Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1915 — Page 3

IN AFTER YEARS

By GEORGE ELMER COBB.

“I will" yet trample on his grave—yea, I swear it!" declared Floyd Burnett, mad with hate and fury. * “My son! my son!" remonstrated Ills mother, amazed and appalled, '•“have you taken leave of your senses! Do you realize all that Mr. Verner has done for your dead,father, for myself, for the entire family, in fact?” “He's done nothing for me,” snarled JPloyd, “except to refuse me a paltry -thousand dollars to start me in business. After gobbling up father’s business, too! All he has done for us! The scoundrel, the thief! He ought (to be in jail!” V “Oh, my boy!” cried Mrs. Burnett in a tone of the deepest anguish, ■the tears streaming from her eyes. “Must you force me to tell you that John Verner saved —” * But her willful son, headstrong and furious, swung out of the house, a muttering volcano'-of spite and hatred. his point of view, John Verner was «11 that he had pictured him. Had Floyd lingered a few moments longer, however, he would have learned some facts that might have changed his opinion of the man who had just Tefused to loan him money—for his 9wn good, too, had he but known it. * To outward seeming, when William Burnett, the father of Floyd, died he had left a fairly profitable business. Town gossips were puzzled, when a jponth after his demise the business was purchased by his oldest friend, fiven Mrs. Burnett something in the way of a purchase price. Floyd knew that this was a small amount, and had tried to learn all the details of the transaction, but his mother had been

"Retribution!" Half Gloated Floyd.

Strangely uncommunicative. She had called him home from college and told Mm that he would have to go into the business world, as the income would be, very limited from that timo forward. Baffled, in uncertainty as to just what had been done in the sale of the ' business, Floyd began to entertain dark suspicions regarding his purchase of the same. To his way of thinking Vdrner had swindled his mother, had imposed upon her ignorance and had got the business for next to nothing. He had fumed and fretted to no avail, however. Then, in a resentful mood —for he expected the favor as a right—Floyd visited Mr. Yerner. He told him he had a chance to purchase a half interest in a promising business in the fcity for a thousand dollars, and asked a loan of that Amount. “You would only lose It, with your Jack of business experience,” Mr. Verner had declared. “Be advised by me; go to the. city, if you think there is , your field, get a position, no matter bow humble, and learn real business ways. Come back in a year with your mettle proved—then 1 will talk with FHumph! Just a put off to get rid •ofi me! The old skinflint!” raved Floyd. “I’ll get even! Yes, I will! I’ll he on earth when he lies in his grive, the scheming old miser, and I’ll dance on his grave!” Why this particular fancied vengeance so obsessed Floyfl it would bave been difficult to surmise. He was not used to setbacks, however, and a mean suspiciousness, a false estimate of the true merits of his father’s old friend had urged Floyd to a point of uncontrollable deadly hatred. To his mother he said nothing more of the subject, only two days after .his violent outburst he announced quietly to her: “I am going to the city next week for good.” “Oh, my son,” remonstrated Mrs. Burnett; "could you not find some work near to us all?” suited to my ambitions,” observed Floyd, grandly. “The chief one is te be able to some day come back here a rich man, with enough % money to buy and sell that old plot- ■ ter—” \ “I won’t listen to you. Floyd!” declared bis mother sorrowfully. “Some day you will know how sadly you have misjudged a truly good and honest man.” “Bosh!” uttered Floyd contemptuously, and left the house. Fortune favored Floyd Burnett. It was strange that Vith his unformed Ideas of business, impetuousness and ■elf-set ways, he should make his way rapidly up the ladder of fortune, but ■o it was. He prospered. Within two yean he was a half partner in a grow- # (

