Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — Page 2

The Draft Dodger

By F. L. Henderson

(Copyright. 1917, by W. G. Chapman.) “You say he is a draft dodger?” “That’s what I passed one night in his company and ought to know.” And the casual acquaintance of Gerald Hoyne went on his way, unknowing that/al though he had said and meant “draught," his auditor had construed it “draft.” The air was full of war and its exciting alarms, so Gerald might be ex- _ cased ~for a natural mist a ke. That misconception was destined to lead to serious results, however. The subject of discussion was Vance Dalton, unaware that he was under criticism, passing along on the other side of the street. He had just returned to Preston after an absence of two months. Gerald had never known him any further than that prior to his departure he had been a favored suitor of his pretty cousin, Mina Hoyne. Now she was away, Infected with the current patriotic fervor, visiting a relative in the city and incidentally “doing her bit" by fotwardlng the Red Cross movement. “I don’t like that!” muttered Gerald vehemently, and his brow furrowed with resentment and displeasure. “It sounds bad—a draft dodger I Well, if Vance Dalton is that, he will receive a cold reception in this wide-awake burg. He was always a reticent, mysterious sort of a fellow, friendly enough, but more given to reading home nights than mixing with the fellows. I’ll tackle him.” So Gerald was speedily on the trail of Dalton and overtook and hailed him. Dalton was courteous as ever, but did

“It Is This Fellow We Came Particularly to See."

not "slop over.” He made an Inquiry regarding Miss Hoyne as if it was a matter of course. “I’ll test him,” decided Gerald to himself, and then, aloud: “I say, dalton, we’ve started something here since you went away.” “Indeed?” smiled Dalton. “Yes, the crowd went wild over volunteering, and the registering will find every eligible fellow in town willing and ready.” “That’s great!” commented Dalton, with apparent real enthusiasm. “How do you stand?” demanded Gerald bluntly. “You mean?” “On this war question? You’ve come hack just-in-time to join the crowd.’*“TH have to think of it,” responded Dalton in a measured way that forbade further words.

“He’s yellow, 1 " soliloquized Gerald. “He won’t give a straight answer. I’ll tell the fellows and they’ll make the town too hot to hold him.” But Gerald did nothing of the sort. He had no positive assurance that Dalton was intent on evading his duty to his country. “If Dalton is tr real man,” he theorized, “he will come to the front, or at least declare himself before registration day.” But a few days later Gerald was urged into a new’ fit of indignation. He chanced to meet a friend who was a traveling salesman.-As on the former occasion, by some odd trick Vanee Dalton passed them by. “Hello!” exclaimed Gerald’s friend. “I’ve seen that fellow before.” "Is that so?” queried Gerald. “Yes, three weeks ago, coming out of a church in the city. He bad just been married.” “The slacker!” fairly shouted Geraid. “Now I’ve got the dear goods on the miscreant. I’ll write to Nina in a jiffy, and then we’ll proceed to put this slacker in his place.” : - Gerald did write to Nina to advise her of the facts, wondering if she had ever really cared for this false suitor. He was astounded to receive a cool, rather indefinite reply. / “Don’t get excited, Gerald, dear. I'm coming home tomorrow and we will have Mr. Dalton explain. Maybe he can clear up the situation.'’ Gerald was wrathful. There were an eVen dozen in his set and they met the next day at a hall where they .were wont to go through drilling exer-

rises. Gerald summoned them to strict attention. “Fellows,” he announced, “we’ve got a draft dodger among us." ii Ahd who may thafr-heV questioned his close chum, Dick Hardy. “Vance Dalton." “Sure of it, are you?” “I should think so. While he has been away on some mysterious errand he has got married —of course to claim exemption. He’s a slacker, that’s what he is, and we want to make him know what \ve think of it” ■Gerald’s auditors looked impressed and serious. “Besides that” resumed Gerald hotly, “the nerve of the fellow, coming back to the town where he professed such Interest In my pretty cousin, Nina!” “It looks bad,” muttered Hardy. “I propose that we hunt him up this evening and give him a piece of our mind,” suggested Gerald.. “That’s the idea!” piped in a chorus unanimous. “He’d ought to be run out of town.”

