Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 36, Jasper, Dubois County, 11 June 1915 — Page 2

I Grandma's J I Flirtation 5) (By q I MILDRED CARTER

I ofv c' t . !'V umat MM that 1 have passed my seventy eighth b:rthda 1 like to tit on the piazza and doe in the sua on warm afternoon 1 like to see the life oi the rfllfi the girls and young men parsing skmg the sidewalk under aeath Sometimes one of them will look i ..: me Hello, grandma'." . the - heerfully. and nod t k. H especially m Apr ngtitue. when Um Vaves are beginuing tu unfold, ard nature takes oq a renewal of H is always a mirj to me. this new opening of the Puds, just the same tc a when 1 was a girl so mm ears age 1 was brought up ver strictly, in the I'r. sbt. nan belief. In those days we all thought that only the elect oould be saved, and that many werdestined to pensh everlastingly tn hell Äre. Thu. 1 remember. Mr Darwin brougiv otit a book which fold us we wer nothing hut monkt s. und had no souls. an more than the beasts. 1 v ro M sure that the beasts hadn't, and I am less sure of it now than eve -rtod of i YtOUS folk thing, an by pocns :ut. still, that was a pet unrest A lot of rellg- . used to believe in any here was a good deal of the matter of church golor Pi or !a: ears 1 have seen the -change that is coming over folks ag:ij! H - t so much that they are turning back to the old beliefs as tba' are beginning to believe The , hur. got it all down so fine, about ; x' destination and all that. I .mean, but Kl I thty sre beginning to My W fe a-d I Were Very Happy Together" bliVÄ Kt they used to. And that strikes me as the finest sort of belief a belief in which there is a good deal of hope mixed, a belief you hare to cling to faith, I suppose. Tc my mind it isn t only the opening of the leaves year after year, but the opening of our hearts, too. that con in- es me of a better life to come I don't believe any of the young people ho see me nodding here in the. sun understand that even at sev euty-etgbt one may be. at heart, the same as a girl of twenty. It WW only three months ago that I met Tom Bentley. after a separation of fifty esr? The Bentleys had lived for generations in this little town, but Tom went west when he was a boy. after a quarrel with his sweetheart, and l ur.d rtood he had married and swtt led '.r rood in California The first part was true, but the second was xaggr rated: at any rate, he bad come back a widower, his children be ina married and scattered, to end his !avs in Four Corners When I looked at the gray old man. and remembered the dark haired boy whom I had loved so much and sent away, my heart felt as if it was going to break. But after a few weeks I felt quite differently. He had sought me out. and he learned for the first time that 1 had alx children living, and eight grand children, and that I ha i th en living with rr.v daughter Molly since my hus band died. "Tom " I said to him. "I don't mind telling you that I never loved my hus band ha!' o much as you." "Liz..e he answered, you haven't anM- ng on me thre " 8o we chatted together quPe gayly, and nowadays Tom comes over pretty near p. . r afternoon. If lie sees hat f am asl'p he goes away very som. so as not to disturb me. And sometimes 1 only pretend to be asleep. so that I ran sit still and think and live m my memories. "Grandmother's flirtation." the granri Vildmn call our talks. It never ent.-r- their heads that, for all my six cnunrei ano seveoiyMgnt years, l am pisr as muc:i interested m torn as though he wer. agaic the dark haired bov whose photograph, very faint and faded stands on my bureau At first, as i said, my heart early broker. But then 1 used to sit

