Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1917 — Page 3

A Marvelous Case

By A. G. Sherwin

(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) “It’s hookworm,” declared Mrs. Nesbit “It’s laziness, pure and simple,” dissented her husband.“Wilfred never did take to work,” added the farmer’s wife pathetically. "In the first place, he knew we were reasonably comfortable off and he didn’t have to? Next, we spoiled him by humoring his every wish. When we sent him to my brother in the city, hoping he would get some ambition I was sorely disappointed. He came back disgusted, said the men were all dandified and the women vain, frivolous beings. Tm going to see the traveling doctor down at the village and find out if he can’t give me something to stir up Wilfred out of the rut he has fallen Into.” “Nonsense!” uttered practical John Nesbit. “What he needs is to have some Interest In life. As It is, he just glides through the days, perfectly content as long as he is not disturbed.” The fofkd, anxious mother said no

more on the subject at the time, but the next afternoon she went down to town and held an audience with the, wonderful Dr. Archibald Pettigrew “of the faculty of the Royal Associa-, tion of Scottish Physicians.” The illustrious fakir listened solemnly to the story of his credulous visitor and nodded his bushy head sagely. "Lack of vital salts, madam,” he declared confidently. “Had lots of cases of the same kind; cured them all.” “Do tell!” murmured Mrs. Nesbit hopefully. “You see, If you perfect the chemical equilibrium your son will get back to normal. Here, madam, is a box of my celebrated perfecto vitae tablets. Three a day until gone. In a month the patient will be working like a horse. Ten dollars, please/’ So, In her credulous simplicity Mrs. Nesbit clasped close the magic renovator and sought out her son, smoking and reading in a hammock on the

Just Beyond a Fence Line He Observed a Young Girl Driving a Horse.

porch. Wilfred opened his eyes wide as his mother narrated her story. He took the little box of tablets without cavil. . “Three a day, eh?” he spoke. •'You dear, old mother, to go to all of this thoughtfulness and anxiety for my selfish, worthless self! I’ll make a new break, pills or no pills, just to show my love for you.” “I reckon I’m about wasting my -Jlfe," ruminated Wilfred, the next morning. “I’ll take a big hike, think it all over and see if I can’t stir up some ambition. What I want Is an object In life. Where am I going to find It?” Wilfred footed it for ten straight miles. Then he sought the umbrageous shade of some thick bushes by the roadside and sat down to rest. He drew further back out of possible discovery as, just beyond a fence line, he observed a young girl driving a horse attached to a cultivator. In the first place the vim and vigor and accuracy she displayed in turning the furrows caused Wilfred to admire her vitality, acumen and apparent delight In her laborious occupation. Next, as she neared him at every turn on the field, her daintily flushed face, her sparkling eyes, the gentle coaxings she used in directing the horse charmed him. Wilfred lingered In covert for an hour, studying and analyzing this direct opposite to himself In the way of Industry. Then a new figure appeared in the soene —a little child in a sun bonnet, carrying a basket “Come on. Tulip!” she hailed, ‘waving her hand gaily. “Mother says you’ve g6t to take a full nooning and she’s sent you some lunch. What do you think is with it? —Ice cream! I froze it flor her and —” •Tm hungry enough to eat some of

those pork and beans she waa cook> Ing this morning,” spoke the elder girl, Tulip Danvers, with a smile. "Oh, she’ydfent you those, too,” quickly added her visitor. “Mamma says there isn’t anything too good for you. She says that you are our mascot, the busy bee helper who has shown ns how to run the farm, at a profit and get the best work out of the hands we ever had and — “That will do, dearie!” laughed the young lady, closing the prattling lips of her little companion with a kiss. “Now to attack the lunch. I’m hungry as a bear. What do you -want?” added Tulip sharply, turning and confronting two uncouth, rough-looking men. One seized the handle of the basket. The other snatched at n gold neeklace the child wore about her neck. “Drop It, you thieving tramp! and youf’ Wilfred Nesbit was on his feet in an Instant. He snatched the pilfered basket from the grasp of one of them. The other he sent headlong with a blow of his fist As they made off, Wilfred, cool as a cucumber and delighted at the Incident that gave him the opportunity of acquaintance with the star-eyed girl of the cultivator, stood before her, cap In hand, the courteous gentleman complete. “I’ve found it —an object In life!” decided Wilfred as, two hours later he pursued his way. There had been a charming lunch partaken of by the trio, they had become great friends and the young man went home smiling and content

