Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1912 — Page 4

CLAMED CfILUBN For Sal®—Ten head of 60-pound ghosts, sell all or t» wit Harry Swartzell, Phone 142-M. ■*' ll|i<'> ■"« 1 For Sale —Lumber, from fl- to $2 per hundred. If you need lumber it will pay you to call at our sawmill, XU miles south of Pleasant Ridge. Sinclair A Hornbeck. For Sale—At the Rose Bud Farm. Clover hay in the bunch. Half of the crop now on the ground. On the thirty acres situated near the Rose Bud chureh. Will be for sale as soon as ready to cut at ten dollars per ton. Amos H. Alter A Son. For Sale—Oak lumber. Sefect white oak and burr oak for barns, cribs, sheds, etc., also floor joists, studding and rafters for houses. Will saw to any dimensions in any quantities at a very reasonable price. Bridge lumber a specialty. See or write Ben Dr McColly or Leslie Alter, Phone 521-E, Rensselaer. ~~ Fer Sale—A Tew excellent secondhand sewing machines at the Singer office. Will sell cheap for cash or on time. Call any Saturday. R. P. Benjamin, Agent .... For Sale—Superior concrete and road graveL Builders of concrete silos, barns, tanks, foundations, culverts and floors. Write for prices. Lafayette Gravel and Concrete Co., Lafayette, gjlud. 'fTZ ~ ~ : ' Fer Sale—S conveniently located five-room cottages, at right prices and on easy payments. Firman Thompson. Fer Sale—Small property south of Christian church known as Harrison property. See George A Williams. Far Sale—Typewriter ribbons of all makes. The Republican. WASTED. Wanted—Family washings and ironings. I live in the west part of town, first house north of Isaac Kepner. All washings delivered. Mrs. F. A. Turner. Wanted—so men or boys to work in onions. Will pay 20 cents an hour. Pay every night Can get board near work for 40 cents a day. Need to lose time only while actually raining. Ed Oliver. Telephone 522-A. Wanted—To rent a horse and buggy for use in country. May use for several weeks. Phone Republican office, No. 18. FOR RENT. For Rent—B-room dwelling; well located; city water. James H. Chapman. For .Beat— A good 7-room house, with barn, on Van Rensselaer street, <me block from court house. Robert Micfaal. TAKEN UP. Taken Up—At my place, 6 miles north of Rensselaer on June 6th, a yearling heifer and a yearling steer. Owner can have same by applying to Samuel Williams, R. D. No. 2, proving property and settling charges.

BUTTERFAT. W. H. Dexter will pay 25c for but fcer. fat this geek. ... AUTOMOBILES. The Ter j Latest, a real 1912 car, oi our floor for delivery now. The Max well Mascotte Touring car. THE 6LDDEN toub wnmEß. tHaxtt€lr MISCELLANEOUS. NOTICE. For aU wishing twine through th< Gleanor order should notify the sec retary at once, by card or phone Guaranteed standard twine at 6%< per pound. Parties getting twine an expected to pay cash. Twine expecte< to arrive between the 20th and 25tl of June. r-f—C. O. J. KENTON, Secretary EDWARD HERATH, Chief Gleaner P. 8. There will be a Gleaner meet lag Saturday, June 29th, .1912, to begii I P. W. HORTON I fl*» TuiM mi Repairing, I Telephone 180 Kefluelaer, Indiana iri ” LOCAL MARKETS. mzTi -