out nere in the sun ami think thliu

iiver Aiid gradual! I seemed to work things out in mv mind, ami at drat I I was reconciled and theu happy, and now I am just like a girl in mind again. IM see. as 1 was saying, folks are coming back to belie?, though it is not the old certaint Now I never regretted n.arrving Jim and 1 hoe and am sure that 1 shall meet turn again, and that whatever there was of com nion interest and affection between uh will be renewed But that doesn't shut me out from Tom. Now suppose I had married Tom J Would the old romance, which exists still, in spite of my seventy eight j year, continue Or would it bars been frittered away with the cares of life, the hearing and roaring of my euDtn B, the friction of thing' and the struggles? 1 think it would have r en That seems the strange thing about life the moment ou begin to realize happiness you lose it. It all consists in the looking backward or looking forward Now. what an advent urn life ought to be. and was. and is becoming again, with the old faith coming back to us Because 1 am quite sure that it is this youth in our hearts, which never aies, no matter how old we are. that is to be realized in the life to come. l am quite sure that then at last, we shall h:.d the happiness which we all try so hard to catch and some how miss. Well. then, does anone mean to tell me that my heart won't be big enough to hold both my husband and Tom. in an existence where there is no marry ing or giving in marriage? It seems to me that there one will have all the r ". a no- ' fJrifcMfl" a:.d all the joy-.; of being a mother, and a grandmother too. I have put this idea into words rather crudely, not heing a writer; but. anyhow, that was my conclusion, and I told Tom about it. You can't imagine how pleased it made me to know that he understood. "That is Just how I have been feeling, my dear." he told me. You see. when I heard you were married life seemed impossible for me But by and by I began to find out that it has got to be lived, and I tried to live it. My wifs and I were very happy together And I thought often that if it had been you our children would have been different souls " Yes." I told him. "I should be dreadfully unhappy without Polly and Dora and Mark and Philip and the two boys in Los Angeles." "Rut now we have each other as well as our oan." he answered. I closed my eyes, bere-se I wanted to think. I was casting over in my mind the different women I knew, and it seemed to me that whether they had married the right man or the wrong man it seemed pretty well to even Itself out. And I thought of those who had never married at all. and what a load of experience there must be waiting for them In the next life. For my part. Tom." I said. "I would not have It any different. I am so glad I never married yeu and I used to think my heart was broken. 'Same here." he answered, squeez ing my hand, and then I saw a couple who were passing along the street look up and smile at us. "I'll be over tomorrow about the same time." said Tom. getting up and aklng off his hat with the sweeping gesture he used to use. I watched him walk away toward his cottage. Howpleasant It is to be alive, I thought And how pleasant it is to be an old woman, with all one's troubles lived through already. STRICTLY "WHILE YOU WAIT" Chinese Needlewomen Mend Mascu line Garments While Seated in Public Street. In many towns of China one may have his garments mended on the street, and while he waits." Native sewing women are to he .seen on low stools, perhaps on the sidewalks. mending articles of masculine attire. The accomplishments of these street seamstresses are somewhat limited, their efforts with the needle being for the most part confined to "running." Other branches of needlework are practically unknown to them. As a consequence their efforts are better appreciated by native workmen than by foreign travelers. They are never short of patrons among the former, for these are often natives of other districts, and. hav ing come to the city to engage in business, have no one to mend a rent for them. Their wives being left at home, they are glad to avail themselves of the servtee of the street needlewomen For this class of customers the skill of the itinerant sewing woman answers practically every p irpose Generally speaking, these women are wives of boatmen and laborers who live in the houseboats wmen line the reeks of many Chinese cities and towns, and their needles are a great help toward the solution of the problem of maintenance in a crow ded city or town. One Hundred Pound Motorcycle. To bridge the gap betw-en the ordinary bicycle and the modern, highpower motorcycle, a lightweight medium M.er machine has been developed It is built with a sturdy frame of the loop type, much lighter than that of the average motorcycle. With its tanks filled the machine weighs only 110 pounds as compared with the approximate average weight of 2S0 pounds, or more, of the larger cycle -Popular Mechanics Magatine.

