Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — Page 6

HIS BEST. t 1’’Tellers, I here done mj best!” So he said, and wvnt to rest, Like a child that, tired of play, Atthe' closing of the day. Lays him on his mother’s breast I ' ' . '■ IT. '. . ( ‘Tellers. I have done my best!” „ Hands few lives that loved him ' . pressed * . Folded were, as “if" in prayer. In the after-silence there— Folded gently o’er his breast. 111. All, in those last words expressed! All of pain, of grief unguessed! Who than this can better say At the closing of life’s day—- “ Fellers. I have done my best!" —Atlanta Constitution.

The Soul of a Butterfly

By Olive Lethbridge & G. Fitzgerald

Lady Vasavour lay back in a deep arni'hair. making a pretty picture in the firelit room. She was a; work of art, and modern from the top of her beautifully dressed head to the tips of her perfectly shod feet. She was listening with languid interest to what her sister, Mrs. Mardall, was . Baying. No greater contrast could possibly have existed than between the twp women, and yet one could well imagine that in youth there r.t.d been a strong likeness. Lady 7 Vasavour had, su to speak, marched with the times, while Mrs.-Mardall, living her happy country life, had forgotten to progress—it was she who now spoke. "Really, Ethel, I cannot see the necessity of your going to the opera tonight, when you complain of being bo tired.” —~ I.ady Vasavour gave a little quick sigh—“l am afraid, Emily, it would be Impossible to make you understand how necessary it is to take one's self before the public and have one's picture in all the papers.’’ “What a very horrible idea! Why I am sure if I left Altonville for six months I should be remembered quite as well as I am today.” A slight gleam of amusement shot .across Lady Vasavour's face. “No?” she murmured, “you don't m-an to say so?” Mrs Mardall pleated the material, of her dowdy gown skirt reflectively. “I have been wondering lately wha- you gain by all this constant found of engagements. T have stayed with yob now ten days, and during that time you have not been able to give me one single hour in which to talk to you alone; and yet you have spoken over and over again of your disinclination to go out, and of your desire for the time to come when everybody would be leaving town; yet when it does come, where will you go but to some place where you will meet all the people whom you complain of boring you sq much now? And you will dine out and dress up "Just as you do here.” , Lady Vasavour listened with a patient expression to this speech. “I know, dear,” she murmured, "but after all, it is life, isn’t it?” “I don’t think so My idea of life is a very different one; it is to live for and with some one whom you love, and to "whom you are everything. Then think of the beauties of Nature that one knows nothing of in the smoke grimed city; think of the woods in their autumn tints, the - lovely hills in the quiet evening light; the sense of peace and happiness that steals over one; look over the country. when it is bathed in moonlight!” Lady Vasavour smiled. "I know,” she nodded —“the kind of effect they have in the pantomime sometimes.” Mrs. Mardall slightly resented her tone “Well, yoU were happy in the country once,” she said pointedly. A delicate flush crossed her sister’s delicately tinted face. “Ah, yes; when I had that flirtation with Trevor Jameson, and we contemplated marrying on two pence-halfpenny a week. Now that you remind me of him, he was really a very good looking man.” Mrs. Mardall leaned forward. “I often think, Ethel, that had you married on that two pence-halfpenny a week you might have been a better and a happier woman.” Lady Vasavour sat up in hurt surprise. uEjh?” she ejaculated. *’‘What’s the matter with me? My character is 'beyond reproach, I assure you.” Mrs. Mardall drew- herself up. “I am sure, Ethel, I never dreamed of thinking anything else, though I must confess that I think your conversation ajt times is a little lax. and your tone hardly that which John would approve of in me.” A vision of the respectable John with his whiskers and his ill made clothes and general air of prosiness rose before Ladv Vasavour's mental vision and caused her a great deal of internal merriment. Some suspicion of this seemed to communicate itself to Emily, and she flushed ly■‘Of course, I knew you never really understood John, but 1 assure you he is greatly respected and looked up to in our neighborhood, and has been

a loving and faithful husband to me for twenty years.” Lady Vasavour, engaged in (pulling down a blind, here murmured in a suppressed voice that she did not doubt that fact for a momentEmily gave her a suspicious glance. "Well,” she** averred, "at any ” rate there are few wives among your friends who could say that.” __ “No, it is quite a record. lam sure if he lived in town, we would put up a statue to him.” . . ■ “Ethel!” Mrs. Mardall rose bristling with indignation. “I consider your conversation absolutely immoral, and what is more, greatly lacking In respect to John. As your sister I feel it my duty to speak plainly; I consider that you have greatly deteriorated since you came ( to London. You paint your face, you dye your hair, and you. have taken lately to wearing gowns so fashionable that they are scarcely decent. You are a slave to pleasure, rushing here and there, and pursuing a phantom that you never catch, filling your rooms and spending your money on people who are. comparatively speaking, strangers.’*

