Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1919 — Page 3

TALES FROM BIG CITIES

Why an f Everyday Lunch Cost Mr. Barnay $7,800 » ■ CHICAGO. —Twenty years ago John M. Barnay, the son of a wealthy Hungarian. left Budapest to fry his fortunes in America as a civil and mechanical engineer. Arrived in Chicago, be obtained a position as instructor dt Lewis institute. Soon after he mar-

street. Her veil was down. A man entered, looked about at the filled tables, and chose the only vacant seat —opposite her at her table. She looked up casually and then gasjK-d. It was her former husband. Without raising her veil she arose and got the proprietor of the restaurant to telephone her lawyer. She returned to the table, raised her veil, and said- “ Hello, John.” "Why. why—Florence, is it you?” “Yes. it’s me, John;" «She introduced John, Jr. “Florence. I want you to come up to the Monadnock building and meet my wife. You know, I married about three yeave ago.—l am representing. the Republic Fireproof company here.” She played for time. She was at her wits* end when in walked Detective Sergeants Michael Trant and Max Redlich of the central station. Fifteen times fifty-two times ten equals 7,800 —the number of dollars In Mr. Barnay’s lunch bill.

True Love in Denver Bears Out Poet’s Statement DENVER— When Samuel Hartsei of 1627 Vine street, a Colorado pioneer cattleman and founder of the town of Hartsei, died recently at the age of eighty-four he left an estate of about $200,000 to his three daughters, Mrs.

F. E. Prewitt, Mrs. George Schdephoester and “Henrietta Hartsel.” Inside the quotation marks is this story: When his two elder daughters had married, the aged cattleman sai<l to Henrietta: “If you marry now. I will lose my home, Henrietta, for I will not live in the home of any Two families never could live under- one roof and never can.” So Miss Hartsei agreed to stick by her father till death, and kept her

promise. But in keeping this promise she did not break faith .with herself, either. She went to Greeley about four years ago and married Paul J. Donovan, son of J. B. Donovan, president of the Colorado Pioneer society. She consulted with her sisters and they agreed that it was all right. Some of these days Mr. and Mrs. Paul Donovan will have a honeymoon. To date they have seen very little of each other since their marriage. It was the custom of Mr. Hartsei to spend his winters in Florida or Hawaii or California, and he always took Henrietta with him. Mr. Donovan is an electrical engineer and bis work took him several months ago into a part of Mexico where it is not safe for an American woman to go. So Mr. Donovan is far away in Mexico and “Henrietta Hartsei” in the old home in Vine street. Ajid the neighbors are still telling how surprised they are. All of which would seem to indicate that the poet was just about right when he said. “The course of true love never runs smooth.”

Passengers on Nebraska Train Have Experiences NORFOLK. NEB.—The eighty passengers on a Northwestern train which was buried in the snow seven miles east of here for four days in the last storm will not soon forget the experience. The train left Norfolk for Sioux City on a Thursday morning. A blizzard had

train got through until Friday afternoon, when a wire from Sioux City by way of Omaha asked for information concerning the lost train. Two trainmen from the marooned train walked through the drifts and Reached Norfolk that same afternoon. They reported the lost train as being completely covered with snow in a deep cut. At midnight a snow plow pushed by three locomotives and carrying provisions started from Norfolk. The outfit became stalled on the line and did not reach the imperiled passengers till Sunday night. In the meantime the passengers on the stalled train were having experiences out of the ordinary. The train carried neither dining car nor sleepers. The’ coal ran short and the passengers were crowded into one car. Friday morning revealed snow two or three feet deep, with drifts ten to fifteen feet high. The nearest farmhouse was more than a mile away. The only food was basket lunches and eggs from the baggage car. Friday afternoon farmers came to the rescue with cooked food and 'took home with.them six small children. The passengers played games, read everything on the train and held prayer meetings to kill time. - All this took place while Chicago was boasting of the “first robins” of spring, dandelions and one butterfly.

Why George Stallings Is Called “Miracle Man” ATLANTA, GA. —Ever hear why they named George Stallings Man?” Probably you, Just as thousands of others, thought it was because he dragged the Boston Braves of 1914 from last place to the world's champion-

ship between July 1 and about October 10. That isn't the reason at all. Stallings acquired the title down on his Georgia ranch in the presence of several hundred of his colored working men. Joe was foreman. Sam and Jim lived In huts back in the woods. Now Mr. Stallings, as he’s called on the ranch, raises pedigreed pigs for which he gets fancy prices. One fall, several years ago, some of the pigs disappeared. Mr. Stallings possessed