teg business. Two years later he owned it entirely. He was a good son, so far as sharing some of his swiftly acquired wealth with his mother was concerned, although he did not write often to her, to Mary, the daughter of his “bitter enemy," not at all, although up to the day he was refused the loan by her father he had been her accepted escort in society functions of the little village. One day Floyd received news that Mr. Verner had died. He learned further that he had died poor. His business had slowly faded away into nothingness; so much so that when it had been settled up there was little left but debts. ' “Retribution!” half gloated Floyd. “The fortune he stole from my father hasn’t done him much good, I observe. And I—why, I can write my check in five figures, and get it cashed, too.” There was reason for gratulation, for Floyd had been diligent and energetic. He did not pause to realize, however, that Mr. Verner had given him sound advicS' in starting in business on his own hook, for he knew that if he had invested the one thousand dollars he would have lost it all. Mr. Verner probably recognized that the son was a good deal like his father, who was a*poor business man, with speculative tendencies. At least Mr. Verner had seen to it that the son had not made a false start on borrowed capital. Floyd decided to make a flying visit to the folks at home. Business had drtven some of the impetuous nonsense of youth out of his mind. For instance, he smiled at the thought of his vow to dance on the grave of his enemy. He might go thither and secretly exult, but he had no idea of detracting from his dignity with unduly capers. His way home from the depot admitted of the taking in of the little town cemetery by diverging a couple of squares from the straight route, and this Floyd did. He sauntered along, locating the Verner lot, which he knew well. Floyd paused as he neared it. A plain, simple shaft of marble marked a new grave, jhat of John Verner, and the solemnity of the spot made him feel ashamed that he had invaded this sacred inclosure with perverted thoughts in mind. To enforce the sentiment, he made out seated on the curb of the burial lot a young girl in mourning. She was Mary Verner. His heart smote him at the sight of her Bad, beautiful face. Then his eye flashed, for kneeling at the newly made mound, having Just placed upon it a wreath of immortelles, was —his mother. He strode towards her, angered, Indignant. “Come away at once!” be cried, seizing her arm almost roughly. “My son!” she spoke in glad welcome; and then: “No, I must not go away until here, at this holy spot, I have told you all.” Lower and lower went his head as the true story was fluttered forth at last —how Mr. Verner had taken over Mr. Burnett’s business at a loss to protect the latter fr«?m possible criminal prosecution.. It had failed later to succeed, and pvor Mary was now beggared. Floyd Burnett was a business man. In a businesslike way he proceeded to restore to her what his father’s troubles had cost Mr. Verner. Before the restitution was complete, however, the softened heart of the penitent Floyd had realized the whole worth of this gentle, true-hearted girl, and Mrs. Burnett had a new daughter to love and cherish. (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)

SHOCKED ALL HER IDEALS

Lady Found It Hard to Understand How Author Could Have Such Normal Habits. I was presented once to a lady who Immediately fixed me with an eager eye. “I am making a study of the habits of authors,” she announced. (Here a dreadful sinking of the heart assailed me.) "Kindly tell me at what hour you retire.” “Usually at half past ten,” I answered wretchedly. At that, as I had expected, her eyebrows went up. “The author of ‘When All Was Dark’,” she informed me, “sits up all night. She says she cannot sleep until she has* savored the dawn.” However, she was kind enough to give me another chance. “What do you eat?” she asked. • - "Three hearty meals a day,” I answered. “Not breakfast!” she pleaded. “Why, St. George Dreamer never takes more than three drops of brandy on a lump of sugar in the morning. Just the sight of a coffee cup will upset his work for a week.” And then she left me, sure, I do not doubt, that no real author could confess to such distressingly normal habits as mine.—Atlantic.

Kitchen Cabinet Too Handy.

The kitchen cabinet must be sanitarily made, so as to exclude mice and vermin of all kinds, write Lionel Robertson and T. C. O’Donnell in Good Health. Carelessly used, however, the kitchen cabinet is open to this objection, that it is too convenient. That is to say, its various drawers and receptacles are apt to become a catch-all in which will be thrown a ball of string and a nutmeg or two and a box of toothpicks and any number of other odds and ends; it is seldom cleaned, with the result that dirt accumulates and the real end of the cabinet, healthfulness, is defeated. Every part of the cabinet should be give? thorough and frequent cleansing.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

ODD TURRET OF AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP

Photograph taken aboard an Austrian battleship of the new Teghetoff class, showing the double turrets, one above the other, each carrying three guns.

