Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1917 — Page 2

The Rivals

By Veronica M. Maher

(Copyright. 1S1", by W. G. Chapman:) ••rm powerful tempted, Missy, but Pm strlvin’ hahd to cireumlocute de straight and narrowpath.” Thus Zeke Washington, dusky of face and conscience alike, notorious for past misdeeds, reclaimed according to popular repute, but many a former adversary still crossed the street to evade him when mindful of his quick temper and proclivity for carrying a razor. Pretty Miss Viola Ray tried to cheer and encourage him. In a way, Zeke was a protege of herself and the family. He had once worked quite faithfully and efficiently for the judge, her father. Presuming on this when down and out and wrecked by a drinking bout, pretty well battered up, nerves shaken and penitent, he would appear at the house humbly asking permission to sleep in the barn and “so. bits” for “medicine,” 1. % “a hair from the dog that bit lilm,” and would emerge from obscurity in a day or two, built up and on the warpath after, daring negro foes who had “mussed him up" when he was too far gone with drink to counter scientifically. On the last of these recuperative occasions Zeke just grazed the horrors of delirium tremens. The judge had him removed to a comfortable bed In the attic and Viola and a servant nursed him by turns. Then Viola gave him a lecture. The fellow was amenable to gratitude. He really gave up drink after that, became a noisy and enthusiastic member of the little African chapel got a position as porter at the town electric light plant and became the stock in trade “brand plucked from the burning of the negro minister. — . “I hadn’t ought to bother you with my distresses. Missy," Zeke declared, “for you look as if you have some troubles of yer own,” and he eyed her

“I Hadn't Ought to Bother You With My Distress, Missy."

sympathetically and Viola, indeed secretly sad hearted, wondered at his powers of discernment. “That good-for-nothin’, measly Mose Blossom Is de thorn in my flesh. Howsomever, I may have been a bad razor man, but Mose is a regular chicken snooker and a dlsgrace to de profession.” “Is he troubling you, Zeke?” inquired Viola. J J , ... “He is dat. Missy. For why? When I got religion Mose comes in too. I don’t put on no style, but Mose —he swings de agony with his fine clothes and his silk hat and his silver-headed cane. Dey makes him a subdeacon and lets him take up de collections, while I, dat got in fust, am only a sort of extra usher., Dat am my grouch at the present time and mahk me, Missy, some day dose slippery fingers of his will stick to de coin of the congregation and de collection will be noncombatimus en swampto, yessum.” "Don’t be envious, Zeke,” chided gentle-hearted Viola. “You are doing very well and we are all proud of your excellent behavior.”' "Thank you, Missy, but some day Tse afraid I’ll give dat Mose Just one hahd clip to take some of the bambozzle scruptiousness out of dat important pussonage.” Zeke had cause to refer to the troubles of Missy. He had Incidentally heard that Dexter Ward, her foftner constant attendant, had left the village at odds with the charming creature whom everybody predicted he would marry. Zeke liked Ward. He had coveted a magnificent seal ring Ward wore, and had admired it,,.and Ward had compensated him for his longings by presenting him with a discarded stick pin. Keen-witted Zeke bad guessed that Viola was mourning for her absent lover, but did not presume to make more than an incidental reference to her troubles. Had he done so he would have found Viola mystified, wounded by the alienee, the

