Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1916 — Page 3

EXPERIENCE

By VICTOR REDCLIFFE.

I was a window-washer —for cne day only. I am partner in the Monarch Engine company, son-in-law to a wealthy man and the husband of the dearest little woman in the world now. How it all came about I will tell you, and there will be a sinister shadow of wicked scheming as well as a glamour of rare romance to the narration. Graduation from an engineering school left me flat as to cash. I started out on my first business experience doing some drafting for a large concern. They remoyed to another city. I sought another position, and was unsuccessful and, getting desperate, was ready to take up the meanest manual occupation in order to keep from suffering from hunger. I stood looking speculatively at the man in charge of an office building one afternoon as he bustled around ordering some window awnings put up the next day, when he caught my eye. Perhaps there was an imploring expression in my glance, probably being of wise worldly experience he traced my poverty and guessed at my hunger. At all events he approached me. "You don’t look like the working kind, but maybe you want a Job?” he suggested in a brusque, off-handed way. “You never saw a man who needed one worse,” I replied promptly, and with heartiness. “Ever clean windows?” he propounded next, and his hand directed a gesture taking in the towering expanse of the structure. “Way up there?” I inquired, and my tones must have faltered and I shuddered. “Oh, don’t let the height trouble you,” readily and cheerfully directed the man. “You can’t fall. We provide a harness and Jacket and you lock yourself into the Jamb slots so securely that horses couldn’t pull you off your feet. See here, if you want a three-day Job at the regular tariff,

Bang! I Shot Through Space.

two seventy-five a day, come along with me and I’ll fit you out. There are two hours to work in and that will mean supper, bed and breakfast. If you’re close-pressed for funds, I’ll help you out with a little advance cash.” It would be hard to describe my sensations when, duly jacketed, provided with a scraper, brush and rags and given explicit directions, I stood on a narrow window ledge eight stories up from the ground, dizzily, timorously beginning my work. The first window made me a contortionist. I breathed more easily on the second one. Becoming more habituated to it, I covered a double row of windows down to the fifth story quite creditably. It was getting dusk by that time, and I resolved to finish one more window and then go for my little stipend. Creak! —there was a snap. Bang! I shot through space. What happened was this: In my clumsiness and baffled by the semidarkness I had caught the snaps of the harness in a frail screen • hoop, instead of in the stanch holding jslots. One rope gave at once. The other swung free for a moment, tore out of the hook and I dropped. That sway sideways saved my life, for, one story descended, I landed flat on my back across the grated balcony of a fire escape. I was bruised, half-stunned. I lay still, wondering if any bones were broken, and looking through an open window into a small business office. Two men were its occupants. One, an old man, dignified but apparently much disturbed, was facing a younger one, whoso shrewd eyeß and foxy sidelong glance proclaimed the schemer. It was the latter who spoke, sharply, exactingly: „ “Well, Mr. Bowen, your answer?” “I have come to accept your terms,” was the dreary reply. “It may mean ruin to me, but I am at your mercy. , In that," and he placed a packet on a table in the middle* of the room, “is the fifty thousand dollars in money and salable securities." The other lunged down upon , it, opened it, clawed over its contents with the eager talons pf a true harpy. Ha replaced it, went over to a desk

In a comer of * room mnd took thence a folded paper. "Listen to me," spoke the old man, leaning heavily on the cane he carried, as though weak and invalid. “When you take from me that packet you rob me of all my available liquid capital. Unless I can borrow to refinance my business I am a ruined man. At least return me one-half of the $50,000. Loan it to me, and let me pay it later. My word is as good as my bond.” “Not much!” sneered the other. “1 want my price and I want *it now. Here is the paper through which I can close your establishment tomorrow and prevent you from sending out a single engine built on the Levinson patent.” “But I bought the patent. I paid for it fairly." “And I hold an earlier transfer in this document.” - “A forgery!” “Can you prove it?” "Unfortunately, no!” groaned the wretched John Bowen, “but you know that it is. Levinson is dead. You have made a clever transfer, previously dated.” "Which will stand in the law,” declared the other triumphantly. “Do you back out of the bargain?” “No! no!” cried Mr. Bowen. “Give me the document,” and he looked it over. Then he took a match from his pocket, ignited the paper, watched it crumble to nothingness and took up his hat. "I am weak and ill,” he added with a deep sigh; “the elevators have stopped running. I must ask you to help me to my machine.” “Sure enough!” piped the other readily. “Come on,” and they left the room. Now the instant they were gone I seized the essence of this adventure clearly in my mind. I believed that a heartless villain was robbing an honest old man. I acted quickly. Rousing myself, I was inside the room in a moment. I secured the packet, I descended fire escape, I was down in the street. Mr. Bowen had Just stepped into an automobile. The man who had accompanied him to the street was hastening back after his anticipated booty. The chauffeur headed the machine my way. I leaped to the running board. “What is this?” quavered the astonished gentleman. “Let me in with you, Mr. Bowen,” I said rapidly. “I have something of importance to say to you. Sir, I have the money and securities you Just gave' to that scoundrel in a room in that building back yonder. Take them,” and I thrust the packet into his treihbling hands. “Out of Justice to me, I think you should assure me that 1 have helped a real cause by restoring your property to you.” And then I told him how I came to be of service to him. He insisted upon my going to his home. There I met my fate. Leonie Bowen, then —Leonie Artnitage, my wife, now! How natural it all seems to me now that the gratitude of her father should communicate itself to her, that interest Bhould lead to sympathy, that this in turn should end in love —love, the vision splendid of this sober, serious old world of ours! (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)

