Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1918 — Page 3

The Double Scoop

By IMES MACDONALD

(Copyright, 1918, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Alicia Randall waff twenty-seven. She had gone through many stages of development since her twentieth year. One of the most charming debutantes in her set, her popularity remained .undimmed as new debutantes came dancing after her. She had survived a violent love affair attached to a spectacular engagement with a man who had been Unworthy, and she had also survived the sordidness of its ending and the offensiveness of its publicity. Soon afterward she had experienced the death of her father, who was dear to her, and the following financial crash which left her to her own devices for making a living. And she had made her living very creditably, indeed, as the city editor of a certain metropolitan daily can testify, for within a few short years she had advanced from sob-sistering to the editorship of the woman’s page, which position she adorned when Webster Rhodes'Joined the staff. It is to be regretted that when this young man first came under her critical eye, Alicia Randall sniffed a very superior'sniff. She was at that point In feminine life where she lobked upon all men under ninety-two with suspicion—and upon those under thirty with scorn. She placed" Web Rhodes at twenty-five, when in fact, he was nearly thirty, and mentally filed him away as a harmless impertinence, a mere boy. But Web Rhodes refused tp stay filed. He sensed her attitude at once and laughed at her, and one morning he thrust his head in her office door and shouted disrespectfully, “Hello, Auntie! How’s life?” And in the days and weeks that followed he cheerfully rumpled up her

Puzzled Alicia.

• dignity and tossed It Into the ash-can of neglect, once entering her sanctuary to place a kiss with much gallantry on the back of her outraged hafid. “How can you be such an Impertinent kid?” she demanded angrily. “You’re lucky, young woman,” he grinned. “The next time I’m planning to kiss you right on the nose. Now what do you think about that?” Whereat she laughed. How could she help ft? It was impossible to stay angry at the ridiculous boy. However, she avoided him as much as possible, for he took the most startling liberties with such an ingenuous charm that It was most disconcerting to the reserved Miss Randall, although* she knew it was Just the overwhelming exuberance of the spirit of his youth. No one could look Into his clean, fine eyes without liking him Instantly, and, In spite of herself, she could not resent his freedom as much as she felt that she should, for you see, Alicia was a girl-woman, after all. The first realization of her own attitude toward Web came on a day when she lunched with Amy Barlow, a girl of the old social whirl Ip which Alicia* Randaß had once moved. The luncheon was by appointment at Miss Barlow's request, and Its purpose was soon evident. “There’s a very Interesting young man on your paper named Webster Rhodes,” began the stunning Miss Barlow. "Do you know him?” Though surprised, Alicia, admitted that she did. * What I want to know Is this,” smiled the Irresistible Amy,, “is he vulnerable?” “I don’t understand,” sparred the puzzled Alicia. “The point Is this,” explained Amy: “The election Is but two months away, as you know. Father has gone to extreme lengths to make sure of the election of certain candidates. This Mr. Rhodes has something on father, which If published, would not only overturn bis plans but probably involve him In the most disgraceful political scandal that this town’s ever known. Mr. Rhodes has been ’approached’ without success, and father has put it up to me.” She arched her perfect brows with amused confidence in her oftn powers of persuasion. Alicia was stunned. “You—you mean to —to make him fall in love with you?” she asked. ,

