Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1910 — Page 4

Classified Column. FOB BALF. F«r Bale—At a bargain—A $90.00 5-ton Pitless scale complete, with stea' frame, beam box and compound beam, for $69.00. Terms, freight cash, balance 90 days. Fully warranted by the maker. Full information by applying at once to Reed McCoy, Agent C. I. & L. R. R., McCoysburg, Ind. Far Sale—Nine young Poland-China Pigs; part bogrs and part sows. E. C. Maxwell, phone 510 I. Far Sale—3-year-old Jersey cow, will soon be fresh. Good milker. W. a Williams, R. D. 9, or phone 504 F. For Sale—White Wyandottes. 1 have 3 dozen pullets and hens and 20 cockerels; all go at $1 per head If taken before Christmas. Arthur Mayhew, R. D. No. 8, Rensselaer, or Mt. Ayr phone No. 29 H. x. For Sale—Small residence of four rooms, on improved street, will sell on monthly payments. Arthur H. Hopkins Biggest bargain in North Dakota 160 acres of wild prairie land in Ransom county, all level as a floor and as pretty land as you ever looked ever. One crop of $3.50 flax will pay for this land. If sold quick. $29.0u per acre takes it. Adjoining land held at S4O per acre. Where can you beat it? W. E. Chisman, Lisbon, N. Dak.

FOB BENT. For Bent—A good house and barn; also for sale, furniture, carpets, rugs and picture frame; a good range, and other articles. Inquire at house of Mrs. Thomas Daugherty. Farm for Bent. —Pasture, garden and fuel free. I have a farm with good buildings, newly painted; can have all the ground a man can handle for crops, up to 600 acres. John O’Connor, Kniman, Ind. For Bent —7-room house, well located, electric lights, city water, possession by March Ist. Inquire of W. 8. Parks. — 1 " . 111 I ■ For Bent—One of the best farms in North Dakota; H section in cultivation, 168 acres plowed for wheat; near 4 elevators; large barn, fair house, possession at once. Dr. 8. H. Moore, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Bent—Business room in Republican building, by day, week or month. Healey & Clark. For Bent—Farm of 400 acres to man with at least three teams and experience in handling live stock. Also residence of four rooms. Arthur H. Hopkins. WANTED. Wanted—Salesladies to take orders for tailor made petticoats. Address, with reference, at once, Tippecanoe Petticoat Co., Rochester, Ind. _______estrayed. Strayed—From my pasture, Thursday evening, Dec. 22nd, 5 head of horses, sorrel, roan, grey, and a bay mare and colt. Finder please take up and notify Geo. Pfledderer, phone 107 R, Francesville, Indiana. Strayed—Saturday evening, a rat terrier dog, color white, with brown spots. Reward for return to Amos Davisson, Parr, Ind., phone 521 I. FOB TRADE. For Trade—2oo acres of good land, well improved and tiled, near Parr, Ind. Want modern house, 8 to 10 rooms. Some ground in Rensselaer. Address box 15, Parr, Ind.

automobiles. New Years is the first opportunity to express yourself for 1911—“ Resolved that I will buy THE MAXWELL.” LOST. Lest—Bunch of keys between Fair Oaks and Rensselaer. Return to Ernest Lamson. dressmaking. . Ladies, when desiring an experienced dressmaker, call on Mrs. H. A. Cripps, second house east of greenhouse. FINANCIAL. - I*Mj to Lean—lnsurance company on first farm mortgage security. Inquire of R. P. Honan. lO.tf ; ;> KIRK’S PHARMACY ♦ Parr, Indiana. - X ’ ’ Specialty, Private prescriptions ♦ < > We carry in stock, drugs and X * ’ druggist’s sundries, paints, oils, v < ► and everything usually carried X ' ’ in a first-class drug store. ♦ A. E. KIRK. X John C. Billheimer, former state auditor, announced Wednesday that he will become state agent for the Security Life Insurance company of America Jan. Ist, and will open offices in the Odd Fellows building in Indianapolis. The company has its home office in Chicago. Mr. Billheimer also will act as president of the Home Life 00mpany ’ un der process of Prompt service in furnishing sale MUs. nt The Republican office.

A Columbus of Space

By Garrett P. Serviss.

Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. CHAPTER V. Off For The Sun Lands. • Dreadful as the moment was, I didn’t lose my senses. On the contrary, my mind was clear and active. There was not a horror that I missed. The strength and agility of my captor were astonishing. I could no more have struggled with him than with a lion. Only one thing flashed upon me to do. I yelled with all the strength of my lungs. But they had become accustomed to our voices now, and the maddened creature was so intent upon his fell purpose that a cannon-shot would not have diverted him from it. He got me to the altar, where the preceding victim already lay with his heart torn out, and, pressing me against it with all his bestial force, raised his pointed staff to transfix me. With my dying eyes I saw the earth gleaming down upon me, and (will you believe it?) my heart gave a glad bound at the sight!; She was my mother planet, and the thought that she might help me in my extremity raced across my brain. B it the dreadful spear had already begun to descend. I could see the sweeping muscles under the lithe fur, and I pressed my eyes tight shut. Bang! Something grazed my shoulder, and I felt the warm blood gush out. Then I knew no more. In the midst of a dream of boyhood scenes, a murmur of familiar voices awoke me. I opened my eyes, and couldn’t make out where I was. “I must still be dreaming,” I said to myself, and closed my eyes once more. Then I heard Edmund saying: “He’s coming out all right.” I opened my eyes again, but still the scene puzzled me. I saw Edmund’s face, however, and behind him Jack and Henry, standing with anxious looks. But this was not my room! It seemed to be a cave, with faint firelight on the walls. “Where am I?” I asked. “Back in the cavern, and coming along all right,” Edmund answered, smiling.

Back in the cavern! What could that mean? Then, suddenly, the whole thing flashed back into my mind. “So he didn’t sacrifice me?” I said, shivering at the thought. “Not on your life!” Jack’s hearty voice broke in. “Edmund _ was too quick for that” “But only by the fraction of a second,” said Edmund, still smiling. “What happened then?” I asked, my recollections coming back stronger every moment. “A good long shot happened,” said Jack. “The best I ever saw." I looked at Edmund. He saw that I wanted the story, and could bear it, and, his countenance becoming serious, he began: “When that fellow snatched you and leaped into the circle, I had my fur coat wrapped so closely around me, not anticipating any danger, that for quite 10 seconds I was unable to get out my pistol. “I tore the garment open just in time, for already he was pressing you against the accursed stone, with his spear poised. I’m used to quick shooting, and I didn’t waste any time finding my aim. “Even as it was, the iron point had touched you when the bullet crashed through his head. The shock swerved the weapon a little, and you only got a scratch on the shoulder, wmch might have been more serious but for the thickness of your Arctic coat “The fellow fell dead beside you, and under the circumstances I felt compelled to shoot the other one also; for they were both insane with the delirium of their bloody rites, and I knew that our lives would never be safe as long as they remained fit for mischief. “I’m sorry to have to start killing right and left like this, but I reckon that s the lot of all invaders, wherever they go. It’s our second lesdon, and I think it will prove final. “When their priests were dead the rest had no fight in them. In fact, they never intended to harm us, but nobody knows what those two chaps might have led them into. My conscience is easy about them, anwhow.” “How long have I been here?”<l asked. “Two days by the calendar clock,” said Jack. “Yes” Edmund assented, “two days. I never saw a man so knocked out by a little shock, for your wound wasn’t much. I fixed that up in five minutes. You must have been scared to the very bottom of your soul—not that I blame you, however. But look at yourself.” He. held a pocket mirror before me, and/ then I saw that my hair was streaked with gray. “But we haven’t been idle in the meantime,” Edmund went on. “I’ve got two sleds nearly completed, and tomorrow—earth time—l mean to set out” My wound was very slight, and the effects of the shock had all passed off during my long spell of .insensibility.

