Part 2. MAGAZINE SECTION. he & nire democrat, BELLEFONTE, PA. THURSDAY JUNE 28, 1906. Farm Notes, Chorce Fiction, Current Topics. CLEVER LADY NAVIGATOR. MRS. ROSE WATKINS GRANT ED PILOT'S LICENSE ON ILLINOIS RIVER. A Model Housekeeper and Expert Cook—Assists jo Painting Engines of Steamer—Husband is Engineer of Boat of Which she is Pilot. In the early spring of this year when the Steamboat Inspectors began their examinations at Chicago of tue various applicants for license to handle steamers on the Illinois River, they were somewhat startled over the ap- pearance of Mrs. Rose E. Watkins in the class, and only after a most thor- ough test as to her ability to handle a steamer was she issued a license. Mrs. Watkins is the wife of Cap- taln George T. Watkins and they own the boat with which they navigate the waters of the Illinois. For the last eight years Mrs. Watkins has made her home on her husband's boats. Their home was originally at Peoria, where Mrs. Watkins spent her girl hood days and before her marriage to Captain Watkins had taught school, EXPERT IN RIVER NAVIGATION. For the last four years they have put in the summer conducting an ex- cursion business between Chicago and the scenic points down the Illinois River, including Starved Rock and the ravines and canyons surrounding It. Mrs. Watkins has been for years an expert in navigating these waters, but not until this spring did she formally apply for a pilot's While classed as a navigable stream, it has generally been regarded that the navi gation of the Illinois ended at La Salle, but in spite of this, the Watkins and one or two smaller craft have been regularly plying the upper reaches of the river. Last winter the steamboat men were notified that the boats on this section would have to comply with all the government regulations to carry regularly licensed pilots and engineers. A few weeks later Inspectors Mans- field and Peck came to Ottawa to In- spect the Watkins. Since Mrs. Wat- kins has secured her pilot's license license there have been all sorts of stories In | circulation as to that inspection. One romance reads that the Inspectors found her seated at a table in the and its tributaries. Mrs Watkins is a modest and refined woman who Is not given to boasting of her exploits along lines Into which women seldom ven ture. But she takes a pardonable de- gree of pride In the fact that she is not an amateur pilot but is the real thing in that line. DISPLAYS UNCOMMON ABILITY. When the excursion season closes the Watkins not. infrequently seek other business in the .ate fall and early spring on the lower reaches of the river and it is while engaged In this work that Mrs. Watkins has the opportunity to display her real ability as a navigator, She has brought the boat up the river in all conditions of wind and current and that, too, when it was nandling a great barge piled high with props for the Spring Valley mines or with great walnut logs for a plano factory at Chicago. As to her ability to handle a crew of deck hands there is a determined glint in her eye which indicates that ghe can do that also, and she can cook a RE ke I 25.8 SAE SA ST SU —— iit aden EE ed EE SE IN AT BASEBALL GAME BY OFFICIAL OF HOUSE. President's Son-in-Law Among Those Corraled by Sergeant-at Arms. Trouble Caused by Minority Leader Wiliams. That the Members of Congress are fond of a ball game was evidenced a few days ago when a call of the House—a desire to obtain a quorum of the members—caused the Sergeant. at-Arms of that body to send out his deputies to arrest whatever members his squad could corral. Twenty-two Congressmen were gathered up from the grandstand and bleachers of the Washington Baseball Club, Mr. Nich- olas Longworth and his wife being brought in from the President's box. It was a delightful spring afternoon and the House was droning along for them as well as she can direct | through its business, with John Sharp SE WA TR Sa thelr labors on board. Ing mannish or strenuous or new woin- { anish about this lady master of the | steamer Watkins—she housekeeper and is a model is household guard. | fan angel for all the crew who dwell plain | upon the boat This is the story of a good woman, refined, pleasant and energetic, who does the work that comes to her thoroughly and who is surprised that her ability to THE STEAMER There is noth- | WATKINS. Williams filibustering and forcing roll calls on everything possible, including the question of a - quorum wenther, as heretofore stated, was fine, and the “call of the ball game” was strong upon the fans of the House. They heeded it and went, and then Mr. Williams became unkind, there was a call for a quorum, and the Sergeant-at-Arms went after the de liquents, The | the attempt, absolutely from all other of the time- eternal ice of the Arctic zone, as he has already made one attempt From Spitzbergen, Wellman, gether with Maj. Henry B. representing the United Weather Bureau, and M, J, wireless operator, will Hersey, Smith, start in th a G600-mile journey 80 many men's toward the desires, If goul the alr to the analysis of them made by the Nansen