Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1914 — Page 3

The PLACE of HONEYMOONS HAROLD MAC GRATH Pictures

by C.D. RHODES

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CHAPTER XIV. Journey's End. Harrigan dined alone. He was In dißgrace; he was Bore, mentally as well as physically; and he ate his dinner without relish, in simple obedience to those well-regulated periods of hunger that aßsailed him three times a day, in spring, summer, autumn and winter. By -the time the waiter had cleared away the dishes, Harrigan had a perfecto between his teeth (along with a certain matrimonial bit),' and smoked as if he had wagered to finißh the cigar in half the usual stretch. He then began to walk the floor, much after the fashion of a man who has the toothache, or the earache, which would be more to the point. To his direct mind nd diplomacy was needed; all that wae necessary was a few blunt questions. Nora could answer them as she chose. Nora, his baby, his little girl that used to run around barefooted and laugh when he applied the needed birch! How children grew up! And they never grew too old for the birch; they certainly never did. They heard him from the drawing--room; trampp tramp, tramp. “Let him' be, Nora,” said Mrs. Harrigan, wisely. “He is In ft rage about something. And your father is not the easiest man to approach when he’s mad. If he fought Mr. Courtlandt, he believed he had some good regpon for doing so.” - “Mother, there are times when I believe you are afraid of father.” "I am always afraid of him. It, Is only, because I make believe I’m not that I can get him to do anything. It was dreadful. And Mr. Courtlandt was such a gentleman. I could cry. But let “your father be until tomorrow.” “And have him wandering about with that black eye? Something must be done for it. I’m not afraid of him." v “Sometimes I wish you were.” So Nora entered the lion’s den fearlessly. “Is there anything I can do for you. dad?” - “You can get the witch hazel and bathe this'lamp of mine,” grimly. , V'- She ran Into her own room and returned with the simpler devices for reducing a swollen eye. She did not notice, or pretended that she didn’t, that he locked the door and put the key in his ppckel. He sat down \in a chair, under the light; and Bhe went to work deftly. “I’ve got some make-up, and tomorrow morning I’ll paint it for you.” “You don’t ask any questions,” he said, with grimness. “Would it relieve your eye any?” lightly. l He laughed. “No; but it might relieve my mind.” “Well, then, why did you do so foolish a thing? At your age! Don’t you know that you can’t go on whipping every man you take a dislike to?” , ' “I haven’t taken any dislike to Courtlandt. But I saw him kiss you.” “I can take care of myself." “Perhapß. I asked him to explain. He refused. One thing puzzled me, though I,jjidn’t know what it was at the tifhe. Now, when a fellow steals a kiss from a beautiful woman like you, Nora, I don’t see why he should feel mad about'it.. When he had all but knocked your’daddy to by-by, he said that you could explain. . . . Don’t press so hard,” warnlngly. “Well, can you?” “Since you saw what he did, I do not see .where explanations on my part are necessary." “Nora, I’ve, never caught you in a lie. I never want to. When you were little you were the truthfulleet thing I ever saw. No matter what kind of a licking was in store for you. you weren’t afraid; you told the truth. . There, that’ll' do. Put some cotton over it and bind it with a handkerchief. It’ll be black all right, but the swelling will go down. I can tell ’em a tennis ball hit me. It was more like a cannon ball, though. Say, Nora, you know I’ve always poohpoohed these amateurs. People used to Bay that there were dozens of men in New York In my prime who could have laid me cold. I used to laugh. Well, I guess they were right. Courtlandt’s got the stiffest kick 1 ever ran Into. A pile driver, and if he had landed on my Jaw, it would have been doral bene as you say when you bid me good night in dago. That’s all right now until tomorrow. I want to talk to you. Draw up a chair. There! As I said. I’ve never caught you in a He. but I find that you’ve been living a lie for. two years. You haven't been square to me, nor to your mother, nor to the chaps that came around and made love to you. You * probably

