Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1915 — Page 3

LAWSOFCOMMERCE

By HAROLD CARTER.

It was a sudden impulse that took little Miss Dimsey into the private ■office of old Adolf Ludwig, proprietor of the cheap department store in which she worked. She went in boldly, her only encouragement the fact that old Ludwig knew her, and had once or twice stopped and spoken to her in his fatherly way. “Well, Miss Dimsey!” said the old man, looking up over his spectacles and beaming at her. Little Misb Dimsey’s well-planned story broke down, and she broke into tears. The old man looked gravely concerned. “Tell me your troubles,” he said, handing her a chair. ‘T’ve simply got to have my salary raised,” sobbed Anita Dimsey. “I can’t support my mother and myself on |8 a week.” "Well, well, so that’s what the matter is!” said the proprietor. “Go on, Miss Dimsey.” “I guess that’s about enough,” said the girl. “And I don’t know what to •do. We are at our wits’ ends for money. How can you expect a girl to live decently on that, even if she has ■only herself to look out for?” Ludwig looked at her thoughtfully. ■“You know, Miss Dimsey—” he began, and checked himself. “Tell me some more,” he said. “Your mother has no means of support?” "No, sir, except what I earn. .She was inxa publishing house, until she was crippled with rheumatism two years ago. Then I —I —” The tears began to flow again. > "Ha!” ejaculated Ludwig. “Excuse me, but —you aren’t ever expecting to be married? That’s what keeps wages down, you know. The girls leave.” Little Miss Dimsey’s tears flowed faster than ever as she thought of patient Jack Livingston, working at S2O a week, and their desperate hope, of making a home for three when he got $25. She blurted out all about it,

Little Miss Dimsey’s Well-Planned Story Broke Down.

while old Ludwig waited with a smile on his grim, worn old face. “I don’t know what I can do,” he said. “It wouldn’t be fair to the other girls to raise you. Wages and salaries have their natural level. 'I can’t break the laws of commerce just because you need money, Miss Dimsey.” She did not see the whimsical look on his face. She heard only the dreadful sentence. “Then I must go— ’’ she began wildly. “I must leave you. I must steal, anything—” "Stop!” shouted Ludwig. "I can lend you a hundred dollars. I’d rather do that than have you-get into that frame of mind. You can pay me back when you are married.” Miss Dimsey raised a startled face to his. She had heard stories as every working girl has heard them, about employers who make presents to their employees. "Oh, no! I’d rather die!” she cried wildly, and made as if to leave. Old Ludwig stopped her. “Wait a minute,” he said. “I hate to think of your distress. I have thought a good deal about you, Miss Dimsey, because I know how hard a struggle you have. I am a very lonely old man. Be my wife, Miss Dimsey, and —” “What do you mean?” faltered the girl, facing him in astonishment “Just what I say,” answered old Ludwig. “Marry me, and 1 will give your mother a good home for the rest of her days and do my best to make you happy. Come,” he added, smiling, "I am not likely to live very long, and Jack can wait He will be the wiser and the better, for his experience. Don’t answer me now, but wait a week or two to see whether I am really crazy, and think it over. Good-day, Miss Dimsey.” He turned to his books, and little Miss Dimsey, bewildered, went back to her work. "Of course the poor old man is going mad,” she thought But old Ludwig was anything but mad. Two or three days later he sent for her again. “I’m going to Europe next week,” he said. “If your answer is favorable Td like to get married before I wall 1 can't take you on a honeymoon, because it’s only a case of

