Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1914 — Page 2

ALL IN THE FAMILY

By RAYMOND S. SPEARS.

Jack Grede, alias the Goat, came np into Yermit Gap out of the Western wilds. He tramped along, limping a little, 'but hurrying, for it was a long way between springs on that trail. He shuffled one foot after the other, his eyes restlessly swinging from right to left, but never once looking behind. There was no reason why he should. On his right hip swung the one clean thing about him, a big, dark leather holster, from which jutted the black handle of a thirty-eight revolver. Once he snatched the gun from its resting place, and with a single motion dropped a grouse with its head shot away. “ This bird he skinned and put in his pocket. Hour after hour he plodded on, and toward night, down the gentle slope of the wide pass in the ridge, he approached a clump of cottonwoods, among which was a cabin, and near by a small corral. He sighed gratefully at sight of this habitation. He hailed it just a little before stin'aet, and a man came to the door to look at him. This man was narrowfaced, fish-eyed and lank. He peered suspiciously at the newcomer, who approached, staring with wonder. "Uncle Tom!” the Goat exclaimed, starting up gladly from his weariness. "This yo’ ranch?” The ranchman squinted suspiciously. “Who-all might you be?” "Why, Jack Grede —I was jes’ a leetle shaver when you-all seen me back in Tennessee —don’ you know me?” “What you-all doin’ hereaway?" “I be’n riding for Colonel Cleaves." “A cowman an’ no boss? Where yo’ goln’?” The tramper looked helplessly toward the horizon. “I don’t know —cayn’t yo’ lemme stay year tell I git rested up?” "I aln’ runnln’ no tavern fer po’r relations!” with sullen emphasis. “You-all shore favors yo’ maw’s shitless fambly!”' The gray face withdrew, and the door closed harshly. An instant later the wayfarer heard the bars dropping into place behind the door. “Well, by Gawd! I never seen that befo’ in this whole country!” the Goat growled. "He grudges a man the water he drinks!” He turned from the cabin sharply on his heel. He walked down to the spring and found no hospitable cup, or even can, beside it. He scooped up a delicious draft in the top of his hat, however, and then swung on. He snapped along with quick, clean steps, limping no longer. Every step he took he cursed his Uncle Tom. Long after dark he threw himself down beside the trail to sleep, and a rattlesnake waked him up, trying to snuggle under his warm body. He killed the snake with a shot in the night, and tramped on, cursing not only his Uncle Tom, but rattlesnakes and Colonel Cleaves and the gods of the nation —the men who have taken more than their share and left so many without.

Ite roasted his bird in the morning, and salted it with the ashes of chips. He drank in the mud-hole where a thousand cattle had trampled through that morning. He slept again in the open, and two days later, just after dusk, he arrived at a little town at the edge of the world. It was not a lively little town at that. There’were a score of buildings, including a huge barn of a frontier store, two Or three saloons and a little red brick building that was a bank. Ttmre was a light in the office. Hankers are rich, have money and are cowards —so mused Grede. He glanced down the street and saw a cow pony not forty yards away; not another horse was in Hight. Then he slipped alongside the bank, reaching into the cylinder muzzles of his gun to make sure that every cartridge was in place. Of course, he knew the gun was ready, but habit is strong. He peered through the iron-barred window into the office, and saw there two men counting gold—ten double eagles at a time. On the desk was a pair of saddle-bags, and into the pouches one of the men put plump canvas bags full of gold. It was clear that some deal of importance was on. Jack Grede did not stop long to consider what was the reason for this display. A firm, cautious touch of the door knob showed that in that little town —the company town of “Cready” —the “Old West” seemed to have become a mere memory. The door was unlocked. With two steps and a low “Hands up.”’ Jack Grede became master of the situation, his blue bandanna handkerchief hiding all of his face but his eyes.

Amazed disbelief, yet strict obedience, marked the gestures of the two men, and In a minute the versatile ioM-up had them bound and gagged. ’.Io gulled down the window shade, so that no other man could peer In as he had done. Then he swung the full saddlebags over h|s shoulder, set the •priaglock in the door, and pulled his la the gloom outdoors he removed Ms handkerchief, wiped the sweat from Mg brows and then went briskly i» Oto bsfrc still tied to a rail, threw Up the saddlebags, cast oft the line and sprang td the saddle.

