENNIS

Above is a general view of the courts at the Chevy Chase club where the Washington smart set plays tenniß. The ladies sitting down are Miss Gladys Munn and Mbs. John IT. Morehead, and the one standing is Miss Frances Lippitt, daughter of the senator from Rhode Island.

VICE RUN BY TRUST

Q. J. Kneeland Gives Secrets of White Slave Traffic. "Well Kept Man Decked With Gems” Is Typical Owner of Resorts In Gothhm, Writer Asserts—Business Is Specialized. New York. —Commercialization of vjce in New York city is described in the first four studies of the social evil to be published by the New York bu-, reau of social hygiene. The book, published by the Century company, is entitled “Commercialized Prostitution in New York City” and is written by George J. Kneeland, the chief investigator of the bureau, who was also the chief of workers under the Chicago vice commission. The report, which is introduced by* A foreword by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says 15,000 women of the underworld ply their trade in one borough of New York alone. It scores the low dance hall as a chief cause of vice. Poverty is given a secondary place as a cause. Mr. Kneqland bolds that oftener women are victims in their ignorance of the agents of commercialized vice. “It is idle,” hb says, “to explain away the phenomena on the ground that they are the results of the inevitable weakness of human nature; human weakness would demand far fewer and less horrible sacrifles. “Most of the wrecka£ and the worse of it is due to persistent cunning and unprincipled exploitations ;• to the banding together in famous enterprises of madame, procurer, brothel keeper and liquor vender to carry on deliberately a cold blooded traffic for their joint profit, a traffic, but it added, from which the girl involved procures at the most, with few exceptions, her bare subsistence, and that only so long as she has a trade value.”

•‘Prostitution has become a business,” Mr. Kneeland writes, “the promoters of which continually scan the field for a location favorable to their operations, and the field Is the entire civilized world. No legitimate enterprise is more 'shrewdly managed from this point of view; no variety of trade adjusts itself more promptly to conditions, transferring its activities from one place to another as opportunities contract here and expand there. “While keepers of houses are also procuers, there is a group of men who devote themselves singly to this work. These are the typical ’white slavers,’ whose trade depends entirely upon the existence of houses of prostitution. The cadet has not yet developed into a professional procuer or keeper of a house. He enters the business when he either ruins a young girt tor bis future profit or becomes the lover and protector of a in the business. “The women who run houses have, as a rule, risen from the ranks. They were once Btreet walkers or parlor house inmates, who possess unusual business talents. They have learned the scerets of the trade; they know the kind of inmates to get and where to get them. They know how to deal with customers and how to make them spend money. “For several years thirty %l houses of prostitution in the tenderloin have been operated as a ’combine’ under the direct control of 16 or more men. The individuals in question have been in business for many years in New York city as well as in other cities, both in this country and abroad. They buy and sell shares in these houses among themselves, and It is seldom that an outsider, unless he be a relative, can break into the circle and share in the profits. “The value of the shares depends upon the ability of the owners to maintain conditions in which the

houses, being unmolested, are permitted to make large profits. “If a composite photograph could be made of typical owners of vice resorts it would show a large, well tod man about 40 years of age and 5 feet 8 inches in height His clothes are the latest cnt, loud in design, and Carefully pressed. A heavy watch chain adorns his waistcoat, a large diamond sparkles in flashy necktie, ah<f his fat chubby fingers are encircled with gold and diamond rings.

BIG FLYING BOAT IS FAST

McCormick’s Craft CovertyMore Than Mile a Minute In Hanimondfport, N. Y., Trial. Hammondsport N. Y.—Harold F. McCormick’s big flying boat, designed by Glenn H. Curtiss, was tried out here and proved successful beyond Curtiss’ expectations. The new flying boat is large and heavy, as compared with previous machtnes of this type built in America. . It haa a spread of more than 40 feet and weighs, when loaded, considerably more than a ton. The power plant consists of a .motor weighing more than 300 ~ pounds and developing 106 horse power. It was expected that the boat would be sea. worthy, but not particularly fast The trials proved that it would make more than a milp a minute flying in the air and about 50 miles an hour when used as a motor boat in the -water. Mr. Curtiss made the’ first trip, ac-i companied by L. A. Vilas of Chicago and another flying boat owner Within a hundred yardß from-the starting point the boat rose from the water and Bailed gracefully down the lake. It is said to 'be McCormick’s intention to use the fiying boat between his office in Chicago and his home at Lake Forest, 25 miles distant The Momick boat was taken back to the factory for the final touches and will be ready for shipment to Chicago within a short time. f