So a committee of six was appointed, with Gerald its chairman. It was just about dusk when the determined sextette met, each one wearing the .badge that told they had joined the service and were awaiting orders from the city. They visited the house where Dalton was boarding, to learn that Dalton had left there an hour previous. Then they went downtown, but failed to come across the object of their quest. They were passing the Hoyne home when Gerald came to a dead stop with a wild stare. “The cheek of him 1” he boiled over. “What’s the occasion?” inquired Hardy. “Look I There he is. And Nina, too I She must have just come home. How dare she tolerate the graceless wretch ?” “I’ll go in and Intimate we wish to haye a few moments’ conversation with him,” suggested Hary. “No, you won’t!” cried Gerald furiously. “We’ll all go in and face him right before Nina. Come on.” Nine and Dalton, looking quite serene and happy, were seated on a rustic bench. Both arose at the sudden invasion.

“Why, Gerald!” began Nina, extending her hand in cousinly welcome, but Gerald almost rudely brushed her aside. “It is this fellow we came particularly to see,” he burst forth, facing Dalton with flashing ayes—“this draft dodger, this slacker!” “Hello!” interrupted Dalton, calmly. “Where did you get that stuff?” and then he smiled with amusemehtT anif Nina burst outright into a peal of merry laughter as Gerald fairly shouted out the story of his remarkable discoveries. Something in the faces of Dalton and Nina checked him as he was about to hurl at the latter his scathing arraignment as a traitor. “Cousin Gerald,” began Dalton, with apparent astounding impudence, “you utterly mistook your city friend. I recall him—a genial high liver, who, by chance, was assigned to the same room asmyself at a hotel. I had a severecold and told him so, and the obliging fellow allowed me to close the windows, contrary to his usual sanitary custom, jocosely calling me a ‘draught dodger.’ ” “D-r-a-u-g-h-t, Gerald!” warbled Nina, mischievously. ‘As to the marriage, Cousin Gerald,” continued Dalton, “Mrs. Dalton here “Mrs. —who?” bolted out Gerald. “Yes, as I’m going as a nurse, and he is a full-fledged captain, we thought it best to go together to the front, If we can,” Nina broke in, sweetly. “You see, while Mr. Dalton was aw’ay those two mouths he was at a training camp, and he expects his captain’s commission next week.” “And, to have you men in my company,!’ interrupted Vance, “would fill the cup of joy complete.”

Fear Is Familiar Presence.

Soldiers used to say that- when they were in action they were too busy to be a fra id. Nearlyevery on ewho ha s passed through some great danger can verify their psychology. Often, after this kind of adventure, a fueling of surprise is accompanied by self-con-gratulation. “Well, I’m not such a cbWard, after all.” This common state of mind suggests thatji certain amount of humanity may be concealed behind a great deal of apparent confidence. The chances are that, with nearly all persons, the strong as well as the weak, the successful as well as the unsuccessful, fear in one guise or another, is a pretty familiar presence. “But not physical fear!” you may say, after the fashionable habit of hating to "be a coward, or," rather, hatingto seem to be a coward, a different matter. Well, physical fear and moral fear are pretty Closely related. Where one is, the other is likely to be, too.

Resisting the Sea Wind.

The problem of wind resistance to a steamship at sea has just been studied in a very exact and careful manner. A mlniatnre model of a 3,000ton freighter w’.as built in exact proportion and tested against an artificial breeze in a specially-built tunnel. It was found that a 30-mile gale exerts a resistance of approximately 3,500 pounds against a steamer of the 3,000ton size, and that such a wind alone will cut down her speed 5 per cent. When the Indirect effects of the wind in raising a rough sea and making it difficult to hold the course are added the net loss in speed may be as high as 18 or 20 per cent. In a dead calm the air resistance is responsible for a lowering of the theoretical maximum speed by almost 2 per cent

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

What Can We Do?

The department of military relief of the American Red Cross has organized a Red Cross supply service, with a chain of warehouses in the principal cities of the country. This supply service, with branch headquarters in New York, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and San Francisco, will co-operate with patriotic and relief societies in the forwarding of all soldiers comforts and hospital supplies made by volunteer workers throughout the country. Agents of Red Cross supply service are to be stationed in every military training camp and at every army base. “These men will supervise the distribution of supplies arriving from Red Cross depots," says the circular released for publication April 30, by the Red Cross. When Red Cross chapters or auxiliaries have made hospital suppttes, surgical dressings; hospffar garments, comfort a*nd ’saving bags, or whatever they have elected to make for the men of the army and navy, these supplies are to distributed through the Red Cross supply service, and should be forwarded to the warehouse nearest the point of their production. The necessity for such a service is very evident. When supplies are

