Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Page 2

Love and the Lions

By Habel La Roche

(Copjntight, 1916. b/ W. G. Chapman.) like the rest of theta,” sighed the fat man in the tent. “I’ve Interviewed elf^nlhlsmbrnlnignahd''tEey^rn r s tak-1 Ing any. It’s to go into the lions’ den.” J •‘That’ll suit me first rate," said Harry Lee. ' * • Six weeks in the city,, and at last penniless, he had become desperate. His landlady was threatening to turn him out of the single room he occupied unless he paid her the four dollars, representing two weeks’ rental, by evening. And Harry, who had been accustomed to good food, was singularly empty. What aggravated the situation was that he had secured a position at twen-ty-four dollars, to start in on Monday. But this was only Friday, and he saw no prospect of facing the ten days that would felapse until he drew his first pay envelope and surviving. At twen-ty-six one feels that way. Harry was a competent lithographer. He knew that within a year he would be making his thirty steadily. And the firm that had interviewed him was of the best in town. The problem was, how to convince his landlady, or, in default, raise a few dollars for the necessaries of life. Desperately he had jumped at the advertisement offering twenty-five dollars to a strong young man who was not afraid of animals; work at the circus. He had been prepared to scrub the or feed the performing fleas, but he was a bit startled at being told that it was to go into the lions’ den. “Sim and Pete and Lady are as tame as cats,” said the fat man. “They

“I Guess You Don’t Know You’re Really Married, Do You?”

wouldn’t hurt a fly. Leastwise, not a big fly. But our regular man can’t show up. 'You see, this is a two-night stand, and he can’t marry the same lady twice over in this burg. So it’s up to us to get the gent and get the lady. We got the lady, and she’s a peach. Are you on?” “You mean I’ye got to get married in the lions’ cage?” stammered Harry. "Not really married,” said the fat man insinuatingly. “Just a fake marrlage. Bev. Eliphet—he cleans the cages—isn’t authorized to perform marriages. Why, Judge Perks and Madam Jorabella’s got married every evening for a year now, and each got homes and families of their own. Come on, and I’ll introduce ypu to Mamzelle Libertlna.' Your name’s Giovanni. And don’t forget it” The scared and shrinking girl whom Harry met looked about as much a novice as himself. But it seemed the policy psi the fat man to keep them apart until just before the circus opened that night to admit the public. Then came the rehearsal. . . Fearfully, the girl looked at the three lions, seated upon their haunches and regarding them, in turn, with melancholy interest Then Harry stepped boldly In, and, as the lions took very little notice of him, the girl followed Up came Rev. Eliphet, book in hand, »nd.4pok his station just inside the the corner of his eye while Ellphet was mumbling. Not a hair of any beast stirred. “Fine! Fine!” exclaimed the fat man. "Now we shan’t be long. The real thing will go off just as well.” ' They stepped out of the cage, the girl smiling pitifully at Harry. He imagined that she was more humiliated than alarmed. There was half an hour to wait before the real perform.R nce. Seated side by side before the cage, which had been wheeled just outside the arena, they exchanged eonfldences. * , Her name was Lucy Vernon, and she had come to the city three months before. , When her money was gone she got a position In a department store. Her country manners and unsophisticated ways were not what that particular store wanted. She was laid off pt the end of the busy season. And then had come the awful struggle with

temptation. She nadtbee?T at her last gasp When she saw the advertisement in the’ women’s .columns. And she, too, was to receive’twenty-five dollars for the night’s work. “You’ll go home with it,” pleaded Harry. ■ ' She shook her head. The littlecountry place would scorn her,.as a failure; No, she would' renew the fight. _lt would gitfe her a monthfs . leeway. Harry could not shake her in that determination.

He almost wished that the marriage was to be a real one when the time came for the performance. This time the girl entered the cage without a tremor, for Harry, lie was looking at -her so hard that he hardly thought about the lions at all. -Ladies and gentlemen," announced , the fat man, “allow me to present to you Signor Giovanni and Madame Libertina. This young and handsome couple, having long loved one another, have decided to ’plight their troth at the hands of the Rev. Eliphet, within the den of famous man-eating lions. Signor Giovanni comes’ of-an ancient Italian family. The Madame Libertina is of the best continental stock. Ladles and gentlemen, keep your eyes on the lions. The ceremony will now begin-” It seemed like sacrilege, only it was so like a happy dream, when Harry placed the gold ring upon the finger of the girl beside him. And presently he was ’escorttag her from the cage and bowing to the applauding audience. ™ Only one thing jarred the ceremony —the Rev. Eliphet had very plainly taken a drop or two of something stronger than water. “Fine I Fine I” shouted the fat man, running up to them and handing them their money. “Beat it now, before any of them guys gets wise to ydu.” Harry felt happy enough to shake hands with the fat man. He also shook hands with the Rev. Eliphet, who came up to the pair in a rather zigzag fashion to say farewell. “I guess you don’t know you’re really married, do you?” he leered.'. “What’s that?” cried Harry.