didn’t look at It .that way, but there's the fact. I’m not Paul Pry; but accidentally I came across this,” taking the document from his pocket and handing it to her. “Read it What’s the answer?^* Nora’s hands trembled. “Takes yoa a long time to read ft .Is it truer “Yes” ' “And I went np to the tennis Court with the intention of knocking his head off; and now I’m wondering why he didn’t knock off mine. Nora, he’s a man; and when you get through with this, I’m going down to the hotel apd apologize.” “You will do nothing of the sort; not with that eye.” ..M “All right. I -was always worried for fear you’d hook up with some duke you’d have to support. Now, I want to know bow this chap happens to be my son-in-law. Make it brief, for I don’t want to get tangled up more than is necessary.” Nora crackled the certificate in her fingers and stared unseeingly at it for some time. “I met him first in Rangoon,” she began slowly, without raising her eyes. “When you went around the world on your own?” “Yes. Oh, don’t worry. I was always able to take care of myself.” “An Irish idea,” answered'Harrigan complacently. “I loved him, father, with all my heart and soul. He was not only big and strong and handsome, but he was kindly and tender and thoughtful. Why, I never knew that he was rich until after J had promised to be his wife. When I learned that he was the Edward Courtlandt who was always getting into the newspapers, I laughed. There were stories about his escapades. There were innuendoes regarding certain women, but I put them out of my mind as twaddle. Ah, never had I been so happy! In Berlin we went about like two children. It was play. He brought me to the Opera and took me away; and we had the most charming little suppers. I never wrote you or mother because I wished to surprise you.” “You have. Go on.” “I had never paid much attention to Flora Desimone, though I knew that she was jealous of my success. Several times I caught her looking at Edward In ft way I did not like.” “She looked at him, huh?” “It waß the last performance of the season. We were iharried that afternoon. We did not want anyone to know about it. I wae not to leave the stage until the end of the following season. We were staying at the same hotel with rooms across the corridor. This was much against his wishes, but I prevailed.” “I see.”

“Our rooms were opposite, ae I said. After the performance that night I went to mine to complete the final packing. We were to leave at one for the Tyrol. Father, I saw Flora Desimone come out of hie room.” Harrigan shut and opened his handß. "Do you understand? I Baw her. She was laughing. I did not see him. My wedding night! She came from his room. My heart stopped, the world stopped, everything went black. All the stories that I had read and heard came back. When he knocked at my door I refused to see him. 1 never saw him again until that night in Paris when he forced his way into my apartment.” “Hang it, Nora, this doesn’t sound like him! ” “I saw her.” “He wrote you?” “I returned the letters, unopened.” “That wasn’t, squarf. You might have been wrong.” “He wrote five letters. After that he went to India, to Africa and back to India, where he seemed to find consolation enough.” Harrigan laid it to his lack of normal vision, but to hie Bingle optic there was anything but misery in her beautiful blue eyes. True, they Bparkled with tears; but that signified nothing; he hadn’t been married these thirty-odd years without learning that a woman weeps for any of a thousand and one reasons. “Do you care for him still?” “Not a day passed during these many months that I did not vow I hated him.” “Anyone else know?” “The padre. I had to tell some one or go mad. But I didn’t hate him. 1 could no more put him out of my life than I could stop breathing. Ah, I have been so miserable and unhappy!” She laid her head upon his knees and clumsily he stroked It. His girl! “That’s the trouble with us Irish, Nora. We Jump without looking, without finding whether we’re right or wrong. Well, your daddy’s opinion is that you should have read his first letter. If It didn't ring right, why, you could have jumped the traces. 1 don’t believe he did anything wrong at all. It ißn’t in the man’s blood to do anything underboard.” “But I saw her," a queer look in her eyes as she glanced up at him. “I don’t care a kloodle if you did. Take it from me, it was a put-up job by that Calabrian woman. She might have gone to his room for any number of harmless things. But I think she was curiouß.” “Why didn’t she come to me, if she wanted to ask questions?” “1 can see you answering them. She probably just wanted to know If you were married or not. She might have been In love with him, and then she might not. These Italians don’t knew half the time what they’re about, anyhow. But I don’t believe it of Courtlandt. He doesn’t line up that way. Besides, he’s got eyes. You’re a thousand times more attractive. He’s no fooL Know what I think? Ae she was coming out she saw you at your door; and the devil in her got busy.”

