Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — Page 2

Milk and Honey

By Frances Elizabeth Lanyon

(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)

“Do you think you can manage, Mr.—?” -—"Jim, ma’am; just plain Jim. Can I manage! Pm a gorger, ma’am, when Tm hungry, but that royal layout stumps me!” “If you’ll stay here and see that no one carries off the trunk, Mr. —James, I'll feel greatly obliged to you,” said Priscilla Davis, twenty-four, but sprightly as a girl of sixteen and Just as pretty. “You see, I am an old maid.” “Then I’m blind!” declared Jim chivalrously. “And this is my sister’s former home. I’m moving her over to Somerset, and she has notified Mr. Sprague, who roomed here, that the trunk will be left here for him. He will call for it tonight or early tomorrow morning.” “Yes, ma’am, I understand,” nodded the accommodating Jim. “Going to ride on the load? Hope you have a smooth journey. Fifty cents, a night’s lodging, and milk and honey and a big loaf of home-made bread, all for toting a few pieces of furniture to that wagon—ma’am, you’re a princess, and you wouldn’t be an old maid, or a young one, either, down where I come from and where they appreciate such qualities and beauty!” But Miss Davis, blushing, laughing, full of spirit, w’aved the speaker adieu, and the wagon moved over the hill. A harmless, ambitionless. natureloving “tramp.” the vulgar i>ublic classed it, Jim had happened along on his wanderings just in time to get a

Dimly Saw Three Men Flitting Before His Vision.

job. He was jolly, without being familiar; he was chatty, without being a bore. He was clean-minded and wideawake and, old as he was, and shiftless as he was, had the fine sense to discern most estimable qualities in the fair woman who had treated him so kindly. All there was to leave for his supper, she had told him, was a quart bottle of milk, a cake of honey and a loaf of home-made bread. To the feast Jim now applied himself with appetite and speed. “It’s rich grazing, too rich!” groaned Jim, surfeited at last, and, stretching out on the grass near the front porch, was soon asleep. Now strange happenings were in the air that rare night of sweet sounds and hazy moonlight. About midnight Jim awoke. The sound of voices disturbed him. Dimly, he saw three men flitting his vision.

“Nothing but the trunk, eh?” queried one of them. “That's all ; house seems deserfeiL Tvetossed it in with the other plunder. It’s a good haul for one night, pals, and Darby ought to be satisfied.” “Say,” broke In other tones, “I’m dying of thirst. Can’t we find a well about the old place?” “We’ll see. Get a drink, and make for the city,” put in a third voice, and the three men disappeared around the house. ’ “H’m!” muttered Jim, getting to his feet, “they’re stealing the trunk. Yes, they’ve busted the front door open. And there’s an automobile out in front. I think I. guess the riddle. Drink and be merry, my friends, for you’ll have a long, dusty walk before you!"

Jim chuckled as he made for the road, looked over the machine, chugging low and steadily. He took in its mechanism with a practiced eye, for he had once done some .chauffeur work. Then he was in the seat. Gr-rr-up-zip! it started up like a mettled steed. Jim had sized up the situation completely. The three men were city thieves on a looting expedition, apparently financed by one Darby. They had stopped at the village, the halt at the house Jim was guarding being merely incidental. Primarily all that Jim cared for was the rescue of the trank, but, us, he glanced into the

( rear seat of tne machine and noticed ! various boxes and bags, he decided i that he had done something of real importance in divesting the criminals of their means of transportation, and their booty. Jim had a definite point in view as he whizzed down the smooth country road. He had gathered from what Miss Davis had said, the location of her new home. He had gone about 15 miles when he observed a trim feinlnine figure coming down the road, clearly silhouetted in the misty moonlight. He slowed down with a jerk and peered forward with a stare. “I declare!” he shot out briskly. “Oh, ma’am! —please, it’s me.” "Mr. James,” warbled up the melodious tones of Miss Davis. , “Yes, ma'am.” “And in an automobile?” “Borrowed, ma’am—that trunk and aH. But you, ma’am?” “The wagon broke down. It’s just ahead. It will have to stay here all night. I was going back to the next village to stay until morning,” explained Miss Davis. “Why not go to your sister’s, ma’am?” suggested Jim. “I’m a careful driver, being sober, ma’am. Besides, I want to get to some safe, sure place, for I’m thinking there’s a lot of valuable stuff in that back seat of the machine, and we want to protect it.” The eyes of his interested passenger glowed with keen interest as Jim recited the story in detail. They expanded to their widest after they reached her sister’s home. The trunk had not been opened. In the various boxes and bags they found a great mass of silverware, watches and the like. Obviously some jewelry store In the village had been burglarized. “I think I guess out just what has happened,” observed Jim, “and someone is probably worrying back there at Reedsville. If I may stow the automobile in that shed and sleep in it till morning, then I’ll go back my tracks, and see what turns up.” Miss Davis was up and around when Jim awoke. She suggested that they telephone Reedsville. Their call brought back a vivid response. The main jewelry store of the town had been looted the evening previous and nearly five thousand dollars of its contents carried away. Within two hours Roscoe Woods, a well-appearing, eager and anxious young man, the proprietor of the despoiled store, appeared in an automobile. He was overjoyed at the discovery that the entire plunder was intact. He had just started in business, and his entire capital was invested in the recovered goods. He insisted on pressing SIOO on Jim. He selected a dainty brooch and asked Miss Davis to accept It. for, indirectly. through. her, affairs had come about fortunately for him.

