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TI '\aa\^. :t u.,. ---CSV I* My Cousin From America Br EUNICE BLAKE *lM Von Muellers are one of the old e*t families In Prussia. But there hpve beta spendthrifts in the family, men who despised the making 0/ money and Who have had no other profession tbafl the amy, which, to say the least. If .not lucrative. The original family estates were conferred on Otto von Mtfjler for military service. 'One of my uncles, Caspar von Muel ler, rather than be a poor aristocrat In PnilMta chose to be a rich commoner lit America. At any rate, he went thete toattempt to make a fortune. He aUCeeeded, and at the beginning of the twentieth century was the only rich obS of the family. He was loyal to his relatives and entered upon a cor respondence with my father, his broth er, With a view to starting tlie family co a new career of prosperity by means «f jUs great wealth. He had only one cMMk a son, and his plan was to mar ry him to one of the family in Prussia. Then the young man was to remove to the, fatherland and by. means of bis Wealth Mcure a position at the kaiser's cotirt. OUr Von Muellers in Germany were quite pleasfed with the plan. The aris tocracy and the commercial clashes bad be«n drawing closer together. The kal •4r himself owned a pottery. Caspar rbn MuelleCa millions, though acquired Ih 'trade, were not to be despised. To make a long story short, it was ar ranged that he, should come over to Germany, and i, being the only girl Vbn Mueller of aultable age for him, it WSs hoped that a mattih might be ar fawed between him and me. On* evening a lot of as Von Muellers Were sitting In a public garden Usten tog to an orchestra and linking wine •r, beer. Two young men came in and took seats at a table near us. They seemed to/ be English—at least tbey •poke the English language. The feel lag against the English people was very, strong, and even the language w«4irrltatlng. But one of the young x^jn .opposite me was very handsome, could not help glancing at him occasionally. Whether or no he was «ticbtiraged by thto or because he ad mtred me, he gazed' at me continually. Vtoailymy brother Otto, a lieutenant lirt&e^army, noticed his eyes continu ity: bent on me. Rising, Otto went to tfcf tfcblfe Where thp young man was •mblr and said, "I jvlll pig stick you," and threw a card on the table bearing hisaame and address. 'Jras was equivalent to a challenge «Mm- M'+o* A Otto returned to tqsl,j|av».klM of my mind, tell* Vbt tfcifc Ijdtdidbt need blm to pro, tertaw aad fie had no right to chal letwaaman simply for admiring me. 'i did not know whether the stranger vpuld fight, but I determined to pre V(nt a meeting If possible. My cousin tiuatav, a boy of fifteen, was of our patty, and. Otto having left us, taking Gustav with me, 1 went to the table •where the two strangers were sitting and to the one who had been look ing at me: "I have a request to make of you, •Ir." Rising and removing his hat, he ask ed to be Informed what it was. 1 •poke In German, and he replied In the •aaae language, though with a foreign accent "I have seen my brother challenge ydu. I beg that you will decline to fight" "But your German men expect"— "Never mind what our German men expect You have the request of a German woman. It should bo of great er Import to you than the demand of Any man." He hesitated for a few moments, thensald: "Vtaulein, I shall consider your re quest a cotamand. I beg to offer an apology for looking so intently upon you. In the first place, I lost a slater few years ago who greatly resembled you. In the second place, I.admit that yqtk excited my admiration the moment looked at you." "Mo apology Is necessary. I thank you very much for granting my r* qoeat." As I was turning away to rejoin the party at our table he said: "May I ask, frauleln, to be Informed gi to whom I have the honor to obey?" "I am Bertha von Mueller." Re looked at me with an expression 'which I did not understand, but said nothing further. Thfe duel, of course, did not take plabe. My brother In speaking of It •aid contemptuously that the roan was doubtless an Englishman and the Eng lish would not light. A few days after thi occurrence-my father told me that myfcousln had come from America and lirptdd call the next afternoon. Father hoped that! I would make myself as agreeable as possible. The next day when I went down into the drawing room to see my cousin I Stood speechless with astonishment. H* looked at me with an amused emits. He was the man who had ad mired me at the