IMMENSE COST OF WATERLOO

Wellington’s Descendants Stole Reserve Money From Belgium—Article by Pierre Maes. "What the Battle of Waterloo Costs Belgium,” is the title of an article in the Belgian supplement to the London Everyman. The author is Pierre Maes, a well-known Belgian man of letters. Among the many titles inscribed upon the magnificent monument erected ever the tomb of the duke of Wellington is that of “Prince of Waterloo.” “It is a fine title,” says Pierre Maes, “but to us poor Belgians, the greatgrandchildren of the victims of 1815, that title brings up some unpleasant memories. We are still paying, and paying dearly, for this great man’s glory. Eighty thousand francs is the total of interest entered yearly under the name of the duke of Wellington in our great book of national debt. The present duke receives from entailed estates in Belgium revenues that reach the nice little sum of 210,000 francs. That is one of the heavy charges that the great coalition of 1815 has left us. Can we hope that the services we have rendered Europe and the heroism our soldiers have shown will deliver us from it? Great Britain only gave him a sum of £200,000. The king of the Netherlands gave him entailed estates bringing in 210,000 francs.” As the result of an arrangement between the Belgian state and the representative of the duke of Wellington the descendants of the great man today enjoy a yearly income of 80,637 francs.

Too Much Refrain.

“Marriage!” said the sentimental man, with a sigh. "Heaven’s greatest boon to man— a good wife. My friends, it is this that makes life possible, filling it with happiness and taking away all loneliness and misery. Marriage is one grand, sweet song!” he finished, with a rapturous-Air. His listeners were impressed; all except a practical-looking chap in one corner, who promptly rose to his feet. “Well, marriage may not be exactly one grand, sweet song,” he said, slowly, “but Jt’js. certainly, m© grandLjsweet refrain —refrain from tobacco, refrain from the theater, refrain from games, refrain from cycling week-ends —in fact, refrain from pretty well everything.” Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-graph.

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REBEL OAKES IS MANAGER OF GRIZZLIES

Real Boss and Near-Leader of Denver Team.

Rebel Oakes of Federal league fame, will manage J. C. McGill’s Denver team in the Western league this year. It is expected that Oakes will do much to bolster up the interest in the league. Oakes was manager of the Pittsburgh team ,of the Feds when the peace pact was made in baseball. He was under a contract at a high salary with owner Gwinner of the Smoky City club, and as the contract had one more year to run, Gwinner stood a chance of digging up a year’s salary without having services rendered. When Doc White, /vho had been signed to manage the Denver team, resigned he left McGill ill the lurch, as the team was about ready to report for

OSCAR STANAGE IS VALUABLE

Billy Sullivan Ranks Tiger Catcher Next to Ray Schalk—ls Patient With His Pitchers. High-grade praise has come to Oscar Stanage. Billy Sullivan regards the Californian as ranking next to Ray Schalk as the best catcher in the American league. “I do not know but that Stanage is a more valuable man to the Tigers than Schalk would be,” says Sullivan. Schalk is a high-strung fellow and he shows to best advantage with a good pitching staff. Stanage, on the other hand, is patient and more likely to get good work from an uncertain staff than Schalk, next to Eddie Foster of the Nationals, is the hit and run batter in the American league. Foster stands at the top because of his uncanny ability to shove the ball through either side of the infield when the runner from first is going down. “If the White Sox had Foster they would have the pennant won by the first of June,” says Jennings. “Personally, I believe Foster is a much

Oscar Stanage.

better second baseman than third, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Griffith thought the same way. Foster 13 not only a fine fielder, but a dangerous batter and a good man on the bases.”

