Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — Page 6

THE FAMILY STORY

GHIPANB HISGAMERA.

CHir TAYLOIUivwI la a section of. cdwitry where dollars looked • about as big as cart wheels for Abe very good reason that they were about as hard to get. —By all sorts of 'bard work and many kinds of self-de-feial Chip -bad succeeded by t he, time be bad reached his 15th year in saving about sls, which made him seem a capitalist to ytll the other boys and also I to a great many men. and as everyone knew that Chip was a wideawake fid- ■ low who was auxious to get into steady ; business for himself, so that he could ; make life easier for his widowed mother and his little sisters, there was no end of acquaintances who tried to get Into partnership with him and help him -spend his money* , But Chip's father had -always said j that partnership was a hard ship to sail , ‘ln; he had tried It. and he knew, so the •boy looked persistoutlv for some business In which he could make his own way, and one day* he found it by purchasing a small second-hand camctaand becoming a trAmP Vbotagraphe r. Chip’s customers had to pay for his education, for some of the pictures which he took during his first few weeks were about as dreadful as could be imagined by a limn* with a uitrlitmare, but the customers were not art critics; besides, Chip's pieces were cheap, and he was the only man in the business, so he made a little money from the very start, which Is more than some of the world's greatest artists have done. The young photographer had a good bead for business, too; he did not set up a studio and smoke bad tobacco and grumble -about the dullness of business. lift took his whole kit in his hands and roamed about the country*! In search of people who he thought would be the most liteljr customers farmers with horses which they thought would sell well in the city if dealers could know how-tln-v looked; women who thought their babies were the prettiest that ever lived, and young people who were in love with each other, and who, therefore, wanted to exchange pictures. Anyone who lias tried amateur photography knows that there are “many slips 'tween the cup and the lip,” or. to speak more to the point; between tne plate and the finished picture. There are about as many ways of spoiling characters, and Chip, tvithout moaning to do anything of the kind, tried them all. -

Practice makes perfect, so. in the course of time. Chip found himself clearing about $1 a day, which was a lot of money for anyouo to earn in that part of the country. - ~ Lillie by link' he lea rued tliat por traits of young people were the most profitable part of the business, and he ; began to be smart enough- to take the j pictures of pretty girls ou credit or for > nothing, trusting to luck to find out j -which young man was first or most j “gone" bn each girl. Then he would offer the young man, In strict confl- | dcnce, to get him the girl's portrait at ; the customary price. Chip tried the system in reverse—.that is. by “taking" some of the more popular young men, trusting to work them off upon susceptible girls, but ’ somehow this plan did not amount to mucin " | Kither the girls hadn't any money, ■which is quite likely, or, still more ly. they didn't want young men's faces badly enough to pay for them, so Chipgave it up as a bad job and left bis latest plates of young men to'be developed when he had nothing else to do. One of these undeveloped plates was of Frank WlilSfy, tbe-jjest.-looking and themost popular store clerk in the village. Almost any girl would pay a cent a yard extra for material for a calico dress for the pleasure of pun-, chasing from Trank Wilsey, and she . would wait an hour to I>e served by Frank rather tiiau buy of the proprietor himself. Frank was a “great catch" in the estimation of all the girls and their mothers. and he became “J 1 the more so because lie declined to be caught. -Suddenly.however,in the way that the aoexpected has of turning up in even the least promising places, something occurred which set all the village girls to become jealous and envious. Some people who seemed to be rich, for they Venp traveling by carriage, with two •ervants in a buggy following, were •bilged to stop in the vilagc and call n physician for one of tiiojr party, an old lady. rest for several days, so there was a lot ms scurrying to find proper accommodation*.for the party, tltere being no hotel In I fie place. They were finally accommodated by old Mrs. Trewley. whose husband had built the biggest bouse in the town and died just as the house •ras completed. Old Mrs. Trewley quickly became the most popular woman iu the village; neighbors who Lad almost forgotten •thing, or to ask a question which tlieyi tad long wanted to ask—anything, for •■ excuse to find out about people whom they bad never seen, but who accraod to be rich. The village interest In the strangers toereaeed' when one of the newcomers, • handsome yonng woman who seemed to wear Iter Sunday clothes all the time, pw«*red on the main street of the vil-