The pony bucked twice, but Breda had no time for monkey-shines? He drew the quirt that had hung on the saddle and cut the pony twice. Then the animal plunged away np the dusty street, and back on the road along which Grede had come to town. Out under the stars Grede caught his breath, looking back now at every third or fourth jump. He nursed the strength of his horse after the first half mile, and sometimes he stopped to listen, in the wide outdoors, where • the brush was low and the trail a pale glow. When dawn came he looked back long and anxiously, but saw no sign of pursuit At each spring and watering hole he found himself grown breathless and his chin quivering with apprehension, for the actual debd was less trying than the long suspense. Yet the day passed with no sign of pursuit, not a trace of dust on the horizon, except where a bunch of antelope went over the rise at the horizon. ’ Grede topped a rise of ground an hour after dark, and stopped to look back. He spied a strange glow far down his trail. It was a white mist, a; bright moonrise apparently, but the moon does not rise in the south. He stared doubtfully, and then up shot a flash of fire, so bright that it seemed almost like a locomotive headlight—but there was ho railroad there. He. gazed wondering, till through his mind flashed a memory. The thing was an automobile, and behind those lights were his pursuers; that thing was not of flesh and blood, and it would not grow tired. The trail was rough perhaps, but the thing was coming. Already it had gained on him. He turned his horse and urged it on with choking clucks and gaspings. He fled on, while to’hls left he glimpsed the cottonwoods that marked the bottom of the quicksand creek that headed up there at the gap, where lived his uncle. He cursed his untie, and yet. felt that there was his only hope. Just what hope there was he could not know, except that it was a “blood” hope. He ran into the clump of cottonwoods and swung the saddlebags under a fallen log. The horse he stripped of its saddle and drove out Into the little bunch of animals down by the watering trough. Then he approached the cabifl silently, wondering what he could say now, or do, to make his cold ,and selfish Uncle Tom realize the call of the blood. The cabin was alight, and there was a crack near the door between two logs from which the chinking had fallen. To this - crack crept Jack Grede to look in first. He blinked in the light, and then he choked with rage and anger, for he saw why Uncle Tom had scorned him as a poor relar tion, why he hud turned him away. " For the second time he saw gold counted. Uncle Tom had out his hoard of gold and was crooning over it, fingering it, pinching it, his gray. eyes alight with avarice and miserly satisfaction.’ Not to feed a hungry relation, not to lend a helping hand would old Tom Grede forego the nightly dissipation of brooding over 1 his golden thousands. Jack staggered to his feet and backed away into the gloom of the cottonwoods, his one friend, the thirtyeight, already in his hands. He cohld see his back trail from where he stopped, and he saw the machine draw down over the rise of ground, a dark and menacing shadow now, with headlights extinguished. Grede swore under his breath as the machine came to a stop in silence hardly forty yards away. He could see four men- get down and go running softly along the trail toward the cabin.

The men, as they approached the cabin, walked softly and circumspectly. They appeared between the onlooker and the cracks in the cabin wall. They stooped low and Grede could see their four heads along the crack agalnstJ*the golden light. At last, when the sheriff had announced himself a dozen times —not without a kind of choking cackle, for he, too, knew what the man inside was doing—the bars were taken down reluctantly and the door thrown open. The man could only throw his hands up, for he was not a fighting man — merely a saving one. The officers crowded into the cabin and, as they left the door open. Jack Grede could see all that happened. He saw them put handcuffs on the old miser, who protested and screamed, but did not fight. He saw them go to the fireplace and knock out the loose stones and bring forth the bags of gold coin. The old man cried and yelled at that desecration of his hoard. The posse laughed at him, and Jack heard One of them exclaim: “How do you reckon he had the nerve to stick them up thataway? He’s plumb scalrt up now!” The gold was dumped into a feedsack. One of the men came hurrying down to the automobile, cranked it and drove it up to the cabin dopr, where it was turned round.

“Here’s where I’d better drap out of it,*’ Grede muttered as one of the men leaned over the lamps of the machine. A moment later, when the first white beam shot clear and bright out into the clump of cottonwoods exact!} where Jack Grede had been standing, nothing but the trees and brush were revealed. Then he roped the likeliest horse in his uncle’s little bunch, saddled It, throwing across it the heavy bags of gold, and rode back over the trail through the gap on which, a few days -hafnra, hungry, and and forlorn, be bad come afoot. (CoprrigbU

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Emperor William of Germany attended recently the reopening of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, the great waterway that connects the North sea and the Baltic and that was named for his imperial majesty. Extensive Improvements have just been completed and the kaiser’s yacht, as the photograph shows, was the first vessel to break the tape and enter the rebuilt canal.

HOW TO KNOW RABIES

Symptoms in Dogs a Layman May Understand. Hydrophobia Is Usually Spread by the Infected, Ownerless Cur Traveling Far and Wide, Says a Philadelphia Veterinarian. Philadelphia.—" Mad dog!" A terrible cry, and one that sends the bravest stampeding frantically. It has always been, in the imagination of men, one of the most dreadful warnings. And why not? The statistics show that among hydrophobia patients the mortality is 100 per cent, says the Philadelphia North American. Then, too, there are people who say there is no such thing as rabies, that it Is all the wild-eyed superstition of a fright-crazed people. In these summer months, when the rumors fly, which a<re you to believe? Here below is the expert testimony of an authority upon the disease and situation, Dr. C. J. Marshall, the state veterinarian. He tells just how you may know a mad dog, and discusses the state of affairs with evident surety.

