Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1913 — Page 4

THE MAN BEHIND THE PLOW Five years ago a farmer opened a Bank account with S2OO. He now has in Bank over $1,000., and in the meantime he withdrew enough to pay fora good horse to take the place of one that died. If you should lose a horse, have you the money to replace it? You can open an Account here for sl. You can c’o it in person or by mail. Back of your money here are our Resources of $876,126.33. May we hayeyou as a depositor? FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana.

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EAST BUFFALO. East Buffalo, N. y., Jan. 20 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Receipts, 9,609; shipments, 5,30 today; receipts,; 6,400; shipments, 950 yesterday; ofH-; cial tp New York Saturday, 5,320; ' hosLs closing strong. Heavy, $7.90; Yorkers,, mediums, ! light Yorkers and pigs, $00; roughs, [email protected]; stags, [email protected]; I sheep, 14,400; market higher; choice; lambs, [email protected]; yearlings, $7.50@ ’ $8.50; wethers, $6.25 —$6.50; ewes, $5.50®55.75; sheep, $f>[email protected]; | cattle, 4,375; market generally quar- j ter lower; choice heavy steers, $8 50 | ® $9.00; plain heavy steers, $7.50?? $7.75; yearling steers, $7.50® $8.75; handy butchers steers, [email protected]; tat cows, [email protected]; heifers, $5.50(9 I $8.25. New ear corn 60c' No. 2 Red wheat $1.07 ' No. 2 White wheat 99c Oats 29c Sample staine,» oats 26c Rye 55c Barley 40c@5Oc p Feeding barley 45c Alsike seed $10.75 I No. 1 timothy hay $ll.OO [ No. 1 mixed SIO.OO No. 1 clover slo.oo' Rye straw $6.50 | Oats straw $6.60 Whteat straw $6.00 ; Clover see d $9,50 7 Ttmotbv seed $125

Given Away Free For 10 days only ending Jan 31 t one 25c whip to each part • for every set * of team harness oiled Harness Oiled at Following prices Single buggy harness $ .90 ‘ Express “ 1.25 Double surrey “ 1.25 Team hip strap “ 1.50 “ breeching “ 2.00, (.HAS. F. STIELE N. Second St. FOR RENT—Four unfurnished rooms at 116 So. First street, with all Improvements, water and lights. Enquire of Wb. G. Kist at Democrat office, or at house. ’ lltf •s-—-—- ■—— * « u Start tlie * ? New Year Right L Get all your bills Into one. □ fc We .will loan you the necessary k money on your household goods, u| i piano, fixtures, teams, etc., etc., q without removal. Wo give you a writ’n state- I meat of your contract. .|b-o al ■ low extra time without ciia'4o I, ta caso ot efclUMa or icus of ■ uoi k. 84c Is tie weekly payment 0:1 a |:!SQO loan for fifty weeks ljir:--cr or smaller amounts r.t gam« proportion U you need money fill out end mall us this blank and our Agent will call '■n you. Name • • • • Address Amount wanted E ' Our agent is in Decatur ev I «ry Tuesday. I '■ Reliable Private I 1 fl- <•'!! Ct’*” ) I Establlslrud 18H. Room 2. See- I ond Floor, 7U« Calhoun Street I Home ’Phone, 832. I • I , . ■ <* I

COAL PRICES. [Stove and Egg, hard $8.75 ’ Chestnut, hard $9.0) i Pea, Hard -. $7 5) 1 Poca., Egg and Lump $5.50 l w - Ash V. Splint |4 r>o • H Valle y $4.25 ,{ Lion Cannel! s G .oo I L Hill ,5. 00 Kentucky $4.50 Lurig ,450 KALViiR MARKETS. ’ Reef hides Calf v 12c : Tallow rr. Sheep pelts 25c@$I.bO M uskrats 5 C @ 45 c Skl «ik [email protected] I [email protected] [Possum 10c@70c nun. aiwRAMP'a Eggs 20c Butter 20c© 25c lard « CO Eggs o)c Butter 18c®25< Spring chicks y c Ducks i Fowls : Geese E ?BS 27c ' Butter l;*c Turkeys Old roosters kc

- hwe the ELECTRIC ( LEANER FUR SALE OR RENT G ill Phone 248 and we will bring one to you. All kinds of e'ectric work ! done also. EDW. E. PARENT Or- C. V. Conneii j VETEtUNARIAN PL V- Office 143 IT IIU’ ’■- Residence JO2 < ■it W* j I j ,JWMBT-* .* JO N SPUiIIER Li . e Slock and General " Auctioneer Everything oMd by him brings the highest possib e price Y«*arsoiexpI inence have I taught I him how. See him at once r for dates as his calandI er is fast filling up. j PHONE I Residence 531 I Decatur, - - - Indiana