luge ayd dropped into the two-or three stores, apparently because she could not amuse herself unless she was buy-. Ing. so nothing. Of course Frank WJlsoy did his best to sell her, something, and sell her as much of i: as possible; }>eopie who paid, cash, instead of having things charged, and who did not try to "beat down" lUe prices asked,, were as scarce In that village as saints in r,um shops. It did not take the village girls and other gossips long to learh that the young woman, whose name was Eunice Trait, did most of her purchasing af.the store In which Frank Wilsey was clerk, and that anyone ehje who went into that store'while Miss Trait was there was obliged to wait until the stranger had made her purchases. ! They also learned, or tboUght they did, [ that the young woman took as tmteh time as possible in transacting her ! business— ...S :_—w " - ; And it was all because she wanted an ! excuse to talk ye lotig as she could j with Frank Wilsey. who certainly (lid t all in his pow'er to be obliging. I Public opiuioii. was divided on the ; subject; the older people, said that of j course it was-Frank's business to sell ! all he'-could to a-person who would ; pay ready cash, while the girls said that Miss Trait was a bold, assuming, atrtful, hateful thing, and was merely making a plaything of a young man who ought to-l»e old enough to have his j eye teeth cut and nut to let anyone make a fool of him. Public interest on the subject became i si * great that two apple-paring and one ; quilting bee were started in great haste ] so* that there might be some good, big r talks; •In the meantime Miss Trait, who wn s mrfooWweaia g 1 m jnensely -weary rrf. her enforced stay in a village where she knew no one and found nothing to do. One day. while she was making some small purchases at the •store. Chip j Tyler dropped in for a moment, with I his camera, and Frank asked him howbusiness. The young woman, after listening a moment, asked abruptly: “Are you an amateur photographer?” ‘Tin the only photographer of any kind In this whole country, ma’am,” replied Chip with a pardonable pride. •‘l've always wanted to learn something about it,” said Miss Trait. “I wonder if 1 could employ you to teach me?”

“l'nt ready for anything, ma'am, that means business-,!’ said Chip. The lady made some inquiries of Frank Wilsey, who said that Chip was a clever little fellow, and his studio was in his mother’s own house, and that the boy had made some pictures which were not bad, so within an hour Chip was engaged, at the princely salary of a dollar an hour, to teach Miss Trait all he know about photography, i He began by takihg a picture of Miss , Trait herself,-telling her the meaning | of each detail of the operation, and | after the sitting he had her take a picl.ture of her Instructor. Then- teacher I and pupil went into the room, with ! windows screened with yellow paper, ! Miich Frank had called his studio, and Chip taught Miss Trait to “develop" i a plate. „ Chip began with his own portrait, s which the pupil herself had taken, and j it "came out” so well that the pupil | was delighted and insisted upon hold- | iug the plate iu the sunlight outside, so that it might dry quickly and be "printed.”. ; * Meanwhile Chip developed the plate of Miss Trait herself, iu taking which j lie had been extremely careful, for It ! would be ii great feather in bis cap to ; display the portrait of so notable a peri son as a “specimen.” I’m-the peculiar .wry in which that picture slowly came out in the develi oping “bath” made him wonder greatly. No other person had been gear by when : the picture was taken, bunite shadows ! seemed those of a man instead of a Woman. As the details appeared it became evident that he had used, by mistake, the plateholder containing a plate i for Which, Frank Wilsey had '.‘set.” Well, nevermind; lie would finish it, and then pose Miss Trait again, on the plea that t'lie.platf was bad. But hod- : oddly Frank’s rest showed bu the plate! j Chip could uoi understand It. Chip finally washed and “fixed” the ! plate, set It aside to dry and posed Miss | Trait once more. The lady wished to | develop it herself, of which Chip was very glad, for he wanted to print that | picture of Frank, and find (tut what was the matter with if. He soon found out. for a print, taken quickly in the ! sjtmHghf; showed that the matter with Frank's vest was that it was entirely | covered by a face “as pretty as a plc- ! tniv” of Miss Trait! lie had accideni tally taken her picture bn a plate which \ had already been used once, although | not iC4'el°P p d, and the offset was a print which—well. It looked as if Miss ; Trait had given her confidence aiul her her heart to Frank Wilsey and was . resting her head ou his breast J , Chip thought the picture very dreadful. thatla, It might be. if his new pupil ch.inceiFtd see it—soThT made haste to. hide the print, and also to put the priiitiuk frame and plate out of sight. But isii t it astonishing how things will persist hi working just as they shouldn't, in spite of all you may do to prevent? Miss Trait developed and dried her plate? and looked at it sidewise, m Chip had taught her to do, and sn« greatly liked tile expression, and waa wild 10 take a prim from the plat® at