FEWER ARE GOING ABROAD

Bteamshlp Agents Blame Decrease of 30 Per Cent. Chiefly on the t Recent Floods. New York.—Dp to May 8 the firstcabin passenger traffic between this port and Europe was 357 ahead of the same period in 1912 west-hound and 138 bookings ahead east-bound. The seoond-cabin passenger traffic showed an Increase of 16.000 west-bound and 2,434 east-bound from Jan. 1 to May 8 over last year. Traffic east-bound from now on will be about 30 per cent below last year, according to the steamship agents. This, they say. is chiefly due to the number of cancellations of bookings made in January and February by persons who were sufferers by the floods in the middle west and by the tornado in the Mississippi valley. Generally the year of the presidential election is a poor one for foreign travel, but 1912 was a very good year Cancellations have been made in the last few days not only on the older Atlantic liners, but also oa the firstcabin bookings of the Imperator. Mauretania and Olympia. The # Atlantic steamship companies look to the middle west and the west for the bulk of their summer tourist traffic, and the sudden falling off in the demand for cabin accommodation and the cancellations came as a surprise to them. A few of the more optimistic agents hope that there will be a boom in the European tourist traffic later on. but it will have, to come soon to have any effect on the trade. a, .. .. ilx-^ Conducted party travel Is also light, according to the various tourist agents, and there ia not much hope or it picking up this year The biggest carty this summer will be the I.OQQ

FIND HISTORIC GRAVE

Rood at Battle Ground, Ind., Washes out Skeletons. Jesuit Missionary and Indians Believed to Have Bean Buried There in Seventeenth Century—Silver Cross Is on Bones. T i::; Battle Ground, Ind.—Guy Fisher, a farmer boy living near Battle Ground, Ind., stumbled on to a strange find a few days ago near the mouth of the Tippecanoe river that may be of considerable historic interest. Many small mounds of earth are to be seen in the neighborhood which is named for the battle of Tippecanoe between Gen. Harrison and Tecumseh’s warriors. Some of these have been opened from time to time, and relics of the red men have been found in them, but the latest is considered one of the most important yet unearthed in that district. Recent high water from the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers and Wild Cat creek inundated the entire countryside. Young Fisher was going over the territory contiguous to the joining of the Tippecanoe and Wabash rivers after the water had receded and found one of the larger of the mounds washed out Uncovered by the waters but undisturbed werd five skeletons. The center one of the 1 quintet was larger than the others, and upon it rested a heavy cross, known to antiquarians as the “Jesuit double cross." The young, man, after making these discoveries, dug lower into the spot and found a stone pipe, several handfuls of arrow and spear heads of stone, a curious copper ornament, twd metal buttons and several other small stone articles, both implements of peace and war. It is supposed by some that the larger of the five men—for all the skeletons have been determined as those of males—was a Jesuit missionary, while the others are supposed to have been Indians.

History tells of the burial of De La Salle, the French explorer who was in the Northwest territory in the year 1680, in the Mississippi river, after he bad been disappointed in hW venture of the Griffin, which he dispatched from the head of Lake Huron. The boat never returned from its voyage to Niagara and the Frenchman started on the long trip of 1,500 miles to Canada, first going down the Mississippi for supplies in two canoes with an Indian hunter and four French companions. It is supposed that the skeletons found are those of men who either were in De La Salle's party or who met the Jesuit missionary. Marquette, who later went through the section. It is known that Marquette was through that part of the country and some students are of the opinion that the skelenlos are those of four followers of the Marquette party and one of the Jesuit's group of missionaries. Some have asserted the larger bod? 1b that of an Indian and not a white man, that he was the chief of a tribe and had been converted to the Christian religion by the Marquette party. The position of the body and its condition seem to indicate this, according to those holding the latter view of the case.

Red Hens Lay Enormous Eggs.

Indiana, Pa.—Eggs of an abnormal size are being produced by Rhode Island Red bens of this section. A hen belonging to M. K. Queown of White township laid an egg which is 8% inches in circumference from end to end and 6% inches around the center.

persons who are going to Zurich to attend the International Sunday school convention, to be held In June. They are to be }aken over by Cook’s agency in two chartered steamships. There will be a universal exposition at Ghent, Belgium, which will draw a, number of tourists, and another exposition at Earl’s court. London.

MAY GROW “RAINLESS WHEAT"

Or. Macdonald, South African Expert, Claims to Havs Made the New Discovery. London. —Dr. Macdonald of the South African department of agriculture declares that it Is now possible to grow a “rainless wheat” —that is to say, a crop upon walch no single drop of rain has fallen bo.'ween seed time and harvest. It does not maintain its existence without moisture, but all that is noceans/y is obtained from the deposit of a previous season In "moisture saving falHjws.” This would mean a freat boon for those areas where tlw rainfall is uncertain and irrigation, fir various reasons, impossible.

War on Germ Carriers.

