Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1915 — Page 3

DEUS EX MACHINA

By GEORGE MUNSON.

I was so angry with Jack that I resolved never to see him again. He had called me a flirt-and refused to listen to me when I said that I really had known Mr. Oliphant years before, and that my meeting him at the corner was quite an accident He was so vulgar, too, and Jack had never been vulgar before. I suppose he thought he had me on a string and fconld show himself in his true colors. He told ine that I had made a “date” with Mr. Oliphant, who was one of father's old friends, and whom I hadn’t seen for years. I just gave him back his ring quietly—right on the street corner, and said I was glad he had shown himself as he was before marriage instead of afterward. Then I walked away. I didn’t care a bit I hated Jack. Of course, I never expected to see him again, but to show him that all was over I moved from Mrs. Brummell’s. I left my address with her, but told her not to give it to anybody, and I knew Jack would have to try hard before he gotjt out of her. Ot course, she dan’t really keep anything secret if you insist. New York is large enough for two people not to meet. Jack knew that I worked for Mr Stevens in the Bentwich Building, but he couldn’t very well come there when his own office was so far downtown. So altogether I felt he wasn’t likely to trouble me again. Bays passed, and he made no attempt to see me. I was more furious than you can Imagine, and yet it showed me very clearly that my estimate of him had been correct. I didn’t let the grass grow under my feet. I went out to dinner with old Mr. Oliphant, who is the dearest man, and I suggested Flavin’s, because I know Jack sometimes has an extravagant habit of dining there when his work keeps him downtown. I wanted Jack to Bee what he had lost. Well, would you believe men can be so base? The second time Mr. Oliphant—who is a perfect dear —took me there, whom should I Bee but Jack, seated' at a table near me with a dreadful looking person, a blonde,

I Turned My Back on Him.

with a heap of false hair —I suppose Jack didn't see It was false —and flashing teeth. Poor boy! I felt so sorry for him. She was not a good woman —at least, *lf she were good she wouldn’t have worn false hair and been so terribly overdressed. After that I* never went to Flavin’s again, I began to think more of Jack. Was It my duty to try and save him from that creature, at any personal secrlfice? Before I had decided a terrible thing happened. The empty office of our floor was rented. One day I saw that the painter had put up a new name on the brass door. Whose do you suppose It was? Jpck’s. He had rented that office for his business — of course, to annoy me. And the next day I saw him. I had known that we vvould meet, and I planned to show him my complete Indifference to his persecutions. I resolved to pass him without the faintest sign of recognition, especially after his brutal conduct in Flavin’s. We passed. I held my head high, but Jack didn’t notice me at all. He passed me as If € were a stone. Positively, the man seemed a brute, a heartless, uncultured clod. What an escape I had bad! Three or four days passed. I no longer even looked at Jack. He Beemed to close his office the same time Mr. Stevens did, hut I always took the other elevator. I think Sam, the colored elevator man, understood our antipathy, for he always smiled so sympathetically at me, and looked so sternly at Jack. It was. I think, on the fifth evening after Jack had rented the office, that & dreadful experience happened to me. I had been working late, and everybody bad left the building—or nearly everybody. I wgs t happy that night, because I knew that Jack would have gone home long ago. It mast have been eight o’clock when I finally laid aside my work, put on my hat, and went'out . I pressed the elevator bell and Sam came up. Just as I saw his grinning face behind the grille who should come along the passage but Jack! He had been working late, too. I hesitated to believe that he had been waiting for me just to persecute me.