once. Chip tried to empty the printing fram#*»*hls only one—without being seen, but Miss Trait's eyes had not been trained 1n a big city for nothing. It was quite plain that her youthful teacher was trying to.hlde tne pta*te which he took from the frame, so she said: - j. • “Let me Ht* that plap?| please.” “It's a spoiled one,” said Chip, throwing’ the. plate upon the floor. Up to tbSt time he never had dropped a plate, the sound of breaking glass, hut the dreadful plateof Frank Wilsey and Miss Trait fell as solidly as lf.it had been a ~sfOvrm::~f — —'-v— ’ ■ - Chip stooped to get it, but Miss Trait was too quick for him ; she got the plate and took jt to the light, saying: "What is it?” * “It’s an awful blunder—that’s what it is,” replied Chip, in desperation. *T stupidly used a plate on which another picture hail been taken, but not developed.”

“How funny!” said Miss Trait. Then the lady insisted uponjnaking a print from it, and Chip thought seriously of running away and never coming back to town again—not, at least, until the Traits had departed. lie got ready to run, and then from a corner of the house observed liis pupil closely. Miss Trait exposed the picture to the light. Two minutes later lie saw her shade it with her shoulders and look at It curiously: Then, he heard her laugh. Oli, that laugh! It seemed to Chip that her laugh gave him a new lease ffif life, for iMVas a merry laugh, and one of the long kind that seemed as if it didn’t know how to stop. Chip thought it safe to go back to his room. Miss Trait j<>iiiiml him within a few minutes, and' said, in a matter-of-fact way: “Now I know how spirit photographs may be taken. I'll have a lot «(f*fun with them when Igo back home.” , Chip was so grateful that he felt like falling at Miss. Trait’s feet, but lie didn’t do it; neither did he ever see that plate again, and lie could not say that lie was sorry at the-loss. Still, being a boy, lie could not help doing a lot of wondering. Miss Trait really seemed to think the photographic mistake a good joke. How' would Frank Wilsey regard it? There was one way to find out; Chip toned and otherwise completed the single print lie had taken from the offending plate. Ite bided his tlmeTand one evening lie showed it to Frank, at the store, telling him that It was one of the accidents of photography. Frank looked at the pieture as if la* doubled Ills “own mySsTthen he blushed and sard: “Fil give all my hopes of life for such an accident in earnest.” Stranger still,’just such an accident finally came of it. The picture set the young people to thinking about each other a great deal, and made them rather awkward when they met, and eaelt knew what the other was thinking about, so in the course of time Miss Trait became Mrs. Wilsey, and Chip, in ‘store clothes,” sueli as had never been seen in his native town, gave away tho bride, for, as ihe bride herself, said: “If it hadn't been for that dreadful photograph we mightn't have learned to think seriously of each other.” — rittsburg Dispatch.

The Enchanted Pumpkin.

When your little brother or sister has a birthday party and you want a novelty as a centerpiece for the tea table, try the “enchanted pumpkin” and see what fun it will make for the guests. It ought to be a. prize pumpkin and a big one. Scoop out all the luside. That will do well enough to make pies out of for grown-up people on days that are not birthdays. Then stuff it full of toys tied up in mysterious-looking bundles. To each package tie a bright ribbon, letting the loose ends fall out oyer the sides of the pumpkin. Then carefully replace the cap or stem part, which you cut off, so that it will look as if it were still whole, and place it on your tea table. Surrounded by ferns and colored autumn leaves and "decorated with the drooping ends of the ribbons, it will make a very pretty centerpiece^ When the feast is over set the children to guessing how many seeds are in the pumpkin*- When ati luive giwssevt, tell each to take hold of one of the ribbons, and When you shy “Three!’’ they nnist pull on the ribbons, and in that way they will see how many seeds are in the pumpkin. Of course each little guesj secures a pretty gift.—Chicago Times-llerald.

Her Independence Threatened.