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Nora rose, flung her arms around him and kissed him. “Look out .for that tin ear!” “Oh r you greet big, loyal, truehearted man! Open that door and Ist me get out to the terrace. - I want to sing, sing!” * “He said he was going to Milan In the morning.” She danced to the door and was gone. ; .. “Nora!” he called, impatiently. He listened in vain for the sound of her return. “Well, I’ll take the count when it comes to guessing what a woman’s going to do. 11l go out and square up with the old girl. Wonder how this news will harness up with her social bug?” Courtlandt got Into his compartment at Varenna. He had tipped the guard liberally not to open the dbor for anyone else, unless the train was crowded. As the shrill blast of the conductor’s horn sounded the warning of “all aboard,” the door opened and a heavily veiled woman got in hurriedly. The train began to move Instantly. The guard slammed the door and latched it Courtlandt sighed: the futility of trusting these Italians, of trying 'to buy their loyalty! The woman was without any luggage whatever, not even the usual magazine. She was dressed in brown, her hat was brown, her veil, her gloves,. her shoes. But whether she was young or old was beyond his deduction. He opened his Corriere and held It before his eyes; but he found reading Impossible. The newspaper finally slipped from his hands to the floor, where it swayed and rustled unnoticed. He was staring at the promontory across Lecco, the green and restful hill, the little earthly paradise out of which he had been unjustly cast He couldn't understand. He had lived cleanly and decently; he had wronged no man or woman, nor himself. And yet, through some evil twist of fate, he had lost all there was in life worth having. The train lurched around a shoulder of the mountain. He leaned against the window. In a moment more the villa was gone.

What was it? He felt irresistibly drawn. Without intending to do so, he turned and stared at the woman in brown. Her hand went to the veil and swept it aside.' Nora was as full of romance as a child. She could have stopped him before he made the boat, but she wanted to be alone with him. “Nora!” She flung herself on her knees in front of him. “I am a wretch!” she eaid. He could only repeat her name. “I am not worth my salt. Ah, why did you run away? Why did you not pursue me, importune me until I wearied? . . perhaps gladly? There were times when I would have dpened my arms had you been the worst scoundrel in the world instead of the dearest lover, the patientest! Ah, can you forgive me?” “Forgive you, Nora?’’ He wae numb. “I am a miserable wretch! I doubted you. I! When all I had to do was to recall the way people misrepresented things I had done! I sent back your letters . . and read and reread the old blue ones. Don’t you remember how you used to write them on blue paper? . . . Flora told me wdtf only because she hated me, not that Bhe cared anything about ydu. She told me that night at the ball. She was at tbe bottom of tbe abduction. When you kissed me . . . didn’t you know that I kissed you back. Edward, lam a miserable wretch, but I shall follow yoq wherever you go, and I haven’t even a vanity box in my handbag!" There were tears in her eyes. “Say that I am a wretch!” He drew her up beside him. His arms closed around her so hungrily, so strongly, that she gasped a little. He looked into her eyes; his glance traveled here and there over her face,' searching for the familiar dimple at one corner of her mouth. “Nora!” he whispered. “Kies me!” And then the train came to a stand, jerkily. They fell back agaiftst the cushions. “Lecco!” cried the gnard through the window. They laughed like children/ * “I bribed him,” she said gaily. “And now ...” W “Yes, and now?" eagerly, Ifstill bewildered. “Let’s go back!” THE END.

Forehanded Beetles.

Several farmers were sitting around the fire In the country Inn and telling how the potato pests had got into their crops. Said one: I “Them ate my whole crop in two weeks." » Then another 1 spoke up: "They ate my crop in two days and then sat around on the trees and waited for me to plant more.”' Here a commercial traveler for a seed house broke in: ’ “Well, boys,” he said, “that may be so, but 11l what I saw in our own warehouse. I saw four or five beetles examining the books about a week before planting time to see who had bought seed.”

Brittle.

Little Elsie (after being lectured)— “Mamma, the commandments break awful easy, don’t they?" Boston Transcript.

Bracelets.

In the middle ages, bracelets were state ornaments and worn only by tbe sovereign. ,

Love.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love Itself.—Augustus Hare.

