Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1915 — Page 2

LOCAL COLOR

By BARRY TIBBETTS.

“Well, it’s surely good to be back on Broadway again!” exclaimed Jimmy Lawlor, as be awakened In his apartment tne morning after his return from the two weeks’ vacation which he had allowed himself. The room was filled with the golden sunlight or September. Lawlor glanced around hrs room. It was plainly furnished, but there were no evidences of poverty here. Lawlor ’as becoming mown as an illustrator; he had worked his way up from the depths, until he now secured a modest Income, with the hope of increasing it materially within a few months. Miss Mary Dewey, the famous shortstory writer had half promised to let Mm illustrate all her stories. The arrangement had been suggested by the editor of the magazine which had bought the exclusive right to her work. He was to meet her soon. He would have met her before, but she had been away.

Presently, as he dressed, sober thoughts began to steal through Jimmy's mind. He bad been guilty of very imprudent behavior during his short vacation. In fact, he had gone to the Catskills expecting to find rural quiet there, and he had found the place full of young store clerks and salesladies on their vacation.

Among the latter had been Miss Lizzie Moore. Miss Moore was a type of the store-girl—one of those types that Miss Dewey knew so well how to depict. And —they had fallen in love with each other.

At first it had been only a flirtation on Lawlor's part, but soon the transparent ingenuousness and simplicity of the girl had stolen into his heart.

Was This Miss Moore?

Ignorant as she was, half educated, -with the little slangy manners of speech of her class, Lawlor had realised that his love for her could tolerate all these things. And she had looked up to him so naively as a great painter.

“Do you know, Mr. Lawlor, it is a wonderful experience in my life to have met you!** she confided one day. “I never knew anybody like you before. I’ve always wanted a fellow who could think beautiful things, like you can. instead of just being interested in making money.’* Lawlor smiled rather grimly at that, but his infatuation had reached the point where he . did not wince at the words she used. Instead, acting on the impulse, he bent down and took Miss Moore in his arms and kissed her.

The girl lay there silent for just a moment. Then she drew herself away and looked at him with an expression that Lawlor had never seen on her face before. There was in it something of wounded dignity—and something of helplessness. “I suppose you’re just flirting with me to pass away the time,” she said. And Lawlor was stricken into silence. Because, in his heart, he knew that the girl s words were true. “I suppose I won’t see nothing of you after you get back to the city,” pursued Miss Moore rather unmercifully.

"Yes,” stammered Jimmy. “I mean what I say, Lizzie.” “We’ll see,” answered the girl moodily. and that was all. And Jimmy never kissed her again, even when he said good-by. Yes, Jimmy felt that he had made a fool of himself. He had the girl’s address. But he did not mean to call on her. He realized the difference in their station; he knew that such an alliance could work nothing but harm to both of them. And he tried to put

the girl’s picture out of his mind. That fall was not a favorable one for him. He seemed to have struck one of those slack periods that even the most accomplished artist occasionally meets. Assignments were few and far between. And, worst of all. Miss Dewey held off the arrangement. “I think she wants to make the agreement, Jimmy,** said the editor of the Wayfarer. “But she's a peculiar young woman. Impulsive—erratic—one moment she win and the next she won’t I’ll give yon a tip, Jimmy. Don’t press the matter, and she’ll probably come around of her own accord. We’re not losing sight of the matter, the young man had written to Miss Dewey remained un-

answered. Lawlor gradually gave up hopes of making the agreement. Ho became moody and dissatisfied. His bank balance was being slowly depleted. He was not in fear of poverty, but he began to realise —which was an excellent thing for him —that he was not yet such a great man az ho thought himself to be. And, as the weeks went by, Lawlor began to realise that he had by no means forgotten Miss Lizzie Moore. In fact, with the increase of time, ho began to picture her clearly. Her gentle nature, her flawless character, her mind, only awaiting cultivation to remove its surface blemishes. And one night he came to a momentous decision.

