Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1913 — Page 6

CLftSSIFIED COLUMN BATBB FOB CCUUMKnPXKD ADS. Three lines or less, per week of sli issues of The Evening Republican *nd tW6 of The Semi-Weekly Republican H cents. Additional space pro rata. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Cord wood and posts. Earl Barkley, Phone 5G3-C. FOR SALE—Baby cab. Phone 202 FOR SALE—43-acre farm; good improvements, IV2 miles from court house. Mrs. M. W. Reed, Phone 40-F. ____________ FOR SALE—My residence property, corner of Main and Elm streets, half cash, balance good time. James Thomson. FOR . SALE—4-cylinder, 25-horse-power automobile, or will consider trade on light car with less speed. Address by letter. Motor Car, care Republican. -— — FOR SALE—Good 2-horse light wagon. Phone 202. FOR SALE—Five fresh cows, with calves. A W. Sawin, phone 400.

FOB SALE—Good oak lumber of all kinds. Benton Kelly, R. D. No. 3, Rensselaer, or Phone 78-A, Mt. Ayr exchange. FOR SALE—My large Percheron stallion, Schley, No. 9668—a fine horse, dark brown color and shows excellent colts. Horse can be seen on Fields farm, five miles northeast of Monticello. A bargain. Joseph Haddock, Monticello, R. R. 4. FOR SALE—Several counters, at the Model Store. Simon Leopold. FOR SALE—Good 8-room house, 3% lots, northeast part of town. J. P. Simons. EGGS AND CHICKENS. FOB SALE—Bronze turkey hens. Phone 518-J. • FOB SALE —Only a few of those Buff Orpington cockerels left. Eggs for hatching 75c and sl.so.per setting. B. L Budd, Oakleigh Farm, Bensselaer, B. F. D. No. 2. FOB SALE—My June hatch B. C. B. L Bed Cockerels, $1 each; large heavy-boned birds of 7 to 8 pounds weight; as good as higher priced ones of earlier hatch. L F. Meader, “Phone 526-D. -

W. H. DEXTER. W. H. Dexter will pay 33 cents for "butterfat this week. FARM LOANS. FARM LOANS—I make farm loans at lowest rates of interest. Sfie me about ten year loan without commission. John A. Dunlap. WANTED. WANTED —Your poultry, eggs and junk. Highest prices paid. Now open for business. Cullen st., next door to Free Wood’s barbershop, across from Makeever hotel. A R. Rishling. WANTED—To borrow $250 on first mortgage Rensselaer property. See Geo. H. Healey. WANTED—AII car owners who want their tops refilled and surfaced with Canvasback duck rubber top filler to bring cars to Rensselaer Garage- Now is the time to have top renewed for spring and save price of new top. All holes repaired with invisible patch. Let us show you some old tops which we have made new and demonstrate Canvasback Duck body cleaner, which practically eliminates all washing, eats the dirt up but leaves paint soft and elastic with piano finish. The Canvasback Duck Co. See A. E. Kirk.

FOR RENT. FOR RENT—7 room house; electric lights; city water; cistern. Mrs. Matilda Hemphill. Phone 539. FOR RENT—Good 8-room house; city water; 1 block from court house. Mrs. A. M. Stockton, Phone 188. FOR RENT—4O acres thoroughly tiled onion land; 12 acres plowed. Rent on shares. Man with experience preferred. House furnished. F A. Turfler. LOST. LOST—A silk ribbon watch fob with gold buckle and I. O. O. F. emblem. Finder please return to John Culp or leave at Republican office \ LOST—A 16-size open face, 21-jewel Hamilton gold watch. Finder please notify Frank G. Kresler or The Re publican.

