Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 42, Jasper, Dubois County, 23 July 1915 — Page 6

No Problem to Solve By H. M. EGBERT

: tCopvnght. lSli. bjr 1 '. O. Chapman ) Some men at the dob had brought up th old problem of wife versus Biotin'.' Which should s man save. If he were struggling Vlth them in the. wa'ir? Then tt was that Merrill told this story: "Sotheby had been out boating with his fiancee. Kvelyn. and her lit tie crippled sister. Mollle." he said. "I think that problem was still harder Ordinarily, of course, hi duty would have been to save hit ttancee. hut Mol lie was lame had been so from birth She could walk, af'er a fashion, but she couldn't have wam. and she was Car too frail and delicate to swim fur her life In auch a tide at Eight Mile race-. "He knew Evelyn could swim like a f:ii (" The citls were staying at North Cliff whep he went to see them He had met Kvelyn a few week before, in town He knew she and her lister were orphans They had hardly a relative In the world. Sotheby had become engaged a week or two before, and be waa madly in love with Kvelyn. aud the envy of all the other men who admired her daubing beauty. "I think hts predicament was worse It was about half a mile to the land, and Evelyn could probably have made It Mollie was helpless. Sotheby did not knw what to do He acted on impulse He saved Mollle. "He never knew how the boat had overturned He was trying to bring the tiller around and let the boom go when they found themselves in the water, and clinging to the overturned boat, which was drifting rapidly out to sea "He saw Evelyn struggling beside him. and V !!! sinking Quick as a fUsa Solheby grabbed Mollie by the hair He lost sight of Evelyn. He kne he could not save both girls, and be c ild not let Mollie go. Alternately su milling sikJ tread'ng water, he managed, in utter exhaustion, to get Meli: ashore Tben he fainted. "He awakened in a fisherman a cottage Mollie was upstairs and doing well The next day he saw her. He He Lost SigHt of Evelyn. had not dared to ask about his fiancee, everybody knew she was drowned. To his astonishment Mcllie seemed almost unconcerned. "It was a tiny Ashing village, and the tragedy, tb. ugh it stirred the place, was not widely reorted After Mollie and he had recovered ihr girl gave up the little cottage and went home " 'You must let me c ime an see you. for Kvlyns Mfce said Sotheby. "He was rather astonished when Mollio resolutely refuse'! I near you no III will. Jack, e:id I ewe yon my life.' ahe said Hut I .eel hat tt would be Imi 3aj!le after waat has happcnr-l ' The girls unennny '-alranesn shocked John H wver, there was aothu.g to do hut hCiile30 It was a year before e saw M lite igaln. They Met on Piltb avenue, ""d 'he recognition was mutuil Mollle told Jack Sfiih.'! v iliii !i, was living wit', a:i old aunt m in apartmciii upt.wn "That l.sd len a aan' perl mi for Ho'hetiy. He knew .hat he shadow r his I f w ould d'M n rati er thaa disappear, nm the years weal an. And yt. utra'gtly en:u,!i. he b'-gar. t. r alir . thtl he Itnd n t rilv loved Kv-lvi Th. ir meeting ..til engage tent ba I n ravin, and there had b en no co.ori'inln of tastes between lhc-.i It l ad been infatuatioa. atd. In spite of l' f tragedy. Jack thought of Kvelyn as an oplsole in his life, ruth- r than I Is lent love. Wi i lie looked at MtUlt Ml conscious of a sudden awakeniag cf interest ic thu frail nirl. whuse brauty hat developed until she seemed a replica of Kvelyn Irs dashing, less vivacious, but the Kvelyn whom be w-,uld have loved rather than the one be had V . wn 1 am coming to see you. Mollle."