He stepped toward the elevator, and of coursfe I stepped aside. “I’ll take the other,” I said. “Sorry, miss, but the other elevator’s out of order,” said Sam sympathetically. Well, there was no help for it I entered this one and turned my back on Jack, who got in and took the other corner. The elevator began to go Very slowly and jerkily, and all at once it stopped between two floors. Sam looked at me with a frightened-face. “I guess, we’re Btuck, miss,” he said. , \ * He tried and but he could only move the elevatOT a few inches. At last he said: "I guess I could climb out to the floor above and go down and fix it miSs,” he said. “The lubricating mechanism must have cast a shoe —I mean a valve.” It seemed to me that he was repeating those words by rote and didn't know what they meant. Before I could utter a protest he was scrambling to the floor above, at the imminent risk of breaking his neck, me alone with Jack. I turned my back on him again and hummed, to show him I didn’t care. But it was a terrible situation. I thought of the days when we had been engaged, before I became disillusioned about men, when Jack was all the world to me; and before I knew it I was crying. Suddenly I felt Jack’s arms about me. “Forgive me, sweetheart,” he was saying. “I love you awfully, dear. Won’t you let me put the ring back again?” An£ somehow, in spite of his infamous treatment of me, I had not the strength to resist him. I Just lay in his arms. * “Jack,” I sobbed, “who was that dreadful, dreadful person with you at Flavin’s?” “That?” inquired Jack. “O, you mean Miss Partridge. Why, she’s engaged to young Carson, you know. Carson was delayed, and so w' hatted until he came along,. just \er you went out. She’s a very nice ” “And how about me?" I flared furiously. \ “You’re the sweetest, dearest, niceSy —” he began, in the most foolish way Somehow it only seemed a minute after I had let him put the ring back before Sam reappeared. He entered the cage ip the same way. “It’s all right, miss,” he said. “We’ve got a new valve now.” And the elevator descended. I saw Jack slip a five-dollar bill into Sam’s hand. It really seemed extravagant, but after all it was worth it, seeing what Sam had done for us. The only thing that disturbed me was the grin on Sam’s face. It almost seemed, for the moment, as if he had made the accident on purpose. However, of course, that couldn’t be. (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)

VISITOR WHOM ALL DREAD

Frenchwomen Afixlousiy Watch Course Taken By “Man Who Announces the Dead.”

I was talking to the conci&rge one afternoon, and I noticed that somehow she,didn’t seem to be so interested as usual. Her eyes were, on a man who was coming up the street. He turned in at the epicerie, and she seemed still more, absent minded, watching that door until presently he emerged. Finally, as he passed us on the other side of the street, she came out of her abstraction. “Do you see that man over there?” she asked me. “I hope he never comes in here.” He seemed to be merely an ordinary man —an ordinary Frenchman; that is, with the usual little mastacjxe and curly beard and longtoed shoes. “Why?” I asked. . “H© is a clerk at the mafrle,” she answered, still watching him. “See those envelopes in his hand? Do you know what they are?” * No, I didn’t, of course, know what they were. He might be mailing letters, I thought. “He goes all over 'the arrpndissement,” she said; and then her voice dropped. “He is the man who announces the dead.” I looked at him again just as he turned the corner. Oh, he was no ordinary man now! There were the lit* tie mustache and curly beard that 1 would never, never forget. And all the way to the Folies Bergeres it kept running through my head —the man who announces the dead! —Estelle Loomis in the Century Magazine.

Explains Delaware Boundary.

Why the northern boundary of Delaware should have been circular In form is often a source of wonderment. It came about in this way: After William Penn had obtained a grant of Pennsylvania he was desirous of owning the land on the west bank of the Delaware to the sea. He procured from the duke of York, In 1682, a release of all his title and claim to New Castle and 12 miles ‘ around, and to the land between this tract and the sea. A line that was the arc of a circle of a 12-mile radius was then run 'with New Castte as a center. When the three “lower counties” on the Delaware became a state they retained this boundary.

Patent for Prince Henry.

Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the German emperor, has just received a patent for an apparatus for cleaning the wind shields of automobiles. It has wipers on both sides of the glass which by one stroke of the chauffeur's hand may be moved over the glass to remove dost and water. _

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

AUSTRIANS REPAIRING DESTROYED BRIDGE

This photograph, taken during the retreat of the Russians through Galicia, shows Austrian troops repair! ng bridges.