MARRYING

ROYALTY

Il So Carl Said When He Wedded the Queen of Cooks. Mrs Bliss eamn Into the day nurser. her large rosy face gTOwlM tt deeper pink with the xerton of climbing the stairs to the third tloor. Hood morning. Miss Newton, she smiled at the little MVMfl governess who was sitting with Bobby in the window asst. "1 wonder if you and Bobby wouldnt like to play today" j We aro going to picnic at the pun grove and " Oh. mother honey " Bobby ttsM his sturdy self st his parent. Will there be lemonade and chicken sand wiche' And can I wear my new white Tommy Tucker tult "' Yes. to everything, laughed Mrs Bliss, kissing him and moviug toward the door. Can you he ready in II minutes. Miss Newtou?" "Of course wo CSS, Mrs Bliss! We wouldn't miss a picnic for the world, would we, Bobby ' She jumped up and put away books and tos. Come, childiel " The) danced down the corridor to Bobb a room wiere nurse quickly put In m into the much-admired uit In the meantime Beth Newton brushed her red-brow u hair and slipped into a dainty pale blue giugham frock, then the girl and the little boy went Aedately downstairs to the front veranda where three motor cars were waiting for the merry house party that had filled the Bliss country home for ten days Some of the girls and women came up and spoke to Bobby and nodded kindly to the little governess: one of them. Miss Nugent, tall, graceful, and carelessly kind in her manner. Introduced Beth right and left, until presently the girl found herself In timid conversation with Mr. Carl Bellew so many times a millionaire that no one troubled to remember exactly how many dollars there were and only recalled that ho was just as nice as if he didn t have a penny. At last they were off. Beth and Bobby tucked away in the tonneau of the last ear with Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, the footman and the lunch baskets which overflowed on to the running boards and the luggage carriers. "This is jolly'" cried Bobby enthusiastically as they swept out of the driveway and turned up the road that led to the Pine Mountain Beth sml'ed absently. Perhaps she was thinking that it might have been pleasanter if she had been in one of the other large cars among that merry' crowd of girls and young men Put she chided herself sharply for the momentary discontent and was soon her own accustomed happy self, enjoying the unexpected holiday to the utmost. At the pine grove the picnic hampers were unloaded: James, the footman, built a Are and was then allowed to return home with the machines. They were to come for the picknlckers at sundown. One can t have a jolly picnic with servants around." Mrs. Bliss had decided. Leaving the fire to take care of Itself the party trooped through the pines to the glade where a waterfall tumbled among the brown rocke. An acrid smell of burning brought them running to the campflre. The fire had overcrept the boundaries of its encircling stones and had licked its way among the pine needles until it reached the four large hampers. There was nothing left of the food save blackened remnants, and of the hampers there remained only charred splinters. As the picknickers reached the scene the last soda water bottle exploded with a sickening report Seven miles from anywhere'" groaned Mrs. Bliss. And not a thing to eat'" added Mitchell blankly. Or to drink." mourned Mr Mitchell as he grubbed among the ruins of the hampers. There was a murmur of discontent among the oung people. Some of the men volunteered to walk back to the house and bring something to eat but the question was quickly decided when a few heavy drops of rain fell. Where is the nearest shelter?" asked Carl Bellew. "It must be old Ned Blake's shanty." replied Mrs. Bliss. At least It will keep us dry for awnile Come, everybody' " Someone laughed a spirit of adventure Into the party and so they hastened down the slope until under the shoulder of the mountain they reached a long, weather beaten shanty built sgalnst a great rock that formed Its rear wall Ned Blake was a hermi. who gained j a living by gathering herbs and her1 ries in season. B 1 1 it. d knocks ujion the door brought no response. The latchstring is out,' suggested Beth New ton Carl Bellew pulled the latch string and pushed open the weather-beaten door The ooor furnishings were spotlesaly clean and neat but the her I mit was absent. We must find something to eat and we can pay Ned when lie returns said Mrs. Bliss as she sank down in a cushioned Boston rocker, while 'he young people found seats on the ragcarpeted floor before the open fireplace. Soon Can Bellew had a fire of hickory logs blazing on the hearth while Lillian Nugent and Beth New

