Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1913 — Page 2

ARISTOCRAT OF THE DOG FAMILY

"J. Pierpont Morgan’* of Albany, the prize-winning toy poodle exhibited by Miss E. Van Renneiler of the state capital at the sixth anppal opgn-air dog show held at Lenox, Mass. The little fellow looks mighty happy In his gorgeously fitted up traveling bedroom cage.

A HERO IN A SKIFF

Cripple Rowed Through Gulf Storm to Save Ship. Thomas A. Wells of Texas Town Paddles Frail Canoe Eight Miles in Raging Sea to Get Help for Rudderless Vessel. Houston, Tex. —Thomas A. v Wells of Palacios, the heroic cripple, who paddled a frail skiff through eight miles of raging sea to bring rescue to seven men who were on a rudderless boat, is visiting an aunt near Houston Heights. The first statement Mr. Wells made was characteristic of the man. “It wasn’t much,” he said, when he was asked for an account of his perilous trip through an angry sea. “It wasn’t much” that seven men were saved from certain death because a little man no more than five feet high, walking on crutches, had launched a little skiff from the deck of the rudderless Mermaid in the raging Gulf of Mexico! “It wasn’t much” that he had calmly seated himself in that skiff and coolly looked death in the face as he worked his way to safety and to help! “I believed 1 could make the trip,” he said. “Soon after launching the skiff I found the current was running out to sea, while the wind was blowing shoreward. So. by turning my boat to catch all the breeze I could without shipping too much water. I managed to keep from drifting out into the gulf. I didn’t get more than two or three gallons of water in the skiff until I struck the breakers just out of Port O’Connor. But when I finally got to land the boat was more than half full. The sea was choppy there and it was impossible to keep the water out. “I couldn’t get anybody at Port O’Connor that night to go to the rescue of the men in the Mermaid. Finding I couldn’t get help there, I telephoned to Palacios, finally getting in touch with Capt. William Sutterfleld, who came as soon as he could get his boat in readiness. C. M. Rhea and C. M. Dunbar were on the Clairette with Captain Sutterfleld. Their boat had a hard time riding the rough sea, but it finaJlv reached the stranded Mermaid. “The sea was so rough that the men could not be brought on board Captain Sutterfleld’s boat except by ropes. A rope was thrown to them nnd they had to, one at a time, Jump into the water and be pulled up the side of the Clairette.” “How about your skiff? Looks like ' you would hav& had an awful time keeping it from filing up.” was venturned. “It wasn’t so hard when the big waves came at me.” he explained “When, two of them came together, each from a different direction, it was a little hard to decide which one to look for first.” “You would have had a nice time swimming to shore in that sea If your boat had been swamped.” was an observation of the interviewer. “I, can’t swim,” he replied nonchallantly, as If that were merely an unimportant detail. “I had a life preserver. I could have kept afloat with 4t" ' Certainly he could, and no one knew better than he where he would float to, with the current going inexorably out to sea.

RETURN OF MANY BIRDS

New York Naturalist* Report Bpecle* That Hava Been Missing for Year* Coming Back. Albany. N. Y.—lt appears that birds are becoming more numerous In New York atate. Tbla applies, not only to tbe ordinary kinds, but to rare species as well. These facts are set forth In a report made to the conservation department by George F. Guelph, a naturalist, of Brockport. Monroe county. Mr. Guelph for two years has given the public the benefit of his observe (ions of bird migration along the shores of Lake Ontario. In this year's report be mentions baying seen species that have for many 'years' been almost or wholly unknown in this pert of the country.

There are now more than 200 species of birds which may be looked for regularly along the lake during the time of migration, Mr. Guelph reports. There are also about twenty species that can be seen occasionally, and twelve which have been seen but a few times and are rare. A Hudson curlew, a willet, and a knot, birds rarely found in western New York, were seen there this year, Mr. Guelph says. The knot is a bird that goes far into the Arctic regions to breed, and it migrates in winter to the extreme southern part of South America. A blue goose, one of the rarest of the larger water fowl, also was seen this year. There are only six records of its having been seen before in this state Gallinules, or “mud hens,” are more plentiful this season than for several years. Black ducks have been common throughout the season, Mr. Guelph says, and early ducks are more plentiful now than they have been for a long time. Mr. Guelph says that probably there will be good duck shooting when the season opens.