touching port and returning, but I’ll take you to Paris next spring. And to Florida for the honeymoon.” Little Miss Dimsey looked at him with tragic eyes. “Do you really mean it?” she faltered.' •'*<' “Yes,” answered old Ludwig. ‘Til marry you as soon as you wish me to,” said little Miss Dimsey. It was arranged that they should be married at the registry office in three days* time, on the morning on which Ludwig was to sail for Europe. Miss Dimsey and her mother were installed in the old man’s house. >lt was all like a marvelous dream, the money, the clothes, the servants that waited deftly on them with stolid, carven, expressionless faces. The desperate letter that had been written to Jack, telling him of the necessary sacrifice, brought him raging to the door. The butler, who had his orders, refused him admittance. Not even his vehement threats and offers of bribes could move the man. Of this, however, Miss Dimsey knew nothing’ nor of the intercepted letter that Jack had written her. The day of'the marriage dawned. Miss Dimsey and her mother awaited Ludwig at the registry office. “He’ll never come,” said Mrs. Dimsey with conviction. But he came, smiling and gentle as ever, with a gardenia in his buttonhole, and, still in a dream, Miss Dimsey signed her new name, Anita Ludwig. The wedding breakfast followed, they saw the old man on the boat, and the two women were alone. “It’s hard upon Jack, my dear,” said the mother wistfully. Mrs. Ludwig cried. “I’m going to be a good wife to him,” she answered. “Him?” queried the mother, startled. “To Adolf,” said the bride. They had three weeks to wait before the return. The days passed leaden-footed. Jack, who had received a notification of the wedding, contrived to waylay the mother and pour out his indignation. Anita he did not see. The boat brought back no Ludwig, but, instead, a letter from London in a strange hand. It contained a notice of the old man’s death in a London hospital. Enclosed was a letter from Adolf Ludwig to his bride. “I couldn’t raise your salary,” he said, “so I married you Instead. I wanted to do a good act before I died. It was a case of a lingering death or a hopeless operation by Doctor Canning of London, the only man who can perform it. I knew it was a thousand to one .that I should never see you again. Good-bye, Anita. You have been a good girl, and I have left you ; everything. I hope you and Jack will be happy. I’m sorry you wouldn’t take 'that loan Instead, but it was just a case of marrying you or breaking the laws of commerce, and I chose the former.’’ Anita looked up through her tears. “The dear, queer old man,” she whispered softly. i by W. G. Chapman.)

OLD CLAY PIPE HIS LEGACY

Old Soldier Had Particular Reason for Valuing Trifle Left Him by Comrade. A touching little romance of a clay pipe was told to a London writer by a tobacconist. It concerned an old gentleman who had every appearance of an Indian officer, and who one day brought the tobacconist just about the dirtiest clay pipe he had ever set eyes oil. He wanted the bowl fitted with a raised cover In gold In the shape of a helmet, on which was to be engraved the crest and the motto of a certain regiment. The shopkeeper told the gentleman that they would do their best, but as the bowl was already cracked It would require careful handling, and wouldn’t stand much pressure. “Well,” he replied, "if your workman breaks that bowl he’d better quit the country at once, for his life won’t be worth a day’s purchase.” Luckily, this weird threat didn’t* require to be put into execution, for the job was finished without a mishap, whereupon the old gentleman, after paying the bill, sent for the workman and gave him a present of |ls. He then condescended to tell the tobacconist that his reason for attaching so much value to a clay was that it belonged to an Irish soldier who had twice saved his life In a frontier war. The soldier was a bit of a ne’er-do-well, and never got promotion. When he died he left his clay pipe, which was absolutely the only thing in the world he could call his own, to the general—the tobacconist’s customer.

Will Written In Blood.

The will of an Italian soldier was written with his own blood as he lay dying of bullet wounds. When reconnoitering enemy trenches at Riva, on Lake Guards, in the world war, the soldier was discovered by'the Austrians, and a hail of bullets laid him low. After the rescue of his body it was found that, while bleeding to death, he had removed his coat, spread it on a rock and written, with a stick dipped in his own blood, a short will leaving the little which he possessed to two young orphan nieces. The tunic was sent to a notary for execution of the testament and is preserved in the Italian archives.

None Left.

