Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 21 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 for a 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 $1 You can do it in person or by mail. Back of your money here are our Resources of $876,126.33. May we haye you as a depositor? FIRST NATIONAL BANK Decatur, Indiana. .X'-' -«*■» ■-awwmwiw ■■■»?.- ■rawr* ml r > eyvo i K: *■■■•• -witria SasKl fcaranßWv«*--.-aaisa* ksem--adl V L ’ LB o tMI IMILY MARKET RtPOkE 6 JJ - KOI ■ USES SlSt h/ Corrected Every Afternoon ILj[ES=3 E=3OE3OESIE=IEZ]

‘CAST BUFFALO. Etist Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 21—(Spec-' ial to Daily Democrat) —Receipts, 4,000; shipments, 1,520; official to New York yesterday, 5,320; hogs closing steady. Heavy, [email protected]; mixed and Yorkers, [email protected]; pigs and lights, [email protected]; roughs. $7.00—57.25: I stags, [email protected]; sheep. 4,000; ( quarter lower; lambs, steady; tops, $9.60; cattle, 375; slow. wij «. vCKk New ear corn 60c' No. 2 Red wheat $1.07 , No. 2 White wheat 99c Oats 29c Sample staine* oats 26c; Rye 55c I Parley 40c@50e i Feeding barley 45c Alsike seed $10.75 No. 1 timothy hay $ll.OO No. 1 mixed SIO.OO No. 1 clover SIO.OO Rye straw ! $6.50 Oats straw $6 00 Whteat straw $6.00 Clover seed $9.50 Timothy seed $1.25 COAL PRICES. Stove and Egg, hard $8.75 i Chestnut, hard $9.00 Pea, Hard $7.50 Poca., Egg and Lump $5.50 | W. Ash $4.50 V. Splint $4.50 I H. Valley $4.25 R. Lion $4.50

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Cannell $6.00 Hill 1.55.00 Kentucky $4.5') Lurig |4.50 KALVhR MARKETS. 1 Beef hides 10c Calf Tallow 5c 1 Sheep pelts 25c@$l.OS {Muskrats sc@4sc Skunk 25c @53.50 1 Coon [email protected] {Possum 10c@70c Mink [email protected] rULi.tNKAMF’g, !Eggs 20c Butter 20c@25c 1 f ard 8c NlffwtCA 4 CO ■ Eggs 2 )c Butter 18<C25c n. ewret-iNG Spring chicks 9c Ducks 10c Fowls 9c Geese 9c Eggs 27c Butter 19c Turkeys 15c Old rooste’B 9< LOCAL «>KrC«JCF MAPKtT I Spring chicks 10c Ducks 10c Fowls l*c . Geese 8c Eggs ISc i Butter 18c Turkeys 11c Old roost»-• f-c

THE THIRD DEGREE—Continued. | *■4 Is. net sal mil yea jAay the gam* yeasaakt." MowawA awM*4 t**blg as he v* pMed: "Naaaeaa«—l woalAat ao**H b**P ok that sort fui set reduced to soliait.iac abarity yet. I guess I'd preter the river to that. But if you hear of aaythJag. keep me la mind." Th* athlete made no response. He was apparently lost in thought when suddenly he blurted out: “day, Jeffries, you haven't got any numey, have you—say, a couple of thousand dollars?” Howard stared at the questioner as if he doubted his sanity. “Two thousand dollars!” he gasped. “Do you suppose that I'd be wearing out shoe leather looking for a job, if I had $2,000?" Coxe looked disappointed as he replied: “Oh, of course, I understand you haven’t it on you, only I thought you might be able to raise it" "Why do you ask?” inquired Howard, his curiosity aroused. Coxe looked around to see if any one was listening. Then in a whisper he said: “It’s a cinch. If you had $2,000, you and I could make a snug little fortune. Don’t you understand? In my office I get tips. I’m on the inside. I know in advance what the big men are going to do. When they start to move a certain stock up, I'm on the job. Understand? If you had $2,000, I could raise as much, and we'd pool our capital, starting in the business ourselves—on a small scale, of course. If we hit it right we might make a nice income." Howard’s mouth watered. Certainly that was the kind of life he liked best The feverish excitement of gambling, the close association with rich men, the promise of a luxurious style of living—all this appealed to him strongly. But what was the use? Where could he get $2,000? He couldn't go to his father. He shook his head. “I'm afraid not, old sport,” he said as they left the saloon and he held out his hand to say good-by. “But 11l bear it in mind, and If things Improve. I'll look you up. So long!” Climbing wearily-up the dirty stairs of the elevated railroad, he bought a ticket with one of the few nickels remaining in his pocket, and taking a seat in a north bound train started on bls trip back to Harlem. The day was overcast, rain threatened A pall of mingled smoke and mist hung over the entire city. From the car windew as the train wound its serpentine course in and out the mase of grimy offices, shops and tenements. everything appeared drabdirty and squalid. New York was seen at its ugliest. Ensconced in a egoss-segt. his chin leaning heavily on his -hand. Howard gazed dejectedly out of the window. The flaress.ivg