The Grand Babylon Hotel

' Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. - ' ' ' - - ’ O CHAPTER XXIII. Further Events In the Cellar. “Well, father, remarked Nella to her astounded parent, “you should males sure that you have got hold of the right person before you use all that terrible muscular force of yours. I do believe you have broken my shoulder bone.” ..... . Mechanically she smoothed her frock and gave a straightening touch to her hair. “Good evening, Miss Racksole,” said Felix Babylon, bowing formally. “This is an unexpected pleasure.” Felix’s drawing room manners never deserted him upon any occasion whatever. “May I inquire what you are doing in my wine cellar, Nella Racksole?” asked the millionaire a little stiffly. He was certainly somewhat annoyed at having mistaken his daughter for a criminal; ifioreover, he bated to be surprised, and upon this occasion he bad been surprised beyond and ordinary amazement; lastly, he was not at all pleased that Nella should bn observed in that strange predicament by a stranger. “I will teli you,” said Nella. “I had been reading rather late in my room, the night was so close. I heard Big Ben strike half-past twelve, and then I put the book down and went out on the balcony of my window for a little fresh air before going to bed. 4 “I leaned over the balcony very quietly—you will remember that I am on the third floor now—and looked down below into the little sunken yard which separates the wall of the hotel from Salisbury lane. I was rather astounded to see a figure creeping across the yard. “I knew there was no entrance Into the hotel from that yard, and, besides, It is 15 or 20 feet below the level of the street. So I watched. The figure went close up against the wall, and disappeared from my view. I leaned over the balcony as far as I dared, but I couldn’t see him. I could hear him, however.” “What could you hear?” questioned Racksole sharply. - “It sounded like a sawing noise,” said Nella, “and It went on for quite a long time, nearly a quarter of an hour, I should think —a rasping sort of noise.”

“Why on earth didn’t you come and warn me or some one else In the hotel?” asked Racksole. “Oh! I don’t know, dad,” she replied sweetly. “I had got interested in it, and I thought I would see the thing out myself.” “Well, as I was saying, Mr. Babylon,” she continued, addressing her remarks now to Felix, with a dazzling smile, “that noise went on for quite a long tome. At last it stopped, and the figure re-appeared from under the wall, crossed the yard, climbed up the opposite wall by some means or other, and so over the railings into Sali&Trarf■V ,;, "lpfT r “I felt rather relieved then, because I knew he hadn’t actually broken into the hotel. He walked .down Salisbury lane very slowly. A policeman was just coming up. ‘Good night, officer,’ I heard him say to the policeman, and he asked him for a match. “The policeman supplied the match, and the other man lighted a cigarette and proceeded further down the lane. By cricking your neck from my window, you can get a glimpse of the Embankment and the river. I saw the man cross the Embankment and lean over the river Wall, where he seemed to be talking to some one. He then walked along the Embankment, toward Westminster, and that was the last I saw of him.

“I waited a minute or two for him to come back, but he didn’t come, and so I thought it waqsabout time I began to make inquiries into the affair. I went dpwnstairs. instantly, and got out of the hotel through the quadrangle into Salisbury lane, and looked over those railings. . “There was a ladder on the other side, by which it was perfectly easy—once you had got over the railings—to climb down Into the yard. I was horribly afraid lest some one might walk up Salisbury lane and catch me in the act of negotiating those railingß, but no one did, and I surmounted them with no worse damage than a torn skirt. “I crossed the yard on tiptoe, and I found that in the wall, close to the ground, and almost exactly .under my window, there was an iron gifting, about one foot by fourteen inches. I suspected, as there was no other iron Work near, that the mysterious visitor must have been sawing at this grating. , ' - ' “T gave it a good shake, and I was not at all surprised that a good part

of it -came off In iny hand, leaving enough room for a person to creep through. I decided that I would creep through, and now I wish I hadn’t. ’ v , ‘Then I wondered what I should do next. Should I wait for the mysterious imyew—visitor to return to stab him with my pocket scissors if he tried to eater? Or .should I raise an alarm ? -l_ of all, I replaced the broken grating, and then I struck a match and saw that I had got landed in a wilderness of bottles. The match went out and I hadn’t another one. So I sat down in that corner to think. I had just decided that I would wait and see if the visitor returned, when I heard footsteps, and then voices, and then <you came in. I must say I was rather taken aback, especially as I recognized the voice of Mr. Babylon.” “Well, Nella, my girl,” -said the mil-

