Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 300, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican n*TT.T in BMI-WMII.T HMAMT a CXABIT - Wlllilliri mcb ~rauAT issue is beguxab warn edition. SEBSCBIPTION BATES r>ally, by Carrier, 10 Cents « Week. By Kail. $8.75 a T«r. Semi-Weekly, In advance. Year, $1.50 Wednesday, December 18, 1912.

VIRGIE.

MTS. Chas. Weiss is visiting relatives at Remington this week. Roy Harris and wife gave a dance to a party of young folks Saturday evening. John Reed, Jack Reeder and Richard Gasaway went to Wheatfield Friday. There will bew peanut social here Saturday evening in the interest of the Sunday school. Mr. and Mrs. Xerxes Geesa and little son, Lloyd, spent Sunday w ith Mr. 1 and Mrs. Pete Theis. Mrs. John Reed and daughter, Rosa, and Mrs. Richard Gasaway went to Rensselaer Saturday. W. H. Weber, of Chicago, spent part of last week at Wm. Petty’s and enjoyed a few hunting trips. Mrs. John Cooper, of North Dakota, joined her husband here Friday, w’here they will make their future home. Mr. and Mrs. Waitman Reeder, of Remington, were visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Reeder here last week. Wm. Cooper moved his family to Kniman Monday. On Saturday evening the neighbors gave them a farewejl party. Mrs. Myrtle Anderson and three children arrived here Friday from North Dakota for an extensive visit with her parents* Mr. and Mrs. David Hahn. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Helsel and son, Albert, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Petty and Herman Shultz and mother were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Guss. Mrs. Wm. Petty, teacher of the Gant school, visited Mrs. G. W. Willis, primary teacher at Kniman and Mrs. Bert Llewelyn, teacher at Pleasant Valley, visited Mr. G. W. Willis, teacher at Virgie, Monday.

FARMS FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE.

22 acres, improved, near good town, $l,lOO. 21 acres, four blocks from court house, $4,200. 90 acres, six-room house, barn, on dredge ditch, $45; terms, $1,500 down. 160 acres, good improvements, well tilled and a bafgain at S9O. $1,500 down. Only four miles out. 97 acres, near station, on dredge ditch, black land, good buildings, only $55. SI,OOO down. 99 acres, all cultivated, good land, five-room house, barn, orchard, near station and school. Only $55. Terms, $1,500 down. 75 acres, all black land, all cultivated, pike road, near school and station, seven-room house, outbuildings, windmill, tanks and fruit, $75. Terms, S6OO down. Take live stock. 225 acres, Washington county, improved, price $35. Will trade clear for land or property here and pay difference or assume. 160 acres, Barkley township, good improvements, well located, at a bargain. Terms $1,500 down. 120 acres, seven miles out. Good house, fair barn, all tillable land. Only $65. Terms easy. 160 acres,, six-room house, good barn, near school and station. 145 acres black land in cultivation. Only $45. Terms, SI,OOO down. 550 acres, good buildifigs. dredge ditch, near school and station. 500 acres black prairie land. Only S4O. 320 acres, 300 acres black prairie land, no buildings, at the low price of $37.50. 83 acres, good soil, near three stations on main road. A great bargain at S3O. Terms, S6OO down. Will trade for live stock. Onion land, as good as the best, from 20 to 160 acres, at $35 to $45. 120 acres, three miles out. Large house and barn, $l2O. 160 acres, in Polk county, Ark. Will trade clean and pay difference. An eight-room, two-flat building on improved street in Hammond. Ind Will trade for farm or property here

GEORGE F. MEYERS

Ashes and Leaves Must Not Be Dumped in Street

The practice of dumping ashes in the streets must cease at once or prosecution will follow. This prac tice not only mars the looks of our city, but stops up the gutters so that the water cannot get |o the sewers. The practice of raking up leaves and leaving them in the gutters must also cease, as the leaves wash over the catch basins and the first freeze that comes forms a coating of ice over the catch basins and the water remains in the street and the city is blamed. Gutters and catch basins should be kept,, clean of leaves and trash. If this is done the necessity of wading through the water and slush will be much lessened. ' Acting under instructions of the mayor any one found dumping ashes fn the street will be prosecuted. GEORGE MUSTARD, City Marshal

