Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Page 4

—: a fti uonipinn nm imu 1 I h««IfIIiI! I lil 11 ill in llunijLl I 1 fla U 1111 It ml ill it ■ FOBr SAXEi For Sale—Carriage, good as new; singlt driving harness, new hand vacuum cleaner. Q. F. Meyers. For Sale —Extra good Jersey cow, fresh in March, giving good flow of milk and easy milker. Frank Alter, For Sale—A six-room house in excellent condition. Well located on three lots. Call Phone 147. _ For Sale—2o-acre fruit and poultry farm on Galien river, Behrien county, IMchigafe., M mile of New Troy; good high school; 4 acres in clover; 6 in wheat; about 8 in pasture; 65 large apple trees; several cherry and pear trees; gravel pit; 2 springs flowing water; new barn; new 12x80 foot poultry house with runs; 5-room feouae and basement; good well; farm all newly fenced; cheap if sold at once. Inquire of Mrs. Myrtle Hammerton, Rensselaer.

For Sale— Geranium plants; 15 cents each while they last J. H. Holden, at the cemetery or Phone 426. For Sale —Seed corn that will grow. $1.50 per bushel. Yellow, medium, maturing earlier than most corn its also; also abundant foliage suitable for silo or shredding. I. F. Meader, Phone 526-D. For Sale— Modern 7-room house, with hath and pantry; well located. Inquire of Mrs. James Matheson, North Cullen street •' ~ r For Sale— Finest pansy and vegetable plants now ready for planting. C|U at C. W. Rhoades* residence or phone 148. W. H. Townsend. _ For Sale— A few excellent secondbead sewing machines at the Singo? office. Will sell cheap for cash or on time. Call may Saturday. R. F. Beniamin, Agent Far Sale er Trade— Studebaker automobile, 1812 model, never been used. For sale or trade on easy terms. F. W. Bedford.

For Solo—Superior concrete and -l*ad gravel. Builders of concrete silos, barns, bulks, foundations, culverts and tows. Write for prices. Lafayette Qravel and Concrete Co., Lafayette, For Sale—3 conveniently located five-room cottages, at right prices and on easy payments. Firman Thompson. Fsr Sale—Small property south of Christian church known as Harrison property. See George A. Williams. mi. Viiiissi in■■ t *- For Sale —s acres 40 rods from city limits, on stone road, R. F. D. A good small house, good well and fenced with woven wire. Will sell at a bargain if sold soon. Will also sell in five or ten-acre lots any part of the Mofinett 80 acres lying on the west side of gravel road, half mile south of city limits. Price $165 and up. G. F. For Sale—Typewriter ribbons of ail makes. The Republican, WANTED. ; A .-|riV n- - ' - ; ■■■'-}-* - Wasted—Men to work at cement tile mill; steady work all summer. Apply w write to C. B. Wells, R. D. 1, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wasted—Man with a team to buy eggß In the Surrey neighborhood. Rensselaer Producing Co. Wanted—A few more to join our excursion party to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas on June 4th. For special rates, etc., inquire of or write to Ebner Gwin, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted—Men for building wooden freight cars. Those handy with ordinary tools can soon learn. Also common laborers. Haskell A Barker Car Company, Michigan City, Ind. - Wanted—Teams to plow by the acre tor pern. Call or write as soon as jssfUjir John O'Connor, Knlman, I •_. am, Far .Bent—Cottage vacated by Chas. Sands/ Bath and hot water. fFrank Befits. Ver iest—Pasture let for 20 head at atobk, 2% miles routhwest of DeMotte, Ind. Prices reasonable. J. A. Stapleton, Thayer. Ind. ,JSIr Emit—Good 7-room house; electric lights; good well of water; garden; chicken park. C. B. Steward. Lest—Either in Surrey or in Rensselaer, a gold locket and chain; three ' Stoner on one Side of locket. Finder pleads return to Republican office ifdr gale—Barred Plymouth Rock l>bo<l * m ‘ U : I mam for sale at 3 cents each. A. G. wr Fir rim nr phone 425. I

Spreading the Taggart Worship.