expedition, the thing is done, The North Pole is a terribly Hlusive sort of nonentity, and a thousand un-! foreseen calamities may be ready to pounce upon Walter Wellman and his plucky associates. Yet the quest not an absolutely forlorn hope. To the American newspaper man may yet be glven the honor of loeating the North Pole, just as to a British newspaper man was given the glory of cut. | Africa in twain. se aI —————— is The Princess’ Bridal Dress. Princess Ena's wedding dress at- tracted great interest in Spain, as It Is truly a Spanish product, In fabric and finish, except for the wonderful drussels lace, which was brought to adorn It. It was a fancy of the King and of the Queen-mother that the wedding dress should be made In Spain, and the Princess Ena graciously fell in with this patriotic sentiment. The dress Is, ther. fore, one of the special presents from the King and is an marvel of elegance, The silk was manufactured from a al pattern in of the large silk establishments It was de up with all the artistic skid of the court dressmake The silk is heavily overlaid with wonderful silver embroidery, with soft frills of the inest Brussels lace, sald to have cost £0 a yard. The laces were publicly | exhibited before being put on the | dress, and excited the admiration and | astonishment of even the aristocratic | of Madrid Orange blossoms | profusely used with the silver | one nish rs Indies were } The scheme cuts adrift | States | el biggest airship ever constructed on the | of | ship works and the winds remain true | | shout honored methods of traveling over the Ar, | Wellman 18 no novice in arctie travel, | for the Pole, in the old fashioned way. | Lo- | Synopsis of Preceving Cnaprers. The scenes of the story are laid in (he 1th century The monks Monwtery Abbey of Deaulien, assemble the known as Hordie Joba grave charges brought again hin Le and st the same Ume |f is de forth and seourged from the threatens to assault a nun of the Cistercian withens trial of a lay brother Upon BUMercus He pleads gulity 1 from She reed that he be dragged Abbey's precinets, He of the brethren, and ther of the lay brethren of the r Alleyne Edrioson takes his departure fro nastery tn accord of hie father's w and i= sentenced to expmlic Order ber Shortly after an niamtery the in the excitement emospws il, that in his i for ng n his of Minstead Night ance with provision twentieth year he shall go forth into the worl one year to choose for himself his future call In sadness he wanders from the monastery way 10 viet his brother, the Booman whose reputation is a mof unsavory in a roadside inn ate coming on, he seeks sheller CHAPTER 111 Though it was an autumn evening and somewhat warm, a huge fire of heaped billets of wood crackled and sparkled in a broad, open grate, some of the smoke escaping up a rude chim- ney, but the greater part rolling oat into the room, so that the Lir was thick with it, and a man coming from without could scarce: catch his breath, On this fire a great caldron bubbled and simmered, giving forth a rich and promising ell. Seated round It were a dozen or Bo folk, of all ages and conditions, who set up such a Alleyne entered that he stood peering them through the smoke, uncertain what this greeting might portend. “A rouse! A BI as at rouse! eried one rough-looking fellow in a tattered jer kin. “One round of mead or ale. and the score to the last comer.” “*Pis the law of the Pled Merlin!” shouted another “Ho, there, Dame more embroideries and laces for the corsage, | Eliza! Here is fresh cistom come to | 1 esters, Joy 1 éM Doul Copyrighted 1894 By Harper & Brot lifted the big pot off the fire, and a third, with a huge pewter ladle, served out a portion of steaming col- lops to each guest. Alleyne bore his share and his aleemug away with him to a retired trestle In the corner, where he could sup in peace and watch the strange scene, which was so different from those silent and well-ordered meals to which he was accustomed Three or four of the men round the fire were evidently under-keepers and verderers from the forest, sunburned and bearded, with the quick restless eye and lithe movements of the deer among which they lived. Close to the corner of the chimney sat a middle- aged gleeman, clad in a faded garb of Norwich cloth, the tunic of which was 80 outgrown that it did but fasten at the neck and at the waist, His face was swollen and coarse, and his watery, protruding eyes spoke of a life which never wandered very far from the wine-pot. A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and two of its strings | missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the «ther he scooped greedily at his platter. Next to bim sat two other men of about the same age, one with of fur to his coat, which him a dignity which was dearer to him than his comfort, for he still drew n m in spite of the hot glare of the fagots. The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doub- let, had a cunni twinkling eyes and a peaky beard, Next to him sat Hordle John, and be- side him three other rough unkempt fellows with tangled beards and matted