Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1917 — Page 2

Treasure Trove

By Walter Joseph Delaney

(Copyright, 1»17, by W. G. Chapman.) “It’s the end!” declared Ross Evans gloomily, and closed the suitcase he had been packing with a grim face. “Nonsensel” dissented Burr Tilden, his best and pretty near only close friend. “We all have our ups and downs, mostly downs in my case, but Tm going to hold on. You won’t leave till night. I'll drop in then and’see you to the depot. Bound to call the city a fizzle and get back to the contented village, eh?” “Yes,” replied Ross drearily. “I suppose I’ve had experience enough to fill a job on a country weekly. I’ll be near the folks, anyway and —goodby ambition!” “Got all your possessions, sure?” asked Burr, poking around In the clothes closet of the little bedroom that had been home to Ross for the past two months. “Hi —here’s an old box way up on a dusty top shelf. Thunder!” Amid a deluge of broken bits of pastboard and yellow faded papers Burr slid out of the closet, brushing the dust from his shoulders. Ross viewed the litter uninterestedly. “Not mine,” he observed. “Mementoes of some previous roomer, I suppose. Let it be. I’ve overpaid the landlady up to the end of the week, so she can afford to clean it up.” “Just so. Well, till evening, then,” and Burr went on his way, light-heart-ed on twelve dollars a week under all circumstances. Ross, with nothing a week for over a month past, paced the floor, hands in pockets, a wearied, disappointed expression on his handsome young face. He could think back a year with vivid memory. As to prospects ahead Ross Evans shrugged his shoulders resignedly. It was-rather—hard, after discovering latent genius in his mental make-up, to come to the city, exploit his literary predilections and find no place to fit in. Of course there Vas the Weekly Magnate, but the best that offered there was re-write stuff. His friend, Burr Tilden, budding reporter, urged Ross to try the dailies, but Ross

"Hello!" He Exclaimed.

stuck to writing poetry, for which there was no market, and hoped some day to break into magazine or book work. “Tell you, Evans,” the proprietor of the Weekly Magnate had told Ross the day that weak and gasping periodical gave up the ghost in the hands of an assignee, “you've got big dreams—come down. You're a natural born poet, but you know what the market is on I rhymes. Outside of that you have one remarkable faculty.” “And what’may that be?” interrogated Ross skeptically. “Editing, t re-writing, condensing—yes, and you’d make an excellent critic. You know good stuff when you see it.” “You want me to be a ghoul—feasting on the bones of better men, I see!” J remarked Ross bitterly. 1 1 Then disgust, tt growing sense of ■ un- " fair treatment and the bruised soul thinkinjg of the peace and panacea of .home, where he would be welcome, humble though it was, the dreams of fame over and, self-confessedly, a failure. Burr Widen went through the in- i spiring variety and briskness of an j average reportorial day and turned Up at the loggings, as he had promised. He pushed open the door without knocking. “Hello!” he exclaimed, halting summarily and staring abbut in a puzzled way. ./ For the little * pictures Ross had packed up that morning were in their places on the wall again, the suitcase was empty, his belongings in their old accustomed confusion and disor-1 ‘der. Ross himself sat at his writing table. He had a roll of manuscript before him', which he covered up hastily with a newspaper as Burr burst in upon him. "Going to stay,” announced Ross. "What's happened?" challenged Burr

“Going to try a new racket,” explained Ross in an evasive uneasy sort of a way. / “Oh—so!" muttered Burr thoughtfully. “What is it?” “Agent, brain broker, whatever you want to call it,” said Ross. “I’ve got a chance to exploit a new and budding genius.” “Who 1 is’he?” “She.” “Ah-h! Name, now?” “Melba Worthington,” declared Ross boldly. * i “U-um!” I Ross was no further communicative and Burr did not press him for details. They chatted casually. Ross was glad when Burr went away, close chums as they were. He had made a great discovery. The old pasteboard box Ross had discovered had come under his inspection. He had chanced to examine the bundle of 'Written pages it had contained. Ned was amazed, then interested, then charmed. The box must have belonged to a former occupant of the room, to whom, Ross theorized, a girl relative had sent the fruits of her literary efforts. They had been neglected or forgotten, it appeared, Ross had not read ten pages of one of the manuscripts before he decided that he had happened upon a rare treasure trove. '_'r; v ———-——— “Why, the girl is a genius, whoever she is!” he declared enthusiastically. He sat up all that night. There were over twenty manuscripts. Each succeeding one he read was superior to the one preceding. “I’m no author, they tell me, but they sqy I can tell a good thing when I see it. I see the selling possibilities of these gems. I’ll edit them, place them and —” Claim them as his owm? Oh, never! He would make his unknown girl famous. He would collect his twentyfive per cent fee for his labors, honest hire. He w’ould find this girl, to whom he gave a fanciful name, he would shower her with wealth after awarding her fame. What happy occupation! What a real romance! Six months later Ross Evans was in high clover. A big publisher had snapped up the stories, one after another, until six were given to the public, who wanted more. Ross set the price, and it was a high one. He had a better offer from another publisher. “I’ve got two thousand dollars of my own and over eight thousand in the bank for Miss Melba Worthington,” he announced to the only sharer of his secret, Burr Tilden, one day. “I must find the young lady. I’ve started the task. The landlady here says the ‘party who left that box must have been a client of the woman who operated the apartments before she bought her out. She is trying to locate her for me.” It was a month later when Ross left the city in a state of pleasurable excitement. The old landlady had been found. David Vastine was the name of the former tenant of the room. He had fallen ill and had died at a city hospital. The landlady remembered sending his watch and some few other personal effects, at his direction, to a Naomi Warren, Rushville, two hundred miles distant. And now Ross was on his way to the obscure country village. He located Miss Naomi Warren. She was working in the one department store of the town as a milliner’s assistant. He never forgot his first interview with this timid, modest wild flower of beauty. She listened to his story with widening eyes. She gazed at the pages of her last printed story with marvelling eyes and burst into tears.

