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A German mark is now worth almost as much an an iron dross. — Wall Street Journal. Instead of pocketing the treaty, the president might give it to Burleson to mail—Lowell Courier-Cit-izen. 1... ---7 --- - H The mere fact that President Wil-, son Whfe’ scmietiiShg is not an argu-' ment against it.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Some of the knocking on wood in this country is beginning to be noticed by the friends of General Leonard. —Houston Post. There is little color in prison life, but that promises to be changed for ♦he better soon, when the reds get there.—New York World. If he makes another race Senator Lodge may be able to run on the platform—“he kept us out of peace.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Kansas school teachers are trying to find some way to get salaries raised in their profession. Have they ever thought of getting the administration at Washington to take over the schools?—Kansas City Star. The marble dome over the natienal capital is not the only marble dfitoe immediately connected with ilßrt building.—Columbia Record. There seem to be splendid opportunities for the young map who goes to Mexico and grows up in the ransom business- —Columbia Record. The foundations of world peace should be sunk pretty deep, because theyHl have to support lots of tall

Diamond Cut Diamond

By JANE BUNKER

CoxKyrtßbt by the Bobbs-Merrlll Couoia’ CHAPTER IV. The Wicked Flee. I confess I was frightened when I thought of the diamonds and only two women alone in the house —apparently—to guard them, but Mrs. Dels- 1 rio was terrified. “These stones” —she looked about the room despairingly. “Where can I hide them? And we two women alone in the house—” Again the ring—a long, long rattle; whoever it w’as meant to get in. Followed .a pounding on the door. Mrs. Delario, though deathly white, was now composed and ready to meet the emergency, whatever it was. Mechanically she slipped the elastic over the box and rose. “Til go to the door,” she decided. “It’s better to see who It is, anyway. Perhaps It’s only a district messenger. If it ten't—if it should be officers—they might break in the door.” And with that she whisked up her skirt and tucked the box down into her stocking. I had risen and was preparing to follow her out, feeling she" might need me, but she turned and said for me to wait behind the door out of sight and listen. She 1 est me. I heard the front dGor open just as the pounding began again. She asked, “What is it?” and a man’s voice answered, “Does Eugene Delario live here?” She said he did, and demanded what was wanted of him. The man’s voice said, “I must see him at once.” And then, to my amazement, I heard her tell the man, “I’m sorry, but you can’t —tonight; he’s sick in bed.” “I rather think I can see him, then," was the retort. “And I will.” There followed,. well, not quite a scuffle but a very active shuffling of feet, and the man pushed his way into the house in spite of her, pushing her aside from the door, which he shut with a bang and a “Now’, then.” Sensations began to trickle down my spine. “In which room is the young man sick?” demanded the voice. “I tell you you can’t see him —I refuse to let you go upstairs. What right have you forcing yourself into my house this way and demanding to see my sick son?" she asked angrily. “Now, lady, be reasonable and Hl show you,” he replied in a tone meant to conciliate. I heard a rattle of paper. “A warrant!” she gasped. “That’s what,” he said. “Want to see my badge?” There was a slight rustle as I assumed he showed It to her, for she gasped, “An officer —a warrant I” and seemed to sway on the stair. “Now, lady,” he began, still conciliating, “you don’t want fco make any more trouble for yourself than’s necessary. I got to do my duty —and it ain't always pleasant—but I got to do It. It ain’t my fault if I got to arrest your son —I ain’t doing it to spite you, nor him—he didn’t steal any diamonds off me, you Know—-” “Steal any diamonds!" she interrupted. “He never stole a diamond in his life. Never!” I fancied the man shrugging as he answered, “So much the better for him If he didn’t steal them —I’m sure I hope for your sake he didn’t, though it looks ba<L him trying to sell them to the very parties that knew all about them.” “Oh!” snd I could see her clinging to the banister. She was evidently at a loss what to do. Inpdftrstood In g. flash < happened —this man or an accomplice was the one who had followed her son home from the Maiden lane dealer’s yesterday. He evidently thought he making headway, for he went on. “Now see here, lady, you take It from me—the parties that are pressing this case don’t care for publicity, any more than you do —or your son does. It would ruin him if it got into the papers, to say nothing of his serving. time for it —” “Serving time! 'My God!” broke from her involuntarily. “Of course he’ll serve time if it’s proved on him,” her visitor assured her. She gave a sob. I was wrought up. It was all I could do to keep my place and not join her and help defy the man; but his next words held ntfe listening. “If he’ll give back the stones he showed yesterday, or tell where he’s hid them, I can get this settled out of court and nobody will be the wiser—if you don’t say anything. See?” “It isn’t true!” she cried. “My son never stole a cent’s worth of anything in his life.” “Here’s the warrant” “Arrest him if you will, but 'the law will prove him innocent —if there’s law in the land, and I sometimes doubt it" “But hadn’t you bettter talk to him first? It won’t hurt to hear what he has to say. and if it can be arranged