THRILLING STORY OF SIEGE OF VAN

Told by United States Missionaries Who Were on Scene at the Time. BARRICADE THE BUILDINGS Ten Thousand Cared for in the Town in Weeks Before Russians Arrived —Provide ingenious Against Turk Bullets. New York. —Letters from the staff of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions who were in .’an, the old Armenian city in eastern Turkey, during the recent troublous times, have just been received at the offices of the board by way of Petrograd. They tell a thrilling story of the last desperate weeks before the Russians arrived, when Turks were determined to crush the Armenians, when the mission premises were crowded with refugees and the houses barricaded against shot and shell. The wife of Dr. Clarence D. Ussher thus tells the story of the siege: “As you know, there has been a long-standing and well-grounded dissatisfaction on the part of the Armenians with the insincerity and Injustice of the ‘Young Turk’ party in power. This feeling has grown strong since Turkey declared war against Russia six months ago v “This suicidal rush into the fray was a most unpopular move among Modern and Chrißtlan alike, but Its consequences bore most hqavlly upon tiie latter, who were pressed into service and then deprived of their arms and forced to work as day laborers without proper food or care. Thousands died of typhus and neglect. Punish Rebels, Was Order. “It was small wonder that as many as possible exemption from service or refused to be enlisted. The government naturally regarded their course as nothing less than treason, so when a strong governor-general, the brother-in-law of Enver Bey, was appointed to Van, his first concern was to punish the rebelß. “Three weks ago last Friday the military head of this revolutionary faction, with two of his companions, was killed at command of the vail, who had sent them to Shaddakh as official peace commissioners to settle a question between the government aHd the revolutionists. Another prominent Armenian leader, a member of parliament, was seized and deported to the capital. April 17, the day word was received of the assassination of the revolutionary leader, Ishan, Doctor Ussher and Mr. Yarrow (also of the American board) were called by the vail, wjjo told them plainly that he was determined to crush the rebellion If It Involved the extermination of the whole Armenian population, but that he would prefer not to injure the women and children. Refuse Turkish Guard. “As we proposed to open our premises to refugees he urged placing a guard of 50 Turkish soldiers here. We at first consented to the suggestion, but the revolutionists said experience had taught them the soldiers could not be trusted. They were unwilling to allow the soldiers to come. We have been thankful many times since that they refused to do so. “That evening we consulted with Signor Sbardone, Italian consular agent, the only consul left in the city to represent our Interests and those of other foreigners. It was midnight before our plans were made. That very evening neighbors began to bring in beds, carpets, boxes and wheat, as those who realized the situation considered our premises, those of the Germans and Sbardone’s the only safe places, j “The next day was Sunday, and we had church services as usual, but all daylong the sti'eams of people poured through the gates. Men, women and children were loaded with their household effects. The rich hired ‘hamals’ to bring piles of bedding and beautifully polished chests of clothing, and the poor hurried in with their pitiful

treasures of bare necessities. Little donkeys brought in large sacks of ffour and wheat. Hay Obtained for the Cattle. “Most of the horses in the city had already been seized by the government, but a few were found to bring hay for the cows, which had to be put in the basement of our old school building as our small stable was full. We have had such a rainy spring that the ground was too wet to store goods outside so we packed the basements of our new school buildings from floor to ceiling with boxes, bedding and bags of wheat and flour, reserving all rooms above for the people we knew would need them. “Before we had dressed Monday we had had applications for rooms from half a dozen families and by night we In our houses had a regular hotel of more than seventy people, while attic, wood room and halls were piled with goods of every description. “Ourfamily are all together in the middle bedroom, which is barricaded by a wall of large oil cans filled with earth. This shuts out most of the sunlight, but the windows are down from the top, and with three open doors we can get good ventilation. The sitting room windows are protected by bags of flour piled up on the wide sills and a triple hanging of heavy blankets across the bay windows to keep out the stray bullets. Bullet Holes in the Walls. “The need of such protection is evidenced by the many broken tiles on our roof, and forty or more bullet holes in the walls and the broken windows through which four balls have entered our living rooms. Sometimes the air hums with the constant flying of bullets over and through the prgmises,-end it is a miracle that so few have been hurt. It was an exciting moment when an unexpected cannon ball struck the wall of our house only ten Inches above the head of the mayor’s wife, who was outside the study door, and fell harmless at her feet. The same morning another cannon ball fell into the stable yard a few feet from where Neville (Dr.

PLAN LIKE BUILDER

Germans Prepare for Battle With Great Precision.

Decide on Certain Plan, Provide Necessary Soldiers and Equipment With Margin for Miscalculation, but No More, Never Less. Petrograd.—ln an interview with a correspondent a Russian general who fought In the Galician battles has just explained the German . plan of campaign which has resulted so successfully this summer. He said the Germans plan battles as builders plan houses. A builder gets together his blue prints and his estimates, engages a sufficient number of workmen and a certain quantity of material and sets to work. He doesn’t try to build a bigger house than he has materials or labor for. Of course, accidents or bankruptcy may prevent the execution of the plan. Similarly the Germans plan that a certain thing shall be done; they bring up the necessary soldiers and the necessary guns, shells and bullets, with a margin for miscalculation, but no more and never less. s They may, through accident or miscalculation, jail. But they never start fighting on the principle of doing the best with the men and shells they have. To revert to the house parallel: The house. may collapse during construction, owing to a mistake. But the builders will not decide suddenly that they have not enough material and dock the house off one story, nor will they „ abandon the house half built, because of lack of workmen or material. They know what they want to do. The battle planned and prepared for months In advance is a precise work. The whole eastern campaign shows this., When the Germans won at Tannenberg they planned the march on the Lower Vistula, which ended near Warsaw. Hardly bad they retreated when they tried a new vast and clearcut operation from Thorn. When that stagnated on the Bzura they were preparing the battle of the Masurian lakes, which was a great victory. »nd