Berlin. —The Berlin Clinical Weekly announces tbat an unnamed donor has promised $2,500 for the discovery ol a method of ridding so-called "bacillus carrien” of the bacilli infesting their systems. Cases of this kind, like that of the famous “Typhoid Mary” of New York are commoner than is sup posed, and the persistence of typhoid bacilli Is the commonest form of affliction. The Clinical Weekly asserts than an analysis of all the reported cases in Germany shows that Women furnish 92 per cent of the total.

MAKE OLD LIKE NEW

' - • ~ V . _ ■ • SOME SUGGESTIONS ABOUT REFINISHING OF OLD FURNITURE. Much to Be Dene Before the Actual Work of Rutting on the Enamol Is Begun—Cleanliness Most ' Important, .. , When old furniture is to be enameled to give it a new lease of life there Is a good deal to be done before the actual putting on of the enamel, and upon this preliminarypreparation depends the success. Begin by giving each piece a thorough good scrubbing with hot wafer, soap, and a strong bristle bruph. This scrubbing brings away any dirt and chips of paint, leaving a surfit.ee clean, but chipped where the bits of paint have come off. Then take a piece of fine sandpaper and rub the furniture all over with It, and it must be a f really fine sandpaper, as A coarse piece would scratch and spoil the *ur-; face. Then if your furniture is to he enameled white the next- step is a • coat of white paint, not enamel but jus* flat white paint. Put this on first with a small brush, filling in all the ■ chipped "places, and letting them dry” 7 before putting on the whole coat-: This will take several hours to dry,-... but It must be left till quite firm, first the spots and then the coat of painty ( Before opening the enamel tin shake* it bard, so that the content? may be thoroughly mixed, then give the enamel a good stir with a piece of stick, pressing out any little lumps against the side fit the tin and getting the whole mixture as smooth as crqam. For putting on the enamel use a soft, flat brush, and work always In the same direction; Put on a thin first coat, trying to use as little as v possible, and be very careful not to - leave puddles or thick dabs In the corners. The first coat of enamel may take several days to dry thoroughly. When it is quite dry sandpaper It over very lightly indeed and put on another coat. This second coat is sometimes not necessary; it depends on the condition and former color of the piece of furniture to a great extent, and must be judged of by the painter herself.

Closet Room.

In planning a house iet the women of the family have something to say about the arrangement, number and size of the closets.. They, know, or should know., how much housekeeping is simplified when there <is plenty of well-arranged closet room. Closets should, if possible, be ventilated and lighted by means of win-., dows. In addition every closet in an electrically lighted house should have an electric light. Have the linen closet fitted with shelves provided with drop fronts; have the frohts hinged by means of chains at the sides held at Just the angle to transform the fronta into additional shelf room where they are dropped.

To Clean Vases.

Glass flower vases are apt to become much stained In time, especially If such flowers as mignonette' and for-getrmo-nots are left In then) :’or a few days without changing the water. To remove the stains few methods are better than that of placing a handful of used tea leaves at the bottom of the vase with a little vinegar, and with the hand placed across the top, shaking it until the marks lave disappeared If not completely eliminated, this should be repeatsd, while in addition a rag wound around a stick and pushed into the crevices will effectually remove the most obstinate stains.-- *

Care of Matting.

Try sewing your new mat ling with raffia, says a writer for th* Modern Priscilla. Dampen and split each strand. This will make a fine seam that will look well on eitaer side. When laying new matting on* can prevent ridges and wrinkles if, after putting down as smooth as possible, you will wash with a pail of hot water to which a -cup of salt has been added. Leave quite wet and in drying the matting will shrink into place. The salt toughens it. Wash with the grain of the matting. Never sweep matting with an uncovered broom, as It will split the fiber, but cover the broom, with a soft canton flannel bag and dip in salt water to brighten 1L ,j,, .• - ,

Band Tarts.

One cup sugar, one-half cup butter mixed with sugar. In a separate dish put one egg, one-fourth cup aour cream, one-third teaspoon soda, a few drops mapaline and a pinch of salt. Mix together, then add the sugar and butter mixture and two cups flour. Roll thin and over the top spread the beaten white of one egg, then sprinkle with sugar and chopped nuts Pass rolling pin over lightly and cut in arv shapes desired. Place in moderate oven and bake, but do not let brown.

Training Vines to Grow.

It is sometimes impossible to ase string to train vines up a brick walk and in that case adhesive plaster is an excellent substitute. Cut narrow strips of the plaster and fasten over the young tendHle until they cttng to the brick or plaster.' ; i

How to Keep Small Fruit Fresh.

To keep berries and small fruit* fresb and sweet, put them ii. a glass fruit la* and set In the refrigerator. That is much better than leaving the fruit in the boxes in which it cornea.