River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-07-20

the emperor's esteem. You doubt me
"Lipgens' fingers spoke the doubt
that would not allow him to believe
any sort of proof of his friends asser-
tons, and they parted for the evening.
The usual Good evening, come again,
was not motioned. in the hall. The
breach had begun. 1t was only small
leak in the dixie of friendship, one that
could have been covered by the agile
hand of either Lipgens or Loew.
But Loew's hands were busy ex-
pressing his outraged feelings, while
Lipgens', if Loew's suspicious be cor
rect, were mischievously busying
themselves in spreading the SANDER
that jacques Loew's Austrian honors
and decorations were bogus.
"The rupture once made took the
erstwhile friends further and further
apart as time wore on, and the fingers
once raised and waggled in kindness
were now trembling spasmodically as
each of their owners dilated ON the
faults of the other.
The eliminating Point.
"The eliminating point was reached
last summer, when the Worlds Con-
gress of Deaf Mutes was held in st.
Louis.
"From Germany to attend the con-
ference came Herr Albin Maria Wat
zulik, distinguished mute, who occu-
pies the post of superintendent of the
government printery at Altenburg, in
Saxony; and Martin Czempin, repre-
senting the many deaf-mute organiza-
tions of Berlin. These were the Off
cial delegates of the German muteS,
but accompanying them, though I'M
burdened with credentials from his
silent countrymen, came mute OF tai
ent and renown through all the father
land, Rudolf Janik.
'Lipgens, who had achieved great
prominence through the formation OF
club bearing his name "a branch OF
the deaf-mute Masonic order known as
the League of Elect Surds), seized
upon the distinguished visitors from
Germany, and when they came to New
York gave them big banquet at the
Arena.
"But Loew also was at the head of an
organization and had invited the dele
gates to attend a reception given by
the Union League sof Deaf-Mutes on
the same night that the Elect Surds
held their banquet.
"The delegates went to the Surds'
dinner and in twinkling fingers told
of their joy and happiness. But they
did not go to the Loew society's recep-
ton, which was a gloomy affair as a
result.
"Yet they would have been there,
claimed Loew, had not the busy fin
gers Of Lipgens, writhing like snakes,
poisoned their minds against him.
Whereupon he was deeply Inundated,
perhaps the more because the greater
part of the expense of the leagues re-
ception had to be borne by him per-
sonally.
"It hurt him especially because
Wutzulik was an old friend of his
whom he had entertained during a
similar congress of deaf-mutes AZ the
Chicago worlds fair; and when Lip
gems accompanied Wutzulik to st.
Louis and back again to New York
and never let him go near Loew all
the time he was in the country Loew
writhed with anger.
Then he turned for consolation to
Janik, the unofficial delegate, who,
having found New York to his liking,
decided to follow his profession-por-
trait painting-here.
Idle Fingers Again.
"He became friendly with Loew, and,
Lipgens claims, was by him influenced
against Lipgens. At any rate, idle
fingers that had nothing better to do
than to gossip conveyed to Lipgens'
bullying eyes the news that Janik had
been talking about him. So when
Janik applied for admission to the
League of Elect Surds it was Lipgens
who blackballed him.
''The enraged Janik was seen by
Loew about this time, and was pre-
vailed on to apply for membership in
the Union League of Deaf Mutes,
which he did, being elected. Now a
tie bound Loew and Janik that moved
them in one direction-revenge on
Lipgens, and, if two heads are better
than one, four hands are able to talk
more than two.
''They talked and they planned, and
they decided that Lipgens had injured
them both to such an extent that he