CALEB CONOVER, RAILROADER

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

Author of "Syria from the Saddle” “Columbia Stories," Etc. i Copyright, 1907, Albert Payson Terhune

Caleb did not turn at the threat nor at the loud-slamming door. He was scribbling a telegram to his New York lawyer. - “Gerald in scrape with chorus girl, Enid Montmorency," he wrote. "Find her and buy her off. Go as high as $100,000." “Father Healy says, ‘The sins of the fathers' shall be visited on the children,'” —he quoted half aloud as he finished; “but when they are visited in the shape of blithering idiocy, it seems ’most like a breach of contract.” The Railroader was not fated to enjoy even the scant privilege of solitude. He had hardly seated himself at his desk when the sacred door was once more assailed by inquisitive knuckles. “The Boys haven’t wasted much time,” he thought as be growled permission to enter. • The tall, exquisitely-groomed figure of his new son-in-law, the Prince d’Antri, blocked the threshold.' With him was Blanche. “Do we intrude?” asked d’Antri, blandly, as he ushered his wife through the doorway and placed a chair for her. Caleb watched him without reply. The multifarious branches of social usage always affected him with contemptuous hopelessness. He saw no sense in them; but neither, as he confessed disgustedly to himself, could he, even if he chose, possibly acquire them. “We don’t intrude. I hope,’ repeated the prince, closing the door behind him, and sitting down near the littered centre table. “Keep on hoping!” vouchsafed Conover gruffly. “What am I to you?” He could never grow accustomed to this foreign son-in-law whom he had, known but two days. Obedient, for once, to his wife, and to his daughter's written instructions, he had yielded to the marriage, and consented to its performance at the American Embassy at Paris rather than at the white marble Pompton Avenue “Mausoleum,” and had readily allowed himself to be convinced that the union meant a social stride for the entire family such as could never otherwise have been attained.

His wife and daughter had returned from Europe just before the reception, bringing with them the happy bridegroom. Caleb had never before seen a prince. In his youth, fairy tales had not been his portion; so he had not even the average child’s conception of a medieval Being in gold-spangled doublet and hose, to guide him. Hence his ideas had been more than shadowy. What he had seen was a very tall, slender, very handsome personage, whose costumes and manner a keener judge of fashion would have decided were on a par with the princely command of English: perfect, but a trifle too carefully accentuated to appeal to Yankee tastes. Beyond the most casual intercourse and table talk there had been hitherto no scope for closer acquaintanceship between the two men. The reception had taken up everyone’s time and thoughts. Caleb had, however, studied the prince from afar, and had sought to apply to him some of the numberless classifications in which he was so unerringly wont to place his fellow-men. But none of the readymade moulds seethed to fit the newcomer. “What can I do for you?” repeated Conover, looking at his watch. “In a few minutes I'm expecting some--” “We shall not detain you long. We have come to speak to you on a —a rather delicate theme."

“ We have come to speak to you on a—a rather delicate theme.”

“Delicate?” muttered” Caleb glancing up from the politely embarrassed prince to his daughter. “Well, speak it out, then. The best treatment for delicate things Is a little healthy exposure. What is it?”

“I ventured to interrupt your labors,” said dAntri, his face reflecting a gentle look of pain at his host’s bruskness, “to speak to you in reference to your daughters dot.” “Her which?” queried Caleb, looking at the bride as though in search of symptoms of some violent, unsuspected malady. “Amadeo means my dowry,” explained Blanche, with some impatience. “It is the custom, you know, on.the Continent.” “Not on any part of the Continent I ever struck. And I’ve been pretty much all over it from ’Frisco to Quebec. It’s a new one on me.” “In Europe,” said Blanche, tapping her foot, and gazing apologetically at her handsome husband, “it is customary—as I thought everybody knew — for girls to bring their husbands a marriage portion. How much are you going to settle on me?” “How much what? Money. You’ve always had your $25,000 a year allowance, and I’ve never kicked when you overdrew it. But now you’re married, I suppose your husband—” “But, Mr. Conover," broke in the prince, with more eagerness than Caleb had ever before seen on his placid exterior, “I think you fail to understand. I —we —” “What are you driving at?” snapped Conover. “Do you mean you can’t support your wife?” “Papa!” cried Blanche, in distress, “for once in your life try not to be coarse. It isn’t a question of'support. It is the custom —’’ “For a father to pay a man to marry his girl? I can’t see it myself, though now you speak about it, I seem to have read or heard something of the sort. Well, if it’s the custom, I suppose it goes. How much?” The prince shivered, very gently, very daintily. “If it affects you that way,” growled Caleb, “I wouldn’t ’a’ brought up the subject if I was you. Say, Blanche, if you’re too timid to make a suggestion, how’ll this strike you? I’ll double your present allowance—$50,000 a year, eh?” “Impossible!” gasped d’Antri. “Not on your life!” retorted Caleb. “I could double that and never feel it. Don’t you worry about me not being able —” “But I cannot consent to —”