FAKES CATCH MANY

$239,000,000 Taken From Public In Four Years. Post Office Department Issues 56 Fraud Orders in Last Year In Effort to Btop This Wholesale Victimization. Washington, D. C. —Investigations conducted by government officers show that fraudulent schemes have taken from the public more than $239,000,000 in the last four years. In an effort to reduce this wholesale victimization the post office department has issued 56 fraud orders in the last year. The issuance of such an order denies the person named in it the use of the mails. In one case the inspectors reported that during the last year a man received $46,500 from the sale of a metal finger ring, called an electro-chemical ring. It was sold for $2 to some and $4 to others. “The following diseases," reads that faker’s "literature,” “are caused by acid in the blooJl and are cured by this ring, which takes from one day to two weeks after the ring commences to work. The ring and acid create an electro-chemical action, removing the excess of acid, which cures these diseases and will keep them cured: Bright’s disease, St. Vitus dance, adenoids, gout, cancer.” Many other diseases were named. A fraud order was issued against a woman because she claimed to be able to give any person of great avoirdupois a form like Venus without any discomfort. “Weigh Just what you want to weigh," “Eat all you want to eat,” yourself and be as happy as I am,” were some of her arguments. The department found that in; 105 replies from patrons who took the remedy prescribed 75 were dissatisfied, some claiming to be bigger than ever. One man claimed to have a list of 400 widows, all matrimonially Inclined, some of them having such additional attraction as $20,000, who wanted to get in communication with life companions. The advertisements were written in Polish and appeared in Polish newspapers. The man established his acquaintances by inserting this advertisement: WIDOW, 23, WITHOUT CHILDREN, looking for a friend for life; must be energetic and willing worker; have income of $l5O a month. As soon as anyone replied a photograph of a good-looking Polish woman was sent to the inquirer. On the back of it appeared the words: "Am a widow, twenty-three years old. Have butcher shop and employ four men. Have no children. Willing to love a good man and also a good worker.” Another man had wonderful powers of observation when his palm was crossed with gold, according to representations made persons in many parts of the country. To one person who remitted $12.50 on a payment of $37.50 for a “gambling hand," this man wrote: "I take pleasure in sending you my gambling hand and all that goes with It. When you get it sew it up in a piece of soft leather and carry it in your pocket with your money. Let no one handle it and keep it as dry as you can. I will send you nine candles, to'use one at a time —Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights. Light It and set it down on a brick. Do not touch It for one hour, then throw ashes on the floor and pass your foot on them.” Not all the persons against whom fraud orders were issued played on the suspicions, ill health or the sentimental side of persons to get their money. Some were very practical. A Kentucky man got various concerns to send him farm implements, for which he never paid. A northwestern "company” used this advertisement: “Girls do you want to earn SI,OO and have your photo* used in advertising a new brand of chewing gum? Send 2-cent stamp for particulars.” After a response was received the correspondent was advised that it was a competition and that an entrance fee would be required. A New Englander sold “lucky stones” at $1 each, which he purchased by the thousand at from 2% to 15 cents apiece. According to the report of the federal authorities, which resulted in a fraud order being issued.

he “induced people to believe that the flaws were not flaws, but were peculiar marks of the so-called lucky stones, which he called magic mirrors. He stated that because of the flaws those favored mortals who are gifted with the illumination of the astral light can, by the aid of this peculiarity, read on the surface of the stone the reflection of the past and the promise of the future.” The post office department flies show that in the last fifteen years the man took in more than $300,000 on his scheme; in recent years the business amounted to $44,000 annually. He had a supply of 10,000 stones on hand, his usual reserve stock. A fraud order was issued against a concern which had sold 45,451 “oxygen” belts.

MUST “PADDLE OWN KANUE”

Recruiting Sergeant Takes Heed of Warning, but Balks on ths Instructions. Pittsburgh, Pa. —Fearing that his runaway son would carry out an qften expressed desire to enlist in the United States marine corps, Morris Kanue of Leopold, W. Va., has written to the local recruiting office of the “sea soldiers” as follows: , "U. S. Marine Corps, Pittsburgh, Pa.: I hereby warn you not to employ or hire his son, Anthony Kanue, as a submarine of the navy. He has run away from home and I think he has gone to Pittsburgh to 'enlist. He is only seventeen years old, in proof of which I am only thirty-nine myself. If he comes there whale him within an inch of his life and send him back to me. “His father, MORRIS KANUE," Sergt. Michael Deßoo, in charge of the Pittsburgh recruiting office of the United States marine corps, has assured the anxious parent that the boy will not be enlisted should he apply, but that “whaling” him is out of the question, and the father should “paddle his own Kanue.”