bhair—free laborers from the adjoining farms, where small patches of freehold property bad been suffered gave evidently handle a fair-sized fresh water craft | should have attracted the attention that it undoubtedly has. The officers rounded up stray mem ilo se poring ove chart look- | pilot house poring over a : bers from all parts of the grounds, I a a sty 3 atl and In the exccutive box found the such a beautiful romance, but these | popular bridegroom from Ohio, with are the hard, utilitarian facts In tha | Maleratate Commerce Commission, | 1% wife. They are both lovers of the case: The pilot house of the Watkins | game, as well as otherwise, and the is too small to hold a table and Mrs. | Watkins is much too busy to pore over a chart at this season of the year Then the only really dangerous “snag" | in the river at Starved Rock is the ad- | mission fee which the corporation that owns it charges before the sightseer MRE, ROSE Granted a Liceuse is permitted to set foot on the shore at that beautiful and historic spot, The plain facts in the case are that swhen the Insnectors made their offi ecianl visit to the boat Mrs, Watkins w engaged in painting the engines. Dur. ing the winter months the two Cap. tains Watkins were engaged In over. bauling and renovating thelr boat no small task when one remembers that the boat can carry 000 passengers on Its two decks, As a result of the examination which they recently underwent at Chleago, Captain George Watkins holds an engineer's and a master's license, while his wife holds a license ns master and pilot which entitles her to pilot any craft up to 100 tons bur. den upon fhe waters of the Illinois BE. WATKINS, An opinion at one time prevailed that the members of the interstate commerce commission had an easy time. A place on the board was char. acterized in the slang of the day as a “soft snap.” However this may once have been, It not true now The dispatches show that not only Is is to Pllot Steamers, | dawning the commission a very busy body, but that its activities are yielding much important Information. Its Inquiries into the methods of the railroads ine terested In conl, and into the practices o. the Standard Ol Company in ab sorbing or freezing out opposition, are in the highest degree valuable to the publie, and should lead to the redress. Ing of many abuses, If the board were composed of twenty members, all could find work at this time in the field which as yet has been but scratched, A In a pigeon shoot at Madrid, King Alfonso killed twenty-three birds out of a possible twenty-nine. There has humor of the situation was slow In on them. But they could not resist or argue with constituted authority. They gave parole to pro ceed at once to the Capitol. They had come in Mrs. Longworth's pretty anto mobile, and on the return trip they took with them Representative Gaines of West Virginia, Representative Sibley, of Pennsyl- vania, with a party of eight members, also went back to the Capitol in an automobile and on the way was held | up by a bicyele policeman for exceed. | ing the speed regulations, but when the situation was explained to the of ficer, they were allowed to proceed. | A few moments later the auto party was filing in at the door of the House, | The roll call was awaiting them. | They marched In, voted, turned on their heels and went straight back to the machine Before the authorities could get busy they were again speed. | ing toward the ball park HORSES WERE TOO SLOW, A number of the statesmen who were hustled back to the Capitol in carriages were not so fortunate as the Sibley party. They arrived so late that it wasn't worth while to return to the ball park. A number of the truants are dyed inthe-wool fans, some making regular but not dally excursions to the ball park, while others can afford to es chew the affairs of state every day to see a game. On the occasion of their arrest, a number had made their first visit to see the ball thrown around Before the House was called to order the next day the delinquents gathered about to hold a consultation meeting “It was too bad that we had to leave just when there was a chance for Washington to tie the score, with three men on bases,” walled Repre sentative Sherman, of New York, chairman of the Republican Congres sional campaign committee, “Oh, go on,” added Congressman McKinley, of Illinois, “our Chicago team Is too strong for the Nationals Their pitcher struck out the next two men up, leaving your three still hang- ing on their bases.” “Of course it %as up to that Call fornia recruit on the home team to make the star stunt of the day,” added Representative McKinley, who halls from Santa Rosa, Cal. Others In the gathering seemed to assall Representative Sibley for coax. Ing them to leave the House for a ball game, as they considered It a blackeye for them to be caught away from their post of duty. Among the few wnom the Sergeant. at-Arms had gathered In were Repre sentatives Loud, of Michigan; Cousins, of Town; Thomas, of Ohlo; Dunwell, of New York and Burleigh, of Maine, Representative Rodenburg, of Illinois, was out at the