Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — Page 4

O--... —; For Sale— About 2 loads good hay, out of barn. Reuben Yeoman, ? miles ■west of Rensselaer. Phone on Mt.'Ayr - L,-.-. For flair— Binder twine at cents a pound. The Gleaners. For Sale— Several good brood sows; also six head of shoats, ranging from 50 to 90 pounds. D. V. Comer. For Sale— Ten head of 50-pound zhoats, win sell all or to suit. Harry Swartzell, Phone 142-M. For Sale — Oak lumber. Select 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 D> McColly or Leslie Alter, Phone 521-E, Rensselaer. ter Side— A few excellent secondhand sewing machines at the Singer office. Will sell cheap for cash or on time. Call any Saturday. R. P. Benjamin, Agent. Far Sale— B conveniently located five-room cottages, at right prices and ' on easy payments. Firman Thompson. For Sale — Lumber, from |1 to |2 per hundred. If you need lumber it will pay you to call at our sawmill, 2% miles north of Pleasant Ridge. Sinclair & Hornbeck. 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 — The book entitled “Autobiography of Rev. Granville Moody.’* Phone 258. r - Wanted — A barber. Inquire of Van Wood, Rensselaer, Ind. '* • 2 I I ■■II i i - ■ ■ 1 ■ Wanted — Men for building wooden freight cars. Those handy with ordin--2_ ary tools can soon Also common laborers. Car Works, Michigan City, Ind. Wanted— Teams to haul ties to Pleasant Ridge. For particulars see Rowles & Parker, Rensselaer. Sinclair A Hornbeck. Wanted — 50 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

FOB MINT. For Bent—B-room dwelling; well located; city water. James H. Chapman.. __Z V ' / ...1.For Bent—A good 7-room house, with barn, on Van Rensselaer street, one block from court house. Robert MichaL LOST. Loot—Hand pocketbook on-or near Washington street, containing a $2 bill and small change, also card bearing name of Mrs. Harve J. Robinson. Finder return to Louis H. Hamilton. Lost—Ladies* black umbrella, gold handle with wide pearl band. Left in one of the stores. Return to Miss Ethel Grant Lost—A pair of gold frame eye glasses, Wednesday evening, between the residences of Oren Parker and Mrs. S. S. Shedd. Finder return to Republican office or Mrs. Shedd. Reward. For Sale—Typewriter ribbons of all makes. The Republican. Wanted—To rent a horse and buggy for use in country. May use for several weeks. Phone Republican office, No. 18. BUTTERFAT. W. H. Dexter will pay 25c for butter fat this week. ——se.-.'g.: a." -n. —L.!. . . AUTOMOBILBS. The Vary Latest, a real 1912 car, on our floor for delivery now. The Maxwell Mascotte Touring car. THE GLDDEA TOUB WOTFB.

Wedding of Young Couple Quietly Solemnized This Morning.

A quiet wedding was solemnized this Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock at the home of Rev. J. P. Green. The contacting paries were John O. Hurley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore llurley, or south of town, and Irena , Glenn Jenkins, daughter of the late sett Jenkins. ‘ « The wedding ceremony was perAu|ped in the presence of his family. Mrs. Theodore Hurley, the groom’s mother and Miss Amanda Jenkins, the bride's younger sister, were also in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley will live on one of the Makeever farms - To find a buyer for your property,

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Copyright by Frank A. Munsey Co. o ; ; CHAPTER XXV. The Steam Launch. Mr. Tom Jackson’s notion of making good his escape by means of a steam yacht was an excellent one, so far as it went; but Theodore Racksole, for his part, did not consider; that it went quite far enough. Racksole opined. With peculiar glee, that he now had a tagible and definite clue for catching the Grand Babylon ex-waiter.

He knew nothing of the port of London, but he happened to know a good deal of the far more complicated, though somewhat smaller, port of New York, end he felt sure there ought to be no difficulty in getting hold of Jules* launch. The fact is that there are hundreds of men between St. Katharine’s wharf and Blackwell who literally know the Thames as the suburban housekeeper knows his back garden; who can recognize thousands of ships and put a naffie on them at a distance of half a mile. By these experts of the Thames the slightest unusual event on the water is noticed and discussed. Theodore Racksole had no satisfactory means of identifying the steam launch which carried away Mr. Tom Jackson. The sky had clouded over soon after midnight and there was also a slight mist, and he had only been able to make out that it was a low craft, about 60 feet long, probably painted black. He had personally kept a watch all through the night on vessels going up stream, and during the next morning he had a man take his place who warned him whenever a launch went toward Westminster. At noon after his conversation with Prince Aribert he went down the river in a hired rowboat as far as the custom-house, and poked about in search of any vessel which could by any possibility be the one he was in search of. At the cus-tom-house stairs he landed and asked for a very high official—an official inferior only to a commission—whom he had entertained once in New York and who had met him in London on business at Lloyd’s. In the large but dingy office of the great man a long conversation took place, a conversation in which Racksole had to exercise a certain amount of persuasive power and which ultimately ended in the high official ring-