The police followed up the Darby hint. They located him as proprietor of a city gin palace and listed as owner of the automobile. To evade connection with the thieving gang he employed, however. Darby claimed that he had sold the automobile to a party he could not locate, palpably a lie, and Jim was left in undisputed possession of the machin'e? Very proud was he, in a brand new suit of clothes, seated in his automobile and making a fair living as a taxi servant of the public. He chuckled serenely when he noticed that the young jeweler, Roscoe Woods, came to visit Miss Davis a second time, a third, then regularly. And one day when he drove Roscoe up to the house, he noticed that his passenger took a look at a beautiful diamond ring, and guessed the natural sequence of affairs. “You dear man!” said Miss Davis, all aflush, as she prettily showed an engagement ring, a few days later, “I hope you never leave us. You have made everybody fortunate and happy all around.”

“Me leave!” chuckled Jim, “when finding you has made me quite a nabob ! No. indeed —more than ever do I see that I’ve struck a land flowing with milk and honey!”

“THANK YOU” IN THE STORES

It is a Simple Courtesy That Costs Little and Is a Trade Promoter. A little store “out West” has had a neatly printed message placed upon the wrapping paper and paper bags which it uses —modestly worded, pleasantly phrased, and delightfully frank. It appears under the heading. “Thank You,” and reads, according to the Dayton (O.) News: “We take pleasure in thanking you for your patronage; we believe the goods bought of us today will give you entire satisfaction and that you will come to us again when you need anything in our line. However, if for any reason you are not perfectlysatisfied with your purchase, w» ask, as a, favor, that you ‘report to us at once, and we assure you that we will gladly adjust the matter to your satisfaction. We want you to make this store your store, and if you trade here we stiaTl make it our business to see that whatever you buy is entirely satisfactory.” r The fellow who claims that business is a cold-blooded proposition isn’t going to succeed in business. The human element still enters as into everything else under the sun. The “thank you” is still potent in trade and, we fancy that the merchant who has devised the pleasant card to his customers has done a wonderfully profitable thing, if only he will live up to the promise fig. makes —and there is no reason to believe that he does not do so. ;

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

YALE TEAM BUILT AROUND HARRY LE GORE

HARRY LE GORE STARS IN WORKOUT AT NEW HAVEN.

The football eleven at Yale this fall has been built around the prowess of Harry Le Gore, star of last year’s team, according to Head Coach Ted Jones. Le Gore is in mid-season form, and it is freely predicted he will easily beat his exceptional record of last year. It was only a few days ago in a scrub game that Le Gore scored a touchdown and kicked a field goal in the space of a few minutes. In fact in practically all the practice games at New Haven, Conn., where the Eli warriors were getting into condition, Le Gore has been the brigMt, particular star. He has been playing his old position at left halfback.

TENNIS GAINS IN POPULARITY

Known Merely as “High-Brow” Sport Short Time Ago, Continues to Win Public Favor.

Tennis, known merely as a “highbrow" sport, a few years ago, continues to make giant strides toward public favor. In all parts of the country it is gaining more devotees daily and the biggest help has come from the civil authorities. The building of tennis cburts in the big city parks has given the enthusiasts a chance to play. The trouble is that there aren’t enough courts.

In Greater New York there are several hundred in the parks—but there should be ten thousand. Every one would be in use almost every day in the playing season. At each of the parks now rthere is a big waiting line, each crowd of players being limited, to the time they can spend on the courts. Owners of vacant lots in the Greater City who have converted them into tennis courts are reaping a golden harvest. Some of the lot owners have formed little clubs, charging a fair fee for membership, and permitting all members to play without further cost. Those courts are kept for the exclusive use of the club members.

Other owners are renting out their courts to the first comers, giving season leases on certain courts to different parties. One owner of a vacant lot built four courts three years ago. Before the 1916 season began his receipts had paid for the cost of the courts. What he clears this season and in the future will be “velvet,” minus slight operating expenses.

