Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1914 — Page 2

SAVING THE BONDS

By MONTAGUE GLASS.

It was a beautiful morning. A soft breeze from the river stole through Mr. Goodel’s office window and eddied so gently around his bald head that, instead of sneezing, he sighed. Thence it ambled into the outer office and tugged at every button In the garments of Jimmie Brennan, the office boy. “At Fulton Market dock,’’ it whis“there’d good swimming.” “G’wan, what yer tryin' ter do —kid me?” Jimmie's subconsciousness jeered, while its owner industriously continued to index the letter-book. “It’d freeze de insides out’n yer!” So back it flew to Mr. Goodel. “I ask you in all seriousness,” it almost hissed, “shall commercial paper and investment securities prevail over golf?” / ■. And Mr. Goodel, being of weaker staff than Jimmie, closed his roll-top desk with a bang and seized his hat and cane, ~ ‘Tm going up-town on a very important matter,” he said. Jimmie looked at him mournfully. This cutting business an hour before noon was becoming too frequent of late. “What will I tell Mr. Luddington?” he asked. For a man of fifty-five Mr. Goodel blushed rather easily. The operation, however, might be termed painting the lily, for normally this gentleman’s face was of a hue to pale the flamingo’s wing. "Why, tell him I’ve gone up-t<j»n on a very important matter, of course,” he declared. Jimmie glanced at Mr. Goodel and, dropping his eyes, snorted eloquently. Luddington was Goodel’s brother-in-law, and the roseate hue of Goodel’s countenance was largely due to his example and encouragement. Despite Luddington’s convivial habits, however, Jimmie knew that he held a business engagement sacred; and on 1 the previous day he had distinctly heard Goodel make an appointment with his brother-in-law for the purchase of some bonds. The securities were to be delivered in person by Luddington at a quarter to one o’clock that afternoon. "How about dem bonds, Mr. Goodel?” he said. “Oh, yes—about those bonds,” Goodet replied. “When Mr. Luddington brings them here, put them in the small safe.” After a time Luddington entered. "H’lo, Jimmie!” he cried in his usual jovial fashion. “Where’s the boss?" "Now he’s gone up-town, Mr. Luddington,” Jimmie replied, “on an important matter.” Luddington chuckled impatiently. “That’s too bad,” he said. /T have some bonds for him.” “I know ut,” Jimmie answered. "He says fer you to leave ’em wit’ me.” “Oh, he did, did he?” Luddington cried testily. “Why, there are ten bf them, at a thousand apiece, with the coupons attached.” Jimmie’s face fell as he proffered Luddington an assurance he didn’t feel For the rest of the afternoon Jimmie sat tn front of the safe fruitlessly revolving the knob, resting herself at intervals by reading a thrilling dime novel. At four o’clock he locked up the office and wandered disconsolately down-stairs. There the sunny autumn afternoon propelled him to the river front, and, unconsciously, his footsteps shaped themselves toward Fulton Market dock. He picked his way through the empty fishbarrels to the string-piece, where stood Ignatius Ryan, the same they call Whitney. Ignatius was garbed .in a scapular and not much more, and his teeth chattered incessantly as the cold wind smote his naked shins. "Why jump in?” said Jimmie, seating himself on the edge of the wharf. Whitney struggled with a temporary ataxia of speech. “Aw, w-w-w-hy d-d-d-on’t y-y-y-er j-j----j-ump in y-y-y-yers-s-s-s-elf?” he barely managed to enunciate. By way of reply Jemmie emitted a succession of jeering guffaws which seemed to infuriate the shivering Whitney. Ignatius made a dash for his tormentor, and a moment later the two of them were struggling in a stro&g flood tide. When Jimmie rose to the surface, half a dozen ropes were within easy reach. He was speedily hauled back upon the dock, shrieking lurid threats Ignatius, whose repartee, revived by the sudden plunge, grew no less G* profane. "Wait till I get yer wanst!” Jimmie shouted. “I’ll lift de face off yer, dat’s >11!” And there followed a wealth of bitter anathema that might have enriched the vocabulary of a truckman. Jimmie proceeded up (he wharf and Along South street, dripping a track muddy water behind him. A salt stream ran down his face from his hair and mingled with the tears which <ame with a realization of his predicaneut His cap was lost and his only Unit of clothes was dirty beyond de- . pcription. ■ In the excitement of the past halfhour he had entirely forgotten the bonds. At the remembrance of them his band sought his breastpocket. With shaking fingers be removed the