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not tftlh to/lutnl l»»» you think 1 would ln«u*t my son by asking him if he stole diamonds?” r~— Followed a silence. Then the volet* “Veil. If vmt won’t 1 suppost you won't. Bur y. ::’ll regret it.' “I won’t.” “Then Til have to do it myself. Which room is be sick in?” d floor bacl. —but you can’t go up.’Vaua be planted herself across his wa v. 1 saw his hand roach out and remove hers from the banister and as he pusset) Iter site sank on the lowest step and began to sob. •I* may have counted six when Mrs, Delario whippecMnto. the seance room, my coat oiZher arm. "Quick —you must go,” she whispered. “You must hide my diamonds.” I gasped and asked. “How?” “While he's upstairs trying to get into a locked room.— She was dragging my coat on my arms and saying at pie same time, “It’s a fake—that man isn’t aneffieer;

“I Knew It Was Coming—Hurry— Hurry!"

I knew it was coming—l saw it clairvoyantly when Eugene came home. Hufry—hurry!” “But suppose—” I began. She cut me short. “You can! He doesn’t know you’re here —he didn’t see you. You can get away while he-’s breaking in the door and looking for Eugene. I’ll have time to telephone the police. Only .go—go Immediately—before he sees you." She whisked up her skirts as she spoke, pulled the box out of her stocking and thrust it in my hands. “I can’t.” I felt I simply couldn’t take the responsibility. “But they’re mine—l swear to God they’re mine,” she cried, evidently thinking the man’s words had convinced me that the stones were stolen. “They’re all I have in the world. If they’re found by these scoundrels they’ll be stolen from us. Don’t you see it? That man’s a thief.” From upstairs came the noise of pounding on doors and the words, “I know you’re here, so you may as well open the door.” I held the box, too paralyzed to know what to do, but Mrs. Delario had her wits about her if I didn’t. “Put it in your stocking andiron.” she commanded. “Quick— your stocking.” And I whisked up my skirt, even, as she had done, a ritT stowed the diamonds In my stocking. She pushed me out of the seance room ahead of her and we tiptoed to the vestibule. “Run,” she whispered. “I’m going to scream for help as soon as you’re out of sight.” In her hurry to get me off she almost pushed me down the steps. Then she snatched off her thin slipper, rnd the last glimpse I got df her as I turned the corner showed her ramming it into the crack of the front door to hold it open. , What she did/iext she told me later, but I may ,as Well put it in here. I was out of sight when the man blustered up to where she stood in the open ffeitvr, WWW and down the street for somebody to call., “You may as well tell that young man of yours,” growled he, “that if he don’t let me in I’ll break the door in.” “I don’t think you will,” she said calmly. “Now go.” “Not till I get what I eame for,” he said, taking hold of the door and trying to move it and finding it mysteriously wedged open. “Well, you’ll not do that this trip.” said she with spirit. “He isn’t there — and he wasn’t there. He was in the sitting room at the end of the hall” — she pointed to the seance room, the door of which he could see stood open—“and while you were trotting upstairs he ran out for a policeman. If you don’t believe it wait and see for yourself.” At that the fellow seized, her arm and tried to pull her back into the house and shut the door, but found it still wedged open, he could not see with what, as he was on the inside. But the moment be laid hands on her she began to scream, “Help! Help!” as loudly as ever she could. He didn’t wait to see what hap'pened—gs a matter of fact nothing happened, for there wasn’t a soul in sight on West End avenue when she screamed. ° . 7 , ' “Hl have a squad of police here myself to ‘help’ you if that’s what you’re after” be flung back as a parting, threat when he bolted down the steps