Her soul seemed soaring as she later comprehended that the world had recognized her work.and that this handsome, great-hearted messenger of fame had brought it all about. Six months later Burr Tilden ran into Ross, turning a street corner. “Hello! back at last?” he hailed. “Yes,” nodded happy-faced Ross—“with my wife.” “What! Married?” “Yes.” “Who is she?” “Well,” was the reply, given with fond and proud satisfaction, “she wrfs Naomi Warren. I made her Melba Worthington, and pow she is Mrs. Ross Evans.”

Castle Garden.

Castle Garden, New York, was built by the United States in 1807, from the plans of Lieut. Col. Jonathan Williams, C. T., and was called Fort Clinton. In 1832 it was ceded to the city; in 1824 it became a place of amusement, and about 1826 got its present name. In TSMS there were Ethiopian minstrels there; in 1847-49 theatrftal companies played there. In 1855 it was closed as a place of amuseriient and the commissioner _of emigration took iVasauL end: grant depot. In |B7d it suffered from fire, and on July 9, 1876, it was burned to the ground. It was rebuilt at once. In 1892 the depot was moved to Ellis Island and Castle Garden reverted to the citu, which in 1896 opened an aquarium there.

As the Children Understood It.

The reading lesson was the story of a poor prisoner shut Up in a narrow cell, and the teacher was trying to see if the children really understood what they were reading, and related that through the small window came a bar of sunlight, striking against the grim wall, as if it wished to brighten the captive’s dreary life. He reached up, trying to get a glimpse of the outer world. “Now, why was he so anxious to look out?" said the teacher. “To see who threw the soap,” answered the class, in one voice.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

How to Form a Red Cross Chapter

just as the family is the group on which all modern civilization is based, and of which counties, states and nations are formed, so the chapter is the unit on which is basfed the great work of the American Red Cross. The aim of this article is to tell, as clearly and briefly as may be, the best way to form a chapter. A small group of persons—three or four or half a dozen, or even tenshould hold an informal meeting and reach a mutual understanding of what is to be done. They must understand that the Red Cross chapter is not a sewing society, nor a physicians’ club, nop a nurses’ organization; nor a political or religious group of any kind. It is a union of the brightest and strongest men and women of any community, formed to prepare for the alleviation of human misery. This being true, those who form the chapter must be men and women who command the respect of the community. It has been found W'ell to have in this group a representative of the local chamber of commerce or whatever business organization the community affords. Physicians, lawyers, clergymen, educators, bankers, business men —whoever are leaders in the daily life of the community—make good material for Red Cross work. Politics and creed are never considered at all. It is preferred that each county have a chapter, usually located at the county seat, but there is no hard and fast rule. In any case, those who wash to form a chapter should agree on a course, form themselves into an organisation committee, choose a chairman and secretary, and write to "the Division Director of the Red Cross for permission to organize a chapter. In the letter asking this permission, a brief account should be given of each of those in the movement, for the director invariably makes inquiry, before granting permission, to make sure that the chapter will be in capable and trustworthyhands. . The division director will send a blank form petition, which is to be filled out with the names, addresses and other items concerning each of the