“Not only that," condescended the charming Miss Bartow, “but I would even marry him if necessary. Father ' says he’s rather a splendid chap.”~ I “And you want me to introduce you, is that it?” murmured Alicia. “Exactly,” laughed Miss Barlow. So it was that within two weeks the entire staff was “oh,”and when Rhodes entered the editorial office he would be greeted with cheers and loud laughter. “And how,” someone would ask solicitously, “is the charming heiress resting today?” or “Love me, Webbie, and the world is yours 1” or “Noah, old rooster hold out for a stiff dowry — and don’t forget your honest debts, boy;” or “Webbie, dear, marriage is a hard life.” But' Webster . Rhodes only grinned good naturedly and went on his way—usually with the fascinating Miss Barlow. She ’phoned him, she noted him, 1 she called for him in her racing car. ■ They drove together, lupiched together, and he was entertained at the Barlow mansion whenever it was possible for him to be there. Week after week of this followed, ' and Alicia stuck to her job with de- ; fiant eyes and tight-pressed lips. Whenever she saw Rhodes he seemed just the same as always, but she' seldom saw him now. He was ambitious —she knew that. Money, social posl- ■ tlon, a beautiful wife —all these things I had been held out to him and. he had fallen, for them! ; The election drew nearer and nearer, till It was but five days off —then four. The tension was growing every hour. It drew her back to her desk that night after dinner on the pretense of a press of work, but she did nothing but sit there and wait —she knew not for what. Eight o’clock came —nine —she opened her door and looked out, into the big editorial room. She saw Rhodes enter, and noted that he looked tired and unkempt The city editor leaped up at the sight of Rhodes and went forward to meet him. They talked earnestly for a moment as they walked over to Rhodes’ desk. The city editor was jubilant about something for, as Web slumped down into his chair, his boss slammed him on the back and laughed encouragingly before turrilng back to his own work, while Web himself sprawled before his desk and put a fresh roll of copy paper into his machine. Puzzled, Alicia shut her" door and waited another hour, then looked out again where Webster Rhodes slat alternately glowering at his copy and writing in spasmodic spurts of energy. Finally he glanced up and saw her standing there. He beckoned and she crossed the room to stand by his side. “Stick around a while longer, Alicia,” he grinned up at her, “if you want to see the fun.” That was all. He did not look at her again but went driving along at his story. And Alicia “stuck around” till one o’clock In the morning, when Webster Rhodes finished his work with a sigh and setfight her where she sat with her head in her arms on her desk. She jumped nervously as she heard the door shut behind him. The drone of the heavy presses that jarred the building had almost lulled her to sleep. “Look,” he said, spreading a damp copy of the morning edition before her. And there across the front page was his scoop story of the Barlow Election scandal. He had just that moment finished his follow-up story Which would be printed in a later edition. In getting together his material and in making his investigations he hadn’t slept for two days, and Alicia looked up into his tired eyes contritely. “I —I thought you had —had fallen for Amy Barlow—and her —her scheme,” she murmured. “Who? Me? Not on your life!” he said, picking up her hat and jamming it down over her pretty nose. ' “Cotoe on, let’s eat, I’m hungry!” ’ A tear slid down from one of Alicia’s downcast eyes. “And when I’m hungry,” he chuckled, as he gathered her into his arms. “I always want my dessert first. Two scoops in one day is not so bad,” he added, after the editor of the Woman’s Page had'*been efficiently although not sufficiently kissed.

Impressionistic.

The artist took his brush, dipped It In a bucket of paint and wiped It across the surface of the canvas several times horizontally. When he had done this he took the result of labor in hand and carefully placed It in an elaborate frame. "What’s the idea?” his boon companion inquired. “Impressionistic study." “Do you mean Jo tell me that Is a finished painting?” “Certainly.” “What are you going to call it?” “A village street from the rear seat of a motorcycle.”

Tracing Slain by Watches.

The first number of a novel casualty list has just appeared in Germany. It contained the number of watches found among the belongings of men killed In action who cannot otherwise be identified. Watches, when sold or repaired, \are usually marked and numbered by the watchmaker and recorded, and the German military authorities, by circulating the new casualty list among watchmakers throughout Germany, hope to establish the identity of many dead soldiers. f

Sights.

. Old Wayback—Ole Bill- Kidder’s son Rufe writes from France that he don’t git a F chance to look around scarcely fer watchin’ the sights. Whadja reckon the feller means? Mrs. Wayback—Wall, I am sertlnly surprised at your ig’rance. Hiram Wayback. Don’t you know the yotfng fabler’s one of them cannon p’lnters?

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

The Housewife and the War

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) ACCOUNTS FOR THE FARM HOME

Records May Be Classified When Made or st the End of Each Month.

