Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1912 — Page 2

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ANNOUNCEMENTS. For Sheriff. CHARLES MORLAN, of Marion township, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Sheriff of Jasper County? subject to the decision of the county convention, to be held March 18, 1912.

Republicans Will Name Chairman For District at Lafayette Today.

The republicans of the 10th congressionel district gathered at Lafayette today for the purpose of electing a district chairman to succeed Andrew J. Hickey, of Laporte, which is no longer in this district. County Chairman Warner and a number of others went to Lafayette .to attend the oonvention. Two candidates were announced, W. O. Thomas, of Monticello, and Warren E. Simpkins, of Boswell.

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS.

’ .Glendor Starner, four years old, fell through the ice in the Tippecanoe river near Bloomingsbiirg Sunday afternoon and was drowned. An older brother, Glendon Starner, in attempting to save him, narrowly escaped drowning. ■ wilT be here Saturdays night. This is one of the greatest present day dramas, and Mr. Fred Gordon and his splendid company will present it in an admirable manner. Rensselaer theatre goers should not miss this real treat Morgan Dick, for many years a member of the Soldiers’ Home at Marion, was found dead in his bed in barrack 6 yesterday morning. He did not get up at the breakfast call, and his comrades who tried to wake him found that he was dead. Mr. Adams is a witty man and at the same time a deep thinker. His points are made in a clear and forceful manner, and the jokes which he intersperses come in just at the right time and are an exact fit. He won for himself a warm place in the hearts of our Chautauqua goers.—Galesburg Republican-Register. county people are’ faring well in Lake county. Ernest Shortridge is the present county clerk, Charley Daugherty has served as sheriff and has been appointed postmaster at Crown Point, and now Henry Whittaker is the prospective republican nominee —forsiieriff. —All of which shows that the voters in Lake county have mighty good judgment in making selections. The Mock Trial was given at Valparaiso Monday night and the Vidette takes a column and a half to write it up. If It is as funny as represented there is a rare treat in sight for Rensselaer people when the trial is presented here. Prominent people will be in all the important parts. The performance w r as given at Monticello last evening by the ladies of the Presbyterian church. During slippery weather pride causes a person to walk on the sidewalk, w’hile prudence causes one to take the middle of tba street. Rensselaer people are largely classified in th,e prudent division. Notwithstanding the fact that there has been a lot of ice on the pavements for several weeks, we belieyeefhat there has not been an accident of any consequence in Rensselaer. Those who had heard Dr. Adams expected a good lecture, but were unprepared for the great treat given. His “Grapes of Gold” abounded with gems of thought and was interspersed with enough stories to vividly bring out the points which the speaker desired to express. The lecture was a message of qheer and goodwill to mankind, and a plea for the cultivation of those faculties that make for the .best that is within us.—Valparaiso Vidette.

Fruit Culture in Jasper County.

A lively interest in fruit culture is being created around Rensselaer. Mr. Shuler and Mr. Babb are here repre- • seating the Farmers Nursery of Troy, 0. This nursery is under the seal of government, duty-bound by law to deliver goods true to name, Mr. Shuler being the special landscape designer and state manager for the firm. Many of the property owners ..of I Rensselaer hare already contracted to have their homes designed with .beautiful monthly blooming shrubbery. Any one who gives a hearing to these gentlemen will be benefited.