TO START CHICKEN FARM

Washington society has come to expect the unexpected from Mi'ss Gladys Ingalls, daughter of the late president of the Big Four and other railroad systems, and so they were not surprised when it became "bruited aboijt” Washington that she was to take up chicken raising In addition to her many other activities. Miss Ingalls is noted as a society leader, horsewoman, golfer and ardent Red Cross worker. She has already purchased the property near Hot Springs and erected the buildings for the brooding of her flocks.

Largest Patient.

Tulsa, Okla.—Miss Ada Boyd of Wyandotte „ is so large that a dray was required to convey her from a railway station to a hospital to undergo an operation. Miss Boyd weighs 500 pounds. She is the largest patient ever registered at the institution. ' , ■

GET BEST OF CURE

Interned German Sailors Are Allowed Many Privileges. Have Llttls Farm, Kaap Poultry and Got Bear From City—Buy Baseball Equipment and Try to Laarn the Game. Norfolk. Va. Perhaps nowhere else In the world, not even in their own country, could the welfare and personal comfort of 655 Germans be better looked after than in the case of this number of the kaiser’s subjects now interned at the Norfolk navy yard on the auxiliary cruisers Bitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm. They are allowed more privileges than are American sailors. While recent orders of the navy department have for the time being put a stop to the liberty formerly granted the crews of the two ships, they are still accorded every courtesy to make their stay on shipboard as pleasant as possible. The government has even permitted the officers to have their wives and children on board, a privilege that is not accorded officers on American warships nor, so far as American naval officers know, to those of any other nation. Secretary Daniels some months ago issued an order banishing wines, beer or any other Intoxicants from American warships. The sailors on the Eitel Friedrich and Kronprinz Wilhelm are allowed beer, wines or anything else they want. The Germans are provided with the best of things to eat. Of course they pay for it They appear to be plentifully supplied with coin of the realm. The navy department permitted the Germans to cultivate a tract of land near the pier where their ships are moored, and this miniature farm is really a greater attraction for visitors than are the former sea raiders themselves. The interned Germans are an Industrious lot. When they were allowed unrestricted liberty they spent considerable time working theW garden and in making various little trinkets for friends and to send home. When they were not working they were walking the streets of Norfolk, rowing in the harbor or swimming in the surf at the various seaside resorts. Their garden is v fllled with potatoes, cabbages, tomatoes and other “truck.” They also have quite a number of sowl —geese, chickens and a few ducks. Geese appear to be the favorite fowl of the Germans, and goose dinners are on the bill of fare on both ships almost every Sunday. The Germans have provided unique and attractive little homes for their fowl. In America a place where chickens roost is called a “henhouse.” The Germans call them “homes.” A number of these “homes” have been erected on the land loaned to the Germans. Bach “home” is provided with a chimney and has a pathway leading to the door. The chimney is of no use because there is no fire. Not more than four chickens roost in one house. The Germans built the homes out of scrap lumber, wooden boxes and barrel tops. They are painted red and then striped in white paint to represent bricks. The/ are clean and attractive.

Captain Thierichens of the Eltel Friedrich and Captain Thierfelder of the Kronprlnz Wilhelm were seen recently standing on the pier at which their ships were moored watching a number of men from both ships trying to learn baseball. Over S2OO was spent in baying baseball equipment and several men of the interned ships showed every promise of mastering the game. Captain Thierichens apparently takes more interest in things American than does Captain Thierfelder, who appears to be downhearted; he says he would rather be fighting than remain here with nothing to do.. Captain Thierichens takes things as they come. He, too, says he would like to be able to fight for his country, but he believes that he and his men made a gallant record while they were raiding the sea for ships of the enemy. He laughs at American jokes and encourages his men to enjoy life while they can. He furnishes them with news from the war front by pasting brief items on a bulletin board. He permits his men to have games on the ships. He allowed them to have entertainments and to invite friends until six officers from the Kronprlnz Wilhelm violated their patrol and went to sea in the yacht Eclipse. Doctor Krugerneck, one of the officers missing from the Wilhelm, is said to have wept bitterly every time he received a letter from home or wrote one of his relatives. “He lost brothers and cousins in the war,” Captain Thierfelder told a friend who had’ noticed the doctor weeping. Captain Thierichens, who, according to American naval officers, is ft sincere and able commander, disapproves of the German officers violating their paroles. “A German officer never breaks his word,” he said. "I gave my word for all my man, and those who violate my confidence will be punished if they are caught.”