DOGS MOURN GAYNOR’S DEATH

Three Canine Companions of Mayor Inconsolable, Seek Him In v Old Haunts. York*—Pathetic in connection with the death of Mayor Gaynor have been the actions of his three dogs on his country place at SL James, L. I. Ever since receipt of the news of their master’s death they have realized that something untoward had happened to him. They

Late Mayor Gaynor at His Country Home.

make frequent trips over the roads and paths which the mayor was accustomed to take on his long walks with his dogs as companions. The most persistent ln his search for traces of his master is Ben, an Irish setter, which was Mr. Gaynor*s favorite.

CHILD WITHOUT A FOREBRAIN

German Doctors Interested in Case of Baby Which Lived for Nearly Four Years. Berlin. —The German medical press records the remarkable case of a child which lived for nearly four years without any trace of a forebrain. Neurologists explain that the case demonstrates the absolute dependence of human being on the fore or sentient brain, and shows that a human cannot carry on the ordinary processes necessary for his preservation without it. The fish or frog without the forebrain has greater capability than had the child ln question. This child revealed no trace whatever of this vital brain section, so Its nervous system was absolutely similar to that of a fish, though the latter is capable of performing - all the vital functions necessary for nutrition and self-defense. * The case of the child is especially noteworthy because of the long duration of life. Jn other cases the brain-

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER, INP.

LABOR CLASS GAINS

England’s Middle Class Feel Advance of Former. Paper Declares That the Lot of Professional With Moderate Income Is Far Worse Than That of the Average Working Man. London.—A good deal of attention is being paid to the true meaning and effect of the almost continual labor upheavals that have affected this country in the last few years, and that threaten to continue for an indefinite period. The Daily Express finds ground for hope of peace in the circumstance, or alleged circumstance, that, as a result! of the recent strikes, many of the labor organizations are virtually bankrupt. “Not one or two, but nearly all the societies of organized workers,” It eays, “are Buffering severely from the Btrain put on their resources by the strike mania of the last few years.. The grand strikes have duly taken place. They have neither intimidated the employers nor broken the back of : organized society, though they have done much to imperil that right to work which ought to be no less Inalienable than the right to strike. But they .have effectually bankrupted the General Federation, . reducing its re* serve fund to a meager sum, largely J it is said, hypothecated In _pther <w rections. The Globe, pointing out another feature of the situation that has arisen from the labor unrest, prints a thoughtful article headed “Middle Class Burdens.” “It is,” It says, “easy to wax sentimental over the woes of the socalled working classes; and now that labor has secured a certain amount of] political power, (temagoguea are finding that to heap benefits from the ample coffers of the state upon the working man is a pure and safe road to the attainment and retention of office.” Obviously, however, says the Globe, the state can not continue to provide free education, old age pensions and expensive insurance, as well as satisfying the hundred and one other demands of the trkdes unions, without some other class feeling the pinch. It goes on to say: “If the added burden fell solely or chiefly upon those already possessed of a superfluity of this world’s goods, there would not be much cause for complaint. Probably we should all, collectively and Individually, be better off if society were so constituted that neither the millionaire nor the pauper could exist. But that is a prospect outside reasonable calculation, and, things are, the people who pay sot the lightening of the often well-to-do workingman’s life are that great middle class, which, even before the recent marked increase In the cost of living, has always found the struggle for existence a hard and strenuous one. "At present the lot of the professional man with a moderate Income is, we say it unhesitatingly, far worse than that of the average working man. If the latter has cause to complain that his wages do not possess the same purchasing power as formerly, the professional man has good ground for maintaining that he suffers even more severely from the same cause, while his unavoidable expenses are far heavier. “In what direction, It may be asked. Is a remedy to be found for this state of things? It 1b clear that this one clasß can not go on forever bearing not only its own legitimate share of the country’s burdens, but everybody else’B in addition. Yet politicians and least of all radical demagogues—have no thought for them. Our ears are deafened with the din of many speeches expressing the deepest sympathy for the woes of the people; parliament passes measures intended, at a cost, to relieve this or that grievance of the same sovereign people. But it is to be noted that this phrase, so reminiscent of French revolutionary times, covers, not all the honest working citizens in the state, but only that class of workers already sufficiently cared for. “We do not believe that It would bo possible for the middle classes to combine as the working classes have done, and wrench their rights from parliar ment. But we do say it Is the duty of the Unionist party to come to the assistance of a class which, above all others, has suffered from the predatory and socializing legisltalon of the last few years.”

