Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1916 — Page 2

Tabby

BY Estelle Rossiter Greu

(Copyright, 1916. by W. G Chapman.) “Sent!” “Hold on. Darley, don’t spoil a guerdon of good luck.” _ “Good, luckr-a black-cal! Til row. her out of the window." “Not on your lift* —especially not on my natal business day.” responded Rupert Morse. “Why, think of it ? Here ut nine o'clock I start in on my initial business career. At 9:30 in steps a velvet-shod feline visitor, scans the environment. proceeds to settle dowinnr the window sill yonder, purrs complacently and remains —a presage, a harbinger. Don’t disturb Miss Kitty for worlds!” “All right humor your whims* only a cat is neither dignified nor businesslike. I’ll vanish. Here conies the first answer to your advertisement for an assistant.” The friend of the yftung lawyer departed. A young lady entered —bareheaded. which was queer. Morse thought, and rather excited appearing, lie discerned, which he could not account for. The cat bliuked and purred. He pa used to stroke it gentiy, and then faced this girl visitor. Morse had pat up hi* shingle in -amodest way. not in the business cen-

Lifted a Heavy Billy and Struck Him Down.

ter, but on a little street off the main thoroughfare. The little building he was in had been a real estate office. Everything beyond it in the block was residential. Next door was a pretty cottage with a lovely garden! - “You have come in response to my advertisement for an office clerk, I presume?” observed Morse, noting a palpable embarrassment on the part of his visitor, which he attributed to maidenly shyness and inexperience, and ever manly and indulgent \vherethe opposite sex were concerned. “I am just entering itr.on r.iy-profession • and need an assistant to copy my papers, keep records and attend to the ] office while I am away. I cannot pay j more than six dollars a week at the start. Ah! my guest is rather unceremonious.” *• Tabby had left the window sill.-had ■walked over to tlie young lady, rubbed Itself against her dress, submitted to her petting with satisfaction, performed the same actions with Morse, and returned to the window sill as if, a courteous duty performed, Its reward was peace and sleep. The young lady again puzzled Morse. She . had kept her eyes fixed on the cat an 3 a queer smile crossed her face. He Could not analyze —pleased, quizzical, mysterious. “You —you like kittens?” she spoke, a trifle hesitatingly. , “This one—immensely. You see, I consider it a sort of good-fortune sign to have a black cat come to you aiid really take to you on the threshold of your first business enterprise. Maybe that's all sentiment, but I am really pleased. And now, miss, as to the position.” ' fT-^l3m sa!4= the visitor frankly and then, like the free-hearted, ingenuous fellow .that he was, mightily attracted by,‘the sweet face and charming manner of the young lady. Morse proceeded to make the work expected as light and easy as possible. At hts request she wrote her name—Alison Scoville —and promised to be on hand at nine o’clock the next morning. Tabby followed the young lady to the door, mewed beseechingly and! went back to' the'window sill. Morse proceeded to the nearest delicatessen store and provided a stbre of food L Tbr Jhls mascot' „ Py evening the feline seemed fully domesticated. It made'a leap out of jthe window Into the adjoining garden several times, but \ returned later and was quite some company to the young lawyer. The good luck really came. “Either you or the kitten brought It,” said Morse to Miss Scoville one day. “Two cases came in today and I am deputized to close op a four thousand dol*

lar deal, where I Veceive five per cent “( am glHd,” said Alison in her simple. sincere way. “Tills looks like progress,” observed Morse's friend, Darley, coining into the office one day and surveying a small hut compact-looking iron strongbox asnear to a safe as Morse could afford to luiy lust tlien.* u ___ “Yes,” nodded the young lawyer i cheerily, “getting on finely.” “I see you have tiiat black cat yet.” “Oh, my mascot? Quite!" declared Morse with a hearty laugh. “And the young lady?” “Shares tin* honors. She Is a jewel of Industry and intelligence!” Late one afternoon Morse sat count--fng-a-hcap-of banknotes.—They--rep-resented the money, he was to pay In the adjustment Tie had told Airsotv about. He concluded his task and put them in the strongbox. At just that moment a shadow crossed the floor.. Morse looked up to encounter a roughfaced man. “Jones & Smith?” spoke the stranger. “No such firm in the building,” observed Morse, and the Intruder departed. It was to return a minute later, however. Morse wiflls' just closing his desk when the burn, —stenting. —tiptoeing toward him, lifted a heavy hilly und struck him down, bleeding and senseless. “Notv, then, easy work, if I’m not in-, terrupted,” muttered the wretch, and turned to the strongbox. “Ugh !” He fell hack as Tubby sprang at him, bristling, spitting, sinking her daws deep into his evil face. He gavd her a fling as he clutched her and she' landed directly aefoss the prostrate body of Morse. Then, with a moan, and limping, slip fled from the room— The man searched for the key to the strongbox, failed to locate the secret drawer in the desk Where,,it reposed, and produced some burglar tools. He pried, drilled and hammered, So engrossed was he that, he did not notice a fluttering form at the open doorway. It was that of Alison. She utMered a suppressed cry and disappeared. ■Tnst as the burglar had wrenched up the lid of the strongbox Alison reappeared with-two policemen. Then, the criminal in charge, the money in the strongbox safe, Alison‘ran to the nearest drug store. “Nothing serious.” reported the doctor with whom she hastened back to the office, as he dressed Morse’s wounded head and the young lawyer opened his eyes and surveyed the group about him in bewilderment. In amaze he heard Alison’s story in part. “But how did you happen to come to the office?” he inquired, when they were alone. “Tabby," answered Alison simply, “You mean —” “She came crawling into our house nil covered with blood. It made me uneasy. I came here and —” “Thqn you live near here,” began Morse. “The second next house.” “I never knew that before.”