The symptoms of rabies are very easily recognized,by a person who is familiar with the disease, yet the average layman seldom recognizes it, Doctor Marshall says. Among the ordinary symptoms observed is a change in the disposition Of the animal. If he has been affectionate, he often becomes cross and irritable, while dogs that are of a nervous, ferocious temperament frequently become very affectionate and timid. In many cases the animal goes away from home and may travel several miles, and on his return will show that he has been in a number of fights with other dogs. There is always a change in the voice of the animal. Instead of a bark he makes more of a cry and does more barking than usual. In some cases dogs that are affected are constantly

Mrs. Anthony Visits Paris

Indiana Woman In French Capital to Show Parisians a Thing or Two About American Styles. Paris. —Muncie, Ind., was put on the map when Mrs. C. H. Anthony, wife of the leading banker of that city,

Mrs. C. H. Anthony.

created a nation-wide sensation with her /Monishing creations in gowns. ShoTJy after her first sensational bow

REOPENING OF GREAT GERMAN CANAL

licking or biting the body, sometimes even licking through the skin and doing extensive damage to that particular part. They usually have a de-praved-appetite, and will eat pieces of wood, cloth, leather or any rubbish that they may find. Dogs that are kept in the bouse or in kennels frequently chew up the furniture or tear the bars of the cage with their teeth, and sometimes even tear their teeth otit or lacerate their mouths through such violence. Doctor Marshall has very dubious opinions of those who deny that there is such a thing as rabies. He says: "There is nuch a disease as rabies. I have seen hundreds of dogs, a number of cats, many head of cattle and a large number of horses die of the disease which has been, by all the means of establishing a diagnosis known to our profession, declared and verified as rabies. There is no disease of which I know that is more easily recognized or more sure to cause death, or one that causes more intense suffering in its victims than rabies. In my opinion it id unwise for intelligent persons to deny its existence, or to minimize or magnify the losses and suffering occasioned by it. I know very well that all animals and all persons bitten by a rabid animal do not develop rabies, but I know of no transmissible disease in which all animals that are susceptible will develop the disease when exposed to it. The best records I have at hand show where rabid dogs have bitten persons around the extremities 17 out of 100 have developed the disease, while 80 out of 100 bitten about the face have produced the malady. This is because the teeth of the animal when slashing at the legs become cleaned of the poisonous saliva, and usually do not carry, by they cut through to the skin, enough disease germs to impregnate the torn flesh. "On the other hand, when an uncovered portion of the body is bitten all of the deadly bacteria are on the points of the dog’s teeth and ; tear into the flesh fully armed. I know that the British isles have exterminated the disease by judicious use of muzzles

as a creator of fashions, she set society agog with her lavish display of diamonds embedded in the heels of her slippers. Mrs. Anthony Is now In Paris, where she promises to startle the Parisians by showing them something in real classy gowns and dresses strictly American tn design, style and make.

YOUNG SKUNK ATTACKS BOY

An Oklahoma Youth, Camping Out, Had to Spend Night In a Creek After Animal Was Killed. Haskell, Okla —John Reerink, sixyean years old, with his father, was rtving in a tent while they were building a barn for a farmer living north of town. One night, because it was hot, John took his blanket and went outside under w tree to sleep. He was awakeqpd by something soft nosing about his begd. He struck at it with his hand and an Instant later a set of sharp teeth pierced bis ear. His father was aroused by the yells that followed and found a large skunk Clinging to the boy’s ear. He killed the skunk. The blanket was burled and John spent most of the night in an adjacent creek trying to wash off the odor. Then he went to a doctor to have the ear dressed. The bite of a skunk is often very poisonous.

Wounded Steward Wants Damages.

