Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1900 — Page 2

The Swamp Secret

CHAPTER ll—(Continued.) “He may be all right,”, thought Doick, *’but IlSriteve* he'll bear watching.” i As Nannie tiptoed to n seat among the girls—for in those days the two sexes never sat together in any kind of meeting— the singing teacher smiled and gave tier a genteel bow. This act gave Nannie a certain distinction among the other •girls, and pleased her so much that she ?>ecame radiant all in a moment. Dick paw the effect it had on her, and shut iiis teeth hard together. In some way he Volt that there was to be trouble between ■him and the singing teacher. Other young tnen saw the bow and the smile which the stranger bestowed on Nannie and <■ lie look with which she responded, and iiudged one another, with a sly look at tDick. All of which, of course, had a tendency to make him feel as serene as.’ .1 May morning. The whole settlement— moaning by that ■e very bod \ 1 i ving within two -'or'- thiee- : .tiles of the school house had turned out in this momentous occasion. The ages • f the audience ranged from three months •to seixntjV years’. “I Resume that all who are likely to -»ake part in the singing school, if organized, are here,” the young man said, as .he rose and made a graceful, easy little

■bow to his audience, and walked out in rfront of the rude desk. Instantly deep ■silence reigned. The noisy whispers of file women were broken off in the middle of the sentence, and the men ceased •'heir louder but fess pervading talk. The iyoung men turned their eyes from the ■girls to the> "speaker, and the young girls rorgot ail about the existence of the 'young mtL. for the time. “My name is Maxfield Wayne,” he said, as he became sure of tlnoattcntion of his 'audience. “I have been spending the summer, so far, in this State, partly for 'pleasure, partly for profit.’’ Here a litole smile was noticed to curl the corners of his mouth. None of his audience understood what there was in the words he 'had just spoken or the thoughts they suggested that prompted the smile, but remembered in later days, and. viewed in •he light of after events, they knew what •lie was thinking of when this remark was' made. “I have come here partly. out' of • uriosity to see life in the backwoods, . partly because I thought I coifld pick up living here for a little while as well as elsewhere.” Again that peculiar smile, ■as if, to him, the words had a hidden - (meaning. “I would like to employ the ■ime I spend among you in some profitable way. I have taught singing school, .iud thought perhaps you might like to •have a school here for a few weeks. I -hall be glad to hear from anyone on the isnhjert.” ' '

“Deacon Snyder!” called out some one in the audience. Instantly calls for the deacon resounded from ..Ml parts of the house. , The deacon, having been a singing teacher of the primitive type “down East,” was considered standard authorsty on musical matters. He rose and said in a wheezy voice that was something like the tone of an asthmatic accordion, that he had “led the singin', off’n on, ever since he’d been in Browns.villa. an’ afore, in other parts-o' the Gentry, an’ he felt free to say that’ the Brownsville young people had as good voices as you’d be apt to find in. any place of its size, but, like other fakilties of the human bein’, they needed cultivatin’. For his part he was not only in favor of school, though he .didn’t know ms it would of much benefit to him, but, the Lord willin’, he’d do what he could to help it along, for he considered singin’ a means o’ gldrifyin’ God, an’ bur ralons hadn't ought to be left to rust an’ corrupt.”

