Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1916 — Page 2

A Good Investment

By VICTOR REDCLIFFE

(Copyright, 1816, by W. G. Chapman.) If the fancy Edgar Allen took to Nelson Bland received Its first impression from the honest, open face of that young man, it was certainly reenforced when the latter introduced his sister, Violet. He had advertised for an agent, for he was going away. The reply to the same that suited him the best was the frank, brief, but comprehensive note written in reply by Bland.' Allen arrived at the house of the Blands in his automobile to find a small but immaculately neat and clean cottage. Nelson Bland welcomed him at the door and led him to a sitting room, well filled with books. He was a student along the line of philanthropy. He had never had an easy time making his way, he imparted to his prospective employer. His sister was a music teacher, and for the first time in years they had arrived at a point where their combined income admitted of a little more than sufficient to keep the wolf from the door. "I have just fallen heir to a fortune,” Allen explained. “It is not large —only one hundred thousand dollars. I suppose I should consider myself a fortunate young man, but there is a blight to my prospects. My physician tells me that I have a functional trouble with my lungs. He prescribes another climate, permanently. Under different conditions, he says, I may wear out the disease —I hope so,” but the speaker spoke wearily. “I would not feel discouraged,” remarked Bland, and there was genuine sympathy in his tones. “I don’t intend to,” replied Allen, "but I want to do some good in the world. I have divided up my fortune. One quarter of it I shall spend in the pursuit of health. One half of it I shall Invest in good sound securities. The remainder I shall give to my appointed agent to found a home for crip-

Received Word From His Lawyer.

pled and homeless children in my native town. I own a large well-furnished house there. The returns from the investment of the twenty-five thousand dollars must carry the project, but I shall set apart out of my income one thousand two hundred dollars for my manager.” “A good and sufficient recompense for a person loving the work,” declared Bland enthusiastically. “I am your man, if you will have me.” Anri just then Violet entered the room. It was with no knowledge of intrusion and she started to withdraw, but her brother beckoned her forward. He w-as proud of her, that was palpable. She interested Allen at once. Her youth, heelthfulness, vitality charmed him, though mournfully he reflected on his own unfortunate condition, or what he fancied concerning it. Allen wished for her presence. So soon as she was advised that she would accompany her brother, whatever position he assumed, Allen felt that sbte must be interested in the work that she would share..

There -was no duplicity in her nature, of that he was assured. Her face brightened wonderfully as the philanthropic venture was debated on. On the impulse of the moment and under her sweet influence Allen closed then and there with her brother, as his manager for five years. The contract was perfected at the office of Allen’s lawyer the next day and Allen was disappointed that Miss Bland did not come, as well as her brother. Bland gave a bond, as was usual. He was awarded unrestricted control of the charitable fund. One week later Allen left for Alaska. It was a strange climate, that to which his physician sent him, but the latter knew the family complaint thoroughly. If the keen bracing air of the far north did not destroy the germs of the implanted disease, there was no hope for the young man. Now strange and unforeseen adventures were about to transpire in the case of Edgar Allen, that were to test the true gold in his nature and cause him to forget his ailments. Six months

after he left home he received word from his lawyer that the bulk of his Investments, placed with a bank, had been swallowed in a dismal criminal failure. A year later he was advised that an accidental fire had destroyed the children's home. When be came to consider that there were no funds left to pay Bland his salary, Allen about decided that the twenty-five thousand dollar Investment was a failure. He had been robbed of the greater part of the money he had carried with him. Then he became acquainted with an old miner. The latter induced him to send for money deposited in reserve at San Francisco. This Allen invested in the mining proposition—to lose it. His partner was an honest, wellmeaning man, but, with all his mining experience, his judgment had been at fault. The prospect gave good surface Indications, but ran shy as depth was gradually attained and disappeared finally entirely. “Wish I’d never tempted you to throw good money after bad,” mourned the veteran. “Never mind that,” responded Allen cheerily, and he braced, threw out his chest, breathed deep and swung his arms with exquisite realization of actual strength. “The work, the air, the exposure have made a new man of me. I've found what I went after with a faint heart —health. What is the money to that? I can earn my own living now. See here, partner, why not come to the states with me? I’m going back." - “Any use?" propounded the miner dubiously. “I can’t tell. There’s the wreck of a fortune. Maybe among the debris I can find enough salvage to start you and me in some respectable little business. If not, we’ll build up from the ground floor, eh?” There was something inspiriting in the enthusiasm and courage of the health-restored young man, and his partner could not resist the influence of his hopeful nature. The nearer they got to home, the more vividly there recurred to the mind of Allen the thought of the young man and his sister who had taken up his philanthropic project. It was at the town of Newburg that the children’s home had been located. It was there that Allen and his companion arrived by train at dusk one evening.