Monticello Herald. 1, ' We notice a double column article on Tom Taggart in the Indiana Herald, the democratic state, organ, whose editor recently visited Monticello in the Interest of the state organization and gave the White County Democrat a “wet” slap for being “dry.” To judge from this article, Thomas Taggart is a greater man than Thomas Jefferson. He is described as “the mainstay, the hope, the rallying force of the followers of Jefferson and Jackson, ,f and it is strongly Intimated that though Tom might get along without the democratic party, the party could not very well exist without Tom. In a spasm of admiration the writer recommends French Lick as the place "where both body and soul can And relief —the body from the health giving waters of Pluto, and the soul from the genial life-inspiring attention of Mr. Taggart.” This angelic ministration on the part of Tom is a new one on us, but let it pass. Coming down to the more practical things of politics the writer finds it necessary to explain how Tom does things. He says: “Politics in cities is much different than in the country districts. Means are employee! there that would not be tolerated in the rural districts, and in his contests Mr. Taggart applied the rule of fighting the devil with fire. The demands of the hour have caused him to do things that do not meet the approval of even his friends, just as your wife, your pastor or your child. He has used whatever force was necessary to combat the force used against him, but never when it was not in the interest of the democratic party.”

Where the wife, pastor or child comes % must be left to the reader’s skill in grammatical interpretation, but the main fact to be considered is “that whatever Tom has done in the cities that would not be tolerated in the rural districts,” it has been “in the interest of the democratic party.” This covers the whole ground and answers all criticism in the estimation of the machine bureau. So we are prepared for the vivid sweep of this writer’s Imagination when he tells us that “Indianapolis dates the time it began to be a city from the time Thomas Taggart took the reins of government of city affairs,” and for the further assurance that “Thomas Taggart has been the life blood of the Indiana democracy for years,” and will continue to be Its mainstay, hope and rallying force as long as his health and money shall last. Of course there are a good many democrats in Indiana who decline to worship Taggart to this extent, but this is tie kind ,of pabulum they will have to feed on if they take their nourishment from the present state organization.

BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children of bedwetting. There la a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Boa W, Metre Dame, Ind., will send free to any mother her successful home treatment, with fall Instructions, Send no money, bat write her today If your children trouble you in thla way. Don’t blame the child, the chance* are it can’t help it. This treatment also core* •dolts and aged people troubled with urine difficulties by day or Bight,

Same Old Story. It became the solemn duty of the justice to pass sentence on an aged man for stealing. _ “It Is a shame that a man of yOur age should be giving his mind op to stealing. Do you know any reason why sentence should not be pronounced on you according to law? “Now, judge,” was the reply of the aged sinner, “this le getting to be a trifle monotonous. I would like to know how a fellow can manage to please you judges. When I was only seventeen years old I got three years, and the judge said I ought to be ashamed of myself stealing at my age. When I was forty I got five years, and the judge said It was a shame that a man in his very best years should Bteal. And now when I am seventy years of age, here you come and tell the same old story. Now, I would like to know what year of a man's life Is the right one, according to your notion." Let your wants be known through our classified column. MONET TO LOAN. The Union Central Life Insurance 00. has made a big appropriation of money to be loaned on good forms in Jasper county and offers a liberal contract without commission. John A. Dunlap. Agent. BUTTE BEAT. W. H. Dexter will pay 31c for butter fat this week. MISCELLANEOUS. Motorcycles—l pave the agency for the Indian Motorcycle. See one on display at my shop. Let me sharpen your lawn mowers. Cullen street; rear of McFarland's. James C. Clark. AUTOMOBILES. The Tery lit test, a real 1912 ear, on our floor for delivery now. The Maxwell Mascotte Touring car. z:

A Ghost ann Others.

Will Livingston Comfort.

'Here was an earnest, sober young man of twenty-five, Tom Cross man with eighty acres of fairly good land scon to become his own. a tidy girl promised to him, a considerable inheritance coming from his, father — having, in short, -every reasonable prospect for a successful life in the quiet way of the tillers. And yet Id one month his world tottered and fell with a sickening crash about him. It began with the alder Crossman marrying again. The father was seventy and Tom’s mother had been dead for a decade, when the countryside was astounded to hear of his union with Eliza Grigsby, a spinster of fifty, whose inclinations both toward shrewishness and avarice were unequivocal. Undoubtedly it was Eliza Grigsby’s closeness and cupidity which incited the old man’s interest in the first place. She appeared valuable to him for the same reason that a burner whioh saves a pint of kerosene in a month becomes an estimable source of profit in twenty years. A man who is bound to the service of the soil for twelve hours a day, six days a week, for fifty years, knowing not, ckrlng nothing for nature save her‘yield, and who begins his career with fixed calculations of thrift, ends either with a complete tarnish of soul or an out-and-out money madness. The elder Cross-L-i&n had bent and withered his body through toil, and diminished his natural limitations of mind through a half century’s concentration upon the onq instinct to hoards until he be-, came, all unobserved, a menace to the community-.

