Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1915 — Page 3

IN BOHEMIA

By GEORGE MUNSON.

“How do you like Bohemia. Miss Lane?** inquired Stanford. Dorothy Lane drew in her breath. **l think it is just heavenly.'* she said, watchinc the lights and the dancers in the cabaret. “And to >hlnk I lived all my life without knowing that these things exist!** “They’re all very well In their way,” answered Sanford. “Only don’t estimate them beyond their real value, Miss Lane.” Dorothy had persuaded her parents, who were rich, to give her a year in New York. Ostensibly she was studying at an art school; but if you had questioned her and she had been honest, she would have told you that she was studying life. A young man, dressed in the extremity of fashion, who had been executing a dance with a slim blonde, came up and sat down at the table. “I’m dry,” he remarked, addressing all the party, though his eyes rested on Dorothy. • “What’ll you have," asked Sanford, smiling. “Absinthe," answered the young man. “Hello! Excuse me a moment.” While he was gone to speak to his late partner, Sanford turned to Dorothy. “It’s the way in Bohemia,” he said. “Introductions aren’t considered necessary. You don’t mind?” / “O, I think it’s delightfully linconventional,” the girl answered. When the young man came back he drifted into an earnest conversation with Dorothy, after drinking the strange, greenish-white liquid which

“May I Be Privileged to Call Myself Your Friend?”

was supplied him. He asked her to dance. The girl, in exhilaration, seemed to float over the boards. And when the dance was over the young man and she sat down in a corner behind screen, under a palm. He Was the son of an English nobleman, he told her. But for family reasons the marriage had to be kept quiet He had borne the undeserved stigma upon his birth at his dead mother’s plea. His father had refused to acknowledge him. He did not like the life in the cabaret But one had to live.

Dorothy listened in a trance. Such things, then, happened in real life, and not merely in books! It seemed impossible. In a moment kindly Sanford was forgotten. Sanford, well-meaning, and a good friend to her, had taken her to the Cabaret Richelieu at her request to see “something of the shady side of life.” He thought the inexexperienced girl more worldly than she Was. Had he understood nothing would have induced him to take her, with the party of friends, to such a place. The young man's soulful blue eyes seemed unutterably sad. “May I hope to meet you again?” he asked. "Perhaps,” breathed Dorothy. "When?” “Tomorrow night?” It was settled, and the girl's heart beat fast as he led her back to the table, where Sanford gave her a kindly scolding for sitting out with the man He did not know the secret of his birth, and Dorothy felt honored in keeping it to herself. Sanford took her home, laughed at her enthusiasm, and said good-by. He never dreamed what plan was in Dorothy’s head. On the next night Dorothy, innocent, went to the cabaret alone. Timidly she sat at a table. She did not know what to order. Before she had answered the waiter, a young man came up to her and invited her to dance. The leer on his. face struck Dorothy cold with terror. . Suddenly, with a bound, her friend of the night before was at her side. “Get out of here!” he stormed at the other, who withdrew grudgingly. A moment later Dorothy saw him laughing with the slim blonde woman. It might ha«e seemed curious, but all her attention was concentrated on the young man at her side. She told him her Own story, of the pent-in life In the country home, her rich old father, absorbed in moneymaking, her loneliness in New York. "But you need an escort,” said the young man. “May I be privileged to cal* myself your friend?” I can

■how you life—the real life. . . .** On the next evening he called , for her in a taxicab and took her to half a dozen cabarets. Dorothy had an impression of a whirl of music, dancing, and laughter. The young man had no change and Dorothy paid the taxicab bill —twenty-two dollars. She had an idea that the cab driver smiled when he took the young man home.

St Clair —that was his name —had explained how his share of his grandfather’s property was being held up pending a lawsuit It would be a matter of a few weeks only. Dorothy, with all the money she needed, had offered to be his banker. The next day she bought him a diamond pin. He had said he had lost his pin. How surprised he would be at the gift! He was. And, always respectful, he took her here and there and everywhere. The girl’s eyes were opening fast Their comradeship, so frank and friendly, took on a softer note. She let him hold her hand. Once he kissed it and she thrilled with happiness. He was to call and take her to a private theatrical entertainment —very exclusive, very elite. Dorothy was surprised that it was to be given in a private house, but she went upstairs without demur. They were the first guests. Excusing himself a moment, the young man withdrew, leaving the girl alone in the dimly-lit room. It was a two-room apartment, with a curtain in the middle. Dorothy began to, grow uneasy. She heard footr steps—and suddenly two men and a woman—the slim blonde —burst in. “There she is!” shrieked the woman. “O you hussy! I’ll teach you—l’ll tear your eyes out —” She struggled wildly in the grip of the men, while Dorothy, white with terror, waited mutely. “Well, Miss we’ve trapped you,” said one of the men. “We are detectives from the Dolf agency. If you’ve got any friends you’d best communicate with them, for Mr 6. Seaforth here means to prosecute her divorce suit through thick and thin.” Before Dorothy had quite taken in his meaning the second man, seizing advantage while his comrade struggled with the blonde, came quietly up to Dorothy. “Five hundred will square it, and we’ll swear we never found you,” he whispered. “Come, give me your note —all your money and an I. O. U. It’s safest, and you won’t have any publicity.” At last the girl realized the trap into which she had fallen. Half fainting, she clung to the window curtains, her eyes fixed mutely on the scoundrel’s face.

