Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1916 — Page 3

The THOUSANDTH

WOMAN

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CHAPTER Xl—Continued. The trusty, sisterly, sensible voice, half bantering but altogether kind, genuinely Interested if the least bit inquisitive, too, would have gone to a harder or more hardened heart than beat on Blanche’s balcony that night. Yet as Cazalet lighted his pipe he looked old enough to be her father. “I’ll tell you some time,” he puffed. “It’s only a case of two heads,” said Blanche. "I know you’re bothered, and I should like to help, that’s all.” _“You couldn't.” - "How do you know? I believe you’re going to devote yourself to this poor man—if you can get him off —I mean, when you do.” “Well?” he said. “Surely I. could help you there! Especially if he’s 111,’’ cried Blanche, encouraged by his silence. “I’m not half a bad nurse, really!” “I’m certain you’re not* “Does he look very ill?” <She had been trying to avoid the direct question as far as possible, but this one seemed so harmless. Yet It was recelved ln a stony sllence unlfks any that had gone before. It was as though Cazalet neither moved nor breathed, whereas he had been all sighs and fidgets just before. His pipe wa« nut already—-that was the one merit of bush tobacco, it required constant attention—and he did not look like lighting it again. Until tonight they had not mentioned Scruton since the motoring began. That had been a tacit rule of the road, of wayside talk and Indoor orgy. But Blanche had always assumed that Cazalet had been to see him in the prison; and now he told her that he never had. “I can’t face him," he cried under his breath, “and that’s the truth! Let me get him out of this hole, and I’m his man forever; but until I do, while there’*" a, chance of falling, I simply can’t fade the fellow. It isn’t as if he’d asked to see me. Why should I force myself upon him?’’ “He hasn’t asked to see you because he doesn’t know what you’re doing for him!” Blanche leaned forward as eagerly as she was speaking, all her repressed feelings coming to their own in her for just a moment. “He doesn’t know because I do believe you wouldn’t have him told that you’d arrived, lest he should suspect! You are a brick, Sweep, you really are!" He was too much of one to sit still under the name. He sprang up, beating his hands. "Why shouldn’t I be —

"Look Here, Blanche! If You Had a Friend, Wouldn’t You Do It?”

to him —to a poor devil who’s been through all he’s been through? Ten years! Just think of it; no. It’s unthinkable to you or me. And it all started in our office; we were to blame for not keeping our eyes open; things couldn’t have come to such a pass if we’d done our part, my poor old father for one —I can’t help saying it—and I myself for another. Talk about contributory negligence! We were negligent, as well as blind. We didn’t know a villain when we saw one, and we let him make another villain under our noses; and the second one was the only one we could see in his true colors, even then. Do you think we owe him nothing now? Don’t you think I owe him something, as the only man left to pay?” But Blanche made no attempt to answer his passionate questions. He hsd let htmaelf go at last : it relieved her also in a way, for it was the natural man back again on her balcony. But he had set Blanche off thinking on other lines than he intended. "I’m thinking of what he must have “feit he owed Mr. Cravenand—and jhe owned. “I don’t bother niy head brer citing-: of them,” returned Cazalet harshWlifetime, and she was every inch his daughter. Scruton’s the one I pity—because I’ve suffered so much from he did it!”

by ERNEST W.HORNUNG

Blanche was sharp enough to interrupt. ’ “No —no —but if he had!” “You'd still stand by him?" “I’ve told you so before. I meant to take him back tc Australia with me —I never told you that —but I meant to take him, and not a soul out there to know who he was.” He sighed aloud over the tragic stopper on that* plan. “And would you still?" she asked. “If I could get him Off.” “Guilty or not guilty ?’’ “Rather!" There was neither shame, pose, nor hesitation about that. Blanche 'went through into the room without a word, but her eyes shone finely in the lamplight. Then she returned with a book, and stood half in the balcony, framed as in a panel, looking for a place. “You remind me of ‘The Thousandth Man,’ ’’ she told him as she found It. “Who was he?” “He’s every man who does a thousandth part of what you’re doing!” said Blanche with confidence. And then she read, rather shyly and not too well: *> “On» man In a thousand,” Solomon says, “Will stick more closo than a brother. And it’s worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend On what the world sees in you, But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend With the whole round world agin you.” “I should hope he would," said Cazalet, "If he’s a man at all.” “But this is the bit for you,” said Blanche: •*Hls wrong’s your wrong, and his right’s your right, In season or out of season. Stand up and back it in all men’s sight— With that for your only reason! Nine hundred and ninety-nine can’t bide The shame or mocking or laughter, But the Thousandth Man will stand by your side To the gallows-foot—and after!" The last words were italics In Blanche’s voice, and it trembled, but so did Cazalet’s as he cried out in his formula: 2