For two years before his marriage he had been unable to work. Sitting upon the porch in summer and before the fire in winter, his brain had revolved steadily in the old and everconcentrating circle. It readily can be seen that his mind, or the brutalized remnant of it, was most arable to a temptation whose fruition meant an Important addition to his fifty years’ savings. Bliza came, listened, speculated, encouraged—and the thing was done. A late afternoon in spring. Lase Hodge drew up his team before the Crossman door and entered good naturedly. “Hello, John,' he said. “I Just called around to tell you that the note for $2,500 which I Indorsed for you is due day after to-morrow.” The old man’s face was grayishwhite, the wrinkles were stretched tightly about his shrunken mouth, and his rheumy eyes the carpet to the hearth. “I can’t pay, Lase," he muttered. “I'Ve lost it—all, and mine,” the old man added. Hodge paled. He thought the farmer crazy and called out to the woman. “What’s Crossman talking about, ’Lize? He says he can’t meet the note I indorsed for him three month’s ago.’’ “I don’t know anything about the old man’s business,’’ she said angrily, and re-entered the kitchen. —...... Hodge drove back to town, deeply hit, enraged and mystified. At the hank the dominating fear which had grown upon him for the past halfhour was realized. Old man Crossman no’longer had an account there. The bank held three other Crossman notes bedides the one Hodge had indorsed, all due in two days. The aggregate Bum was SIO,OOO. The county records showed no transaction of any kind involving an investment in the name of Crossman. The day’s investigation proved that the old man had deliberately raised SIO,OOO, added it to his life’s savings, and turned the whole oyer Into his wife’s name with the atte&npt to defraud. % 7 Such had been the fruits-Sf. the plottings of a disordered mind. '; It was variously estimated, including the stolen SIO,OOO, that the’ old man had given the woman 'from $30,000 to $45,000. In the eyes of the law the money could not be attached. The creditors went in a body to- the Crossman farmhouse. A couple of sentences from Bliza embodied the substance of the satisfaction they received: “You kin talk till you’re black In the face, hut I hain’t got nuthln’ t’ do with the old man’s dealln’s. Ye should know bettr’n to lend money to one in his dotldge!”

The affair dazed young Tom Crossman. A good mother had redeemed him from the tainted Crossman breed, rad he took the dishonor home. His father’s marriage had robbed him of his heritage, rad the culminating dishonesty had robbed him of his sweetheart —for In his eyes the bonds of romance were brokeh, since he was the son of s thief. The young man sat alone on the porch of the farmhouse the third night after the horrid revelation. His father rad the woman were quarreling within the darkness. His pray was at the door; yet he could not make np his mind to go—to Mary. To tell her that their whole little dream was done bore upon him more desperately. He felt the need of her now more than ever in his great loneliness and misery. To those within he had spoken no word since the fall of the house itself. He had been to town several times, rad imagined that the faces of men were turned against him. Mary was the last rad dearest of his attractions tn the land grown desolate. A carriage bore down thp road in the dark and ■topped at the Crossman gate.

“Tom-j—oh, Tom!", was called softly. She had come to him. He gained the seat beside her, and as they drove away the old man’s voice was raised to frenzied pitch within the house. It may have been that the reaction had clutched him and that he peiceived the iron rod with which he had to deal in this woman. “Why that nonsense, Tom?” Mary was saying: “You have done nothing.- You need me all the more. We are still young and can wait. The* 1 faci is, I am not going to let you give me up—that's all there is about.it!’ His Ihroat tightened so that .he could not speak, but be kissed her “Those men must be paid before we can be happy, Mary,” he said finally. ”1 believe still that father could have done no such a thing if bis mind had been right. The debts come home to me.” "Some will turn up, Tom,” she sa#d. cheerfully, and though he could not sef hovf he was to earn i 10,000 In short of a lifetime, the courage of the girl nerved and cheered him. He found that a terrible scene had taken place in the bouse during his absence. His father was lying undiessed upon the bed, moaning and muttering incoherently. His mind had absolutely fprsaken its old course and was peopled with shadows Eliza moved grim and silent In the dark. : "He told me he’d killed me if I didn’t give him back the money.” the woman said sullenly. “That old fool with money! I told him he had given it to me and that I meant to keep it. Then he hollered and tore himself until he got plum* crazy!"