ing his bell. “Desire Mr. Hazell, room 332, to speak to me ’’ said the official to the boy who answered the summons, and then, turning to Racksole, “I need hardly repeat, my dear Mr. Racksole, that this is strictly unofficial.” “Agreed, of course,” said Racksole. Mr. Hazell entered. He was a young man of about 30, dressed in blue serge, with a pale, keen face, a brown mustache and a rather handsome brown beard.

“Mr. Hazell,’’ said the high official, “Let me introduce you to Mr. Theodore Racksole—you will doubtless be familiar with his name. Mr. Hazell,” he went on to Racksole, “is one of our outdoor staff, what we call an examining officer. Just now he is doing night duty. He has a boat on the river and a couple of men, and the right to examine any craft whatever. What Mr. Hazell and his crew don’t know about the Thames between -here and Gravesend isn’t knowledge.”

“Glad to meet you, sir," said Racksole simply, and they shook hands. Racksole observed with satisfaction that Mr. Hazell was entirely at ease. “Now, Hazell,” the high official continued, "Mr. Racksole wants you to help in a little' private expedition on the river tonight I will give you a night's leave. I sent for you partly because I thought you would enjoy the affair and party because I think I can rely on you to regard it as entirely unofficial and not to talk about it You understand? I dare say you will have no cause to regret having obliged Mr.. "I think I grasp the situation,” said Hazell, with a slight smile. “And, by the way,” added the high official, "although the business is unofficial, it might be well if you wore your official overcoats See?" “Decidedly,” said Hazell. "I should have done so in any case.” “And now, Mr. Hazell," said Racksole, “will, you do m<e the pleasure of lunching with me. If you agree, I Mwi like to lunch at the place you usually frequent” . ‘..J So it came to pass that Theodore Racksole and George Hazell, outdoor clerk in the customs, lunched together at Thomas* chopbouse, in the city, upon mutton chops and coffee. The millionaire soon discovered, that he had got hold of a keen-witted man and a person of much insight

L .! | . •-e “Tell me,” said Hazel], when they had reached the cigarette stage, “are the magazine writers anything like correct?" “What do you mean?” asked*Rack“Well, you’re a millionaire—one of the best, I believe. One often sees articles on and interviews with millionaires, which describe their private railroad cars, their steam yachts on the Hudson, their marble stables and so on and so on. Do you happen to have those things?” “I have a private car on the New York Central, and I have a 2000-ton schooner yacht, though it isn’t on the Hudson —it happens just now to be on the East river—and I am bound to admit that the stables of my uptown place are fitted with marble.” Racksole laughed.

“Ah!” said Hazel!. “Now I can believe that I am lunching with a millionaire. It’s strange how facts like those, unimportant in themselves, appeal to the imagination. You seem -to me a real millionaire now. You’ve given me some personal information. I’ll give you some in return.”

“I earn three hundred a year, and perhaps sixty pounds a year extra for overtime. I live by myself in two rooms in Muscovy court. I’ve as much money as I need, and I always do exactly as I like outside office. As regards the office, I do as little work as I can, on principle—it’s a fight between us and the commissioners who shall get best; they try to do us down and we try to do them down; it’s pretty even on the whole. All’s fair in war, you know, and there aren’t any 10 commandments in a government office.” Racksole laughed. “Can you get off this afternoon?” he asked. : “Certainly,” said Hazell. “Well,” said Racksole,, “I should like you to come down .with me to the Grand Babylon. Then we can talk over my little affair at length. And may we go on your boat? I want to meet your crew.” That night, just after dark, Racksole embarked with his new friend, Hazell, in one of the black-painted customs wherries, manned by a crew of two men—both the latter freemen of the river, a distinction which carries with it privileges unfamiliar to the mere landsman.

Racksole looked over the side of the boat into the brown water and asked himself what frightful secrets lay hidden in its depths. Then he put his hand into his hip pocket and touched the stock of his Colt revolver; that familiar substance comforted him. The oarsmen had instructions to drop slowly down to the Pool, as the wide reach below the Tower is called. These two men had not been previously informed of the precise object of the expedition; but, now they were safely -afloat, Hazell judged lt expedient to give them some notion of it.

“We expect to come across a rather suspicious steam launch,” he said. “My friend here is very anxious to get a sight of her, and until he has seen her nothing definite can be done.” “What sort of a craift is she, sir?” asked the stroke oar, a fat-faced man who seemed absolutely incapable of any serious exertion.