garden and whom 1 had prevented fighting my brother. "Cousin Bertha," he said, "that was quite an episode, my meettng the girl I had come across the water to see, was it not?". "Indeed It was!" I stammered. I married my cousin, but instead of his remaining la Germany I went back with blm to America. He said he did nit can to regain where a man was TffM* to be pig stuck for admiring a woman. Besides, be preferred the ac «vity of llfein America, r.jr JUST FOR WEAR. Practical navy serge, the standby, develops this suit, bound with silk braid. The introduction of accordion plaits just back of the side hip line is quite anew detail. Save the Cranes and Rail Birds. Two North Amerienn birds that are in great immediate need uf protection are the white crane and bis distant cousin, the Ciirolinu rail, or sora. The former, ouce a denizen of the western prairies, is almost extinct, and the sandhill crane also seems in danger. The Caroline rail is in great demand as a table delicacy.—Exchange. Wonderful Self Control. "We have one of the hardest work ing typewriters in the world." "Why *do you think so?" "•Sometimes she pounds her machine for fully' half an hour at a stretch Nrithout 'stopping to adjust her lack hair."—Brooklyn Citizen. Coffee and Pianos. There is a close relation between the coffee Industry und the piano business In Guatemala. Whenever there is a good year for coffee in-the republic there is a better demand for pianos. v.J w^.y SEN I BOARD] 8TEWS FOR LUNCHEON. VEAL STEW.—Take one and one half pounds of shoulder of veal, cut in pieces, put In a saucepan, add boiling water to almost cover the veal, an onion, salt and pepper to taste. Cook one and one-half hours. When nearly done put in a small saucepan over the fire a piece of butter the size of a walnut and a teaspoonfil of flour. Blend and cook until alight Drown and then add to the veal gravy. Irish Stew.—Take one and one-half pounds of neck of beef, cut in pieces about an Inch square. Put a bit of the fat In the bottom of a saucepan ovof the Are and in it as it fries out slice an onion or two. Put the diced meat into this and shake the pan so that the. In dividual pieces may brown. Then cor. er the meat with about three cupfula of boiling water and let It simmer for half an hour. Then add two or three small carrots cut into Inch squares, stew about an hour longer slowly, then add four or five potatoes cut Into halves. When the potatoes have cook ed thicken the stew with a little flour or dumplings. Season with salt and pepper. Spanish Stew.—Cut a piece of suet Into five plpces and melt it In a kettle. Add one and one-quarter pounds of beef chuck or stew meat cut into small pieces and cover tightly. Jyjt meat simmer for one-half hour, browning without forming a crust then add a little water and cook until tender. Add a third of a can of tomatoes, a small onion cut into small pieces, a bay eaf and salt and pepper. Thicken with flour. Rabbit Stew.—Take a dressed young rabbit, cut In small pieces and soak In cold water for an hour or longer drain, roll in flour and fry a light brown In Mot lard and butter mixed cover with boiling water and simmer until tender drain off atock and use It to make a sauce with a. tablespoonful of butter and two of flour season with salt and pepper and celery salt if desired. Add a cupful of hot milk and pour the sauce slowly over a well beaten egg atlr Well and put in hot dish. Garnish with a few sprigs of parsley. !»rowued ll "V-' THE BULK OF AN ESTATE By HELEN APHERSON Old Mrs. Bartow was a queer old woman. She bad property sufficient to keep her in comfort, and if she had any more no one except herself was aware of It, for she lived very plainly. She had one son, whom she treated in such manner as to best prepare him to work out for himself an honorable ca reer. John Bartow was not coddled he was forced to work for every bit of pocket money he spent. When John was eighteen years old he was offered a position in a distant city, and it was considered advisable by his mother and himself that he should accept it. Mrs. Bartow bad lived so long In her home that she pre ferred not to leave it, and John went alone to his new field of labor. Ills mother, being lonely after his depar ture, adopted the child of a friend who died, Mary Cliamberliu, twelve years old. When -Mary became a woman she showed a rare judgment, and Mrs. Bar tow consulted with her constantly in making up her mind in matters of im portance. The girl had the gift of common sense, which probably Is as rare and as valuable a gift