In an hour or two I was around, busy with the others. I found that Edmund had already picked out the natives that he meant to take with us. They were a dozen huge fellows, who, he had discovered, possessed more than average intelligence. Among them was one of the smiths, the best of the lot, and for convenience Edmund had given him a name, something resembling that by which his comrades called him—Juba. Among his other apparently infinite stores of useful things in the car, Edmund had a roll of small, strong steel cable, and UMs now came admirably into play. The two sleds were pitched one behind another with a piece of the cable, and a line about 100 feet iong connected with the car. The latter could thus rise to a considerable height without lifting the sleds from the ground. The sleds were provisioned' from the stores of the natives, and we took some of their food in the car, .pot merely to eke out our own, but beye had come to like it. The fellows selected to join our expedition made no objection. On the contrary, they seemed proud to accompany us, and were evidently envied by their comrades. The scene at starting was a strange one. About 500 natives, the entire population of the group of caverns belonging to their tribe, which were distributed over about a square mile, assembled at the entrance to our cavern to see us off. As we started, the natives on the sleds, being unused to the motion, clung together like so many awkward white bears taking a ride in a circus. Their friends stood about the illomened sacrificial stone, waving their long arms, while their hugh eyes goggled in the starlight. Jack, in a burst of enthusiasm, fired four or five shots from his pistol. As the reports crashed through the heavy air you should have seen the crowd vanish down the hole! The sight made .me wince when I thought that they must have gone down like a cataract, all heaped together. But they were tough, and I trust that no heads were broken. The effect on our twelve fellows on the sleds came near being disastrous. I thought .that they would leap off and run, and no doubt they would have done so but for the fact that Edmund put on so much speed that a new terror instantly took the place of the old one. Instinct taught them not to jump when the ground was spinning away under them at the rate of 60 miles an hour. Edmund brought Jack sharply to book for his thoughtlessness. “Give me your pistol,” he said, in his old masterful way, which nobobdy I ever saw could stand against. Jack was almost twice his size, but he handed over the pistol like a rebuked schoolboy.

“When you learn how to use it, I’ll give it "back to you,” said Edmund, and that closed the incident. The plan of the sleds worked like magic. After their first fear had vanished the natives began immensely to enjoy the new sensation. Edmund worked up the speed, as he had promised, to 100 miles an hour, and even to us in the car it was a glorious spin. But there was one danger that had to be guarded against—the mouths of the caverns. As I have told, the natives were divided into tribes, each tribe being in possession of a group of caverns. These caverns were undoubtedly of natural origin, but why they were not more uniformly distributed over the surface, I cannot say. Anyhow, the fact was that perhaps 40 or 50 pits WQuld be found, scattered over a mile or two of ground, and many of them connected by underground passages, and then there would be a long distance without any caverns. All seemed to be inhabited, and to that fact we owed, in a great measure, the safety of the sleds. The shafts of light issuing from the caverns were so many beacons in the endless night, telling us where the underground settlements lay, and so we avoided running the sleds into the holes, although we had one or two narrow escapes as it was. Twice Edmund insisted on stopping at a group of caverns to make the acquaintance of their inhabitants. On both occasions we descended into the caves and found the creatures at home. Whether they would have received us so civilly if we had not taken Juba along I can’t say. Invariably he acted as intercessor and interpreter, and I guess our reputation suffered no belittlement from his account of our prowess. It was evident, Edmund said, that there were differences of dialect in the language of the various tribes, which puzzled Juba somewhat; but he also said that he was now convinced that there existed among these people an unexplained power of communicating thought which had no connection with the utterance of sounds. It wasn’t a sign language like that of deaf mutes, either. , The mystery was not solved until we got round on the daylight side of Venus, bat it turned out to be one of the most incredible discoveries ip that strange world. You’ll hear about it when I come to it. We continued to guide our course by the stars—and they were certainly magnificent, with the earth for a very queen of gems set in the midst of them—until we had traveled some 4,000 miles, all the time, of course, approaching the edge of the sunward hemisphere. And now a new phenomenon struck us. For some time, along the horizon ahead, had stretched a faint streak, Hke the first light of dawn. “Look!” said Edmund, “there lie the sunlands of Venus. Although the

sun never rises on this part of the planet, it will rise for us because we are approaching it.” There was nothing to surprise us in all this, but as we drew nearer, and the arc of dawn rose higher in the sky and glowed more softly beautiful, there appeared at its base those same many colored flames which had astonished us on our approach to the planet, after we had got into its shadow and begun to see its atmosphere as a great ring of light around it, the sun being behind. The reappearance of these flames startled us. “They’ve got something to do with the sunrise,” Edmund declared, “but I can’t make out what it is.” “Don’t run us into ar conflagation,” said Jack. “We’ve had enough to do to stand the cold here, and to put up with the company of these furry beasts, but I object to being rushed next into a land of salamanders. They probably are fire-eaters on the other side. If you can show us some temperate or not too torrid land, where the people are as beautiful and attractive as they ought to be on a world called Venus, I’m with wou with all my heart.” “That’s not fire,” replied Edmund. “Why not inquire of Juba?” J asked. “A very good idea. I’ll try,” and Edmund stopped the car. Juba, as he had already been taught to do whenever we stopped, immediately jumped off his sled and came running to us. Edmund took his match box from his pocket, struck a match, and, while attracting Juba’s attention, pointed alternately to the match flame and the fiery objects on the horizon. Juba misunderstood at once, and vigorously shook his head, while his big, luminous eyes seemed to speak, if we could have understood their meaning. Phosphorescent waves appeared to chase one another in their depths, and Edmund asserted that it certainly was a language, expressed without sounds. If it was a language, I positively think that Edmund had begun to understand it, for after a few minutes, during which he and Juba gesticulated and motioned and stared in each other’s faces, Edmund turned to us and said: “I ought to have foreseen this, and I am ashamed of myself because I didn’t Those seeming flames on the horizon are due to—what do you think? Mountains of crystal!” “Mountains of crystal!” we all exclaimed. “Yes; just that. It’s all plain enough when you think about it. Venus, being a world half day and half night, is necessarily as hot on one side as it is cold on the other. All the clouds and most of the moisture are on the day side of the planet, where the sunbeams act.