Ussher's bod) was standing. He brought the empty shell in, still warm, to show us. “The benches from the church and seats from the school rooms have been removed to make floor space. Many are huddled in the low dark basement of the Chureh; the audience room and galleries are crowded. The schools are filled even to the hallways. The hospital is considered ordinarily to be full if it has 50 patients, now 140 are under its roof. There are at least 5,000 refugees on our premises, and as many more in the near vicinity. The German compound resembles ours and Sbardone feeds between thirty and forty at his table. How Armenians Make Ammunition. "The Armenians have shown wonderful ingenuity in making gunpowder, dynamite bombs and serviceable bullets. They make a mortar to throw bombs, and now are at work on four cannon, the only weapons the Turks have which they have not. I visited their cartridge factory last week. It was most interesting to see the process from the start, when disks of copper were cut from plates, to the finished product of a polished cartridge with even English lettering on the end. Everything was handmade, but between 2,000 and 3,000 cartridges is the daily output. “I never imagined that I could be so interested in munitions of war, or hope so fervently that the revolutionists should win, but it is now a question of sawing the remnant of the people from massacre and starvation, of defending their lives and homes from fiendish cruelty, and we exult over every advance of the little band and pray that in some way permanent help may come to them. “After three weeks of fighting in the city the Armenians have the advantage. But in the defenseless villages the story is very different. It is wholesale and systematic massacre of as many as possible and the taking of many prisoners and sending them later to the head of. the revolutionsts to be fed. In this way starvation will finish the slaughter. “From the first the most of our refugees were villagers, some from many miles away. When our premises could hold no more the houses near by and protected by the positions held by the revolutionists were filled. It is estimated that at least 10,000 fugitives are being fed in the gardens. It is impossible to do justice to their condition. Fleeting without time to collect their food, they come to us ragged, barefoot, hungry and sick from exposure and fear. “Many of the regular Turkish soldiers are averse to butchery, so the vali has promised plunder and glory to the lawless Kurds, who are nothing loath to do his will. One morning 40 women and children, dying or wounded from Turkish bullets, were brought to our hospital. Little ones crying pitifully for their mothers, who were killed while fleeing, and moth ers mourning for their children whoii. they had to leave behind on the plains Some of our orphan girls ask us it God will forgive them for leaving one child thus when as they were carry ing one and leading another they could not manage the third. I could tell you stories which would simply break your hearts, but it is needless to harrow your feelings.”

hardly was over when they were sending their armies south to assault the Dunajec. “The Germans, In short,” said the general, “never start fighting on the prinfciple that would make them say we have so many men, so many guns —let us have a shot at the foe and do him as much harm as we can with these men and guns. They plan the shot first, see that they have the me® and guns to execute the plan, and dt not touch a plan which is from thf flrßt plainly beyond their strength. “Thus, they never once tried t» crush our army as a whole. That is beyond them. Even admitting their technical superiority and good muni tion supply, they would want, in ordei to crush us by one operation, at least as many men as we have. Their way is to plan relatively small operations, which attack only one section of our front, in the hope of destroying this section before we can strengthen it. “The battle of the Dunajec shows that the enemy planned to take these lines and to reach the San. He prepared everything for this, and something over.Jaut did not intend to march straight to Lemberg. When he reached the San he had to stop—apart from our attempts to counterattack. “Then he brought up, no doubt, shells, food and men for his next operation. He treated the next operation as a self-contained thing, and until it succeeded or failed he would attempt no more. Also he will not attempt a modified plan. If he feeli too weak he will try something new, which, according to his judgment, la within his strength.”

Band Leader at Seven.

Muncie, Ind. —At the concert given in the town hall at Eaton a few nights ago by the Garrett Boys’ band, which is to play at the National G. A. R. encampment in Washington, D. C„ in September, the director was Paul Garrett, seven, years old. The boy, who is a son of E. W. Garrett, organizer and general manager of the band, is an accomplished musician and director notwithstanding he is in years little more than a baby,

VARIETY IN THE MENU

SUBJECT TO WHICH MORE AT* • tention should be given.