“I declare!” was the satisfied reflection of Mrs. Nesbit somewhat after that, “those tablets are just marvellous. Wilfred is working his finger nails off at the big harvester jlant and they are going to make him department manager the first of the month.” It was true that Wilfred was working hard and initial labor had served as a spur to ambition. His mother never knew all, and. she mourned over extra night work on the books at the factory, whereas Wilfred was In regular tri-weekly evidence at the Danvers farm where he had first met Tulip. He left there thoughtful and serious one especial'evening. A talk as to his sentiments towards Tulip had resulted in some very practical advice from that encouraging, but mat-ter-of-fact maiden. To sum up the same, Wilfred was made aware that he must win his right to take a wife and provide for her independently of his family expectations. But by this time he was fully initiated into the routine of and a liking for toil, and six months later proudly showed to Tulip a letter from the firm commending his progress and naming an advance in compensation, that made the establishment of a modest housekeeping something surer than a venture.

Mrs. Nesbit looked amazed, then excited and then pleased as one lovely June evening Wilfred drove up to the home porch and assisted Tulip to alight. “Mother,” he said expansively, “this is a young lady, Miss Tulip Danvers, whom I have known for some time and who has consented to become my wife —with your consent.” Mrs. Nesbit gazed tenderly at the fresh young face of Tulip. Then she opened her arms in glad welcome. “It’s a surprise,” she said simply, “but a joyful one. Dear! dear! how fast things happen. And all because of the tablets!” “What did your mother mean about tablets, Wilfred?” asked Tulip, as he drove her homeward, and laughingly WUtfred told her the whole story. “I wouldn’t let mother know for worlds,” he said, “but I never took them.” “Why not, If it pleased her fancy?” inquired Tulip. “Because,” replied Wilfred, kissing her, “I met you and forgot all about them.”' But to this day Mrs. Nesbit sounds periodically the. praises of the marvellous Dr. Archibald Pettigrew, whose efficacious medicines turned idleness into the most idealistic industry and

Ascending Honor.

Honor, worthily obtained (as that for example of our officers) is In its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it. Thus among the Chinese, the most ancient, and from long experience the wisest of nations, honor does not descend, but ascends. If a man from his learning, his ,wisdom, or his valor, Is promoted by the emperor to the rank of mandarin, his parents are immediately entitled to all the same ceremonies of respect from the people that are established as due to the mandarin himself on the supposition that It must have been owing to the education, Instruction and good example afforded him by his parents that he was rendered capable of serving the public. This ascending honor is therefore useful to the state, as It encourages parents to give their children a good and virtuous education. But the descending honor, to a posterity who coulfl have no share in obtaining it, is not only groundless and absurd, but often hurtful to that posterity.—Benjamin Franklin.

Sandals for German Clerks.

The municipality of Munch has ordered Its clerks and other employees engaged on sedentary work to appear at their offices In sandals, with or without socks, preferably without the latter. The object of this Is to economize leather and wearing apparel and to set a good example to citizens in general* —London Dally Telegraph.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND.

Pile fabrics in dependable quality are winning a place for themselves that will make them a staple feature of all coat displays, and this is noticeable in new showings of coats for girls. It is one Indication of an increasing demand for good quality in materials of air kind. ITTe and furfabrics are rich looking and warm and not excelled for durability by any other kinds of cloth. Narrow fur bands or bands of fur fabrics figure prominently in the trimmings of coats for children. Stylesare more simple than ever, with coats almost plain and cut long enough to cover the dress entirely. Small cape collars on many of them provide additional warmth and can be fastened up close about the throat. Where lighter weight coats are need-

In the heart of summer, when August Inclines us to forget that there is such a season as winter, the curtain rises on millinery styles for fall. Milliners., and merchants journey to the great fashion centers to view the dress rehearsals of the modes and to become acquainted with the headwear they are destined to sell when lea ves and snow are falling. Their patrons will not welcome these winter things as rapturously as they do those that acknowledge that winter millinery Is entitled to be called superb. There are no radical changes In styles so far as size and shapes are concerned. We are not to be Introduced to things so novel that we will have to be educated up to them. The same reserve Is apparent in millinery that characterizes dresses and suits. Colors are quiet and rich, materials are excellent and styles refined. Velvet Is destined to dominate the winter season unless the unexpected

Economical Remnants for Negligee.