lionaire at length, “we are much obliged for your gymnastic efforts — very much abliged. But now I think you had better go off to bed. There is going to be some serious trouble here, I’ll lay my last dollar on that.” “But if there Is to be a burglary, I should so like to see it, dad,” Nella pleaded. “I’ve never seen a burglar caught red-Jianded.” “This isn’t a burglary, my dear. I calculate it’s something far worse than a burglary.” * “What ’’ she cried. “Murder? Arson? Dynamite plot? How perfectly splendid!” “Mr. Babylon informs me that Jules is in London,” said Racksole quietly. “Jules!” she exclaimed under her breath, and her tone changed instantly to the utmost seriousness. “Switch off .the light, quick.” Springing to the key she put the cellar In darkness. “What’s that for,” asker her father. “If ire comes back, he would see the light and be frightened away,” said Nella. “That wouldn’f do at all.” “It wouldn’t, Miss Racksole,” said Babylon, and there was in his voice a note of admiration for the girl’s sagacity which Racksole heard with' high paternal pride. “Listen, Nella,” said the latter, drawing his daughter to him in the profound gloom of the cellar. “We fancy that Jules may be trying to tamper with a certain bottle of wine—a bottle which might possibly be drank by Prince Eugen. Now, do you think that the man you saw might have been Jules?”

“I hadn’t previously thought of him as being Jules, but immediately you mentioned the name I somehow know that he was. Yes, I am sure it was Jules.” “Well, just hear what I have to say. There is no time to lose —if he is coming at all he will be here very soon—and you can help.” Racksole explained whst he thought Jules’ tactics might be. He proposed that If the man returned he should not he interefered with, but merely watched from the other side of the glass door.

“Yon want, as it were, to catch Mr. Jules alive?” said Felix Babylon, who seemed rather taken aback at this novel method of dealing with crimiiials. “Surely,” he add.ed, ■‘‘it would be simpler and easier to inform the police, and to leave everything to them.” “My dear fellow,” said Racksole, “we have already gone too far without the police to make it advisable for us to call them in at this somewhat advanced stage of the proceedings. Besides, if you must know it, I have a particular desire to catch the scdufiJ•rel myself. “I will leave you and Nella here—since Neua insists on seeing everything—and I will arrange things so that once he has got in the cellar, Jules Will not get out of It again—at any rate, through the grating. You had better place yourselves on the other side of the glass door, in the big cellar. You will be in a position to observe from there.

“I will skip off at once. All you have to do is to take notice of what the fellow does. If he has any accomplice within the hotel, we shall probably be able by that means to discover who "the accomplice is.” Lighting a match and shading it with his hands, Racksole lighted them all three out of the little cellar. “Now, if you lock this glass door on the outside he can’t escape this way r the panes of glass are too small and the woodwork too stout. So,. if he comes into the trap, you two will have the pleasure of actually seeing him frantically writhe therein, without any personal danger; but perhaps you’d better not show yourselves.”

In another moment Felix Babylon and Nella were- left to themselves in the darkness of the cellar, listening to the receding footsteps of Theodore Racksole. ./’"V Bnt the sound of those footfalls had not died away before another sound greeted their ears—the grating of the small cellar was being moved. “I hope your father will be in time,” whispered Felix. “Hush!” the girl warned him, and they stooped side by side in tense silence. " ' ’’ Jr " " / A man cautiously, but very neatly, wormed bis body through the aperature of the grating. The watchers could only see his form indistinctly in the darkness. ; - \.t

Then, being fairly within the cellar/ he walked Without the least hesitation to the electric switch and turned on the light. It was unmistakably Jules, and he knew the geography of the cellar very well. Babylon could with difficulty repress a start as be saw this bold and unacrpnlous ex-walter moving with such an air of assurance and determination about the precious cellar. Jules went directly to a small bin which was numbered 17, and took therefrom the topmost bottle. “The Romanee-Conte —Prince Eugen’s wine!” Babylon exclaimed under •his breath. Jules neatly and quickly removed the seal with an instrument which he had clearly brought for the purpose. He then took a little flat box from his pocket which seemed to contain a sort of black salve. Rubbing his finger in this he smeared the top of the neck of the bottle in it, just where the cork came against the glass. In another instant he had deftly replaced the seal and restored the bottle to its position. He then turned off the light and made for the aperature.