He dug up the address and wrote her a letter, reminding her of his promise, and apologetically referring to the business which had prevented him from redeeming it before. Back came a little letter. She had never forgotten him, but thought he had forgotten her. She would be glad to see him on the evening be had suggested, at nine o’clock, and “Mother is looking forward to meeting the fine gentleman friend I told her about.” Jimmy winced at the wording but — he called.

When he stopped at the door of the apartment house bls first thought was that Miss Lizzie must be a servant. Surely no saleslady could afford to live in such a place. But, seeing Miss Moore’s card in the box, he pressed the button. And, as the door clicked open, he knew that he was moving to his fate. But on the top story he stood still in amazement. Was this Miss Moore, this beautiful woman in the black evening gown, who stood smiling before him, and. still smiling at his discomfiture, invited him to enter? The apartment was furnished with elegant taste, from the shaded lamp to the oriental rugs on the floor. And, standing in the center of the room, Lawlor still looked hard at the girl and did not know what to say.

“Forgive me, Mr. Lawlor,” she whispered, placing a hand on his arm. “Don't you know who I am?” “Miss Mary Dewey!" stammered Lawlor, suddenly recognizing the portrait which he had seen in some magazine or other.

“I have done very wrong,” said the girl contritely. “But I didn’t know you would be in the Catskills when I went there. I wanted to draw the local types, and the store girls who went there for their vacations, and —I haven’t any mother, and I had to get that card printed for the box —won’t you forgive me, Mr. Lawlor?" “On one condition,” answered Lawlor, breathing hard. “That I sign that agreement?”

“No. That you let me keep my memories—only substitute your name for Miss Moore’s,” he answered. ♦ But long before he went he had begun to think in earnest of a second substitution. (Copyright, 1914. by W. G. Chapman.)

PEPYS COULD NOT SEE IT

Famous Diarist by No Means in Accord With University’s Expressed Opinion About Book. Sir William Cavendish, known in English history as the first duke of Newcastle, was commander of King Charles the First’s royal army tn his contest with Cromwell. Sir William’s second wife, the Duchess Margaret, wrote a life of her husband, in which she depicted him as a “Most Illustrious Prince” and in every respect the pink of perfection. The work was supposed to be entirely authentic and truthful, for Sir William himself assisted in its preparation. It was published early in 1667, and many complimentary copies were sent out, including one to the officials of St John's college, Cambridge university. In acknowledging its receipt they wrote: “Your excellency’s book will not only survive our university, but hold date even with time itself; and incontinently this age, by reading your book, will lose its barbarity and rudeness, being made tame by the elegance of your style and manner.” But old Samuel Pepys was not quite so favorably impressed. In his celebrated "Diary,” under date of March 18, 1667, he made this entry: “Staid at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife; which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an ass to suffer her to write what she writes to him and of him.”

Cultivate Neatness.

Tidiness is one of the most attractive of feminine qualities. It is also one of the rarest. Early and persistent must be the training which carries the girl into womanhood with her “bump of neatness” well developed. Unless inherently fastidious during school days, she is liable to drift into careless habits which she never outgrows. One girl may have a trick of leaving shoes about her room. As a child she was permitted to do this, and as she grew older the untidy custom was never abandoned, for the simple reason that she herself did not notice anything unusual about it, and probably nobody else took the trouble to correct her. Another slovenly habit is leaving a bunch of combings in the comb or on the dressing table. Constant vigilance on the woman's part is necessary in these small matters if she would be thought really tidy.

How to Attract Them.

Editor—l wish I could think of some plan of making the women read our “Ladies Page.” Assistant —Why not have it set up as an advertisement? —Puck.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

WRECKED BY MEXICAN BANDITS

Un the day that Carranza was reqpgnized as president of Mexico by the United Slates and the Latin-American republics, Mexican bandits derailed a train near Brownsville, Tex., and robbed the passengers, murdering several who resisted. Among the dead and wounded were United States soldiers. The picture shows the wrecked tram and United States soldiers on guard.

PINNACLE ROCKS ARE MENACE TO TRADE BY WATER

Federal Department Discards Sounding for Dragging System to Root Up Obstacles. ARE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE A Pinnacle Rock la Like an Undersea Dagger to a Ship—Legal Importance of Having Dangerous Rocks Charted Cannot Be Overestimated.