ton explore:! (he pant r Miss Nu

gent returned to the living room "There Isn t a bit of cooked food In the place not even bread!" she an tioutu-ed ' There are flour and sugar and eggs and potatoes and some canned thiugs what can we do Ih an of you girls know how to cook ?" Miss Taylor confessed that she had made creamed eggs in a chafing dish at home bui li shrugged her shoulders. The other women were silent. Beth Newton stood in tho kitchen door way, her face pink with shyness, she looked distractingly pretty at that mo Mec.t. 'if you don't mind waitlug a half hour I believe 1 could prepare some thing fit to eat." she announced timidly Thev applauded her enthusiastically and offered to help She accepted Miss Taylor for an assistant In the kitchen, and IMllau Nugent opened the tiny cupboard and prepared to set the table for a dozen people from the hermit's scanty toro of crockery Beth lighted a lire iu the cracked old cookstove. Carl Bellew and And Smith carried firewood, and opened the cans of vegetables. Bobby danced in and out reporting progress. "Baited potatoes Hot biscuits urn' Bacon- mother, they're cooking bacon and eggs out there!" They were doing all those things, wjile outside of the frail shelter a s immer rain drummed on the shingles and made the fire and the coziiiess more desirable. At last they sat down at two tables. They gave Beth I se.it of honor, and no one told her of the dab of flour on her hair or the smudge of soot that became a beauty spot near her l:ely eye. With her tlushed cheeks, her ruffled brown hair, her pale blue sleeves pushed up above her rounded elbows. Beth Newton was radiant. They were all so good to her, too! She smiled happily, too tired to eat. Her eyes met Curl Bellow's and something in the mans gaze brought a hot flush to her cheek. After that her eyes did not wander far from hrr plate As a delightful surprise Beth produced s steaming apple pudding with maple sirup, and in token of their gratitude Andy Smith hastily plucked a bunch of herbs from the rafters and solemnly crowned her with a wreath of catnip, the queen of cooks By the time the dishes were washed and put away the sun was shining outside The invaders had restored the house to order and Carl Bellew had pinned a note on the table cover. Inside of that envelope were folded erat kling banknotes of such large denomination that old Ned Blake would nevt-r cease to marvel over the accession of riches that made his declining das more comfortable. They returned to the scene of the campflre. and all too soon the three motor cars arrived. Somehow Mrs Bllai managed to smuggle Beth and Bobby into the same car with herself and Carl Bellew, and that night when she went to bed the girl assured herself that she had rounded out her perfect day. A few days later the party had broken up and the picnic was forgotten by all save lieth Newton and Bobby and, perhaps. Carl Bellew. His place was not very far away and ho found many excuses for calling on the Blisses. When kindly Mrs. VUm realized that it was her little nursery governess whom Carl Bellew wanted to see, she remembered her own days of wooing, and entered whole-heartedly into matchmaking. "Dear," said Carl Bellew one October day w hen he had received Beth's ansv.er. "I've loved you from the beginning, but when I tasted your cooking " Beth's band pressed his lips in si lence. She looked up at her splendid, gallant lover. Ah. Carl," she murmured. I am such a humble little thing so unworthy of you' You might marry a princess or a queen'" Carl thre'w back his bead and laughed Then h gathered her closer in his arms I am going to marry a queen." he protested, the queen of cooks'" Her Overfight. "That last cook you sent me did not suit at all " What was the matter?" "She couldn' t cook." ' Oh. w hy didn't you say you wanted one that could cook?" And No Insurance. Bookkeeper The old man's getting to be qutte an incendiary. Cashier What's the answer" Bookkeeper He fired two more men today. After Marriage. "Tell me. Vanessa, does your music help you make your home hrppy?" "Not mu h. A sonata Is of little interest to a man when he wants a boilei dinner." She Knew Father. All th' world loves a lover you know, said the young man. You II find out your mistake when you speak to father." replied the tweet young thing. Paw Knew the Answer, Little Lemuel Say, paw, what Is an underw riter I Paw- An underwriter, sen, la a woman who always adds a postscript to her letters. Soon in the Soup. "Dinner's ready." thought the ladle "1 suppose I'll soon be in the soup."

RAIiBOAD FOR ALASKA

GREAT PROJECT INAUGURATED BY GOVERNMENT. Only Second in Importance to the Budding of the Panama CanalWill Be Known as th Sutitna Route. The second great achievement by this government in a generation is at hand- the construe ion of a govern mom own, u railroad in Alaska This project is a feat second only in importance to the building of the Panama canal Indeed, it is a rival of the canal, for the extension of railroads into Alaska will open up a new vast region of almost unprecedented resources and productivtt). The government road will be built under the direction of the Alaskan engineering commission, consisting of William C. Kdcs. chairman: Thomas Itiggs. Jr., and Lieutenant Frederick Means, late superintendent aj the Panama railroad. The commission Is now in Alaska. The entire cost of the railroad. Including the purchase of the Alaska Northern railroad. If is estimated will be HMNJM. tviicnsh has appro priated $::." .ooo.OoO. and it is believed that M.000.M0 at most will be suf licienL This indicates what the administration thinks of Alaska, for which the United States paid Biitsia ouly $7.200.OO0. From Alaskan territory gold bullion worth more than ' o o.noo already has been produced, and the total of I Aia.-KU'i rosounos in nirs ana nsn cries, as well as minerals, probably now exceeds IMOJJtfJlM. "The route adopted is known as the Susitna route. sa s a statement b Secretary Ijuie. and extends from Seward on Resurrection hay to Pair banks on the Tanana river, a distance of 471 miles. This route includes the existing Alaska Northern railroad, which runs from Seward through the Ki tfal peninsula for a distance of 71 miles to Turnagain arm. This route is to be bought from its present owners by the government for $1,150.000. S'.oo.oOO of which will be paid on July 1, lili and the balance July 1. 1916. ' From Tumagain arm the route is to be extended through the Susitna valley and across Broad pass to the Tanana river and from there on to Fairbanks. ' V side is to run from Ma tan uska Junction into the Matan iska coal field, a distance of 3S miles. The road is to be built with its present base at Ship Creek, on Cook's inlet, and from thir. point it is expected that AUG TIC 2hs mCFiC OCEAN tVOveasrsfY eovrre Tue. A'lAA0 MtOJF-OTJ J The Route From Seward to Fairbanks Is the One Selected by the Government for the First Railroad to Pierce the Interior of Alaska. From Cordova the Copper River Railroad Already Runs in a Few Miles. The Shaded Lines Show Other Railroad Projecta Which Will in Time Open Up That Entire Section of Alaska. the Matanuska coal will be shipped during the greater portion of the year." Protecting Railroad Employees' Eyet. W ith the object of protecting its cm ployeet against permanent injury to the eye or sight, the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad company, in a circular Just issued, urges that in all cases of Injury or of the lodgment of foreign particles In the eye, the employee at once get the services of a company physician, whenever this be possible, rather than attempt to treat the injury or allow fellow employees to do so. Railroad experience citet many Instances of permanent injury to the eye or total loss of sight sustained as the results of attempts by lnexperinred persons to usurp the office of surgeon. The immediate securing of medical attention, it is held, eliminates the possibility of infection Scientific Amerl ran. Small Town Makes Boast. Kamloops. 11. C. a town of about nix thousand people, boasts the possession of the "longest street ear ays toni in the world." The Canadian Pacific railroad, whhh extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific, runs through the main streets of the town.