A week later the elder Crossman die I. and from the vague sentences which his lipß mumbled at the last, It was plain he had repented on the night of his struggle with the woman and found that in making her custodian of hia property he had given the same irrevocably away. It was this realization which had crushed the mind and slain the body of the old farmer. • • "• • • • • Eliza Grigßby, shaken and aged somewhat, but still repellant to all and apparently sufficiently unto herself, moved about the old house and garden engaged In commonplace tasks. In four months she had gained wh#t Crossman had given his life and soul to win. The creditors of the late farmer had given up hope. They believed in Tom’s intentions, but doubted his capacity. They promised that Eliza Grigsby would die alone —when her time came — even as she had lived. 'But the inner life of the woman was beseiged. Threats and the hate of man were impotent to move her, but there had* come an Intangible horrible, Investment which lengthened her nights Into long drawn terrors. There was no one In the house but Tom; and yet she had heard her name called In a woman’s voice. Again and again the summons came again and agajn Tom protested that he heard nothing. Once, lying awake, she felt drops of icy water upon her face, and as she leaped ftom bed. the door leading into the kitchen swung shut and locked Itself. Tom was in the front part of the house, and said, the wind- bad wrought the miracle of the kitchen door. ' >

No matter how securely the outer doors were barred, on certain mornings they were found open. One forenoon as she stood in the doorway she beard the passing children say that her house was haunted. The words clutched her with terrible meaning. There was no one to whom she could appeal. She felt a volume of bate from every passerby. For years she bad laughed at these glances, strong *ln her bulwark of worldly possessions. But money could not help her now. The stimulating poison of It had left her veins, but she was a moral leper In the eyes of the world still, . . . She lay tretaibling in the dark one still, hot summer night, conscious of a presence In the kitchen. Plainly ’she heard the breathing of Tom in the, front room, so the sounds came not from hfm. The kitchen door swung open softly and there was a horrible sound, a moaning sigh from the dark. Then all power bereft the limbs of the woman and distended eyes fastened upon a white filmy figure in the aperture. “1 am the wife of John Crossman, whom you murdered! Why will you not let me rest?” The words were long drawn, faintly uttered.. From a woman, dead or alive, they sorely were. The unearthly question was repeated: “Why will you not let me rest?”

Eliza’s hands fluttered before her and there was a rattle from her throat. Inexorably the question came, forth again: “What—can—l—do?” the tortured woman mumbled at last. “Pay John’s Crossman's debts!” \ “Yes, yes!" “To-morrow!" “Yes, yes!” “If you do not I will cotoe with John Crossman to-morrow night!” “I will/ Oh, go away!" Bliza implored. The figure vanished. • • The next day was one or great surprises- In the little country town. First, Eliza Crossman drove down to the bank and took up the notes of her late husband. She seemed very feeble and on the verge of a nervous outbreak. Second, t£e news came out that Tom Crossman and his Mary had been married three months before, a week after the old man had died, in fact Third, it became whispered about that in some mysterious soft atef* f^itaTctossman’^heart! . % i.is -- ■ ’ ' " ■■■■■■■

ELECTRICITY AN AID TO CHICKS

Not Only Assists In Warming Incubators, But Also Used for Warming Feed and Water. i <6 The old joke about the efficiency of electric lights In making hens lay egg-eactly twice as often by getting them to think that night is day,

Getting Warm Feed.

keeps going the sounds and finding new hearers. Meanwhile electricity is proving a real aid to chicken raisers aside from its well-known application to incubators, namely, as a means for Vanning food and drink, says the Popular Electricity. It Is .easier to inclose a pair of wires so that no chicken’s claws can damage them than it is to arrange any sort of lamp or stove so that it will neither smoke nor upset under the ordinary conditions of the chicken farm. The amount of heat required to take the chill off either bran or water is quite small, and the result Is not only an increase in the rate of laying, but also a prevention of ailments that can be traced directly to the eating of frozen food. In either case the vessel holding the food or drink can be separable from the base containing the heating coll, and where only a part of the liquid is exposed, the heat can be

Eleetric Chicken Food Heater.

concentrated on this portion so as to keep the current used down to an almost nominal amount.

SECURE GOOD TURKEY FLOCK

Burest and Quickest Way la to Dlacard Alt Mongrels and Buy Trio of Pure Breda. i The surest and quickest way to get A flock of good turkeys is to discard all the mongrels and get a trio of pure bred turkeys of the best blood you can afford. But, however well bred your females may be you will be required to ’purchase a tom every year to prevent Inbreeding. Turkeys are more susceptible to the harmful

An English Pure Bred.