he said And this time the girl did not refuse. V eeks Itassed Tbelr intimacy deepened. The girl was becoming very dear to Sotheby At last the da arrived when he felt that the shadow which hung over them ought to be lifted .Mollle. be said, taking the girl's hands In his. i want to tell you. dear, that I love you. I want to ask you to he m uife. I feel that you aud I have something inseparable, some thing that makes our lives one. It Is Evelvn. and yet 1 never cared tor Evelyn as I love you The girl looked at him. and then, to 8othebjr amazement, aas burst tutu passionate weeping "'I can never marry ou. Jack.' she cried: You do not know oh. you do not know, and 1 cannot bring myself to tell you." Hut vou love me. Molly' lie r e.l. He took her in his arms, and for an instant her head luv on his shoulder 'Yes. I love you. she aid Mut I cannot marrv you ' She raised her head and looked him trank!) in the ews. Li.-ten. Jack.' she said. I hav loved ou since 1 first saw you. and 1 have never loved anyone else. That is why 1 must send you away It is ht cause of Evelyn.' He could Und no answer to make. He bowed his head and went away. It was another year before lie saw Mollle again Then he was at Atlantic City. ' He was seated in a secluded corner by the Boardwalk when he saw Mollis coming toward him. At first he thought, so striking was the resemblance, (hat she was Evelyn herself. Then, as he watched her. he saw Evelyn tn the tlesh, at her side. and. beside Evelyn a man. "The trio were advanring toward him. and Kvelyn and the man were engaged in animated conversation. Evel n had grown stouter and tleshler. she was still the dashing beauty of old times, but the dashingness could not carry itself so well under that accumulated load of flesh It was overdone, and the woman was obviously too artificial. The hair was too light, the eyes too dark. Sotheby stared He could not be mistaken It was Evelyn. "Sotheby was not superstitious. He knew that Evelyn was at Mollie s side, and he rose and followed them to their hotel. He watched them enter, and all that day be waited until he -as r warded at !.i-;t b .-e:ru Mollie ccme out alone. She walked, with her limping gait, along the Boardwalk until she came to the same place where I theby had sat that morning. There she sat down, an I there he accosted her. The terror in the girl's eyes almost unnerved him. She glanced at him fearfully, and saw that he knew IL You have seen her?' she cried, with a quick intake of breath. Sotheby nodded. Tell me the truth. Mollie,' he said, taking her haud in his. And he knew then that, although It was not the same Evelyn whom he had loved, it was just the same Mollie who had been so dear to him. who bsd always been In his thoughts, night and day, since he hsd learned to love her. " She is not dead,' said Sotheby. But Mollle, tell me the truth, and trust me.' Ves, I will tell you the truth.' an

sw.red the girl When you hecame Engaged to Evelyn you looked on it as a serious matter. Rut to Evelyn it was just a Joke, a summer flirtation. She gets engaged at least two or three times every summer When you looked nn it as something lasting Evelyn was well, just plain scared. She liked ynu well enough to becoma engaged to you, but she never loved you. Jack. Why, Evelyn coulün t lovj anybody. The man she is engaged to now ia rich, and she will probably niarry him. but she never intended to marry you. " You frightened her. Jack, and because she really did care for ou in a way, she was afraid that she might not be able to help marrying you. And ycu were not a rich man. not rich nough fnr Evelyn. I didn't know what she was going to do. hut I knew that she was planning to do something, because she was mad with fear when you came down to North Cliff. " You know she can swim. She told me afterwards she sent ue a letter w hile I was in the fisherman s home, before you came up to see me She had upset the boat, knowing 'hat you would take care of me. because I could not swim When the boat up et Evelyn dived and climbed ont and hid L-ehinl the rocks. She waited there until die saw that we were sa' and then sh ran home and changed her "ivs, packed up and ran away That was "o rrevent your knowing that she was alive. She wanted you to think her dead, so as to escape marrying I on. ' 'And you knew all that. Millie And tint was why yon fortiade tne to see you' " Yes." cried the girl. And when I war livir.g with my aunt I c.uld awe yi.u. because Kln had gone West Hu I (Jar. ! ted, let u love me. " Hut I hav. always loved you, Mollie.' said Js k. I love you now. dear ' ' He took her In his arms and kissed v r .id thia lime tin knew that there was no obstacle to their happiness, " Jack. dear, said Mollle presently, if Ev -Iva aiarric i.hat man they will po West to live You won't want to aee her again. Can you wait two weeks longer until I ssud for you to come to rr.eT "Ha laughed 'I have waited two years. Mollie. he answered I think I can wait two weeks longer for yow. I not Evelyn,' "

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Laboratory for Free Use of Men With Ideas NEW YOUK A laboratory in which Indigent inventors can work out thcr ideas is one of the teat urea of th new home of the American Museum of Safety, on West Twenty fourth street The museum, tlrst of its kind in America to be installed, but the twen-

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guaranty that bis idea is worth perfecting, and will Insure a hearing from the capitalist whom he may be seeking to interest Th American Museum of Safety was organized and is maintained for the prevention of accidents the elimination or lessening of occupational disease, and the promotion of industrial welfare through health, efficiency and co operation , A trained staflf of inv.-stig tern suchet information to members and to the public, and within the past two years two state museums have been founded with the co-operation of th American Museum of Safety. These are the museums in Boston and San Francisco. Such an institution as th- American Museum of Safety is not coercive but suggestive The law says that dangerous parts of machines must be protected The museum, through its jury of experts, tries to place on view every known safety device, so that the employer may select the one best adapted to his particular needs; in other ords. the museum becomes the experimental laboratory for every Industrialist in the country.