pin and drew out a bundle of papers whose stained and soggy condition bore no semblance whatever to the crisp beauty 7of Mr. Luddington’s bonds. All that evening he sat in a flannel, nightgown, busily plying a rubber eraser, but without avail, for as fast as he removed the spots his failing tears stained the wrinkled paper anew. His mother, meanwhile, stood at the washtub and renovated his muddy clothing with a vigor that testified eloquently to the thoroughness of his chastisement. There was little sleep for Jimmie that night, and next morning, as he trudged, hollow-eyed, to his work, he turned over in his mind every justification he might proffer Mr. Goodel for his disobedience. He arrived downtown without having formulated any excuse, and a quarter of an hour late to boq.t- So preoccupied was he, as he mounted the steps, that he failed to observe two policemen who blocked the doorway, and plunged blindly into them. "Where are you bound for?” one of. them asked. “Aw, let me go!” said Jimmie. “I woik here.” “Oh, you do, do yOuT’ the policeman ejaculated, and grabbed him by the shoulder. “What’s yer name?” “Jimmie Brennan,” the boy replied. “Come on, you,” his captor said, and dragged the struggling Jimmie upstairs. Luddington and Goodel stood in the outer office as Jimmie and the policeman entered. Goodel’s ruddy complexion had faded to a dingy shade of purple, and the corners of Luddington’s mouth turned downward in a most unaccustomed fashion. “Here he is!” the officer announced. ... “Well, don’t strangle him,” said Luddington, with his hand on the doorknob of Goodel’s office. He turned to Jimmie. “Do you anything about this?” he asked, and threw wide the door. Jimmie gasped in convincing astonishment. The little safe stood doorless on its side, in the middle of the room, surrounded by a pile of torn and scattered paper. Its iron door rested on Goodel’s desk, while the doors of the big safe in the corner swung ajar, one of them supported by only the bottom hinge. “He doesn’t know,” Goodel muttered. “What time did you leave here yesterday?” Luddington asked. “Four o’clock,” Jimmie murmured in tear-choked accents. Here the policeman took a hand. “What time did you get home?” he persisted. Jimmie sobbed convulsively. “Six o’clock,” he crocked. * “And where was you between times?” his inquisitor bellowed. This was too much for Jimmie. He sank down with his head oh the desk and wept unaffectedly. "Now look here,” Goodel protested, "I won’t have the little chap bullied any more.” He laid a comforting hand on Jimmie’s shoulder. “It’s all my fajilt, Luddington,” he continued. “If I hadn’t been an ass and gone off to play golf I might have put the bonds in my safe-deposit box instead of the safe, and they wouldn’t have been stolen.” Jimmie lifted his head from the desk. “Dey wuzn’t in de safe,” he said. “What?” gasped Luddington, Goodel, and the policeman in concert. “’N’ it ain’t up ter me, neider,” he sobbed. “Whitney pushed me in.” “What d’ye mean?” Luddington shrieked. For answer Jimmie unpinned his pocket and handed the soiled bonds to Goodel. They were as limp as Japanese napkins. “I cleaned ’em as good as I could,” Jimmie continued. Then, piecemeal they drew from him a disconnected but comprehensive account of the day’s adventures. It omitted nothing, qot even the dime novel. “Jimmie, you young dog,” said Goodel, after he had regained his composure. “I forbade you ever to read dime novels in this office, and no sooner was my back turned than you did.” Jimmie hung his head. “That’s all right, Goodel!” Luddington broke in. “You told him'to put the bonds in the safe and he didn’t I guess that makes it square, and you’d better forgive him.” A broad grin spread itself over Goodel’s face. “He gets one more chance,” he said, pressing a bill into the boy’s fist, “and S2O to buy a new suit of clothes with. Now get out of here, Jimmie —you smell like a fish-market!” (Copyright, by the Frank A. Munsey Co.)

New Whale.

Forest and Stream describes a new kind of whalebone whale that has recently been discovered in the South Atlantic. It is nearly as large as the finback, the more familiar whale of those waters; but instead of subsisting on minute crustaceans, it feeds on small schooling fishes, such as young herring and mackerel. The frayed ends of its baleen, or whalebone, are not curled into a woolly fringe, like those of the finback, which needs a fringe in order to entrap its minute food, but are straight and comblike. The new species has quite as much commercial value as its better-known relative.

Their Place.

"Pop. I know where all the trees' green leaves go in winter.” "Where do they go, son?” "They’re packed away in the tries trunks.”

