Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — Page 3

DISINHERITED SON WHO MADE GOOD

How John Leinster Redeemed Himself When Shame Drove Him. BECKY HELPED A LOT, TOO Little Freckled Stenographer Saved the Day With Wax Candlee and Cleverness—Tall Irishman Became Prominent in Advertising World.

By OSBORN MARSHALL.

(Copyright, 1915. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) One cold night seven winters ago, a thin, very tall Irishman was passing the night In the f(ew York subway. He had been walking the streets during the day and at night for. the price of a ticket he inhabited the subway. It was sheltered there and if he kept moving from one station to another there was no danger of having people ask him troublesome questions. Clearly he was one of the city’s down and outers, but he hadn’t the slightest ambition to join the ranks of the preferably unemployed. On this particular night John Leinster, the tall, thin Irishman in question, had made up his mind to njake good or perish in the attempt The incentive was a letter he had just received from home. It was a notification that his father had been knighted by the English king and had refused the higher honor of becoming a baronet which was held out to him because that distinction was hereditary and John Leinster, Sr., had been unwilling to discredit the British aristocracy by handing down a baronetcy to such a son. John Leinster, Jr., paled with shame and rage as he read this disquieting letter. He was a respecter of rank in spite of his hail-fellow-well-met manners and his shabby clothes. The sting that came with this letter was keener than the drafts that blew into his subway refuge. John Leinster was past thirty. He had begun life as the only son of an indulgent father. He had been expelled from the university, had tried his hand at business in Dublin, then had drifted, about in India and Africa and had now landed discouraged and friendless in New York. That Was the Turning Point. But that night, as he re-read the letter from his father, he made up 'his mind to make good. He had had some experience in the advertising end of one of his father’s mercantile enterprises in Ireland, and so he determined to be an advertising man. He,could already picture to himself the subway filled with the clever copy of his advertisements.

That last night in the subway was the turning point. Somehow John Leinster made shift to get a little office and a few pieces of furniture and to put out his sign as an advertising man. For stenographer, office boy, telephone operator, bookkeeper and general factotum there was Beckyneat, freckled, red-haired, East side Becky, who came straight from business school for six dollars a week. But things didn’t run along as smoothly as John Leinster wished. First the telephone was cut off for non-payment of fees and when Becky’s salary could no longer be scraped together Johif had to close the office. Becky got a job somewhere else —in another advertising office. When they parted Leinster advised her to learn all she could about advertising methods, and he got a job elsewhere as a shipping clerk. In that position he made enough to keep up the rent of the office, so that he could have an address at which to receive letters concerning a mail order scheme that brought in about twenty dollars a month. His creditors were insistent, and it was for that reason that the door of the office never opened during business hours. Of course Leinster intended to pay sometime but he cbiild not face his creditors with an empty , purse. Therefore in the darkness of every night, Leinster would steal into the office and a few minutes later Becky would join him, and together they would carry on what little business there was to be done. Becky was engaged to be married to a yonng East side lawyer, and after she and her impecunious employer attended to the mall and talked over the prospects of business, Becky would meet her fiance, who would escort her home to the East side, and John would climb to his little top story room to dream dreams of his advertising contracts. Becky Wgs Faithful. Of course there wasn’t a cent in it for Becky at the time, and she was shrewd enough to know that the chaiices were against Leinster. But then the cultured Irishman corrected her FingHfih, taught her French expressions, and gave her the advantage of his wide trakel and experience. As Becky’s fiance told her, it was better than night school, and he advised her to profit by it. As the winter waned and spring advanced, matters got worse with Leinster. He lost his job after a few weeks’ illness and this ' meant further curtailing of expenses. <So he gave up his top story room and managed somehow to live in his office. Still the neat little, freckled Becky was faithful. She made her appear«nce every noon and every evenlag