Then with a flourish of his red bandanpia and a blast on his Roman nose like fthe son nd of a war trumpet, he sat down, i ’onscious that his remarks had preserved |his reputation as a very ready and forcible off-hand speaker on all public occasions. “I motion that a couple o’ young men go 'round an’ see how many air willin’ to take holt an' do suthin' an’ how much hey’ll give to’rds s'portiu’ a school,” ■said the deaeon's neighbor, after a little ><’onsultation with him. This suggestion seemed to meet' with unanimous favor, and two young men ; were appointed to canvass the audience •for subscribers to a singing school fund. The result was that a sufficient amount was pledged to make the school a cer.lainty. “Let it be understood, then,” announced Mr. Wayne, “that the term will begin -o-morrow evening at seven o’clock, and i-hat there will be a session every other •evening, Sunday excepted, till the completion of the term.” Nannie lingered with a group of girls near the desk where the singing teacher stood, talking with some of the young men, casting sidelong glances at him, and wishing he would come and speak to her; but he was too busily engaged, and she had to be satisfied with a smile and a nod. Dick came up and asked her if she was ready to go home, and she took his arm and they left the school house. She was not inclined to talk about such mutters as seempd to interest Dick most, but waxed eloquent over the singing school and its handsome 1 teacher. Dick, of course, did not take a great deal of interest in such conversation, but tried to put on a smiling face, and not let her see bow jealous ho was beginning to be. Of course, he failed in the attempt’. Nannie bad keen eyes and was a woman, and she paw that it nettled him to have to listen to her praises of Mr. Wayne, therefore she kept on talking about him, Thus securing the double satisfaction of expressing her really honest admiration of the stranger, and’making Dick as uncomfortable as possible, ‘■‘l don't like the looks of him,” .Dick said, as he got ready for bed. "He looks to me like a man who's determined to have his own way, right or wrong, and rather than not have it, if he once makes up his mind to it. he'll do anything mean - >r underhand to carry out his plan." • CHAPTER HI. The farm adjoining Mr. Boone's on the aouth belonged to,Mr. Pbrtw. Mrs. Porter was Mrs. Bootie's sister. Mr. Porter had built near the north edge of )iia claim, and Mr. Boone near the south*rn boundary of his, so that- the two

houses were quite near together. On the aft ernoo r n following, .the prga nization of the singing school, Nannie stopped at her aunt’s on her way home, with a beaming and excited face. ’. “You can’t guess what kind of an errand I’ve come on,” she said, sitting down in the doorway and fanning her flushed face with her sunbonnet, utterly unmindful of poor Dick, who was plowing in the field across the rbad’, and Who had stepped close to the fence when he saw her coming. “Wall, no, 1 can't say ns I can, not bein’ very good at guessin’,’’ replied.JMLrg. Porter,' drawing her old-fashioned rocking chair up to the door. “Is'it an arrant for our folks?” *• “It’s one for you,” answered Nannie: “Mr. Wayne 'wants to come here to board.” “Fer goodness’ sake’” exclaimed Mrs. Porter. “What on airtH"’’u’d we do with him if we took him, I’d like to know? We don’t go in fer style, an’ ain’t us’t to livin’ as he’d expect to; an’ then, s’posen it was all right, an’ father was willin’, I don’t know what Samanthy’d say.” “Oh. you’d get along with him well ..enough,” said Nannie, confidently. “I know you would. He wanted to come to our house, but I knew we couldn’t make room for him. I- knew you could, and I knew, too, that he couldn’t find a neater place: and as you had only Uncle Porter and the hired man, vvitli Siiman.thy to help you with the work. I thought you could take him without putting yourself out much. I promised to see about it and let him know to-night, at singing school.”

"I don’t know as I have any pertikler objections, of father hain’t,” said Mrs. Porter, after thinking the matter over. “What dp you say, Samanthy?” SanianthjMwas “Irs, Porter’s cousin, and acted in the threefold capacity of hired girl, cotnpaniou/nnd household dictator. She was "smart as a steel trap an’ awful capable,” Airs. Porter told her neighbors, "an’ takes right holt an’ goes ahead with things as well as 1 could. She lis’.t to make us all st an’ ’round." Mrs. Porter was wont to affirm, years after Samantliy had left her, “but we was us’t to her ways an*-didn’t mind her bossin’ us, she was so handy an’ willin’. There wa’n’t a single lazy hair in her head, an’ we never had nobody work fer us that begun to earn her wages as Samanthy Peters did —never!” “What do I think about what?” asked Samanthy, coming in from the back room and leaning on her broom, prepared to listen and advise or object, as the case might be.