When he was half way through, Nella exclaimed: “He will escape, after all! Dad has not had time. We must stop him.” But Babylon, that embodiment of caution, forcibly, but nevertheless politely, restrained that Yankee girl whom he deemed so rieh and imprudent, and before she could free herself the lithe form of Jules had disappeared: ‘~r

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Harmount’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Coming to Rensselaer Soon.

After the minnow comes the whale of them all. Harmount’s Big Uncle Tom’s Cabin Show has billed Rensselaer and will show here under a mammoth water-proof tent on Saturday evening, June 29th. The Harmount Co. comes recommended as the largest and best Uncle Tom’s Cabin show on the road, carrying a company of 35 people, a concert brass band; ten great bloodhounds, consisting of six Siberian and four American Red Bone bloodhounds, among which are the famous dogs, Ben and Baker. This Is, without a doubt, the finest lot of dogs aver seen with any traveling organization. The Harmount Co. does not carry a big, farcial street parade to mislead the people, hut have saved that extra expense and secured good people and elegant scenery, so as to give the public a first-class production of that old Southern drama. Life-like scenes of the Skinner Tavern; the ice-gorged Ohio yiver by moonlight; the home of Phineas Fletcher, the good old Quaker; the wild, rocky pass in Southern Ohio; Mr. St. Clair’s home, showing the tropical garden with its fragrant magnolia and orange trees, among which nestles the typical plantation homes; the Orleans levee; the slave market; the moss-circled road near Legree’s plantation on Red river, with the cotton in full bloom. Remember, we have comfortable seats for 3,500 people. Free band concert in the evening on the main street by our Concert Band. Prices, 15 and 25 cents. You have seen the rest, now see the best. Show grounds, Hoover lots on North. Cullen street, two blocks south of new depot.

Obituary of Mrs. Michals.

Martha J. .Gilleepte was} born in Bath county, Va., Feb. 8, 1826, and died in Jordan township, Jasper county, Ind., June 12, 1912. With her parents she moved to Tippecanoe county, Ind., when ten years of age, and lived there three years, wheh the father died and the family moved back to Virginia, where they lived for three years and then returned te Indiana. = She was married in 1843 to Christopher Mlchal, who died many years ago. To them eleven children were horn, nine of whom grew to manhaad and womanhood. In 1853 they moved to Jasper county, settling in Jordan township, which was Mrs. Michals’ home until her death. She leaves two sons, Robert and W. P. Mlchal, of, this county, and three daughters, Mrs. Rose Timmons, of Kankakee, Ill.; Mrs. Etta Illff, of Burlington, Wyo.; and Mrs. Alice Woody, of Manderson, Wyo. Mrs. Mlchal was a member of the M. E. church for over forty years. .-The funeral, conducted by Rev. Harper, of Trinity M. E. church, ot Rensselaer,'was held from the house at .10 o’clock Friday and burial made in Egypt cemitery in Jordan township. The funeral was largely attendnd.*7* Twenty senators attended $n flwr-en-minute session of the United States senate Monday. Introduction of bills constituted practically the only business and adjournment was taken until Thursday. :: :

Good Reason.

"Why did you crawl under the mae chine back there? Everything seemed to be running smoothly.” “That was my tailor who passed in that tonring car.’” ,

Would She Promise.

Pa—ls ever anything happens to me Gladwys, promise me that you will never think of going on the stage.—Judy.

No Use for One.

"Ton’ll take a couple of tickets, of course. We’re getting up a raffle for a poor cripple in our neighborhood _______ rr " "None for me, thank yon. I wouldn’t know what to do with poor cripple If I won Trim. — I Tit Bits.

Reason for Sale.

Johnny—Why are so many kids baying that almanac from the peddler? Tommy—Sh! It has more Bchool holidays In it than any. other almanac.

Preoccupied.

"Great Pip!” moaned the professor. "I £ave that young man two courses on the cultivation of the memory, and he’s gone away and forgot to pay me, and I can’t for the life of'me remember the fellow's name."

Net Beady to Go.

—hi i n n— £ .... Mother tat end of story)—And an angel cmm and fetched him away. SmTuu hlmTm out.—Tte T»U«r.