Topeka Society Women Got "Exclusive" Dresses TOPEK.A Some days ago a prepossessing young woman came to town and began paying visits to the best houses In Topeka She called upon the society women only and presented to each a Japanese crepe silk dress pat tern, a beautiful piece of goods, all

hand embroidered and handsomely decorated With the pattern was a design ,'or the dress, showing exsctly how it would look when compl! and how It should be put together. It certainly was beautiful, it was exclusive and such a bargain' Th young woman promised not to sell another to any woman in the city Could any woman resist a combina tion like that? Can a duck stay away from the water Hut why ask foolish

questions The young woman collected $JS from one Topka matron. each from two others and varying prices between those figures for the rest The patterns were all alike The embroidery was all black and white, in a beautiful design The sales were all for cash There isn't a woman who purchased the pattern who would not gladly pay the money she did for the same design if everyone else in the same social set dldn t have a dress exactly like it One Saturday night there was a big wedding in Topeka and the women who had bought tb- beautiful Japanese crepe gon. but ho hadn't discovered that everyone else had bought the same pattern, were each separately and distinctly shocked to see another woman wearing the very gown each of these women expected to wear at a party a few days later. One woman whose dressmaker had said she already had nine of those patterns to make up. walked up to the woman wearing the gown and said: I think you are dreadful. What do you mean by wearing your uniform before the date set for all of us to appear""

Syracuse Man Finds Sunflowers a Paying Crop SYRACCSE. N. Y E K. Barlow, a resident of Syracuse, may yet go down to fame as the originator of a new crop in this country. Last year he raised a few sunflowers and saved the seeds. He waa astonished at the number of seeds one sunflower pre

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The sunflower has generally been regarde j as simply an ornament, but it appears that it has real utilitarian value Mr Barlow says that calculating on the basis of the performance of his plan', the production of one arre of 7.oiK hills would total 3,500 pounds of seed, equivalent tn 700 pounds of oil (93 1 1 gallons). 2O0 pounds of oil cake. 15 tons of stalk, producing ') gallons of alcohol, "leav'ng over 13 tons of residue, value and uso not yet determined." The sunflower is a hardy and proline plant. It will grow- in almost any poll and needs no coddling It would seem, therefore, of considerable value as a crop on land that was of little value for other crops Tbore are many rmall spaces on every farm that are not utilised and on which sunflowers could be raised If Mr Barlow is not off In his reckoning, it would pay farmers to utilize these waste places by growing sunflowers nn them There are also thousands of acres of land so poor tost it does not pay to plant the ordinary crops on It. but sunflowers would surely grow there

Chicago Park Squirrels "Pinch" Greek's Peanuts CHICAGO Morris Sperekaa. owner of a confectionery stand worked late Saturday night, but he arns" early Sunday to catch the larkson park trade In the afternoon he sat near bis peanut stand He blinked at the bright sun above his head and was

soon lost in day dreams of nis native village on the Aegean sea. Across the street in Jackson park were three hungry squirrel f vlncod much interest in th'" pinu.i owned b Hperekas When they saw the proprietor roop his head and heard -fringe nol-es issue from In' nose, thev wi re convinced that an exeji,.nt s inday dinner awaited them. One. more daring than his com-

isnlons. hopped anxiously across the stre.t car tracks and Jumped on the glass cover of the peanut roaster Fin ling no source of entry It made further explorations. Near by it found a hoi of bags filled with peanuts. It seized one and struggled across the street into the park. A crowd of picnickers gathered in the meantime Roon after It returned to the peanut stand It seized another bag It had crossed the street half way when It was met by two other squirrels who volunteered assistance Tben somebody tn the crowd broke into a laugh Sperrka. awoke with a start He glanced about, yawning Then bli syes lighted on the peanut bag and the three squirrels in the middle of thStreet. Blankety blank Turks." shouted the peanut merchant as be threw a brick

