Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — Page 2

The THOUSANDTH WOMAN

Author of *6heAMATEUR CRACKSMAN. PAFFIFS Fir. gfiSsfesL*

CHAPTER I. A Small World. Cazalet sat up bo suddenly that hla head hit the woodwork over the upper berth. His own voice atiH rang in his startled ears. He wondered how much he had said, and how far It could have carried above the throb of the liner’s screws and the mighty pounding of the water against her plates. And then he remembered how he had been left behind at Naples, and rejoined the Kaiser Fritz at Genoa, only to find that he no longer had a cabin to himself. A sniff assured Caaalet that he was neither alone at the mopaent nor yet the only one awake; he pulled back the swaying curtain, and there on the aettee--aafc~a-B»a with- a strong blue chin and the quizzical solemnity of an animated sphinx. It was his cabin companion, an American named Hilton Toye, and Cazalet addressed him with nervous familiarity. -"T mvl gave I been talking In say fl66p ? M "Why, yes!" replied Hilton Toye, and broke Into a smile that made a human being of hto» Cazalet forced a responsive grin. "What did I say?” he asked, with an amused curiosity at variance with his shaking hand, and shining forehead. Toye took him in from crown to fingertips, with something deep behind his kindly smile. "I judge.” said he, "you were dreaming of some drama —you’ve been seeing ashore, Mr. Cazalet." “Dreaming!” said Cazalet, wiping his face. "It was a nightmare! I must have turned in too Boon after dinner. But I should like to know what I said." “I can tell you word for word. You said, ‘Henry Craven—dead!' and then you said, ‘Dead—dead —Henry Craven!’ as if . you’d got to have it both ways to make sure." “It’s true,” said Cazalet, shuddering. "I saw him lying dead. In my dream.” Hilton Toye took a gold watch from his waistcoat pocket. “Thirteen minutes to one in the morning,” he said, , “and now it’s September eighteenth. Take a note of that, Mr. Cazalet. It may be another case of second sight for your psychical research society." “I don’t care if it is.” Cazalet was smoking furiously. “Meaning it was no great friend you dreamed was dead?” — “No friend at all, dead or alive!” "I’m kind of wondering,” said Toye, winding his watch slowly, “if he’s by way of being a friend of mine. I know a Henry Craven over in England. Lives along the river, down Kingston way, in a big house.” “Called Uplands?” ? ‘Yes. sir! That’s the man. Little world, isn't It?” The man In the upper berth had to hold on as his curtains swung clear; the man tilted baok on the settee, all attention all the time, was more than ever an effective foil to him. Without the kindly smile that went as quickly as it came, Hilton Toye was somber* subtle and demure. Cazalet, on the other hand, was of sanguine complexion and Impetuous looks. He was tanned a rich bronze about the middle of the face, but it broke off across hiß forehead like the coloring of a meerschaum pipe. Both men were In their early prime, and each stood roughly for his race and type: the traveled American who knows the world, and the elemental Britisher who has made some one loose end of ft his own. "f thought of p my Henry Craven,” continued Toye, “as soon as ever you came out with yours. But it seemed a kind of ordinary name. L might have known it was the same If I’d recollected the name of his firm. Isn’t it Craven & Cazalet, the stockbrokers, down In Tokenhouse Yard?" “That’s it." said Cazalet bitterly. ‘*Bol there have been none of us in It since my father died ten years ago.” “But you're Henry Craven’s old partner’s son?" “I’m his only son.” “Then no wonder you dream about Henry Craven," cried Toye, “and no wonder It wouldn’t break your heart if your dream came true.” "It wouldn’t,” said Cazalet through his teeth. “He wasn’t a white man to - or mine—whatever you may have found him." —------- "I had ft little Place near his one summer. I know only what I heard down there." - - - ~” "What did you hear?" asked Cazalet. “Fve been away ten years, ever since the crash that ruined everybody but tbs man at the bottom Of the whole thing. It would be a kindness to tell me what you heard." "Well, I guess you've said It yourself right now. That man seeps to have fyegg&T** everybody all Tironnd except himself; that’s how I make It out," said HUton Toye. “He did worse," said Cazalet through his teeth. "He killed my poor father; he banished me to the wilds of Australia; and he sent a better than than himself to prison for fourteen years!" Toye opened bis dark eyes for once. ... ■