“That’s the finest thing I ever heard in all my life! But it’s true, and so It should be. I don’t take any credit for it.” "Then you’re all the more the thousandth man!” He caught her suddenly by the shoulders. His rough hands trembled; his jaw worked. "Look here, Blanche! If you had a friend, wouldn't you do the same?” “Yesr~lf I’d BU<Arv a friendas all that,” she faltered. “You’d stand by his side ‘to the gal-lows-foot’—if he was swine enough to let you?” "I dare say I might.” "However bad a thing it was —murder, If you like—and however much he was mixed up in it —not like poor Scruton?” “I’d try to stick to him," she said simply. “Then you’re the thousandth woman,” said Cazalet. “God bless you, Blanchle!” He turned on his heel in the balcony, and a minute later found the room behind him empty. He entered, stood thinking, and suddenly began looking all over for the photograph of himself, with a beard, which he had seen there a week before-

CHAPTER XII. ; Quid pro Quo. It was his blessing that had done it; up to then she had controlled her feelings in a fashion worthy of the title just bestowed upon her. If only he had stopped at that, and kept his blessing to himself! It sounded so very much more like a knell that Blanche had begun first to laugh, and then to make such a fool* of herself (as she herself reiterated) that she was obliged to run away in the worst possible order. But that was not the end of those four superfluous words of final benediction; before the night was out they had solved, to Blanche’s satisfaction, the hitherto impenetrable mystery of Cazalet's conduct. He had done something in Australia. something that fixed a gulf between him and her. Blanche did not mean something wrong, much less a crime, least of all any sort of complicity In the great crime which had been committed while he was on his wav home. But she believed the worst’ he had done waa to emulate his friend, Mr. Potts, and to get engaged or actually married to somebody in the bush. There was no reason why he should not; there never had been any sort or kind of understanding between herself and him; it was only as lifelong friends that they had written to each other, and that only once a year Lifelong friendships are traditionally fatal had both been free as air; and If he was free no longer, she had_absolutelX as. cause for complaint, even if she was fool enough to feel it. —' ~~ —— -All this she saw quite clearly in her very honpst heart And yet he might have told her; ha need not have flown

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to see her, the instant he landed, or seemed so overjoyed, and ■uch a boy again, or made so much of her and their common memories! He need not have begun begging her, in a minute, to go out to Australia, and then never have mentioned it again.;., he might just as well haYlFtoldtiertf-hebad-cr-hoped to have a wife to welcome her! Of course he saw it afterward, himself; that was why the whole subject of Australia had been dropped so suddenly and for good. Most likely he had married beneath him; if so, she was very sorry, but he might have said that he was married. Curiously enough, it was over Martha that she felt least able to forgive him. Martha would say nothing, but her unspoken denunciations of Cazalet would be only less Intolerable than her unspoken sympathy with Blanche. Martha had been perfectly awful about the whole thing. And Martha had committed the final outrage of being perfectly right, from her idiotic point of view. Now among all these meditations of a long night, and of a still longer day, In which nobody even troubled to send, her word of the case at Kingston, it would be too much to say that no thought of Hilton Toye ever entered the mind of Blanche. She could not help liking him; he amused her immensely; and he had proposed to her twice, and warned her he would again. She felt the force of his warning, because she felt his force of character

"I Guess I’m Not Fit to Speak to You,” He Said.