Costume for Water Sports

It does not take long study of the new apparel made for water sports to learn that as careful thought has been giyen it as to any other kind of clothes for women. The bathing suit has advanced to the dignity of a costume for all sorts of water sports and is made in as great variety as any other sort of suit. It makes opportunity for much exercise of the designer’s fancy and for individual taste, and has graduated from merely a convenient dress for the water “to an interesting outfit for boating, bathing and the beach. - I Fashion has reatT us away &m the conventional blue or black and into the realm of gay colors, but-not J tn the entire neglect of these reliable old favorites. Black and navy, combined with white in suits of black and white or navy and white are among the smartest of this season’s offerings, and there are many all-black models. A practical and pretty one is shown in the picture, made with a full paiV of bloomers set on to a short-sleeved bodice. It has a skeleton over-bodice slashed into bands over the shoulders. What passes for a skirt is joined to this overbodice; three flat tabs wider at the bottom than at the top, doing duty for the requirement of the correct beach suit The cap is of black and white checkerboard rubber and black and. white cloth shoes with white silk stockings make a complete success of the costume. ’ Khaki-kool silk in oyster white with a brilliant figure in colors, is made up With black satin in the second suit. It has a guimpe of the black satin with slashed sleeves lined with .the khaki-

needed in any quarter a call for them will be sent to one of these warehouses and promptly filled just as an order for goods is filled when received at a factory. To insure promptness and efficiency all these supplies must be made according to specific standards and shipped through authorized channels. Profiting by the experience of Europe, the Red Cross and military officials have worked out a system by which all these matters of supply and distribution are put on an effective and systematic basis. Even the packing of supplies must be done according to regulations, so it is evident that any organization wishing to make Itself useful to the Red Cross must do its work, from beginning to end, in the way stipulated by that great society. The work of women, which is a very large factor in Red Cross activities, becomes quickly effective through these established agencies of supply and distribution. There are many branches of the work in which women concern themselves. They raise money, supply nurses and nurses’ aids, provide surgical and medical supplies, make surgical dressing, hospital garments and supplies and comforts of ail kinds for the soldiers. It is work in which they are very much at home.

kool. They allow entire freedom and some protection to the arms. One of the broad revels at the front of the bodice is slashed and the other slips through it so that both fasten over buttons covered with the black satin. A cap to match which may be worn over another of rubber, w’hlte stockings and black satin sandals, are the happy ending to this bit of cleverness in suits for water sports.

In Military Effect.

—Good-looktfig suits foriittle boys-nre of white mohair, the jacket plaited in groups below’ a straight yoke, and having patch pockets over the plaits, midway below’ yoke and belt. Instead of a flat sailor collar or round Eton, the litthe jacket has a coat collar and narrow lapels; and, altogether, the garment has a decidedly military suggestion which greatly appeals to the small boy. Short knee breeches of the white mohair accompany the plaited jacket. -- - .. —

Figured Seersucker Nightgown.

Quite a contrast to, the lovely crepe de chiqe nightgowns is one of white seersucker having a very small striping of tiny floxyers in various shades. White scalloping is the only trimming and this appears oil the Square neck and short sleeves. The practicability of such a gowil can be realized when it is understood that the material C* quires no ironing.

Colored Woman Nearing End of Useful Life i gHß’VThf.ltrN, the midst of one of the fine restdentlalsectioDs A stands the old cabin of Aunt Tempy Avery. Her front yard runs down to the paved street, and from her back door she commands a view of the far-

famed Mount Pisgah and “the Rat.” Many tempting offers have been received by the old mammy for her Valuable holdings, but never has she wavered in her refusal. “My ole marster gave me dis home when he died,” she would explain, “to be mine ontel I dies.” Nobody knows just the age of Mammy Tempy, though she unhesitatingly asserts that she is one hundred and six. It is said that she was a chattel of considerable value in 1840, when

she was given as a wedding present to her “Young Mistis” from her “Old Mistis.” This new “mistis” and her children and children's children she served faithfully many a year. In all these and the later years, when she/ “hired out,” she cared for between five and six hundred babies, “fust and last.” As a girl she was married to one Si Haynes, a servant on a neighboring plantation. After seven children had been born to them, the pair separated. “I aln' never seen him from that day to dis,” mammy explains. “After so long a time I reckoned he was dead." In all she has had nine children (two by a second husband). She points with delight, as her visitors listen to her tales of olden times, to the little fifth generation In its mother's arms. Under the home roof are still living representatives of four generations, the baby, its mother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother, relates the Christian Herald. Day by day mammy sits by her fire, or on the little front porch in the sunshine. She has many friends new and old, but' her heart is with the ancient regime. Her hair is white now, her face seamed with wrinkles, and her shoulders bent; but her eyes sparkle the cheerful ring of youth. ______