EXCURSION CHICAGO r -■“— SUNDAY, JUNE 23 4, y., r V , •v,- ? tow HATES AND SPECIAL TRAIN AS FOLLOWS: Stations Time Fare & Monon 8:20 SI.OO Lv. Rensselaer 8:48 .75 Arrive Chicago ........ .11:30 . Special train will stop at Cedar lake in both directions* - : Returning, special train will i&ave Chicago at 11:30 p, at Sunday, Jane 16, 1613.

BXirSSELAXB TIME TABLE. , •In Effect October 1«. 1»U. SOUTH BOUND Nq. 31—Fast Mail ■* 4:40 a.m. No. 6—Louisville Mail .... 11:20 a. m. No. 37—Indpls. Ex. v...... 11:61 a.m. No. 33—Hoosler Limited ..... liff p...mu No. 3#—Milk Accom. 6:02 p. m. No. 3 —Louisville Ex. 11:06 p. m. HOBTKBOUBD No. 4—Louisville Mali .... 4:63 a. m. No. 40 —Milk Accom. ...... 7:36 a. m. No. 32—Fast Mail 10:06 a. m. No. 38—Indpls-Chgo. Ex.... 3:02 p. m. No. 6—Louisville Mall ft Ex 3:17 p. m. No. 80—Hoosler.Limited ... 6:44 p. m. Train No. 81 maxes connection at Monon for Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 6:15 a. m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:20, connects with No. 30 at Monon* arriving at Rensselaer at 6:44 p.' m. Trains Nos. 30 and 33, the “Hoosler Limited," run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. ft D. service- for Cincinnati having been discontinued, W. H. BEAM. Agent.

Marriage License.

John S. Nichols, born Champaign , county, Ohio, December 15, 1839, preseut resiaeirce, jasper county, tjccttpation farmer, third marriage, the first two dissolved by death, and Eliza Jane Sowman, born Hancock county, Ind., Oct 26, 1856, present residence Jasper county, occupation housekeeper, second marriage, the first dissolved by death. William Fern Wood, born Remington, Oct. 29, 1889, present residence Remington, occupation barber, and Lillian Sharkey, born Remington, Nov. 17, 1886, present residence Remington, occupation milliner. First marriage for each.

Piano Toning.

Now Is the time to have your piano tuned, cleaned and polished. Call on Otto Braun, the band teacher. The mutilated body of Mrs. Mary Louise Kelley was found in her home near Jeffersonville Monday A > small fortune, representing the savings of many years, which Mrs. Kelly is known to have kept in her bedroom, is missing. / The Franklin Building company, of Michigan City, with a capital stock of $20,000, was incorporated Monday to engage, in the real estate business .and .building. The directors are J. C. Pitsch, J. J. Glascott, W. B. Hutchinson, Chris. Roeske and C. E. Arnt. West Virginia’s special traifi to the republican national convention arrived in Chicago Friday with windows shattered and stains upon its Roosevelt banners. 'lt had been the target for a jeering bunch of Ohioans, who hurled mud and stones as the cars passed through a small town 'near Cincinnati. ' T; _f Mrs. Louisa- Gaunke 'Lindoff, 41 years old, of Chicago, formerly . a spiritualist and medium, is under arrest at the Fillmore street station in that city, charged with the murder of her son, Arthur Alfred, by poison, and the police are investigating the deaths of two former husbands nf the prisoner and ofjtwo daughters. Further to protect the acts of the interstate commerce commission, the senate Friday amended the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill so as to provide that no single federal judge may enjoin or restrain the commission’s orders. Debate on the bill was concluded and it was passed by the senate. It will now go to conference. ■ , Plans have been completed by the Pennsylvania Railroad company and blue prints made for the elevation of the tracks of that road through the city of Gary, beginning at Clark station and returning to the present level at Liverpool station, one mile hast at the Little Calumet river, the total linear elevation consisting of about five miles of track

Lot the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county know what yon have to seir; use The Republican Classified Column. s ' A Classified Ad*. wUI seU it ' T