Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1915 — Page 3

THE MAN IN CHARGE

By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDERSON.

iCopyrisht. Uli, by W. G. Cnapnupi.) ' "It’s your duty, Eloise. You should look up this guardian of yours at once and call him to time.” “I certainly do not like his methods,” responded Eloise Thayer. “I wish brother Earle was home. He would take this matter in hand.” “Why don’t you just go to the city and give this lawyer, Rolfe, a piece of your mind?” “I believe I will do so, auntie. It seems to me it is my duty.” The speaker, however, did not look as though she coveted the task set ' for her. One year previously she and her brother Earl had inherited an estate valued at about $20,000 from their 'Uncle Reuben Thayer. The latter had left the settlement of the estate in the hands of Adrian Rolfe, whom Eloise had never seen. At the end of six months Eloise was notified that the estate had been adjusted and that her share was $lO,--000. This was invested in improved real estate, the income from which was S6OO per annum. Her brother Earle was to receive cash and securi-

Four Times She Repeated the Calls.

ties. He went to the city and did not return. His, great hope for years had been to travel abroad. He wrote to Eloise that at last he had his heart’s desire. Eloise was glad that he was having a happy time before settling down into business life. Now she had not heard from him for some months. This worried her somewhat. Then her- guardian was acting strangely. She had been planning to secure quite a sum of money through the sale of a small piece of property UncldAßeuben had left her, to help her Aunt Huldah build an addition to her home. To this the city lawyer had paid no attention. Two monthly payments had been passed. What was wrong? Something—so, picturing one of those avaricious, grasping ogres of a lawyer she had read about, Eloise started for the city to demand an explanation for these irregularities. Eloise had "‘the address of the lawyer, but first went to install herself at the home of a friend of her aunt’s, not knowing but that her business in the city might take up several days. Her aunt had filled her mind with decided prejudice against Lawyer Rolfe. Eloise set her lips very firmly as she reached the address of the attorney’s office. She was inexperienced in city ways. The hurry and bustle of the streets had confused her. She stood before a door on the second floor of a big office building. It bore the name of Adrian Rolfe. There were the names of other attorneys also. The hall was somewhat dim. Eloise did not notice In smaller lettering: "Entrance at No. 16.” She tried the door. It did not givfe. Eloise supposed the usual occupantsof the room to be absent temporarily. She went down to the street again and looked into the store windows for a spell. Then she returned to the office building. Again she tried the door —-still locked. Four times during the morning she repeated.the calls. There was disappointment each time. She went to the house of the friend of her aunt where she was stopping and recited her experience. • “In my opinion this lawyer Is keeping out of your way,” said the lady, who was old and cranky and suspicious, jupt like Aunt Huldah. “Oh, do you think so?” murmured the distressed Eloise. "Then what am I going to do?" “Consult some other lawyer.” “I will try to reach Mr. Rolfe once more first,” decided Eloise. "I hope he hasn’t run away with all the property and money belonging to Earle and myself.” “Just as likely,” returned her cross grained consoler. “This wicked world is full of crooked men.” * Eloise went to the office building after dinner. Again she found the door locked. She walked slowly past adjoining offices. The door of one was open. Had it not been'so, she would have been able to have seen the same names as were on the closed door and the word in large letters: “Entrance.”

Seated at a desk in a neatly wr nished inner room, Eloise made out a young man. At a glance his handsome open face attracted her. She decided if he was a lawyer and she needed one, it would be a bright intelligent young man like himself she would choose. - “Oh, dear! I feel so flustered —everything is so strange to me,” breathed Eloise timorously. "I must do Something, though, to settle this matter,” and she entered the office and confronted the young man at the desk. “Please pardon me,” she said, “but I am a stranger in the city and wish to consult with some lawyer.” The young man sprang up all courtesy. He bowed her to a chair. "I am an attorney, Miss,” he said. “Can I be of service to you?” “I hope you can,” replied Eloise, and she handed him her card. "I have come to the city to see my guardian, or rather the man in charge of the estate of my dead uncle. My friends fear he is not —that is, attending to the affairs of my brother and myself as well as he should. I have tried allthe morning to reach him in his office, but have not succeeded.” If Eloise had not been so confused, she would have observed a strange expression come over the face of her companion. He appeared about to break out into speech. Then he bit his lips, looked startled, then serious, and finally said: “I shall be pleased to have you state your case, Miss Thayer.” Eloise did* so. She was too gentlehearted to accuse Mr. Roife of deliberate fraud, but she made a clear, plain statement of the circumstances. “If you will leave your present city address, I will look up this matter and advise you this evening,” he said. Eloise went home, feeling that she had placed her business in competent hands. "So intelligent looking! He Just seemed to see through the case in a flash,” Eloise told her landlady. (No wonder!) "And* so-—well, so handsome, too.” (And she blushed.) The lawyer called that evening. It took him —he called himself Mr. Edwards —an hour, although it took him only five minutes to state that he could not settle with Mr. Rolfe for a day or two. He called the next evening and stayed two hours. At leaving, he told Eloise that if she would call at his office the following morning he would have the delinquent monthly payments for her. “You had better return home then, Miss Thayer,” he advised, “and in a week I will see that this —this negligent rascal of a Rolfe sends you a full and complete .statement of how your business affairs stand.” Mr. Edwards had given her the money at his office next day- and Eloise was about to leave, when a voice that startled her spoke, and, turning, to her profound amazement she faced her brother. "I won’t see you in a false position, Rolfe,” he declared. “Eloise, this is the best friend I ever had. He has not given you his full name —it is Adrian Edwards Rolfe. I have been foolish and extravagant. Some ready cash had to be got to lift me out of my troubles. The money due you and what Rolfe has kindly added, about saved me,” and a full explanation followed. "What can you think of me, Mr. Rolfe,” fluttered Eloise, blushing with embarrassment, “after the terrible picture I painted of you?" "I shall try to make you think better of me in the future,” laughed Rente. Which he did—aided by Earle Thayer, future brother-in-law.