The Pool of Flame

By LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

niaatrationa by Ellsworth Toast

CHAPTER XIX. Thewanderer had come upon Mr#. Pjynne but once since he had boarded the Panjnab. That morning, himself early astir because of his vague misgivings, he had discovered her on the hurricane deck of the liner; an inconspicuous, slight figure in the shadow of a life-boat, leaning upon the rail and gazing with (he fancied) troubled eyes, out and across the 'wagtebelowTsmalfa. Though she must have been conscious of nearing footsteps, she had not stirred, and he had passed on, gaining but a fugitive glimpse of a profile swbetly serious; nor had she appeared either at breakfast or luncheon. A circumstance which led him to surmise that she did -- not court observation: an idiosyncrasy which, seemed passing strange in a woman so fair. He told himself that she wore an air of watchfulness, of vague expectancy, as though she, like himself, feared some untoward mishap; that she had the manner of one definitely apprehensive, constantly on guard against some unforeseen peril. Now, he asked himself, what could it be? What threatened her? And why? He dimly promised himself the pleasure of her acquaintance, relying in the rapid intimacy that springs up between strangers on a long voyage, with a still more indefinite intention putting Nlmsplf at her service in any cause that she might be pleased to name, provisionally: she must not interfere plans for reaching Rangoon “in ninety days.” That night he was hoping to find the lady at dinner; but though the ship’s company was small, he failed tq, see her in the saloon, at either the captain’s, the chief officer’s or the doctor’s table; nor, so far as he coula determine, was she taking the air on deck. Was it posslWe, then, that he had been right, that she had a reason equally as compelling as his own for secluding herself? Or, was it simply (and infinitely more probably) that Mrs. Prynne was indisposed, an enervated victim of excessive heat? The latter conjecture proved apparently the right one, Mrs. Prynne failing to appear during the two following days, while the Panjnab was rocking down the Red Sea channel; and O’Rourke grew interested enough (he had little else to occupy his mind, for a duller voyage he had never known) to give Danny per mission to pursue his inquiries: with an injunction, however, prohibiting too lavish an expenditure of the boy’s Wealth of affection. Whereupon Danny returned with the information that the mis-..tness-of-Cecile, Uie maldi Was -Buffering from heat exhaustion. This was entirely reasonable. O’Rourke accepted the demolition of his airy castles of Romance, laughed at himself, in papt was successful in putting the woman . out of mind; doubtless, in time, he would have done so altogether, had not the lady chosen to take the air the night that the Panjnab negotiated the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeib. For on that same night, O’Rourke, himself wakeful, was minded to sit up and watch the lights of Perim Island heave into view. O’Rourke, in a deck-chair on the starboard side, well cloaked in the shadow of the deck above, watched the other passengers, one by one, quiet their chatter., yawn, stretch and slip below to stuffy staterooms. He suffered a dreamy eye to rove where it would, greedy of the night’s superb illusion. Four bells —two o’clock —chimed upon his consciousness like a physical shock. He verified the hour by his watch and, reluctantly enough, agreed that it was time he got himself to bed. He half rose from his chair, then sank back with an inaudible catch of his breath. Without warning the apparition of a white-clad woman had invaded the promenade deck. For an instant he hardly credited his eyes, then, with a mffi of recognition, he identified Mrs. Prynne. Unquestionably unconscious of his presence in the shadow, she fell to pacing to and fro. Now and again, she stopped, and with chin cradled In her small hands, elbows on the rati, watched the approaching cliffs of Arabia; then, with perhaps a sigh, returned to her untimely constitutional. Partly because he had no wish to startle her, partly because he was glad to watch unobserved (he had a rare eye for the O’Rourke), the wanderer sat on moving, stirred only by active curiosity. The strangeness of her appearance upon deck at such an hour fascinated his imagination no less than her person held hta eye. He gave himself over to '-vain and ’profitless speculation. . . . Why, he wondered, should she keep to her cabin the greater part of the evening, only to take_the air when

none might be supposed" to observe her’ Why, if not to escape such observation?. Tben, he told hlm»elf, he must be right in his supposition that she bad something to fear, someone to avoid. What or whom? What was it -all, what the mystery that, as he watched her, seemed to grow, to cling about her like some formless, impalpable garment? Events conspired to Weave the man into the warp and woof of her affairs; more quickly than he could grasp the reason for his sudden action, he found himself a-foot and dashing aft at top speed. But an instant gone Mrs. Prynne had passed him, unmolested and .wrapped in her splendid isolation ; and then from the after part of the deck he had heard a slight and guarded cry of distress, and a small scuffling sound. In two breaths he was by her side and found Her struggling desperately fn the arms of a laseftr—a deck-hand on the steamer. At first the strangeness of the business so amazed O'Rourke that he pausefFantF-heliF hla hand, briefly rooted in action. For although it was apparent that she had been caught off her guard, wholly unprepared against assault, and while she struggled fiercely to break the lascar’s hold, the woman still uttered no cry. A single scream would have brought her aid; yet she held her tongue. The two, the woman’s slight, white figure and the lascar’s gaunt and sinewy one, strained and fought, swaying silently in the shadows, tensely, with the effect of a fragment of some disordered nightmare. But then, as the lascar seemed about to overpower his victim, O’Rourke, electrified, sprang upon the man’s back. With one strong arm deftly he embraced the fellow, an elbow beneath his chin forcing his head up and back. With the other hkndO’Rourke none too gently tore away an arm encircling the woman. Then wrenching the two apart, he sent a knee crashing into the small of the lascar’s back, all but breaklug him in two, and so flung him sprawling into the scuppers. Without a word the man slid upon his shoulders a full half-dozen feet, while O’Rourke had a momentary glimpse of his face in the moonlight —dark-skinned and sinister of expression with its white, glaring eyeballs. Then, in one bound, he was on his feet again and springing lithely back to the attack: and as he came on a jagged gleam of moonlight ran like lightning down the sinuous and formidable length of a kris, most deadly of knives. O’Rourke fell back a pace or two. His own hands were empty; he had nothing but naked fists and high courage to pit against the lascar and his kris. Keenly alert, he threw himself into a pose of defence. But O’Rourke had forgotten the woman; ft was enough that he had made possible her escape, and he had no thought other than she had fled. It was, therefore, with as much surprise as relief that caught the glimmer of her white figure as she thrust hen self before him and saw the lascar bring up in the middle of a leap, his tiose not an inch from the muzzle of an army Webley of respect-compelling caliber. Simultaneously, -he heard her voice, clear and incisive if Ipw as tone; “Drop that knife!” The kris shivered upon the deck, j “Faith!’* murmured the Irishman, “and what manner of woman is this, now?” The lascar stood as rigid as though carven out of stone, long,, shining softly brown beneath his cool