“No,” murmured Alison confusedly, “I never told you—nor that Tabby is my cat. You see, the day I came here it was nfter Tabby. I never dreamed of going to work for you, but you so encouraged me —you were so nice—” “Thank you !” bowed Morse, with his customary bright smiLe. • “I did not like to take Tabby away. She seemed to like you so. She has visited us daily, too, you see.” “Your Tabby,” spoke Morse thoughtfully. Then the circumstances focussed up forcibly all he had known and appreciated of this sterling young woman during their harmonious companionship. “Dear Miss Scoville,” he continued earnestly, "let us make it ‘our’ tabby!” And, with the month of roses and honeymoons, Alison Scoville was his happy bride.

DOUBLE POWER OF NITROGEN

Has the Ability to Destroy or Sustain Life, According.to How It Is Employed. Nitrogen’s power depends in the first place on the fact thnt it carries in oxygen to compounds which are thus rendered explosive, turning all the elements into a huge volume of gas, itself being set free. The very inertness of nitrogen or its objection to affinity means that on the least provocation it will easily release Its partner, oxygen, handing this over to the combustion of otiier elements present, with the formation of Volumes of gases, the nitrogen returning to what is apparently its congenial condition,. the free state. ..... ■ . As a fertilizer in the soil nitrogen acts as a stimulant and supplies the necessary nitrogen to the plant. In other words, it is a plant food. Thus the remarkable thing about nitrogen above all other elements Is its power to destroy life or to sustain it, according to the associates with which it is in company. With certain accomplices it forms death-dealing explosives, with others it becomes a null ritive material. It is the essentially romantic element,- devil or god, according to Its associations.

Not Questioned.

Irritated Lady—No, it doesn’t fit, and I shall dxpect my money back. Mr. Moses—But, good gracious, madam— Irritated I f ady—Your advertisements say: “Money refunded if not approved.” Mr. Moses —So they do, my dear madam; so they do; but your money was approved, it was very good money.—Punch.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

BASEBALL SLAVES WHO ARE GETTING COIN

PLAYERS WHO TAKE CARE OF THEIR MONEY.

“They sold me like a slave,” said Tris Speaker, the poor slave of baseball, when the 'Boston Red Sox sold him to the Cleveland Indians for the piffling price of JpIO.OOO, with a couple of players thrown in for good measure. Speaker wouldn’t sign with Boston for $9,000 a season. He is reported to be getting $12,000 at Cleveland. “What do the players"do with their money?" They invest it. they "buy good clothes with it; those without business Interests find plenty of time to spend it for entertainment during the winter months, and then of course there is the “missus.” Many of the players are married and so have the problem of getting rid of their coin solved for them. Tv Cobb, the Georgia peach, who has been dragging down a fat stipend from Detroit for ten years, owns so much property at Augusta, Ga., that soon he will be between the devil and the deep blue sea. He won’t know whether to play or stay home and tend to his knitting. But Cobb likes the game as well as the salary [and

SHAWKEY AS RELIEF PITCHER

Believed by Manager “Bill" Donovan to Be Best of Kind in American League Circles. “Bill” Donovan believes “Bob” Shawkey Is the best relief pitcher in the American league. Shawkey has served Donovan in fine style this season, and he will probably be called

Bob Shawkey.

upon to finish the season In a role slmiiar to the one occupied by Bernie Boland of the Tigers. Incidentally, Bo;hmd d»- -3eservlug of a. lot „of. cred 11 for his flinging this year. No Detroit pitcher has been harder worked with getting less return in tlie averages. •

SOON CHANGED HIS TACTICS

Jim Callahan Discovered That Goodfellowship Amounted to Little With Pirate Team.