and will. She literally felt these forces, as actual emanations from the strongest personality that had ever impinged upon her own. In the day of reaction, such considerations were bound to steal in as single spies, each with a certain consolation, not altogether innocent of comparisons. But the Battalion of Toye’s virtues only marched on Blanche when Martha came to her, on the little green rug of a lawn behind the house, to say that Mr. Toye himself had called and was in the draw-ing-room. Blanche stole up past the door, and quickly made herself smarter than she had ever done toy day for Walter Cazalet; at least she put on a "dressy" blouse, her calling skirt (which always looked new), and did what she could to her hair. All this was only because Mr. Toye always came down as if it were Mayfair, and it was rotten to make people feel awkward if you could help it So in sailed Blanche, in her very best for the light of day, to be followed as soon as possible by the silver teapot, though she had just had tea herself. And there stood Hilton Toye, chin blue and collar black, his trousers all knees and creases, exactly as he had jumped out of the boattrain. “I guess I’m not fit to speak to you,” he said, “but that’s just what I’ve come to do —for the third time!” "Oh, Mr. Toye!’’ cried Blanche, really frightened by the face that made his meaning clear. It relaxed a little as she shrank involuntarily, but the compassion in bis eyes and mouth did not lessen their steady determination. "I didn’t have time to make myself presentable,” he explained. “I thought you wouldn’t have me waste a moment if you understood the situation. I want you to promise to marry me right now!” Blanche began to breaths again. Evidently he was on the’eve of yet another of his journeys, probably back to America, and he wanted to go over engaged; at ilrst sbe had thought he had bad news to break to her, but this was no worse than she had heard before. Only it was more difficult to cope with him; everything was different, and he so much more pressing and precipitate. —She had never met this Hilton Toye before. Yes; she was distinctly frightened by him. But in a minute she had ceased to be frightened of herself; she knew her own mind once more, and spoke it. myoh as he had spoken his, quite compassionately, but just as tersely to the point. “One moment,” he interrupted. *T said nothing about my feelings, because they’re a kind of stale proposition by. this time; but for form’s sake I may state there’s no change there, except in the only direction I guess a person’s feelings are liable to change toward you, Miss Blanche! I’m a worse casejhan ever, if that makes any diff erenceT’J. .. . Blanche! shookJier yellow hea< "Nothing can,” she said. “There must be no possible mistake about it this time, because I want you to be very good and never ask me again. - - „ fro BX CONTWVXIX)

TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE THE CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LAWS OF COMMUNITY

Quaint Amana Colony in.lowa Bars Hair Ribbons to Women and Mustaches to Men and Punishes Boys Who Play Baseball on Sunday by Barring Them From Church for Two Sundays—Society Is Worth $8,000,000.

• Minneapolis, Minn. —Down in lowa county, lowa, an old man who was born in Germany seventy-one years ago told why 1,600 persons, men, women and children, live a community life on 26,000 acres of lowa’s most fertile land and are happy. The old man, who munched an apple as he talked, Is the head of the Amana society. The society is worth at least $8,000,000 in lands and improvements. Not one member has a cent of property in his own name. Everything earned in the Amana colony, which contains seven prosperous little towns and is more than sixty years old, goes to the common treasury. The old man, George Heinemann, was asked Jf it were truq that four Amana schoolboys who had played baseball on Sunday in the little community had been punished by being banned from church for eight weeks. I had heard this about Amana and ft had resulted in my trip to the colony. “Yes, it is true,” said th§ old man. “They. were punished, but that is an exaggeration” —he pronounced “exaggeration” with the “g” hard —"they were only made to stay away from, our church for two Sundays, not eight. That would be too much.” “Up where I live most boys wouldn’t look at that as a punishment.” The bld man smiled. It was .a gentle, tolerant smile, the smile with which everybody in Amana greets visitors. “It 'is different here,” he said. "Church to us is everything. It was so with our fathers. It is so with our sons and daughters and it is so with our grandsons and our granddaughters. To bar the children from church, that is the worst punishment.”