"Well, I'd rather die dancing than weeping, and are you aware, dear sister, that the country has made you —a trifle narrow minded?” “Any 'way,” retorted Emily, "I can see one thing very plainly, and that is if you do not take care —before long you will be married for your money—do you not recognize your dangerous position as a rich Widow? John and I both wish so much that you would find some good and worthy man”—— Lady Vasavour threw up her bands in horror. forbid!” she cried, “you want to land me in the Divorce Court.'’ Emily showed genuine distress. "Oh! if onlv John were here to talk, « • .» to you, for 1 am quite unequal to it, a few tears streamed down her homely face, and Ethel softened at once. "Come, Ernie,” she said penitently; “you know you and I were always the very opposite to each other, and I am a flighty, frivolous butterfly, wanting to sip the sweets from every flower; but there is no real harm in me”— — She paused a moment, her chin in her hand, with an unusual expression of thought upon her face. "Yes —he really was a very good looking man, and made love very nicely”’ Emily moved uneasily. “What man,” she asked. "Trevor Jameson, of course. I suppose he has married and grown fat and bucolic?” "No such thing; he is very good looking still and the catch of the comity.** - “County! What county?” "Our county, of course.” said Emily with pride. “He came in for £20,000 a year and a baronetev lately.” ’

Lady Vasavour sprang up to an adjacent mirror. "Really!" she ex claimed; "how very interesting—does he ever speak of me?” "He was very much in love with y-,u. even more than you were aware of,” replied her sister primly. "Do you think it would be worth my while to go down with you tomorrow and cultivate him again?” asked Lady Vasavour, half laughing. Emily pursed up her lips. "I think it would be the very best thihg on this earth that could happen to you. I am not sb blind that I cannot see that a life like John’s would be impossible for a restless, pleasure loving nature like yours, but with Sir Trevor it would be a different thing.”

“A hunting, shooting, destroying creature, I suppose," said I>ady Vasavour, “and a country vegetable who would keep me in the country and deprive me of all the pleasures that are my life.” "By no means. Certainly Sir Trevor enjoys sport in every form, but hi§ house is filled with the world's most interesting people. You would have as much of society and. of the life you love as you do now, but there WQuld be a difference.” "He has evidently become a perfect dragon of all the virtues.” laughed Lady Vasavour. “Do he and John fraternize?’’

Emily admitted with some hesitation that they did not, and Lady Vasavour heaved a high of relief. “I wonder,” she said softly, “does he still remember me.". “Sir Trevor,” replied her sister quietly, “is not a man who forgets.” “But I am changed since he knew me. My hair —my—er—-complexion, my figure—what will he think of me?” Emily's face wore a slightly igrito expression. "I have observed.”, she said, “that men almost invariably admire anything that is not—quite nice. Sir Trevor will merely call you ‘beautiful’ and say that t every woman has the right to make the most of herself.” “You seem very confident,” began Ethel, “that he" Emily rose. “Sir Trevor expressed a hope that when I returned to Altonville I might bring you back with me. TbihlTlt over and make up your mind, for he is not a man to be trifled with.” She moved to the dopr.Excuse me now. dear: I must go and write to John and tell him what time my train arrives tomorrow.”’ For some time after her sister had left her Lady Va savour sat quietly gazing in front of her. Now that she was alone some of her artificiality seemed to’ have fallen from her like a mantle. She i smiled as if her thoughts seemed pleasant ones, 1 and she crossed over to a bureau and, pulling

out a drawer, took but a Windle of photographs fastened together with ah elastic band. She looked over these hurriedly until she found the one she wanted; then she returned to her seat* a£d. stirring the fire into a blaze, she looked, reflectively at the photograph in her hand. It was a strong-face, with eyes that seemed to look straight into yours; the mouth was well Cut, but firm almost to severity. “I wonder.” she murmured, “dare I risk it—he looks a little terrifrine. but. after ’all, I have not lived all these years without learning how to manage a man.” She laid the photograph gently on the table and rang the bell. When the maid. Parker, came to her she was busy writing. “Pack my boxes; I am going away tomorrow.” “In the middle of the season, milady?” "Yes; I am going to the country, and may not be returning for some time. Oh, and—Parker —be sure and pack all my prettiest evening gowns.” —The Throne and J'ountry.

AMBERGRIS TREASURE.