less life l&Bted only for a few days, and the movements of the child did not differ ln any respect from those of a normal child. In the case under discussion the child lived 3% years, permitting numerous extensive observations of its state. The child remained ln a condition of continual sleep. Its arms were flexed and rigid. It was unable to grasp or hold anything with its hands. ’ From the second year onward the child cried Incessantly, though this could Instantly be stopped by mere pressure, especially on the head. It was impossible to note any psychical action, to awaken any feelings, or to teach the child anything. - ,'

Sell Liquor Licenses at Auction.

Camden, N. J.—For the first time ta this' country liquor licenses will b< sold at auction In the Camden coart Under an act recently passed 'by th< New Jersey legislature, when a saloot Is deemed a necessity the llcenee li sold to the highest bidder.

FOUND MISS WILDFIRE

By CLARISSA MACKIE.

Frank Churchill had had the briefest glimpse of her, but her face haunted him for months afterwards. As agent for ah eastern land company he had stopped for a night at her father’s ranch in Montana. Tlie girl had appeared shyly in the living roofn of the house and her father had caught her sunbrowned little hand and drawn her affectionately to him.* “Come Bess, I want you to. meet the man from New York who wants to build sky scrapers on the side of Money Mountain.” Bess Delorme had laughed merrily and placed her hand for an instant in -Churchill’s; with a few words of encouragement concerning his venture Bess had slipped away and he had J|#ver seen her again. But her face haunted him always with its charm of sweet expression and the pretty curve of cheek and chin. The thick dark lashes that shaded her soft black eyes, and the curling tendrils of her jetty hair, were set In his memory like a painted pictare. The next year he returned to- find her parents dead and the motherless home broken up. Bess Delorme had gone further west, someone said to relatives in California. No one knew definitely. So Churchill nursed Ills secret love and looked always for the face of the girt he, had seen but once. He became a traveling salesman and his business took him over much western territory. In every town or city he visited his first Inquiry was for someone by the name of Delorme', but so far he had never found trace of her. It jvas a cool sweet, night such as California knows often, and Churchill lingered on the steps of his Los Angeles hotel wondering how to spend the evening hours before bedtime. He lighted a cigar and wandered down the street until he came to an open air moving picture theater. He paused before the gay posters outside the entrance, studying the pictures of the western play “Miss Wildfire.” Suddenly he bought a ticket and went inside. He sat patiently through several reels until finally there was flashed on the white screen the title of the next play: "Miss Wildfire, a story of love and hate on the plains.” - Churchill settled back In his seat. It would be something to look on the familiar country where Bess Delorme lived. At the very first scene his interest was aroused. Surely there was the Delorme ranch house, and the girl dressed Ln corduroy skirt and flannel shirt with broad brimmed hat on her dark curls was Bess Delorme herself. The play proceeded; cowboys rode madly hither and thither; rival lovers appeared for the hand of, the rancher’s daughter; the rancher was a man who was strange to Churchill and Bess was the only familiar face among the characters. The characters came and went, made love, disagreed, hated each other, fought and died—and Frank Churchill saw only one face through it all. When the play was over he went dizzily around to the office of the manager and asked questions. “Miss Wildfire —why that part 1b taken by Lillian Delorme, one of the most popular players; let me see, that’s a Goodenuf film. Miss Delorme Is one of the Goodenuf players, you know. Sorry, that’B all I know about it. Write to the film company in San Francisco, they’ll give you her adflress.” Churchill thanked him and went away only to return and view the “Miss Wildfire” film again. When the doors were closed for the night he went to his hotel and studied the telephone directory. The Goodenuf Film company could not be expected to be doing business at midnight, therefore his long distance call to San Francisco was unanswered. He went to bed stirred by a thousand hopes and fears. “It must be that I’m going to meet her again somewhere or I wouldn’t have chanced on that film tonight when my thoughts are full of her,” he told himself time and again during the Bleepless night. At nine o'clock the next morning he got the Goodenuf Film company by telephone and to hiß chagrin learned that Mlbs Delorme had left the company the week before and gone east Iler destination? Oh, New York, I suppose, they all go there,” sighed his informant as the interview was closed. “East” waß indefinite —New York was a clew that Churchill clung to as he finished his business ln Los Angeles and prepared to leave for -Chicago on his homeward trip. And everywhere he went he kept his eyes wide open for some glimpse of his love and whenever he was ln the vicinity of a moving picture show he dropped in hoping to see Miss Wildfire once more. Again and again he raw the play in different cities until he knew it by heart He grew Intensely jealous of the big cowboy hero of the play who made such romantic lore to the charming little western girl and he would have slain the villain singlehanded every night If he h&d been flesh and blood. At last he -reached New York and reported to the sales manager. Mr. Robinson was very busy that morning and be sent word out to Churchill to wait a couple of hours for him. ’Til borrow a stenographer then and dictate a few letters,” decided Churchill and he spoke to the chief clerk. Five minutes afterwards he was seated In a small office his feet •lavated to a table and bis mind busy

