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•.!'••' -"v 'V' :,v',: '. Evening Story I ASTRONOMY AND ANNE. By^orothy Douglas. .Copyright, 1913, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The time had come when Anne felt it incumbent upon her to find a way of increasing her meager income. Her father had left her practically penni less, and Anne was in no position to face the world alone. However, she strove to rise above her burden of grief—she had loved her father dearly —and seek employment. "I cannot possibly go into an office," she decided and smiled ruefully at her lack of training. "Besides, I want my day hours for writing. If I once got a start in the magazines I would not have to work." It was evident from Anne's decision that she did not consider writers toilers of the 6&rtht She glanced around the scantily fur nished room and her eyes grew dim. They had rested upon the telescope that stood close by the window its brasses were polished and its great glass eyes sparkled like jewels. Anne could almost see her father peering through it up into the heavens. It had been his hobby to star-gaze through many a night when Anne had been tucked snugly in her bed. Had Anne wanted to part with this treasure of her father's, she might have realized a sum that would nave run it to the thousand mark, but she would not. "If the worst comes to the worst," he had once laughingly suggested, "we open an astronomical insti tute and charge ten cents a look at the moon, Jupiter or Saturn. Pay your money and take your choice. How would that be, Anne?" "Capital idea, Daddy!" Anne had returned. Capital idea. The words kept re peating themselves in Anne's brain. And now it seemed as if the big telescope were beckoning her some where, to some goal. Its glass eye blinked in the sunlight, and Anne strove to fathom the lure it seemed to hold out tocher. "Pay your money and take Thus it grew that a few nights later the landless chain of pedestrians on the board walk saw a new sign to attract the unwary. "Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars have a look at the planets and stars," they read, and many stopped half in the interest of astronomy and half in curiosity. Anne presented a more or less uni que appearance there in the semi gloom. Her coat was long and almost covered her a soft hat was pulled low on her head and the great white Rus sian wolf hound that guarded her seemed to attract observation rather than to repel. Anne prided herself on her sense of advertising. The boy who carried her telescope to and from the tiny cottage looked up at her as they made their way home after the'first evening. "Gee! I didn't think all them guys would pay ten cents to look at the stars! Ain't it funny?" "It is delightful," returned Anne and jingled the many dimes in her pockets. It was on the third evening of her new work that Ben Huyler stopped to stroke the great wolf hound's head. A second later he looked at the figure beside the telescope and whistled in wardly. Another second and his eyes had met Anne's under their shading of soft hat and wind-tossed hair. "I will have a look," he sai3 quick ly, and produced a dime. Ben Huyler had never taken the slightest interest either in moon or stars, but he seemed suddenly pos sessed of a wild longing to learn all there was to know about them. In a most professional way Anne told him the few bits of information she had gained from her father. Whether Huyler heard or not is a matter of opinion. He learned, however, that Anne's voice was melodious and that her eyes.were like twin sapphires in the light of the moon. When he had lingered as long as convention allowed he strolled off and dropped into a nearby bench. Whether or not Anne noticed him was another matter for conjecture. She only knew that she rather liked her latest star gazer. "I liked his personality," she con fided to her telescope, and her slim fingers caressed the shining brasses. Wolf's faithful eyes had followed Huy ler and lingered there. Anne turned to greet the serious eyes of the man who had been study ing the planets each night that she had been there. "I would buy your telescope tomor row if you would sell it," he said after he had greeted Anne. But when Anne shook her head he only nodded and continued to give her of his fund of knowledge concerning the astral bodies. During the ensuing three weeks Anne seemed to be swaying between the man who came nightly to gaze at the stars through her telescope and the man who came nightly to look at the moon by way of her own eyes. A slight but mutual bond between the girl and Ben Huyler was that of literary tendencies on both sides. "I used to edit our fraternity paper," Huyler had confided to Anne when she had Bhyly told him of her stories. "You must get heaps of material down here for your writing," he suggested. Y" .