,, .1,. , " Jjr' ','' -i I t third in the world, has recently occupied its new and commodious quarters. The laboratory Is intended, primarily, for the evolution of safety de vices, but it Is understood that the v. rk of the inventors will not be re- - reed They will have the free use of the rooms and equipment, but must furnish their own material It is exptef i the fact an inventor has had the use of the laboratory will be a duced. and it started him thinking He discovered that sunflower seeds WMV valuable, and he offered to fur ni.-h seed, as long as the supply la-tod to whoever wanted to plant thern He has received 50 letters Inquiring about the raising of sunflowers, ranging from Malone on the north to Jacksonville. Fla., on the south, east to the Hudson river and west to Montana

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Deadly Field Gun the Invention of New Yorker. Primarily Designed for the Destruction of Aeroplanes. Dirigible Bal loons, and the Like Applies tion of Old Principle. A double barreled field gun to shoot chain shot is the newest invention In ordnance to be tiled at the patent of nee. The inventor is Julius Wodiska. a New Yorker, who is very confident f Its great usefulness in warfare and 1 also tt its practicability. The draw ings of the hSS) gun plainly show that I it certainl has the element cf nov elty. and. If it works as the inventor hopes, would be a murderous weapon against a linn of tro -ps and could sweep the sky f air craft. "My Invention." says Mr. Wodiska. "can be usd either for naval or land work, and if the latter either as a . field gun r mcunt.d on a permanent emplacement The gun has two oar reis, whose axes slightly diverge from one another . as to be suitable for throwing projectiles united by chains, such projectiles wheu they leave the gun continue to diverge from one another and stretch the connecting chain, thus f arming, in effect, a con tinuous prcjectile of considerable I tig th transverse to the direction of tire. Projectiles of this class, while long kn wn. may now find a'new field of applicati n as a means for destroy Ing aeroplanes, dirigible balloons and the like. "One of the important features of the invention lies in the fact that there is only one explosion r powder cham ber for the two barrels, so that the I two projectiles are tired at exactly the same moment from the two different barrels The improved character of my chain shot is that the shot are united by a chain of considerable length. Thia etiain is held, up to the tiro th- projectile is fired, within the body .f ou or both of the projektlles and is capable of being extended as the projectiles inrresxo their distance from the gun At all stagea during i flight th.s extensible chain tends to be kept tightly stretched between the two pr ijectih s "So far as I am aware, in all ord nanc of this character previously used chain sh t have always been connected together by chains of definite and ra'her limite j length, so that the rea s A. pt over by the chain has been orretcndnig!y limttd In this gun I have provided means which will prevent any entanglement of the chain in the bore of the gun as well as any wedging or wearing action of the chain upon it. ''The "bject of my Invention Is to provide a gun and suitable chain shot therefor which shall be free from many of the disadvantages hitherto How the Oouble-Barreled Field Gun Is Worked. appurtenant to guns or this class, and which, with.ut incresse f powder charge or size of gun. shall be capable of greater destructiveness." Stolen Art Recovered. A statuette by Anders Z rn. the Swedish artist, which was ste lcn last su-imer from th- Baltic eipsition at Malmoe, has been rec vered under unusual circumstances. When it was lest frm the art section of the exposition there a an uproar In police and ar tlstic circles. The value of the piec can he jath. red fr.m the fact that it had been insured acainst theft for 5.000 crowns but. fhouich detectives all over Scandinavia were sent on tho hunt fr r the piece if statuarv, which represented a irl called Alma." thore was no trace of it. A reward of ."00 crowns was offered 'or its rec.very. A few days agv Alna" was fou:id. Tho lucky man VSg a railroad clerk in St .ck. Im named Wigrca He had bMn given the uneavlable Job jt searching througn a mass of articles that had I'een abandooeu in the railroad trains, and whicn were tc b eld at aurtien the f -Hewing day Tn an old traveling ba was f. und the IHtle piece of statuarv, and thn reward tt. i clerk received amounted to three months' salary. -An Ene-ry Hath Done This" Thrcuca iMMtM'l blunder a dozen or tw bin ki..g br nen- s liav got miied with a western c usignment of cavalry m out ts new en the wsy to France. Th unsuspecting tro ,pers who first bestride them will ssy. with the n.an in Scripture, An enemy hath done this'" Youth's Companion. Atrsricani as Leaders. The twentieth ceutury is to be the century of the leadership of the western world, tnere will be work cut out for every American, and fortunate should esch one tn these I'nited States consider himself that he Is here today to play his part. Three Partners.