desertion cf a lover to whom she bad penned a little note in answer to his own one bright morning In the past, to find the same unheeded and the man she loved vanished to parts unknown. She lived on her desolate life with no complaints, with explanation to nobody and affairs moved on with Viola Ray in their natural course. Then one day with something of a shock she learned that Zeke, In dragging a visitor from peril near a great whirling driving wheel at the plant, had himself fallen against it, had been taken to the hospital to have one arm amputated and was regarded as a valiant life saver, if not an actual hero. It was four months later when she met Zeke on the street, smiling and cheerful and one coat sleeve empty. Viola began to condole with him, but Zeke would have nontraOEz “Don’t express any pity about me, Missy,” grinned Zeke. “You see, I gets big damages from de plant and a pension, so Tse fixed for life. And say, Missy, what you think? Dat lowdown Mose was cotched filching de collection plate and de congregation has appointed me treasurer. I passes de plate now, de finance committee deliberatin’ dat as I had to hold de plate with one hand and hadn’t no odder hand, consequently de funds was safe.” A week later Zeke sought out the rival he had defeated and supplanted. A poor washerwoman had complained to him that Mose had not paid her four dollars he had owed her for a year and understood that Mdse w’as about to leave town. “I’ll fetch him,” promised Zeke, and forthwith started for the domicile of his oldtime adversary. He located the room in a cheap lodging house where he expected to find him. He pushed Tpen the door to stare, first mystified and then fully enlightened, at Mose, posed before a mirror and unconscious of an intrusion. Mose had a great seal ring on one finger and was studying its effect as presented on his bulky hand. He took out a watch from his pocket and loftily consulted it. “I’ll shore cut a figger when I get into real sassiety in de city I” he guffawed. “Mose Blossom, whar you stole dem traps? I’se got you. I knows dat ring. I seen dat watch afore. Dem’s de property of Mr. Dexter -Ward and I’ll have you pinched in two minutes if you doant fess up on how you got them.” Mose told his wretched story. The night Dexter Ward left town Mose had burglarized hisroom. He had never dared to exhibit his plunder in public. “What else you got, hey?” pressed Zeke. “Only a little cash, dat’s all, and It’s all spent,” whined Mose. “And what else —you speak de troof, or you get a sure jail sentence.” “Only some letters, but was no money in dem.” “Whar is dem letters?” The miserable Mose turned them over with the rest of the plunder. He sneaked out as Zeke looked over the epistles. One only interested him. It was from Viola Ray. It answered a marriage proposal, made months previous, and because Dexter Ward had never received it he had gone away. “Just to find Dexter Ward and make Missy happy,” was the one dominant thought of Zeke Washington after that. And he did find him, and one evening he strutted down the street to the home of Viola Ray, his reward, the handsome watch and the big seal ring ostentatiously displayed. “Missy,” he said to Viola, “I’se got a story to tell,” and he told it. “All troo dat miserable Mose! And Mr. Ward is down at the hotel and I’se to deliber his message. And you is to answer it.” “Oh, tell him to come! Tell him to come!” sobbed pretty Viola, palpitating with joy, and hope, and love.

Silvering Metals.

A simple process of silvering for copper, brass and other alloys is by means of a solution of silver in cyanide of potassium. The difference from the usual method consists in the use of zinc fillings with which the object to be silvered is coated. When the silvering solution of much durable character takes place. Rinsing in water easily removes the fillings, and they may be used repeatedly for the same purpose. The silvering solution is composed of one part cyanide of potassium in six parts water. Add this to a concentrated aqueous solution of nitrate of silver free from acid until the precipitate is redissolved. Mix this solution with fine chalk and apply after the previous cleaning of the object

What's In a Name?

To give a name to a thing is often to damn it A label Is a distinguishing mark which not seldom has an extinguishing effect, says Edward Lewis in the Atlantic. If frequently happens that to pin a nickname on a man is as good as to hang him; Ln the narrow circle of his friends the name may pass as a term of endearment, but it provides the general public with a jest and a weapon. The Germans were rapidly conquering the world by a process of “peaceful penetration,” but in a fatal hour they inscribed “PanGermanism” upon a banner, hoisted it over a park of heavy artillery for all the world to see, apd the world—saw itl

A Striking Point.

*1 met your friend Jones this morning and be struck me forcibly on the instant." - “You were lucky if he did not strike you forcibly on the back.”

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IMD.

FEDERAL DEMAND HURRIES CONSTRUCTION

BUILDING RAILROAD ALONG MEXICAN BORDER.