a big brass ship’s compass. Those “niggahs” had never seen a ship's compass. He took it out in the yard ope Sunday afternoon and ordered Joe to call all the “niggahs” together. The colored workers formed a half circle in front of the boss. ——— Suspecting Sam because of observations made at other times, Stallings put the compass on the ground directly south of -him.’ , “Now, this thing I have here," began Stallings, “is a patent liar and hogthief detector. This hand inside the-glass will pick out any thief or liar in a crowd " and he kept tapping the Instrument with his toe to keep the hand bobbing around. “Some of my pigs have disappeared, and I’m going to find the thief. Joe. come up here.” he jydd to his foreman, as he quit kicking the com‘.pass and allowed the needle to come to a stop. “Where is that hand pointing n °" Joe looked at the compass, then ran his eye along the ground, due north, and replied ; “It's pointing right at you, Sam.” , “Well I didn’t dd It alone." answered the guilty Sam. / “I Just knew that ‘niggah’ couldn’t keep his mouth shut," spoke the equally guilty Jim. •<" ... . „ On his plantation Mr. Stallings is a "miracle man.

tied Miss Florence Wain. In 1904 she obtained a divorce on grounds of cruelty and obtained custody of the two children—a daughter, four years old, and a son, six months. Barnay was ordered to pay alimony of $lO a week. He disappeared. She resumed her maiden name and went to work. The other day she brought her son, now fifteen years old. downtown to buy a suit. They were having luncheon in a restaurant at 54 East Van Buren

started and the train was preceded by a snow plow’ pushed by two locomotives Seven miles east of Norfolk the plows and locomotives stuck in a drift. The passenger train halted to wait until the plow’s battered a way through, but soon was snowed in Itself and was unable to back up. Telegraph wires went out of commission and division headquarters in Norfolk could not be notified of the tieup. It had been thought that the

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ONE OF GREAT BRITAIN'S ARMED DIRIGIBLES IN FLIGHT

a Rritish dirigible big enough to carry out long-distance flights, mounting two machine guns and much larger than the one shown, that there were not enough hangars to hold them.

HUN NAVY TIMID JELLICOE SHOWS

British Officer Surprised by Caution of Foe During First of War. GRAND FLEET IN DANGER . ,_L - -■ ■ • - ■ * . . - Short of Cruisers, Destroyers and Had Defenseless Bases in Early Months ©^Conflict—Describes Big Battle of Jutland. London. —The dangers to which the British grand fleet, short of cruisers, destroyers and with defenseless bases, was exposed during the first two and one-half years of the war, owing to the German use of submarines, mines and torpedoes, is described in a book written by Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, former commander of the fleet, covering the activities of 1914-16. Admiral Jellicoe points out that the German high seas fleet possessed 88 destroyers, compared with 42 for the grand fleet, and reveals that, owing to the submarine menace, the- grand fleet, in the fall of 1914, moved from Lough Swilly and only returned to the North sea when the anchorage in Scapa Flow became reasonably safe. Neither in October, 1914, nor in May, 1916, Admiral Jellicoe says, did the British margin of superiority justify him in disregarding the enemy’s torpedo fire. The situation gradually improved after 1916, especially as the light cruiser and destroyer forces with the grand fleet increased steadily after the battle of Jutland, considerably re-

MAJ. GEN. ARTHUR MURRAY

Maj. Gen. Arthur Murray, retired, will be clerk of the military affairs committee of the next house, unless the war department objects. Representative Julius Kahn, who will be chairman of the committee, has announced that he will have General Murray appointed to the position.

COLOR AS AID TO HEALTH

Famous English Specialist Expounds New Theory. Claims Color Schemes in Decorating Will Make People Healthier and Happier. London. —Kemp Prosser, the famous English color specialist, has been conducting some interesting experiments which he hopes the British government will adopt for decorating. houses during the reconstruction period. He maintains that the adoption of his color schemes will make the British both healthier and happier. interviewed in his two “health rooms," one with walla of sunlight yellow and the ceiling sky blue, with blue net curtains at the windows, Mr. Prosser declared that his purpose is to bring inside. “I am doing away with my pic-

ducing the danger of successful torpedo attack, while the inclusion of class K submarines made it probable that the enemy would suffer more severely from submarine attack than the British. . Tables Are Turned. Regarding 1918, Admiral Jellicoe savs;- ; —— “The position was assured and we could have afforded to take risks winch in 1916 would have been unwise. If the German fleet had come out to battle, a terrible punishment awaited them.” One-third of the admiral’s book-is devoted to the battle of Jutland. In summing up the lessons of the battle. Admiral Jellicoe dwells upon “the danger involved in<4ea*Lng too much to chance in fleet action, because our fleet was the one and only factor vital to the existence of the empire, and, indeed, to the allied cause.” HWe had no reserve outside the battle fleet which could in any way replace it in the event of disaster or even should its margin of superiority be eliminated.” the admiral continues. Admiral Jellicoe says he knew that his ships were Inadequately protected with armor compared to the German vessels of the battle cruiser type, while the German fleet in the battle of Jutland was far better off in the number of destroyers. In addition, theGermans possessed “a most efficient armor-piercing shell.” The admiral continues: . “When the battle fleets approached

HAMMOND IDEA O. K.