••"• %your choice," sang Anne. "There! I have it. I can get a license to stand out there on the board walk with Daddy's telescope and offer to passersby a look at the moon or stars!" Anne smiled. She had solved her problem of work, and she would not be com pelled to forfeit her days. She was elated over the scheme, and she knew that much material might be gained while she stood beside the telescope on the crowded board walk. Besides, there was the ever constant song of the ocean as the waves rolled in over the white sand. Anne had no friends In Asbury Park, so there was not a chance of recognition. "I wouldn't mind anyway!" she told herself, with a toss of her inde pendent little head. 1 .'.dVv.'iV'iV' "I try to make myself think that I am doing this for atmosphere, when in reality I have to stand here for money," Anne told him, with a whim sical smile. "But tonight—the gen tleman who left just as you came up has kindly offered to take charge of my business for me. He is an astron omer and would take the best care of my dear telescope. 1 think serious ly—" Hut Anne did not finish her sen tence. A low growl from Wolf seemed to express the wrath that had gath 'ered in Ben Huyler's eyes. 1 "I know I have no right to say so [—just yet!" he burst forth, "but I won't have anybody doing anything I for you. I am going to do it all my I self!" I Anne was far too astonished to do more than gasp. Wolf was suddenly quiet as if he enjoyed the turn of events. Huyler continued more gently. '"Don't you know that I have learned to love you—here by the waves and (the song of the sea! Some day I am going to tell you about it again." He drew near enough to Anne to discover that her breath was coming swiftly. Her eyes had hidden under moon tipped lashes and her slim hand had fluttered with a quick movement to the telescope. Its great glass eye seemed to be blinking happily and peacefully. The smile deepened around Anne's lips. "My telescope and Wolf are evi dently quite content," she confided to Huyler. "And you—Anne?" questioned the man. ""Are you content that I love you?" "Since you have editorial tendencies and I want to write stories—perhaps I am, she told him with a smile that made Ben Huyler feel a certain moon madness sweep over him. DAUGHERTY Q. K. FOR CO. ATTORNEY ELMER K. DAUGHERTY. The republican candidate for county attorney is Elmer K. Dougherty and he is well known throughout Wapello county having practiced law in the -lo cal courts for the past eight years^He has never held a public office and if elected will discharge the duties of his office faithfully and impartially to each and every one. His ability as a lawyer is well known and can be testified to by many professional and business men throughout the city and county. In voting for Mr. Daugherty the voters are putting a man into office who will fill the place to the satisfaction of everyone. STODGHILL SHOULD SUCCEED HIMSELF SU'&vt J. R. STODGHILL. The candidate for member of the board of supervisors for 1915 on the republican ticket, is the present repub lican board member whose term ex pires January 1, 1915. His record while in office has demonstrated his peculiar ifltness for the position. Aside from ffls official record, he has qualities that go to make a good supervisor. Mr. I Stodghill is a successful farmer resid I ing in Columbia township and a native of the state and county. His whole life has been spent in Wapello county and he knows it like a book. His practical I business sense and judgment is one of the strongest assets for a competent member of the county's governing board. LITTLE CRESTON BOY LOSES RIGHT FOOT Creston, Oct. 27.—Little Roland —oHs'vre.Hln^-Voys. Kwit likely, sed ma. Enything is likely in this age of fly-, ing masheens and self starting di vorces, sed pop, wen I was a boy my wun ambishin was to move multitoods I by playing the floot, but ewry time I brawt a penny floot into the house my farthir took it away from me, bekause he sed I mite swallo it. and now the result is I don't no a sonata frum a metzo soprano, and I made up my mind that if eny boy of mine evvir showed eny musikil abillity I wood nevvir dis kurridgc him. Just Then the Littla Glass Bottle Fell Out of Hand. JJack'swas —and the Worst Is Yet to Come Pop was smoaking and reedyig and ma was sewing in the setting room to day, and I wawked in playing a mouth orgin as if I thawt I was a hole brass band. Say, do you realize thare are peepil in heer, sed ma. Meening her and pop and I sed, I bet you dont no wat I was playing, ma. It was bad enuff to half to lissen to it without noing the naim of it, sed ma. Wat kind of a way is that of inkur ridging the boys musikil ability, sed pop, dont you no Benny may have the making of anuthir Wagner or John Fillip Soost in him. Stull, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin S. Stull, who resides