“Who’s asked you to? It’s to be her cash, ain’t it? Not yours. I don’t think you come in on this scene at all. Prince. It seems to be up to me and Blanche. And —” “Oh, you’ll never understand!” cried Blanche In despair. "For the daughter of a man of your means, and the social position I am to occupy as Princess d’Antri, my dot should be at least—” “Hold on!” interposed Caleb. “I think I begin to see. I —” “You don’t see,’ contradicted his daughter, pettishly; “I’ll have to explain. It—” I--" “No, you won’t. If I couldn’t understand things without waiting to have ’em explained, I'd still be braking at $50 a month. As I take it, this prince party meets you in Yurrup, hears your father is the Caleb Conover —an old fool of an American with a pretty daughter to place on the nobility market—and you make your bid. You marry him and he’s so sure of his ground he don’t even hold out for an ante-weddding bonus. He chases over here with you, and when he don’t find the dowry, or whatever else you call it. waiting for him at the dock, he makes bold to ring the cash register.” The prince was on his feet. “I cannot consent, sir, to listen to such —”

“Oh. yes. you can. I’ve heard of your sort. But I somehow thought they were all counts. I didn’t know exactly how a prince stood; but I supposed the job carried an income with it. It seems you’re just in the count class, after all. The kind of man that loafs about Yurrup living on the name of some ancestor who got his title by acting as hired man to his "king or emperor or whoever ruled his two-for-a-quarter country. The sort of man that does nothing well enough to keep him in pocket money. Then some lookout makes the high sign. ‘Heiress in sight!’ and — " Blanche burst into tears. Her husband threw his arm about her shoulders in assiduous, theatrical fashion, while Caleb sat gnawing his unlighted cigar and grimly eyeing the couple. “There, there, carissima mia!” soothed d'Antri, “your father, knows no better. In this barbarous country of his there are no leisure classes. I—” “You bet there are!” snorted Caleb. "Only, here we call ’em tramps. And we give ’em thirty days instead of our daughters. Here, stop that damned snivelling, Blanche! You know how I hate it. I’m stung all right, and it’s too late to squeal. The only time there’s any use in crying over spilt milk is when there’s a softhearted milkman cruising around within hearing distance. And from where I sit, I don’t see any such rushing to my help. You'll get your ‘dot’ all right. Just as you knew you would before you put up that whimper. We’ll fix up the details when I’ve got more time on my hands. “Only. I want you and me and this prince-feller of yours to understand each other, clear, I’m letting myself be bled for a certain sum, because I’ve crowed so loud about your being a princess that I can’t back down now without raising a laugh, and without spoiling all I’ve planned to get by this marriage. Besides, I’m going to run for governor, and I don’t want any scandal or ‘dramatic separation for lack of cash’ coming from my own family. I’m caught fair, and I'll pay. But I want us three to understand that it’s straight blackmail, and that I pay it Just as I d pay to have any ether dirty story hushed up. That’ll

be all to-day. If you want some reading matter. Prince, here’s a paper with a list of the liners that sail for Yurrup next week. Nothing personal intended, you know. Good-by." “But, papa—” began Blanche, who, like d’Antri, had listened to this exordium. with far less natural resentment than might have been looked for. “That’ll be all, I said." repeated Conover. “You win your point. Clear out! I’m busy.” The princess knew Caleb too well to press the victory further. She tearfully left the room, d’Antri following in her wake. At the door the latter paused, his long white fingers toying with his silky beard. “Sir,” he said, “you may be assured that I shall never forget your generosity, even though it is couched in such unusual language. You shall never regret it. I understand you have a wish to adorn the best society and —” “No,” grunted Conover, “not the Best, only the Highest. And it’s no concern of yours, either way. Goodby!” As the titled couple withdrew, Anice Lanier came in.