over the correspondence that had accumulated during his absence. Someone opened the door behind him jand slipped into a cjxair. He turned his head slightly, saw a dark, curly head the outline of*a white clad shoulder, and arm and a slim brown hand poising a pencil over a fresh notebook. Churchill’s feet came down from the table and his hat flew Into a corner. “Good morning,” he said crisply. “Are you ready?” “Yes,” was the low-toned reply. - “Please take this letter: The Goodenuf Film Company, San Francisco, California. Gentelmen: —Referring to my several inquiries concerning the whereabouts of Miss Lillian Delorme until recently a member of your company of players, may I not impose upon your courtesy a little further and ask you to institute some inquiry, in whatever direction you may deem advisable, concerning the destination of Miss Delorme she, left San Francisco. I am very anxious to find her present whereabouts and —” “Oh, excues me!” cried the stenographer breathlessly. “Going too fast for you?” he asked kindly. “No —but, please, Mr. Churchill!” He whirled around in his -chair and stared with unbelieving eyes into the blushing startled face of —Miss Wildfire herself. He sat there with parted lips for an absurdly long time but it was rather disconcerting to search the west for a trace of Bess Delorme and come back to the east to find her prosaically established ln his firm’s business office! It took. Frank Churchill two hours to explain to Bessie Delorme why he wanted to see her and to hear from her lips that she had decided not to be an actress after all and that she had taken her dying father’s advice and gone east to seek work in New York; her only aid had been one of Churchill’s business cards found among her father’s effects. “Weil, Churchill,” said his sales manager when at last he Interviewed the traveling man. “You can fc put mourning band on your sleeve —I’m going to change your territory.” “Not New England?” asked Church delightedly. “Yes. I thought you’d kick a lot over It —you-ve been so keen for the west. “I was looking for something out there but I’ve found it now. I say Mr. Robinson, fix it up so I can have a month off in October, will you?” “Not getting married?” asked the other: • “Perhaps,” returned Churchill guardedly, but in his heart he knew that Miss Wildfire and he had not crossed the continent in search of each other in vain. “Then Til see that you get a pass over the line to Niagara Falls,” grinned his chief. (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure Newar paper Syndicate.)