FARM HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS URGED

Two Simple Methods of Making and Classifying Records of Expenditures. • USE ORDINARY BLANK BOOK Details Encourage Economy and Show Relation of Home Expenses to Farm Business Ten Divisions Satisfactory. The modem farmer’s wife is no longer satisfied with the old accepted Idea that “the farm gives us a living,” but she gets out her pencil and paper and asks “How much of a living does it give us 7* Generations ago neither the farm nor the farm household had any but minor dealings with the outside world. Under such conditions the need for accounts was slight. But those conditions no longer exist The fatm household, though still in many cases receiving its major support in farm products consumed at home, purchases far more extensively than ever before from outside sources. Farm household accounts have become essential to economy. . Household expenses on the farm are very Intimately associated with the business of the farm itself. The farm normally supplies ’ much material which otherwise would become a household expense. The household, In turn, very often furnishes board for farm labor, which would otherwise be a farm expense. Merely from the standpoint of keeping track of household expenses as related to the farm business, household accounts are desirable and should serve to supplement and round out farm accounts. Ways of Keeping Records. There are two methods of keeping a record of household expenditures. One is to record the purchases or money paid out without classifying the expenditures. The other Is to classify when the record is made. The first method is very simple, requires no special form, and gives all necessary Information regarding expenditures. At the end of the month or at the end of the year the total expenditures readily may be determined. In order, however, to know the totals for each kind or class it will be necessary to make up a monthly summary. In which the Items will be distributed in different columns, by ciasses. This extra work at the end of each month (or at the end of the year) may cause discouragement and neglect of classification, with the result that the greatest good that could be derived from the records is not realized. , Under the second method, in addition to being entered all together In one column, the items are classified In separate columns. This method has the same advantages as the first method and the additional advantage of allowing for the distribution of the items of expenditure to the proper classes without the Inconvenience of turning to some other page. The distribution may be left to moments of leisure if the farmer is busy at the time the entry is made. When the page Is filled the next page is begun, the top line next to the heading being reserved for the total carried forward from preceding page. The items may be .totaled at the end of the month and these totals carried to the summary page at the end of the book. Book Not Important. The kind of book to use is not Important An ordinary blank day-book or ledger book with a stiff cover may

be bought at a reasonable price. If the vertical rulings in the book do not serve the purpose others may be Inserted with a pen or pencil. Accounts are sometimes kept In a book having small pages. A small page, however, is soon filled, is often crowded, and the information is scattered over too many pages for convenience in recording and studying the expenditures. - In order to simplify accounts it is well to group expenditures. If all individual items were listed in separate columns, it would require a great amount of detail work. The distribution of the different household expenditures into groups is largely a matter of individual viewpoints. The following ten divisions should be satisfactory for the average farm family: Animal food, fruits and vegetables, cereal products, other groceries, clothing, household furnishings, running expenses, advancement, incidentals and savings.

BE THRIFTY

Accounts will show you how. Know where every' dollar comes from and where it goes. Study your record book and plan ahead. Buy carefully today and give to Uncle Sam tomorrow. Save food, fuel and clothing.

Peppers and Celery in Brine.

Green peppers and celery can be preserved for future use by brining. If properly done peppers so prepared can be used as substitute for fresh peppers in pickles or salads, or after freshening in water can be used for stuffed pepper. Properly prepared they can hardly be told from fresh peppers. The method of brining Is as follows: Remove the stems and seed and pack nose down Into a water-tight, non-metalllc receptacle, such as a keg, barrel, crock or glass fruit Jar. Cover with a trine made by adding two pounds of salt to each gallon of water. If a keg, barrel or crock is used, suspend a wooden cover in the brine so that It will keep the peppers well below the surface. If the cover is placed on the peppers and weighted without suspension, it will crush the peppers and make them lose their shape. Add more salt to the cover until no more will dissolve. If put In fruit Jars or other containers that can be sealed, no more salt need be added. In this case, allow to stand for three or four days to allow gas to escape, then fill perfectly full with brine and seal tight. Kegs or barrels that have a good head can be filled full with peppers and brine and headed up. Fresh peppers can be added from time to time as. they mature. Before use, freshen In water to remove salt and then use like fresh peppers. Celery can be preserved In the same manner, and after freshening is excellent for soups, creamed celery and for flavoring purposes.

Save Sugar.

Use "one teaspoonful to the cupful.” Serve more fruits for dessert Make fruit juices and sirups. Use sirups in general cooking. Can without sugar. Dry your fruits and vegetables. Have less cake and frosting. Eat less candy.