"The singin* school man wants to come here to board,” explained Mrs. Porter. “What do you hev to say about it?” “ ’Taiu't fer me to say anything as 1 know on.” said Sinnanthy, in reply. “1 s’poso there's plenty of room fer him, an’ we can git along ’ith the work well enough; but I’m free to say I didn’t take much of. a fancy to him, and wouldn't keer to hev him 'round more'n six months to a time. But mebbe we can stan’ it while he's tonchin’*, an’ you can turn my bill to singing school on his. board, es it’s any accommodation.” Samanthy’s consent being obtained, Mrs. Porter went out in the garden, where "father” was at work, and held a short consultation with him. The result of this conference was a foregone conclusion, however, as “father” always deferred to his wife's judgment and wishes. “You can tell him that he can come, then,” said Mrs. Porter, when she came back to the house. “That is, es he feels as es he could put up with our way o’ livin’.”

"Oh, I know he won’t mind thatj’ said Nannie, delighted with her success. Then she put on her sunbonnet and ran home, never stopping for a word with Dick, who had been leaning on the fence, waiting patiently for the conference with Mrs. Porter to end. "I wonder what’s the matter now?” he thought, as he saw Nannie come out of the gate and walk straight down the road toward home without so much as looking in his direction. “Something about the singing school, I suppose, or its teacher,” he added, with a curling lip. “It’s strange how girls! will act, all on account of a handsome face and smooth ways.” From which remark you will understand that Dick was beginning to get jealous of Mr. Wayne. “Won't it be nice?” Nannie said to her mother, when she got home and told the news. “He’ll be so near that 1 can run over real often to have him show me about anything that bothers me. I mean to practice all the spare time I get, and get ahead of all the other girls. 1 know I shall like him ever so much.” When Dick came to supper, Mrs. Boone told him about Mrs. Porter’s new boarder. Nannie, for some reason, didn’t come into the kitchen as she usually did when he washed his face and combed his hair. "Coming to Mrs. Porter’s, is he? Well, I can't say as I care a great deal about having him for such a near neighbor. Samanthy and I didn't take much of a fancy to him.” Dick looked at Nannie as he said this, but she pretended not to hear. Dick knew that she did hear it. for all that, for her cheeks got a trifle redder, and she gave her head a little toss that told that she was not greatly pleased with the ' remark. “I s’pose we'll be favored with whole slathers o’ music, afore long,” said Mr. j Boone, as they sat down to supper. ( "This gal here," pinching Nannie's plump cheek, "thinks she'll have the whole grammit, or whatever you call it, at her tongue’s end in less'n a week.” "Well, it will be a first-rate chance for me to learn,” said Nannie, as she passed the butter to Dick. “He'll be so near, you know. I can run over to Aunt Porter’s and ask him larts of questions when I come to something 1 don’t just' understand.” “Too near,” Dick thought, blit he said nothing. They walked down to the school hoyse together that night, but the conversation between them was not what could be called a very lively one. If Nannie talked of anything it had to be cither the singing school or its teacher, and Dick could not nax very enthusiastic on amh