Milwaukee Father Had to “Set ’Em Up” Twice MILWAUKEE. —The proud papa is expected to “set ’em up” and buy the cigars on the arrival of a son and heir, but to do it 14 years after the event, as well as at the time of birth is too much. At least that is what Louis

ed young Elmer into the- world failed, however, to record that important event as prescribed by the statutes of the state of Wisconsin. So when Elmer Carl Gustave, now aged fourteen, asked for a permit.to labor in the fields during his vacation, and incidentally serve his country, no birth certificate could be secured. The doctor was hastily communicated with and he supplied the health department with the necessary and requisite Information, fftbett iV lVasrabouFfourteen years fate. And that is the reason the papers the other day bore the glad tidings that a son and heir had been borne to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nuesse, 320 Sixteenth avenue. Cigars again had to be passed and “the boys” had to have another round, although mtiny of them shared in the original treat. Mrs. Nuesse also came in for her share of congratulations. Just how she squared it with her friends it is not known. It Is understood, however, that the South side physician whose neglect was the cause of the double treat and many explanations, will have to stand all expenses.

Vegetable Gardens Are Replacing Flower Beds NEW YORK.—“Plant an onion every time you pull up a flower,” Is one of the mottoes Mrs. Frank A. Vanderllp Is carrying out on the beautiful Vanderlip estate in Scarborough, as a simple and effective war measure for

the production of food. Hundreds of acres around the home were early this 'spring planted to potatoes, and Mrs. Vanderlip has given the whole, scheme her personal attention and co-opera-tion. Not only, has she superintended this work herself, but she arranged to have land near by plowed up and planted with vegetables and cared for by the suffragists from the city who are anxious to show their patriotism and do their bit in this way. Mrs. Van-

derlip is the leader of the suffrage party in Westchester county. In a trim, short skirt and a garden smock, Mrs. Vanderlip works daily in the garden planned to relieve the food pressure. For a while this spring she turned the garden over to friends and neighbors and went out to do valiant work for the success of the Liberty bond. The Vanderlip menage is on ration basts and foods that are scarce are not served on the table. In a recent talk before the women of Westchester county, Mrs. Vanderlip said: “The co-operation of the wife and mother in carefully guarding the distribution of the food problem in her household will be the best way the women of the country can aid their government. This is our job.”

Poor Man Has Invested His All in Liberty Bonds £ ANPUSK Y,O. —Andrew Francis Patrick Mahon, sixty-seven years old, hotel □ porter and shoe shiner for more than half a century, is “broke” from < his “bit.” —“But I never was happier,” says ftfahon, “and until this war ends I

when Uncle Sam finds it necessary to float another Issue,” said Mahon. “By practicing the strictest economy I ought to be able to subscribe for several of the SIOO denomination." r He was the first to subscribe. He took SI,OOO worth In the name of a “Uncle Sam has got to win," he said, “I am too old, to fight Ip the trenches but I’m not too old to help sustain three or four youngsters who can fight Every penny I can scrape together over and above what it costs me to keep myself in working trim Unde Sam and the allies are going to get”'

IN THE CITIES

Nuesse, secretary and treasurer of Rockwell Manufacturing company, thinks. When Elmer Carl Gustave arrived In this “vale of tears,” as this world of ours Is sometimes called, one May day In 1903, Papa Nuesse wore the' usual expansive smile accompanying the completion of that successful journey. He also did the right thing with “the boys” and sundry other' friends. The M. D. who personally conduct-

am going to keep right on shoving across, all the money I can scrape together. I am going to place It where it will do the most good." Throughout the Red Cross campaign Mahon turned over dally his receipts for the day, less what ii: cost r him for meals. What he ate cost him from 60 to 70 cents a day. Several times he paid to the Red Cross committee sums exceeding $lO. “Now I’m going to start to save so ’ I can , buy some y more Liberty bonds