by ERNEST W. HORNUNG

"Is that so? No. I never heard that,” said he. "You hear it now. He did all that, indirectly, and I didn’t realize it at the time. I was too young, and the whole thing laid me out too flat; but I know it now, and I’ve known it long enough. It was worse than a crash. It was a scandal. That was what finished us off, all but Henry Craven! There’d been a gigantic swindle —special investments recommended by the firm, bogus certificates and all the rest of it We were all to blame, of course. My poor father ought never to have been a poet. Even I —l was only a youngster in the office, but I ought to have known what was going On. But Henry Craven did know. He was in it up to the neck, though a fellow called Scruton did the actual job. Scruton got fourteen years—and Craven got our old house on the river.” “And feathered it pretty well!” said Toye, nodding. “Yes, I did hear that. And I can tell you they don’t think any better of., him, in the .neighborhood, for going to live right there. But how did he stop the other man’s mouth, and —how do you know?” "Never mind how I know,” said Cazalet. “Scruton was a friend of mine, though an older man; he was good to me, though he was a wrong ’un himself. He paid for it —paid for two —that I can say! But he was engaged to Ethel Craven at the time, was going to be taken into partnership on their marriage, and you can put two and two together for yourself.” “Did she wait for him?” “About as long as you’d expect of the breed! She was her father’s daughter. I wonder you didn’t come across ljer and her husband!” "I didn’t see so much of the Craven crowd,” replied Hilton Toye. “I wasn’t stuck on them either. Say, Cazalet, I wouldn’t be that old man when Scruton comes out, would you?” But Cazalet showed that he could hold his tongue when he liked, and his grim look was not so legible as some that had come and gone before. This one stuck until Toye produced a big flask from his grip, and the talk shifted to less painful ground. It was the last night in the Bay of Biscay, and Cazalet told how be bad been in it a fortnight on his way out by sailingvessel. He even told It with considerable humor, and bit off sundry passengers of ten years ago as though they had been aboard the German boht that night and Toye drew him out about the bush until the shadows passed for minutes from .the red-brick face with the white-brick forehead. "I remember thinking I would dig for gold," said Cazalet. ‘That’s all I knew about Australia, But you can have adventures of sorts if you go far enough up-country for 'em; it still pays to know how to use your fists out there. I remember once at a bush shanty they dished up Buch fruity chops that I said I’d fight the cook if

"I Say—Have I Been Talking In My Sleep?”

they’d send him up; and I’m blowed if it wasn’t a fellow I’d been at school with .and worshiped .as no end of a swell at games! Potts his name was, old Venus Potts, the best looking chap In the school among other things ; and there he was, cooking carrion at twenty-five bob a week! Instead of fighting we joined forces, got a burrcutting job on a good station, then a better one over shearing, and after that I wormed my way in as bookkeeper, and my pal became one of the head overseers. Now we’re our own bosses with a share in the show, and the owner comes up only once a year to see how things are looking." "I hope he had a daughter," said Toye, “and that you’re going to marry her, if you haven’t yet?” Cazalet laughed, but riie shadow had returned. “No. I left that to my paL” he said. “He did thatall right!" —-— “Then I advise you to go and do likewise," rejoined his new friend with a geniality Impossible to take amiss, “t shouldn’t wonder, now, If there’s some gftf you left behind you." Cazalet shook his bead. “None who would look on herself in that light,” be interrupted. It was all be said, 1 - ’ ■ • T