Washington.—ls an aviator flew over New York some dark night, plumbing for the Woolworth tower with an ordinary sounding line, he’d have just as much chance of locating the building as the hydrographic experts of the department of commerce have in locating pinnacle rocks from ten to thirty feet under the surface of the water by using the same method. Accordingly, the department is no longer “sounding” for pinnacle rocks; it is "dragging” for them. Pinnacle rocks are one of the gravest menaces to navigation that exist in the coastal waters of the United States. New England has the most abundant crop of any locality and the coast of that section is probably the hardest to chart of any American coast. With the new “drag” method in operation, however, charting of pinnacle rocks is becoming an easy matter.

Not only is a pinnacle rock extremely dangerous to navigation, but it is extremely difficult to locate. A pinnacle rock is exactly what its name implies. It is a tall, rocky pinnacle which rises straight from the bottom of the ocean and often the area of its top surface would not be ten square yards. When a vessel strikes one. though, a pinnacle rock is like nothing so much as an undersea dagger. Speed Was the Thing.

Years ago, when the coasts of the United States were first charted, it was necessary to make as much speed as possible and cover the greatest possible territory in the shortest possible time. Under such conditions the plumbing of coastal localities with a

sounding line and the determination of shoals by consideration of the general characteristics of the locality were necessary, but these surveys left many uncharted pinnacles behind, to bring disaster to ships later on.

They tell a story of a pinnacle rock incident that occurred on one of Peary’s trips to Greenland, back in the late nineties. Peary’s ship was holding a straight course for Greenland, but owi»g to the cloudiness of the weather a lookout was posted. The routine of the ship was suddenly disturbed by the cry of the lookout: “Breakers dead ahead!” The helmsman spun his wheel and the ship heeled sharply to port, just in time to escape a sunken rock which was about three feet under water. Had it not been for the lookout Peary might never have reached the pole. The department of commerce has been aware for a long time of the lack of authentic charts of many portions of the American coast, and the danger of pinnacle rocks was the real reason why the old plumbline system was discarded for the wire-drag method, which is very much similar to the oldfashioned seine. A line is run between two motor boats, several hundred yards apart This Hue is supported on the water by floats, but suspended from it are other lines, all attached to a long wire, under water, which is held down by weights. The wire under water corresponds exactly to the lower edge of a seine. <

Motor Boats Active. The motor boats are started farward. keeping an even distance apart The bottom wire is far enough under water

to Intercept anything which would rise high enough from the bottom to be a navigation danger, and as long as the floats on the surface drag along without going under the motor boats chug away on their course. But at the first dip of the floats, anywhere along the surface line, the motor boats stop, for the disappearance of the floats indicates the wire under water has struck a snag. If the snag is found to be a rock, its distance from the surface is ascertained and its location immediately charted. Then the wire is disengaged, the motor boats are started again and the department "snag fishers” are off after another “catch.”

The department, in a bulletin recently issued, admits that the most certain way to locate a pinnacle rock is to let a ship strike one. This effort, however, is admittedly dangerous to the passengers and extremely expensive to the owners of the boat, particularly if the rock is struck at night. In the old days pinnacle rocks were not half the menace they are today.

Boats were not built so large in those days and there were not so many lines of coastwise steamers running. These coast steamers have a regular course up and down the coaßt, and they hold to their course so true that they may pass a pinnacle rock at very close quarters for years without knowing of its existence. Wire-Drag System.

The new wire-drag system is the only system which will definitely and certainly establish the danger or freedom of a certain marine locality for ships. The legal Importance of having all dangerous rocks noted on government charts cannot be overestimated. The chart is very often the means of fixing responsibility for a marine disaster, either in merchant service or in the navy. The captain, accused of negligence in the navigation of his vessel after having struck an obstruction of some kind, may plead that the obstruction was not noted on the shart. The is particularly true when the vessel succeeds in getting oft before the locality can be definitely ascertained and the statements of the captain verified or disproved. As the whole purpose of licensing navigators is to make marine travel safe for passengers and property, it is essential that the plea of uncharted rocks be made as untenable as possible. The cost of wire-drag work, considering the value of the results obtained, is not regarded as excessive. The cost of dragging the New England coast ranges anywhere from $125 to $175 per square mile, while the work of charting the waters of Florida in the vicinity of Key West runs much higher. Here it costs from $450 to S6OO a square mile.

SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN LEADER

Mrs. Norman De R. Whitehouse was one of the leaders in the recent suffrage campaign tn New York. Notwithstanding the defeat at the election. Mrs. Whitehouse expresses unbounded faith in the ultimate victory of the cause.

GIRL TAMES HORSES

Buys 111-Tempered Animals and Then Cures Them. Kindness Is Her Rule, but She Cae Give Lesson When Necessary— Has Her Own Training Field.

Philadelphia.—ln a field near Swarthmore college a girl who is believed to be the only woman horsebreaker in the world goe/» quietly about her dally business of taking the temper out of half wild equines. No one is there to see, but it is a show that has all the exciting features of a broncho exhibition, with the added interest that the “buster” is a slender little woman.

Miss Betty Brown, thd woman horsebreaker, says she took up the business because she knew little about anything but horses. For two years Miss Brown was a trainer, for a New York. firm. Besides taking unbroken horses belonging to dealers and training them for saddle or harness. Miss Brown buys ill-tempered animals on her own account and by special treatment makes them fit for a child to ride. “There is usually a reason for a horse being vicious,” she said, from her seat, cross-saddle on a splendid thoroughbred. “Take the case of this mare. I bought her for a song because her owner could do nothing with her. I traced her history and found she had been attached to a racing stable where a lot of half-grown boys used her for joy rides around the track. The consequence was that a good mare was almost hopelessly spoiled by a lot of frolicsome young fellows who would yank her out of the stable at all hours, and beat her and ride her with or without a saddle at the fastest gait they could get out of her. “Naturally the mare became possessed of the idea that all men were born enemies and every chance she got she tried to protect herself or get even with her tormentors. They replied in kind, and the last gleam of good-natured Intelligence was soon beaten out of her.

“The fact is she is a splendid mare, and if I can but bring back her original sweetness of temper and undo the havoc done by that pack of boys I shall be able to sell her for SI,OOO easily. If I .cannot do this she will still be worth more than I gave for her. She is quite untrustworthy now, and it will be a long fight to bring her around, but I think I shall win. “I depend upon kindness and firmness rather than the whip to achieve results. You see, I do not even wear spurs. A horse responds more readily to masterful kindness than to brutal ill treatment.

“But sometimes it is necessary to use drastic measures. The worst case I can remember was a horse that persistently threw himself. No sooner would I be in the saddle than this illmannered brute would up in the air and flop over.

“It takes skill and agility for a rider to avoid injury when a horse, without warning, throws himself on the ground. One has to disengage one’s self without a second’s delay or a nasty bump is likely to result. “Well, I stood this horse’s antics for a few times and then decided that a sharp lesson was needed. I threw him and threw him hard. This was repeated until he got it firmly into his head that throwing was a punishment and not a pastime. When he learned that, he was a good horse. “It’s interesting work. I vary it by teaching riding, but I like horsebreaking best. There is a certain. amount of risk about it, but I have never been hurt. My natural quickness has saved me at critical times.”

HAS A FAMILY OF TWINS

Man at Sabinal, Tex., Is the Father of Seven Children, All Under Seven Years. San Antonio, Tax.—T. A. Patterson of Sabinal, who claims the championship for twins in Texas, was a visitor in San Antonio recently. Mr. Patterson is the father of three sets of twins out of seven children, none of whom is yet seven years old. The oldest are a boy and a girl, Allison Burton and Bertie, six years old. The next in age are twin girls, Sarah Etelle and Hattie Alice, four, and the youngest twins are a boy and a girl. Burdette and Bernice, four months old. The other is a girl, Allie May, three years old.