If you are in need of dainty negligee garments, be on the lookout for remnants of suitable sorts for making them. Very often at this time of year it is possible to find short lengths of lovely crepes or voiles or lightweight silks that can be made into decidedly attractive negligees. Of course, the price of these remnants is less than that of the same material bought by the yard, and If you look about you can* always find the color and fabric that are suited to your needs. When looking for a remnant it Is - much better not to start on your shopping trip with-a definite idea as to color, but rather have affirm memory of such colors as you have found becoming and an open mind as to the colors you will choose.

Novelty Fabrics in Girls’ Coats

Dress Rehearsals of the Modes

ed wool brocades with “boucle” or loop surface, and wool or silk matelasse, are available and make beautiful coats for little girls. The coat in the picture, of a regulation coat material, is a popular type in the fall display. It is plain, with belt across the back, fastened to the coat with one large button at each side. The collar is bordered with a narrow band of fur fabrics and the coat buttoned at the front. Bolivia cloth and wool velours are fully established in coat styles for fall, and there are numbers of novelty wool materials that add variety to the showings. It is the business of coat fabrics to look soft and warm —to suggest comfort. Cloths and styles and trimmings all work together to give this impression in the new winter coats.

happens and three fine exponents of the new modes, shown above, are all made of it. An aristocrat in millinery has a bulky crown, sponsored by t world-famed French house. It is of black velvet with brim-facing of white crepe with long stitches of heavy white silk, threaded about the crown. A collar of narrow white ribbon, with wired bow at the front, shows trimming reduced to simplest form. A design, equally smart and simple, appears in a small tire-brimmed hat, of platinum gray velvet, with brim bound with a soft band of feathers. This model has proven wonderfully becoming to older women. The remaining hat is a familiar and graceful shape with drooping brim presenting an unexpected cut out portion at the front.

Oriental Silks.

THfere are evening gowns of rare Oriental sHks lavishly trimmed with embroidery that in the, long ago adorned the state robes of a mandarin or a prince of Japan. " Afternoon frocks of chiffon cloth in rich dark colors are ornamented with borders of embroidery or the material Itself is embroidered in colored silks intermingled with gold or silver threads in, a design copied from ancient Chinese porcelains or silks.

Skirts Are Practical.

The leading dressmakers are trying to advocate a longer skirt, but they have not made any great success, and it is not expected that this style will develop, as it Is not practical, and the average separate skirt comes un<h< ths head of a practical garment ‘

THE VOICE OF GOO

How He Expresses His Will and Purpose Through the Common People. It has long been acknowledged that “the voice of the people Is the voice of God.” The undiscerning may hear in the people’s voice only a great roar of discontent, or the mutterings of the misguided mass. But he who has understanding will hear the “still, small voice,” which speaks the will of. God. The statesmen in every age who have accomplished the things which have produced the greatest good for all the people get their • inspiration because they kept close to the masses. Rarely does the vision come to the man who spends all of his time in the seclusion of the study. His touch on life is so slight, and his understanding of the needs of men so inadequate, that his outlook extends only to the limits of his own life and his own narrow experience. It is only as a man comes into contact with others that his own life becomes larger and fuller, and it is out of this fullness that he is enabled to speak concerning the greater problems of life. No class of men has a broader experience than the “common people”— no class knows quite so well what it means to toll and to suffer and to sacrifice. None has higher aspirations and none exhibits deeper consecration. It is because of this that God speaks through them. Sometimes the people’s expression of God’s will is crude. Sometimes it comes as a shock to men who have become accustomed to things as they are, who, quite satisfied with present conditions, are unwilling to be made uncomfortable by a change which may mean a readjustment in their method of living and in their way of doing business. But to stand in the way of progress is futile. It may be that it is necessary to oppose certain features — man-made and man-inspired—which have crept into the plans which the people present, but back of them all and beneath, them all will be found the hand of God. This has been proved in history. As Gladstone once said, “In the beginning of every great fight for the right and for progress, the leisure classes, the socalled upper classes, have been on the wrong side of the battlefield.” The' common people—the men of uncommon R Pnae _to these the world owes a debt of gratitude. If you would hear the voice of God,, keep close to the people.—Charles Stelze, in Chicago Baptist Standard.

LOVE AS A GUEST.

With Him Within .There Is No Room Anger, Etc. Shall we not choose Love, the beautiful guest, to come and live with us, and say to Envy and Anger and EvilSpeaking, and Impatience, that we have no room for them? For Love will not live with bad companions, and if we think unkind thoughts, and say unkind words of others, she will not stay with us. And we must be ready to listen when she speaks to us. If we are tempted to be angry or impatient, Love will say: “Stop! Remember! Think how patient God is with you, though you often do wrong.” Reading the Bible, and praying, and going to church, and giving money to the poor, are all good, if we have love also, but they are worth little without love. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Paul and James and John all wrote a great deal of this love, but perhaps John said the most beautiful thing of all when he wrote: “God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”— Emily Huntington Miller.