“Mr. Allen—it can’t be possible!” The words halted Allen. He smiled down into the face of his lawyer, who stood regarding him in wonder. He had long since given up his client as dead. He found it difficult to believe that time and labor had made a health breathing stalwart out of him. The lawyer led the new arrivals to his office. There was much to learn and to tell. He had news for his client, unexpected news, and truly heart gladdening. “Everything went, as you know, in the bank crash,” he recited. “The old house burned down. It was then that Bland and that sweet sister of his showed their royal mettle of true souls.” “They are still here, then?” murmured Allen. “Here? I should say so! You know, you gave Bland absolute control of the charity fund. Well, he has proven himself a wizard. All his thoughts were cf proving a faithful warden of your interests. It seemed as though he and his sister had but one motive in life — to make a grand success of the home. He made an investment in some land. It doubled in value. It is scarcely credible, but, diligent, conservative, tireless, he has quadrupled the original fund. The home is rebuilt and liberally financed, and outside of that some fifty thousand dollars is in my hands, credited to your private fortune account. If you want to make these famous friends of yours, the Blands, truly happy, get up and see them as speedily as you can.” “I wonder if she will remember me?" reflected Allen, as he at once followed the lawyer’s suggestion. Ah, she had never forgotten him! She showed it so manifestly in her beautiful eyes, that when that first welcoming interview was over, Edgar Allen felt that the one woman in the world who could make him happy was Violet Bland.

Asking Leave.

Nobody is allowed to leave a British warship without permission, even for an hour. Senior officers, “heads of departments,” must obtain leave from the captain in person before going ashore, though usually a general dispensation from this obligation is given at the beginning of a commission. Young officers of branches other than the executive must first ascertain from their- own immediate superiorswhether they can be spared, so the process of obtaining leave sometimes becomes quite elaborate. The most junior en-gineer-officer, for example, may be observed to enter the wardroom, Cap in hand, First, he approaches the senior, and recites the appointed interrogation- ' “Please,” is returned in a quiet voice. But this is not#enough. The youngster steps across to where, the engi-neer-commander is sitting, and again asks, “May I go ashore, sir, please'?” onee more getting "Please” to encourage him, Yet once again he stands a suppliant,-before the commander now, till a final “Please” sends him away rejoicing to “shift into plain clothes.”

Write Something, Anyway.

It is often necessary and kind rather to write letters that amount to nothing than not to write at all. —Goethe.

Thrifty Swiss.

More tian 1 50 per cent of the people of Switzerland save money habitually.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

FIELD BAKERY AT NAMIQUIPA, MEXICO

Field bakery in operation in the American camp near Namiquipa, Mexico. In the various field camps and headquarters of the American forces in Mexico bread is now being supplied direct from the army bakeries. In the early stages of the campaign food was carried from the border to the various camps and depots in motor trucks. The installation of the field bakeries releases these trucks for other, important duties.

REVIVES THOSE BELIEVED DEAD

New Serum Discovered at Johns Hopkins Causes Heart to React. WORKING ON A NEW THEORY Will Revolutionize the Treatment of Persons Apparently Dead From Drowning or Asphyxiation — After Effects Serious in Some ~n Baltimore, Md.—A departure in medical science which, if successful, will revolutionize the treatment of persons apparently dead from drowning or asphyxiation is now being experimented with at the Johns Hopkins hospital. The new treatment will be the injection of a serum to stimulate the blood to such an extent as will form a reaction of the heart. This will keep the person alive until the apparatus perfected some time ago to clear the lungs can be put into use. The serum has been tried on a number of animals in the laboratories of the institution, and in a number of cases has proved successful. However, in most of the cases there have been after-effects such as high blood pressure or hardening of the arteries. Dead Four Hours —Revives. According to the physicians, if the serum can be perfected, and there is every assurance at this time that it can, the serum can be injected in the person several hours after the accident and restore the persons to life. In one case, on an animal, the serum was injected four hours after the drowning took place and the animal was brought back to life, but died later of a high blood pressure. The physicians for more than three years have worked on the theory that the heart in drowned or asphyxiated persons is still active, in a way, for

TRAGIC BRIDE OF REBEL

Grace Gifford, the gentle-bred Irish girl who married Joseph Plunkett, the Sinn Fein rebellion leader who was among the first Of the revolters to be executed, in the condemned cell just a few hours before he was shot as a traitor. The photograph is a copy from a beautiful portrait of the girlwife painted by William Orpen, A-R. A. - ■ ..

some time after the accident, and that if the organ can be kept in that state until the patient can be treated to clear the lungs hundreds of persons who are given up as dead can be saved. Restore Freezing Victims. Some time ago a New York physician claimed to have perfected a machine to be used in restoring life to persons frozen to death. The apparatus was tried irt a number of cases in the Arctic regions and, according to the accounts, met with some success. It was only a short time after this that the physician at the Johns Hopkins hospital invented a machine to restore to life those apparently dead from drowning. The machine proved successful on animals that could be put under treatment immediately after the accident.