“Mr. Shevlin, Mr. Bourke and most, of the others you sent for have come,*' she reported! “Shall I send them up?” “Yes,” said Conover dully, “send ’em along. It'll be good to talk to real human beings again. Say, Miss Lanier" —as the girl started to obey his order —“did you ever write out that measly interview of mine for the Star, endorsing--;those new ideas of Roosevelt’s on race-suicide, and saying something about a childless home being a curse to —” “Yes. I was just going to mail it. Shall—?’’ “Well, don’t! Tear it up. There’s no sense In a man being funny at his own expense.” (To Be Continued.)

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We Adventure the Devil's Foot

We Adventure gs the Red Circle

Two remarkably interesting reminiscences of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes will appear in succeeding installments of this paper. It’s really very simple, the way Holmes unravels the mysterious crimes* narrated in ihese stories. If Tom Enjoy Good Mysteries Road These Adventures

The Ellis Theatre J. H. S. ELLIS, Manager.

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Angelo Sarto, 78 years old, brother of Pope Pius, it was made public Saturday, was awarded $35 bonus by the Italian Minister of posts and telegraphy in recognition of long and faithful service as a carrier of mail. Accused of selling her 13-year-old daughter, Lena, to George Durton, a rich bachelor fanner, Mrs. Rosa Hatfield was placed in jail at Logansport Saturday under $5,000 bond. Durton was also held in a like sqm. A mad dog scare at Knightstown has caused the hoard of health to order all dogs in the city and township muzzled for thirty days. Mrs. M. C. Ohnemus was bitten by a stray dog. Its head was sent to the state laboratory and found to contain rabies. David J. Cloward, son of T. T. Cloward, shop foreman of the Pennsylvania railroad machine shops at Wilmington. Del., was awarded the John Clark ‘kims memorial scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement made Saturday, by the railroad company. The interstate commerce commission Saturday ordered every interstate express coiripany in the country to submit before Feb. 1 complete statements as to their business on certain designated days and to show cause before that date why the commission’s sweepingly low rates; recently suggested should not be declared effective. ’ Dr. Carl Alsberg has been appointed by President Taft to the position formerly held by Dr, Harvey W. Wiley, the chief of the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture. Dr. Alsberg ifas an international reputation as an authority on the biological phases of chemistry and has published several books in the field of biochemistry.

Rglph Johnson, aged 14, son of Mrs. Mollle Johnson, of Milroy, swallowed a whistle and every time he breather the whistle blew. Milroy’s physicians feared the whistle hgd lodged in the boy’s windpipe and believed he would choke to death He w'as hurried to Rushville in an automobile to be examined by doctors, but before he arrived the whistle had passed into his stomach, where it now rests. Strongly intimating to the C. H. & D. railroad that the use of steel coaches in its passenger trains would have cut down the death toll of sixteen ih the Irvington wreck, Nov. 13, the railroad commission of Indiana in its report on the wreck, made public Saturday, heltfat fault Engineer Willis York and Brakeman Carl Gross, both of the freight crew. The commission did not fix the degree of personal responsibility. An effort is being made by Chautauqua bureaus to start chautauquas in every tow'n in the country. If any are started it is certain eventually to be the very death of thefn all. When there are only a few they can draw sufficient patronage to warrant able talent, but if there are many the quality is sure to be cheapened and eventually they will sink to the plane of the street fairs and carnivals. A promoting company wrote The Republican this week, urging that a Chautauqua be started here. This would be a very foolish thing to do. Fountain Park" Assembly has beautiful grounds, a big investment, an established business that draws from many surrounding* 5 towns and nothing should be done that would in any way detract from it In fact it is deserving of much more- business than it receives and if the patron ; age was redftced the result would be a poorer meeting and the conse-* qdent cheapening of the Chautauqua. That Fountain Park has accomplished much in the way of creating interest in wholesome entertainment, religious enthusiasm, better education and the instruction of people in public matters and the bringing of many great men and women into our county is. well known. The better the patronage, the better the meetings, and there should be an organized effort right here in Rensselaer* to secure a big attendance at Fountain Park the coming year. ’ A

Dr. L M. WASHBURN. PHTBICXAH AMD BUBGBOW. Makes a specialty of diseases of the Eyes. t Over Both Brothers.

ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. LAW, XOAXTS AMD XUBAX ESTATE Loans on farms and city property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy,, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city Ore Insurance. Office over Howies A Parker’s? r ..■ • , S 9. V. Irwin 8. C. Xnrtn A IRWIN A IRWIN V LAW, BXAX nun, mVBABOE 5 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. E. P. HONAN ATTOBWWT AW LAW. Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Keel Estate. Will practice ta all the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch.

H. L. BROWN ' JMBWX99* V Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods In Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Larsh’s Brag Store. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWTSh. (Successor to Frank Foltz.) Practice In all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department Notary in the office. Behssslasr, Indiana. Dr. E. C. ENGLISH PKYSXCXAJT AMD BTTBGBOar. Night and day calls given prompt attention. Phones: rings for office; S rings for residence. Bexurselsec, Tndtsna. Dr. F. A. TURFLEB OSTEOPATHIC PKTBXCXAM. Rooms l and Z, Murray Building, ' Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on 200, residence—3 rings on 300. Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. Dr. E. N. LOT Successor to Dr. W. W. HartselL HOMEOPATHIST. Office—Frame building on' Cullen street east of court house. OrriOß PKOHI 89. Residence College Avenue, Phone 119, Beasselaer, Indiana.

F. H. HEMPHILL, X. D. nrsxoDur and nanmr. attention to diessssa of -Wfratsn and low gradsa of favor. ’’ Office In William* block. Opposite Court ■s House. ' ” i 7 TelepftOne. office land residence. 441 OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. uiTi orriCßM. Mayor O. F. Meyers Marshal George Mustard Clerk t Chao. Morlan Treasurer R. D. Thompson Attorney . .Mose Leopold Civil Engineer .........W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery CeunoUmeu. Ist Ward George Hopkins 2nd Ward Elide Grow 3rd Ward ..Harry Kresler At Large C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt

• JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge..... .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney.. .Fred Longweil Terms of Court —Second Monday to February, April, September and Novemler. Four week terms. > county omons. CJera Judson H. Perkins Sheriff W. I. Hooves Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer .A. A. Fell Recorder .J. W. Tilton Surveyor W. F. Osborne Coroner W. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools.... Ernest Lamsou County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy COMSDBBXGMXUM. Ist District Wm. H. Hershmaa 2nd District.... Charles F. Stackhouse Ird District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folger Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer Glllnm George Parker......... Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip ....Keener John Shirer.r ...Kankakee Edward Parklson ....Marion George L. Parks Milroy E. P. Lane Newton Isaac Klght .Union Albert Keene Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Bupt... .Rensselaer Geo. A. Williams... Rensselaer James H. Green ...Remington Geo. O. Stembel.... Wheatfield Truer* Officer. C. R. Steward. Rensselaer

Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and tho South, Louavlllo and French Lick Springs. SOUTH BOUND. No. 81—Fast Mall ........ T 4:40 a. m. No. s—LouisvtlleiMail .... 11:09 a. m. No. 37—-Indpls. Ex. 11:32 a. m. No. 33— Hoosler Limited .. 2:00 p. m. No. 39—Milk AccQm 6:20 p. m.No. 3—Louisville Ex. .... 11:06 p. m. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Louisville Mall ... 4:63 a. m. No. 40—Milk Accom. ...... 7:33 a. m. No, 32— Fast Mall ...v.... 10:13 a. m. No. 38 —Indpls-Chgo. Ex. .. 3:39 p. m. No. 6—Louisville Mail &Ek 3:28 p. m. No. 30—Hoosler Limited ~ 6:02 p. m. Train No. 81 makes connections at Monon for Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 6:16 a. m. No. 14. leaving Lafayette at 4:36, connects with No. 30 at Monon, arriving at Renasslaer at 6:02 p. m.