*T broke some records this afternoon.” _ “I didn’t know you were an athlete.” “I’m not, but the next time my daughter undertakes to give a dancing party she’ll find there isn’t any musio to dance to.”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

GENIUS NOT INSANITY

ABSOLUTELY FALSE IDEA SHOULD BE ROOTED OUT. Theory Refuted as Far as America la Concerned by the Outstanding ’Figures in the History of This Country. A mistaken notion, which has done much to encourage self-satisfied mediocrity, is that genius is a form of insanity. This absolutely false idea needs to be rooted out of the popular mind, into which it was implanted chiefly by the efforts of a group of European anthropologists. These men, headed by the celebrated Cesare Lombroso, arrived at their insanity theory of genius by an exceedingly simple if laborious method. They scoured through thousands of biographies of illustrious men, seeking evidence that at some period in their lives these men hgd acted “queerly." Naturally they found a great many men of genius who had Indeed acted queerly and a great many others who had been positively Insane. With this multitude of horrible examples as a convenient jumping board, Lombroso and his disciples then proceeded to leap to the astonishing conclusion thatrall men of genius are more or less insane. To the weight of their scholastic authority. and to the bulky books they have published giving details of the vagaries of certain men of genius, is largely due the erroneous belief so widespread today. Actually, the proportion of insanity among men of genius is little, if at all. higher than the proportion of insanity among men in general. Indeed, a moment’s reflection ought to satisfy anybody as to the absurdity of the insanity theory with regard to American genius. Was Washington insane? Or Jefferson, or Hamilton, or Franklin? Was insanity the distinguishing mark of Abraham Lincoln? Can Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell and Julia Ward Howe be dismissed with a wave of the hand as insane persons? Coming down to the present day, would Thomas A. Edison be counted among the world’s foremost lunatics? Or Charles W. Eliot? Or Lyman Abbott? The sooner people rid themselves of the false insanity doctrine the sooner the way will be cleared for intelligent pondering of the question. Is not the man of genius, after all, representative of higher possibilities open to the human race, and is it not possible to some extent to produce more men of genius by proper training and environment? To this question I for one believe that ultimately an affirmative reply will be given.—H. Addington Bruce.

A Few In Every Age. At a recent fire in the Standard Oil works at Long Island City it took 50 policemen to hold back the women who wanted to rush into the burning building and rescue their husbands. Rumor had it that European agents fired the works and meant to carry off the employees. All the husbands turned up intact, but it is reassuring to find that wifely spirit can rise to deeds not unworthy of the past. Everyone remembers what happened at a Dutch city which, after a terrific siege, fell before the armies of the cruel Alva. The one mercy granted the conquered burghers was that the women might bring out such of their most prized possessions as they could carry on their shoulders. When the gates were opened a line of ladies staggered forth, each bearing a husband, booted and armed, upon her back. May there always be a few wives of this mind. —From the New York Evening World.

Mikado’s Coronation Robe.

For the coronation ceremonies at Kyoto this fall the emperor of Japan, says the Tokio Advertiser, is having made a full uniform of a design worn by a Shogun of 570 years ago. The costums is being made in the household department. The cloth has been handed down from old times. Because there was some difference of opinion as to the method of making and sewing this unusual uniform, members of the department in charge of the tailoring were sent to inspect the treasures of the sacred shrine, Atsuta, where ancient costumes of the period are to be found. The dresses at Atsuta are to be brought to Tokio at the request of the household department.

Mistake of Our Average Man.

With the best intentions in the world the average man. especially in America, in endeavoring to give everything to his wife, has made it difficult for her to give adequately in return. Our modern American women are brought up too softly "to develop he- ' role, or even deeply womanly, quai ities. As far as that is true the cry , “unsexed” has some justifications, but the feminists are the last group at' which it should be leveled. —Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale in McClure’s Magazine.

Japanese Living Abroad.

Recent figures of the Japanese foreign office show that 358,000 Japanese subjects are living abroad. In the United States are 80,000; Hawaii, 90,000; Philippine islands, 5,000; China, 119,000; Australia, 6,000; Canada, 12,000; France, 129; Great Britain, 478, and Germany, 434.

TAKEN FROM WARSAW BY RUSSIANS

Before the Russians abandoned Warsaw they gathered together ail the metal they could find, Including bells, boilers, lead piping and lead roofing, and carried it with them, for metal suitable for the making of ammunition is becoming increasingly scarce in Europe.