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For the Heart of Summer

petitioners, and returned to him. If it appears that responsible and representative men and women are back of the movement, he will grant authority to organize a chapter. The next step is a meeting of the group, already organized Into a committee on organization, together with a few other of the strongest men and women of the community, but not a public mass meeting. At this meeting a board of trustees of from 12 to 36 is usually elected, one-third to hold office one year, one-third two years, and one-third three years. This board then elects a central committee of ten members, the central committee chooses the chapter chairman, and the chairman with the aid of the central committee names the principal committees. It has been found best to elect an experienced business man and capable executive as chairman. In only a few instances, have women been chosen. The secretary must be familiar with the work of keeping records, and carrying on businesslike correspondence with men whose every minute is valuable. The treasurer is usually the president of a strong bank. Chairman, secretary and treasurer are usually ex officio members of the executive committee. When the chapter has been fully organized, a certificate of organization and election, made out on blanks which will have been furnished, will be sent to the division director. If he finds it regular, he will forward it to the Director of Chapters, at Washington, it will be taken by him before the central committee, and a formal recognition of the new chapter wilt be granted. From that moment the chapter is the official representative of the American Red Cross in the territory over which it has jurisdiction. The name of the chapter is usually that of the town in which it is formed. The name must be geographical, and the territory over which the chapter wishes jurisdiction must be dearly set forth in the petition, and will be as clearly defined in the authority to organize, and in the formal recognition by the central committee.

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Dots and Dashes.

When your frock or your blouse Is in need of a little decorative fluffery take some ordinary yarn or floss and do all the hems and things in dots and dashes. You may appear somewhat like a characterization of the Morse code, but you will be preeminently in the front rank of .thfe soldier of fashion. The elder Dumas, in one phenomenal year, actually turned out volumes at the rate of one a week.

CLAMP IS CARPENTER’S AID

New Device Designed to Hold Siding in Place While the First Nail Is Being Started. It is difficult for a man to nail siding on a house because he must hold the board in place while starting the first nail, as well as when marking and cutting the stock. A device made of a steel bar fitted to a weighted section of pipe overcomes this difficulty, says Popular Mechanics magazine. The end of the bar is hooked up to the studding and clamps the board securely. The elamp is made as follows: Procure a piece of soft galvanized steel bar % by 1 by 30 inches. Bend it together 14 inches from one end, and then bend the shorter part to a right angle, 5 inches from the end. Studding is usually .1% by 3% Inches, and the end of the Ibnger part of the bar should be bent to this shape so as. to hook around the studding. Allowance must be made for the thickness of the siding—usually % inch —and 1% inches additional to give a proper clamping force The handle Is a piece of pipe, 7 Inches long. After fitting it over the folded bar, weight it with about three pounds of lead. When the piece of siding is to be fitted into place, hook the clamp on the studding and drop it to bind. It will hold boards while marking and sawing them. For long boards, place the clamp near the middle, and slide boards under it.

CORNED WHALE AND GREENS

This Is Latest Item on Bill of Fare Suggested by New Method of Treating Sea Mammals. To Gustav Adolf Holzapfel of Leipzig, Germany, a patent has been granted that suggests the culinary possibilities of the meat of whales, seals, walruses and other mammals of the sea. It is entitled “Method of Making the Meat of Sea Mammals Fit for Food,’’ andTsdescnbedasfdllbwsinthePatent Office Gazette: “The art of producing a meat food for human consumption which consists in subjecting sea mammal meat to the action of cold water and warm water in alternation, then subjecting the so treated sea mammal meat to the action of an aqueous pickling solution containing common salt, sugar and a pungent alcoholic liquor, and a savory vegetable, then subjecting Che so pickled sea mammal meat to pressure operative to eliminate more or less of said pickling liquor, together with extractive matters offensive to the taste.”

“Whar’s the Speeret?"

Daniel Willard, president of the B. & 0., and the man President Wilson has chosen to organize industry for war, will tell you about a trip he once made to see his father up in the fine old Vermont town, soon after he had acquired the “99” and was justly proud of her. He had expected the big new private car to make quite a hit with his father. But the older railroader Tnade few comments upon it. He inspected it carefully, opening all the table drawers and locker doors. Finally he turned squarely upon his son. “Daniel,” said he, “whar’s the speeret?” He had drifted into the old-fashioned name for liquor once used up in the northeast corner of the land, but Daniel Willard understood. He knew that his father was thinking of other days, of the official cars that had once swept disdainfully by the little depot at Windsor, and he replied: “Not now, father; they’re not railroading that way nowadays.”*—Everybody’s Magazine.

Missions Do Health-Work.