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CHAPTER I. “I'm N. G. —that’s a cinch? Th« sooner I chuck it the better!” Caught in the swirl of the busj city's midday rush, engulfed lu Broad way's swift moving Hood 01 hustling humanity, jostled unceremonious!) by the careless, indifferent crowds discouraged from stemming further the tide of pushing, elbowing men and women who hurried up and down the great thoroughfare. Howard Jeffries tired and hungry and thoroughly dis gusted with himself, stood still at the corner of Fulton street, cursing the luck which had brought him to hit present plight. It was the noon hour, the important time of day when nature loudly claims her due, when business affairs, nr matter how pressing, must be tem porarlly interrupted so that the hu man machine may lay in a fresh store of nervous energy. From under the portals of precipitous office buildings mammoth hives of human industries which to right and left soared dizzily from street to sky, swarmed thou sands of employes of both sexes—clerks, stenographers, shop girls, mes ■enger boys—all moved by a common Impulse to satisfy without further de lay the animal cravings of their phys leal natures. They strode along with quick, nervous step, each chatting and laughing with his fellow, interested for the nonce in the day's work, ma king plans for well-earned recreation when five’o'clock should come and the uptown stampede for Harlem and home begin. The young man sullenly watched the scene, envious of the energy and activity of all about him. Each ons in these hurrying throngs, he thought bitterly to himself, was a valuable unit in the prosperity and welfare ot the big town. No matter how humble his or her position, each played a part in the business life of the great city, each was an unseen, unknown yet Indispensable cog in the whirling, complicated mechanism of the vast world metropolis. Intuitively he felt that he was not one of them, that he had no right even to consider himseli their equal. He was utterly useless to anybody. He was without position or money. He was destitute even of a shred of self-respect. Hadn't he promised Annie not to touch liquor again before he fouud a job? Yet he had already imbibed all the whisky which the little money left in hie pocket would buy. Involuntarily, Instinctively, h« shrank back into the shadow of a doorway to let the crowds pass. The pavements were now filled to over flowing and each moment newcomers from the side streets came to swell the human stream. He tried to avoid observation, fearing that some one might lecog-nize him, thinking all could read on his face that he was a sot, a self-confessed failure, one of life’s incompetents. In his painful self-consciousness he believed himself the cynosure of every eye and be winced as he thought he detected on certain faces side glances of curiosity, commiseration and contempt. Nor was he altogether mistaken. More than one passer-by turned to look In his direction, attracted by his peculiar appearance. His was a type not seen every day In the commercial district —the post-graduate college man out at elbows He was smooth faced and apparently about 25 years of age. His complexion was fair and his face refined. It would have been handsome but for a drooping. Irresolute mouth, which denoted more than average weakness of character. The face was thin, chalk-like In Its lack of color and deeply seamed with the tell-tale lines of dissipation. Dark circles under his eyes and a peculiar watery look suggested late hours and overfondness for alcoholic refreshment. His clothes had the cut of expensive tailors, but 'tbhy were shabby and needed pressing His linen was soiled and his necktie disarranged. His whole appearance was careless and suggested that recklessness of mind which comes of general demoralisation. Howard Jeffries know that he was a failure, yet like most young men mentally weak, he Insisted that he could not be held altogether to blame. Secretly, too. he despised these sober, Industrious people who seemed contented with the crumbs ot comfort thrown to them. What, he wondered idly, was their secret of getting on? How were they able to lead such well regulated lives when he, starting out with far greater advantages, had faibd? Oh, he know well where the trouble lay—ln hla damnable weakness of character, his love for drink. That was responsible tor everything. But was It his fault If he were born weak? These people who behaved themselves and got on, ho sneered, were calm, commonplace temperaments who found Uo difficulty In controllng their baser Instincts. They did right simply because they found h easier than to do wrong. Their vfr tue was nothing to brag about It was easy to be good when not exposed to temptation But for those born with the devil In them It came bard, it was all.a matter of heredity