Sense of Taste Comes First.

Each,one of the senses is of vital importance to the composition of a perfect or well constitute 1 physical individual, but it is probable that if the sum of influences of each on great achievements of mankind could by any possibility be estimated it would be found that the sensory machinery of taste has led all of the other four functions/ From the days of Lucullus and Epicurus, centuries before our era, and doubtless for other earlier centuries the joys of the table, the bottle of wine,’ the bird, the boar’s head, the haunch of venison, all the fruits of the vine, the tree and the soil, were made to appeal to the sensuous nerves of gustation residing in that little member of the human anatomy, the tongue, making from it potential appeals to the intellectual, the spiritual, the esthetic and the more or less grossly carnal.

How to Massage Severe Injuries.

Bruises, particularly the severe contusions due to external violence, yield well to massage treatment Using the fingers or the palm of the hand, rub with a stroking movement, always directed from the center of the contusion. Relief should be obtained I, a few minutes. The massage should be done twice a day and should not be continued for more than fifteen minutes at a time. When sprains are being treated by massage always rub toward the joint not away from it The time of the application may be lengthened to half an hour, and a greater amount of pressure exerted than in cases of simple contusion. The parts over the joint however, should be handled gently.

simplified Spelling.

Stern Parent—So you are at the foot of the spelling class again, are you? Little Bobby—Yes, sir. Stern Parent—How did it happen? Little Bobby—l got too many z’s In -• '.Vi' -7*'.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

This is one of the trenches In Gallcia where the Austrians so stubbornly fought the invading Russians.

BLIND TEACH BLIND

Victims of Battle Being Taught Useful Trades. 8L Dunstan's, Lent by Otto Kahn, la Novel English Training SchoolBlind Instructors Are Do* -• Ing the Work. London.—Help for the blind by the blind is the working principle of the institution opened by the Blinded Soldiers* and Sailors* Care committee at St. Dunstan’s, Regent Park. That principle in its application has made St Dunstan’s one of the most Interesting places in London. It has lightened the sadness which, more actual than the Imprint of pain, though much more elusive, lingers In the faces of the men who are learning here how to begin life once more at the beginning and to discount misfortune and defeat memory by new achievements. The object of the work is to teach every blind soldier a trade by which he may expect to earn his living and to introduce him at the same time to the Braille system of reading and writing. Blind instructors have been engaged in every instance. These men are among the most capable .workers in the country, and their energy and enthusiasm are an immediate incentive to effort. The knowledge that other men have “made good” in spite of their blindness is therefore the first lesson which the blind soldier receives. There is generally in his character a quality of determination which, thus aroused, may be counted upon to achieve success. St Dunstan's, which was lent to the committee by Otto Kahn, is a very large house, standing in 15 acres of ground. Thanks to this latter circumstance it has been found possible to include poultry farming and market gardening among the subjects of instruction. This country life section has been taken over by Captain Pierson-Webber, one of the best known blind experts in England. Captain Pierson-Webber’s life is itself a romance of successful endeavor against heavy odds; he has proved that a blind man may without previous knowledge compete with expert! on their own ground; his work in connection with poultry farming is known throughout the agricultural world. Small eginnings. Inside the house, in a large conservatory, work tables have been ' arranged for the teaching of carpentry, boot repairing, mat making and basket making. The scene of a recent visit to this workshop was an intensely interesting one. At the carpenter’s .bench a young fellow who lost his sight on the Aisne was just completing his first picture frame. , It did his Instructor and himself credit. The bootmakers were very busy and their work defied faultfinding, do, also, were the matnulkers. The only pupils of the basketmaking instructor .were two young Belgians who have been welcomed to the institution and who are very quickly . picking up a trade. In another room a massage class was in progress. Massage is one of those very useful occupations at which blind people are found to excel. The large Braille room was full of pupils, some of them being instructed in the elements of** the alphabet; other at work on the ingenious Braille typewriters. Everywhere one met the spirit of hope and cheerfulness, until the impression of pathos gave place to an enduring sense of admiration. Herb surely is a nobler courage even than the fierce bravery of war.