topics, therefore he preferred to keep still and let her do the talking. Promptly at seven o'clock the session began. Any one whp has ever attended singing school in the country knows what the usual routine of work is: An explanation of the scale, with its letters, its flats and sharps, and ever-changing keys, its do-re-me’s and fa-so-la’s, and then, for the beginner’s benefit, little easy ex? ercises which are to the study of harmony what the primer is to the reading book with the student in the district school. Every teacher of music begins ..witll . these.jfxh-c'suif the science, but not one in a dozen succeeds in making his scholars understand much about them. The “fun” comes in when they get to singing “pieces.” Most of the students can catch the tune from hearing it sung by the teacher, and singing real tunes is much more satisfactory to the scholar than drilling on dry exercises. This school was like all others in this respect. After the rudiments had been dwelt upon for an hour, Mr. Wayne said they would practice a little on some old tunes for recreation and variety. Had any one any choice of a tune’? Deacon Snyder called for “Windham,” adding: as a sort of postscript: “That is, if the teacher is familiar with it.” Xes. Air. Wayne was quite familiar with that tune. They would try it. And soon the audience was making the air doleful with life mournful strains of the tune the deacon had selected. “A little hiore expression would improve it, I think,” said Mr. Wayne. “Let me sing a verse as I think it ought to be sung.” . ” . He did so amid the profound silence of the class. He had a smooth, clear voice, and he sang well and with dud regard for the sentiment of the words. The old hymn took on a new meaning under his rendering of it. The girls were delighted with his way of singing it, and the young men wished they could sing like that; but .Deacon .Snyder, wliose musical education was as primitive as the cut of his pantaloons, and who was not inclined to be progressive in his ideas,* hardly agreed with Mr. Wayne's opinion of how the hymn ought to be sung. "I don’t fancy quite so tnany flourflourishes,” he said to Sister Smith, with a deprecating shake of bis- head;-” ’Tain’-t Ihe way they us’t to do it, an’ I reckon they sung as much fer the honor an’ glory o’ God then as they do now days. But I s pose it’s the fash’n to sing it in this way out among folks. . Even re-, ligi n is getfin 1 ’ to havin’ fash'nable quirks to it, I m sorry to say. 1 go in for good old-fash'ned. singin’ that hain’t got none o’ the pomps an’ vanities o’ the world mixed up with ’it.”

"The deacon he's alius a-findin’ fault with anything that don't jest agree with what he was brought up to,” said Samant hy, between whom and the deacon a long-standing grudge existed. "He'd find fault with the Angel Gabr’el es he was to come an’ blow his trump diffi’runt from the way ol’ Mis’ Snyder blows her dinner horn.” After school was dismissed Dick took -his station by the door to Wait for Nannie. The boys generally ranged themselves in a row-,-waiting for the girls to straggle alongytrying to look unconscious of the presence of the gallants, who w-ere always conscious of being tlie observed of all observers. Pretty soon the girls began to edge their way toward the door, whispering to one another and giggling about, and pretending to look as if “beaus” and "comp’ny home” were the very last things they-were-likely to think of. Nannie, however, loitered behind the other girls, apparently busy over a proper arrangement of some portion of her apparel. “Aren’t you about ready?” asked Dick. “Almost,” answered Nannie; “but I’ve got to speak to the teacher .first.” Then she walked over to the place where Mr. Wayne was standing, with the information that Mrs. Porter would take him to board while he remained if Brownsville. (To be continued.) Copyright.

DEAR TO HIS HEART.

Even if the Dog Was Only a Poor Little Cur. “Say, mister, don't you want to buy a dawg?” The little ragged bunch of humanity was a study in ebony, and he looked up pleadingly into the face of the man whom he had accosted. “Dog?” queried the man, “I don’t see any dog. I don't like to buy things sight unseen.” “Oh, I'se got ’im heah, all right, ’deed I has,” asserted the little fellow, and he began to undo the various layers of old coats about his. body, evidently put on so that the good snots of one would cover the rents In the garment underneath. Finally he brought to light a little yellow cur, half starved and wholly worthless, either for use or beauty. “What do you want to sell him for?” asked the man, a smile beginning to creep round the corners of his eyes. "Well, you see. sub, Pse had Bones a good while, and I thinks a heap of 'im, but kain’t get no license fur him, and now they says I got to tie up his motif, so's he won’t bite you alls. Deed, mister. Bones never bit nothin' in his life. He's a powerful good dawg, an’ 1 jus’ kain’t abear to see the dawg ketchers git ’im, an’ I thought If I could sell 'im to somebody who would be good to ’im, like you alls, I might buy 'im back in the summer.” And he snuggled tfie ornery little cur up under his rags, to keep him from shivering. Then that man didn't do a thing but trot that little study in ebony off to buy a license for the “dawg" and a muzzle, ami now he is safe from the "dawg ketcher.” —Washington Star.