Things That Are “Worldly.” Then the old man told something of the Amana society, of the community life in the seven villages, a communism not founded on socialistic Or economic belief, but a communism founded on religion and subordinate to religion. He told me why the school girls in Amana are not permitted to wear hair ribbons, why the men of Amana wear no mustaches, why the women wear sunbonnets and not hats, why the tango has never been danced in Amana, just as the tango’s precedessora, the waltz and the two-step, were not danced; why there is no card playing, why baseball and football and all competitive sports are banned. It was, he said, because these things are “worldly.” When I rose to go I asked the old man for his picture. “You are the head of an unusual organization,” I said, “probably the most successful community project in America. May I have your picture?” “No,” he said, still smiling. “Now you ask me to do something which is worldly. It is not wrong to you, but to me it is. It is not the spirit of Amana. We have no newspapers here.” I thanked him with the feeling that he was a kind of benevolent patriarch. He smiled and said nothing, but as I opened the wooden gate which led to the road the old man on the porch still smiling, shouted out. a cheery "Willkommen." It sounded like “You are welcome,” “Come again and “Good luck,” all combined, and it sounded as if the old man on the porch really meant it. The seven villages of the Amana society, grouped within a radius of eight miles between the bluffs In the river valley, look like pictures from the Old World. They are in the valley of the lowa river, on 26,000 acres of the most fertile land In the middle West. Amana is the largest village. It has about 450 residents and at Amana are located the wool mills and calico print factory of the society. Amana woollen goods and Amana calico are known to merchants as far east as New York and as far west as San Francisco. East village has Its church, school, store, bakery, dairy, post office and sawmill. The buildings in all the Amana com-two-story gabled buildings of old German architecture. Some of the buildings, as the stores and hotels, all conducted by the society, are of red brick and covered with vines. Others are small frame buildings, covered with vines, but unpalnted—paint in Amana is a sign of vanity and prohibited. It is in these small houses that the families live. The houses and other buildings, as everything in the colony, are owned by the society and families are assigned to their homes by the “elders, 4 the governing body in each town. In front of the buildings and at the side of the buildings and back of the buildings are flower beds, fruit trees and grapevines. Community Kitchen. In are kitchens and community dining rooms. Here the food, and there is lots of ft, j 8 prepafed ahd served iinder the di* rection of the best cooks in the villages.’ The boys and men sit at one table in the dining rootm -The wunim and girls sit at another. , ft is less worldly this way, say the old Amana'

It was in 1854 that the first Amana village was founded by members of the Church of the True Inspiration, or "Separatists,” as they had been called in Germany since the beginning of the eighteenth century. The men who founded the’ first village named it Amana, a name taken from the Bible and meaning “remain true.” These men had come to America in the forties with their families seeking religious freedom. They had settled In New York, but the community had grown faster than land could be acquired and they moved West The first purchase of land In lowa was 3,300 acres. Gradually more land was acquired and the other six villages established—-West Amana, South Amana, High Aawoa, East Amana, Middle Amana and Homestead. In 1863 there were about 1,600 members of the Amana society. The number is about the same today. It was In 1859 that the society was incorporated under the laws of the state of lowa. The men who had come from Germany to the new country had determined on community life as the best method of holding true to the Ideals of their religion. The society was incorporated as a religious and benevolent society under the name Amana society. The constitution of th* society, declares that the foundation of the civil organization shall “remain forever God." “The purpose of our organization,” reads the constitution, “fa therefore no worldly or selfish one.” Article II of the constitution states: “It is our unanimous will and resolution that the land purchased here and that may hereafter be purchased shall be and remain a common estate and property, with all Improvements thereas alpo with all the labor, cares, trouble and' burdens, of which each member shall bear his allotted share with a willing heart.” And here is the provision in the constitution which shows how the Amana society makes the money to care for its people: “Agriculture, manufactures and trades shall form the means of sustenance, and out of the income of these the expenses of the society shall be defrayed. If any surplus remains It shall be applied to improvements, to the erection of school and meeting houses, care of the old and sick, the foundation of a business and safety fund and to benevolent purposes in general.” The Aged Cared For. The control and management of the society is vested in thirteen trustees elected annually from among the elders. Death is about the only thing that changes the make-up of the bord of trustees. There are no bickerings in Amana and a public-examiner has never been called in to audit the society’s books. The people of Amana place explicit trust in the trustees and the officers. Every member as the Amana society at the time of joining is in duty bound to give his or her personal property and real property to the trustees for the common fund. The member is entitled to credit for this property on the society books and is given a recept signed by the president and seccretary. This property is secured by the pledge of the common property of the society. If a member either volun-