SAYS BEES HAVE PARALYSIS

Oklahoma Entomologist Finds Evidence of the Disease Among Honey Producers. nl.lll— ■ Oklahoma City, Okla.—C. E. Sanborn. state entomologist at the A. A M college, has discovered that a disease which be describes as paralysis has attacked the honey bees in Oklahoma. Dead bees are furnished him for investigation. He took live bees and infected them with the bacillus of the dead ones and soon they died. He says: “tn death they showed the same actfoa M bees ordinarily found with

CLOSE VIEW OF AN AUSTRIAN TRENCH

paralysis. Their abdomens became distended, their two front feet drawn up against their chests, the four hind feet stretched out, sprawling and quiver-, ing; the mouth parts extended and quivering, and the head frequently turned to one side.”

GREAT SUFFRAGE LEADER

As president of the International Woman’s Suffrage alliance, and as leader in numerous suffrage organizations,, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt has earned a unique distinction among members of her sex for her indefatigable labor for the cause. She has been the head of the alliance ever since its foundation twelve years ago, and during that period has been identified with winning fights for woman’s full or partial suffrage in Tasmania, Queensland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 'Victoria, England, Belgium and Iceland, as Well as full suffrage in seven of the United States. Mrs. Catt is known particularly for her qualities of constructive statesmanship.

LAY IN MORGUE SEVEN YEARS

Body of Texas Ranchman at Last Identified by Little Nephew. Muskogee, Okla. —After lying for seven years in a local morgue, the body of Charles Williams, a ranchman of San Antonio, Tex., has just been identified by his sister, Mrs. Henry Mills of Caddo, Okla. Mrs. Mills, who had been trying to find her brother for seven years, went to the undertaking establishment with her ten-year-old son on a forlorn hope and at once the boy exclaimed: “Mamma, that’s Uncle Charlie.” A careful examination of the body proved that the boy was right. The body was found in the Katy stockyards at Muskogee on the night of March 22, 1908. There was a discharged revolver lying in his belt and a bullet had pierced his groin.' Williams' wife and daughter live in San Antonio.

BUILT A TOWN FOR WHEAT

Kansan Wanted a Market and Breton Became It—ls a Profitable * Investment Colby, Kan. —Because he raised 150,000 bushels of wheat in 1914 and needed a place to market it without a long haul, Ben Foster, a large landowner, built a town of his own. He erected an elevator, lumber yard, coal yard and store. Also residences for his employees. He named the town Breton, and now it is getting away from his first idea.. Other people are moving there and Foster is in a good way to become the proprietor of a thriving country town. He refuses to sell the lots, but renjs them on long leases.

El Dorado, Kan. — A. deed one hundred and eighty-seven years old is a rare thing. Frank Allen, Butler county abstractor, discovered that he was in possession of Just such an instrument While cleaning house his mother, Mrs. Susan B. Allen, found a deed dated 1728, in the time of King George 11. It conveyed about twenty acres of land in Massachusetts.

Deed Is 187 Years Old.

ORIGIN OF BAYONET

Invention of Prized Weapon of France Is Uncertain. Women of Bayonne Said to Have Contrived Diminutive Spear for Use on the Ramparts—May Be Basque Invention. Paris, France.—A Paris newspaper publishes the following: “The bayonet continue*. to be preeminently the French weapon of war. In deeds of pure glory it goes side by side with the *76. Like the latter, it inspires our soldiers with confidence. Never has any troop, of any force, experience or valor, resisted our infantry charging with the bayonet “And yet no one knows to. whom we are indebted for this irresistible weapon. One would like to venerate the man who has placed this jewel of war in the hands of the French soldier. “The bayonet, according to some historians whose thesis Littre made popular by reproducing it in his dictionary, is' of Spanish importation. It crossed the Pyrenees to come and immortalize itself in France, as did the Cid. It is true that in the Spanish vocabulary there is the ‘bayoneta,’ meaning ‘small scabbard.’ What then? “There is more likelihood of truth in the narrative which mentions Bayonne as the home town of the bayonet. A tale from the South of France gives an account of its birth which, if not rigorously true, is very pretty. . "It was, .so the story goes, during the siege sustained by Bayonne in 1523 against the allied kings of England and Aragon that the women of this city, courageously taking it upon themselves to defend its ramparts, invented the bayonet. “Other historians assert that the Basques invented the bayonet in circumstances not less heroic. They had been'fighting against the Spanish for hours. Their ammunition was exhausted, while their courage still held out To conquer in spite of this they affixed their knives in the ends of their guns, and, thus armed, hurled themselves on the enemy, who fled in terror. “General Marion used the bayonet in 1641 and Gassendi in 1671. “To relate the heroic charges in which our soldiers have immortalized the bayonet would be to mention almost all the battles in which the French army fought It was Chevert who, in reply to a soldier who complained of being short of powder, said: What does it matter? Haven’t we the bayonet?’ It was Dupont, in 1801, who overthrew 45,000 Austrians with 14,000 men at the mill of Volta. “In 1915, our infantrymen, perpetuating the glory worf by their elden continue to give the bayonet their con fidence and their affection.”