SNAKES THAT REALLY WALK

Scientists Assert They Have Method of Locomotion of Which Few Are Aware. Apropos of the recent discovery in Africa of the Gigantosaurus Africanus It is interesting to note the many facts which point to the conclusion that snakes swam before they took to land. It Is not impossible that the traces of former snake locomotion Which are found in the python and other snakes are the remains of former fins. It is said that when the reptiles came to land and learned to burrow in the-sand they lost these. There is one explanation of the rudimentary foot of modern times in the snake world, and that is ln the remains of the flying dragon. When the dragons ceased to fly and came to earth it is said that some of them survived as snakes and that the remains of their feet and wings survive ln the species that tempted Adam and Eve. The usual method of walking in the snake tribe is peculiar and is more like walking in a bag. A snake walks; he does not crawl, as the average layman imagines. Snakes walk on their ribs. The old Germans or Teutons used to have a warlike custom of proclaiming their kings. The sturdy warriors would lock their brazen shields together lifted high above their heads, on which the future king was elevated. The snake’s belly is in some respects like the interlocked shields. His feet are his ribs, which he is capable of working forward or backward, at the same time bending them. Over each rib there Ib a shield, and as the foot moves the point of the foot is lowered and digs into the ground or takes hold of any projection on the surface over which it la going. This moves his bulk along. He also curls himself up and thus moves along more swiftly. Grabbing with his front ribs, an ugly snake can hold fast while he palls up his other half. Scientists do not believe that snakes can spring, but that they sometimes jump.

Dining Early.

Lord Shaw told a good story at • dinner to the Bench and Bar, given recently by the Fishmongers’ company. He said that in the old days the Scottish bench in Edinburgh were accustomed to dine at four o’clock In the afternoon, and sometimes these convivial gatherings were prolonged to a late —or early—hour, as the case might be. At two o’clock one afternoon a client called at the bouse of a distinguished lawyer and asked to see the master. "He’s at dinner," replied the maid. "At dinner!” gasped tbe caller. “Dinner at two o’clock in the afternoon I Surely your master dines earlyT” “No,” replied the maid. “It’s yester day’s dinner he's still satin'l“

.. , —... .i- -i. . ■ .... .i ■ ;—■ 1 QHof® HENRY HOWLAND mm a tmm fIAPEfIISTIir It’s a queer old world we live in, A world of wondrous ways, Denouncing vice and giving Sweet virtue lavish praise! • We scorn the ragged sinner. But greet him with a smile When he flashes jewels at us And shows that he's made his “pile.” It’s a queer old world we live ln, A world of strange- conceits, With praise for him who's honest. And blame for him who cheats. We spurn the common trickster. But turn in friendly style To greet the well-dreßsed sharper Who has managed to .make his “pile.** It’s a queer old world we live ln, A world whose aims are high, Exalting art and letting The starving artist die! We (corn the humble huckster, But meet nlm, after while, With loud and Joyful greetings— WJjen we know he’s made his “pile.’* It*s a queer old world we live ln, A world that praises worth, And gives its highest honors To the fool of “noble” birth! Deploring the greed for money. That wo call ignoble, vile. We envy the rich, each hoping He may manage to make his “pile.”

FIRED AT RANDOM.

The barking dog is never popular. Some woipen will not care to remain if there are no fashionable dressmakers in heaven. We seldom hear of a woman marrying the Bon of her old sweetheart. People who turn to look at a prise fighter merely exhibit the lingering trace of savagery. In Paraguay a gentleman is supposed to kiss every lady who Is introduced to him. The gentleman of Paraguay Bhould be careful to steer clear of strange ladies when his wife la present. The man who invented the corkscrew was ashamed to have his name connected with it.

LEARNING THE BUSINESS.

“So you have taken your son Into the bank to- work his way up from the

fact that there was a golf tournament go!hg on.” 1 *\

Idle Speculation.

“Think of it!” said tbe man who takes an interest lq science; “there may be millions and billions of people on those distant points of light up there that we call stars.’’ “Oh, what’s the use?” answered the practical politician; “it'll never be po» slble for any of us to control theii votes, anyway.”

Sweet Closed Lips.

Her hands are folded! Ah, how sweet. How gentle she appear*—how mildt She seem* to have the meekness of A tender little child. I do not hear her voice; I hear No sweet, soft echoes of her laugh! Her Ups are closed—but not for long— She's sitting for her photograph.

A Definition for the Young.

“Pa, wbat’s an auto de fa?” , “That’s where _ a man In an auto runs over people Just as a matter of principle and to show that be has faith in his ability to get away.”

Couldn’t Hardly Believe It.

“Do ydu iflfow,” be said, “I neve* suspected until I was almost a man that I was handsome?” “Dear me,” she replied, "were you ever almost a man?’’

bottom? How Is he doing?” * “Oh, fairly well. He reported for duty twice -last week and hung around for nearly an hour each time, in spite of the