as can be bestowed upon any one. While John Bartow was passiug the period' from eighteen to twenty-six away from bis mother Mary Chamber lln was passing from twelve to twenty In close connection with that mother. After Mary had lived with Mrs. Bar tow some six or seven years the old lady was puzzled to know just how to leave at her death some $20,000 she possessed. The income was about suf ficient to give Mary a living divided it would not. John was doing well in business and did not need it. But John was Mrs. Bartow's own son, and she did not like to deprive him of her property at her death, especially if she left it to one in whom he had no in terest. She said nothing as to this to either John or Mary, and it is ques tionable if either thought about it. Finally Mrs. Bartow fell UL John went home quite often during her ill ness and was greatly relieved, when obliged to depart, to leave her under the care of Mary Cbamberlln. Indeed, he was conscious that if he had been able to remain with his mother he could not have nursed her as Mary did. Though he had regarded Mary as of practical value to his mother, he had not before realized what there was in her. One day John received a message that bis mother was at the point of death. He hurried home, hut did not arrive in time to find her alive. Mrs. Bartow's death seemed to affect Mary jnore than It did John. The one had been In constant communication with her for years the other had been sep arated from her. "This Is hard on you, Mary," said John, "not only in depriving you of one to whom you ara attached, but in your living." Mary looked at him as though she had not thought of this, but made no reply. "But do not trouble yourself on that score," John continued. "I will see that you get ou." When Mrs. Bartow's will was open ed it was found to read: "I give and bequeath my twenty mortgage bonds of the B. L. and P. railroad to Mary Cbamberlln, who has long been a daughter to me. The residue and far more valuable part of my fortune I be queath to my beloved son, John Bar tow, hoping that it may bring him as much comfort as it has me. He will find It in a bureau drawer in my bed room." John congratulated Mary on being left with an income, at the same time manifesting surprise that his mother had left an estate so large that she should also have been able to leave him the more valuable part of her property. After congratulating Mary he went to the bureau drawer to pos sess himself of his inheritance. When he came back Mary was waiting for him, eager to know what he had found. But John, who did not show by bis expression that ho had acquired a for tune. ssld nothing. Mary was not the girl to ask him questions and refrain ed. John, however, took her hand and pressed It, as much as to say: "Do not fear that I covet your Inheritance. I am well satisfied with what my moth er has done." Tho house In whtch his mother had lived belonged to John. He told Mary she was free to remain in it without rent If she chose. She said tearfully that she would be too lonely there and would seek another home, but where that home would be she did not know. Then John told her that If she would marry him she would find a home so far as be could make It one. She de murred on the grouud that he made the offer out of love for his mother rather than for her. But John said she need have no fear of that he need ed her more than she needed him. Be fore John was ready to leave she bad accepted his offer, and when be went she wont withhlm. Not long after they were married John's wife said to him: "John, you have never said anything to me about the fortune your mother left you.' In her will she called it by far the more valuable part of her prop erty. I have seen nothing pf It. Where Is it?" John led her to a mirror. "Well?" she said. "What I found in the bureau drawer was your likeness. I took the bint. I fully agree with mother that I got the bulk of the estate," I'gaiiyiiilyiiili THE DENISON REVIEW WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1917. Geme In Verse IRELAND. OH,Is Starving, mother of heroic dead, la there no liand raised In de fense of thee? there no voice to cry, "She must be free Whose sons on all truth's battlefields have bled. Whose daughters for the faith their tears have shed?" Could proud Columbia lift her star gem med head Triumphant over old world tyranny Were't not for thy heroic, countless dead? Music and art and possy were thine And freedom's peace In golden days ot yore, Ere grim Invaders ravished thy fair shore And tore thy