and disappeared around the same corner that had just hidden me. But that was the last she heard of him that night. She pulled her slipper out of the crack and shut the door. Then she went all to pieces and had a cry. •'j»♦ • * • ♦ As for me, when I left the house, I crossed the street, turned south and into the first cross-street T came to. It seemed as though everybody knew I had a million dollars in my stocking and was just waiting to nab me, or hand me over to the next policeman. But as nothing happened I became, a little more coherent, though I had the feeling I was being followed all the tlme. yet 1 couldn’t spot my shadow. My whole energy of mind was bent or giving my pursuer the slip. When at last I spied a subway station I jumped off the car, made a bolt of it for the stairs, rushed past the ticket chopper, throwing a nickel into his box, boarded a train that fortunately proved to be a north-bound express; got off at the next station and took a local; got out and took another express and got out for good when the guard bawled, “Huddn-n-forty-fift,” walked round the block where I live, and when there wasn’t a living soul in sight ducked into the front door of my apartment house. The elevator was rattling down from upstairs but I didn't wait for it. I tiptoed up the stairs, the descending elevator drowning the sound of my steps. I let myself in, put up the chain-bolt and took a long breath. Then my knees suddenly crumpled up under me and I went all to pieces in a heap. It was almost two o’clock before I found strength enough to undress, and I was so dazy I could hardly get my clothes off. While I was doing it I had brief thoughts of keeping on my stocking and taking the diamonds to bed with me; but I decided no—there’s a limit to one’s obligations in a case like this: if burglars come to 'you - ever noticed how very near a burglar feels when you have a million dollars in the house?—l’ll let them burgle. I’ll not help, but I’ll not hinder; life is too uncertain at its best So I set the box on the edge of the dining room table, conveniently, where burglars who were looking for just such a shabby little box filled with diamonds couldn’t fail to see it the instant they jimmied the front door off its hinges, or got in from the fire escape, or crawled up the kitchen dumb waiter, or came down the gas log into the fireplace. And then I went to bed —and slept, expecting to find that box exactly where I put it. (TO BE CONTINUED)

CHURCH STRATEGIST URGES UNITED DRIVE

Rt. Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, D. D.

Bishop Arthur Selden Lloyd, president of the Episcopal Boardof Missions, heads one of the three general organizations of the Episcopal church most interested in its nation-w’ide campaign. Bishop Lloyd was chairman of the organization which successfully presented to the Episcopal convention the idea of a nation-wide campaign to expand all its activities —missions, religious education and social service. t As head of the Board of Missions, Bishop Lloyd advocated the strategy of a general advance in the whole mission field, at home and abroad, rather than a series of separate sorties on' the various fronts. To carry the ideals of Americansm and Christianity to the greatest numbers at the same timp the. church’s nation-wide campaign was. launched to obtain the'' men, women and money for the work. Bishop Lloyd was born in Mount Ida, Va„ in 1857. He was consecrated a bishop in 1909. In. 1910 h« was elected president of the Episcopal Board of Missions, heading one of the most important, if not the most important, general body of the Episcopal church.

The Literary Digest referes to it as" “the bouncing of Berger,” but we hope that doesn’t imply any possibility of a come-back. —Little Rock Arkansas Democrat.

The president of the Chinese republic has resigned. He probably has no senate to make life interesting.—The Trade Unionist (Washington, D. C.)