A republic that was . foqrteeu centuries old when General Washington and his army were fighting the forces of Klug George 111.. Including the hired Hessiau contingent, is in danger of losing independence—the blessing which our colonial ancestors achieved in that memorable struggle. The wee commonwealth of San Marino, on the east side of the Apennine mountains, iu Italy, by long odds the oldest of all existing republics,* is threatened witli this irremedial disaster. One of the provisions of the treaty under which Italy guaranteed *he liberty of San Marino is to the effect’that * the republic shall coin no money, but adopt the coiling? of Italy. But Italian money got to be very scarce in Snn Marino, and the little commonwealth, on the nlea of absolute necessity, minted a limited number of gold and silver pieces for tbe use of the people. This did not disturb the parity, but it fractured the treaty, and Signor Crisp!, the Italian prime minister, proceeded to annul tlie gsUy - .aa.tX.Jii:...iiidfi-. pendence. Tills means the merging of San Marino into the kii/gdom of Italy. As the republic is too weak for successful resistance, she will probably yield to (his harsh decree of cruel lute.— Washington Post “Men’ll do anything fur money,' Mid Plodding Tete. "Yes,” replied Meandering Mike. “Some fellsfuTl tven work fur it.”—Washington ,^lar.

WHIP THE BRITISH.

VICTORY F,OR BOERS IN THE- - TRANSVAAL BATTLE. ' Dr. Jameson Surrenders—Remnant'of Hi's Forces Now Imprisoned at Johannesburg London Instructions Disregarded—Parallel to Venezuela South Africa Excited.. The invading English army ifn the. Transvaal has been disastrously defeated ■ l>y Hiwßoi r«; A-srpmir mure ha.ve 'beerr killed, many wounded, and Dr. Jameson is a prisoner at Johannesburg. One ««f the most impudent acts of aggression ever, committed even by British arms has thus met with swift retribution. The details are meager of this inglorious finale of what was intended to be a brilliant piece of bravado, which success might justify but which failure would make a crime. Afi that is known is the Government messengers; with dispatches from London ordering Dr. Jameson to retreat to the Chartered Company’-s-terri- | tory, reached Dr. Jameson Wednesday morning. He pocketed tlic Queen’s,orders, told the messenger laconically that he would attend to them, gave the command to fiis troops to saddle, and marched, not on the back track, but on toward Johannesburg. • At 4 o’clock in the afternoon he eneoun-_ tered the. Boers at Ivrugersdorf. There was hard lighting until sundown, and the British troops suffered severely. Tho famous marksmanship of the Boers was no less deadly than in their , gallapt defense against the sunn* enemy fifteen yearsago. Twenty men, including three officers, were killed, and fifty prisoners were taken before Dr. Jameson surrendered. A London dispatch says: The world

SOUTH AFRICAN TERRITORY IN WHICH THE TROUBLE OCCURRED.

"will now be overwbelmeiTwTni disavowals from everybody concerned except Dr; Jameson. X obodv r-ill be louder in protesting their-innocence than the Chartered Company and Cecil Rhodes, but nobody will believe them. Nothing will change the popular conviction that what has happened is simply the overthrow of a bold and reckless plot. The part that failed was the promised uprising of the UWanders in Johannesburg. The revolt there was expected to begin the day before Dr. Jameson crossed the frontier. His justification was to be: “The Boers are mas-

DR. C. S. JAMESON, GOVERNONR GENERAL OF MASHONALAND.

saoreing our countrymen. Blood is thicker than water.' We will march to their rescue.” Eveu that excuse would be sentimental rather than legal, but it would go in South Africa aiul it would probably go in England if‘Germany and other countries did not make too much fuss nbopt it. Hence the wires were cut and Dr. JatneBon, with 700 men, dashed in at the appointed’time to carry out their part of the plan. The faint-hearted foreigners in Johannesburg failed-to begin the rebellion, and Dr. Jameson’s rescue expedition be-

THE TYPICAL “LAAGER” (DEFENSIVE POST) USED IN SOUTH AFRICAN WARFARE.