"I don’t know,” Racksole replied. “But as near as I can judge she’s about 60 foot in length and painted black. I fancy I shall recognize her when I see her.” “Not much to go by—that!” exclaimed the other man curtly. But he said no more. He, as well as his mate, had received from Racksole one English sovereign as a kind of preliminary fee, and an English sovereign will do a lot toward silencing the natural sarcastic tendencies and free speech of a Thames waterman.

‘"There’s one thing I noticed,” said Racksole suddenly, “and I forgot to tell you of it, Mr. Hazell. Her screw seemed to move with a rather irregular, lame sort of way.” Both watermen immediately' burst into a simultaneous laugh. “Oh!” said the fat rower. “It’s Jack Everett’s launch —commonly called Squirm. She’s got a four-bladed propeller, and one blade is broken off short.” ' . “Ah!” That’s it, sure enough,” agreed the man in the bow. “And if it’s her you want, I seed her lying up against Cherry Gardens pier this very morning;” • (To Be Continued.)

Frank Schroer, of Barkley _tow nship, who was one of the first farmers hereabouts to buy, an automobile, having had two previously, has now purchased a 5-passenger Apperson, similar to the one owned by Mis brother. He traded-in his Ford and that car is now owned by the Rensselaer Garage and will be used for livery purposes.

CASTOR IA For Tnfhnte and Children. Hi KM Yu Hm Always Bugkt Boars the /'TN '’7T“ Signature of

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Miss Edna Hauter went to Chicago .today. Mrs. Bruce White.“is visiting relatives at Tefft. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McDaniel went to Kersey today for a short visit. Don Beam returned last night from a week’s visit with friends at Caro, Mich. . 2 Walter Crampton, of Chicago, is here to spend the summer with his uncle, C. E. Prior. C. J. Dean returned from a week’s business visit at Indianapolis and vicinity today. ? Mrs. E. M. Fairchild has returned to DeMotte again after a long visit at South Bend. Miss Lola George went to 'Parr today and will be the guest, for a few days, of Miss Ocie Wood. Miss Ida Jones returned to her home in Kentland today after several days’ visit with Miss Ethel Myers.

Miss Orabelle King went to Lake Winona today to visit her brother, Fred, and wife for about a week. A. Leopold and son, Mose, Went to Chicago today, the former to consult a specialist regarding his health. Charles Hefferline, of near Lewiston, who has been sick with typhoid fever for the past five weeks, is recoverlng. .... ■ ■■'.-——. Peter Nomensen, of Dwight, HL, was here yesterday on business pertaining to farms owned in Jasper county. « Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Washburn and Miss Lillian Pfrimmer, of Kentland, were Rensselaer visitors yesterday afternoon. Attorney B. F. Carr, of Monticello, accompanied by four friends, spent a short time in Rensselaer yesterday. They made the trip by auto. R. A. Parkison and sons shipped a car of fat cattle to Chicago last night and John went up this morning to be on hand when they were sold. Mrs. Rachel Price, who lives with her son, John Price, 5 miles northeast of town, is reported very sick and small chance for her recovery.

C. M. Davenport went to Louisville last night, there to meet his aged father, Rev. W. T; Davenport, who will come here to make his home with his son, W. A.

Leo Worland went to Francesville today to attend the wedding of Miss Alice Minicus and Mr. John Weasey. The bride is the daughter of Andrew Minicus, formerly of Rensselaer. The home of the groom is Lafayette.

Miss Selma Leopold returned last night from Ann Arbor, Mich., where she has been attending the University of Michigan. School was out the latter part of last.week, since which time she has been visiting with her mother in Wesley hospital, Chicago. Mrs. Leopold may be able to return home the latter part of the week.

Fishing is reported to be quite good at the Kankakee river, although the water is still very high, but it has lowered considerably the past week. Croppies are the fish mostly caught. Some fine channel catfish are being caught in the Iriquois, it is'reported, but a number of the old time fihsermen have failed to get a nibble.

The Gayety Airdome was filled again last night with people who turned out to hear the Musical Carnes, in their unique act. They have pleased the large crowds and will appear again tonight. The Gayety gives a full picture show program and one good vaudeville act each night, all for 10 cents.

Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal and their three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Alter and Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner enjoyed a delightful auto trip Sunday. They made the trip in Mrs. Alter’s big touring car, going to Monticello, Delphi, Logansport and then to Kokomo, where they took dinner. They returned by way of Lafayette, covering tance of about two hundred miles.

The band boys held their regular, practice yesterday evening and it was one of the best ever held. The lads are deeply in earnest about their band work since they undertook the momentous task of running a Wth of July celebration and gala week. They have learned a number of new pieces and will render sever 1 at the concert Thursday evening of thia week. Don’t fail to get down town Thursday evening and hear them.