Leader of the Columbia University 1916 football team, photographed during early fall practice.

INTERESTING SPORT PARAGRAPHS

Afred Shrubb will again have charge of Harvard’s cross-country team. * * ♦ Fighters no longer need endurance. It’s the spectators who need it now. ♦» * Golf, itself,, doesn’t bother the golfers, but the dues just raise the deuce. * * * Australian Lawn Tennis association has a balance of $16,235 from the Davis Cup.matches. * * * Coach Guyer of Lebanon Valley has two wonderful football players in MackertTind Swartz. * • • Mebbe it’s a good thing for Jess Willard that the heavyweight division is one class he cah’t outgrow. • * • There are two kinds of iron men—those the ticket scalpers shanghai and those who pitch double-headers! ♦ • * Coach Bob Folwell of the Penn gridders says the Quaker team is to indulge in no secret practice this year. * • ♦ A wise guy once said a pitcher can go to the well once too often, but he wasn’t referring to a baseball pitcher.

Schuyler Britton’s mother raised her boy to be a lawyer. Through no fault of hers he turned into a baseball magnate. • * * Except for a few games between military and school sides Rugby football is ended in England until after the war. * * * However, the new military instructor at Harvard cannot hope to be as important a person as the head football coach. • * * Mrs. Frank A. Johnson of Philadelphia, has traveled 10,000 miles this year to participate in trap-shooting tournaments. -. • -

Having arranged to compete in Sweden and Russia, Sprinter Ted Meredith may have to practice finishing in eleven syllables. Connie Mack is deserving of three cheers and a tiger. He hasn’t claimed that the umpires conspired to rob the Athletics of a pennant. ♦ * * With a view to getting on the job early this season, Captain Welsh of the Williams College elevon remained at Williamstown all summer. . m h"’ • ♦ • The ’ Detroit Tigers have claimed Pitcher Couch from Sari Francisco. If the Tig&rs go to "sleep on the other hurlers, they can fall back on Couch. •« • • Mathewson’s New York admirers threaten to erect a monument in his honor. Sounds a bit premature, as the Old Master may yet escape Cincinnati. * ** • We now have light heavyweights and heavyweights, and if Jess Willard keeps getting bigger there will have to be a new division of super heavyweights. • • • The constant reference of Boston football writers to tile gentlemanly game played by Virginia last year indicates Harvard’s surprise that there should be gentlemen in Virginia.

STAR FROM MISSOURI

Robert JSimpson of Maryville Broke Record at Newark. One of Few Western Athletes Who Lived Up to Established Reputation—Went Over 120-Yard Hurdles in 0:14 4-5.

Maryville, Mo., the honfe of one of Missouri’s many normal schools, gave Robert Simpson, who broke the senior record in the Amateur Athletic union’s recent meet at Newark, N. J., his start to fame. Simpson is one of the few western athletes who have lived up to a reputation established in the West. It is an unfortunate fact that athletes from the West are prone to “blow" when they go to the big eastern meets, and, as a consequence, their claims ordinarily are not taken very seriously. Simpson, however, proved beyond any doubt that he is the real thing when he went over the 120-yard high hurdles at Newark in 0:14 4-5, a new world record, unless A. A. U. officials allow a previous mark of 0:14 3-5 made by Simpson. It was four years ago last spring that Simpson’s name was printed on the official program of the Northwest Missouri high-school meet at Maryville as the only entrant from Bosworth high school. The lanky country boy was entered in every event save the hurdles. Neither he nor his trainer thought much of Simpson as a hurdler.

Simpson started with the 100-yard dash and he finished second. Then he went into the 220-yard dash and finished second. In the half-mile and

Bob Simpson.

the quarter he finished first and second, respectively. He broke the record for the shotput, the discus throw and the broad jump. He also was first in high jump and finished a good second in the pole vault. When Simpson got to the hop, step and jump he was a little bit tired, but he managed to crack another record.

Simpson’s wonderful feats gained for his school —Bosworth high-*-sec-ond place in ,the meet, almost beating out the school which had taken first place in every meet since the games had been contested at Maryville. ' Missouri university athletic authorities heard of him and at.once gobbled him up. He was not heard from, except in a prophetic way, until after he .had spent a year at Missouri, for Missouri Valley conference rules, like most conference rules, prohibit freshmen taking part in athletic events. The following year, however, Simpson blossomed out as 4 a hurdler, and he has been busy winning events of this sort ever since.

WHAT’S A SACRIFICE WORTH?

All Baseball Managers Do Not Agree on Worth of Play—Stallings Disagrees With Jones.

