Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1914 — Page 2

WHEN ONE GOES WRONG

By E. L. BACON.

Before leaving his desk to start on his annual two weeks’ vacation, Lanyon stuffed twenty-one thousand dollars in bills into the inside pocket of his coat Three thousand dollars more were already stowed away in another pocket, and, as he intended to take both rolls with him, he was pretty wen equipped for such a short period of rest. It must not be inferred, however,* that he was a spendthrift or a millionaire. He was very far from being either. Frugality was his most distinguishing characteristic. A modest glass of beer, a cigar now and then, an occasional shot at the races—even sueh small vices never entered into his sphere of life. For ten years he had lived in an unpretentious boarding-house across the bridge. For ten years he had gone to bed at ten o’clock sharp with ma-chine-like regularity, with the exception of Saturday nights, when invariably he allowed himself the luxury of taking his landlady’s pretty daughter to the theater. That, so far as anybody knew, had been his only Indulgence. Yet he felt that for the vacation he was about to take he needed every penny of the large amount with which he had provided himself. He needed all this money to live on during his vacation in his usual thrifty fashion in a town where living was considerably cheaper than.in New York, and where the opportunities for* a spendthrift would have been exceedingly meager. The fact of the matter was that ! Lanyon had made up his mind to pro- ' long this particular vacation Indefinitely. He had kept this resolution a strict secret z Not even his landlady had received so much as a hint of It. What was Stranger still, he had breathed not a word of It to Dwyer, his employer, and he did not intend to. The fact would have to-dawn upon Dwyer gradually, and the longer the truth took to penetrate to the old gentleman’s understanding, the more would Lanyon be pleased. For the roll he had stuffed Into his Inside pocket was Dwyer’s money. / The smaller amount his own savings of ten years of hard and faithful work. It might have been a good deal more if he had not sent a tidy sum each month to his old mother, who lived alone in a sleepy little village on the Maine coast After stowing the money away, he arranged the things in his desk very neatly, brushed it off with a little broom that he kept for the purpose, and gently closed roll-top. He tdok a last look at it as he went out of the door. On the way down-town he stopped at a wholesale house in lower Broadway where his friend Berrlan was employed, to say good-by. "You look run down,’’ observed Berrian. “Old Dwyer’s been working you too hard. But never mind. Maine will fix you up, all right." "It’s not going to be Maine this time, Freddie,” returned Lanyon with a serious air. "It’s going to be Trujillo.” “What! Trujillo! Where the deuce te Trujillo?” "Nice little town in Honduras. Sea air, beautiful tropical scenery—an ideal place for a vacation if the fever don’t get you.” Berrlan merely stared, his mouth hanging open in astonishment. Looking cautiously around to make sure that nobody was within ear-shot, Lanyon continued:

"Fred, you’re the only real friend Pre got in the world. You’re the only man in this city I’ve told about my haring been in prison. I can trust you. "Now, perhaps you’ll understand when I tell you that, in the noble words of its constitution, ’the republic of Honduras is a sacred asylum to every person ifeelng to its territory.’" Berrlan drew back with a gasp. "You mean—you mean —you’ve gone wrong again?" he demanded. "Just that,’’ admitted Lanyon gravely. I’ve come to tell you because I don’t want you to have any worse’ opinion of me than you can help having under the circumstances. "I don’t suppose a man ever can have a good excuse for turning crooked, but mine is as good a one as there ever was, I guess. I’Ve got an old mother up fn Maine dependent on me. If my reputation were the best in the world, I’d rather lose It than see, her starve.” "But—l don’t stammered Berrlan. “You’ve managed to look after her all right, haven’t you?” "I wouldn’t, though, if I were out of a job, with a prison record keeping me from getting another. And if I don’t go now, Dwyer would see that I did next week, even if I hadn’t taken a cent from him. "An old enemy of mine drifted Into town last week. He’s going to send Dwyer m> history in a day or two. "I know Dwyer well enough to know what that would mean. So, you see how it is. If I hdd only myself it is, I’d rather turn thief than face the alternative.” The next moment he was in the tO IOIIOWJ tuO lullr* ***** *** to this