“An Hast Side Subscriber” of The Republican writes a free expression of his belief In the matter of the disagreement between Clency Wood and the men who engaged in a fist fight with him Monday. The article is well written and' doubtless presents view of the author and would have been published today and will be tomorrow If the writer wishes to sign his own name. The Republican, handled

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the report of the trouble without engaging in Any partisan expression with a view to avoiding further agitation of the trouble. The Republican will be pleased to publish articles from its subscribers, even though it may not agree at all times with the expressed, but it must insist that the names of he contributors be published. We can not see any good reason why persons with radical opinions should not be perfectly willing to back them up with their names. We hope that the contributor of this article will come forth and make it possible for us to use the criticism in tomorrow’s paper.

Miss Clara Jones returned to her home at Connersville today after spending three weeks here aiding in the care of her aunt, Mrs. B. T. Lanham, south of town. Mrs. Lanham has been in quite poor health for several weeks.

Mrs. C. E. Mills returned yesterday from an eight months’ visit with her son, E. F. Mills, and wife, near Hamilton, Mont. On her way home Sunday she was delayed twelve hours by a wreck on the track near Billings, Mont. The wrecked train was remarkable for the ‘ diversity of its cargo. Among other loaded freight cars were a car load of automobiles, one of matches, one of fireworks, one of cheese and another of cultivators. The entire train and its freight were consumed by flames.

The University of Michigan is celebrating its 75th anniversary this week and thousands of graduates and former students are gathering at Ann Arbor to pay their respects to Alma Dr. S. H. Moore left for there yesterday evening, and today the class of ’64, in which he graduated from the school of medicine, will hold a Reunion. They will banquet tonight at the home of one of the university professors, formerly their classmate. Dr. Moore has never visited at Ann Arbor since graduation, 48 years ago.

Ruth Wood, Wilds Littlefield, Luella Robinson, Inez and Helen Kiplinger, Martha Ramp, Virginia Winn, Lura Halleck, Pearl Eisele and Agnes Howe, most of whom are'members of the F. G. C. Club, have been camping since Monday at the Edgewater club house at Monticello. They are chaperoned by Mrs. James Matheson. Mrs. Ray wood went'there Tuesday to aid in the care of the girls, who range in age from 11 to 15 years. This morning Mrs. J. P. Hammond and eon, Maurice, Mrs, George H. Healey and daughters, Vera and Ivah, and son, Adna, and Miss Helen Worlaqd went over to spend the day. ' t '

J. M. Lesh and granddaughters, Geneva Lesh and Marie Arnold left this morning for Menomine, Wis., where he has lived for several years and where Dan Lesh and family also Geneva is Dan's daughter and accompanied her grandfather here for a visit with relatives. Miss Arnold will visit there for an indefinite period. Mr. Lesh is well pleased with that country and says they raise .everything there that they do here. Land is increasing in value and they purchased there at a good time. Isaac McCurtain, who recently purchased a farm of 200 acres near them, moving there from Jasper county, struck it especially rich. He paid |SO per acre and got one of the best farms near Menominie. He was offered 11,000 giore than he had paid before he moved on the farm. Mr. Lesh thinks the farm is sure to double in value In the next two or Wee years.

MUST BELIEVE IT

When Well-Known Rensselaer People Tell It So Plainly. When public endorsement is made by a representative citizen of Rensselaer that proof is positive. You must believe it. Read this testimony. Every sufferer of kidney backache, every man, woman or child with kidney trouble, will do well to read the following: William Clift, 528 College St., Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I had kidney and bladder trouble and my back ached severely. I did not sleep well and was annoyed by a too frequent desire to void the kidney secretions. I took doctors’ medicine and.remedies of various kinds but found no relief until I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills. Since using them my back has not troubled me and I have felt better in every way. It gives me great pleasure to endorse Doan’s Kidney Pills.” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan’s—and take no other.

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 thejargest 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, but have saved that extra expense and secured good people and elegant scenery, so as to glve the public a first-class production of that old Southern drama. Life-like scenes of the Skinner Tavern; the ice-gorged Ohio river 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 centaYouhave seen the rest, now see th.e best. Show grounds, Hoover lots on North Cullen street, two blocks south of new depot * v .. .. < .

You can secure Mica Special Roofing from any dealer la Jasper Or Newton counties. If your dealer does not have it in stock, call me up and I will supply you direct Prices the same everywhere. HIRAM DAY. You might as well see our buggies before you buy. HAMILTON « KELLNER. • jr. ?j* -5 ' •>* Sandwich Perkins* Windmill*. u Harry Watson, Phone 204. ,