HYPHOID HITS MANY

Public Health Service Warns Cities and Individuals. is, **** . Two Hundred Thousand People Contract Disease During Year, of Whom 18,000 Die—Filth, Bad Food and Flies the Cause. Washington.—During the year probably 200,000 people in the United States will contract typhoid fever, says a statement issued by the public health service. The average period of invalidism will be more than a month for every case, so that the economic loss, even if recovery does ensue, can be reckoned upon this basis, including the care and attention required. Of those who contract the disease possibly 18,000 will die. Fifty per cent of these will be between the ages of fifteen and thirtyfive years, the very time of life when the loss is most frightful. Moreover, this is an annual toll and represents the minimum fatality which we have attained. No sooner is the computation of the 18,000 completed than another series is begun and so on interminably. The weather, presence of .flies, contamination of food products and the Increased liability of Infection through changes of residence makes it once more necessary for health bodies to sound a warning note. Typhoid fever is a disease of filth. It can only be contracted by taking into the system the waste products of one previously ill of the disease. These waste products are conveyed from one individual to another usually by means of a third object, such as water, flies or milk. Even if disease itself were never contracted in this manner we should revolt with abhbrrence at the idea of such uncleanliness. For every'case of the infection developing, someone, either the municipality or the individual, has been careless, and public ◦pinion will soon regard such carelessness as criminal. In the. eyes of the health officer typhoid fever is strictly a preventable disease. For 30 years the causative organism has been known and studied. For nearly twenty years science has been in possession of most delicate blood tests for the recognition of the disease. Knowledge of the dissemination of the disease is consequently exact and definite.

Not content with accomplishments along these lines, the medical profession have even devised methods by which the public may live under unsanitary conditions with perfect impunity, so far as this particular disease is concerned. Persons may take into their systems the filth which produces disease and death and yet remain free from harmful effects if the preventive treatment has been received. In spite of these efforts the frightful mortality continues. A large proportion of the population is ignoring the principles which have been so well established. Further steps toward the prevention of typhoid must be the result of more general enlightenment of the mass of the people. The avoidance of the infection rests primarily upon community action. The proper protection of water supplies, th a eradication of filth and all its accompaniments, the regulation of dairies and the safeguarding of milk are all problems which only communities as a whole can settle. Nevertheless, this does not absolve the individual citizen from responsibility, and he can do much for his own protection. The eradication of filth is in part the duty of every citizen, and each should see that his own surroundings are in a satisfactory condition. He should guard against carelessness in the maintenance and preparation of food and withhold his patronage from those who disregard the rules of cleanliness, remembering that the foods which are most subject to contamination are milk and its products, also oysters and vegetables. The role of flies in the dissemination of the infection is now generally recognized. The elimination of •uch fly-breeding places as garbage.

manure and filth is most essential, but the proper screening of houses and the adoption of destructive measures are also of great value. If, in spite of these precautions, the disease develops, it then becomes the duty of every citizen to implicitly follow the instructions given in order that the safety of others may not be imperiled, bearing in mind the fact that every case of typhoid / fever is due to someone’s ignorance or carelessness. No higher duty of citizenship than this can be conceived.

WHY CLERK GOT A RANCH

Wealthy Retired Farmer Deeds Land to Man Who Owned the Winning Rooster. Lyman, Neb. —Gus Stephens, a wealthy retired fanner, has deeded one of his ranches containing a section of land to Walter DeWitt, a clerk in a grocery store here. Stephens’ act was the result of a rooster fight. Both men had been boasting for months as to whose rooster was the better fighter. Stephens purchased his fighter in California last winter, and DeWitt owned a Nebraska product. , Stephens told DeWitt he would give him a ranch if the Nebraskan rooster crowed last. A fight was arranged, and a large crowd gathered under a big apple tree in the city park. At last the birds were turned loose. They went at each other viciously. At first they appeared to be evenly matched. After battling for almost half an hour Stephens’ rooster showed signs of being exhausted. It was not long until he fell to the ground defeated.

TWO BOYS CATCH A WOLF

Bag Him With Gunny Sack Near Small Town, Then Collect The Bounty. S*. Kansas City.—Cecil Latimer, twelve years old, and his brother, James Edgar, ten years old, sons of J. J. Latimer of Independence, took a wolf scalp to the county clerk’s office in that city recently and claimed the bounty of >3. The boys said they captured the wolf on the Frazier farm, southeast of Independence. When they saw it, ’ll ran into a hollow log. They procured a gunny sack and tied it over the opening of the log, and then scared the wolf out into the sack.