Suddenly the door burst open, and there stood Sanford —kindly Sanford, now red with rage, and wielding a revolver. “Get out of here —the pack of you!” he snarled. ; With wonderful speed the blonde, recovering, shot through the doorway, followed by the two confederates. Sanford held Dorothy in his arms, “There, my dear!” he said, stroking her hair. “I was to blame. I felt uneasy and followed things up. Those rogues had laid a trap for you. I know. I know.” And, half supporting her, he led her from Bohemia. \ (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.)

“HIGH BROW” AS A STIGMA

Remarkable What a Hold Appellation Has Taken on the Minds of Americans. The worst fault, however, into which our age-long service of mediocrity has led us is a weak-kneed, pusillanimous deference to mediocrity itself. The college has borrowed the vice from everyday American'life. For example, the most deadly weapon in the yellow journalist’s armory is the term “high brow.” A politician may be called “grafter,” “boss,” or even “muckraker,” and escape unscratched; but if he is denounced as a “high brow,” and the label sticks, his career is ended. A playwright or a novelist may be written down as “cheap,” he may be said to plagiarize, he may be shown to be vicious or unclean, without serious damage to his reputation; but let him be proved a “high brow” and the public will fly from him as if he were a book agent. Now the widespread American belief that knowledge makes a man impractical is responsible for some of this curious odium; but far more is due to our servile deference to mediocrity. The weight of public opinion is usually against the expert, the specialist, the thinker, the exceptional man in general, for public opinion, whether right or wrong, is always mediocre, and there are few among us who do not in this respect yield somehow, somewhere, to public opinion. The doctor distrusts tiie advanced political theorist, the politician distrusts the advanced dramatist, the dramatist sneers at the Innovation of science. We are all made timid by the enormous majorities which uphold mediocrity. Harper’s Magazine.

In Sicily.

Historical and political forces have retarded the progress of Sicily which, in some respects and in many districts, seem to be of the medieval age and not of the twentieth century. Imagine a cart whose sides are adorned with bas reliefs representing the Crucifixion, the Last Supper, the Madonna and Bambino, and the boy Christ, disputing with the rabbis tn the temple, whose axles, shafts and often hubs are carved, painted and gilded, and whose squeaking wheels are six feet in diameter —and you have the fashionable family vehicle of the country,

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

TESTING RAIL BONDS

NEW INSTRUMENT THAT 18 OF SMECLAI, INTEREST. Advantages Claimed for It Over Old Appliances in Use Are Many—Accuracy Has Been Made a Special Point. The accompanying illustration shows the use of a novel rail bond tester developed at Bethlehem, Pa., which is of special interest It enables one man to compare three feet of bonded rail with three feet of unbroken rail and reads direct in equivalent length of unbroken rail. It ordinarily uses the current in the rail and accuracy is independent of amount of current, this influencing sensibility only. In places where the current In the rails is small or Intermittent, or in new construction, a special high sensibility instrument is used, the current being obtained from portable storage batteries. In order to operate this high sensibility instrument two men are required. The instrument weighs six pounds and when closed measures 5% by 7% inches. The contact bar car-

Testing a Railroad Bond.

ries renewable saw blade contacts which will not fail to make good contact. The bar may be folded for easy transportation. In operation, a section of the bar is made to span the joint. The central button of the instrument is then rotated until the galvanometer needle at the top comes to 0. The rotated needle then indicates directly on the scale the length in feet of an unbroken rail having the same resistance as the bonded section.—From the Scientific American.

WILL ELECTRIFY ALL ROADS

Railroads Already Preparing for Change, Is the Assertion of Chicago Engineer. Electricity for transportation purposes is just in its infancy and it will not be long until all the transcontinental railroads will be using electricity for motive power. This Is the belief of H. A. Strauss, a consulting engineer of Chicago. “The railroads are gradually coming into the belief that electrical motive power Is the thing,” Mr. Strauss said. "It is cheaper than steam, cleaner and has a greater propelling power. “The transformation will be gradual. It will begin at the terminals first, then extend to the mountain grades, and then the intervening spaces will be electrified. Some of the Eastern roads have now electrified their terminals, and the Great Northern is using electric motive power on the Cascade tunnel division to take the trains through the mountains. They are using the regenerative control of electricity, in which the motors on the locomotives move the wheels on the ascent, and on the descent the wheels move the motors, thereby generating electricity for the next ascent.” Several transcontinental lines are now acquiring water rights along their route with the end in view of electrifying their roads, Mr. Strauss continued. "The Milwaukee, St Paul & Puget Sound, known here as the Milwaukee road, has now let contracts for seven hundred miles of electrification of their road in the West,” he said. "The Denver & Rio Grande and the Great Northern are quietly acquiring water rights, and it is only a question of time until electricity is used on all roads.”