“I. U." 100 YEARS OLD NEXT MAY

Next Year Marks End of Full Century of Progress For State University. Indiana University will celebrate , . its centennial anniversary in the j coming year. One hundred years ago next May the first definite step toward the founding of Indiana University was taken when the General Assembly appointed a board of trustees and, empowered them to buy land and , erect thereon suitable buildings for a ! state seminary. These trustees were j Jonathan Lindley, Charles Dewey, I David H. Maxwell, John M. Jenkins, Jonathan Nichols and William Lane. ! As a result of this legislation, the i new seminary was opened in May, The building, only a temporary structure, was erected at the south ' end of College avenue where the old college, now the Junior high school, ' stands. Changed to University. Within three years it had made such progress in number of students and in the general character oi its ‘ work that a board of visitors, ap--1 pointed by the general assembly in | 1827, recommended that the Indiana seminary be raised to the dignity of a college. Accordingly, by an act of the assembly, Jan. 24, 1828, the state seminary became Indiana College. In 1836 a more pretentious building was erected and in 1838 the name of the institution was again changed —this time to Indiana University The question of the relation of the state to the university arose in the constitutional convention of 1851. Since no explicit statement was incorporated in the constitution as adopted at the first meeting of the general assembly in 1852, an act was passed which may be regarded as the fourth charter of the university, and the one by which in the main it is still governed. This act provided for the government of the institution, the management of its funds, and the disposition of the lands thereof. Finally, the supreme court of the state in the case of Fisher vs. Bower, rendered a decision. (June 24,1902) in which these words were used, “The Indiana University is an integral part of our free school system; it was the special creation of the constitution; the university as well as its endowment has always been under the supervision of the state.” Library Burns Twice. In 1854 the new building, with its entire contents in the form of libraries and collections, was destroyed by fire. The friends of the university came to its assistance and another and better building was erected. This structure, one of the most picturesque in Bloomington, is now known as the Old College, it was pur-, chased by the board of education of the city of Bloomington in 1897. In 1874 a second large building of design similar to that of the old cdllege was erected for the libraries and museum; but in a second fire, in 1883, this building was destroyed with all its contents. The fire of 1883 marked a turning point in the history of the institution. It was decided tn remove the university to a more ample site,, away from the noise and disturbance of the railway. For thia purpose the tract known as Dunn’s woods was purchased, east of the city, facing what is now, Indiana avenue on the west, and Third street on the south. The chief university buildings form three sides of a quadrangle on the crest of the campus proper. Beginning with the one nearest the Kirkwood entrance, they are as follows: The Library building, erected in 1907, containing at present 128,383 volumes and increasing at the rate of about 6,000 volumes a year; the Student building, 1906; Maxwell hall, 1890, occupied by the administrative offices and the School of Law, is narrfed for 'Doctor James .H Maxwell and for hia son, Doctor James D. Maxwell*, Owen hall, named for Richard Owen, geologist and professor .of natural science from 1863 to 1879; Wylie hall, 1884, named in honor of Doctor Andrew Wylie, the first president of Indiana University; Kirkwood hall,1894; Science hall, 1902; and Biology hall, 1910. The newest building on the campus is the fine men’s gymnasium, completed in 1917. However, the need for new buildings, especially a new dormitory for the girls, is very great. Indiana University has an increase of more than six hundred students this year as well as a large, number of new teachers.

I. U. Has Odd Ailments.

Whatever else may be said about Indiana University, it can’t be said that it takes a back seat in many things (excepting possibly football) and now the state institution comes to the front with an odd disease which has prevailed for some time but which is now abating. “False angina’’ sounds more like thname of a “movie” or perhaps "a dime novel (now 35c) than the name of a disease, yet that is the ailment that afflicted more than 10&. students recently. / Tfr. J-.» E. P. Holland, University physician says the disease has now been entirely eradicated from the natHHttV.