at 1301 East Howard street, was the victim of a terrible accident which has-resulted in his losing his right foot With a number of other boys he was playing on the turn-table of the Cres ton, Winterset & Des Moines railroad located in the extreme northeast part of the city, and only a short distance from the StuU home, when in some manner he caught his foot in the ma chinery with the result that the heel and ball of the foot were badly mash ed and lacerated. The boy was taken to his home and medical assistance summoned and every effort made to save the injured member, but at a late hour last night it was deemed best to amputate the foot, and the operation Little Benny's Note Book By LEE PAPE Just then the little glass bottle fell out of Jack's hand and fell with a crash upon the brick hearth. "There," said daddy, "that little bottle's future is not difficolt to tell. It will soon find a resting place in the garbage can." "But what will become of the pieces after they are taken away?" asked Evelyn. "They wi)l go to a reduction plant along with other refuse and come away from there perhaps as a fertilizer. "You put the fertilizer on your garden, and perhaps the particles of that same little glass bottle may help to nourish a beautiful flower." "Well," said Evelyn, "that all sounds like a fairy tale." 4 is OTTUMWA COURIER, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1914 -*r. Well if you think wat he was doing with that mouth orgin was a sine of musikil ability, by awl meens inkurr idge him, sed ma. I will, sed pop, Benny, play that toon ovir agen and lets see if I can gess wat its sipposed to be. Wich I did, making moar noize than toon, may saying, For hevvins sakes listen to wat the man calls musikil ability. That was verry good, Benny, sed pop, it showed spirit and lung capacity but I cant say that I exackly reckerniz ed it. It was proberly the late werk of wun of the noo composers, and, by the way, ware did ygu get hold of the mouth orgin. I found it out in the middil of the street, I sed, it looks as if its bin used,, a lot, but aftir I washed the dert out of it it sowndid awl ri^e. Yee gods and littel microbes, give me that, sed pop, tvat do you meen by sucking yure sistem full of a billion gertns that 111 have to pay sum dock tor a dollir apeece to dig out of you. And he took the mouth orgin away frum me, and I havent bin doing eny thing for my musikil ability sints. Daddy's Bedtime oM-.iA Story ACK whistling into a bottle as he and Evelyn ran to daddy. "Want to hear the story of the little glass bottle?" asked daddy. "Can you tell a story about a bottle, daddy?" inquired Evelyn, sur prise in her round blue eyes. "Why. yes!" replied daddy. "Things so seemingly commonplace even as a bottle can bare charming romances woven about them. "Now, that little bottle that Jack has. What was in it. Jack, when you first saw it?" "Tablets, daddy. I had to take them when I had tonsilitis," explained Jack. "Well, don't you think that little bottle most have been in a great many different places before it got into onr medicine chest in the upper hall?" "Yes, I s'pose so," said Jack, "but I never thought about it" "We got it from Dr. Richards, and it came to the doctor done up in a bos with heaps of other bottles of the same size, and they were wrapped up so carefully in cotton so they wouldn't get their little sides cracked. "They were sent from the bottle factory, possibly from MHlviUe, N. J. There is a big glass faetory there, and very likely this little glass bottle was blown there." "Blown there," inquired Jack, "by the wind, do yon mean?" "Well, yes you might call it 'by the wind,'" said daddy, "but it really la blown by a man with a blow pipe or by a machine into forms made just the right size. "Bat before you can blow a bottle you have to have material with which to blow. This is a thick fluid made by mixing bicarbonate of soda—the sort mamma uses in the kitchen—with pore sand, lime and another material, re fined nitrate of soda. The Life Story Of the Little Glass Bottle. was at once performed. A report from the home is to the effect that the child is getting along as well as could be expected. CHARITON BOY HIT BY AUTO N Chariton, Oct. 27.