and influence. One’s vices as well nr ene's virtues are handed down to us , ready made. He had no doubt that in the Jeffries family somewhere in the nnsavory past there had been a weak, vicious ancestor from whom he had Inherit* d all the traits which barred Iris way to success. The crow/is of hungry workers grew bigger every minute. Every one was elbowing his way into neighboring restaurants, crowding the tables and buffets, all eating voraciously as they talk* J .vl laughed. Howard was rudely reminded by inward pangs that be. too. was famished. Not a thing had passed his lips since he had left home in Harlem at eight o’clock that morning and he had told Annie that he would be home for lunch. There was no use staying downtown any longer. For three weary hours he had trudged from office to office seeking employment, answering ( advertisements, asking for work of any kind, ready to do no matter what, but all to no purpose. Nobody wanted him at any price. What was the good of a man being willing to work if there was no one to employ him? A nice look-out certainly. Hardly a dollai left and no prospect of getting any He hardly had the courage to return home and face Aflnie. With a muttered exclamation of impatience he spat from his mouth the half-con sumed cigarette which was hanging from his lip, and crossing Broadway, walked listlessly in the direction of Park place. He had certainly made a mess of things, yet at one time, not so long ago. what a brilliant future life seemed to have in store for him! No boy had ever been given a better start. He remembered the day he left home to go to Yale; he recalled his father's k’nd words of encouragement. his mother’s tears. Ah, it his mother bad only lived! Then, maybe, everything would have been different. But she died during bis freshman year, carried off suddenly by heart failure. His father married again, a young woman 30 irs hie junior, and that had started everything off wrong. The old home life had gone forever. He had felt like ' an intruder the first time he went home and from that day his father's roof had b< en distasteful to him. Yes, that was the beginning of his hard luck He could trace all his misfortunes back to that. He cduldn’t stand for stepmother, a haughty, selffish, supercilious, ambitious creature who had little sympathy for her predecessor's child, and no scruple in show lag IL Then, at college, he had met Robert Underwood, the populai>upper class man. who had professed to take a 1 great fancy to him. He. a timid young , freshman, was naturally flattered by , the friendship of the dashing, fascinat- { fng sophomore and thus commenced | that unfortunate intimacy which had , brought about the climax to his trou- I bles. The suave, amiable Underwood, ' whom he soon discovered to be a gen- j tlemanly scoundrel, borrowed his 1 money and introduced him into the I "sporty" set, an exclusive circle into | which, thanks to bls liberal allowance ' from home, he was welcomed with ; open arms. With a youth of his proclivities and inherent weakness the outcome was Inevitable. At no time overfond of study, he regarded rest dence in college as a most desirable emancipation from the restraint of

W\ ftT' •u Wj M / j 0 m| I T/“i A fi! pv I Adi He Was a Type Not Been Every Day In the Commercial District. home life. The love ot books he considered a pose and he scoffed at the men who took their reading seriously. The university attracted him mostly by Its most undesirable features, its sports, Its secret societies, its petty cliques, and Its rowdyism. The broud spirit and the dignity of the alma mater he Ignored completely. Directly he went to Yale he started in to enjoy himself and with the sophisticated Underwood as guide, went to the devil fai ter than any man before him In the entire history of the university. Reading, attendance at lectures, became only a convenient cloak to conceal his turpitude*. Poker playing, automobile Joy rides, hand drinking became the daily curriculum. In town rows and orgies of every description ho was soon a recognised leader.

Scandal followed scandal until he was threatened with expulsion. Then hla father beard of it and there was a terrible scene. Jeffries, Sr, went Immediately to New Haven and there followed, a stormy interview in which Howard promised to reform, but once the parent's back was turned things went on pretty much as before. There were fresh scandals, the smoke of which reached as far as New York. This time Mr. Jeffries tried the plan of cutting down the money supply and Howard found himself financially embwassed. But this had not quite the effect desired by the father, for, rendered desperate by his inability to secure funds with which tn carry on bis sprees, the young man started In to gamble heavily, giving notes for 1 is losses hnd pocketing the ready 1 ( -ey when he won. 1 h n enme the supreme scandal which turned his father's heart to steel. Jeffries. Sr., could forgive much in a young man. He had been young himself once. None knew better than he how difficult it is when the blood is rich and red to keyp oneself in control. But there was one offence which a man proud of his descent could not condone He would never forgive the staining of the family name by a degrading marriage. The news came to the unhappy father like a thunder-clap. Howard, probably in a drunken spree, had married secretly a waitress employed in one of the “sporty” restaurants in New Haven, and to make the mesalliance worse, the girl w*as not even of respectable parents. Her father, Billy Delmore, the poolroom king, was a notorious gambler and had died in convict stripes. Fine sensation that for the yellow press. "Banker’s Son Weds Convict's Daughter.” So ran the "scare heads” in the newspapers. That was the last straw for Mr. Jeffries. Sr. He sternly told his son that he never wanted to look upon his face again. Howard bowed his bead to the decree and he had never seen hla ' father since. All this the young man was review- j ing in his mind when suddenly his reflections were disturbed by a friendly hail.