Increase in Corn Flour.

It is estimated that during the last 18 months the output of corn flour has Increased 500 per eent There is now enough cornmeal being turned out to care for all demands In the United States. The remarkable Increase In output which is certain to become greater each succeeding month, is due In considerable part tb the conversion of much wheat-milling machinery into corn-milling machinery.

OUR PROBLEM OF HAPPINESS

Few People Consider Advisability of Action on Truths Suggested by Great Thinkers. Why is it few people can act on truths put forth by great thinkers; for example, that the unselfish are happier than the selfish? writes Norman Hapgood in Leslie's. In discussing the progress of fellowship In industry, people constantly speak to me as if granting benefits to labor were a “sacrifice.” So, as we are constituted, I suppose it is. Why is it not rather a privilege? Do we know in our hearts that simplicity and devotion give a contentment no accumulation of material things can rival? Is it not mere lack of courage that keeps us from trying in our own lives just a little of the New Testament? Indeed, is there anything more tragic than to die without ever having given the great spiritual truths a chance to practice? I have been looking carefully into the early stages of co-operation in a small manufacturing plant The plan started about a year ago. All questions .concerning factory employment go first to a committee in which most of the members are factory employees. The head of the concern has differed with the committee but once, and then he was right, and when he put his view, the committee voluntarily reversed its previous decision by something like ten to one. This concern last year paid exactly the same dividends on wages that it paid on capital. The president of the company intends to carry the plan further, as far as control goes, as rapidly as the education of employees makes it possible. He has no desire to pile up such a fortune that neither he ner his descendants for generations will know the necessity of doing their share in order to live. He is without fear and without indolence. I know him and I know also many of the other type of capitalists, who cling to all the power and all the profits. Believe me, if I had to choose between his inner self—his serenity, ardor, and youthful heart —and the tired, distrusted plethora of the more acquisitive type, it would not take me long.

The Triumphant Herring.

Herrings were sold at three for a penny at Berwick-on-Tweed, Scotland, recently. They were landed in such large quantities that in’ the forenoon, asserts a correspondent, the townspeople were getting supplies free. Owing to the Mortage of labor the fish curers weft unable to deal with the catches, which sold at ridiculously low prices. What a feast the people of Berwick must have had on that day! What appetizing incense arose from thousands of sizzling frying-pans and gridirons! Men would be lured from their labors by the smell of the succulent fish. What if the beefsteak of old England has gone to the bottom; it has emerged from the deep in a rich —nay, richer — “silver harvest of the sea!” The sportive little herring is Immune from the torpedo, and laughs at Tirpitz’s shoal of ruthless sharks. The besieged inhabitants of the seagirt isle may yet be saved by the smell of a herring. It would indeed be poetical justice if a mere sprat should be the means of throttling the all-devour-ing submarine. For, the herring are the most democratic of fishes; they are the common people of the sea — the masses —and are the most beloved by their prototypes on land.

Influence on Children.

As for moral influences in the home, it Is the words the child hears us speak, the things he sees us do which will have the greatest effect on his nature, such as respectful care and tender affection toward the grandmother, the grandfather, the aunt, the uncles, our attitude toward those In our employ, etc. Family festivals will make ever glorious Impressions on the child’s mind, states a student of human nature. The spirit of charity should permeate the home. The little child is too young to know how to help the less fortunate, hut he will imbibe the home spirit and with his growing understanding adopt the ideals by which he is surrounded. Above all other Influences the most telling is that which the parents create by means of their relationship to each other. If peace reigns supreme and father and mother live as one, having a deep, true, earnest affection for each other, facing together the joys and sorrows, and supplementing each other’s strength at every turn, there is no greater legacy parents can leave their children than the Influence and memory of such a home.

The Packhorse Comes Back.

Among many revivals for which the war is responsible Is that of the packhorse. The packhorse, or packmule, says London Answers, has proved his usefulness over and over again at the front where he carries shells jand other munitions and stores to the dumps and front lines, and this use has no doubt led the prince of Wales to endeavor to revive the once-famed Devon packhorse on his Dartmoor farms. It is only within the last few years that the packhorse has disappeared from the byways of Devon and the north, and to this day ponies and donkeys are still used on the coast to carry seaweed and shingle. Formerly nearly all the traffic In the west of England was carried by the packhorse, which traveled in single file, the leader wearing bells to warn on-comers in the narrow lanes and to guide those following.