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In most every gas line there is a strainer or trap, either in the line itself or at the base of the carburetor. Few persons think to clean this occasionally before trouble is encountered. The present day fuel contains more or less waste matter, and trouble with the carburetor can be eliminated by cleaning this trap or strainer occasionally.

To Make Brakes Hold.

When a car has been in use a considerable time the foot brake becomes less efficient, owing to the surface of the brake drum becoming highly polished. Its gripping effect may be improved by making file marks across the drum by means of a three-cornered file. These marks, which should be about one-sixteenth of an inch deep. Will not injure the brake lining.

Good Rulo of Life.

Avoid extremes in living. Be generous (as generous as you can) getting as much pleasure as possible out of life, and take care that proper provision is in some way made for the future. 77

ON DUTY DESPITE INJURY

Veteran Engineer “Comas Back,*. Though Serious Hurt Might Ordinarily Have Put End to Career. The usual drawn-out sing-song announcement heralded Wabash train No. 2 as it crept, snakelike, under the Union station train shed several nights ago. The usual reception committee of uniformed grip carriers was there to greet the passengers. In baseball the announcer tells who 18 going to pitch and catch. But in the everyday game of railroading the real heroes are obscure. Otherwise, when the human talking machine raised his 42-centlmeter megaphone he might have added: “Jack Bryce of Moberly, Mo., at the throttle. Bryce Is sixty-six years old and has been driving engines nearly half a century. He has come back.’’ He also might have added that the only Interruption In Bryce’s forty-seven years of service was an accident a year ago In which the veteran engineer suffered the loss of his right foot.

But to tell the real story of Jack Bryce would take too long. He took No. 2 out of Moberly the first time since he was Injured and he said it was just like “goln* home for Christmas.” Everybody from messenger boys to. the president of -the road knows Jack Bryce. When his foot was torn off while he was oiling his engine in the Vandeventer avenue roundhouse last summer, everybody on the road shared Bryce’s sorrow. They believed he never would drive an engine again. But Bryce’s bulldog pluck pulled him through, and when he drove No. 2 out of Moberly recently there was a crowd there to cheer him. When he climbed down from the cab at the Vandeventer station after completing his run, there was a crowd there to greet him. Bryce has driven No. 2 thirty-seven years. He had been in several wrecks, but was never seriously Injured until he lost his foot. He has made 12,000 trips between St. Louis and Moberly, and had piloted a locomotive more than a million miles. Luther Bickle, division foreman, accompanied him to St. Louis. —St. Louis Republic.

DEPOT PUT UP IN COACHES

Odd Arrangement Made Use of in Emergency by a Railroad In Indiana. After a railroad station at Michigan City, Ind., had been destroyed by fire, leaving the companies which had occupied It without facilities for handling their local business, a number of passenger coaches were set out on an adjacent siding and converted into a complete depot These served adequately to house the ticket, telegraph, and baggage offices and also provided comfortable waiting rooms for the patrons. The locations of the various offices were Indicated by overhead

An Improvised Railway Depot at Michigan City, Ind.

signs extended from the car platforms, while the customary bulletin board announcing the time of arrival and departure of different trains was attached on one side of the car which served as a ticket office. —Popular Mechanics.

Between Devil and Lost Train.

It 18 necessary to bear in mind that “each person checking baggage or other property from a point in one state to a point in another state must make a declaration of the value of such baggage or property when it is presented for checking.'* Each person or his agent must “sign a declaration before baggage can be checked.** Fur* thermore, "no baggage will be for* warded unless the passenger or his agent. signs the declaration.** It is made a misdemeanor to misrepresent the value of baggage. This will make passengers pause. If they undervalue their baggage and it is los.t they will receive no more than the value they subscribed to. If they overvalue it they, will be liable to prosecution, as misrepresentation of the value of baggage has been made a federal crime. How can people with baggage catch their trains with this new duty Imposed upon them? How can people estimate the value of their not entirely new clothes in a hurry?—Philadelphia Press.

Continuity of Service.

The Pennsylvania Railroad company reports that the majority of persons who enter the service of that company and remain in it two or three years iisually continue in the service until they die or are pensioned.

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