■— p I outlook was in teeepufc wMk his own state of mind. How would the adventure end? Reconciliation with hie lather was out of the gseetloa. letter* sent home remained wlthoat response. He wasn't surprised. Hs knew his pater too well to expect that he would talent so soon. Besides, if the old man was so infernally proud, he'd show him he had some pride, too. He’d drown himself before he'd go down on his knees, whining to be forgiven. Hie father was dead wrong, anyway. His marriage might have been foolish: Annie might be beneath him socially. She was not educated and her father wasn't any better than he ought to be. She did not talk correctly, her manners left much to be desired, at times he was secretly ashamed of her. But her bringing up was her misfortune, not her fault. The girl herself was straight as a die. She had a heart of gold. She was far more intelligent, far raore likely to make him a happy home than some stuckup, idle society girl who had no thought for anything save money, dress and show. Perhaps if he had been less honorable and not married her, his father would have thought more highly of him. If he'd ruined the girl, no doubt he would have been welcomed home with open arms. Pshaw! He might be a poor, weak fool, but thank God, they couldn’t reproach him with that. Annie had been loyal to him throughout. He’d stick to her through thick and thin. As the train swept round the curve at Fifty-third street and started on its long, straight run up the West side, his mind reverted to Robert Underwood. He had seen his old associate only Once tine# leaving college. He ran across him one day on Fifth avenue Underwood was coming out of a curio shop. He explained hurriedly that he had left Yale, sad when asked about his future plans talked vaguely of going In for art. Hie matter was frigid and nervous —the attitude of the man who fears he may be approached for a email loan. He was evidently well aware of the change in his old associate's fortunes, and having” squeezed all he could trot of him, had no further use for him. It was only when he bad disappeared that Howard suddenly remembered a loan of $250 which Underwood had never repaid. Rome time later Howard learned that he occupied apartments at the exclusive and expensive Astruria. where ho was living in great style. He went there determined to see him and demand hie money, but the card always camo back "not at home " Underwood bad always been a mystery to Howard. He knew him to be an inveterate gambier and a nnn entirely will out principle. No on knew who his famtlv were or where he came from. His source of income, too, was always a pun's. At college he was always hard up. borrowing right and left and forgetting to pay, yet he always succeeded ta living on

the fat es the land. Dta apartments hi the AsU-urta eoet a ssnaM fortune; he dressed well, drove a aoaart turnout and entertained lavishly. Ue was not idenllflod with any partlowlar buMaoaa ar profession. On leaving soilage he boeame interested ia art. He frequented the important art sales and soon got his name in the newspapers as an authority on art matters His apartment was literally a museum of European and oriental art. On all sides were paintings by old masters beautiful rugs, priceless tiipostrles. rars ceramics, enamels, statuary, ; ntique furniture, bronzes, etc. He passed for a man of wealth, and moth <,.'4 v Uh marriageable daughters, con id;: Ing him an eligible young bach r, hastened to invite him to their s, none of them conscious of the dar.g r of letting the wolf . lip into the lamb fold. VVuat a strange power of fascina tion, mused Howard tvs the tram jogged aloug, men of Underwork's bold and reckless type wield, especially over women. Their very daring and unscrupulousness seems to render k vi. <Hwa—cw.JSMn i. jn-grggg f a- fl# I if V’i I / /1 I f—\ nS? ) £ — 1 [J B “I Wish I Could Help You, Old Man." them more attractive. He himself at college bad fallen entirely under the man's spell. There was no doubt that he was responsible for all his Iron bjes. Underwood possessed the uncanny gift of being able to bend people to his will. What a fool he had made of him at the university! He had been his evil genius, there was no question of that. But foi meeting Underwood he might have ap plied himself to serious study, left the university with honors and be now a respectable member of the community He remembered with a smile that It was through Underwood that he had met his wife. Some of the fellow* hinted that Underwood had known her more intimately than he had pre tended and had only passed her on te him because he was tired of her. He had nailed that as a lie. Annie, he rould swear, was as good a girl at ever breathed.