The Christian forces in China are becoming increasingly effective in their efforts to improve social and sanitary conditions in Chinese cities. The Young Men’s Christian association has been conducting a health campaign in Hangchow. The abbot of the large Buddhist temple in central China invited Mr. Turner, the secretary, to repeat his lecture on sanitation in the temple. There were more than 100 priests and about 200 villagers to hear the lantern lecture on sanitation. Mr. Turner distributed tuberculosis story calendars —the story of two brothers; one followed the laws of health and lived to a good old age, the other did not and died of tuberculosis at an early age. A week after the lecture the abbot of the temple camegp the. association bringing with him two priests to become members. These men represent much of superstition and yet have latent power. They are now friendly with the missionaries and may become Christians.

Wireless Telephone.

The war has been the means of introducing many scientific ventures. On April 11, 1916, Secretary of the Navy Daniels wrote President Theodore N. Vail of the American Telephone company with reference to testing the possibility of the-use of the wireless, telephone at sea. The resulting tests covered a period of 40 hours, beginning nt 4 p. m. on May 6 and ending at 8 a. m. on May 8, 1916. During this period all communications of the navy department were on a war basis. The results are said to have been very encouraging. John J. Carty, who has been actively concerned in wireless telephony, said: “There is no navy in the world which has the power of the United States navy to mobilize instantly Jts resources through such a system of communications.” Some ships of the navy already have installed the wireless apparatus. .

Have a Thought of God

By KEV. J. H. RALSTON, D. D.

Secretary of Correspondence Department, Moody Bible lactitute, Chicago

TEXT—But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. —Job 23:13. It is a teaching of the Bible that.as to men God is not in all their thoughts,

means ruin to the individual and to the community. Amidst the accumulation of the ordinary cares of life and its pleasures and the frequent extraordinary calls made on man as a member of society, he often becomes so overwhelmed that he does not appear* to have time to get God in his thoughts, and it seems as if man everywhere in these awful times is thus troubled and deserves our kindest consideration.

Why Think of God? The first suggestion is that God is what he is. In the text he is represented as having purpose and that it is impossible to change that purpose; everything he purposes goes through to the end. God himself claims that his counsel shall stand, and he is the first and he is the last, and besides him there is no other God. He asks of men that they be still and know that he is God, and he wilFbe exalted in the earth. He takes up the islands of the sea as a very little thing. All nations before him are as nothing and vanity, and he sitteth upon the circle of the earth and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. Paul chided the intellectual Athenians because they seemed to think God like unto gold and silver, and Job said in ancient times that a man is foolish who strives against God, for he does not give account of any of his matters, and again and again does the Bible represent God in his infinite creative power, as speaking, and material things, worlds and universes even spring into being.

The proper thought of God will take away the despair that often comes to men as they contemplate the ‘World about them. Never in the history of the race were the affairs of men ini such ruin as today. The world seems aflame. Material things seem to be dissolving and higher things held dear to man seem to be going down in a universal crash. Millions, of men are dying or are mangled in battle. Millions of women and children are starving, and there is chaos everywhere, but over it all God rules. In the dark moments when President Lincoln was stricken down by the assassin’s bullet. Congressman Garfield, afterwards president, said in New York, “Clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.” God was not asleep when the bullet of Booth crashed into the brain of the president. God’s throne in the midst of the clouds and the darkness did not even feel a tremor.

God in National Affairs.

Furthermore, God is sh all the affairs of life, whether man regognizes his presence or not. When Victor Hugo in “Les Miserables” was seeking an explanation of the battle of Waterloo he asked, “Was it possible for \ Napoleon to win the battle?” We answer in the negative. Why? On account of Wellington, of Blucher? No. on account of God. . . ...... Napoleon had been denounced in infinitude, and his fall was decided. Waterloo was not a battle; it was the transformation of a universe.” Gettysburg is considered the pivotal battle of the Civil war and “if” occurs very frequently in the story of that three days’ conflict. If General Lee had attacked Howard’s broken corps on July 2; if General Warren had not disobeyed orders in occupying Little Round Top; if the Confederate general Johnston had marched in the darkness a half mile farther, the issue of that battle might have been very different. How explain? The only explanation is, God was in it. Suppose the mighty army of Germany had not been Suddenly stopped at the Marne, what would have occurred? Some say angels intervened, but w’hether they did or not, the explanation is—God. We should; think of God because thereby tha highest ideals of man’s existence, whether as an individual or as a member of a community, will be realized. In these days when the individual seems lost in the general turmoil, it is well to remember that God has always deglt with man in communities. The families of Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Israel in all its national history had God’s recognition, rind God has given the warning to such communities or nations that forget him that they shall be cast into hell, which has always been true. There is to be realised Augustine’s hope of a real ci vitas Del.

that is, he is not in any of them in the proper sense. The popular view Vis, that we have no atheists among us in these days, but that is true only from the standpoint of theory. Practical atheists, however, abound on all sides, and few live as if there were a God to whom they are accountable. Such ignoring of God