Found Her Struggling Desperately in the Arms of a Lascar.

dazzling white cummerbund, the up ■ ‘per half of his body lost in the shadow i of the deck, a gray blur standing for his turban. O’Rourke stepped forward, with a i quick movement kicking the kris overboard, and would Tlave seized the fellow but that the woman Intervened. She said decisively: “If you please I —no.” - Bewildered, O’Rourke hesitated. “1 beg your pardon—” he said tn confusion. She did not reply directly; her attention was all .for the lascar, whom her revolver still covered, To him, “Go!” she said sharply, with a significant motion of the weapon. The lascar stepped back, with a single wriggle losing himself In the dense shadows. . • z ’ O'Rourke fairly gasped amazement at the woman, who, on her part, retreated slowly until her back touched the railing. She remained very quiet and thoroughly mistress of herself, betraying agitation only by slightly quickened breathing and cold Bailor.

Her eyes racked the deck on either hand: it was plain that she had no faith in the lascar, perhaps apprehendh<w retnmi -yatL har aplendid controi of her nerves evoked the Irishman open admiration. “Faith!” he cried, breaking the tensesilence, “ ’tls yourself shame* me, madam, with the courage of ye!” She flashed him a glance, and laughed slightly. “Thank you,” she returned. “I’m sure I don’t know where I should be now but for you.” “ ’Twas nothing at all. But ye’ll pardon me for suggesting that ye have made a mistake, madam.” “A mistake?” she echoed; and then, thoughtfully: “No, I shouldn’t call it that.” "Letting him go, I mean. Neither of us, I believe, could well identify him. When ye report this outrage to the captain, whom will ye accuse?” “I shall accuse no one,” she said quietly, “for I shan’t report the affair.” “Ye will not —” he cried, astounded. “Indeed, I am quite sincere: I shall do nothing whatever about it. It is, moreover, a favor which I shall ask of you, to say nothing of the matter to anyone.” O’Rourke hesitated, unwilling to believe that he had heard aright. “Believe me,” she was saying earnestly, “I have good reason for making a request so nnaccountable to you.’.’ “But —but—Mrs. Prynne—!” “Oh, you know me then?” she interrupted sharply. And her look was curious and intent. “I —*tis —faith!’’ O’Rourke stammered: He felt his face burn. “Me valet told me,” he confessed miserably. • “ ’Tis a bit of flirtation he's been having with your maid, Cecile, I believe, madam.” “Ah, yes.” She seemed unaccountaby relieved. “You, then, are Colonel O’Rourke?” He bowed. “Terence O’Rourke, madam, and at your service, believe me.” : _ , “I am very glad,” she sald - slowly, eyeing him deliberately, “that, since I had to be aided, it came through one of whom 1 have heard so much —” “Faith, Mrs. Prynne—!” “And I thank you a second time, yery heartily!” She offered him her hand, and smiled bewitchingly. “ ’Tls embarrassing me ye are,” he protested. “Faith, to be thanked twice for so slight a service! I can only wish that I might do more—” “It is possible,” she said, apparently not in the least displeased by his presumption— “It is possible that I may take you at your word, Colonel O’Rourke.” In her eyes, intent upon’ his, he fancied that he recognized an amused flicker, with, perhaps, a trace of deeper emotion: the kindling interest of a woman in a strong man, with whose signals he was not unfamiliar. Pride s and his conceit stirred in his breast. • “ ’Twould be the delight of me life,” he told her in an ecstasy. “Don’t be too sure, I warn you, colonel.” Her manner was naw arch, her smile entirely charming. “It might be no light service I should require of you.” ” «" “Ye couldn't ask one too heavy. . . . But ’tls weary ye are, Mrs. Prynne?” he Inquired, solicitous. “Very.” There was in fact an indefinite modulation of weariness in her voice. “I’m only a woman,” she said faintly, with a little gesture of deprecation; “and my ways are hedged about with grave perils—” “ ’Tls the O’Rourke would gladly brave them all for ye, madam,” he dewhat ye will.” She lifted her gaze to his, coloring divinely there in the moon-glamor. He looked into her curiously bewitching eyes and saw there an appeal and a strange little tender smile. Her head was so near his shoulder that he was aware of the vague, alluring perfume of her hair. Her scarlet lips parted -. . . And he became suddenly aware that it behooved him to hold himself well in hand. It were an easy matter to imagine himself swept off his feet, into a whirl of infatuation, with a little encouragement. And he was not unsophisticated enough to fail to see that encouragement would not be lacking if he chose to recognize it. “Faith,” he told himself, "I’m thinking ’twould be wiser for me to take to me heels and run before . . , He was spared the ignominious necessity of flight. In two breaths they showed two very different pictures. Now they stood alone on the dead white deck, alone with the night, the sea, the stars, the silence and the moonlight: O’Rourke a bit dismayed and wary, but as curious as any man in such a case; the woman apparently yielding to a sudden fascination for him, swaying aLlittle toward him as if Inviting the refuge of his arms. . . . And naw she started away, clutching at her heart, with a little choking cry of alarm; while beneath them the vessel was still quivering’ With a harsh yet deadened detonation like an explosion, together with a grinding cradp9bnd shriek of riven steel somewjwtfe deep in the hold. Inexpressibly dismayed, thjpy stared with wide and questioning eyes at one another, through a long minute filled with an indescribable uproar: a succes-. sion of shocks and thumps in the interior- of the vessel gradually diminishing in severity while, in a pandemonium of clamorous voices, the liner, like a stricken thing, hesitated in its southward surge, then slowly limped into a dead halt on the * face of the waters. . . . (To be continued Have your sale bills printed at The Republican office.