When James J. Callahan assumed the management of the Pirates he didn’t know more than three players on the team. He decided to make friends with the meyjjfciy treating them royally. But Cal soon discovered that good fellowship amounted to little or toothing. He arrived at the conclusion, therefore, that kind words and leniency did not obtain the desired results. So fie changed his tactics and notified the Pirates that he intended to rule them with a rod of Iron. He proceeded to enforce discipline without fear or favor.

probably will be around as long as his legs are limber and his batting eye keen. This spring his arrival in trailing camp was delayed because of the fire at Augusta, which destroyed so much of his holdings. J. Franklin Baker, the home run king, playing third for the Yankees after a year’s retirement, has put Tnurffloffrismoneylnte-good Maryland farm land and each winter retires to his own soil. Christy Mathewson .owns a fortune which makes him independent of managers ami everyone else. It has been amassed by careful investment of his baseball earnings. Then, too, because of his baseball fame, he has made money as a “writer.” Frank Chance, the Peerless Leader, manager of the Cubs in the days of Charles Webb Murphy and later manager of the Y'ankees, owns a fine fruit ranch at Glendora, Cal. The cail of baseball proved too strong, however, and this year he is back in the game as owner of the Los Angeles team In the Coast league.

NOTES of the DIAMOND

Sam Crawford does not look to be all in by any means. , * * * Ira Thomas has been signed to coach the Williams College baseball nine. * * * Fred Beebe has joined Ban Johnson in his petition against pinch hitters. # * * Eddie Plank, the Gettysburg gunner, is tlie gent who put the art in artillery. * * * Sam Bice, the little right fielder of the Senators, is some batting sensation. —* ——; : ■ An expert rises to wheeze that the average shoestring catch is made off a tight lace. * * * To be successful on the diamond a player must not only catch flies but swat ’em! • * • Ollie O’Mara, Brooklyn shortstop, started his career in the Trolley league of St. Louis. * * * Stealing third with the bases full is one of the fractures Bonesetter Reese can’t set. * * * Eddie Plank Is forty-one years old and says he will keep pitching until he Is forty-five. • * * Larry Lajoie is playing a good game at second for the Mackmen, but Larry cannot win a ball game all alone. * * * Witt, the young shortstop of the Athletics, and Pick, the third baseman, lire certainly playing a whirlwind fielding game, * Although a batter of small denominations, Wortman is proving a regular gilt edge government bond in the field for Chicago. * • * Mel Wolfgang has been pitching grand ball all year and Is now one of the most reliable members of Rowland’s crew. * * * Baseball managers might do 'well to sign up Jockey McTaggert for duty on the coaching lines. As a rider he’s second to none. * * * The Texas league teams are Staging a corking good race, with Waco, Houston and Fort Worth packed in together at the top. # • * John Evers was put off the field for kicking on one of the umpire’s decisions. (Note to make-upman: Keep this line standing).

RUPPERT'S HOT REPLY

Answer to Minor Leagues Who Protest Recall of Players. * Action Not Taken Until Every Other Means Had Failed —President Comiskey of Chicago White Sox Would Not Assist. Colonel Rupert of the New York American League club, when asked to reply to the criticisms emanating from minor league cities upon the recall- of players belonging to the New Yorks from the lower leagues, said: “The unprecedented number of accidents to the New York team which injured their six best players, namely. Baker, Magee, Maisel, Gilhooley, High and Cullop, coupled with the illness of Fisher and Geaeon, and the defection of Caldwell, put the team in such a crippled condition that there was no' alternative but to recall three of the New York pluyers loaned to the minor leagues, viz., Aragon, Shocker anflj Miller. The recall of these players was done only as a last resort. We bought Oldring to fill Gilhooley’s place. Mr. Huston and myself went to Chicago to meet Connie Mack to try to buy, borrow or steal Strunk, but Mr. Mack would listen to no proposition of any kind, and perhaps properly so. “We tried to get one of Comiskey’s extra outfielders, but he would not consider a cash purchase, and we could not spare any player in a trade that would be acceptable to him. We made overtures for ’f'obin, but -St. Louis needed that outfielder. We exhausted every effort to get big league pi ayers and In desperation decided that we could do nothing else but bring In our players from the minors. But we tried to make it as easy as it was in our power to do so, for the clubs from which the players were taken. But bear in mind that we had a perfect contract right to recall these players. The optional agreement under which these players were sent to the minors provided that they may be returned to us upon short notice, and thatr we maydn tura-reeaH the-players upon five days’ notice. The several minor league clubs were fully aware of what they were agreeing to bechuse every one of them objected to the recall clause and finally acquiesced in it when we would have it no other way. We called Mr. Johnson’s attention to this clause in our optional agreements. “The minors have repeatedly taken advantage of their right to return to us our players this year. In one instance they have returned a player with an utter disregard for our interests, and in another case have returned a player on account of their own peculiar financial conditions. Louisville returned Carroll Browh, Columbus sent us back Don Brown, Toronto left Layton flat on our hands, Doc Cook was shunted back by Oakland, and Cy Pieh devolved upon us from Newark. -It is a poor rule tBST won’t work both ways. “We can’t see how the minors can object to our exercising our contractual rights when they so ruthlessly take advantage of their rights. But even had we no right to recall the players we feel that the minor leagues should help us out in our dire necessity, for we certainly—distributed among them last year a big sum pf money wliibh must have helped out not a little in the darkest year baseball has possibly ever seen.”