BOOST U.S. SCHOOLS

To Tell Foreign Student of Educational Advantages Here. Dr. P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education, Authorizes Preparation and Publication of Bulletins \ Giving Detail*. Washington.—Convinced that one of the results of the present European war will be to interest foreign students fn opportunities for education in the United States, Dr. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, has authorized the immediate preparation and publication of a special bulletin describing, for the use offoreign students, the facilities for professional and collegiate study In higher institutions of learning in this country. The bulletin will be printed in several languages. • “This is America's opportunity, declares Commissioner Claxton. “Thousands of students who have been attending universities in Europe will be obliged to look elsewhere for higher education, not only this year, but perhaps for years to come. Many foreign students are already coming to us, many more will come as the result, direct and indirect, of present events. “We have now a supreme opportunity to demonstrate our capacity for intellectual leadership. Whether the war continues three months or three years, our opportunities and obligations to take the lead in education and civilization will be the same, and America should respond by offering the best opportunity in the world for her own students and for those who may come from other countries. “In the case of South America this student migration will be facilitated by the opportune opening of the Panama canal. Students from the western coast of South America will find it alluringly convenient to go via the canal to educational in the United States. *

“Within the last two decades the increase in opportunity for graduate study and research, and for professional and technical education has been very remarkable, mpch greater than most people even in America realize. The recent raising of standards and the better equipment of medical schools, the large endowments and appropriations for all forms of engineering, the marvelous growth of our colleges of agriculture, the development of colleges and schools of education, and the rapid increase in income of all the better colleges make it possible for this country to take the lead in education in a way that would have been impossible even at the beginning of the century.”

PUSH BUTTON, CHIMES RING

New Automatic Device, Operated by Electricity, Innovation In Belfry ' to New York. New York. —The bells of the tower of the Roman Catholic church of t the Most Holy Redeemer, East Third street, near Avenue A, are now rung by electricity, a device having been invented by means of which the pressing of a button in tbe sacristy starts the chimes. For more than two years Mr. Robischung, the inventor of the device, has been working on tint model of this invention. The idea wks first suggested by the rector of the Holy Redeemer church, who is regarded as an expert in applied science. The five hells weigh elmost six tons. The inventor first tried the experiment of ringing a bell weighing from 20 to 30 pounds. v-V

Passing of Noted Landmark

Famous Hancock’s Tavern, One of Washington's Oldest Places, Passes Out of Existence. Washington.—Hancock’s tavern, one of the oldest and most famous of Washington’s landmarks, has passed out of existence after 74 ydars Of catering to the appetite and thirst of

Hancock’s Tavern.

the nation’s lawmakers. to tbe heydey of Its youth It was a rendezvous of Clay, Calhoun and Webat—. bines their time It has served as a gathering place for other famous men. When

WRECKED BY BOHR FROM A ZEPPELIN

One of the bulldingß in Antwerp shattered by the aerial bombardment from the Zeppelins.

WAR IS EXPENSIVE

Will Cost $70,000,000,000, Says Famous Inventor. Nikola Tesla Takes Issue With Other Statisticians and Puts Total Cost at the Enormous Figure Named Above. New Y(|rk.— I Taking issue with other statisticians more moderate in their estimates, Nikola Tesla, the famous inventor of electrical contrivances, said that the total cost of the general war now going on probably will not be less than seventy billion dollars. The present war may easily involve 20,000,000 combatants,” said Mr. Tesla. “I have seen an estimate of a total cost of $50,000,000 a day. This Is too low. The number of those 1 disabled through wounds and disease was'recently placed at 600,000. This, also, is too moderate. It would be less than two and one-half per cent, and 1t must be remembered that in the most recent great war preceding this, the Balkan struggle, the casualties were ten times greater, or 25 per cent “Observe that it is reported Belgium lost $300,000,000 in two weeks fighting while there were no large cities in the path of the Germans. “The difficulty with most statisticians of war losses is that they simply consider the cost of military operations. This is a small fraction of the whole waste. “To measure the losses due to war merely by statistical standards is absurd. An example will make this dear. The strain imposed upon a country in a state of siege is compelling of strict economy. The savings thus affected go to offset the drain of war. Theoretically, it is possible for a nation, by living on bread and water and curtailing ail expenses, to accumulate enough for not only meeting the cost of military operations but leaving surplus besides. From the point of view of the statistician such a war, far from being costly, would be the very means of creating wealth. “It is equally unreasonable to define

it was built the capital was only a village and the present parks and spaious grounds were forests and swamps. No attempt has ever been made to modernize the place and up to the time it closed it was the same as when Clay, Calhoun and Webster gathered there. Beverages were made there from carefully guarded recipes of the fifties and its fried chicken and oyster stews were famous all over the land. Since 1840, when It was established by Anjlrew Hancock, it has never passed out of the family and: bis grandson, of the same name, is the man who closed its doors forever a few days ago.