Crewless Ship Proves to Be a Success. Army and Navy Experts Report That Wireless Control Is Possible. Washington.—Army and navy experts have reported the device of John Hays Hammond, .Tr., for radio control of surface craft to be sent laden with explosives against enemy ships a success, and predict similar results with submerged craft showing above water only wireless antennae. Results of tests were made public In connection with the new fortifications appropriation bill, which carries $475,000 for construction of an experimental submerged boat. Secretary Baker, wrote the house appropriations committee, which is considering the b|H, that, the jofnt army and navy board was “convinced of the practicability of the control” of the surface craft, and added that there had also been demonstrations of the possibility of the control of a craft completely submerged except for an air intake pipe. Before finally deciding on the purchase of the patents for $750,000 the board desires further experiment with the submerged craft. Coastructlon of the submerged craft, which will be about 80 feet long by 7 feet in diameter, will take two years, according to Mr. Hammond, who told the committee he has spent

tures,” he said. "Instead I am installing these bowls of fruit, as you see. on pedestals against the background of the sunlight walls.” Then the color specialist led the way to the other room, in which the dominating color was apple-blossom pink. “This is the normal color,” said Mr. Prosser, “because 1 have found that ninety-nine people out of a hundred are happiest in rooms of this shade.”

Change Village Name.

San Francisco. Germantown; a prosperous community In Glenn county, has gone the w’ay of sauerkraut, hamburger and pretzels. Hereafter, the Southern Pacific announced, the name of the station will be Artois, which carries more of an allied flavor. Recently the Southern Pacific rechristened a small Btation"'ori*Ttß lines in southern California. As Berlin It was an anathema. Now, as Pershing, it looks forward to civic greatness.,.

there was a difference of reckoning between the British battle fleet and the battle cruiser squadrons, due to the cruisers having been engaged for several hours and having repeatedly altered their course. Hence, instead of being encountered right ahead, the enemy appeared on the starboard boyv.” Instant action was necessary, the admiral says, and he decided to deploy on the port wing division, thus compelling the Germans to turn off to starboard to avoid being crossed. This maneuver, which has been described as masterly by reviewers, threw the enemy into complete confusion. The German commander in chief realized that his only hope lay in escape, profiting -by his superiority In torpedo craft, low visibility, the approach of darkness and the proximity of his bases and mine fields. The enemy at this period fired hundreds of torpedoes, as German officers ■fiave since stated. Admiral Jellicoe continues, and although the Germans were in the gravest peril, the position of the grand fleet itself was menaced by determined torpedo attacks/thick weather. But the British flee Thy turning its battle line four times during the action,’ the admiral says, got clear of the torpedoes, which were racing toward the British ships, and defeated the tactics upon which the Germans based their hopes. After estimating the relative strength of the two fleets early in the war, Admiral Jellicoe expresses surprise that the Germans were so cautious and says: “If this country in the future decided to’ rely for safety against raids or Invasion on the fleet' atone, it is essential that we possess a considerably greater margin of superiority over a possible enemy in all classes of vessels than we did in August, 1914.”

ten years and $400,000 on his invention. “There is no question whatever as to the ability to control with great accuracy the torpedo or carrier,” said a letter of Maj. Gen. F. W. Coe, a member of the board, “so, long as it is a surface vessel or has any antennae above the water, by direct radio waves, either from shore or from an airplane.” With a shore station having a height of 80 feet above sea level radio control of the craft has been demonstrated to the board up to a distance of seven miles, but General Coe said that if controlled from an airplane there was no limit as to distance except the propelling pow’er of the torpedo or the boat that carried it Or the airplane.

50,000 YANKS GO TO SCHOOL

Hundred* of Former instructors Are Chosen to Teach Soldiers of the A. E. F. in France. Paris. —Fifty thousand soldiers of the American expeditionary forces have enrolled as students in the army post schools in France, conducted under the direction of the army educational commission. Hundreds of former college and academy professors and instructors drawn from the various branches of the A. E. F. have been sent to teach in these schools. The plan is to make these divisional schools continue in operation with the division until it is returned home and demobilized.