Caught After 14 Years.

Stockton. Cal.—After enjoying 14 years of liberty, Harry Cleason. who escaped from Folsom in 1898, has been arrested in this city, and will have to serve out his time.

BRIDGE IS A WONDER

QUEBEC STRUCTURE BURFAMSB* ANY EVER ERECTED. Only the Famous Firth of Forth Bridge In Scotland, Constructed In the Sams Manner, Approaches It In Magnitude. In its general dimensions aa well a* in the enormous size and weight of the structural members composing it, the Quebec bridge, now in an advanced stage of construction, surpasses any other structure of the kind ever erected, says Popular Mechanics. The one bridge structure in the world that approaches it in magnitude is the famous Firth of Forth bridge in Scotland, the main channel span of which is nearly one hundred feet shorter than that of the Quebec bridge. Both structures are of the cantilever type. The channel span of the Quebec bridge, measured between centers of towers, is 1,800 feet. The design and fabrication of the steel for the structure therefore presented engineering problems for which no precedents existed, and the first attempt to build the bridge made by a private company, resulted in a collapse of structure in which many lives were lost. Following that catastrophe, the Dominion government tcok over the work, and a year later undertook the construction of the bridge. The present bridge is on the same site as the original structure, but owing to an increase of twenty-one feet in the width between trusses and to a considerable increase • in the weight of the superstructure, new piers were necessary, and these were built immediately south of, and adjacent to, the original piers. The two main piers alone contain approximately 60,000 cubic yards of masonry and cost in the neighborhood of >l,500,000. One of these piers goes to a depth of sixty feet below the bed of the river, and the other to a depth of eighty feet., . . . In the erection of the bridge the anchor arms, which lie between the main piers and the shore, were constructed on steel falsework, while the cantilever arms are being built out over the river without falsework by the cantilever method. The 640-foot suspended truss to connect the cantilever arms will be built on shore, floated into position on pontoons, and then raised by powerful jacks and connected with the cantilevers. For the erection of the heavy bridge members two traveling cranes, one working on each side of the river, are used. Each traveler weighs about one thousand tons, and is equipped with two hoisting machines each capable of lifting one hundred tons. The principal feature of the travelers is a tower that stands 200 feet above the floor of the bridge. Supported on top of the tower are cranes through which the lifting lines are worked. All the machinery on the travelers is electrically operated. To avoid bringing uneven stresses on the partly completed structure, similar members on the two sides of the bridge are lifted by the cranes and erected simultaneously. The total length of the bridge between abutments is 3,239 feet. As now planned, it should be possible for trains to cross the bridge by the end of the year 1916.

Aluminum In War.

Austria and Germany use more aluminum for war purposes than all the other warring nations combined. It has been known, in fact, that Germany has for some years been collecting and storing the metal for war uses. - The great majority of the drinking mugs, cans and cups of the German soldier are made of the light metal. The frames for Zeppelins and the fuses for shells are made from aluminum. One of the difficulties the Ger-. mans have had to face is the shortage of copper necessary for the rings around shells. Many of the German shells are now provided with aluminum rings. Although aluminum does make a substitute, even in cartridges as well as shells and fuses, it is not so good as copper. The French authorities experimented with it some years ago for artillery purposes, but rejected it. The Germans are using it in such large quantities because they’re forced to do so on account of the shortage of copper.

Chase’s Valuation.

William M. Chase figured amusingly in a transaction concerning himself and an unartistlc congressman who owns a bad painting. "Isn't that grand?” the latter remarked when pointing out his purchase. “A great bargain, too. Got it for four hundred dollars, and William M. Chase says it is worth ten thousand dollars.** % A friend of the painter heard this statement and took it to Chase, who smilingly explained: "He cornered me one day and want ed me to fix a value on it, but 1 told him I couldn’t do it. He then came at me with a question I couldn’t dodge: “ ‘Well, Mr. Chase, how much would you charge to paint a picture like that?* “I assured him most earnestly that I wouldn’t paint one like it for ten thousand dollars.'’ - ' ' ■ '-- J £L-u»a2a£l> • ■

Snooping Spinsters.

“Queer how nervous elderly maiden ladies get” "Isn’t it? Why, I h*ve an aunt who if she lived near a river would took under the bed of it every night before going to sleep.”— Boston Transcript,