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tout once more Toy *M regarding him as shrewdly as when the night was younger, and the littleness of the world had not yet made them confidant and boon companion. Eight bells actually Btruck before their great talk ended and Cazalet swore that he missed the "watches aft, sir!”, of the sailing-vessel ten years before. “Say!” exclaimed Hilton, Toye, knitting his brows over some nebulous recollection of his own. “I seem to have heard of you and some of your yarns before. Didn’t you spend nights in a log-hut miles and miles from any human being?” It was as they were turning in at last, but the question spoiled a yawn for Cazalet. “Sometimes, at one of our out-sts-tions,” said he, looking puzzled. “I’ve seen your photograph,” said Toye, regarding him with a more critical stare. "But lt-was with a beard." “I had it off when I was ashore the other day," said Cazalet. “I always meant to, before the end of the voyage.” , "I see. It was a Miss Macnair showed me that photograph—Miss Blanche Macnair liveain a little house down- there near your old home. I

“Second Sight!” He Ejaculated, as Though It Were the Night Before.

judge hers4s another old home that’s been broken up Bince your day.” “They’ve all got married,” said Cazalet. “Except Miss Blanche. You write to her some, Mr. Cazalet?” “Once a year—regularly. It was a promise. We were kids together," he explained, as he climbed back into the upper berth. , _ “Guess you were a lucky kid,” said the voice below. “She’s one in a. thousand, Miss Blanche Macnair!” CHAPTER 11. Second Sight. Southampton Water was an ornamental lake dotted with fairy lamps. It was a midsummer night, lagging a whole season behind its fellows. But already It was so late that the English passengers on the Kaiser Frit* had abandoned all thought of catching the last train to London. They tramped the deck In their noisy, shining, shore-going boots; they manned the rail in lazy inarticulate appreciation of the nocturne in blue stippled with green and red and countless yellow lights. But Achilles In his tent was no more conspicuous absentee than Cazalet in his cabin as the Kaiser Fritz steamed sedately up Southampton Water. - He had finished packing; the stateroom floor was impassable with the baggage that Cazalet had wanted on the flve-weeks’ voyage. There was scarcely room to sit down, but in what there wqs sat Cazalet like a soul In torment. All the vultures of the night before, of his dreadful dream, and of the poignant reminiscences to which his dream had led, might have been gnawing at his vitals as he sat there waiting to set foot once more In the land from which a bitter# blow had driven him. Yet the bitterness might have been allayed by the consciousness that he, at any rate, had turned It to account. It had been, indeed, the making of him; thanks to that stem incentive, even some of the sweets of a deserved success were already his. But there was no hint of complacency in Cazalet’s clouded face and attitude. His face was pale, even in that torrid zone between the latitudes protected in the bush by beard and wideawake. And he Jumped to hist-feet as suddenly as the screw stopped for the first time. The same thing happened again and yet again, as often as ever the engines paused before the end. Cazalet up and watch his stateroom dobr with clenched fists and haunted eyes. But it was some long time before the door flew open, and then slammed behind Hilton Toye. Toye was in a state of excitement even more abnormal than Cazalet’s nervous despondency, which indeed It prevented him from observing. It was instantaneously clear that Toye was astounded, thrilled, almost triumphant, but as yet just drawing the line at that. A newspaper fluttered in his hand. “Second sight?” he ejaculated, as though It were the night before ftpd Cazalet still ghaken by hls dream. ‘T guess you've got It in full measure, pressed down and running over, Mr. Cazalet!" • (TO BE CONTINUED.)

The Real Thing.

It Is not numbers that oount bat iff portance.

KAISER INSPECTS CAPTURED GUNS

During one of his recent flying trips to the various fronts, the kaiser inspected guns which were captured from the Russians. The kaiser can be seen (third man from left) surrounded by his staff. In the background the autos are waiting to speed the party off to another point along the front.