FRENCH NAVY LOST 134 SHIPS

Total of Tonnage, 110,000; Four Batand Four Armored Cruisers in List Paris.—A full list of French naval losses in the war includes four battleships, the Bouvet. Suffren, Gaulois and Danton; four armored cruisers, the Leon Gainbetta, Amlral Charner, Cleber and Dupetit Thouars; one fast cruiser, the Ghateaureuauft; fourteen destroyers, eight 'torpedo boats and fourteen submarines. One of the submarines, the Duri, was refloated by the enemy, but was subsequently recovered. Minor ships sunk were five auxiliary cruisers, four gunboats, seventytwo, submarine chasers, one sloop and seven small craft. The French loss totaled 110.000 tons, iigainst 550.000 tons for England, 76.i 100 tons for Italy and 17,5(10 tons for the United States. ' Formerly "one of the big. imports of. Brazil was rice. She now exports Iva times as much rice as she ever imported. . ’ ' g ,

THEIR EDEN

By JACK LAWTON.

iCcpyngui, •»!«. Aewopaper cnws.) As Billy Towne drove up the narrow road, he spied a blur of scarlet st the edge of a wood. And as he came nearer, Billy whistled, for the scarlet blur proved to be a silken sweater, with a girl’s brown head above it. Bill’s wonderment was caused by the fact that the road at this point was almost impassable, no human habitation for miles, and no vehicle 3K_ any sort in sight. How then had this small, white-slippered creature chosen this wilderness in which to continue her knitting? For Billy could see that she was knitting. The needles gleamed tn the sunlight as the isolated girl hummed a song. Billy had been sent up in his little car by the chief engineer and the newmade way was precarious. The girl, raising dark eyes from her knitting, regarded him coldly, then resumed her work. “I thought,” he blundered, “that you might need assistance.” She raised her pretty brows. “Why?” she asked. am comfortable here.” “You’re not lost then?” Billy questioned. The girl shook her head. “I know just where I am,” she answered decidedly. There seemed nothing to do, after that, but to continue his way, but Billy felt strangely loath to depart. The young engineer puzzled over it during the wakeful hours of the night. So you may see what had, in one flash of dark eyes, happened to Billy. It was idiotic, of course, to expect that the perverse girl would be at her soli- ~ tary post upon the following day. But an overwhelming desire took Billy to the chief engineer. . “Want me to go up top again?” he asked eagerly, and the great man absently assented, so Billy went. And far up the trail his joyous searching gaze discerned the red blur which grew into that same scarlet sweater. Exactly in the same spot sat- the haunting girl, still calmly bending over her knitting and humming what seemed to Billy a most appropriate song, “You’ll Be. Coming Back Again to Me, My Dearie.” Deliberately Billy stopped his car. “I wish,” he said, “that you would satisfy my very natural, though maybe, impertinent curiosity. How do you manage to come here? The road is closed —save to employees—and is positively dangerous. There is no other path —and the woods, of course, would be out of the question.” The girl looked frowningly at him. “Why you should concern yourself—” she began, then as suddenly broke off in a smile. “Perhaps an airplane brought me,” she said. “At any rate, I did not come here seeking companionship—you will excuse me—l came in the hope of being for a time, alone.” Billy excused her. Inwardly fuming he rode on his way without one backward glance. But the mockingwords of the girl’s low-song followed him. “You’ll be coming back again to me, my dearie,” she sang, and in his raging heart Billy knew that the song was true. His great anxiety was that he might not find her there when he came. So, the next day he did not risk awaiting an order from the chief; ■ he hastened on in his car. Billy had no Intention of speaking to the girl. Even-the love which had r found him in one flashing glance could brook no such evident snubbing. Mischievously she had laid aside* her sweater and Billy could not tell until close, that she was there. When the discovery came to him his heart beat maddeningly and the surprising girl raised her face in a frank smile. “Good morning,” she “Morning," answered Billy, “where is your airplane T’ "On i that —•” murmured the girt and laughing softly, “was a foolish remark. I ride up here every morning in a car like yours, and am called for at noon. I might have told you,” she studied her knitting, “that I—await my husband.” “Your —husband!” muttered Billy. He had never thought of that. All the sunlight left the mountain air. It was queer, how quickly one could come to think a lot of a girl! Poor Billy gulped. “Good-by,” he said. “Good-by,” the girl replied slowly. Onward rode Billy. But his mournful meditation was interrupted by a piercing scream. Ixioking back, he saw the girl perched high on a bit of broken fence by the niladway. Vlos lently she beckoned him. Billy, leap Ing from his car, ran to her. “Oh!” she gasped, “a snake! A big snake there by the wood!” Billy could not see the snake, but he caught the girl in his arms and ran with her toward his car. Safely ensconced on the seat she sighed in relief. “Drive me down to father’s shack, please.” she requested, “Father ta chief engineer. It is he for whom I wait every day.”. “You told me,” said the bewildered Billy, “that you awaited your ht»» band.” . The chiefs daughter smiled. “You looked so flirtatious I had v te tell you something',” she said, “and anyway, most girls? do await a husband, you know.” . . ■ ~- Then Billy grinned rapturously late the guileless eyes upraised to hl&