London.

London is twelve miles broad one way and seventeen the other, and every year sees about twenty miles of new streets added to It.

Slang.

The Allgemelne Deutsche Sprachvereln has offered a prize of 1,000 marks for the best study of the slang used by seamen..

Phosphate.

The phosphate output of the State of Florida hist year amounted to 425,000 toys, and of that total 300,000 tons waS ptivebased by di-i man;>.

KANSAS CITY WINS IT.

Democratic National Convention la to Meet There July 4. Kansas City won the Democratic national convention for 1900 over Milwaukee. on the first ballot, 40 votes to. 9. When the committee, which met in Washington, got down to business Kansas City presented the following offer: A certified check for $50,000, and a hall free of expenses; the payment of the officers of the convention, headquarters, and expenses of the national committee. Against tlfis Milwaukee could only offer a certified check for $40,000, and a promise Of a sale of $10,(MIO worth of tickets to tlie convention. and a guarantee list representing.sloo,ooo. On the vote Milwaukee received nine votes, those of Delaware, Florida. Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Montana, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin, while Kansas City received the remaining forty vote's. Thompson of Nebraska hot voting because Bryan did not want to appear to favor either city. Norris did not vote for the District of Columbia because of the contest over his seat. The question of a date for holding the convention was debated long and earnest; ly, and was marked by the most interesting episode of the nieeting—the reappearance of Senator Gorman on the scene of national politick. Three dates wore proposeiF^May !.)“iy Thompson of Nebraska: June 14, by Tilhnan of South Carp*' lina, and .Inly 4 by McGraw of Virginia, the last named date being chosen. Kansas City was favored by Mr. Bryan as the convention .city, vand in making the selection that i.t the national committee, acted in accordance with the wishes of the Democratic standard bearer of 1890. In the matter of the date of the convention, however, the committee went contrary t-o-the expressed wishes of Mr. Bryan, who had favored a date in advance of that set for the Republican colivention, The platform for 1900 was outlined by the members of the committee as antiexpansion, anti-trust, anti-treaty, antiEngland. ami free silver. While the silver plank of the Chicago platform was considered certain of adoption, it was not expected to play a leading part in. the campaign, except in the. silver. States.

GENERAL MCNULTA DEAD.

Veteran Passes Away Suddenly at a Hotel in Washington. Geti. .Tqlin.McNulta of Chicago died at the Hamilton Hotel in Washington Thursday evening. Gen. McNulta went to Washington Tuesday to attend to business in connection with the Illinois National Bank, for which he was the receiver. He was in his usual health until 7 ” Thursday aftvrnoon. He went to lunch with t'otnptroHor u Dawes at noon, and the*, returned to the hotel to do some writing. .Judge Weldon of the court of claim's, - whoGeii. MeNulta’s law

partner when they both lived in Bloomington, called at the hotel about 5 o’clock and found the general indisposed. Dr. Sowers was called and diagnosed the disease as angina pectoris. Gen. McNulta died before 6 o'clock, within an hour after Judge Weldon found him ill. Had not the judge called the general would have died with no one near him. Comptroller Dawes telegraphed to Judge flrosscnp -and—Alexander Revell, requesting them to notify the family in Chicago. The general’s son, Donald, is a lieutenant in the Twenty-third infantry, now in the Philippines.* He was also informed of the death of his father.

DECREASE IN DEFALCATIONS.

Stealings for the Year by Persons Holding Positions of Trust. The stealings last year by persons holding positions of trust in the United States and Canada total $5,873,636. This record of embezzlements, defalcations, etc., is according to one of the largest companies writing surety insurance, exceptionally low. The statistics for 1899 are as follows: Federal and State losses SSO-1,833 Municipal 467,080 Transportation companies 148,975 Benevolent associations 118,846 Savings and building and loan associations 207,545 Insurance companies 80,835 Banks '. 1,820,146 Courts, trusts ami official bonds.., 793,022 Commercial corporations and firms 1,195,732 Miscellaneous 536,019 Total $5,873,836 The year was one of unusual activity in business and it is such years that show, as a rule, a low record of defalcations.