BABY WEEK TO BE OBSERVED BY WHOLE COUNTRY

More Than Four Hundred Communities in United States Preparing for It. WOMEN’S CLUBS TAKE HOLD Federal Department of Labor Pointing Way for Effective Work—State Health Officers of Various States Are Giving Active Co-Operation. Washington. “The facts about American babies and America s responsibility to her babies will this year be known as never before, because the first week in March will be Baby week throughout the country,” said Miss Julia Lathrop, chief of the children’s bureau of the department of Labor. Four hundred communities, representing every state in the Union, are planning for Baby week, so that for seven dayk the needs of the babies may be presented that all parents in these communities may learn a little better how to care for their babies and all the citizens may realize that they have a special obligation to safeguard the conditions surrounding babies. The Baby week idea, according to the children’s bureau, originated in Chicago about two years ago. Then New York had a Baby week, and also Pittsburgh and other cities. Such practical benefit has in each case resulted that the General Federation of Women’s Clubs has undertaken to promote this nation-wide observance. State health officials and national organizations interested in public health and child welfare have taken up the plan and in various ways are giving it not only their sanction but their active co-operation. The extension divisions of the state universities have promised special assistance in interesting and helping Baby weeks in rural communities. —Causes of Infant Deaths, The children’s bureau believes that ißabr week will give more parents a chance to learn the accepted principles of infant care, and will awaken every American to his responsibility for the death of the 300,000 babies who, according to the census estimates, die every year before they are twelve months old. Therefore the children’s bureau has prepared a special bulletin of practioal suggestions for Baby week campaigns, adapted to the varying needs of communities of different types. Copies of this bulletin may be had free of charge from the children’s bureau here. ‘ ~~ This bureau is conducting a detailed inquiry into the social and economic causes of babies' deaths. Its report shows that the inquiry completed during the last year revealAn average infant death rate of 134 out of every 1,000 babies in a steel-mak-ing and coal mining town as against a rate of 84 out of every 1,000 in a residential suburb. An even greater contrast Is found between the most congested section and the choicest residential section in each of these two communities. Commenting upon these findings the report says: “The more favorable the civic and family surroundings and the better the general conditions of-life the more clearly are they reflected in a lessenedinfaat mortality.” The report shows, however, that no deductions can be made concerning the relation between the general infant mortality rate 1 and industrial employment of women until the facts about the number and proportion of mothers at work contained in the un-

published census returns are made available by tabulation. Data for Study. This tabulation is especially important to the studies of the children’s bureau. Among the subjects of study which the law directs the bureau to undertake are infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, and desertion, all requiring information as to family structure. For 1890, 1900 and 1910 this information was secured, but the material has not been tabulated because there has been thus far no public demandfor it such as secures, for example, the comprehensive information regarding manufacturers furnished by the bureau of the census every five years. But neither the census bureau nor the children’s bureau has funds to make the tabulation that would render this body of human factsavailable for use. Meanwhile the children’s bureau is pursuing its inquiry into the relation of babies’ deaths to wages and social conditions, believing “that the inquiry will prove increasingly valuable ag. a stimulus to more active protection of the youngest and tenderest lives throughout the nation.” Such practical results have already followed the inquiry in two communities as the securing of infant-welfare nurses, improving the milk supply, and rousing community interest In kindred activities. The bureau also approaches the problem of infant mortality in a constructive fashion through two pamphlets entitled “Parental Care and In fant Care,” which are sent upon request to mothers. Program for Baby Week. The feature of Baby week that affords the best opportunity for enlisting large numbers of-volunteer workers is a series of. special events for each day in the week. Some of those mentioned in the following list may be suggestive. Baby Sunday may well begin tlje Baby week. The committee in charge of this part of the campaign should secure a list of the leaders of the religious bodies of the community.* The members of this committee should call upon or write to each, explaining the purpose of Baby week, and asking each to preach on that subject. In order to aid in the preparation of such sermons, a copy of an outline of information on the subject of Baby week should be furnished. A letter from the mayor of the city Indorsing the Baby-day movement may be read from the pulpit. If the governor or state health department has issued a proclamation or a letter Indorsing the setting aside of a certain week for Baby week, this may also be read from the pulpit on this dg.y. Sunday schools may arrange special programs for their meetings on that day. The committee may send a request to the superintendent of each Sunday school that such a program be arranged. Church societies of men may arrange that their meetings held during the week shall include a short discussion of the subject. The discussion should have as a leader someone with special knowledge of baby welfare. Church societies of women meeting during the week may plan similar programs. Mass Meeting or Rally. A mass meeting may well form a veryjufepful feature of Baby, week. An interesting speaker from another city may be secured for this meeting; many state departments of health are able, on application, to send out speakers for meetings if the expenses of such a speaker are paid. Short talks by representative people of the community should be included.’The talkß at thiß meeting should be on subjects of general interest. Such subjects as “The Purpose of Baby Week;” "What a City Owes to Its Babies;” “After Baby Week, What?” “This Community’s Baby Death Rate;” “What Other Cities Have Done for Their Babies,” might be included. On Flag day, which may come either on the Saturday before Baby week opens or on Monday, banners with the Baby-week emblem are distributed to the homes of all the babies under one year of age that have been ' V . i A' •