FEAR U. S. HEIRESS INVASION

British Mothers Flustered Over Prospects for Their Marriageable Daughters. London.—English mothers of marriageable daughters are worrying over their daughters’ prospects, according to a writer in the Liverpool Daily Post. Not only is the war supply of eligible men, but fears, are expressed that American gijls with fortunes made in war stocks behind them, will come over after the war and carry off the titled prizes. “They are making pots of money in the states,” the mother of a young woman of nineteen is quoted as saying, “and after the war the marriageable daughter of every new plutocrat will come over with her mamma just to buy an English husband. Think of the distinction, not only in New York but in St. Louis or Denver or Chicago, of importing a husband not only connected with our peerage but who has been under fire! Mamma will make a deal with someone in English society to introduce her daughter, adding the promise of a further big check on a graduated scale according to the rank of the man she marries. I believe it would pay me better to run an American heiress than to speculate in rubber.” —— The writer asks if it is possible to institute “Protection for Eligible English Girls.”

FEW STEEL HELMETS USED

Type Selected by British Government Condemned as Unsuitable in Service. London.— Although it is quite a long time since the war office became convinced that steel helmets are perhaps the most useful detail in a soldier’s equipment and, notwithstanding the French reported as the result of their experiences in the Champagne battles that these headpieces made a reduction in the casualties of almost ten per cent, comparatively few are in use by the British force's. The delay is due, so it is said, to the number of types with which tha British war office has been experimenting. The one fixed upon at the outset, which is still in use, has been condemned as unsuitable. It is tbo heavy and lacks the necessary leather lining of the French headgear, which is very serviceable, and also very handsome. It is light blue, to match tha men’s uniforms,. Every officer and soldier in the French army wears the steel headpiece, in the Verdun fighting General Petain is never seen without hlg helmet. The German military authorities have been even more dilatory in providing this kind of protection for their men than the British. It has been furnis'lted in a few regiments, but the percentage of men using them is very small.

Mother of 12 at 32.

Annover, Ark—The fourth set of twins has been born to Mr. and Mrs. George Davis here. Mrs. Davis, who is 32 years old, has now 12 children. The first twins died, one of the second set and both of the last two sets are living and in good health.

INDIAN WANTS CITY LAND

Educated Pottawatomie Thinks He Has a Good Title to Property In Elkhart. that Charles Harman, an attorney at Cassopolis, Mich., has been retained by an educated Pottawatomie Indian to prepare to claim property in the heart of Elkhart worth at least $1,000,000. Present owners of the property say they are not alarmed, declaring the court decided the case three-quar-ters of a century ago. Pierre Moraln, otherwise known as Pershing, was allotted Section 5 of Concord township, “and two other sections” by the treaty of Chicago. In 1826 he formally petitioned the president of the United States for permission to sell Section 5 to get means to Improve his remaining land. President John Quincy Adams granted 'the petition. Certain technical steps in the transfer from Moraln were not fully perfected, and in later years Moraln attempted to recover the land. It is believed the Cassopolis report has reference to some descendants’ desire to push this old claim.

GOLFER HAS PRIVATE TUTOR

Topping Employs Noted Professional at $2,500 a Year to Teach Him Game. New York. —Henry J. Topping purposes to make a clean-up on the links this summer and to attain this end he has engaged Macdonald Smith, a noted golf professional, as his private tutor at a salary believed to be $2,500 a year. Mr. Topping won the Ardsley tournament, defeating some of the best golfers in this country. Mr. Topping, like many other golfers, has his careless spells. It was to cure these and to speed up his game* a little more that he recently hit on the idea of hiring a private tutor. He selected Macdonald Smith, a young star who won the Metropolitan championship at Scarsdale in 1914 in a new world’s record for 72 holes. Mr. Topping has for several years appeared well up in many of the lead-

Henry J. Topping at the Finish of His Drive.

ing golf meets. He first attracted attention from golfers when he defeated Chick Evans in a 19-hole match in the semifinal round for the North and South Championship at Pinehurst, N. C. In the spring of 1914 he accompanied Francis Ouimet, Jerry Travers, Chick Evans, Fred Herreshoff, Frasher Hale and Edward Knapp abroad for an invasion of the English links. Mr. Topping- lasted longer in the British amateur championship than Travers, Ouimet, Hale and Knapp. “Hen” Topping, as he is familiarly called, married Miss Rhea Reid, only daughter of Daniel G. Reid, the Wall street magnate. The elder Mr. Topping, also a golf enthusiast, presented the Greenwich Country club with $15,000 to remake the fifteenth, a hole in the course he didn’t like. Now the fifteenth is one of the best short holes in the country.