“Fact. I used to be a real minister. That was years ago, but I got the right to perform marriages still, under state law. You’re tied up all right. But I won’t give you away.” He leered and, with a profound bow, took his unsteady departure. Harry and the girl looked at each other. She was white and trembling. "Do you think it’s true?” she stammered. —’ - "I don’t know,” answered Harry. “What shall we do if it’s true?” cried the girl. “It’s terrible. If we’re really married, we’ll have to get divorced, I suppose—” Harry took her hand in his. “I don’t know about that,” he answered. “Suppose we —suppose we make sure by getting married again!” He led her out into the street. “I guess two can make as gobd a fight as one,” he continued. “We’ve both taken chances with the lions tonight; let’s take therh with life now. Will you?” -j “But I don’t know you. and—” “And we’re going to be learning to know each other all our lives, dear,” he said, kissing her. ~

FEEDING-BOTTLES LONG AGO

Specimens Preserved Show They Constituted, Besides Their Proper Purpose, a Rattle and Picture Book. Possibly a hollow gourd constituted the first babe’s feeding bottle. Torn rfrom its parent tree, its edible interior would have found its way to the stomach of its adult plucker, after which the hollow shell would be filled with milk, CirothKr'Tiqtfitl'refreShment, for the satisfaction of the infant. In tropical countries, again, the coconut would constitute a natural feeding bottle, already filled with the necessary nourishment. Without, however, indulging in speculation of this kind, it may be noted that the archaic vase room at the British museum contains specimens of feeding bottles—-tetinoe, archaeologists call them—dating back to between six and seven hundred years before Christ. These very early babies’’' bottles are usually gobuiar in shape, are elaborately decorated, and are covered with small knobs which, it is conjectured, were used to hang tiny bells upon. In short, the feeding bottle of those days was also a rattle and a picture book combined.

Boilers Need Another Gauge.

From the standpoint of the plantowners whose money is being spent, the question of the true'method “of” fuel economically probably is most vital, and yet, strange to say, it is one that rema Ins most frequently unsolved; It is regarded aSeminently proper to provide each boiler with a pressure gauge, so that the firemen may at any time know tire exact boiler pressurebut it is not thought necessary to furnish them with a telltale to indicate the state of combustion. And as a result, the average boiler plant usually wastes from 5 to 25 per cent—sometimes more—of its coal. —Engineering Magazine.

Loves His Liza.

“Look here ,Sam.” 1 1 “Yes, Liza.” , : , “I begins t’ think yer doesn’t love me no mo’.* ' “Nonsense, Liza; what put that in yo’head?” : . “Why, yer just sits there by the fire and sees me work.”. "Why, Liza, the more I sits here by this fire an’ sees yer, workin’, the more I loves yer, honey,”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER. INI\

AMERICAN ATHLETES WIN HONORS ABROAD

BRILLIANT PERFORMERS IN SWEDEN.

American athletes have again shown that they retain their place at the head of track and field sports by the brillianUperformances of the chosen few who crossed td the Scandinavian countries at the invitation of Sweden. With only five men on the team, four of them selected officially and the other, Ward of Chicago, going because his fellow citizens thought he deserved the trip, the representatives of the United States have won nearly every event in which they have competed. In the two days at Christiania the Americans were victorious in -every event but one, and in that Ted Meredith was beaten only by a_.yard by J. Bolin, the Swedish champion, at 800 meters. The performances of the men at Stockholm were remarkable when it is taken into consideration that they had disembarked from the steamship only a day or two before their first meeting with the Scandinavian champions. In the stay of a week beforerthe Stockholm and Christiania meetings the Americans had a chance to train, and the result was apparent, particularly irrThe cases of Meredith, Loomis and' Ward. Loomis recovered his spring in the high jump and de-

COAKLEY IN NEW CONTRACT

Veteran Pitcher Signed by Columbia University—Has New Duties and Increased - Salary—— Andy Coakley, veteran pitcher, who has been baseball coach of Columbia university for three years, has signed a new long-term contract, with more

Coach Andy Coakley.

Important duties assigned him and more pay attached. -■' He_has had grent the Columbia baseball teams.