YOUNG PRINCE IN BATTLE

The eleven-year-old Crown Prince Humbert, who is visiting the king at the Isonzo front, made his way along several miles of the Italian trenches and sent the following telegram to his grandmother, Queen Margherita: “1 am on Austrian territory, I assisted in an artillery engagement this afternoon."

GIVES OIL FORMULA

Rittman’s New Process Prove* to Be a Success. United States Government Offers Foe. mula for Making Benzol and Toluol to Everybody—Basis for Explosives and Dyes. Washington.—Secretary Lane cancelled a contract made by the department of the Interior with the Aetna Explosive company of New York, under which the company had agreed 40 expend >200,000 in the development of the process discovered by Dr. Walter F. Rittman for the manufacture of benzol and toluol from petroleum. Doctor Rittman is the new chemical engineer of the United States bureau of mines whose discoveries have recently been widely advertised by the department'' of the interior as likely to revolutionize industries using petroleum and its products. The action was taken by Secretary Lane on receiving information from A. J. y Moxham, president of the Aetna Explosives company, that the results obtained from the production under the Rittman process had been so satisfactory that his company would start their plant on a commercially operative basis. “The cancellation of the contract," Secretary Lane said, “is in accordance with the original understanding with the company to the effect that the government would withdraw from the contract as soon as benzol and toluol were produced by means of the Rittman process in commercial quantities. “I am greatly gratified at the success which has been made in the mechanical development of the process and I feel assured that it has an important and successful industrial future, not alone as a source of two of the most valuable constituents of high explosives, but also as an efficient means of supplying dyestuff bases. “The mechanical improvements which can reasonably be expected to. follow from continuous operation and more general use are certain to give even better results than those so far obtained. “It should be a matter of national satisfaction to know that should the need ever arise the country can de-/ pend upon this process, which is the result of the labors of a government scientist, to furnish it with quantities of the raw materials for the manufacture of the most efficient explosives, lack of which has been one ot the greatest handicaps of the warring European powers. “Of no less importance, however, is the peaceful industrial uses to which these same products can be put, now that it has been proved that they can be produced on a commercial scale, and I am hopeful that the established possibilities of the process will give a decided stimulus to Important chemical industries. “The success which has attended the development of this government controlled process in co-operation with private capital has demonstrated the wisdom of the arrangement, as otherwise the process would probably be in the laboratory stage and its commercial possibilities would have continued to be a matter of conjecture. It is to be hoped that similar beneficial cooperation between the government and business interests can be had in future for the good of an entire industry. “The department of the interior is ready 4o issue permits or licenses to any person or firm that can furnish assurances of good faith and that is desirous of employing the process. “The Aetna Explosives company has also agreed to develop the Rittman gasoline process, and I expect to be able to make announcement as to the success of this other process in large scale operations within a short time.”

WAITED 59 YEARS TO WED

Bride Says No Woman Can Pick Good Husband Before She Is Fifty. Sunbury, Pa.—Philip Graham, sev-enty-two years old, a widower of Epsy and Miss Martha Powlus, fifty-nine years old, of Bloomsburg, were married, here last week. Mrs. Graham told friends: *1 had many chances to get married in my time, but I refused all my suitors, because it is my belief that no woman possibly can pick a husband she will be happy with the rest of her life before she is fifty. “I am proud that I was an old maid, because I will live happily with my husband.”

SHE HAS “HYPNOTIC EYE”

Lindsay (Cal.) Man Complains Against Wife Who He Says Exercises Malign Influence. Lindsay, Cal.—Alleging that his wife, Mrs. Mary Perry,, has a ’‘hypnotic eye," and that for the last year she has exercised a malign influence over him, Wesley E. Perry, a rancher, swore to a complaint for- the of Mrs. Perry and asked that she be detained at the county jail until an examination can be made into her mental condition. ' Mrs. Perry made a statement to the officers following her arrest, in which she declared her husband is “half Insane,” and that he. Instead, should be locked up and examined by the county alienists.