after all those yean o‘s living straight’” he muttered. Two hours later Lanyon arrived in Jersey City with a*good half-hour to spare before his train was due to start. He sat down in a corner of the waiting-room and pulled out his time-tables. But, Instead of poring over them as he had Intended, he gave himself up to his thoughts. Somehow, he could not get his landlady’s pretty daughter out of his mind. He had tried hard to forget her, but his thoughts always came around to her again before long, and'every now and then he would ask himself how she vAild regard him after she had heard the news. He glanced up at the line of people sitting facing him onthe - opposite benches, and over their heads to the big clock on the wall. It seemed to him that the minutes were dragging terribly. He was getting nervous. He gave a startled look over his shoulder toward the entrance. He could feel his heart thumping against his ribs, and as he looked down again at the time-tables he saw that his hands were trembling. And then a vision of the gray, bleak prison came before him. He heard the clanging of the great steel? doors, the sharp orders of the keepers. He straightened up with a frightened gasp and looked about in alarm. It was reassuring to find that no one was watching him. But would his train never be called? How he wished he was safe across the Honduran border! What a relief it would be to feel that he need have no fear of capture! Again his eyes wandered about the room, keenly observant of the crowd this time. He glanced from one to another of the long row of travelers in front of him, slowly turned his gaze to the doors where the passengers were filing in from the ferries, and then — "Dwyer!” He choked back the cry that rose to his lips an<i sank back in his seat, white and trembling. Far down at the other end of the room was the man he had robbed.

For a moment Lanyon’s nerve deserted him completely. He felt that he was lost, that Dwyer would surely search the room until he had discovered him, and that escape was impossible. Probably Dwyer had not come alone. At any rate, there were always policemen near at hand in such a place. Dwyer came forward very leasurely. For a man on the trail of a thief who had relieved him of a fortune, -he seemed to be singularly unperturbed. He even stopped to laugh at a crowing baby on one of the benches. Still, it was just like the old man never to betray his true feelings. Never before had Lanyon been through such agonizing moments of suspense. He felt that the strain was more than he could bear, that bls nerves would give way, and he would cry out if he had to endure it much longer. At last Dwyer saw him. “I’ve been looking for you, Lanyon," he called, as he stepped up to the bench. The old man seated himself by Lanyon’s side, and, lounging back, chewed thoughtfully at an' unlighted cigar. Apparently, he was dividing his attention between the cigar and the clock on the wall, but Lanyon knew that the tall of his eye was upon him all the time. At last, he said slowly: “I know all about that prison record, Lanyon. Your friend Berrlan has just given me the whole story." "Berrlan! He told you!" cried Lanyon, and in that moment the remnants of his faith in human nature vanished. ft

“Yes, he told me,” Dwyer continued. "And, I’ve come here to let you know I won’t hold it up against you. You’ve done good, faithful work for me for ten years, and I believe I can trust you. "You weren’t much more than a boy when that happened. You’ve learned a good deal since then, I guess.” Lanyon felt as if he were in a dream —a dream that had brought one fleeting glimpse of hope, and then had plunged him' in' despair. A mist came Into his eyes. At last his hand went into his pocket, and he pulled out a roll of bills. “Mr. Dwyer,” he said, "this money is yours. Even though I am a thief, I couldn’t rob a man that’s treated me as you have. But, you see, you made a mistake about wanting me back.” Without the least show of surprise, Dwyer took the bills and counted them very slowly. Then he put them carefully away in his pocket "I guess when a man goes wrong more than once there isn’t one person in a hundred who’d be willing to trust him again,” he said. "I don’t believe there is,” Lanyon assented, leaning forward and covering his face w|th his hands. “Unless it’s somebody that’s gone wrong himself and knows what it is to live it down,” said Dwyer. He laid a hand on Lanyon’s shoulder. "I was in Trujillo myself thirty years ago. But they got me at last. I did my turn behind the bars. And if Berrian’s father hadn’t given me a chance, I’d have been behind ’em again before very long, like as not "Go -up to Maine, my boy. That old mother of yours will want to see you. And then come back.”