L . .Wry/- ' - ■■ • ' THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

SURVIVORS OF AN OCEAN TRAGEDY

These two members of the crew of the steamer Columbian, which was burned at sea, were picked up after they had drifted in a small boat for fourteen days, subsisting on hardtack and boot leather. Eleven of their shipmates drank salt water-, went mad and died.

DO VALIANT SERVICE

“Veteran” Writes Interestingly of United States Marines. Gallant Corps Is Older Than the Republic Itself, Having Been Organized by Act of Continental Congress in 1775.

By a Veteran.

Washington, D. C. —It was the campaign of the 4Hies against the Boxers in 1900. They had captured Tientsin by a hard three-day battle. A conference had been called of all Ute commanders to discuss the question of advancing or waiting for reinforcements. Gen, Robert Meade, in command of the United States marines, was ill and Col. Littleton T. Waller, then a major, was the junior officer of the representatives of many nations in the conference.

One by one the elder men gave their opinions that there was no pressing need of an advance and that the troops must have several more days of recuperating. Finally, Major Waller’s opinion was asked and he stood up and said:

"Gentlemen, I don’t know just what the rest of you mean to do, but the marines start for Peking at six o’clock In the morning.” The marines did start at six o’clock in the morning, taking the allies along. This incident was recalled to my mind on seeing that Colonel Waller had been ordered East from the coast and is likely to get mixed up in the doings in Mexico. Waller’s reply was typical of the gallant little corps which is older than the republic itself. An act of the Continental congress in 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence, organized the corps along the lines of a similar British body.

Just one hundred years before the marines battered at the gates of the Forbidden city they did a heroic feat in Tripoli. In 1803 a detachment of these soldiers of the sea marched 660 miles across the African desert to subjugate the insolent tyrants of the Mediterranean. They pulled down the malodorous flag of the Tripolitans and hoisted the Star Spangled Banner over an ancient fortress before a horde which had in large number never seen it before. The marine as a fighting man aboard ship is said by one historian to date back to the Persian empire. Marines are mentioned in connection with the battle of Lade, in the time of Darius I, king of Persia, about 495 B. C.

In the old days of engagements at close quarters the marines were the “cutlass crews.” The fighting of naval battles at a range of five to ten miles has destroyed the usefulness' of the slashing boarder, but there is plenty of work left for the soldier of sea and land. As Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy, said recently: "The marines and bluejackets have rendered valiant service at Vera Cruz. The marines as well as the bluejackets have proved their caliber, always understood by our own people as well as those of other nations.' It is the marine who is always called upon to form the entering wedge, to blaze the trail in landing on foreign shores.”

To illustrate the manifold services of the marine, let us take the example of Haggerty, one of the three marines who fell in the first day’s fighting at Vera Cruz. He had been under fire at Samar and again at Peking. He had gone into action twice in Nicaragua and had had rifles aimed in his direction in Hayti.

Just one hundred years after their march to Tripoli the United States marines touched again-on African soil, but on the peaceful mission of escorting a representative of the state department to the coijrt of King Menelik of Abyssinia. They took a camelback ride of several hundred miles. Between the Peking expedition and this they also had a touch of excitement at Samar, Panama and Colon, and even while the detachment was

crossing the Abyssinian sands another band of their comrades was aiding in quelling the insurrection of 1903 in Seoul, Cuba, Santo Domingo, Hayti. _ The warships are manned by seamen or bluejackets, who, in time of need, must become soldiers for service ashore. The marine is not a soldier pure and simple. His uniform resembles that of a soldier, but he has an actual part in the manning of the ship, in that he has his regular duty aboard with a “battle station” to which he must spring whenever "battle stations” is sounded, and the ship goes into action. Among other things the marine must possess good eyesight, for under modern conditions 1 , with high-powered rifles, the. greater part of land fighting would be done at a range of about a mile.

The training of the marines includes not only thS signal drills, searchlight and heliograph practise in Which the soldiers of the army are trained, but also the drills peculiar to the management of a ship of war, such as the use of the wireless wig-wag, signaling, semaphore signaling, and in many cases the handling of small boats.

PUTS STORES ON 5-DAY BASIS

Wanamaker Wil) Close Business Houses on Saturday During the Entire Year. Philadelphia, Pa. —John Wanamaker, the great New York and Philadelphia merchant and former postmaster general of the United States, adopted the radical mercantile innovation of keeping his stores closed on Saturday all the year round, instead of merely giving his employes a half-holiday on

John Wanamaker.