Gordon’s New Stock Company Is Now Better Than Ever.

- F. ■& Gordon presented his new stock company at Ellis theatre last | Saturday night in the drama “Thelma” by Marie Corelli and it is but fair j to state that his company is if anyI thing better than the one which played the circuit so successfully last season. The performance given here was tuuexeellent one, every member of the cast showing tip good advan*. tage, and giving promise of some rare treats in* the amusement line from now on. The play to be given here this week on Saturday night is “Mr. Raffles, the Cracksman," a dramatization of the well known novel of the same name. This drama is one of intense interest and is one of the high class roy- * alty plays which Mr. Gordon is to offer the theatre patrons of this town during the winter. .The_story of “Raffles” concerns a clever and educated thief who is a member of the social set in Londan, and a detective who matches his wits against the thief. The interest is said to be tense from the rise of the first to the fall pf. the last curtain. Prices will remain the same, 25-35 and 50c. T

Auto Wheel Forced Rock Through Republican Window.

At about 9 o’clock this Wednesday morning a rock crashed through one of the panel windows at theentrance to The Republican office. Warren Robinson was sitting near the window and the rock must have narrowly missed his head while portions of glass were thrown - all over him.He and the two publishers of The Republican jumped to their feet and rushed out on the street in front of the office -expecting to see Some ‘ fleeing coward who had thrown a stone. The only thing in sight w-as an automobile which was going east on Washington street and w’hjch had passed by the office at just the time the stone went through the window. Returning to the office the. stone was found on the floor. It was about two inches square and weighed about a quarter of a pound. The stone was covered with ice, which indicated that it had never been in the hand of any culprit and there was no room to doubt that it had been cast into the window from the wheel of the passing automobile which was traveling at a rapid speed.

Girl Friends Give China Shower to Forthcoming Bride.

Miss Elizabeth Retddle, WII9 is soon to become the bride of Mr. A. Kanne, was given a china shower Tuesday evening by Miss Myrtle A'ork and Miss Blanche Babcock at the home of the former on Milroy avenue. About twen-ty-five young ladies were present and the guest of honor received many beautiful presents.

Bonus.

“Mothers compliments,’’ said youngster to a butcher who keeps a shop in a busy suburban thoroughfare “an’ she’s sent me to show you the big bone brought with the piece oi beef this morning, “Tell your mother next time I killL a bullock without bones in it I’ll make her a present of a joint,” said the mar of meat with a grin. “Mother’s the boy, “and she says next time you find a bit of sirloin with • shoulder of mutton bone tn it she’d like to buy the whole carcass aa • curiosity.

Balloonacy.