“The hot air, charged with moisture, rises over the middle of the sunward hemisphere and flows off above, on all sides, toward the night hemisphere, while from the latter cold air flows in underneath to take its place. Along the junction between the two hemispheres the clouds and moisture are condensed by the increasing cold, and fall in ceaseless storms of snow. “This snow, descending uninterruptedly for ages has piled up in vast mountainous masses. The moisture cannot pass very far into the night hemisphere without being condensed, and so it is all arrested within a great ring, or band, completely encircling the planet and marking the division between perpetual day and perpetual night. “What look like gigantic flames to us are the sun beams striking those mountains of solifled 'snow and ice from behind and breaking into prismatic fire.” The thing seemed simple enough after .Edmund had explained it, but the effects were splendid and awful beyond description. “I foresee now considerable trouble for us,” Edward continued. “There’s been a warning of that, too, if I had but heeded it. .I’ve noticed for some time that a wind, gradually getting stronger, has been following us, sometimes dying away and then coming up again. It is likely that this wind gets to be a terrible tempest in the neighborhood of those ice monntains. “It is the back suction, caused—as I have already told you—by the rising of the heated air- on the sunny side of the planet. It may play the deuce with us when we get into the midst of it.”

“But did you learn all thia from Juba?” I asked. “Oh, no! Of course not. I only managed to make out from him that his people knew of the existence of these icy barriers. But the explanation flashed upon me as soon as I got hold of the main fact. Now, we’ve got to be a little cautious in our approach.” _ . We slowed down accordingly, and' as soon as we did so we began to notice the wind that Edmund had spoken of. . It came in great gusts from behind, gradually increasing in frequency and in fury. Soon it was strong enough to drive the sleds without any pulling from the car, and sometimes they were forced close under us, and even ehead of us, the natives hanging on in wild alarm. Edmund managed to govern the motion of the car for a while, holding it back against the storm, but, as he confessed to us, this was a thing he had made no provision for, and eventually we became almost as helpless as a ship in a typhoon. “I could easily cut loose from these fellows and run right out of this,” said Edmund, “but I’m not going to do it. I’ve taken them into my service, and I’m bound to look out for them. If there was room for them in the car it would be all right. “By Jove! .I’ve got it," he added, a moment, later. “I*ll fetch up the sleds

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attach them under the car like the basket of a balloon, and carry them all! There’s plenty of power. It’s only room that’s wanting.” It was no sooner said than done with Edmund. By this time we were getting into the ice. Great hummocks of it surrounded us, although there was nothing yet resembling the mountains that Edmund had spoken of, afld we dropped the,car down in the lee of an icy hill, where the force of the wind was broken. The sky overhead was still free from clouds, but ahead we could see them whirling and tumbling in mighty masses of Vapor. Lashing the two sleds together, we attached them about 10 feet' below the car with wire ropes. Then the natives were assembled, and Edmund made them* fasten themselves securely. When everything was ready we four entered the car and the power was turned on. “We’ll rise straight up,” said Edmund, “until we are out of the wind, and then we’ll sail over the mountains and come down as nice as you please on the other side.” It was a beautiful program, and we had complete confidence in our leader, but it didn’t work as we expected. Even his genius had met its match this time. No sooner had we risen out of the protection of the ice hummock than the wind caught us. It was a blast of such power and ferocity as we had not yet encountered. In an instant the car was spinning like a top, and there away we rushed before the tempest, the sleds being banged against the car, like tassels whipping in a storm. It was a wonder of wonders that the creatures on them were not flung off, or killed, by the frequent impacts. But - fortunately, Edmund had seen that they were securely fastened, and, as you know already, they could stand knocks like so many bears. In the course of 20 minutes we must have traveled twice as many miles, perfectly helpless to arrest our mad rush or to divert our course, pitched hither and thither, and sprawling on the floor half the time. The noise was awful, and nobody even tried to speak. The shutters were open, and suddenly I saw through one of the windows a sight that I thought was surely my last. The car seemed to be sweeping through a dense cloud of boiling vapors, when they split asunder before my eyes, and there, almost right against us, was a glittering precipice of pure ice, gleaming wickedly with blue flashes, and we were rushing at it as if we had been shot from a cannon! There was a terrific shock, which I thought for a moment must have Crushed the car like an eggshell, and then down we fell—down and down! (To be continued.)