Saturday throughout the summer months. Coincident with the adoption of this five-day work policy for the Wanamaker stores, Mr. Wanamaker issued an invitation and a challenge to the proprietors of stores in New York, Chicago and the other large cities of America to join with him in a similar restriction of working hburs. This innovation means that the several thousand employes of the Wanamaker stores will draw a seven-day wage envelope for five days of labor.

Falls Three Stories; Injuries Slight. Bayonne, N. J. —For the second time within a year Mary Matuskefsky, eleven, fell three stories while walking in her sleep and sustained only a slight injury to her right foot >l i' l | l S 1 . 11 mi. W M«.. 1 ..'i l 1 1 Thrashes 56-Year-Old Son-In-Law. Boston. —Michael Sullivan, ninetyone, thrashed his son-in-law, Thomas Dossett, fifty-six, when the latter criticized the manner in which Mrs. Doesett prepared dinner. „ I! Il- «l » «' | Keeps Headless Frog Alive. / New York.—-Dr. George E. Crile, explained to the New York Medical society how he kept a frog alive 11 hours by blood transfusion after cutting off its head.

WAR HORRORS TOLD

Greeks, Bulgars, Servian and Turks Accused of Massacre. Soldiers Shown to Have Burned Men Alive—Appeal Is Made to Nations by Commission of Inquiry of Carnegie Endowment

New York.—Atrocities inflicted on defenseless men, women and children by Turks, Bulgarians, Greeks and Servians during and after the Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 are recounted in detail in a report made public by the Balkan commission of inquiry of the Carnegie endowment for International peace.

The document tells of the annihilation of one entire population of 15,960 persons, of the burning of men alive by hundreds, of the violation of the widows, of the hanging Of women to trees, of the butchery of men in groups of 300 or more and of the gouging out of the eyes of babies and their mothers.

After pointing out the effect of the atrocities of the people that survive, leaving moral and social chaos, the commission contends there is small chance of lasting peace In the Balkans. It closes its report with conjecture as to Macedonia’s future, and says: “What, then, is the duty of the civilized world in the Balkans, especially of those nations which by their location and history are free from international entanglements?

“It is clear in the first place that they should cease to exploit these nations for gain. They should encourage them to make arbitration treaties and insist on their keeping them. They should set a good example by seeking a judicial settlement of all international disputes. “The consequences of the recent war, economic, moral and social, are dreadful enough to justify any honest effort by any person or by any nation to alleviate the really distressing situation.” The report is in seven chapters and clears up much of the mystery of atrocities reported while the Balkan nations were involved in strife, either with the Turks or among themselves. Everywhere the commission found desolation, wretchedness and social and moral disintegration. In this Indictment brought by the commission against all contending forces no one of the Balkan nations is spared. Atrocities committed on noncombatant Moslems in Macedonia surpassed in many instances the crimes of the dark ages. The barbarous acts and inhuman reprisals performed by Bulgarians, Servians and Greeks against one another would seem incredible if they were not supported by unquestionable evidence.

The commission gives three causes for the war which followed the demand of the allies for autonomy of the European vilayets and. redivision according to nationality. These were the weakness and want of foresight of Turkey, the powerlessness of Europe to impose on a constitutional Turkey the reforms it had introduced into an absolute Turkey, and the consciousness of increased strength which alliance gave the Balkan states. The occupation of Macedonia by Greeks and Servians and the threatened decapitation of the Bulgarian nation fostered discord among the Balkanallies which had not been stifled by treaties, the terms of which wpre in continual dispute. Alleged Bulgarian violations of treaties and Servian transgressions, followed by mutual demands for concessions and extensions of frontier, precipitated a war among the allies which for wanton cruelty and wholesale demolition is almost unparalleled.

In commenting on the BulgarianServian country the commission says: “The things we have described, horrible as they are, are evidence of an abnormal condition which cannot continue.’’ The report, with a preface by Nicholas Murray Butler, is the work of the following members of the commission: Dr. Josef Redlich, professor of public law in the University of Vienna, Austria. » Baron d’Estournelles de Constantand M. Justin Cedart, lawyer and member of the chamber of deputies of France. Dr. Walther Schucking, professor of law at. University of Marburg, Germany. • ? Francis W. Hirst, editor of the Economist, and Dr. H. N. Brailsford, journalist, of Great Britain. Prof. Paul Milyoukoff, member of the Russian domain. Dr. Samuel T. Dutton, professor in teachers’ college, Columbia university, New York.

Thinks Wife Has Evaporated.

New York. —Because he has heard nothing from his wife in years, Frank D. Jackson, husband of Mme. Diss De Barr, the Swami, is convinced that she has evaporated. She had the power of dematerializing, says Jackson.