There’se always room at the top — for a balloon. A balloon in the air is worth two in the sea. The difference between a balloon and an automobile is that a balloon may pass over a m.>.on psopie a. full speed and not aurt one of them. A chauffer may be naughty, bu, a balloon-driver is aeronaut/. It is “all up” with a balloon whef it comes down, Bang One may have higit? tira s in a balloon, but everybody in sight know, about it. ” However much one may be dis pleased wi.h a balloon, te doisn’. want to “take a fall out of One kind of-airships-a re- nA Wright An aeioplane ought to an the level,’ but sometimes it is not. When an ai;/hip gets the drop or. you. it’s time to land. u

Can’t Please Everybody.

The manager of an asbestos mill in the west conceived a novel idea for New Year’s announcements. He had them printed on thin, asbestos and enclosed in envelopes of the same material. As he was uncertain of the correct addresses of some o'. the stockholders, he ordered his stenographer tp write on each en velope, "Please forward." The idea was clever, but one may appreciate the feelings of the widow of one of the stockholders when she received an asbestos envelope addressed to her late husband, witll the inscription “Please forward” be neath the address. Get the “Classified Ad” habit and gee rid of the things you don’t need. You will find that there is some good money in a judicious use of The Republican's classified column.

THE RIGHT TICKET—and invariably the winning one, for it wins the confidence of all, is my receipt for your goods when I take charge of them. They look different—oh, so different! —when they go back to you. The swellest dressers in town send their wardrobes here—to be cleaned and pressed, whenever any garments need overhauling. Very reasonable prices charged. JOHN WERNER, Taller Rensselaer, Indiana.

Professional Sards DB. L M. WASHBURN. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Makes a specialty of 'diseases of the Over Both Brothers. ARTHUR H. HOI’KIVt ULW, LOANS AND BEAL EBTAT3 luoana on farms and city property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire* insurance. Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Bsnssalaer, Indiana. ar. r. Irwin 8. c. Irwin IRWIN & IRWIN LAW, BEAT. ESTATE AND DTBXIBAECE. 6 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. E. P. HONAN ATTOBEET AT LAW Law Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Real Estate. Will practice in all the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. Bonssolaer, Indiana. H. L. BROWN »EjrrißT Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. AU the latest methods in Dentistry. Gas administered Tor painless extraction. Office over Larch's Drug Store. ~ JOHN A? 1> U N LA P Lawyer, (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in al! courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department Notary in the office Rensselaer. Indiana. j DR. E. C. ENGLISH PHTSICIAJT 4JTD SVBGEOB Night and day calls given prompt attention. Residence phone, IK. Office phone. 177. Bensselaer, Ind. DR. F. A. TURFLER. OSTEOPATKIC PBYSICIAW Rooms 1 and 2. Murray Building. Rensselaer, Indiana. • Phones. Office—2 rings on 300, sasilence—3 rings on 300. - Successfully treats both acute and shronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. » DR. E. N. LOY Successor to Dr., W. W. Hartsell. Office —Frame building on Cullen street, court house. office non s» Residence College Avenue, Photie Id*. Bensdolaer, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL, if. D. ■pesi&X atteutiun to diseases of women and low grades of fsVsr. Office in Williams block. Opposite Court House. Telephone, office and residence. 443. ~OLASBE» FITTED BT~ Dr. A. G. CATT OPTOKETBIST Bensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long's Drug Store. • Phone No. 232.

11 SI Ibd Ji ej) Chicago to Morthwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springe. TIME TAVT.IL In Effect October 14. 1911. SOEVK BODED No. 31—Fast Mall 4:40 a. m. No. s—Louisville5 —Louisville Mall .... 11:20 a. m. No. 37 : —Irtdpls. Ex. ....%.. 11:51 a. m. No. 33—Hoosier Limited .. 1:55 p.m. No. 39—Milk Accom 6;02,p. m. No. 3—Louisville Ex. 11:05 p. m. WOBTH BOTHTD No. -4—Louisville Mail .... 4:53 a.m. No. 40—Milk Accom. 7:35 a. m. No. 32 Fast Mall 10:05 a. m. No. 38 —Indpls-Cbgo. No. <—Louisville Mail &Ex 3:17 p. m. No. 30 —Hoosier Limited ... 5:44 p. m. Train No. 31 makes connection at Monon for Lafayette, arriving* at Lafayette at 5:15 A m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:20, connects with No. 30 at Monon, arriving at Rensselaer at 5:44 p. m. Trains Nos. 30 and 33, the "Hoosier Limited,” run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. A D. service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. W. H. BEAM. Agent

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