CHIEF BENDER NOT THROUGH

Has Done Some Good Pitching for Phillies This Season—Always Thorn in Side of Giants.

Chief Bender, the Indian pitcher, 19 not all in by any means. He has done some good twirling for the Phillies this season and Manager Moran counts on him to do a whole lot more before the

Chief Bender.

season’s close. The Indian won a game from the Giants the other day, holding McGraw’s men to seven hits. Bender was always a thorn In the side of the Giants, triumphing over them In more than one’ game when pitching for the Athletics In world’* series contests.

HOME TWON HELPS

PROPER PLANNING OF CITIES Method Has a Deeper Significance Than the Mere Laying dot of Human Dwelling Places. “I am very glad to hear that among the objects of the American Civic association is that of getting rid of the Impression that city planning has mainly to do with the large cities of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, and indeed that is not solely concerned with these cities, but that one of the main functions of city planning is to deal with the small town and even with the small village community,” so said Mr. Thomas Adams, the wellknown English town planning expert, now civic adviser to the commission of conservation of Canada, in opening at* address at the convention of the American Civic association on the subject, “The Economic Basis of City Planning.” Continuing, Mr. Adams said: “Town planning does not deal with the beautification of the town but town planning, I should rather like to put it, includes the embellishment of the external features of the town both in regard to Its public buildings and In regard to its transportation. But these matters are only part of what should! be properly regarded as city planning. And when -we come to analyze the fundamental things in city life we find that really we ought not to begin with the embellishment or with the beautiful in the city, but that after the route of civil life, the two things that matter are the industrial_and the residential; are the factories and home life. You want not only to look forward for the next thirty, forty, or fifty years in regard to your park systems, but you want to make sure that in the next forty, fifty or sixty years every person who builds a new home will be secured against disease which may be created by anything that can be prn* vented. You want to make sure that the conditions shall be healthy in regard to housing as well as in regard to the general civic aspect of the city.”

IS RIGHT TO ANNOY SACRED?

How Jersey City Courts, by a Recent Decision, Allow Property Owners to Exalt Ugliness. The sacred right of the property holder to make himself a public nuisance Is reaffirmed by the decision of the New Jersey supreme court, says the New York Tribune. It appears thnt this right was menaced by a statute which made it unlawful to disfigure with advertisements the Palisades along the Hudson. The statute is found to be unconstitutional on the ground thut the legislator may deprive the owner of the right to use his land for such purpose only when the signs are a menace to public health or morals. This kind of Individual liberty Is one of the unfortunate limitations under which our whole system labors. The public has other interests to conserve besides those of health, safety and morality. It Is a mark of indifference to beautybordering on barbarism that esthetic considerations receive so little recognition in the eye of the law. The zealousness with which the courts are bound to protect the Individual in the use of that which is his own permits the defacing of our scenes of nStural beauty with every conceivable form of hideousness. Something more than a right of property is invaded when one individual may ruin for millions of people the beauty of a plecerof nature’s handiwork.

Don’ts for Homebuilders.

If you want to prevent trouble and Inconvenience after you have moved Into the new home, observe these “don’ts” while building: Don’t cut down any trees on the building site until you are ready to begin building, and then only enough to provide room for the house. This prevents unnecessary sacrifice, and after the house has been lived in for a while, one can easily determine what others must go. Don’t, with a white interior trim, have other than quartered white oalc floors. _. - - - Don’t when finishing the interior of the new house be- unmindful of the quality of the paint jised thereon. Paint serves it protects and Improves the appearance of the house, and the one ingredient in its composition necessary to the fulfilment of this purpose Is zinc.

For City Improvements.

The<‘ College of Forestry connected with Syracuse university has examined and outlined methods of Improvement for public shade trees In 2d cities-and towns in the state of New York. It has .been found that In tha cities there are 20,000 miles of street* of a character capable of sustaining .a growth of 5,000,000 shade trees which can be made worth SIOO,OC|Q,OOO In Increased property value. is thoroughly alive to the possibilities of the situation and spends annually about $75,000 for the planting and conservation of shade trees along it* public streets. '