WOMAN PENSIONER AT 108

Widow of a Veteran of the Confederate Army la Placed on Flrat Class Roll. Montgomery, Fla. —Mrs. Esther Dees of Montgomery county, one hundred and eight years old and widow of a Confederate veteran, has been placed on the first class pension roll of the state by Auditor M. C. Allgood. Mrs. Dees is among the first to be placed on the first class roll under the law which provides that widows of Confederate veterans who are more than seventy years of age shall be entitled to draw a first class pension. This law was passed by the legislature at its last session and Mrs. Dees is one of the first to qualify. ' When Mrs. Dees’ application was received, Auditor Allgood placed her name on the first class roll and requested Gardener Courtney of the capitbl to send her a handsome bouquet of flowers. '

Plymouth Rock Wonder.

Dexteit Me. —Ralph C. Blethen claims the New England record for hatching chickens. Three weeks ago he. placed thirteen eggs beneath one of his prize Plymouth Rock hena When he inspected the nest he discovered eighteen chicks, His only explanation is that somft of the eggs must have been double yolked.

Home Town Hepls

GARDEN NEEDS MUCH WATER Humble Tomato Can May Be Pressed Into Service If Hose Cannot Be Used. Water is a great help in the garden, sometimes doubling the crop. If a hose cannot be used, it will save much work to sink a tomato can into the ground close beside some of the plants, a few holes having been made in the bottoms of the cans. None of the water poured, into these cans will be wasted. Without water, cultivation must be continuous, for it locks up the moisture already in the soil. Of course the garden maker will want some berries, both strawberries and raspberries. Let him plant Chesapeake, William Belt and Abington and he will have strawberries to cover the usual season. By using the new variety Superb he can also have strawberries in the fall. Perhaps the new raspberry called St. Regis, is the best for the home garden. It will begin to fruit as early as any kind and there will be berries until the frost nipd the blossoms. This is an excellent berry, too, red and having fine flavor. The dewberry is better than the blackberry for the garden, as it does not try to occupy all the surrounding country. The fruit is practically the same, and the Austin is a first-class variety. But if one must have the old-time blackberry, let him choose the Wachpsett, which is practically thornless. The best trees for the very small garden are those grown in dwarf form. They may never grow any higher than one’s head and yet the fruit is quite as large as that produced by standard trees and very fine. Most of the common fruit trees are now sold in dwarf ■forms; they are very easy to care for and occupy but little room. In many gardens they are trained on walls or the sides of buildings, where they are entirely out of the way.

FINE FRAME FOR DOORWAY

Trellis Work May Be Utilized In an Almost Endless Number of Interesting Ways. Trellis may be used in a number of Interesting ways, that most usually employed being the framing of a doorway. A window here and there that is desired to be screened may be successfully concealed b,y the placing of a light lattice against the house directly in front of the window. The

Quaint Little Trellis Seat.

growth of wistaria or rambler roses over this framework contributes an added detail of interest aside from the purpose it serves. An ingenious method of constructing such a lattice is to take thin strips of a fibrous wood such as ash and lace them in the manner of an open basket weave. . .

For Garden Plants.

An occasional pail or two of sudsy water from the washtub or dishpan helps garden plants wonderfully. It must be pretty well cooled before pouring it on. In fact, there is one writer who declares that if American farmers and gardeners knew how to make an Intelligent use of waste mar terial, they could save thousands of dollars a year in commercial fertilizer and reap much greater profits from _ their crops. Of course, in a small garden the use of table waste Is out of the question, though beet and carrot tops and the outside leaves of the lettuce heads could be buried in the soil without any trouble. Coffee grounds and tea leaves are good fertilizers tor roses especially. Soot, too, and wood ashes are very fine.

Dwarf Fruit Trees.

The ornamental shrubs which are planted freely in city gardens are beautiful for a week or two and then commonplace for months. Dwarf fruit trees are quite as beautiful, and they have the advantage of being useful. A dwarf pear tree takes no more space than a rosebush.