"Hello, Jeffries, old sport! Don't you know a fellow frat when you see him?" He looked up A young man of athletic build, with a pleasant, frank face, was standing at the news stand under the Park place elevated station. Quickly Howard extended his hand. “F Dio, Coxe!” he exclaimed. “What on earth are you doing in New York? Whoever would have expected to meet you tn this bowling wilderness? How s everything at Yale?" The athlete grinned. "Yale be hanged! I don’t care a d —. You know I graduated last June. I I’m in business now—in a broker's of- | flee in Wall street. Say. it’s great? We bad a semi-panic last week. Prices went to the devil. Stocks broke 20 points. You should have seen the excitement on the exchange fcor. Our football rushes were nothing to it I tell you. it's great. It’s got college beaten to a fraxzle!” Quickly he added: "What are you doing?” Howard averted his eyes and hung his head. "Nothing," he answered gloomily. Coxe had quickly taken note of fils former classmate’s shabby appearance. He had also heard of his escapades. "Didn’t you hear?" muttered Howard. "Row with governor, marriage and al! that sort of thing? Os course," he went on, “father’s damnably unjust, actuated by absurd prejudice. Annie's a good girl and a good wife, no matter what her father was. D—n it. this is a free country! A man can marry whom he likes. All these Ideas about family pride and family honor are old world notions, foreign to this soil. ‘l’m not going to give up Annie to please any one. I'm as fond of her now as ever. 1 haven't regretted a moment that I I married her. Os course, ft has been I hard. Father at once shut down I money supplies, making my further : stay at Yale impossible, and I was I forced to come to New York to seek employment We’ve managed to fix up a small flat tn Harlem and now, like Micawber, I’m waiting for something to turn up." Coxe nodded sympathetically. “Come and have a drink," he said cheerily. Howard hesitated. Once more ho , remembered hts promise to Annie, but < as long as he had broken It once be I would get no credit for refusing now. Ho was horribly thirsty hud do- ' pressed. Another drink would cheer , him up. It seemed even wicked to decline when It wouldn't cost him anything j They entered a bar conveniently close at hand, and with a tremulous hand Howard carried greedily to his lips the Insidious liquor which had undermined his health and stolen away his manhood. | “Have another?" said Coxe with a smile as he saw the glass emptied at a gulp. "I don’t care if I do," replied Howard Secretly ashamed of his weakness. he shuffled uneasily on bls feet. •Well, what are you going to old man?" demanded Coxe as be pushed the whisky bottle over. I “I’m looking for a Job," stammered Howard awkwardly. Hastily he went ofi: It isn’t so easy. If ft was only mye«lf j wouldn't mind. I’d got along somehow. But there’s the little girl She wants to go to work, and I won’t bear of It. I couldn’t stand tor that, you know." Coxe feared a "touch - Awkwardly be said: "1 wish 1 could help you. old man. As It Is. my own salary barely serves to keep me in neckwear. Wall street's great fun, but R doesn't pay much: (To be

pAY us a visit when I you are i i the mar--11 ket for a pair of shoes. 5We will promise thatg 2 your time slu .11 be well S s spent. Good f hoes at the S 19 right prices. I fi ; PEOPLES & GERKE | - ■- '■ ■ ll • • • n ’ ■ - IL

I BIG EMBROiBEKY SALeI | FRIDAY ANB SATURDAY | | January 17th. and 18th. I I We have just received a lot of em-1 H broidery, the best we have ever I m shown at our sale, all widths also | |27to 45 inches, for confirmation ■ Sdres es. Do not fail to attend | this sale. Lfullenkamps I

, . .■ . . . • .. . ~ , ■„< Among The Stars m the liquor world our whiskey stands out brilliantly -vk frem ordinary brands, ft Ido s better,‘smells better, ** taste betterand is better. To /Z/7,, x* jy? i try a bottle is to stamp one’s 7/f (/ # s’ gvod judgement of what is a / / \ i " good wholesome stimulant as ' / well as the finest kind of beverage. *' Berghoff Beer by the case. Corner of Second and st *_ I Madison strp*» f r To ’Toledo AND RETURN VIA CLOVER LEAF ROUTE Sunday January 19, 1913 See Agent for Particulars TO AND FROMST.LOUIS VIA “CLOVER LEAF ROUTE" F»P Ur rP° mnit ‘ r fial Travelers” are splendidly equipped crams. Electric Lights, Observation Drawing room >le»P* .Vi i l c hair cars (seats free.) Modem coaches.ull throughout. First class case service-meals aja ,*iPf ices Reasonable. Train 5 leaves Decatur at ar L r ' v ! n 8 St. Louis at 8:45 next morning in am* ’ q or f° r connecting trains. H.J. Thompson Agent for Tickets and Information The lolalJo St. Louis & Western B- R* •'CLOVER LEAF ROUTE”

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