San Diego and Eastern railroad Is constructing the last stretch of 80 miles of its road through the mountains in the extreme southern portion of California. It includes some of the most remarkable engineering feats ever attempted. The railroad parallels and in one place crosses the Mexican border through a tunnel. The road crosses the mountains at a 4,000-foot altitude and has 30 tunnels in the short distance of 18 miles. Photograph shows one of the steam shovels working through decomposed granite.

LUXURIES ON RAIL

No Country Has Such Wasteful Passenger Service as • Found in America. NUMBER OF TRAINS REDUCED Present Condition Is Relic of Old Days of Unrestricted Competition —Railroad President Was Ab- : ; y.~— - solute Monarch. American love of luxury has no better example than the passenger -service provided by the railroads of this country. Every one knows that American railroad trains are far in advance of those of any other country in comfort, and for long distances at least in speed also, but the traveling public does not always realize that the great multiplicity of- passenger service provided between the important centers of population in this country is no less a luxury not enjoyed elsewhere and one which the stern needs of war may shortly make It necessary to forego. It has long been held by some railroad managers that the interests of true economy demanded some reduction in the number of passenger trains and one of the first steps taken by the executive committee of the American Railway association, which is practically in control of the nation’s transportation facilities for the period of the war, was to urge upon the various companies the propriety of arranging for a substantial reduction In passenger service, the New York Sun says. Play Days of Railroading. The present condition is a relic, almost the last one, of the old days of unrestricted competition between the different companies. It Is a survival of the days when rates were made in the traffic manager’s office without supervision by federal or state commissions, when co-operation was undreamed of and each line considered that its duty lay in running as many trains as were necessary to care for all the traffic between any points which it served regardless of rival lines which were certain to share to some extent in the business. Those were the palmy days of railroading, the days of brass trimmed locomotives, of sleeping cars fearfully and wonderfully decorated, when a division superintendent had the powers of a governor general and a railroad president was the absolute monarch, not only of all he surveyed, but gener-

ally of all the territory servedby his company. Statistics had not yet begun to play a prominent part in railroad management. A soul satisfying name for the newest crack train was more, important than the mere detail of earnings per train mile. Too Many Passenger Trains. So it came to pass that when the day of the railroad czars came to an end, as the day of all czars seems to do sooner or later, and much of the authority which had once vested in them begap to be exercised by public service commissions ii/ the several states, the abolition of passenger trains became more or less a political question. Any attempt to do away with one was resisted to the bitter end by every Inhabitant Of the district through which the gaudy flyer passed; It mattered not whether the particular objector had ever been aboard the train or not. Public service commissions were often reluctant to fly In the face of public opinion, population Increased, and not only did the unprofitable trains remain in service but there was a constant demand for more and more trains, frequently enforced - by the '

specific orders of the state commissions. So arose the situation as it is today. Every important city in the United States is served by from three to ten times as many trains k as are similar centers of population in other parts of the world. The traveler between New York and Chicago has at present the choice of 36 different trains—l 6 on the New York Central, ten on the Pennsylvania, four on the Lackawanna, four on the Baltimore and Ohio -and two tm lhe Erie. Should business or pleasure take him from New York to Philadelphia he is confronted with a selection of 42 trains on the Pennsylvania, 17 on the New Jersey Central and eight on the Baltimore and Ohio —67 In all. Even distant points like Jacksonville or New Orleans are the objectives of half a dozen trains every 24 hours. Europe Is Wiser. In Europe In normal times the service offered between the important cities seems niggardly in the extreme by comparison. London, Manchester and Liverpool, the three greatest commercial cities of Great Britain, all He within a radius of 200 miles and are connected by half a dozen different lines, but the train service between them, though expeditious and convenient, Is equaled by the facilities enjoyed by a score or more of the lesser cities of the United States. On the continent the contract is even greater. Between London and Paris, scarcely 200 miles apart, there ran dally before the war only half a dozen through trains, a day and a night train on each of three routes. Between Paris and Berlin, a distance of 650 miles, traveling is a trifle difficult at present, but prior to August, 1914, an American who undertook the journey was generally astonished to learn that there were only two or three trains which made the journey without change, and that only one of those carried a sleeping car. Between the other continental capitals the same conditions prevailed.