Well for Cook to "Think Up" Now Ways of Bervlng Food, With tho Idea nf Getting Away From Unappetizing Monotony. Perhaps in no department of woman’s work is it so easy to get into a groove as in catering. However good the food may be. it fails to be appreciated as it should, if it lacks variety, writes a contributor to the Queen (London). To avoid this, It is a wise plan to keep a menu book, also notes of new dishes to be tried, and also frequently to consult a cookery book to refresh the memory and stimulate one of the new ideas. Lists are also most valuable, as it is well worth the trouble to arrange them for reference; a list of breakfast dishes, one of meats and joints, another of sweets, and one of cakes, would do much to avoid monotony. Now breakfast dishes in these days of high-priced eggs and bacon do present a difficulty, and both forethought and extra time for preparation are needed here. Rissoles mat be made out of mere scraps of meat and potatoes; half a pound of sausage meat will make quite a large dish. Remains of tongue, beef, or ham can be minced and flavored and mixed with crumbs and served on hot toast, or heated with thick gravy and served on 4 fried creton, or used to stuff tomatoes or eggs, or to fill a savory pancake. Ox kidney and New Zealand kidneys can be stewed, curried, or made into kidney Coast; kedegree can be made with either fish or eggs; haddock toast, or fishcakes, steaks of hake or cod fried, fillets of haddock dipped in batter and fried, grilled mackerel or herrings, are all good. The occasional bacon can be helped out with fried bread one morning, saute potatoes another, and a third used merely as a garnish to a dish of sheep's liver. Homemade potted meat* beef-and-bacon galatin, and rabbit pie or mold all help to make a change; and please add scones or hot rolls occasionally, and a dish of fresh, fruit once or twice a week. A beetroot simmered in strong, clear stock is nice, or carrots boiled in stock and put through a sieve, and the puree made the right consistency with nicely flavored stock. A puree of brussels sprouts or marrow are both good, and onion, celery, tomato, lentil, or haricot soups are all easily made; so is a smooth white soup, half milk and half water, with onionß, potatoes, and leeks simmered in it, and rubber through the sieve. Of fish, again if the more expensive kinds are tabooed, there is a fresh haddock, boiled, with parsley sauce, or stuffed and baked; cod fried in batter, with pickled walnuts,- grilled whiting, stuffed or baked mackerel, or hakft with horse-radish sauce.

Lemon Ice Cream.

One quart sweet cream, yokes of six eggs, white of one egg, threefourths of a pound of sugar, juice of four lemons, Juice of' one orange, grated peel of three lemons. Mix the lemon and orange Juice together; add some of the sugar and boil in a double boiler. Strain to cool in a bowl and then add the peel. Let the mixture then stand an hour before freezing. In the meanwhile make a custard'of the cream, eggs and sugar, cooking this carefully in a double boiler and seeing that it does not curdle; let the custard cool, then freeze It for awhile, and after this mix in the fruit Juice and finish the freezing. Three or four whole eggs piny- he used instead of the six yolks.

Baked Halibut.

Three or four pounds of halibut. Dip the dark skin in boiling water and scrape clean. Rub well with salt and pepper. Put into pan and pour milk over It till half an inch deep. Bake about an hour, basting with the milk. When the fish Is nearly done sprinkle buttered crumbs over the top. The milk keeps the fish moist, is a good substitute for pork and makes the fish brown better. Use Just enough wiilk to baste and let it cook away to--ward the last. Serve with plain drawn butter, egg sauce or tomato sauce and garnish with slices of hard-boiled eggs.

Codfish Soup.

One-half turnip, one to two parsley roots (or leaves, if not roots), three onions. Slice all these and boil until done In two quarts of water, then add cupful shredded codfish and boil a little longer. Take one cupful milk, one egg, one tablespoonful flour. Beat thia well together and add to the above. Let thicken and then season with little ginger and pepper. By cooking fresh fish until it can be removed from the bones you can make same as codfish soup, only add a little salt and butter size of an egg.

Orange Ice.

Pour cupfuls water, two cupfuls sugar, two cupfuls orange Juice, quarter cupful lemon juice, grated rind of two oranges. Make a sirup by boiling water and sugar 20 minutes, add. fruit juice and grated rind; cool, strain and freeze. •}.

To Prevent Blue From Fading.

To prevent any shade of blue from fading soak for two hours in a pail of water, to which one ounce of sugar of lead has been added. Then be sure t® dry well before washing and ironing. .