Municipal Matters.

A negro barbers’ union has been formed at Louisville', Ky. St. Paul has a new onc-cent independent afternoon daily paper. Portland, Ore., will have qjibnch show. The city lias 2,222 licensed dogs. New York has the. largest local telephone exchange system in the world. New Orleans is to have a new historical museum under the auspices of the Louisiana Historical Society. The police department at Astorin, Ore., has been self-sustaining for three years. The cost of maintenance is SO,OOO annually. ■ Cleveland authorities-expect to complete during the year a tunnel bringing water to the city from a point five miler out in .Lake Erie. Oi>o of the specifications of the contracts made by Greater New .York, for its charitable institutions is thrtt all the meat shall be killed and dressed Tn New York State. This year 2,353,000 pounds will be used. Two Indian bucks and a squaw were killed by drinking wood alcohol, which had been sold to them by ifJatake, at Butte, Mont,

A MINNESOTA FARMER WRITES OF WESTERN CANADA.

Ib Now Located There—Farms Being Rapidly Settled by Former U. S. Residents. The following extracts from a letter written to Mr. Benj. Davies, Canadian ! Government Agent at St. Paul, Minn., give an excelleiiT idea of what is said of Western Canada by those who have gone there during the past two or three years: “When we first arrived here and took up our homes on the pralr!e near Daieaboro, Assa.. for a short time we had a fit of the ‘blues,’ but now all hands are settled to business, hale, hearty and contented, enjoying the finest winter we have ipvor seen. We have got very comfortably situated, with considerable preparation for a crop, and alb hopeful. I think this is a very fine country, and if the past season’s crop is not an exception, which they claim not, 1 believe thifj is going to lie the wheat field of the West. It is filling up fast. In this township last spring there were twen-ty-five quarter sections of land vacant, and to-day there is not one; I can stand at my house and count ten houses where there was not one last spring, with six more to go up this spring. This is only a sample of what is going on air round. We intend to build a church next summer, right close to my place, so we will be strictly in line.- It would have amused you“e"have been here last spring. There were crowds ot land seekers, and sometimes in the spring the prairie is not very inviting, and of course lots were discontented. There was one in the crowd-who jumped on me for putting a letter in the' paper, only for which he never would have come here, and he was very hostile, but eventually he got a place and to-day claims he would not take’a thousand dollars and move out; so I am glad he is satisfied. “Well, my dear sir, as Arthur Finney is about to move out in March, with his family, ami also one of my sons, anything yolt can do for them ’to assist them along and to make things smooth as possible will be greatly appreciated by me'. I will close for this time, and will write from time to time to let yon know we are living. Drop ns a few lines to let ns know how things are moving in St. Paul. “Yours respectfully, “ALEX. CAMERON.”

Sewing School Association.

The wise action of the managers of New York sewing schools in sending exhibits of work done by pupils to the schools of other cities and towns, several years ago, has stimulated an interest in this important branch of education, and sewing schools aie everywhere being established, the results of which cannot fail to be wholly beneficial.

Not a Novelty.

Only so far as this country is concerned is the Pingree potato patch a novelty. For years laborers and dwellers in the small villages of England have been in the custom of tilling small patches of “allotment land,” offered them at low rent or no rent by the local “squire.” Sucji gardens figure in many English novels. The liberal offer made by the T. .M. Roberts Supply House of Minneapolis, Minn., should be of interest to all our readers. In addition to the best bargain ever offered in seeds they give a highgrade knife free of charge with each purchase. Mention this paper when writing to advertiser.

Chicago Great Western Increase.

The earnings of the Chicago Great Western Railway, “Maple Leaf Route,” for the second week in February, 1900, show an increase of $25,780.78. Total increase since beginning of fiscal year (July 1) to date, $031,024.(18.

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