STOP HABIT OF TRESPASSING

Natural Outcome of Guarding Tracks and Bridges by Armed Forces of United States. The Railway Gazette predicts that a side issue of war conditions will be a decrease of the habit of trespassing on railroad property. This will be a natural outcome of the guarding of tracks and bridges by the armed forces of the United States for the purpose of preventing wilful Interference with transportation. There has always been great danger to trespassers on railway property. In the months of July, August nnd SeytemhemßifiT the number of persons killed in accidents resulting from the operation- of trains in the United States was 2,781, and of these 1,512, or 54.4 per cent were trespassers. The number of trespassers killed was three times as large as the number of railroad employees who lost their lives in the same way. Yet trespassing persisted. It Is highly probable, however, that the risk of danger from shooting will deter many from trespassing who were oblivious to the risk of danger from trains.

NEW MASTERS FOR RAILWAYS

. *—f— Ninety-Five independent Unco-ordinat-ed Legislative Bodies Represent Government. “American railroads serve 95 different masters. These are the 95 independent. unco-ordinated legislative and regulating bodies, representing the federal government and the 48 states,” says a circular from the Guaranty Trust company of New York. And just think —only a few years ago these . masters, or most of them, were taking ' orders from the railroads I

LIMBS MADE OF CARDBOARD

Artificial leq, Invented by Danish Doctor, Enables Wearer to Walk Soon After Amputation. , A Danish, doctor at a hospital In Paris has Invented a cardboard leg which enables the wearer to go about without pFutchos two Hmb has been amputated. The materials used are two sheets of cardboard about three-sixteenth of an Inch thick, and bandages soaked In a starch solution. After careful measurements have been taken the cardboard is cut into what looks like two peg-tops, which after being soaked in the bath fold round each other and are secured with bandages. The principle Is that of an egg In a cup, and the patient can wear the leg long before the wound Is completely healed. He can thus get air and exercise, which It is usually Impossible to obtain at this phase of his convalescence; also he has to suffer none-of-the Inconvenience of crutches, a stick sufficing for his needs. The leg, properly treated, lasts from six months to a year, by which time a permanent artificial limb is ready to be fitted.

Horse Chestnuts for Food.

An effort is being made to adapt the horse chestnuts to the human dietary. The nuts are more than half starch and sugar, with some protein and fat, and are nutritious. Their value chiefly depends on the elimination of the bitter elements and the irirtatlng saponlllke glucosides.

When the cats play the mice get away.

Feed the Fighters I Win the War!! . Harvest the Crops —Save the Yields On the battle fields of France and Flanders, the United States boys and the Canadian boys are fighting side by side to win for the World the freedom that Prussianism would destroy. While doing this they must be fed and every ounce of muscle that can be requisitioned must go into use to save this year s crop. A short harvest period requires the combined forces of the two countries in team work, such as the soldier boys in France and Flanders are demonstrating. Tilt Combined Fighters In Franco and Flanders and the Combined Harvesters in America WILL Bring the Allied Victory Nearer. A reciprocal arrangement for the use of farm workers has been perfected the Departmeat of the Interior of Canada and the Departments of Labor and Agriculture of the under which it is proposed to permit tiwharvMtera that are now engaged in the whe3t fields of Okla~ Canlda.'wkh the privilegeof later returning to the United States, when the crops fa the United States have been conserved, and help to save the enormous crops in Canada whiqh by that time will be ready for harvesting. HELP YOUR CANADIAN NEIGHBOURS WHEN YOUR OWN CROP IS HARVESTED !! F Canada Wants 40,000 Harvest Hands to Take Care of Its 13,000,000 ACRE WHEAT FIELD. One cent a mile railway fare from the International boundary line to destination and the same rate returning to the International Boundary. High Wages, Good Board, Comfortable Lodgings. An Identification Card issued at the boundary by a Canadian Immigration Officer will guaranno trouble in returning to the United States. AQ WIN AS YOUR OWN HARVEST IS SAVED, move northward and assist your Canadian hh; in your bit in helping “Win the War”. For particulars as to. routes, “dentation cards and place where employment may be had. apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to L X Broughton, Roos 412,112 W. Adams St., Cbiago, ID.; 1. V. Maclnnes, 176 Jefferson Aw., Detroit, Mick - : Canadian Government Agents.