Real Pastors.

* I come from a work among men who are doing the lowlier tasks of the mlnistry in small towns and rural communities, amid every possible discouragement. I find there many a tragic but over and again I meet men who do fheir work with such ready cheerfulness and with so glad a heart that it all humbles me to the dust. I leave them, ashamed that I ever thought of the discouragement These are the men who are real pastors of their people, true shepherds of souls; and their every service meets with such ready response, their lives are filled with such simple friendliness, they are blessed with such gratitude and affection, that one begins to understand the compensations of service, Not always do reticent village folk expressi their affection in words; but friendship always begets friendship, and one can feel that which is rarely openly expressed. One sees it best as it is reflected in the faces and echoes in the kindly hearts of the clergy themselves. —Bishop Fiske.

When Christ Lifts the Load.

When God lifts our loads he lifts us along with them. Years ago in Cleveland, 0., a shipchandler’s little boy was carrying In a big armful of wood, the burden of which was growing heavier every moment. As he neared the steep back steps, he appealed to his father: “Father, I can’t get up the steps with my load.” The father picked up his foiling little son, wood and all, and sat him safely on the porch. As he did so the thought flashed into hie mind: “Cast thy burden on the Lord, and he will sustain thee.” And so the Lord Christ not only bears our griefs and carrier our sorrows, but he lifts and carries us along with all our burdens. ■ ■ ; • A , :

BROWNIES

We have heard about painless dentists, but did you ever see one! Hurrah for prohibition! They’re put-, ting up apricots in a dry state. Some folks are so dense that they put in a lot of hard work trying to find the easiest way. Just because a man Is married la no sign he is brave. He may have been too weak to run. Our idea of something different would be a deaf and dumb orator on a Chautauqua drcult The shortest and most acceptable of stump speeches consists of three little k wwiua We can’t get along without horses, after all. Have to have them for the moving picture cowboys, b’gosh I Heard of a man who specializes on being kind to dumb animals, but about the only exercise he takes is beating his wife. Government officials in India are considering the use of submarine boats from which men can be released to gather pearl shells from the bottom of the ocean. When people demand $7 a day for packing peaches it makes the eyes pop in some of the domes of our passionate poets, many of whom never knew that there was as much money in the world as $7. It’s all right to talk abont an industrial army, but we’d like to see a picture of. Hector and Ajax raising birdseed for their country.—Los Angeles Times.

THE WORLD DO MOVE

A Japanese has invented an artificial silk, made of chryalis oil and cellulose, which Is said to approach real silk more nearly than any other substitute. A Pennsylvania inventor has devised a combination sword and pistol, the pistol barrel being within the sword blade and the firing mechanism within the sword hilt According to the official bulletin of the New York city subway, It has carried 9,915,200,205 passengers in the last ten years, with the loss of only one life. Cordage and certain forms of textiles can be made from the fiber of water hyacinth, this having been demonstrated by a series of experiments conducted In Indo-Chlna. A new apparatus operated by clockwork records the time a billiard table is in use and the number of games played upon it in’a given time. It Is intended for use in billiard rooms.

POPULAR SCIENCE

New York’s school of street cleaning has resulted in greatly improving the efficiency of the street workers. A periscopic device has been invented by which a Springfield rifle may be shot without exposing the marksman. The mile of England and the United States are of equal length, but every other country has its own idea of what a mile should be. Model houses constructed of cement, sand and rice husks are being erected by the Philippine health service. These houses can be built for $250. / Nuremburg has planned a number of underground tunnels to take care of the overflowing of the Pegnits river, which has heretofore been the cause of much loss annually. The orifice —of the whale’s ear is scarcely perceptible yet it is said that the whale’s hearing is so acute that a ship crossing its track half a mile distant will cause it to dive instantly.

WISE AND OTHERWISE

John Barleycorn’s thread of life is wound on a reeL In order to rise with the lark avoid the midnight swallows. People who have no sense of humor are very funny at times. Women are far more heroic than men—as any shoe dealer will tell you. A girl never objects to the cold treatment of a young man who orders ice cream. You can depend upon a man who isn’t afraid to say “I don’t know” occasionally.

WHY IS IT?

That a legless man can “put hisfoot in itF That persons who are "consumed by curiosity” still survive? A That frequently a sinking fund Ur o«-d tc meet a floating debt?