Real Sarcasm.

A Texas court has decided that money is not baggage. Those who pack their bank notes in a trunk when they travel will therefore remember that the do so at their own risk. Money Is such a bother!

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

PENNSY’S NEW COACH MAKES EARLY START

Coach Vivian Nlckalla means to make the Pennsy boat crew do some tall hustling In order to get them into shape, and already has had his boys out for a few spins on the Schuylkill river. The famous English oarsman Is expected to do some wonderful things with the material he has, and that he will try to do his utmost to make a winning crew goes without saying.

VETERAN RUNNER NEARS END

Racing Days of Mel Sheppard Are Believed to Be About Over—Always a Popular Athlete. Mel Sheppard, veteran of the racing game, is about through as a sprinter. He may take part in one or two more events, but it will be entirely on his nerve. Mel has been a prominent figure in athletics for several years. He first attracted attention as a school boy runner in Philadelphia and later as a member of the Irish-American Athletic club of New York carried its

Mel Sheppard.

colors to victory on both sides of the Atlantic. As a middle-distance runner he stood without a peer for several years. So many good youngsters are coming along in the running now that Mel is gradually slipping into the discard. Always a popular athlete he will be missed when it comes time for Jiim to lay aside his running togs for good.

Golf Course in Cemetery.

Unique golf items come from foreign lands from time to time, one of the latest being an account of a Chinese course which has been laid out in a large cemetery. The rather gruesome links are located near TiemTsin, and as the Chinese bury the dead just below the surface of the ground and then mound up the earth to a considerable height, the course has been aptly termed one of “A Thousand Bunkers.” Special ground rules prevail, including one which permits a player to lift his ball from a freshly dug grave. The Chinese caddies receive five cents per round of 18 holes.

Encourage Football.

The Union of French Sporting and Athletic societies has issued an appeal to all district committees to resume work organizing teams for rugby and association football matches.

Ward Has Had Enough.

John M. Ward, business manager of the Brooklyn Federal league baseball team, says the present will be his last year in baseball, as he intends to give bls time to the practice of law.

Coach Vivian Nickails.

COAST'S BIG SPORTING YEAR

Practical Agreement on Athletic Can nival In Connection With the 1915 Fair In San Francisco. While members of the Olympic cofr gross have been debating on the standardized program for future in ternational meetings the powers that be on the Pacific coast have practically agreed on the athletic carnival of sports echeduled in connection witb the 1915 fair in San Francisco. Johnny McGovern, secretary of the ’Athletic department, states that the opening of the exposition on February 20 will mark the beginning of the greatest year that sport has ever known. "Almost every day from the time the gates open officially until its close, December 4,” McGovern goes on to say, “the fair will bristle with athletic activity. Nowhere in the world has euch a stupendous program ever been outlined.” According .to McGovern, every form of sport, from the most ancient to the most modern, will be indulged in. All of the national championships of the A. A. U, are open to amateur athletes of the world. These blue-ribbon events follow: February 22, basketball; March 26 to 27, gymnastic; April 16 and 17, wrestling; July 19 to 24, swimming; July 19 to 24, water polo (soccer); August 5, all-around; August 6, junior, and a day later, senior track and field; August 9 to 10, relay racing; August 12, ten-mile run, seven-mile walk and international tug of war (Olympic rules). In addition to the 1 champs the fob lowing international events have been decided upon: April 26 to 30, fencing; May 5 to 8, boxing; August 2 to 4, Cycling; August 5 to 6, dumb-bell and weight lifting; August 13 to 14, Intercollegiate championships;. September 6, penthathlon (five’! events); September 18 to 18, United States Football association soccer championships; tennis champs during September, and October 4 to 9, lacrosse.