82,500 MILES IN ONE MILE

Steam Pleasure Boat on Small Michigan Lake Travels Record in Small Circle. Grand Rapids, Mich. —The Major Watson, a steam pleasure boat operated on Reed’s lake, near this city, has a distinction not possessed by any other boat. Although it has-traveled more than 82.500 miles, it has never been more than a mile in a direct line, from the spot where it was built The boat has been in operation for 25 years, it makes trips around the lake, which has a circumference of more than three miles, running five months every year. This gives a total mileage of 82,500.

GIVE GOD THANKS

Especially at This Time His Children Should Not Fail to , Show Gratitude. "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits. Psalm 103:1-2. The Feast of Tabernacles, which was the Jewish thanksgiving festival by divine appointment, may suggest to us in large part the spirit and manner in which our national Thanksgiving day can be must fittingly observed. The people were directed to turn aside from their accustomed secular pursuits and devote the time being to celebrating the goodness of God in grateful and joyful recognition of all that he had done for them. It was a religious feast, but had its social features, which were also of beneficial effect. It was intended to specially impress upon the minds of the Israelites a proper sense of God’s gracious dealings with them, and to call forth their gratitude in consequence. He had kindly cared for them, had brought them into the pleasant and fertile land. He had promised them, and had given them bountiful harvests; and it was a good thing for them to have an annual thanksgiving feast during which to recall his blessings to them and praise his great goodness. They would thus be moved to ascribe to him the many benefit® they enjoyed and to express their feeling of obligation and gratitude to him.

Ingratitude is a great sin and a very common one. There is too much of a disposition to forget that all our blessings come from God. There is also an inclination to dwell upon the seeming evils and disadvantages of life. It is eminently fitting, therefore, that we should pause at times in the midst of our worldly cares and occupations, and review the mercies of God toward us and see how much reason and occasion we have for gratitude to him. Thank Him for Gifts. Thank God for your being and for all the mercies with which he has crowned your lives. Thank him for your homes and their comforts, for health and friends, for sustaining grace under trouble and deliverance from evil, for the privileges and blessings of his Gospel and his church, for this highly favored land in whose pleasant places your lines are cast, for abundant harvests and the large measure of prosperity that has attended us as a people. Thank him, too, for the trials and sufferings that have come upon you, and which under his directing hand have Issued in some fonp of good. “Men are prone to thank God for those prosperities of vine and mead and shop and ship which made life easy and comfortable; but they are rarely grateful for those happenings which make life difficult and great ... A man is specially and divinely fortunate, not when his conditions are easy, but when they evoke the very best that is in him; when they provoke him to nobleness, and sting him into strength; when they clear his vision, kindle his enthusiasm, and inspire his win” _ .

Another purpose that the Thanksgiving Feast of Tabernacles subserved was that it taught the supreme Importance of spiritual realities. It directed attention to that which is higher and better than that which pertains exclusively to the woHdly life. The people were to turn their thought for a while specially to God and his goodness and his worship. They w.ere to remember that true life is found in the way of righteousness, in useful service for the glory of God and the good of man. Our thanksgiving must have its true counterpart in thanks living. We must give the chief place to spiritual and eternal things. This will make life what It is designed to be. Home the Foundation of AIL The Feast of Tabernacles afforded an opportunity for the reunion of families and friends and for social intercourse. In keeping with this is the character of pur Thanksgiving day. It is a time for the social gathering together, In the old homestead or elsewhere, of the various members of the famfly, old and young. The home Is a divine Institution. It is at the foundation of good government and national prosperity. Religion makes the home what it ought to be. In proportion as Christian precept is heeded, the home becomes a place of hallowed affection and sweet and holy and elevating Influence. “Moral decay In the family is the inevitable prelude to public corruption.” The safety and welfare of the nation depend upon the purity and sanctity of the domestic ties. This is the practical significance of our national Thanksgiving festival, and If we lay to heart the great truths and lessons for which it stands, they will help to qualify us for the faithful discharge of our duty to God and to our country, to our neighbor and ourself.—Rev. John Brubaker, P- D.

Always Work to Do.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is flying, with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds that he is doing—when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he wa* and made to do because he is a child at God.— Phillips Brooks,