WOMEN SELECT GOLF DATES

First Time in History of United States Golf Association Fair Sex Have Had Privilege. A committee of women will select the course anti dates for their next national golf tournament. An announcement at headquarters of the United States Golf association says the Committee has been asked to choose three clubs and the date which they consider best for the woman golfers, so that their selection can be voted upon, which is to be held in NeW York next January. This is said to be the first time in the history of the organization that the women have been permitted to select the course and the dates.

seated Kullerstrand, the Swede, who had beaten him in the first meeting. Ward scored his first victory of the tour when he won the 200 meters on the opening day at Christiania and Meredith got close enough to Bolin at 800 meters to make matters uncomfortable for the man who had easily conquered him a week previous. Bob Simpson, the University of Missouri hurdler, has been invincible, in all the competitions over hurdles, and already has placed on the books a new world’s mark for 110 meters. Besides showing his superiority in hurdling, Simpson has acquitted himself well on the flat, and the same may be said of-Murray, who has beaten the Scandinavians with great regularity in both hurdle races and at sprinting distances. Loomis has been victorious in all the short-distance races, and, now that he has evened up with Kullerstrand in the high jump, has established his supremacy in that department of sport. The Scandinavians were delightedwith the work and sportsmanship of the Americans and promise to send a representative lot of athletes to the United States next year to compete in various tournaments.

NOTES of SPORTDOM

No matter who plays, in most of the football games the ticket scalpers are winners. • • • All of the clubs In the Western league are said to have made money this year, except seven. • * * According to latest the Dodgers haven’t cracked under the strain of having so much money. • * ■ Gloomy Gus says: The man who invented basketball was in all other respects a respectable and decent citizen. - ■ ♦ * * Minneapolis boxing promoter w»uld give bonuses to flght.ers scoring knockouts. He automatically bars Freddie Welsh. The McGraw who plays tackle for Princeton is not John of Giant fame. If he were he would be a great kicker. , - • * <- ' Miller Huggins has been given permission to trade any player on his team. He might be able to get a few broken bats In exchange. * .* • In the good old days of boxing a champion often, fought on a “winner take all” basis. Nowadays all a champion' wants.? whether he wins or loses. is everything. . • « • _ A futurity candidate recentlyplaced in Tommy Murphy’s stable at Poughkeepsie is a yearling Ally by Mainstreet, 2:05, out of Lady Jay, 2:13, by Jay McGregor, 2.07%. A revised version of the sale of the Red Sox shows the club went for .$750,000 Instead of $075,000. Yet Charley Ebbetts had nerve enough to ask a million anti a half for the Dodgers. • • • All of the big league parks how seep comparatively quipt and deserted and melancholy, except Shibe park, Philadelphia, where the attendance continues about—the same as it was in September. \ John L. Collyer la. coaching Cornell university oarsmen, assisted by former Coach Charles Courtney, In an | advisory capacity. The early workouts attracted 150 candidates for the varsi|ty and freshmen eights.

YACHTING BOOMING IN CUBA

Amateur's Have. ’Outgrown Smaller Craft and Place Orderr for Several Larger Yachts. With the growing prosperity of Cuba, yachting has developed into one of the leading sports of wealthy Cubans, and the Havana Yacht club races are now a feature of the season. Many of the amateur yachtsmen feel that they have outgrown the sender type of rtfeing craft, and orders have been placed in this country for several of the larger racing yachts. When these are launched it is hoped that some of the American yacht owners may be induced to visit Cuba and participate in a series of international races; If the outcomeoftheseraces warrants, several of the wealthy Cuban enthusiasts may, combine and challenge for the America’s cup within the next few years. ~~

DEPENDS ON “PULLED DRIVE”

Success of Ichiya Kumagee, Japanese Tennis Champion, Uses One of Rarest Strokes. fc. Tennis experts who have been studying the style of Ichiya Kumagee since the recent victories of the Japanese. Champion showed him tobe a formidable contender for the national title, say that Kuiuagee’s success is due largely to his use of the “pulled drive,” one of the rarest strokes in the game. The stroke, they say, -corresponds to the pull in golf. Its effect is to_ make the ball spin upon an axis tilted away, from the player at an angle

Ichiya Kumagee.

of about 35 degrees. The, ball is heavily cut sideways, upward and outward, and the effect is a wide curve in flight and a very puzzling bound or break after it strikes the ground. It is said that this stroke was successfully used by the late Anthony F. Wilding, the British and Australian ehampion, but it is virtually unknown in the United States. ——

POSTS ARRANGED FOR COURT

Desirable to Have Them Removed When Lawn Is Being Cut or in Winter—Good Plan Shown. It is sometimes desirable to have tennis-court posts arranged to be easily removed from the lawn or the court when-the grass is being mowed, or during the winter. The method of fixing the posts in the ground, as shown in the sketch, makes it convenient to remove the pdsts and still gives the necessary stability, writes Edward R. Smith of Walla Walla, Wash,, 4n Popular Mechanics Magazine. A square wooden box, tarred to resist moisture, is placed in the ground, and the post is fitted into It. The upper end of the

Removable Posts.

box Is level with the surface, and when the post Is removed a wooden block is fitted Into the opening. Removal of the posts permits the mowing of the grass close to them and leaves the place free from obstructions when the court is not in use.