Me couldn’t wP ula JuLJTovJldm H.i-4-one with uu, wbst be Cbo.e “• hs had not tried w | was Underwood ‘ subtle power ov»r him. e powsr to make -o everything h« wanted him to do. uo matter how fool Uh or unreasonable th. request. Every | one at college u»»<l to talk about It One night Vnd.rwood invited all hi. classmates to his rooms and made him cut up all kinds of capers. He at first refused, point blank-but Underwood got up and. standing directly in front of him, gazed steadily Into his eyes Again be commanded him to do these ridiculous, degrading things. Howard felt himself weakening. He was sud denly seized with the feeling that h« must obey. Amid roars of laughtet he recited the entire alphabet stand Ing on one leg. he crowed like s rooster, he hopped like a toad, and ( he crawled abjectly on his be) y like . a snake. One of the fellows told him . afterward that he had been hyp notized. He had laughed at It then as a good joke, but now he came tc think of it, perhaps it was true. Bos slbly he was a subject Anyway h« was glad to b« rid of Underwood and his uncanny influence. The train stopped with a jerk at hi* station and Howard rode down in th* elevator to the street Crossing Eighth avenue, he was going straight home when suddenly he halted. The glittei and tempting array of bottles in a corner saloon window tempted him. He suddenly felt that If there was on* thing he needed In the world above all others It was another drink. True be had had more than enough already. | But that was Coxe'* fault. He bad invited him and made him drink. There couldn’t be any harm in taking ' another He might aa well be hanged for a aheep as a lamb. By the time ’ he emerged from the saloon his , speech was thick and hl* atep uncertain. A few minutes later he was painfully climbing up the rickety stair* : of a cheap looking flat house. As he reached the top floor a cheerful voice called eut "Is that you, Howard, dear?" • CHAPTER 11. A young woman hurried out of one of the apartments tc greet Howard. She was a vivacious brunette of medium height, intelligent looking, with good feature* and fine teeth. It was net a doll face, but the face of a woman who had experienced early the hard knocks of th* world, yet in whom adversity had not succeeded in wholly subduing a naturally buoyant, amiable disposition. There was determination In the line* above her mouth. It was a face full of character, the face of a woman who by sheer dint of deg«v. perseverance might ao compliah any task she cared to set herself. A smile of welcome gleamed In her a* she inquired eagerly:

“W-J AMT. tnythtag fiotarr I shook his head ftTl U a look of disappointment ho wUs'i fad “Say. «baifs tau#h, ain't nr eh 9 l t-uhus, 1 -Th* janitor Wli s her* ogu:; t . ua raat. He they’ll serrs b with a dlopociwes j hlm I van tluu mwi ” Aui< i vocabulary w M emplmtle i»Usr uii choice. BnUrely without 'Kaul i. she made no pretense at heelag 1 aat she was not and therein Petlup lay her chief charm, a* Ho»v ( stooped to ktae her, she said | ro Proar dully: "You '* been drinking again, Row.l ard f u promjs»d me you wouldn't”! TU young man made no reply, With i i Impatient gesture he pa, i on lot tha flat and flung himself dow a ! a C hair in the dining foonj, Fro® be adjoining kitchen came a wriron r odor of cooking. "Dlu| cr ready T” he demanded. “I'm dovllisl hungry." 'YtJ dear, just a minute," replied his wife from the kitchen. “There's som* lice Irish stew, just what you Uk«." I The | box-llke hole where Howard ■at awaiting his meal was the largest i room L a flat which boasted c; “five and h|th.” There was a bedroom of equal # diminutive proportions and a parlortwith wall paper so loud that it I talkedi There was scarcely enough room [to swing a eat around. Th* thin •alls were cracked, the rooms ; were carpetless. Yet it showed the care of a good housekeeper. Floor* { and windows were clesn, the cover on the table spotless. Th* furnishings I wer* as meager as they were fngeni iom With their slender purse they I had been able to purchase only the ' bar* necessities —a bed, a ehalr or . two. a dining room table, a f«w kitchen utensil* When they wanted to sit ! in the parlor they had to carry a 1 chair from the dining room; when i m»al times came the ehairs hud to I travel back again. A aoap box turned upside down and neatly covered with chlnti did duty as a dresser in tne bedroom, and with a saw and tacks they had managed to impart an aesthetic appearance to tne parlor. This place oost the huge nu of 535 a month. It might just as well have eo*t SIOO for all Howard's ab'lfty to pay it. The past month's rent was long overdue and the janitor looked more insolent every day But they did not care. They were young ami Ilf" was still before them. Presently Annie came in carry'ny a steaming dish of stew, which sb* laid on the table. As she helped Howard to a plate full she said: “So yo« had no luck again this morning’" Howard was too busy estlng to answer. As h« gulped down a huge pl--<v of bread, he growled: “Nothing, as usual —sam* old story nothing doing." Annie sighed. She had been given this' answer so often that ft would (To be Continued)