after work and together they did enough with the mail order work to pay the rent > One night when Becky arived at Leinster’s door there was no one to let her in. Thgt was strange, thought Becky, recalling that he always got there ahead of her. However she waited. Just as she was about to go the tall, lank figure of Leinster, pale and breathless, advanced down the hall. Becky’s interest and curiosity held her spellbound. It had happened, perhaps, that one of his creditors had served papers, or his father, who, in Becky’s opinion, must be at least a duke, had further disowned him. “Open the door, Becky,” said Leinster, handing her the keys. “I am almost fainting.” The Irish man fell into a brogue when he was excited, and it was positively dominant now. Big Contract In Sight. "I have landed a big contract,” he went on, “a contract for five thousand dollars worth of advertising. It is what I have dreamed of. I got a chance to talk to one of those big corporation manufacturers today. I’ve been hanging around the place for weeks and at last they let me talk and I showed them that I knew advertising, that I did straight thinking and that I knew human nature, and they agreed to sign the contract. They are coming here tonight to sign. Oo get your dinner and come back as soon as you can. And, Becky, remember this is only my ofllce. I am staying at the—the Waldorf, if they ask.” Becky had planned to go to the opera, second gallery, that night with her fiance, but it was easy to explain. His mentality was of the variety that would be convinced by the mention'of a five thousand dollar contract even though there was nothing in it for him. When Becky got back from her hasty dinner she found Leinster in darkness and dejection. “It is all up,’’ he said. “The electricity is turned off. It was only two months overdue. Becky, when the men come, tell them I am dead or dying. It is always some little detail like this that balks me in the moment of triumph.” Becky’s mind was working at actualities rather than on the general prop-

osftion of the elusiveness of fortune. "I will get candles,” she said, “and then I will explain.’’ Before Leinster knew it she had gone and was back again with some wax candles bought with her own money. "I have settled it,” said Becky with a tone cf finality as she placed the candles neatly in an empty ink well. "You must sa; nothing about it and before you come in I will explain.” Leinster knew that when Becky spoke thus she was inspired, and he trusted her. When the men arrived he had withdrawn from the room and Becky was typing furiously by the light of the few candles.

How She Saved the Day. "Mr. Leinster will be in at once, gentlemen,” she said showing them the chairs. Then she lowered her voice. "Gentlemen,” she said, "There is one curious thing about Mr. Leinster. He is afraid —not afraid, but depressed—by electric storms. Say nothing about the candles. He cannot endure the electric lights when a storm is in the air.” Neither of the visitors recalled that a storm was rising when he came in, but it was late spring and it was not impossible. But they were Impressed with the air of deference with which Becky spoke of her employer. In a mofcent more the gaunt, tall and lmprqpsive figure of John Leinster appeared and the business talk began. That night after it was all over and Leinster had the papers in his possession which were to put him on his feet and give him a chance, Becky went home to dream of the Interest that wonld accrue on five thousand dollars. The following noon, when she arrived at Leinster’s apartment office, she was Impatient to hear his plans. “Of course,” she-began in her best business tone, "it will first pay off the creditors and then — “And then,” Interrupted Leinster, “Becky, there isn’t going to be any 'and then.* I’ve just signed a lease for a suite in a downtown, office building at two hundred dollars a month, and I now ask yon to go out and order the

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“Say Nothing About the Candles."

Toothache was not an incident ol campaigning with which ancient armies had to reckon. The silencfe of the classics certainly seems to indicate that the Greeks and Romans suffered very little from their teeth. Words for toothache and for teeth extracting instruments can, indeed, be found in the Greek and Latin dictionaries, but the authors quoted for them are generally late and always uninteresting. We can hardly believe that, if toothache had been common in Athens, Aristophanes would have made no jokes about it But a classical scholar may pretty safely be defied to -cite a single Greek or Latin passage about it Even Lucretius, when he gets on to the subject of teeth in a passage where a reference to- toothache might be expected, merely refers to the jar given to the teeth by very cold water or by biting a stone in one’s bread.

1 She—l see that the Brazilian diamond dealers are lowering prices. He—Hooray! Who cares tt UM price of bread does go up!

best glass-top mahogany office table you can get There will be green rugs, too, Becky. You are dreaming of interest, Becky? Why, that five thousand will just pay running expenses for the first few months.” This happened five years ago. Since that time John Leinster has become ■one of the most prominent men in the advertising world. He is advertising counsel to two or three of the largest manufacturing plants around New York city, and his cleverness is of wide repute. But Becky, little redhaired Becky, is no part in it She is living over in'the Williamsburg district somewhere, keeping house for her husband, the young lawyer, and she never dreams that had it not been for her faithfulness, John 'Leinster might still be a down and outer.

DREDGES USED BY FISHERMEN

Apparatus Used to Bring Unknown Treasures of the Depths to * the Naturalist There are two styles of dredges by means of which the animals and fish of the great depths are captured—the nets which are dragged over the bottom and those trawled just below the surface, says Popular Mechanics. The bottom dredge consists of a pair of heavy iron running frames connected by one or two cross-bars, 12 feet in length. Fastened to this frame is a cone-shaped bag 30 feet long, made of heavy web. the end of which is closed by a lashing. The dredge is hung over the starboard side of the ship on a lonk boom and by means of a steel cable is slowly lowered to the ocean bottom. A dial indicates the number feet of wire out, and a pointer on a scale shows the strain, which often amounts to five or six tons, upon the cable. When the dredge has reached the bottom the ship steams ahead at about two-thirds of a mile an hour, dragging the net over the ocean floor. It remains down for an hour or so, and is then slowly lifted to the surface. The deepest haul which the Albatross has ever made was five and a half miles, and 4t was 17 hours from the time the dredge was first lowered until it again appeared. The net is towed beside the ship for a few minutes,