—Byrl, little son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Malone, was struck by an automobile driven by Will Wright yesterday afternoon. The boy was thrown to the ground and un der the car, and fortunately escaped injury except bad bruises. Mr. Wright was driving the car slowly. The lad did not see it approaching and ran in front of it. DR. HANSELL EYE, EAR, NOSE THROAT SPECIALIST Glasses Ftted and Furnlshsd Office Over Wool worth Five and Tm Cent Star* When In Ottumwa EAT at The Iowa Cafe •MM! Five Doors West of the Courier. KNOX QUALIFIED TO BE SUPERVISOR *4 J. F. KNOX. In the candidate for supervisor for the tern? beginning January 1, 1916, the republicans have chosen a man thai should prove in every way a cap able and efficient official. J. F. Knox Is a life long republican and a farmer who has successfully managed his own property and should be likewise call able of doing the same for county property if elected to board of super visors. Voters when considering the men for this most important place, should discriminate between popular ity and fitness for the place and if they do so, J. F. Knox will be one of the members selected for he combines both these qualities. He resides five miles west of Ottumwa and is well known among the farmers of the coun ty and in his own vicinity particularly. MRS. CROSBY DIES AT AGE OF 93 Chariton, Oct. 27.—Mrs. Ellen Cros by, widow of James Crosby, and who resided here several years ago, died at her home in Marshalltown on Thursday, Oct. 22, 1914, at the advanc ed age of 93 years, six months and eleven days. She had been in usual health until a few hours before her death. Requiem high mass was held at St. Mary's Catholic church inCMar shalltown on Saturday, and the re mains were brought to Chariton on Sunday afternoon and interred in Cal vary cemetery. Requiem mass was held at the church here in the fore noon. The remains were to have reached here at that time, but train connections were missed at Albia, and the body was brought here on a special train, arriving here about 1:30 p. ni. Among those who accompanied the remains to this place were her children, Attorney Jas. Crosby and wife and four children of Cedar Rap ids, John Crosby, wife and flive chil dren, of Marshalltown, Mrs. Jas. Lane and son and grandson of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Trainer of Marshall town. The deceased is well remem bered here. Your Overcoat \'w. "*v& wA/}- —should suit you, who must wear it, and this was never so easy asx this season. There are so many good models—the long, the short and the medium the belt back and the plain back. The body-fitting, the box back, and the loose "drapey" Baimacaan Smooth Kerseys and Meltons, Rough, warm Chinchillas and Freizes, Scotch Tweeds and Home-spuns You'll find on our racks exactly the model you'll like Splendidly tailored to insure perma nent satisfaction. $10.00,12.50,15.00 and $20.00 Your money back if you want it. We sell Ladies' Phoenix Silk Hose Ladies' Ever* wear lisle Hose. V. Dysart & Pearson ADVERTISEMENT To the Voters of Wapello Comity, Iowa Remember 'The Spirit of 76." "No Taxation Without Representation." Here is Senator Webber's record as to all bills introduced by Him at the last session of the legis lature: .. Senate file 101—Banking—To regulate private. 112—Banking—Authorizing Trust Companies to act as trusteed, etc. 264—Banking—Statements by and examination of Savings Banks. 401—Bankirfg—To punish false statements to in obtaining credit. 402—Banking—Limiting liabilities to State and Savings Banks. 403—Banking—Relative to payments of deposits in trust.. 404—Banking—To punish making of derogatory staternnn'e "rfpcHng banks. 185—State epileptic colony—Bill to establish. .238—Cities—Amending classification of 255—Cities—As to levies for general fund of. 290—Workman's compensation act. 515—Bulk sales law. •y 1 316—"Wapello county poor farm—Legalizing purchase or nd for. 405—Insurance Companies—Amending law as to si ate tax on. 408—Railroad commission—Expenses of. 462—Jury commission bill. The only one that passed was the one legalizing purchase of land for Wapello county poor farm. He was "absent or not voting" on roll call on more than 120 important bills. He was a member of the Senate Appropriation Committee that reported out the $2,000,000.00 capitol extension bill, filed no minority report against it, and was "absent or not voting" on its passage. This constituted "taxation without representation" so far as the voters of Wapello county are concerned. Where was he when this bill was passed? During the four years he has been Senator, Wapello county taxes have increased from $452,800 to $632,590, or some 39 per cent taxes on Wapello county farm lands during such period having in creased some 80 per cent. He went in on a propa ganda of tax reform, yet voted against a retrench ment committee to work economies, and was "absent not voting" on bill for establishment of a tax com mission to revise the tax laws. His vote to raise his own salary from $550 to $1,000 may explain why he was not in favor of economy. With such a record I can well appreciate why the senator seeks to lead the discussion into any other subject than that of the issues of the campaign, and would now assume a position inconsistent with his record of "absent or not voting" in the Public Utility bill. —. CHESTER W. WHITMORE, Republican Candidate for State Senator. READ THE COURIER WANT ADS FOR PROFIt USE THEM FOR RESULTS I :S.f 1 5 ..-1 "V