park, but seems to have been the sole truant who escaped the officer, and was permitted to see the game through. — Wellman and the Pole. As the time draws near for Walter Wellman, the newspaper correspond ent, to make his proposed “dash for the North Pole” by means of an air ship, the world at large'ls waking vp been some Improvement In Spanish marksmanship in recent years, to the vast daring and importance of “THERE WAS NOT and even In dainty clusters along the train, which is four yards long According to Spanish traditions, the | bride must afterward present this | wedding dress to the Virgin de Ia Paloma, the popular protectress of maternity. — “Naive'' Questions. Mra. Alexander, the novelist, lives in Florence, There a young American woman recently interviewed her, “Mrs. Alexander was delightful,” said the young woman. “She amused me very much. 1, too, amused her—she thought me naive, ’ “Once, when I asked her a certain question about the financial side of novel writing, she declared that my question was as naive as that of a little Florentine child's that she had heard about the day before “This child, at dinner with her par- ents, turned to her mother und sald: “ ‘Mamma, where were youn born? “*At Padua, darling.’ i” ‘But 1 was born in Florence, wasn't “Yes, dear.’ “*And father, where was he born? “ ‘In Venice. “The little girl looked gravely from one to the other, “Isn't it funny,’ she sald, ‘that we should all have met like this'"™ Her Innate Diplomacy. Patient to Pretty Nurse—""Will you be my wife when I recover? Pretty Nurse—"Certainly” Patient—"Then you love me? Ah, me!™ Pretty Nurse—"0h, no: that's mere- ly a part of the treatment. I must keep my patients cheerful; 1 promised this morning to run away with a mar- ried man who had lost both his legs.” | landlady A BATTLE BUT the company.” SIR house, and not a drain for the “I will take your orders, gentles; 1 will assuredly take your orders,” the answered, bustling in with her hands full of leathern drinking. caps. “What is it that you drink, then? Beer for the lads of the forest, mead for the gleeman, strong waters for the tinker, and wine for the rest It is an old custom of the house, young gir. "It has been the use at the Pied Merlin this many a year back that the | company should of the last comer. to humor it?" “Why, good dame.” sald Alleyne, “1 wonld not offend the customs of your house, but it is only sooth when I say that my purse is a thin one. As far as two pence will go, however, I sball be right glad to do my part.” “Plainly sald and bravely spoken my suckling friar,” roared a deep vole, and a heavy hand fell upon Alleyne's shoulder. Looking up, he saw beside him his former cloister fompanion, the renegade monk, Hordle obo. “Ry the thorn of Glastonbury! Ml days are coming upon Beaulieu” sald he. “Here they have got rid In one day of the only two men within thelr walls—for 1 have had mine eyes upon thee, youngster, and I know that for nll thy baby face there Is the making of a man In thee” drink to the health Is It your pleasure While he war speaking the landlady eame In again, bearing a broad platter, upon which stood all the beakers and flagons charged to the brim with the brown ale or the ruby wine. Rehind her came a mald with a high pile of wooden plates, and a great sheaf of spoons, one of which she handed round to each of the travellers, Two of the company, who were dressed In the weatherstalned green doublet of fore | heart of the royal demesne NIGEL WAS IN THE HEART OF IT. about In the The com- pany was completed by a peasant in a rude dress of undyed sheepskin, with the old-fashioned galligaskins about his legs, and a gayly dressed young man with striped cloak Jagged at the edges and parti-colored hosen, who looked about him with high dis. dain upon his face, and held a blue smelling flask to his nose with one hand while he brandished a busy spoon with the other. In the corner a very fat man was lying all asprawl upon a truss, snoring stertorously, and evidently In the last stage of drunken. Ness, Alleyne listened to the talk which went on round the fire, “Elbow room for Floyting Winm cried a woodman, “Twang us a merry Hie, “Aye, aye, the ‘Lasses of Lancase ter,’ ” one suggested, “Or ‘St. Simeon and the Devil'"™ “Or the ‘Jest of Hendy Toblas.'"™ To all those suggestions the jong leur made no response, but sat with his eye fixed ybsienctdly dpos the ceiling, as one who calls to his mind. Then, with a sudden sweep across the strings, he e out Into a song so gross and so foul that ere he had finished a verse the pure minded lad sprang to his feet with the blood tingling In his face, “low can you sing such things ™ he cried. “You, too, an old man who should be an example to others.” The wayfarers all gazed In the ut. most astonishment at the Interruption. “Ry the holy Dicon of Hampole! our silent clerk has found his tongue” sald one of the woodmen, “What Is amiss with the song, then? How has it offended your bahyship?™ “A milder and better-mannered song bath never been heard within these to remain scattered
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