Nearly Asphyxiates Family.

Chicago.—Louis Woltt f nine, while hastily undressing for bed, tossed off his stocking- It caught oh a fixture, turned on the gas, and members of the family were found nearly unconscious a short time later.

Couple Needed Good Spanking.

New York. —Refusing to separate a young couple on the husband’s request, Justice Blanchard declared that they needed a "good spanking," not a separation. '

HAVE THE FINAL DECISION

Great Men Borrow Others’ Brain*, but In the End Always Decide for Themselves. ‘The wise man seeks the wisdom of others, but, if also strong, decides for himself and acts on his own judgment The unwise man relies first and last on others, for even if he seeks wisdom in a multitude of conn* selors, he is the plaything of the latest adviser and does what this mad says, no matter if It flatly contradicts what was first advised. There exists confusion of thought!, between taking counsel and relying off oneself. It appears to be thought that asking Information about one’s course from those who have information that he has not is leaving the decision to them. But the two things are not the same. An Intelligent or sensible man knows that his judgment may be biased by looking at matters only from his own point of view or from having insufficient data for forming a judgment But when he has consulted friends and increased his information, 1 then, if strong and wise, he thinks for himself and steers his own courses This is the method of such men as Socrates and Lincoln, Roosetelt and Wilson. Socrates did not believe he was the wisest of thei Greeks, but he questioned his fellowaj everlastingly until he became convinced perforce that he was less un4 wise than they. Nappleon held a council of war with his field marshals be-i fore every battle and heard and! .weighed their every argument, but the final decision was made by Rodsevelt took his cabinet freely into his counsel and gave weight to their, judgment, but it was he himself who! decided the course of President Roose-! velt Mr. Wilson, in his own picturesque phrase, "borrows all the brqina he can,” but the man has yet to bo discovered who determines his judgment as to what the president should! do. The wise man knows his own limitations and tries to enlarge himself through thg wisdom and counsel of others. Then, if also strong, he takes the tiller himself and steers the ship. —Spokane Spokesman Review.

Michael Knew It

< Senator Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas was reminded,' when the converse tlon turned to actors and the stage, of the candid admission of Michael Strogoff. One night "Michael Strogoff" was committed in a western town, and the man who played the title role had yet a long distance to go on the road of fame. As the play progressed Michael was captured, and the usual dialogue i began. "Your name ’" imperiously demand* ed .the officer who had effected the capture. "Michael Strogoff,” impressively answered the hero. “Your occupation?” continued the questioning party. “I am an officer in the imperial ar» my,” was, the prompt rejoinder. “Your rank?” haughtily pursued th® questioner. "I know it,” said Michael, almost sighfully..

Effect of X-Rays.

Both plant and animal tissues are injured by prolonged exposure to Xrays, but under proper regulation it appears that highly beneficial effects may be produced. In experiments In. Germany, Dr. Schwartz found no appreciable results from an exposure of young plant sprouts for 30 seconds, while an exposure of five minutes had a decided influence in retarding devel- ' opment. The best time for benefidlal action proved to be about 150 seconds, and by such exposure to the rays the plants were so stimulated that in three weeks their height reached twice that of unexposed plants. The effects on, the human body were subject' to similar regulation. The vitality of the tissues is diminished in the ’ case of pounds, a suitable application of X-rays, instead of causing skin burns, gave such stimulation that obstinate wounds healed up after a few repetitions of the treatment

Publication in Old Rome.

Some publishers in ancient Roma could turn out books rapidly and cheaply. A publisher of the Augustan era produced 1,000 copies of the second book of Martial in ten hours, and these sold at about twelve cents apiece, gave him a profit of 100 per cent. This was done by employing slaves carefully trained to write swiftly and legibly. Working in batchea of IDO, with an overseer dictating the book in hand, the task was completed tn a very short time. - As soon as the copies were written they were revised, corrected, rolled up and bound. Being slaves, the men required only maintenance from their master, and thus he could t afford to sell the productions at a very low rate.

Cunning Thieves In Mexico.

Americans in Mexico have doubtless gained some experience of the lepero, reputed to be one of the smartest and.' ? most impudent thieves in the world. Brantz Meyer tells of an English traveler who, within an hour or two, in the principal streets of Mexico, had first his hat hooked from his head by a line from an upper window, and was then accosted by three leperos who divested him of his coat. The three bade him wait, and within a few minutes one returned and handed him a pawn ticket “We wanted |3O, not the coat" he explained. "Here is the ticket with which you can redeem it for that sum?* \