registered with the health department. These, banners.jnay be made up very cheaply of muslin with the emblem printed In appropriate colors. The advantages of Flag day are that with the banners flying from the windows the sections where there are the moat babies are made particularly aware of the fftct that it is Baby week, and also that the flags are a direct recognition of the fact that these babies have been registered. With each pennant should be delivered a program of Baby week and a leaflet on the care of the baby. School Day. -On one day during the week special jexerclses may be held in the schools throughout the city. These may come as a regular part of the school work or be held in the afternoon as a special entertainment to which parents are invited. Some of the following features may be included In the program for this day: 1. The reading of a letter to the schoolchildren from the mayor or other official telling them how they can help save the babies. 2. A talk by the principal or teacher on what the children can do for their baby brothers and sisters. - St The reading of one or several compositions on “How to Keep Baby Well,” which have been selected from among the compositions written by the children in a certain room or school. It *is quite likely that the newspapers will publish one or more of the best of these compositions. 4. In schools where Little Mothers leagues are organized the program may consist of compositions and demonstrations by members of these leagues and of talks by their teachers. If no Little Mothers’ |pgues are at present organized, the school day may, afford an opportunity for their organization in many schools. 5. The performance of a play. If it is desirable to have daily programs at the headquarters, some of the best programs presented in the schools may be repeated at the central headquarters later in the week. One day in the week may be devoted especially to the fathers of babies. If the weather permits, an outing day for mothers ant’ babies forms an attractive feature. This may take the form of an automobile ride, a morning or an afternoon spent in the park, or an excursion on the water. If It Is possible, an alternative indoor program for bad weather should be planned. , Visiting Day. On this day a tour of inspection of all of the places where any work is done for babies may take place. Such a day Is very important in communities where infant-welfare work has been begun either by the health department or by private organizations and where it is desirable that the pub-' lie shall know of the work being done and the need for further work. This will include infant-welfare stations, day nurseries, baby hospitals, and any other place where something is done for babies. City officials and representatives of men’s organizations and of societies for civic and mutual benefit should be invited to take part in the tour. In communities where there is a special need for better birth registration it may be well worth while to concentrate the attention for one day on the importance of registering babies’ births. On this day all the physicians might be sent a letter asking their aid in. securing prompt and complete birth registration for their city. The newspapers sbould-be furnished with incidents showing the practicalvalue of birth registration. The general suggestion may be made that parents will do well to ascertain whether the births of their children have been duly recorded.

“CANNING” INDIAN MUSIC

Miss Frances Densmore of the United States museum in Washington probably knows more abbutTndl&n music than anyone else in this country { She is compiling a book of the songs of the red man. Miss Densmore has made photographic records of the tribal songs in all parts of the country. Here she is. shown transposing the music from the phonograph to notes that be played on the piano. The job of collecting Indian music ,is a difficult one, for many of the songs being of a religious nature, the Indians are loath to give them to the white man. •,

Potatoes Supplant Poodles.

Dallas, Tex. —Dallas society women up the pet potato. They are planting sweet potatoes in costly cut glass bowls, coveting them'with water and watching them grow. The result is a beautiful vine of delicate yellowish* green. They require no earth,- bug they have an awful thirst. ,