sacred symbol* from their shrine. Brave littla island, lift thine eyes and ace How Qo4 remembers! He will set thee free. —Mary Genevieve Manahaa. WHEN A CHAP IS ALONE. VTTHEN a chap ia alone and can think of lila paat And the future and live with his dreams. It Is then lie bullda up the beauties that last, It la then there is worth in his schemes, For he wants to be fine In a big Bort of way, And he wants to be tender and true. When a chap Is alone at the end of the day Life's splendors pasa by in review. IT Isn't all money the. dreamer can see. And It isn't all tinsel and fame. The chap that's alone in the shade of the tree Ia resting awhile from the same. He has turned from the heat and the clamor and strife To chum for an hour with his squ). And he's feeding himself on the beauties of life. Away from the spur of a goal. TVT1IEN a chap is alone he is more or a man Than he Is in the midst of a throng, Then honor and truth are the threads In his plan. And he's too big to stoop to a wrong. His spirit is soaring on winss that ars light. And he dreams of the good he can do. When a chap Is alone with his thoughts ho's all right, For then he's a man through and through. —Edgar A. Guest. IN THE GARDEN OF SNOW. CEXJ9 Miss Bed Bonnet deep In tbe snow, Rosy cheeks bright as the pop py's red glow Sweet as the flower the April rains bring Tumbling down In the apron of spring. Little Miss Red Bonnet, here and away. Coaxing the anowflakes to join In your Play. Casting your laughter and cheer all about. Brightening days that were somber with out. Little Miss Red Bonnet, sweet little lass. Waving your smiles to the people who pasa, Even as flowers that bloom by the ways Bloasom their aweetcst on summery days. Gardens I've searched for tho sweet violet Roses and tullpa and sweeter ones yet— These have I found, but not-one of them— no Bloomed street as you in tbe garden ol snow. —John D. Wells In Buffalo News. WAR. HEAR me, my warriors! My heart IS sick and s.-td Our chiefa are killed, The old men are all dead It is cold and we have no blankets The little children are freezing to death. Hear me, my warriors! My heart Is sick and aad From where the sua now stands will fight no more forever! -Joseph, Nea Perce War Chief. SAVING UP. rnHE birds sing In the summer time, la winter gone are they. The squirrel cannot sing for nuts, but stores the nuts away. And when In winter time the days are very cold and dark He taps his little treasure box 1s happy as a lark. rnHJS man who saves a little cash, and salts away the stuff. On future rainy days, you'll find,. wW al ways have enough. He, like -the. squirrel, earns the praise h« gets from thoughtful men. On ralny days he'll eat his store-rthen saVe it up again. Fyou have hoarded cash or nuts you'll never have to beg But there are times when I disdain the biggest storage egg. And there's a thing that you can store with profit a0d win praise Just a hunk of summer sunshine to be used on wintry days. mHAT man is just plain average who smiles when skies are blue And growls whenever things look black. You know that thia Is true. But he's worth backing every time who travels on his nerve And has on every dismal day some sun shine in reserve. -Crlf Alexander. I HAVE NOT LIVED IN VAIN. FFHOUGH fame lias coldly passed me by -t And riches ne'er my nam* could spy. If truth and justice I have sought. It love and kindness I have bought. Then, spite of loss, I've made some gain. Blest thought, I have not lived in vain. VO, not 1n vain if trees I've blazed. Or here and there a sign I've raised To guide men through a lonely wild. Or even If I've cheered a child And turned his walling Into song, Or by my strength the weak felt atrong. Ffrom great souls removed far Of harmony I've caught one fear. If In the ranks by faith full clear I've seen right's triumph drawing near. Then will I sing in joyous strain, 1 know I have not lived in vain. -E. H. 8. ONE EXPLANATION. rpHE rise In foodstuffs, understand, A Tit 1 Is dutf unto the great demand. w» OOMI oai BB with the explanation meet That everybody wants" to eat. —T.oiilsvllle Courier-Journal. «H'.||.M ,1 111 .'JM-1,.^- BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 8 o'clock followed by the Teacher Trainging class. The usual services will bo held on Sunday. The evening meetings will begin half an hour later. Sunday, May 6, Is "Go to Church Sunday." and everyone ia cordially in vited to attend. Don't forget the meeting of the com mittees for "Go to Church Sunday" at 2 o'clock Saturday at the Baptist church. At CKureh Next Sunday. If I knew you and you knew me, Mow little trouble there would be, We pass each other on the street, l*ut just come out and let us meet At church next Sunday. Each one intends to do what's fair, And treat his brother on the square, But he may not quite understand, Why you don't take him by the hand, At church next Sunday. This world is sure a busy placc And we must hustle in the race. For social hours arc not so free The six week days, but all should be At church next Sunday. We have an interest in our town. The dear old place must not go down. We want to push good things along, And we can help some if we're strong At church next Sunday. Don't knock and kick and slam or slap At everybody ou the map, But push and pull and boost and boom An^ use up all tbe standing room, At church next Sunday. 1 M. E. Church Notes. The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of Council Bluffs district will meet in annual convention at Manilla. May 3d and 4th, the first session on Thursday evening. The ladies of the Manilla auxiliary have made splendid plans for the convention'3 success. Mrs. M. M. Cable, of Winterset Mrs. R. S. Beall, of Mt. Ayr, and Miss La huna Clinton, formerly of Shenandoah, now of Jubbulpore, India, will be the principal speakers. The meeting will bo presided over by Mrs. E. W. Pierce, of Denison, district president. Mrs. C. L. Voss, district corresponding retary Mrs. I. C. Gillmor, Mr*. J. I*. Boyd, Mrs.^Frank Woolston and .Mis Adele Braudt: arc others of Denison! Hews of the Cburcbes ladies on the program. Members of Manilla auxiliary will give a sketch, "Scenes From India," and the Manilta Standard Bearer girls present a panto mime of our jubilee hymn, "O Zlon Haste." Dow City will be represented by Mrs. Thos. Rae, who will present the subject of "Stewardship." A prom ising program throughout and it is hoped there will be a larse attend ance from the twenty auxiliaries in the district, Stop! look! Listen- Next Sunday, May 6th, everybody go to church. Sermons at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. All other services at the usual hours. Special music by the big choir. Let each member bring a friend. If you are not in the habit of attending, just come out next Sunday. Your neighbors and friends will be there. Come and see what happy, helpful times christian people have. The Methodist choir was entertained at a very delicious and delightful din ner Monday evening at 6:30, through the courtesy of the Methodist Ladies' union. Four long tables were beauti fully laid with our national colors and flags artistically arranged for decora tions. The choir members who were praticularly honored at this time were Mr. and Mrs. W. C. VanNcss and Miss Irene, who are to leave us soon and will be greatly missed after years of faithful service, and Mr. and Mrs. Sib bert, Mrs. Sibbert having left Tues day morning for a month's stay In Cali fornia. After dinner Mrs. Albert Weiss, acting very capably as toast mistress, Introduced Rev. Boyd and later Mrs. F. Hoffman,Jboth of whom spoke most appreciably of the choir in general and 6T our honored guests in particular. Asocial hour followed and all sang "America" before adjourn •nient. The-—-members of the choir greatly appreciated the kindness on the part of the Ladies' union In giv ing them this delightful entertainment. Standard Bearers will meet with Emma Brogden Monday evening. May 7th. The King's Heralds will meet Mon day evening after school with Clara Mount on West Prospect street. Preabyterian Church Notes Rev. Robert Karr, the new pastor of llie Presbyterian church, conies this week, and will preach both morning and evening next Sunday. It is hoped Closing Out Sale HE big closing out sale of the Kemming Cloth ing Company is still in pro gress. We still have a good assortment in all lines, and at A Great Saving (with the high cost of living considered) and it will pay every family to lay in their supply of Clothing, Shoes and gents' Furnishing Goods during this closing out sale. Kemming Clothing DENISON, IOWA ipAG£i TttkiE that a largo congregation will bo present. Prayer meeting tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, followed by choir prac tice. All evening services until further notice will be at 8 o'clock. The Sunday school meets immedi ately at the close of the morning .serv ice, to which all arp cordially invited to remain, and the Christian (Endeav or meets every Sunday evening at o'clock for an hour's. session before the evening service* A it? 4 y-' ADORABLE MIDDY. 9