then it‘is swung on board, the lashings at the botfom unfastened and the contents dropped upon a table. The ice-cold mud is carefully washed away and the specimens carried to the laboratory. It is like opening a Christmas package for a naturalist to watch the dredge come to the surface bringing unknown treasures from the hidden depths. Strange fish are found which carry incandescent lamps far in front of them to light their way in the inky blackness miles below the surface; others with phosphorescent spots along their sides which must glow like the portholes of a steamer at night; still others with their eyes upon long stalks or with no eyes at all. And, poor things, when from the terrible pressure to which they have become accustomed, their eyes often pop from their heads and their stomachs turn inside out

Classic Toothache.

Cheaper Diamonds.

TRIAL OF STAMINA

Endurance, Not Showy Battles, Will Decide This War. Case of One of Czar’s Troopers Cited to Show Endurance of Russians — Perforated, Anxious to Return to Front. Warsaw.—There can be no doubt now that this war is going to be decided, not by a series of brilliant, showy victories in grand battles, but by a trial of stamina and power of endurance between the allies and their Teutonic enemies. Nowhere do the conditions of war demand of the allies so much patient endurance and indifference to great sufferings as on the eastern front, where the Russian army is laboring under most cruel disadvantages owing to scarcity of railways and almost total absence of good roads, while the Germans have in their rear the most perfect system of strategic railways in the world, built entirely for the purposes of an aggressive war against Russia. For this trial of endurance and stamina the Russian army is eminently suited, both collectively and individually. There is no other soldier in the world who can stand so much physical pain and privation as the Russian. In this connection one may recall a characteristic scene described in the Russkoye Slovo of Moscow, by its correspondent at the front. The scene took place at a field hospital. In front of a large tent a crowd of wounded soldiers, straight from the trenches, were waiting medical aid. A kindly Russian priest was handing round mugs of tea, which he poured from a large samovar. The soldiers drank their tea with frank expressions of enjoyment on their faces —all except one. He first silently brushed aside the prpffered hand of the priest, and when the latter pressed upon him a mug of tea mumbled dully: "Can’t. The tooth aches. Please, can I see the doctor?” The priest could not refrain from reproaching the big fellow for troubling the doctor with a toothache. “Why,” he said, “fancy a strong, healthy fellow like you coming here with a toothache, just after the battle, when thp doctors are so busy with really important cases. Couldn’t you wait?” . “It aches something awful," mumbled the soldier. “Then, why didn’t you come earlier, before the battle?” "It didn’t ache then. It started aching only when the bullet got in my mouth. It stuck there.” • The soldier touched his cheek with his finger. Only then did the priest realize how unjust he was in reprbaching the soldier with malingering. He hurried for a surgeon, who hastily examined the

CHILD DANCER A SENSATION

Virginia Myers, daughter of Jerome Myers of New York, made her first public appearance as a dancer when she was four years old. Her dances are original, unrehearsed and spontaneous. Virginia is now nine years old.

GERMAN BICYCLE SCOUT SCOUT IN POLAND

soldier’s mouth. The bullet could not be seen from the Inside, but be could feel it through the cheek. “Now, hold tight, little brother," he said, arming himself with pincers, “and don’t you move.” “Ready to obey, your honor," replied the Soldier, quite briskly, forgetting the pain. A most painful operation ensued. The surgeon made one pull, then another, and yet another, and all proved unsuccessful, and only the fourth pull brought out the bullet. With his mouth bleeding profusely, he asked the surgeon to let him have his bullet as a souvenir. Smiling and happy, he sat down to tea. "Ah, it is good to drink hot tea now. I got quite cold. My back is wet and cold —all sticky.” “What is the matter with it?” inquired the priest. “Oh, it must be a bullet —grazed my back,” answered the soldier, quite indifferently. The priest again called the surgeon. The soldier was quite upset to trouble “his honor” when he was so busy. “A through wound,” anxiously remarked the surgeon, after a quick examination. “Well, there you are,” quite cheerfully retorted the soldier; “she went in and out. So why waste your time over her? No harm done. If your honor would only bandage it, I shall be all right” The surgeon had to bring down the whole weight of his authority to prevent him from scooting back to the trenches with a fresh “through” wound in his cheat This sturdy, simple-hearted soldier, so indifferent to pain and privation, is but a type of Russia’s peasant war-, rlors. Against an army of such warriors all the impetuous German onslaughts will break like sea waves against a granite rock.