TO RESTORE FOOTBALL GAME

Agitation at Columbia for Renewal of Gridiron Contests—Open Style Removes Danger. agitation has started for a renewal of football activities at Columbia college. Those who favor the reintroduction of football at the college point out that the main objection that the Columbia faculty had concerning the game now is removed. The Columbia authorities barred the game eight or nine years ago because of the many deaths and serious injuries that occurred on the football field during the period. The new style game, it is pointed out now to the faculty, has removed much of the danger tn football. Columbia has a student enrollment of about six thousand and from among this collection of youths it could mobilize enough footballers to give the best teams in the country a real battle for annual honors.

Williams Asks $2,500 to Fight.

Kid Williams, bantamweight boxing champion, wanted 82,500 to box ten rounds tn New York, and be was not encased.

BASEBALL There is one thing Ban Johnson oan’t do. He can’t keep Hughie Jennings from talking. With Bender and Coombs gone, the Athletics may pay more attention to baseball and a little Ims to golf. * » ♦ Boston scribes say Otto Hess is' twenty-seven. That would have made him a soldier in the Spanish war at eleven. » • • Bunny Hearne will not wear Toronto spangles next season. The left-hander McGraw sent back will disport in a Federal park. • « ♦ Johnny Kling states that he will return to baseball next season, as his business is in such shape that he can desert it for the lure of the diamond. • • • Marty O'Toole is said to be anxious to join the Boston Braves, but the long-distance connection with Jones county, Georgia, appears to be out of order.

FOOTBALL Judging from the rapidity with which football’s “hopeless cripples” recover, they aren’t using dumdums in football. * * * Dalton,'former captain and kicking star at West Point, helped coach the University of Pennsylvania punters early in the season. • • • England is all stirred up because the football players will not enlist nntil the championship is decided. Those Britishers take the war*too seriously. ♦ * ♦ Aside from the many upsets which have featured the 1914 season, the poor showing of the Carlisle Indians, who always have been a factor in eastern football, is one of the surprises of the season. • • • Coach Yost of Michigan is not the only football mentor who owns an automobile. Coaches Juneau and Driver of Wisconsin have purchased buss wagons, which enable them to make the long trip from the town to the field without loss of time.

PUGILISM The only objection we have to Freddy Welsh is that he wears a stick. “Freddie Welsh is shy of a knockout punch,” screeches the critic, but oh, you left jab. • * • "Carl Morris hit like a cow when I first saw him,” writes McCarney, who claims something in Morris’ development Pal Brown- was given a "Windsor draw" with Droufllard, demonstrating Pal must have won by something less than a mile. • * * New York and Wisconsin boxing commissions . may ban boxers who commit fouls*. There is no opposition from the promoters Who are on the level.

HORSE RACING Rosebud McKinney, pretty clever trotter this year, having won seven races. • Bill Andrews has been an industrious chap, as he has marked no less than 24 of the 2:10 trotters. * • • One of the best-looking trotters in California is Do Tolus, that mare making her record of 2:09 on a half-mile track.

BILLIARDS Johnny Kling, the former baseball catcher, is representing Kansas City in the Interstate Three-Cushion Billiard league. • • • In the absence of the English billiard champion, the annual 85,000 tournament in Lbndon has attracted entries from six players who are representative of the highest class of English style playing, Including George Gray, H. W. Stevenson, Tom Reece, Edward Diggle, Tom Newman and W. Smith.

MISCELLANEOUS Meantime, a gink named Avery has acquired quite a reputation in the vicinity of Franklin field. • • • Yale’s new stadium holds more than .60,000 spectators. Certainly it was not designed by a ticket speculator. ’>• • • • University of* Pennsylvania graduates are raising |50,000 for a memorial to the late Mike Murphy. - ■ Boston Technology’s new athletic field in Cambridge was constructed by Sparrow Robertson, well known as the builder of the fast track at Travers Island, N.Y. InthikTech track be has uked cinders mixed with loam instead of clay, and claims that ft will be by next spring the fastest track in the country, and will have a 220-yard straight away, 80 feet wide, the widest in the country.