-! . . )- ’ ■ results of inbreeding than any other class of fowls. This works disaster to a flock. Inbred turkeys will be apt to produce infertile eggs. But where a pure bred tom is purchased every year your birds will be strong and healthy, and the eggs fertile and the poults vigorous. Providing Fresh Air. Birds are so constituted by nature that they require an abundance of fresh aSr for health rad vigor. They never do well with a limited supply of air. For this reason all coops rad boxes fa which poultry of any kind Is kept la the summer should be as opea as possible. Let the roof be tight to protect from rain, hut at least one side be opea fra the admission of fresh sir at all times. The open side may he protected by wire cloth or other material that will let in sir, but keep but rate, eta ■—■■■ 1 .... -• j* / , - To nfa. u£ be* and mo*Tir»o» «wta tomato, should MUM related

- . soon somm No. si—Fast Mail 4:40 am. No. 6—Louisville Mall .... 11;*# am. No. 37 —Indpls. EX. ....... 11:81 am. No. 33 —Hooaler Limited ... 1:66 p. m. No. 39—Milk Accom. ...... 4:02 p.m. No. B—Louisville Ex. ..... 11:08 p. m. north soon No. 4 —Louisville Mali .... 4:68 am. No. 40—Milk Accom. ...... 7:36 aa No. 32—Fast Mall 10:06 Asa No. 38 —lndpla-Chgo. Ex.... S:OS p. m. No. «— Louisville Mall AEx 3:17 p. m. No. SO— Uoosler Limited ... 8444 p. m. ' •’ "■ ' " '.'l Train No. 31 maxes connection at Motion for Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 6:16 a m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:20, connects with No. 30 at Moaon. arriving at Kenseetaer St 6:44 p. ta Trains Noa 30 and 33, the "Hooaler Limited," run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. A D. service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. W. H RICA M Agent

nmm curbs Dr. L M. WASHBURN. PHYSICIAN AX9 SURGEON. Makes a specialty of diseases of the Eyes. Over Both Brothera / • . . i ~ ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. LAW, LOANS AMD BEAL ESTATE Loans on farms and city property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and cjty property. Farm and city fire Insurance. Office over Rowles & Parker's. Bensselaer, Indiana. J. P. Irwin S. O. Irwin IRWIN & ■ IB WIN LAW, BBAL ESTATE, INSURANCE. 5 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. ~ E. F. HONAN . ? ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance I and Real Estate. Will practice in ajl the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. . Bensselaer, Indiana. H. L. BROWN DENTIST. Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods In Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Office over Larsh’s Drug Store. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER. to Frank Foltz.) Practice In all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department. Notary in the office. Bensselaer, Indiana. Dr. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Night and clay calls given prompt attention. Residence phone, 116. Office phone, 177. Bensselaer, Indiana. ” Dr. F. A. TURFLEB OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on 300, residence —3 rings on 300. Successfully, treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty.Dr. B. N. LOY Successor to Dr. W. W. HartaelL HOMEOPATHIST. Office—Frame building on Cullen street, east of court house. OFFICE PHONE 89. Residence College Avenue, Phone 166, Bensselaer, Indiana. F. 11. HEMPHILL, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUBGBON. Special attention to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office In Williams block. Opposite Court House. Telephone, office and residence, 442.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, city orncxM. Mayor G. F. Meyers Marshal George Mustard Cleric Chas. Marian Treasurer ............ R. t>. Thompson Attorney Mose Leopold Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden ......... J. J. Montgomery CounctUnnn. Ist Ward ........George Hopkins s£d Ward . .Elzle Grow 3rd Ward Harry Krester At Large ...... C. J. Dean, A. G. Cats JtTDXCXJJt Circuit Judge.... ..Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney.. .Fred Longwell Terms of Court—Second Monday tn February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUHTY oynoni. Clerk Hudson H. Perkins Sheriff .W. L Hoover Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer .... ...;....A. A. FeU Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor W. F. Osborne Coroner W. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools.... Ernest Lamaon County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy Ist District Wm. H. Hershmaa 2nd District.... Charles F. Stackhouse ,3rd District ..Charles T. Denham Commissioners* Court meets the First Monday of each month. cotnrrr boabo of educatxow. Wm. Folger. .Barkley Charles Mhy Carpenter J. W. Selmer GiUam George ParVer..Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip. *.■ Keener John 5h1rar..................Kankakee Edward Parkison. • •••••*.«•«••. jas%rk>Q George L, Parka Mllroy *V r» Ijflne. .NfVuß Isaac Kight »•*.**«*«»»»**.»»* #♦» • - Union Albert Keene • Wlmtfltw Fred i Karch • Waßm Ernest Lamaon, 00. Supt....Renaaffiaar Geo. A. Williams...........SanSailaar G^! e O H Stemb<M. * * .'.. WbeattMd ■