HAS TRADE SCHOOL FOR MEN

Great Britain .Fits Grown-Ups for Jobs Which Require Skilled 5 Labor. London. —One of the most interesting employment experiments in England is a trade training school for men, enabling them to shift from a trade temporarily stagnant ; owing to the war, into one where skilled labor is urgently needed. r Tie experiment is being carried out by the Prince of Wales Relief fund, and if successful may be indefinitely extended. Furniture trade was one of those adversely affecteL by the war, and a large number of skilled furniture workers have since become skilled leather workers, on military equipment. The school was opened December 7, last. In the first five weeks of its existence it enrolled 139 men, 64 of whom already have "graduated” and obtained employment as leather stitchers. More than half of the men placed have been more than forty years old, and the report of the first five weeks’ work in the school says men more than forty, “and indeed over fifty,” are as quick and adaptable as the younger men.

DODGED SCHOOL, MADE 'PILE’

Country Boy Returns Home After Few Weeks' Absence Driving a Racing Car. Hutchinson, Kan. —Henry Koehn, a country boy from Galva, McPherson county, was sent to Hutchinson a few weeks ago by his father to get an education in a business college. His father gave him $250 and good advice. "Now, Henry, be careful,” his father advised. "This will be enough money. You can’t have extras.” Henry came back home, driving a 1915 model racing roadster. He wore a tailor-made suit and a diamond ring. Also he had in his pocket a bank book showing that he had $2,500 or more on deposit in a bank. A few days after his arrival in Hutchinson with his $250, he fell in with a friend of his father, a grain man- Henry was tempted. He invested his $250 in Wheat- Usually it pans out the other way. In Henry’s case it didn’t. Some say he cleaned up as much as $7,000. Henry is not going to school.

"HICCOUGHS OF THE SEA”

Scientists Explain Frequent Reporta of Cannonading Heard In the North Sea.

Paris. —The frequent reports, which subsequently were not confirmed, that heavy cannonading had been beard in the North sea, have led to an investigation by scientists. It was thus disclosed that the reports of detonations were authentic, although no firing took place. < Scientists who were on the lookout for a repetition of this phenomenon were rewarded by hearing loud detonations off the coast on a day when it was known that no naval action whatever was in progress. This phenomenon was noted along the French coast, off the Department of Pas-de-Calais. Abbe Moreux of the observatory at Bourges came to the conclusion that these loud reports were simply what the Belgians call “mistpoeffers,” or explosions of fog. They are called “hiccoughs of the sea” th iZolland, and sometimes are referred to as marine bombs. The same phenomenon has been observed on the banks of the great lakes and on the great plains of the Delta of the Ganges. After the theory that these detonations were produced by artillery had been discarded, it was thought possible that they were the result of electrical discharges. Finally Abbe Moreux noticed that the appearance of this phenomenon was generally simultaneous with reports of explosions of firedamp in mines. # 1 The electrical action of the sun upon the surface of the earth, the abbe says, provokes movements favorable to the expansion of Imprisoned gases whereever there are fissures in the crust These gases, -liberated from their prisons, explode and cause at the same timq explosions of firedamp and earthquakes. The abbe pointed out that earthquakes are always preceded by noises resembling distant detonations of artillery. Vibrating shocks originating in the interior of the crust of the earth may produce sonorous waves which are quite perceptible if the atmosphere is in repose. Abbe Moreux says that meteorological conditions do not, as has been supposed, cause the phenomenon, although they may favor its production.

“Young Turk” Homesick.

East Lansing, Mich. —Homesickness, stronger even than the fear of the allied fleets battering at the Dardanelles, caused M. A. Mehmedoff, a sophomore agricultural student at M. A. C-, to pack up his belongings and start for his home in Constantinople. Mehmedoff was one of the “young Turks" and a good student

COLLEGE GETS $10,000,000

Miss Mary Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr college, will receive the bulk of ths >10,000.000 estate left by her friend, Miss Mary Elizabeth Garrett, daughter of the late John W. Garrett, president of the Baltimore • Ohio railroad. Miss Thomas is named executrix and residuary legatee under the will which has just been probated. Bryn Mawr receives no specific bequest, but the terms of the will indicate that Miss Thomas and Miss Garrett, who had been close friends for years, had an understanding that the college was to receive substantial benefits. The picture shows Miss Thoftas and Baron Russell Briggs ot Radcliffe college at recent college ex-