came a horde of lawless freebooters, invading a friendly State. Such is the true aspect of the situation in the eyes of Englishmen. The -British- < loverMUient has already disavowed everything; so has Cecil Rhodes; so has the Chartered Company, through its directors in London. It is by no means certain that the trouble in the Transvaal is at an end. Britain Thursday night was given the interesting spectacle of the British colonial secretary sending a beseeching appeal to President Kruger that the Boers deal leniently with - tJhe wounded and other prisoners. The reason of this is that

great aocial pressure was brought to bear on Mr. Chamberlain to resene a dozen officers of the guards, several noblemen’* sdns a fid' other young bloods' with high connections, who tire included in Dr. Jameson's force of invaders. j Cut|se of the Trouble; There is tio Schomburgk fine in Sonth Africa. There is no other line, says a

S. E. PAUL KRUGER, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRANSVAAL.

correspondent, which the Imperialist pas sion of Great Britain and the greed of British colonists will recognize unless one or the other of the great powers, in its own interests, arbitrarily fixes a line be

Jond which the adwuiec guard of British trade and British rule mqy not go with safety tq the imperial Government. Twenty years ago English dominion in South Africa extended only to latitude 30 degrees south of the equator. To-day the provisional boundary of the British South African Company's protectorate is at latitude 10 degrees south. How this has been accomplished the world knows. Never were irregulars in time of war given freer rein than Rhodes and Jameson and the cape colonists generally have had in the butchery of natives and the seizure of territory. The war on poor old Lobengnla, instigated and directed by this same defeated Jameson, was an unparalleled blot on nineteenth century civilization. -• s' • The issue to which all the nations of the earth are gradually awakening—whether the time has not come to forcibly prevent the extension of British dominion—has been precipitated by the rash act of Jameson, a high-handed adventurer of r type more patiently considered in the hoydey of piracy than in our owfi time. It is inconceivable that the secretary for the colonies should not have been nble to stop the South African (Company’s agent. Private letters prove,that the sortie wai in contemplation a month ago. Mr. Chamfceti&ta's iarortMiriiottS’hre tardy. The predicament of the imperial Government is extremely awkward. On the one hand they have to restrain the lust and pugnacity of high-spirited colonists, wfio"have never feared to speak of the slenderness of the ties by which they are bound to the parent State. Oq the other hand, they face a brave peopip'jlncl the possibility of European 'complications-. Let ho one imagine the Boers will not tight. The English are disposed to discredit their courage, but they showed steadiness and daring at the Drakensberg Pass and on the height of Spitzkop, and in these battles as elsewhere their marvelous riflemen potted the English calmly and jaeehratrly. The feeling of Africa is with them. In their rebellion they had the sympathy of the Orange State, and it would not require much to

revive President Kruger’s-cry of “Africa for the Afrikanders, from Zambesi to Martin’s Bay." Ft -is- a stgufiecant emneidenee tbat- on the day of the appointment of the Venezuelan commission England gave proof of the spirit of greed and oppression that moves her agents everywhere. A carpet tack trust has been formed. We hope Attorney, General Harmon will see the point. The camphor trust has doubled prices. You can’t get so much now for a scent,

REMEDY FOR MANY ILLS.

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‘‘Bock Island” Playing Cards.

These popular cards are again for sale at 10 cents per pack, and thousands are buying them. They are the slickest ‘card you ever handled, and 10 cents iu stamps or coin per pack will secure one or inore packs. If money order,, draft or stamps for five packs'TTrccerveiT (Viz., 60 cents) we will send them by express, charges paid. Orders pot single packs are sent by nth 11, postpaid. If you want each pack to contain an elegant engraved whist rules, remit with your order 2 cents extra per pack. Address JNO. SEBASTIAN, G. T.A. Chicago.

Steel Balls.

Billiard balls of cast steel have been made and used successfully at Stockholm. They are hollow, and weigh about as much as the ordinary ivory balls. A lathe is ttsed to turn them to perfect smoothness. Sooner or later a neglected Cold will develop a constant cough, shortness of breath, failing strength, and wasting of flesh, all symptomatic; of some serious Lung affection, which may be avoided or palliated by using In time Dr. B. Jayne’s Expectorant. ————-<•- l .Thtr l*te Obatuwsey Goodrich died hi the poorliouse at the-age es 79. Twen-ty-live years ago he was a member of the Connecticut State Senate and was worth SIOO,OOO, The Prince of Wales wears his beard s la Van Dyke. His barber told him that it was the only style becoming to bis fat face.

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