HOME TOWN HELPS

PAYS TO HAVE SHADE TREES Their Worth to the Owners of Property Can Be Shown In Actual Dollars and Cents. If a estate dealer teHs you that the house or building lot you are thinking of buying is worth several bigfe dred dollars more because it is well supplied with shade trees, don’t be too sure that he is trying to take advantage of you until you have counted and measured the trees. Very) probably he may be telling the truth,; for it has lately been discovered that the right kind of trees do increase the> value of a piece of real estate. In order to determine the value of trees 4n residential districts the Massachusetts Forestry association re-1 cently sought the advice of a number; of practical real estate men. These! men were asked this question: “How; much, in your judgment, do full-grown; shade trees along the street improve! the value of the adjoining land fori house lots?" The majority of answers ranged I from 10 to 50 per cent, while somei went so far as to state that a house lot would be worth 100 per cent morel if full-grown shade trees were stand-1 ing in front of it. A fair average of! the answers held that trees would! improve the value of the adjoining; land 40 per cent. Expert tree appraisers say that a shade tree in good condition and well; placed is worth $1 per square inch* of cross-section measured at breast! height. At that rate, a tree one foot; in diameter is worth sll3, while a< tree two feet in diameter is worth 1452. For the sake of illustration, sup- ; pose that we take a good-sized house* lot, 50 by 100, or 5,000 square feet, worth 25 cents a foot. The land value worth $25 a foot. The land value is Is $1,250. If the trees are spaced 50 feet apart, on the street there would; be one tree in front of the property. The tree is two feet in diameter and worth $452, which would increase the value of the lot 36 per cent.

RULES FOR THE GOOD CITIZEN

Ten Commandments Formulated by Mrs. Mooes L. Purvin of the Chicago Woman’s A|d. 1 Thou shalt honor thy city and keep its laws. 2. Remember thy cleaning day and keep It wholly. 3. Thou shalt love and cherish they children and provide for them decent homes and playgrounds. 4. Thou shalt not keep thy windows dosed day or night. 5. Thou shalt keep In order thy alley, thy back yard, thy hall and thy Stairway. 6. Thou shalt not kill Thy children’s ' bodies with poisonous air nor their souls with bad companions. 7. Thou shalt not let the wicked fly live. . 8, Thou shalt not steal thy children’s right'to happiness from them. 9. Thou shalt bear witness against thy neighbor’s rubbish heap. 10. Thou shalt covet all the air and sunlight thou canst obtain.

Know Your Own Back Lot?

Do you, denizen of the suburb, know your own countryside? In that patch of woods back of your home there are wonders beyond compare—wild things that would be neighborly if you'd let them, flowers that are growing as nature planned them, and that are quite as beautiful as any so carefully tended in the greenhouses of your wealthy neighbor across the street. Go to a near by woodland (better still if it’s a bit swamp) some twilight, soon, and listen to the evening songs of the feathered folk. You don’t know what music you may have without price until you’ve done this. Explore some of the little streams that meander through meadow and wood. Learn to name the birds and the flowers, classify the rocks and the soils—and look up to stars now and then. See America first? Surely, that’s a fine determination. But see your own countryside even before you see the rest of the United States. —The Countryside Magazine.

Public Furnaces.

■ A splendid way to keep the streets free from waste paper, rubbish, etc., has been established in Glendale, near Los Angeles, Cal. The city has built public incinerators or catch-all furnaces in the alleys back of its business blocks. Four of .these, paid for by an assessment levied on the merchants, have not only solved the rubbish problem, but have reduced the danger of fire from promiscuous bonfires. The furnaces are built of brick and do not need watching while a fire is burning inside. They are four feet high with a chimney portion extending one foot above the main furnace Rubbish to be burned Is dumped into the furnace through a 27-inch hole, covered with a two-inch wire screen, ini the'top. A good draft is secured by a draft hole at the bottom, and the chiminey flue is covered with a wire screen. The chief advantages of the furnaces are that they are always ready for use aud are perfectly safe.