“DEAD;” OBJECTS TO SPEED

"The Idea of Being Hurried Along” Gave Woman a Most Feeling.” Waterbury, Conn. —Mrs. Elizabeth Tanner, fifty-eight, while being removed from the room where she "died" in an undertaker’s transportation case shocked the attendants the other day with a yell of protest against the rough manner in which they were handling her body, and directed them, by no means mildly, to be more careful. Bhe had been supposed to be dead about two hours and was about to be carried to an operating table to be embalmed. Mrs. Tanner had been all her life somewhat resigned to dying "when her time came," she said when she recovered, but didn’t want to be 'killed or to commit s^ldde. “Why, the very idea of being hurried along so would be amusing if ft didn't give you such a creepy feeling,” she added when told all that had happened.

the waste of international conflict as the excess of waste in time of war over that in time of peace. A quantity “b” may be deducted from a quantity “a” and the difference will be “a----b” on the supposition, however, that the quantities are composed of identical unita. “Now, whilethe same human beings are concerned both in peace and war, these two states bear no resepblance to each other. In one, reason and sober sense, a feeling of safety and desire to do justice prevail; in the other these beneficial influences are weakened, and folly, fear and greed assert themselves. War changes individuals as well as values. “A true appreciation of the enormous losses which are likely to result from this unprecedented calamity can only be. gained by taking into account its effect on all phases and conditions of individual and national existence. Stated in the order of their magnitude these losses may be enumerated as follows: “Flret, temporary or permanent shrinkage of wealth of nations as distinct from negotiable securities. The total wealth of the countries involved is about three hundred billions of dollars. Assume only a moderate production of ten per cent and suppose further that the war should last from six to seven months or about two hundred dayß, as forecast by experts, then the dally shrinkage will amount to $150,000,000. To be sure such depreciation of physical possessions is mostly due to ignorance and faintheartedness of the people, for the properties are there and some are indestructible. But Just the same the warring nations will lose credit and purchasing power and will be subjected for an indefinite period to sufferings and privations, all of which must be Interpreted as loss of so much money. "becond —All losses, individual and collective, caused by interference of war with the wheelwork of manufacture, Industry and commerce. These reflect particularly on the market value of negotiable securities, which constitute from twenty to thirty per cent of the whole national wealth. For obvious reasons they are apt to be very large, and the shrinkage may easily amount for the above period to $100,000,000 a day. “Third —Specific losses doe to destruction of existing private and public property, including implements and materials of war. These will greatly depend on the circumstances, but may be placed at from fifty to seventy-five million dollars a day. "Fourth —Loss of life and disabling through wounds and disease. Judging from the data of the Balkan war, the casualties cannot be taken at less than fifteen per cent, making the total of 3,000,000. Assuming an average of $2,500 per individual, this waste will be nearly fourteen million dollars a day. “Fisth —Daily cost of military operations, which may amount from twentyfive to thirty million dollars.” According to this rough estimate the total waste cannot be much less than seventy billion dollars, making almost twenty-five per cent of the total wealth of the countries in the world. In the best circumstances it will take from forty to fifty years to repair the financial daaaage, not to speak of the injury to the races and retardation of social progress in all directions.

GOODS SOLD BY HELIOGRAPH

Grocer Bignals - Forest Reserve Look* out With Auto Headlight and v Gets Big Order. Tonaset, Wash. Harley Heath, manager of the grocery department of C. E. Blackwell ft Co., has Initiated a method of selling goods by use of the heliograph. Mr. Heath was formerly to the forest service, sad, by the use of an automobUo headlight, called the Aeneas mountain lookout of the United States forest service, a distance of 15 miles. Mr. Heath had no difficulty to getting In communication. After some conversation the forest ranger placed an order for groceries to be sent by tbs Hassan stage line-