baseball now tame sport

Veteran Writer Tells of Assignment He Received in Olden Days— Editor Roasted Tebeau. “Baseball,” says a veteran writer, “isn’t as strenuous, in many ways, as it was years ago. I’ll never forget one assignment I drew in those lively days —that alone would suffice to show how times have changed. “One afternoon Pat Tebeau was specially warlike —attacked the umpire after about every second decision and spiced the argument with highly variegated phraseology. My managing editor was in the audience, and was much flustrated by Tebeau’s style of talk. That night my chief sent for me. “ 'Young man,’ said he, ‘you heard the language that Tebeau person used this afternoon?’ “ ’Yes sir,’ I responded. “ ‘Well,’ thundered the managing editor, ’that sort of thing must stop. Now, then, I want you to go up to Tebeau’s hotel, and tell him, firmly, emphatically, that he,,p’t use that sort of talk in this city, and that you have my orders, if he refuses to exit it, to roast him in the columns of this paper! I’ll show this Tebeau that he can't bluff me!’ “Now, wasn’t that a lovely little assignment to send a young reporter oaf*

spring training. White quit baseball because a good business opportunity was offered him. McGill began casting about for a manager, and he was almost swamped with inquiries from players and baseball men who are looking for jobs. He had Oakes in mind from the start, and immediately got into touch with Gwinner, with the result that McGill agreed to assume the Pittsburgh Feds’ contract with Oakes. Oakes Jumped to the Feds from the St. Louis Cardinals. He lives in Homer, La. Last season with the Feds Oakes batted .281 in 153 games in the outfield. He had a fielding average of .973. His right name is Ennis T. Oakes.

DIAMOND NOTES

Terre Haute will use Paul Cobb, a brother of Tyrus, in its outfield tills season. • • • One thing that pleases the ball players is that the treasurers of the 16 major league teams are all fixtures. • • • There’ll be no nature-baiting by the Indians this season. Manager Fohl will stand for no senseless kicking. * • * There is a growing belief in baseball circles that George Moriarty will play first base for the White Sox this year. * * * Adolpho Luque, who has been added -t© the rosten As-the LeuleviHe—dubr was secured from the Brooklyn Federals. • * • The Kansas City club of the American association has signed Outfielder Beals Becker, late of the Philadelphia Nationals. - • * * Wilhoit continues to please Stallings as an outfielder. Paul Strand’s southpaw arm seems to be strong and reliable again. • * • The Nashville club of the Southern league has transferred Pitcher Heine Berger to the Galveston club of the Texas league. • * * * Ira Thomas, Bush, Wyckoff and Schang agree that Rube Bressler will come back In great shape for the Athletics this season. * * * Fielder Jones has decided to keep Bob Groom, although he at first was planning to send the former Washington pitcher to the minors. * * * _ Pitcher Charles Ferguson of the Philadelphia Americans will not join the Athletics this season, but will continue to practice law at Wayne, W. Va. * * * Recent pictures of baseball managers published in newspapers show a uniformly thoughtful cast of countenance which betokens serious work ahead. ~ ~ * • • Bill Schwartz, former manager of the Nashville team, has retired from the game and has accepted a position of coach of the Vanderbilt university baseball squad. * * * Pitcher “Lefty” George has brought % suit against the Kansas City American Association Baseball company for $4,406.35, which he alleges is due him on a contract. • * * With Lee Magee and Fritz Maisel both in the outfield, the indications are for a big improvement in the outer defenses of the New York American league baseball team. •* • 1 Of Eugene Packard, the left-handed pitcher, who has gone to the Cubs, Lee Magee says: “Another Wiltse at fielding his positipn.” Which means that Packard is a ball hawk sum enough. The Cleveland Indians will remain Indians, according to President Dunn, who says it will be his business to make them good Indians and so popular that nobody can say the name is a hoodoo. , - • Lee Fojhl, manager of the Cleveland club, believes in allowing players to do their own thinking, and it is his contention thar no man can pick up “baseball sense” if he is bound by or. ders from the bench