TO END NOBILITY

Canadian Plan Strikes at Very Ancient Institution. x Proposal Is Called Radical and Affect* Titles That Run Back to the Old French Regime. ______ The report from Ottawa that the Canadian nobility Is to be abolished may be the first hews to not a few on that side of the border, as well as to many on this side, that Canada has a nobility. The proposal is called radical, and it certainly does strike at a very ancient Institution, states a writer in Providence Journal. If such a law is enacted in accordance with the recommendations of the government, in thb form of an order in council, “no hereditary title shall hereafter be conferred upon a British subject resident of Canada,” and “appropriate action shall be taken by the government to provide that, after a prescribed period, no title held by a British subject now or hsreafteh ordinarily resident in Canada, shall be recognized as having hereditary effect” The reference presumably is to the titles that have come down from th4f period when the king of France "cosceded his North American possession* in fiefs of duchies, marquisates, counties, viscounties, baronies and other seigniories to the members of the noblesse, military officers and other men of merit admittaS to the noblesse” —according to the old chronicle. And although, as one of the ancient regime has plaintively observed, "democracy has a hatred for natural superiority and endeavors to crush it out,” the titular nobility seem* to have survived among the “bourgeoisie” and “peasantry” of the husky young Dominion. Canada has its college of arms and a number of American citizens who can claim descent from patrician families, or who by feats of arms or other public achievements have shown their merit, have qualified in some of the orders, and are privileged to display the ribbons and wear the court dress of “dark blue, red cord, gilt buttons of the imperial two-headed eagle, cavalry saber, and blue, red or green sash.” At about the time of the Civil war one of these orders invited the membership of “those of the American states disgusted with the vulgarity and tyranny of democracy,” and its rolls - contain the names of General Gordon, General Vance and other distinguished personages of the Southern confederacy. Among the old French titles are Due d’Arkansas and Baro i.et of Novia Scotia.

Fire Losses in North America.

As has often been pointed out, the fire waste in the United States and Canada is extravagant But Canada now proposes to reduce the damage by the adoption of compulsory fire prevention measures in accordance with the recommendations of the commission of conservation, say* Providence Journal. Excluding forest fires, the commission finds that since confederation the loss has been $700,000,000, while every year 200 lives are sacrificed in fires, and 500 persons are seriously injured. Canada’s per capita fire loss is the largest in the world —$2.73 — and that of the United States—s2s6 —is second. England’s figures are small—64 cents—but large in comparison with the 13 cents reported in Switzerland. France has a per capita loss of 74 cents. Conditions in these several countries do not seem to justify such an extraordinary difference in the fire records. Probably the explanation of the poor showing on this side of the ocean lies in the better enforcement of safety regulations in Europe, and in holding property owners accountable for the damages caused by fires starting on their premises. The remedy proposed in Canada Is in putting more responsibility upon owners of buildings and other combustible property.

Colored Regiments.

In 1866 congress passed a law that colored regiments should be a part of the regular army. The Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, Fortieth and Forty-first regiments of infantry were organised March 3, 1869, a consolidation get was passed and the Thirty-eighth and Forty-first were reorganized as the Twenty-fourth regiment of infantry; the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth were reorganized as the Twenty-fifth regiment of infantry. The Ninth and Tenth cavalry won the reputation of being among the best Indian fighters on the frontier. At the outbreak of the Spanish war, in 1898, the four colored regiments were among the first troops ordered to the front, and they won distinction. At the first battle in Cuba, the Tenth cavalry played an important part of coming to the support of Colonel Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. The Twenty-fifth infantry took a prominent part in the battle of El Caney. The Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the Twenty-fourth infantry rendered heroic service in the battle of San Juan hill.—Boston Globe.

Of Like Minds.

> Isabella one day had been exceptionally trying, and finally, after numerous corrections, her mother remarked: “Isabella, I should think you would get tired bearing me talk to you so much.** In most decided tones the child returned: “Well,mother, Ido."—Harper’s Ma> azine.