COSTLY PLACE TO MAINTAIN

White House, From Time of Its Original Building, Has Absorbed Millions of Dollars. Just 100 years ago President Monroe indulged in a little extravagance. He “blew himself’ to a bathtub. It cost S2O, and for a long time thereafter was the only bathtub in the White House. The historic mansion has been pretty expensive from first to last. to date considerably more than $3,000,000 has been spent on it, including repairs and refurnishing. Its cornerstone was laid by George Washington in a bare field October 1, 1792. Since then it has been twice rebuilt—after the British burned it and again during the Roosevelt administration. It was commonly called in early days the Great House, or the President’s Palace. Recently Mr. Tumulty again gave out the announcement that the White House would be closed to visitors for some time to come, “because of necessary repairs.” It seems forever to be needing repairs and- refurnishing, and for the latter purpose much more than $1,000,000 has been expended since the beginning. The original cost of the building was $333,207. Its reconstruction after the British raid of 1814 involved an expenditure of $246,490, the house, being gutted and its walls so far destroyed that the greater part of them had to be replaced above the first story with new brick and fresh cut stone. Inevitably there will be a third rebuilding some day. Plans and a model of the White House»as it ought to be with wings added, have already 'been made. The wings are embraced by exterior colonnades. In the east wing is to be a great reception room; in the west wing the state dining room. On the second floor of each wing are to be five bedrooms. Thus the president will have about twenty bedrooms at his disposal, and will be enabled to offer a much freer hospitallty. Conservatories in the rear will complete a magnificent quadrangle, and the whole effect will be very beautiful. The cost ,of rebuilding the White House In thfs style will be in the neighborhood of $2,000,000.

Diversions That Benefit.

In an address at the Royftl College of Medicine to students about to start out in practice for themselves, Dr. George Steele-Perkins of Edinburgh gave this advice: ‘•Also learn to play lawn tennis, golf, bridge, billiards,’ or whatever games tnost appeal to you, and among other things do not neglect the noble art of self-defense.” This advice Is as sound for the young man starting out as a lawyu or a broker or a business man. For every man needs some amusement to which he can turn in order to forget the worries of his working hours. No man Is ever too busy to play; an hour’s relaxation makes him work better. That is why Gladstone chopped down trees and studied Homer, why Wilson plays golf, why Charles Schwab plays bridge, why Cleveland went fishing, why Roosevelt rode, boxed, played handball; why the late J. P. Morgan was never too busy to devote an hour to talking art with some one who really knew. Such diversions keep a man frojn going stale. —Exchange.

Boilers Heated by Electricity.

The curious anomaly of steam boilers heated by electricity is attracting serious attention in certain localities. Such boilers have been set up of capacities up to 1,500 kilowatts, or 2,000 horse-power, taking electric current of voltages up to 10,000, aud offer advantages where coal is high and waterpower cheap, as In certain woodpulp and paper factories of northern Europe. Steam is generated by passage of the electric current through water. Narrow vertical tubes of insulating material contain water, and are connected at top and bottom with the Interior of the boiler. Alternating current is sent through the water columns, the tubes with three-phase currents being connected in groups of three. Moving the electrodes in the tubes regulates the current strength. An efficiency of 95 per cent is Claimed and one watt of electric energy to stated to produce nearly four pounds of steam.

Friend Wife Laughed.

I was motoring along one of our country roads in my trusty little bus with friend wife, who was carrying a most unwelcome bit of grouch, when I pulled alongside of p large, lazy sedarywith a man trying to fix it “Trouble?” I asked. “Some,” was the laconic answer. “What power car is it?” “Forty-horse,” came the answer. “What seems to be the matter with it?” . “Well, from the way she acts, I should say that thirty-nine of tbe horses were dead.” This must have been the funniest of experiences, for my wife actually laughed—right out loud. —Exchange.

New Insurance Idea.

To stimulate marriage several insurance companies in Great Britain are now issuing what to called marriage insurance. It provides for payment of $2,500 at the expiration of 25 years or earlier, eat death of the assured, and. In addition, SSOO in respect of each of five children born after the date of the policy wJso attain the age of twelve years, payable by five installments of SIOO each on twelfth and tour succeeding birthdays.