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Claim That Steel T.e Will Prevent Wrecks and Hlp to Stop Depie tion of the Forests. A ateel railroad tie lia. ,. been perfected which tb B claims will do awa) Bh a l.r. centage of railroad wrecks tie absolutely prevents rail si ri the most frequent cause of wr. K and on account of its peculiar surface it makes an excellent cattl- guard also. Kor the same reason. 1 trespassers would have a dil time, folios ing a railroad tra. which these ties sere used, and : sequently the yearly death rat R.0O0 persons from that cause he greatly diminished Careful testa of the new ties on a railroad in Oklahoma show that ii - , have wearing properties at least M times as grest aa wooden ties No spikes are necessary, and for th r. . son that they are self ganging, tn,. workiug gang can be decreased t . r. If the Claims of the Inventor Prove True. This Steel Tie Will Eliminate Railroad Wrecks Due to Defective Rails. half its usual size. In large quantities the steel ties represent a saving to the railroad of $3:0 per track mile A strong argument in favor of c new tie is that the enormous deplete n of the American forests could be checked to a large extent. WoriAdvance. Unusual Railroad. What is probably the most twisl railroad m the United Stales has its terminal in a small town in the hack woods of Mississippi. There are l Q miles of track. Including a three-mile branch, and tho entire rolling Mock consists of a wood-burning encine and one car that must have antedated the Miocene period The road is owned by one man who acts as englucet ductor, fireman and brakeman. ! :. trip a day is made and at tl. he goes through the car. collects the fares and tells the passengers to get out and nelp gather wood for the I glne. After a four-mile trip the train conies to a halt at a sort of crossroads, where the branch line connects, the whole road resembling the l bh r The engineer again makes the round of the passengers and takes a vote as to which direction the train is to take. If the majority want to go to the northwest, that is the road the tr. takes, and if they want to go to southwest, then it goes iu that d.re. Hon for tbe remaining three mile and those sho wanted to go the other mj are forced to walk across a two-mile strip of woods and swamp to get to their destination. Canada's Railroads. Had not the war seriously l: industry and trade throughout Canada, the dominion would have developed ia 1915 a trunk line railroad mileage of approximately 40.000 miles, including, of course, all subsidiary or contracted lines and lines running through American territory. This would have placed the country second to no other in the world in railroad standing The completion of the Grand Trunk i'a system bss been retarded The 1 .: extending westward from Winnipeg U the Pacific terminus at Prince sWf B. C . has been In operation for some months, but the line from Winnipeg to Moncton ML B.. the terminus on the Atlantic, ia not yet completed, and t.. fundf for its completion, under present circumstances, may not soon be available. Many expectations founded on Its opening up rich territoriet in Ontsrio and Quebec will be disappointed for a while. Scientific American. Railroads Use Telephone Telephones have dlsplc1 te,v graph Instruments for train Aafsd ing aervice on 60.000 out of the 2 ooo mies of railroads in tbit country. C. H. Wilson, superintendent of long distance wires of the American Telephone and Telegraph comr-any. Jold Special Examiner Marshall of the Interstate commerce commissi! n. w ho w as holding a bearing on the complaints of the Grain Dealers' association of Chicago. Tbe grain dealers allege discrimination by th telegraph mpanies. by leasing telegraph wires privitcly to the disadvantage of the public. it 1 H I ai.norintnridctlt. U. ii. ruirjr, iruiiBi i" ... .u- t.. t l... ... Mt Wt it . . ... . . . - ai A V, Til ritllM'.IH. I ' luiru ... been operating trains for five r-ari ct telephone dlspatihes without t nü take.

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