New.York.--John Carthy, a steward on the Ward liner Esperanza, who was struck by a bullet fired from’ the shore during the fighting at, Vera Crus, has sued the steamship company for |lO,000. Carthy declares that he was not hired, to fight,. _ L t

and by proper quarantine measures. No cases have been reported from Australia, and probably never will be as long as the present system of quarantine is in vogue. The only way that rabies can be spread is by the biu. of an animal. Dogs, being loose and free to roam, are naturally subject to it. No dogs have, so far as my records or knowledge of them go, been known to go mad of their own accord. It is simply a disease which is carried from place to place by dogs which have been bitten by other dogs and which will bite still other dogs in their turn. The mad cats which are occasionally seen have been bitten by mad dogs. The horses and cattle have been contaminated in the same way. If every dog in the United States were’ muzzled and quarantined as they are restricted in England and Australia there would be no rabies. “It is the ownerless dog which causes the trouble. He travels far and wide, fighting over a wide range of territory. In one of the stray flurries he may be nipped by a dog which is in the early stages of rabies. He may be caught by a raving rabies sufferer and bitten before he can escape. In any event, he develops the disease. “Thd household pet, no matter how carefully he is watched, may on some pleasant little jog, when out for exercise orilj a few minutes, perhaps be cut by a contaminated hound and doomed. However, these animals rarely spread rabies.

SUNDAY UP ON PIKE’S PEAK

Noted Ball-Player Evangelist Has “Best Time of His Life” on Famous Mountain. Colorado Springs, Colo. —Billy Sun-> day, ex-ball-player evangelist, is not, as he travels about the country, always trying to knock the devil out of business, though most of the time he is engaged in that herculean task. The photo shows Billy, who is now on

Billy Sunday on Pika's Peak.

a tour of the*West, engaged in a snowball fight on the summit of Pike’s Peak, 14,147 feet above the sea. Mr. Sunday, because of the fact that he is always in training, was the only one of the party who was unaffected by the high altitude of the playground, where during his stay here he can be found almost every Monday, his day of rest.

Woman Sues Pie Makers.

Rochester, N. Y.—Alleging that when she bit into a custard pie two of her teeth were snapped off as a result of encountering a marble, Mrs. Glenn A. Miller has brought suit for 13,000 damages against Nelson A. White and Geprge N. Perry, pie manufacturers.

Court Refused to Accept Excuse.

Chicago—George Detsler, charged with wife desertion, testified that the reason he left home was because his wife would put his bowl of soup in the feather bod to keep it warm. The court refused to accept his excuse and sentenced him to Jail for six months.

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HENRY HOWLAND

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Oh, smiling; lady, your jewels flash, Your furs are rich and your eyes are bright. With a lavish hand you are spending cash. You know no want and your heart ,1s light; Tou look so glad and you seem so free From the cares that worrying people know That I wonder, seeing your ecstasy. Who was paying your bills a year ago. Perhaps he lingers alone somewhere. Or another may bring him gladness now; The lines that are drawn by the hand of Care May be deeply etched in his aching brow; Remorse may gnaw at his lonely heart, Or another may hear him whisper lowt But you, made up with consummate art— Who was paying your Mils a year ago? You do, not wall o’er the cost of things, Whatever yo&r fancy craves you take; Your hands are laden with flashing rings And your Angers never from tolling ache; V You give no thought to the ones who shrink Where a chill creeps In when the mad winds blow Your furs are soft and your cheeks are pink; Who was paying your bills a year ago? Oh, lady fair, in another year You may wonder how, in your careless pride You forgot to pause and declined to hear The helpless who In their sadness cried; You may sit alone where the light is dim And mourn* the fate that has brought you low,. As you think sometimes with a pang of him Who was paying your bills a year ago.

When They Weaken.

Martin —Whisky has different effects upon different people. Some men get funny when they drink, while others become ugly and want to fight. Van Buren —Yes, but there Is one point, at which an are affected ini just the same way. The funny fellows cease to be funny, and the Ughters lose their desires for blood. Martin —When Is that? Van Buren —When the wife’s footsteps are heard on the stairs.

Not Doing a Cash Business.

“Senator,” asked the Inquisitive young woman, “have you ever bought any man’s vote?” “No,” replied the statesman who had the disposal of the post offices tn his half of the state. “I never ask support from any man who is unwilling to take it out In trade.”

HIS QUICK RECOVERY.

must have been granted a monopoly of the beauty that was set apart for your family.

Her Faith.

“You told me before we were mar* rled,” he complained, “that you knew how to cook.” “I do,” she replied, “but I still have faith to believe that you are man enough to keep it from becoming necessary for me to do so.”

Judging by Results.

“My plea to the Jury,” boasted the young lawyer, “was more than four hours long.” “Humph!" replied the experienced; attorney, “and the verdict was in your favor. The other side couldn’t havoi had any case at all.”

An Advantage.

“Do you think a college education, affords a man an important advans tagef” *• “Oh, yes. One has to have it in oth der to get into a university club."

But They Will Take a Chance.

A Philadelphia man has decided to marry a young lady whom ho saved from drowning. This is likely to cause j a good many of the girls to decidh that t it 18 dangerous to learn to swim.

He —• What a homely girl that ' is, over there in the corner. She That is my sister. He —Is it p-pos-siblel Still, I'm not surprised. You