Painter’s Lucky Find Recalls Similar Exploits in Fact ind Fancy., The story of how a Manchester (N. H.) painter found in the St. Lawrence River a lump of grayish substance weighing thirty-eight pounds, and how he has discovered that the solid, fatty stuff is ambergris and is worth J 30,000, recalls the nearest thing to romance that ever entered into the lives of Gloucester and New Bedford whalers. in the old days when American whalers dared every sea. It was like a lottery. Once in a lifetime you might chance on, the decaying body of a whale. giving off an awful smell, and inside that whale'would be a fortune enough so that you would never have to go to sea again. Charles Reade, as far as we remember, is the only writer to introduce ambergris into fiction. In "Love Me Little, Love Me Long,” David tells Miss Fountain how "the skipper stuffed their noses and ears with cotton, steeped in aromatic vinegar, and they lighted short pipes and broached the brig upon the putrescent monster and grappled to it; and the skipper jumped on it and drove his spade (sharp steel) in behind the whale's side fins.” •It is a matter of record that not far from the Windward Islands a Yankee skipper in one of the best old whaling years did cut out of a whale 130 pounds of ambergris, which was sold for £SOO. The price quoted for many years was $6 an ounce. Ambergris is often found floating on the sea. particularly off the coast of Brazil and of Madagascar. The Bahamas send more than any' other source to market. The stuff is a secretion of the sperm whale which dies of the disease producing the perfume matter. Chemists find H hard to account for the fact that the smell of the dead whale is so horrible when the substance taken out is valuable only as a source of sweet smells. —Brooklyn Eagle.

SONGS TO AWAKE CHINA.

Used by the Progressive Element to Spread Modern Ideas. The progressive element in China has seized upon the folk song as a vehicle for spreading modern ideas, says Albert May bon in * L’Opinion of Paris. The old Chinese notion of patriotism mainly resolved itself into a system of emperor worship, but the new generation is becoming imbued with more democratic ideas, veneration for the motherland taking the place of the cult of the son of heaven. The writer gives extracts from new popular song books, which he says are being distributed in native schools throughout, the length and breadth of the empire from Nanking to Mukden. Some of the folk songs are modernized adaptations from ancient epics, others deal with political and other questions of the day. Most noticeable is the fact that through all of them runs the martial spirit. To be respected China must be a nation in arms is the keynote. of the modern Chinese educator.

George Washington is the favorite example! df lofty and pure patriotism. Lord Byron also comes in for praise, and Greece’s struggle for liberty against Turkey furnishes a topic. Lessons drawn from Russia’s defeat by Japan are paramount in all these patriotic song books. . Another favorite_aong has for its theme the fate of dead nations, crushed under the conqueror's heel, such as Poland. Even the “Marseillaise” has been translated. Exhortations to loyalty toward the reigning dynasty are curiously scarce. One collection of songs entitled “The New China,” which is published in Shanghai, recounts the glorious deeds of Chinese warriors and legislators in past ages, and blames tjie present regime for defeats at home and unavenged humiliations abroad. The Manchus, it says, are doomed to decadence. • The beauties of suburban life In New Jersey seem to appeal to many persons having a plentitude of this world's goods, and in Morris County it is the beast of the inhabitants that 75 millionaires now make their homes there.

Austria is the country most lenient to murderers. A very small percentage of those convicted are executed. The folding envelope was first used in 1839.

CHICAGO'S NEW CITY HALL AND COUNTY BUILDING.

The mammoth building that will house Chicago city and Cook county (Ill.) officials for years to come is now nearing completion. The handsome lines of Corinthian columns and the general mass of the granite structure can now be appreciated in all their beauty. The outlines are severely classical, although the cost was not more than what would be paid for an ordinary office building of similar proportions. When the city hall side is finished Chicago will have one of the handsomest and most modern municipal buildings in the world. The entire structure will inclose a space of 32,000,000 cubic feet and there will be 95,000 square feet of office space on each floor. The problem was to produce a building of monumental order, with all modern conveniences of light, sanitation, ventilation and comfort. This, it is said, has been achieved. . ■

TOO MUCH SMALL-POX.