MEN ARE REMADE FOR WAR

Two Instances of Remarkable Mechanical Surgery Are Told —Improved Artificial Limbs. London. —One of the results of the war has been the enormously improved method in the manufacture of mechanical limbs both here and in France and Germany. —~ According to Surgeon-Major Gamper of the Swiss army it is a fact that the Germans have devised remarkably ingenious arrangements for patching up disabled and crippled men. Lecturing at Bulach on cases that had actually come under his personal notice in Germany, Surgeon-Major Gamper declares that he saw such wonderful artificial legs of German invention that soldiers fitted with them were able to rejoin the cavalry for active service. They sat on their horses as well and as easily as if they still possessed a sound" pair of legs and could do as quickly, smartly and thoroughly any feat required of a perfectly able-bodied man. A well-known case in England i» that of Lord Lucas, who was wounded early in the war in Flanders, with ths result that he lost a leg. An artificial limb was fitted so successfully that Lord Lucas was able to transfer hit services to the Royal Flying corps and Is now serving with that branch of the Service as a. fully qualified pilot somewhere in Egypt

ONE'S GIFTS TO GOD

Only Those Which Are Most Precious Are Acceptable to Our Heavenly Father. One of the qualities which makes an offering acceptable to God is that it shall cost the worshiper something. Offerings are not acceptable merely because they are expensive; they must meet other conditions as well, but he who contemplates rendering any worship or service to God may well count the cost. Before the temple was erected on Mount Moriah that mountain was the probable scene of two sacrifices made to God. On that summit Abraham is supposed to have built the altar on which Isaac was about to be offered when God Interposed and accepted a substitute. The father of the faithful as good as offered God that which was most precious to him, and was accepted as if that offering had been made. Long after, David had occasion to offer a burnt offering upon that same mountain, and he uttered this resolution, "I will not offer unto the Lord that which costs me nothing.” Two persons were publicly commended by the Lord for their gifts, and both of them were women. One had cast into the treasury of the temple a very small sum, two mites, which make a farthing. The other had given a box of ointment which was very precious. Both of them seem to have given all they possessed. The offerings were appreciated because of their expensiveness, but their expensiveness was not to be estimated only by their intrinsic value. Lack Proper Spirit In Qivlng. The tendency of the present day seems to be to offer to God that which is costly. Members of the church, in determining the amount of money they shall devote to religious purposes, generally fix Upon a sum that will not deprive them of a single thing they care to have. They contribute what they can give without feeling it. They expect God to be satisfied, and even gratified with an offering which costs them nothing. That tendency is not confined to financial offerings. Some have been known to excuse themselves for frequent absence from the morning church service by the fact that they have occasion to be up late the night before, and it is hard to rise early cn the Sabbath morning when that is the only morning of the week they can sleep late. Some of them add as an additional reason that it is not easy to sit through a long service when the sermon is not very interesting. They are absent from the evening service and from the midweek prayer service because in the press of business and social engagements they want an evening to spend with their families or for quiet reading. Their excuses can be boiled down into one simple statement: Because it would cost them something, they will not give these things to God. They forget that the thing which costs nothing is not worth giving. The reason why more of the memoers of the church are not willing to be active in the Sabbath school is that it would cost them something in time and effort and personal .ease. The reason why more are not willing to seek out those who are careless and try to win them back to the church and a place in its service is because it costs too much. The fact must be faced that the thing given to God at small cost to the worshiper is held cheaply by him who receives such worship. The gift which he appreciates is the gift which means a real sacrifice and expense to the giver.— The United Presbyterian.

KEEP THE LIGHT UNDIMMED

Christian Must Remember That Neglect May Work Injury to Himself and Others. Some years ago a steamer was coming up the Firth of Clyde on a stormy night. Careful watch was kept and all was going well, till suddenly a dim, flickering light appeared right over her bows. In another instant the steamer went crashing into a ship lying at anchor. Several lives were lost and much damage was done. What was the cause of the accident? The anchored ship had allowed her light to grow dim for want of oil. It was only neglected. This is like what many Christians do; they forget to read the Word, to meditate upon it, and to watch with prayer; therefore their light is almost out, to the injury of themselves and- others. “Ye are the light of the world.” Christ’s Churches are golden candlesticks planted in a dark world. They are to hold forth the word of life. O Christians, watch and pray, and see to it that your lamps are trimmed and burning, and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord.— The Light-Bearer.

Secularization of the Ministry.

’ The greatest peril that could befall the country would be the secularization of the ministry. There is a company of men who need to deliver their full force upon the spiritual and eternal. The amelioration of hard physical conditions is a good thing; but if you secularize the clergy by absorbing their thought and energies in mere matters of physical comfort or even of cultural improvement, you will destroy the one power that can ever hold human life to higher levels.— Raleigh Christian Advocate.