WIFE OF NAVY OFFICER

Mrs. David V. Taylor, wife of Chief NaVSI Constructor Taylor, is one of the moat beautiful of the naval contingent of Wash in gtog society, and is one of the most active of that, set this winter. Her dinners and entertain men ts have won for her a cum* place in the ranks of ths ‘smart set.” _ ■ -

tarily leaves the society or is expelled ‘thia property is given back, but wttik out Interest ' And when he joins the society, according to the constitution, “each member is entitled to free board and dweinhg tb s&bport and care m car age, sickness and infirmity, and to an annual sum of maintenance, th* amount of which is to be fixed by the trustees. The members release all claims for wages. Interest and any share in the income and of the society separate from the common stock.” ~ ~ -- “That shows you that communism here is not practised for temporal or pecuniary purpose,” said President Heinemann after he had shown th* constitution of the society. “It is not an experiment to solve great social problems. We care nothing for politics, for economics. We have adopted the communistic plan because w* think by its means we are better abl* to lead true and Christian lives.” "Do you vote?” I asked. “No,” said the head of the society. "Sometimes we vote tn townxhtp efo*» tlons. But not for national Issues." “Then you are citizens?" I said. "Yes,” he replied. "And we try to be good citizens. We have no beer because lowa has gone on record against beer. We have even stopped dispensing the wine we make here.” “How are your sympathies In th* war?" I asked. “War Is against our religious faith," he said. "We do not believe tn war. War Is unnecessary. It Is caused by money. Love for gain Is responsible. Here In Amana there Is no war, for we have no love for gain.” It is this spirit, “No love for gain," that is noticeable throughout th* Amana communities. Educate Their Doctors. Take, for Instance, the physicians. There are three of them, all members of the society. They were sent by th* society to the colleges at which they were graduated. All their college expense was borne by the society. On* even was sent to Europe to study. And when they completed their education they came back to Amana and became community physicians. To members of the society their services are free, but outsiders are charged a fee. This fee, however, does not go to the physician. It goes to the society. The physicians are the envy of residents will admit that there is such a thing as envy. When the physician* pass on the road the Amana housewives turn their sunbonneted bead* and the Amana boys and girls look with open admiration for the Amana physicians have automobiles. They are the only people In the society who have them. The machines were purchased by the society and they are the only machines la the Amana villages. Work In the Amana villages Is parceled out by the elders. If a man likes machinery he may go to the mills as a machinist. If he Is fat and cheerful he may be assigned to run one of the Amana hotels. The elders see that the tasks are done and there is little complaint of laziness. There is a rumor that on one occasion year* ago a man who refused to work and on whom suspension from church had no effect was expelled from the society. In the Amana villages there ar* prayer meetings every nigbt In th* year. There are no ministers. The elders conduct the services in church, at funerals and at weddings. Marriage Is neither encouraged nor discouraged. Mr. Heinemann, th* president. Is a bachelor. The Ten Commandments are the religious and civil laws of Amana. Oath* are forbidden, averments and confirmations are made by affirmation. No attemptls made tofollow styles In dress. Hair ribbons, mustaches, neckties and other adornments are banned. Games and “all frivolous and worldly amusements are not countenanced. Cards are unknown. To the outsider It would seem that life for the Amana children must b* something of a burden, for school 1* conducted six days a week, fifty-two weeks in the year, all sports ar* banned, dancing is unknown and each child must learn sixty-two “rules of conduct for children.” The teacher* are men, members of the society. Despite the simple life in Amana th* children, most of them, stay in th* society. President Heinemann and other officials estimate that 60 per cent of the children stay In Amana. Can Leave If They Wish. “Sometimes they go away,” said Mr. Heinemann. “They seek excitement. But many of them come back. W* let them go if they wish. There is no compulsion here.” Women in Amana villages work in the mills, la tha stores, in the Adds and dairies. The stores are general merchandise stores, one in each village. They are kept like the Amana houses, absolutely clean, and many people from outside the colony trad* in the Amana stores. Four members of the society, including Metz, came to America tn 1842They were given full power to all the members' and purchased Ufod where they thought ft best The travelers decided on 5.000 acres of land on the old Seneca Indian reservation In New York. They sent back to Germany and in three years, from 1843 to 1846, some 800 person* caine aeroes the sea and .settled on the society’s land. The society was theft known *s the "Ebenezer” society. Here the community idea was begun, says Louis L. Collins of the Minneapolis Journal: but it waa not.mftft 1854 t when tbp mqve tolowa wa» made, that the present system of co»f munlsm was worked out in detail ’