What is the value of a sacrifice hit? all baseball managers do not agree on the worth of the play. Fielder Jones of the St. Louis American league team declares the sacrifice hit is one of the most valuable plays in baseball, and the recent success of his team would indicate that Jones knows considerable about the game and play. On the other hand, George Stallings of the Boston Nationals is not at all enthusiastic over the play and seldom uses it —in fact, much less than any other manager in either league, and the, standing of the Boston team is certainly an enviable one. Opinions of other managers vary, but thd sacrifice hit still has a prominent place in the game. v

PLAY BASKETBALL IN JAPAN

Members of Waseda Baseball Team Impressed With Value of Game While in This Country.

Members' of the University of Waseda baseball team of' Japan will introduce basket ball into that country, the players being impressed with the value of the game during their visit to the United States. The baseball team in its tour this season, won but five of the seventeen games played with American college nines.

TEMPERANCE NOTES

“LIQUID BREAD." ; This true story about the “harmlessness” of beer is told by the Temperance society of the Methodist Episcopal church: “Some time ago an advertisement asserting that ‘beer is liquid bread’ and a ‘temperance drink’ fell under the eye of a man who had never taken a drink in hls_life. He was a mechanic, making good wages. He had a wife and two children, owned his home, and was in every sense of the word a man of strong character and of worth to his country.

"The ‘liquid bread/ ‘temperance drink’ converted • him to the use of beer. In time he introduced it into his home. “Some months later he returned home after an absence of three days. When he entered the house he was ‘beer-drunk’ —sqggy, stupid, brutal with the brutality that delights in perverted forms of cruelty. “When he\entered the living room something anjte£eiJ_hlm. It may have been the reproacKhe read in his wife’s face. He knocked her down, went on into the bed room where he found his two children asleep, cut their throats, and when his wife, having recovered, entered the door and screamed, knocked her down again and Crushed her skull,Jiterally kicking out her brains. “This man declared that he had never tasted anything but beer in his life. There is no reason to disbelieve him.”

NOT A SQUARE DEAL. A retired farmer of southern Nebraska moved into a village to spend the latter days of his life. Soon after he was solicited to sign a petition for a man who wanted to open a saloon. He refused to sign, and, when asked for his reason replied that the town did not treat the saloonkeeper fairly. The applicant for a license had heard many other reasons, but never—, having heard that one, he asked the man to explain. The explanation was like this: “You want to start your saloofi for the benefit of the town, ddii’t you?” “Yes,” replied the would-be saloonkeeper. “You think it will bring trade to the town and improve business, don’t you?” “Yes,” said the man who (wanted the license. “Well,” said the farmer, “if your saloon will help the town, draw trade, and improve business, they ought to give you a bounty instead of making you pay a high price for the privilege of starting a saloon.”

LISTEN TO COMMON SENSE. Does not common sense show you that you would be better off to buy the liquor and not drink it, than you would to buy the liquor and drink it? If you buy the liquor and don’t drink it, the liquor man has the money, and you pay the license just the same and you have lost nothing except the money you have paid out for the liquor. It is true the money is gone and the liquor Is gone; but if you buy the liquor and drink it, the money is gone, the liquor is gone, and the man is gone; hence, common sense says the liquor* traffic doesn’t pay anybody except a few men who sell it. But how long shall thousands of people be made enormously poor in order that a small preferred class, who are doing absolutely nothing for the welfare of humanity, may be made enormously rich? —Mary Harris Armor.

TRAINING AND- DRINKING. Can we Imagine any sane presentday trainer telling his team or crew that they need not bother their heads about the amount of beer or wine they take during training? With most of them it is a case of the less the better, and none best of all. If this is true of physical energy which, after all, is the crudest form of energy, what train of reasoning leads us to igthe effect that alcohol, in its various vehicles, has on the intellectual and psycho-physical powers of the man in our midst, who is training for the great game, or battle of life, in which he shortly Is bound to engage? —Prof. G. Sims Woodhead. CAN’T BUY A LINE. “The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Is unequivocally and uncompromisingly a temperance organization,” says The Fireman and Enginemen’s Magazine. “So closely does the organization adhere to this principle that all the breweries and distilleries of the con-, tlnent combined have not enough money to buy one line of advertising space in its official publication, The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen’s Magazine, for the, purpose of advertising their intoxicating products.” )

UNFAIR TO FARMER. “My ideas on the tax question have changed." says a prominent farmer. “I used to think saloons paid taxes. They simply collect them, and give worse than nothing in return. The license money that some nearsighted folks think is such a big thing, comes out of their customers, every dollar of it And then we sober, hard-Working farmers have to pay more taxes to keep up expenses of courts, prisons, asylums, poor houses and jails than all the other taxpayers of the countrjf put together.”