FOB SALE. 21 acres, five blocks from court house. 25 acres, five room house, on easy terms. 160 acres, Polk county, Ark. Will itrade clear and pay difference for land or property here. 80 acres on pike road, R. F. D., telephone line, fourth mile to school, has five-room house, large barn, good well and fruit. This farm is in good neighborhood and a bargain at $37.50 per acre. Terms SI,OOO down. Possession will be given. 180 acres, all good land, 100 acres in high state of cultivation, 80 acres pasture. Large seven-room house, three acres of bearing orchard of all kinds of fruit, steel tower windmill, and good well. Price will be placed at a bargain. Terms $1,500 down. Possession given. 161 acres, all good land, well located, good four-room house. Price right. Will sell on terms of $l,OlO down or will take trade as payment * G. F. METERS. Ton get your sale bills when YOU want them, when ordered.. at The Republican office.

HANGING GROVE.

J. P. Gwin received another carload of coal last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Peregrine visited with Nelson Ducharme, Jr., and family Sunday. „• Miss Sadie Cody, of Chicago, and Mrs. Stella Parkinson, of Brook, are visiting I. W. Parker and family. All of J. H. Montz’ family were home for Xmas dinner except Clarence, of Indianapolis, and John, of Arrowhead, Canada. The McCoysburg Sunday school elected officers for the ensuing yead last Sunday. Reed McCoy was reelected superintendent. Chas. Lefler and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Estel Osborne, near Rensselaer Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Jacks accompanied them. Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCombs, of Fairmount, came Saturday morning to spend Christmas with his sister, Mrs. Reed McCoy, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Will Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Parker and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bussell ate Christmas turkey with George Parker and family Sunday. . .

Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Maxwell and family/ and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong spent Sunday with Clarence Maxwell and family. Orlando Mannen and Miss Bertha Cook were married at Rensselaer Saturday afternoon. The marriage was a surprise to most of their friends. Both are popular young people and we wish them a long prosperous life. They have not yet decided where they will locate, but will probably locate on a farm in the spring. Bessie Lowman, youngest daughter of W. S. Lowman has been seriously sick for several days with pneumonia, but was reported better Sunday morning. Friends and neighbors are quite anxious about her condition. Mr. Lowman left the fore part of last week with Harve Lowman for points in the southwest, and does not know his daughter is sick. The Christmas entertainment at McCoy sburg Saturday night, given by the school children, was largely attended and was enjoyed by all. The tree was small, but was beautifully decorated. Lots of the presents were laid on tables as tree room was soon exhausted. The teacher, 8. W. Noland, had charge of the training of the children, and the Sunday school officers desire to thank him for his kind and efficient work. Mr. Noland saved his school treat to be given out at the tree and it was an excellent treat for children, composed of fruit and nuts.

Motormen on interurbans running through Wabash were arrested Thursday and will be tried at once for violating the new ordinance requiring interurban cars to come to a dead stop at certain street crossings. The interurban companies will fight the ordinance, claiming it will paralyze the time schedules. . Miss Gertrude Boeder, 24 years old, daughter of a well-known farmer near Washington, Ind., is dead. Miss Boeder was a trained nu,rse of Cincinnati and came to her farm home to nurse her parents and six-toothers and sisters, all of whom were afflicted with typhoid fever, when she contracted the disease. At the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kas., Thursday, one of the largest batches of prisoners ever delivered at one time came in, 40 coming from Governor’s Island, New York, one from Columbus Barracks, Ohio. The prison now holds 926 prisoners, the largest number in its history. In the circuit court at Connersville the last will of David 8. Conwell, who disappeared from his home in that city in September, 1904, was probated Nothing has been heard of him since he left and the court held him as legally dead for the purpose of administering his estate.

You get your sale bills when YOU want them, when ordered at The Republican office.