New Columbia River Highway

WITH the building of the Columbia River highway through the gorge of the famous Columbia river, a paved driveway has been provided along the precipitous sides of the gorge and making this section of Oregon passable for the first time in history for automobiles and all other vehicles. The national dedication of the roadway comes June 7, opening day of Portland’s tenth annual rose festival. The building of a highway through the gorge of the river has been a dream of years until two years ago the work was taken up by public-spir-ited citizens, with the result that the highway, hard-surfaced from Portland to the Multnomah county line, is ready for the tourist and represents an investment in road-building of a sum exceeding $2,000,000. In making passable the gorge for automobiles, there has been opened up a new viewpoint for the scenic beauties of the Columbia river. For miles are cliffs, waterfalls and virgin forests through which the highway winds. In many places it hangs to the cliffs hundreds of feet above the river, its concrete and steel bridges spanning turbulent streams, supported by artistic walls of dry masonry for miles of Its length. The gorge was the home of Indian tribes in the early days, a fastness where they were safe from enemies. It was the scene of the fabled Bridge of the Gods, and around its Bcenic grandeur many Indian fables were drawn. Leaving Crown Point the highway enters the district which has given It the title, “The Road of the Falling Waters.” Many Picturesque Waterfalls. In ten miles’ travel 11 waterfalls are passed, the highest being Multnomah falls, second highest in the United States. Latourelle falls, Sheppards Dell, Bridal Veil, Coopey falls, Dalton falls, Mist falls, Wahkeeua falls, Benson park and Multnomah falls, Oneonta gorge, where a suhterranean stream sends air blasts along rocks; Horsetail falls, Cathedral point, St. Peter’s dome pass in quick succession, and the tourist reaches Bonneville, the home of the greatest fish hatchery in the world. Then on through the tunnel at Mitchell’s Point to the sunken forests of the Columbia, where giant trees are seen beneath the waters; to the petrified forests at Tanner's creek, with 200-foot trees; to the abutments of the Bridge of Gods, passing xxumerous Hah wheels, and into the Hood river valley. From there the tourist finds the call of Mount Hood imperative and its tremendous glaciers are reached conveniently. Crown Point, where the new roadway makes a turn 700 feet above tha river, has been selected as the site for the memorial to the pioneers of the state who encountered untold hardships of early days in the settle-

GUIDEBOOK IN MUCH DEMAND

Caxton’s Famous Works Most Sought After by Collectors —Throws Light on Traveling. The guidebook most sought after by collectors Is "Information for Pylgrymes Unto the Holy Londe,” which is valuable because of the light it throws on fifteenth century traveling, and still more because it was printed by Caxton. The father ot English printing was a practical man, who set himself to produce books - for which there was a demand, while other early printers ruined themselves by printing luxurious editions of classics that lay in their warehouses unsold. Hlh guidebook scrupulously sets out all that was needed in order to make a pilgrimage as. cheaply and comfortably as possible. There were two routes to Venice —then the favorite port for Jerusalem pilgrims—and Caxton gives the itineraries of both. He

ment of this vast country. Crown Point is where the new highway makes a turn and then drops 600 feet in two miles, forming a perfect figure eight on a grade not to exceed 5 per cent, one of the most remarkable feats of engineering in the country. While the highway already reaches west from Portland to the P*o ?'*— ocean beaches and east to central Oregon, the 40-mile stretch through the gorge of the Columbia from Portland to the Multnomah county line has made possible a view of the picturesque gorge from an automobile. Before the completion of the hard-surfac-ing of the roadway, in the fall of 1915, thousands of tourists, en route to or returning from the expositions in California, inspected the new highway and marveled at its beauties. Model in Road Construction. The Columbia River highway is one of the best illustrations of modern road construction to be found anywhere. Permanency, grade, location and drainage were the essential elements considered in the location of the highway. With a width of 24 feet, a maximum radius of 200 feet, bridges, viaducts, culverts of concrete, all danger points protected by stone and concrete walls, the highway, in engineering and construction now presents the very highest type of modern roadbuilding. There were many engineering problems presented, such as thd’ descent from Crown Point to Latourelle, a drop of 600 feet in less than two miles, yet keeping within the maximum grade of 6 per cent. This was done by a sort of switchback making a perfect figure 8, the road paralleling itself five times. Several miles further on, at Oneonta gorge, a solid rock precipice barred the way and a tunnel 100 feet long was bored. The excessive rainfall necessitated much attention to drainage, and long stretches of concrete-lined ditches and pipes line the road. To reduce the chances of slides where cuts were necessary, great walls of dry masonry were constructed and seeds of grass were sown to hold the earth intact Everything that could add to the beauty and permanency of the highway was taken into consideration. ' The United States government has recently set aside more than 14,000 acres of land from the Oregon national forest for park and recreation purposes. This land parallels the highway and will forever retain countless beauty spots for the use of the people. Tourists who Journey west over of the roads through Utah, Idaho or Montana, will find good automobile roads leading to the new Columbia River highway. Notwithstanding the cest of the highway has been enormous, it is already looked upon as the state’s greatest asset from a tourist standpoint, and one of the best investments ever made by an American municipality.

Crown Point.

advises those who can afford it to travel from Venice to Jaffa in a galley, the return fare being 50 ducats, and shows how, all the places of interest in Palestine could be seen in fourteen days.—London Chronicle.

His Grouchy Views.

"What has become of the fine old names like Prudence and Patience?” “They wouldn’t be appropriated now,” declared the old grouch. “If I had a couple of. daughters I’d name ’em Extravagance and Hysteria.”—* Louisville Courier-Journal.

Bobby Knew.

Uncle Ernest (improving the shining hour) —And what do we do with the flesh of the whale? Bobby—Eat it. Uncle Ernest ( sarcastically) —Oh. do we! And what do we do with the bones? ' •———' ■■■-*" ——-— 1 Bobby—Put ’em on the edge of the plate.—London Sketch.