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IS Province of Alberta Shows Increase of Over 20 MiNio Figures Just compiled by th. Ity branch or the provincial ment show that last year. noiittt. standing that quite a third of the ; roa lace was affected by the drought to a verx serious extent, the lata) valu of agricultural products actualh pea duced iu the province showed cresse of over twenty mill. on ,irg j over that of the previous ysai though southern Alberta ha.i i year agru ulturslly. the pn. , whole experienced a period ni prosperity, due principally to mliei farming, which Is becoming tn r g j eral with each succeeding ye.i; The value of mixed fartnin; was never better Illustrated thai last year as the value of the solmaji slaughtered and swld alone the value of the spring wheat crop, without taking Into consideration the value of the butter, milk. rhee.. try. vegetables, and other by pe : t of the farm Oats was the banner gram . r ip. 1.147.382 acres being seeded, and producing 34..197 117 bushels, or A.1G to the acre. Sold at an average or per bushel, these yielded a rev tBS of S17.198.55M. Comparatively little aid ter wheat was produced, the yteM lining a little short of one million bushels, but the spring wheat crop amounted to 15,102.08.1 bushels, the yield per sere being IS 2ft. At an aver age of $1 35 per bushel, the value of the spring wheat crop was th-refore $20.387,812. The total production of barley was 7.847.610 bushels, whkh. at 6f,e per bushel, yielded a revenue of $4.316.202. Other productions were as follows: Flax. 207.115 bushels. $310.672 00; ry. 261.813 bushels. $196 392 00; speltz. 42.707 bushels. $32.030.00; hay. 200.00 tons. $2.500.000: potatoes, four million bushels. $ '!. turnitw. three- nr. Hon bushel. $7r.o.000; carrots. 36u i bushels. $180.000; mangolds. 640.OOU bushels, $320.04)0; animals slaughtered and sold. $20.000.000; butter and cheese. $1.500.000; milk. $3.e wool clip. 1.300,000 pounds. $1 fish. $19G.OO0; gsme and furs $ On", horticultural products. liM.Mp; poultry and produets. $2.6'o I The total of the agricultural prodMil is given as f7T.H4r.ff1. as conpared with $58.098.084 in 1913. The statistics also show that the value of the live stock m the pr... I I at the end of the year was $llo.n44. . 630. this being an increase of I7.70J 845 over the previou- ear There were 09.125 horses. 7M.TS1 swine. 601.188 sheep, 192.905 dairy cows. 16.. 035 other cows. 190.923 beef cattle and &33.02U other cattle. Advertisemen'. Consequences. "How uppish that girl Is'' "No wonder. Her father made his money building skyscrapers." That's All. "What were you doing so long at the photographer's?" "Merely awaiting developments" Safety First. "Why did you risk your life to save that man from drowning" "He owes me $193" If she ts the right sort of woman the same man never says the wrong thing to her more than one COULD NOT STAND ON FEET Mrs. Baker So Weak Could Not Do Her Work-Found Relief In Novel Way. Adrian. Mich. " I suffered terribly With female weakness ami back ach- and got so weaw uiai could hardly do my work. When I washed my dish-'1 I had to sit l'wn and when I would WP the floor I w oulii ' so weak that I would have to get a lnnk every few minutes, and before I did my dusting Iwoull have n lia down. I so poorly that my folks though'. I was going into consumption. vn , -found a piece of paper blowing sroun 1 the yard and I picked it up snd resd itIt said 'Saved from the Grs''. nl told what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comi-ound has done for women, i showed it to my husbsml and he sin Why don't yoa try it ! 1 So I du . snd after I had taken two MUM l "J better and I said to my husband. I don J need sny more,' and he said You hsd better take it a little longer anyws. So I took it for three months snd gw well snd strong. Mrs. ALoNW fcBaker, 9 Tecumseh St, Adrian, Not Well Enough It Work. In these word, is hiddon the tragedy of many a woman, housekeeper or wagearner who supports herself ami o. u h. Iping to support m family, on meagre wages. Whether In bouse ofTW. "j" toryT-hop. store or kitchen, womjj S uld remember thst there is one trieo and true remedy for the ills to which all women sre prone, and that is r , Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. promotes thst vigor which makes wer easy. The Lydia E. Pink ham Medioos Co., Lynn, Mass.

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