Crops on Wheels.

•• Bumper crops in New Jersey are being put on wheels and rolled right into the city markets, fresher and faster this year than ever before, and for the first time since the growing of perishable products became an extensive industry in the state the farmers feel themselves to some degree independent of railroad schedules and freight rates. Motor trucks have solved the problem of fast delivery for Jersey farmers. Hundreds of big cars, some of them with a carrying capacity of several tons, have been put on the roads between the farms and markets this season. Many of these auto trucks are owned by the farmers themselves, .having been purchased to replace horses and market wagons.

| YES! MAGICALLY! CORNSUFTOUT | WITH FINGERS You say to the drug store man, "Give me a small bottle of freezone.” This will cost very little but will positively remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one’s feet. A few drops of this new ether compound applied directly upon a tender, aching corn relieves the soreness instantly, and soon the entire corn or callus, root and all, dries up and can be lifted off with the fingers. This new way to rid one’s feet of corns was introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that freezone dries in a moment, and simply shrivels up the corn or callus without Irritating the surrounding skin. If your druggist hasn’t any freezone tell him to order a small bottle from his wholesale drug house for you.—adv.

A Wise Provision.

The witty journalist was conversing with a friend about raising carp in ponds for food. The friend remarked that such a food supply would not be much in demand here, but that the Germans liked carp. “Germans will eat anything,” remarked the witty journalist, but Immediately qualified his remark. "That is, when they can get anything to eat.”

Something for Jones.

Drill Sergeant (sarcastically to little Jones, who is continually out of step) “Company, all except Private Jones, change step! I really ’aven’t the ’eart to trouble ’im again!” —Passing Show. -

If a man attends solely to his own business he has a good steady job.

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A New Place for Orderlies.

There is evidence that life in the army has its humorous side even in war time. In a story that recently wqnt the rounds of the English press, a newly appointed officer who was making his first visit to the mess, with the usual inquiry of “any complaints?” arrived at one mess somewhat earlier than he was expected, and the orderly of the day, being taken by surprise, and in his shirt sleeves, diyed under the table to save a reprimand. “Any complaints?’’ : cer. The corporal, grasping the situation at once, answered for the absent orderly. “None, sir.” “Who is this?” asked the officer, suddenly catching sight of the orderly under the table. The corporal again rose to the situation. “Orderly of the day, sir,” he answered. “Oh I” said the officer, and passed on. The next mess was quite prepared, with the orderly, spick and span, standing at attention at the head of the table. “Any complaints?” “None, sir,” answered the orderly. The officer looked him well over. “And who are you?” he asked. “Orderly of the day, sir?” “Then why the dickens aren’t you under the table?” was the unexpected retort.

Not What He Said.

A recently commissioned second lieutenant was drilling his command in an Indianapolis street Something went wrong and the soldiers found themselves trying to march over a 6-foot fence. The lieutenant baited the company and said: “Men, why don’t you do what I want you to do instead of what I tell you to do?”— Indianapolis News.

Slight Mistake.

“I must say this khaki camping skirt is a loose fit.” “You’re in wrong, auntie. That la the boy’s tent you have on.”

‘No bowl is too bid when it holds Post. Toasties