HOLDS MANY CHESS TITLES

Lasker Is Now Champion of New York and Chicago and Recently Won English Emblem. Edward Lasker, winner of the re-, cent Western States Chess association meet, holds a number of titles, aH of which he has won by a narrow margin. . ■. He holds the. championship of New York, the championship of Chicago, and during his sta/ id England won the championship of London. ? 4 >» C* ( 's ,

HOME TOWN HELPS

BUILDING ON DEFINITE PLAN t Country Hat Been Quick to Recognize Advantages of Having EXpert ' Lay Out City. Town planning has. received so much attention within the, last ten years that it is developing into a new profession and 'one that'promises to be most remunerative. The obvious advantage of a brand new city, built up from the ground on a plan in harmony with ~ modern developments, over the city which was evolved from a small village in which sanitation, convenience and civic beauty were.- untbought of, has been recognized by a number of corporations in the selection of sites for manufacturing plants. The need of persons competent to plan new cities as well as to remodel old ones led the University pt Pennsylvania to establish a course of city planning. It has been under the direction of B; Antrim Haldeman, city engineer of Philadelphia ; Carol Aronovkd ancFßernard Newman.of the kjjlladelphia housing commission and Prof. James P. Lichtenberger of the university. A number of cities are now establishing commissions for the purpose of procuring a definite plan suited to Individual municipal need. New York recently established such a commission and the group of public buildings which are adding so materially to the efficiency and beauty of Cleveland were built from plans which recognized the peculiar and distinctive conditions of that city. Dallas and Galveston, Tex., Birmingham, Ala., and Reading, Pa., are among other cities which have recently adopted a definite plan upon which future improvements will be based.

ADD TO CITY’S APPEARANCE

Concrete Signposts in Use at Lincoln, Neb., Are Ornamental as Well as Useful.

Heavy relnforced-concrete signposts capable of withstanding the attacks

inch deep In its faces. The post is about seven feet in height and costs approximately $3. In addition to being of substantial construction it has the added virtue of sightliness. On the other Jiand, it is of a type which is difficult to read at night unless exceptionally well illuminated.— Popular Mechanics Magazine.

EMPTY LOTS MADE TO BLOOM

Denver’s School Garden Crusad? Is In. tended to Turn Them All into Patches of Beauty. Denver is= carrying on a school garden crusade that is expected to make a beauty spot of every empty lot In that city. Already the results are said to be remarkable. Houston has thousands of vacant lots—more of them probably than any other city of our size in the country—and they tire not things of Few of them are at all presentable, but they are ever present. Some there are that are examples of the loveliness that any vacant space may be made to show, but these are few... Yet it is easier to make a lot beautiful here than anywhere else in the country. There is no excuse for a single ugly spot in any city.

BEST KIND OF COMBINATION

White Lilies With Background of Blue Delphiniums Will Make Any Garden Beautiful. Put it down in your garden note book that in another year you will have rows of white lilies with a background of blue delphiniums. If you have once seen that combination you will not rest content unttl you h«ye it in your own garden. In a place near Tuxedo, MTS there have been this year four rows of lilies with the delphinium background across the entire'eiid of a large garden. Its beauty was equaled only by the fragrance.

Down With the Street Sign.

Signs that encroach upon the streets are a nuisance that ought not to be tolerated, and Philadelphia streets will o be safer and less cluttered up if the police will really the recent, municipal ordinance limiting the size and position of such structures. Signs of this character belong in the same class as overhead! wires. They are disfiguring to the streets over which they hang .and they introduce a distinct element of danger at time* of storm or f fl£e. We have been to indifferent or Indulgent in the past, dnd the growth of the signs under the stimulus of com- . petition has pgSsed the point of toleration.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. , *■ .••..Lx-..’. ft" - r • • :... . .. ...

of small boys la thickly. populat- * ed have been designed to carry the street names at intersections of tiroroughfares in Lincoln, Neb fc Each is foursided and near the top pieces a square concrete cap which bears the street In let- * ters cut a half