A Public Scandal That Pest Should Be so Prevalent. The prevalence of small-pox fn this country has been for some time the subject of critical comment on the part of physicians, and? medical publications have devoted a great deal of space to its discussion. The number of cases of small-pox reported to the surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital service during 1908 by the local and State health officers of the various States was 35,174. In Minnesota 7,031 cases occurred, giving a case rate per 1,000.000 population of 3,397. In Kansas there Were 3,458 cases, with a case rate per 1,000,000 of 2,096, and Montana had 732 cases and a case rate per 1.000,000 population of 2.339. The record is by no means accurate, owing to the difficulty in obtaining pxccise information. Competent authorities such as John W. Trask, of the United States public health and marine hospital service, estimate that in 1908 there were probably more, than 70,000 cases of small-pox. Small-pox was eradicated from the German army by systematic vaccination. It may be said, and with a considerable degree of truth, that means possible in an army are not available in an ordinary community. But smallpox has been eradicated, to all intents and purposes, from some of our States, Perhaps the most convincing argument in recent times in favor of vaccination has been supplied in the Philippines. The director of health in the Philippines, in his annual report for the fiscal year 1907. says: "During the year there has bexn unquestionably less small-pox in the Philippines than has been the case for a great many years previous.- Jn ,the Provinces of Cavite. Batangas. Cebu, Bataan, La Union, Rizal and La Laguna, where heretofore there have been more than 6,000 deaths annually from this one cause alone, it is most satisfactory to report that since the completion of the vaccination in the aforesaid provinces, more than a year ago. not a single death from smail-pox has been reported.”

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widow: of President Harrison, has departed for Europe, where she and her 13-y ear-oil daughter. Elizabeth will remain for two years. Mrs. Harrison goes abroad so her daughter may be educated in Europe, and in doing so she follows the example of the other widow of an American President. Mrs. Grov.-r Cleveland, who is also in Europe, where her children are being educated. A crew'of surveyors. employed jointly by the government and the State of Minnesota, is making a survey of the river in the vicinity of Fergus Falls. Minn. They wish to ascertain how much power is available for water power and to find out the possibilities of reservoirs for storage purposes. . ... ' ' After a conference with President Taft, Secretary Nagel, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, has announced that he will make a two months' trip to the Northwest and ta Alaska, leaving Washington the latter part of June. - ’

PRESIDENT OF MEXICO EXPECTS RE-ELECTION.

GEN. PORFIRIO DIAZ.

President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico 5 s paying little attention to the movement instituted in State capitals to put a new man at the head of the republic. When election time cc-mes he has no doubt that the people will vote to retain him in office. He has served so long in the executive chair he feels that the people know him thoroughly and that no attacks of the few official enemies that he has made can injure him in their eyes. Previous attempts to elect a successor to Gen. Diaz have been made, but- have failed signally and that, too, without any arduous campaigning on the part of the President.

ODDS & ENDS

In a drizzling rain South Dakota University recently defeated Tabor College, from Tabor, lowa, 8 to 0. August 9, 10 and 11 are the dates announced for the season’s fair at Upper Marlboro, Md., by the Southern Maryland Fair Association. Custer, pacing record 2:05%, is expected to make a low record trotting the coming season. It is claimed that in the past he has trotted a mile in .'better than 2:10. Another international billiard tournament is being planned in New York. It will be for the international trophy wort by Calvin Demarest in 1908 and surrendered by him when he became a professional. Good sized purses for both trotting and pacing events are offered by tl»i Agricultural-society of Douglas, Kansas. The society will hold its sixth annual fair and race meeting September 28 to October 1. The Ohio Racing Circuit has an•nounced its program for the season, which commences ,at Hamilton, June 29, continues at Dayton, Zenia, Springfield, Lima and Findlay, and ends at the latter place on August 5. By the scant margin of one point the University of South Dakota won first place in the triangular meet at Sioux City, lowa, with Nebraska second and Morningside third. Dakota scored 48 points, Nebraska 47 and Morningside 36. The New York board of education has decided that too much athletics for school girls is unwise. Acting on the recommendation of a committee of women, the board has ruled that school girls have no business to run more than fifty yards, nor should they try to be hurdlers and broad jumpers. ,

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CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Han Always Bought Bears th. Signatore of ContUVr Than Yachting;. More money is wasted every year by women buying needless things under the excitement of the bargain hunt than is spent in all the gambling houses and racetracks put together, says Mary Heaton Vorse in Success. When you say that I have no statistics to prove this, I answer that I have common sense and nave spent much time in city shops. I know, too, what I am capable of, and I am but a half-hearted hunter. I know what my friends do. It isn’t for nothing that I have seen earnest young students of economics succumb to this hunting instinct and fare forth to buy 98-cent undergarments. it is not only in the stores frequented by poor or uneducated women that I have seen the more brutal Instincts of the human race come to the surface. I have seen a charming elderly woman in a high class store snatch a dress length of gray voile from the hands of another elderly woman, and thg reason I happened to see these sights was because I myself was at the sale looking at garments I didn’t want and didn’t need, and buying them. The bargain chase, the shoppinggame passion or sport, life-work or recreation —for it may be any one of these, according to the temperament of the woman —has American women well in its grip. Hardly one of us escapes some one of the psychological deviations from the normal which I have mentioned. Between two evils it’s better for a woman to marry a man who chews tobacco rather than one who is always Chewing the rag.

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