LOST—S2O bill while working on telephone line some place in Rens seiner. Finder please return to J. J. Montgomery; reward. LOST—TaII light off automobile. Finder please return to O. A. Yeoman or leave at Republican office. FOUND. FOUND—Brooch or belt buckle of gold, with letter “B” in center. , w' UPHOLSTERING. Reupholster!ng and furniture repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. P. Green, Phone 477,

CALEB CONOVER, RAILROADER

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

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

CHAPTER VII. An Anonymous Letter. was late that evening when Clive reached his rooms, for a few brief hours of |9sv3kj rest before setting forth on his tour of the State. He was tired out. discouraged, miserable. His much-heralded meeting had been the dreariest sore of fiasco. Scarcely had the opening address begun and the crowded house warmed up to the occasion, when every light in the building had been switched off. inquiry showed that a break had occured in the gas mains which could not be remedied until morning. Candles and lamps were hurriedly sent for. Meantime, through a certain confusion followed the plunging of the place into darkness, the crowd had been on the whole, orderly. In spite of this, the chief of police, with twenty reserves, coming on the scene, had ordered Standish civilly * enough to dismiss the audience. Then the policemen had filed up on the stage, illumining it by their bulls-eye lanterns, and clustered omniously about the speakers.

In response to Clive’s angry protest, the chief had simply reiterated his order, adding that his department was responsible for the city's peace and quiet, and that the crowd showed an inclination to riot. Nor could the Arm of the Law be shaken from this stand. The audience during the colloquy between Standish and the chief had grown impatient, and an occasional catcall or shrill whistle had risen from the darkened auditorium. At each of these sounds the police had gripped their nightsticks and glanced with a fine apprehension at their leader for commands. The upshot of the matter had been the forced dismissal of the spectators. Standish had scouted Ansel’s suggestion that the whole catastrophe was a ruse of Conover’s, until, as he walked down the dark aisle toward the door, he heard a policeman whisper:

“I was waitin’ for the chief to give some of us the tip tp pinch him.” “An’ let him make a noise like a martyr?” grunted a second voice easily recognized as Billy Shevlin’s. "You must think the Boss is as balmy in the belfry as you blue lobsters. He’d ’a’ had Geoghegan broke if he’d —” The rest of the reply had been lost No other disengaged hall could be found in the vicinity; and the meeting from which Clive had expected so much had gone by the board. He walked home in a daze of chagrin. How could he hope to fight a man who employed such weapons; who swayed such power in every city department; who thus early in the campaign showed plainly he would stop at nothing in beating his opponent? Then the young candidate’s teeth clenched tight, and the sullen grit that for so many centuries has carried the bulldog race of yellow-haired, strong jawed Anglo-Saxons to victory against hopeless odds came to his aid. He shook his big shoulders as if tossing off some physical weight, entered his rooms and switched on the electric light.

On his study table lay a special delivery letter, neatly typewritten, as was the single sheet of foolscap it contained. Standish glanced at the bottom of the page. There was no signature. Then he read: “The date for the various county conventions has not been formally’ set It is unofficially given as a week from Saturday. Instead, the caucus will be held in three of the eight counties next Saturday. The Machine’s men know this. The League's don’t. It will be sprung as a surprise, with two days notice instead of the customary seven This will keep many of the League's people from attending. At the Bowden and Jericho caucuses telegrams will be received saying you have withdrawn. “At Matawan and Haldane the regular delegates will be notified to meet at the town halls. While they are waiting outside the locked front doors, the county chairman and his own crowd will step in the back way and hold their caucus and elect their delegates. Floaters will be brought into several counties. In Wills County the chairman will fail to hear the names of your delegates. Have your manager arrange for the Wills men to bolt at the right time. Force the State Committee at once to declare the date for the county conventions. Notify the League's men at Matawan and Haldane of the ’back door’ trick, and have the telegraph operators at Jericho and Bowdon warned not to receive or transmit any fake message of your withdrawal. “On your State tour you will find newspapers closed to your speeches and advertisements, and a number of the halls engaged before you get to town. Arrange for injunctions restraining the papers from barring your

notices, and have someone go ahead of you to secure halls. And arrange for police protection to break up rowdyism at your meetings.” Clive Standish read and re-read this remarkable epistle. That It had come from the Conover camp he could not doubt. He had heard, before Caleb’s hint of the previous afternoon, that there was a certain discontent and vague rumor of treachery, in more than one-of the multifarious branches of the Boss’s business and political interests. For the unexpected strength developed by the Civic League and “the eloquence of, its candidate had shaken divers of the enemy’s less resolute followers, and more than one of these might readily seek to curry favor with the winning side by 'casting just such an anchor to windward In any case, there was the letter. Its author’s identity, for the moment was of no great matter. _ "Anonymous!” mused Standish, ing with the missive with strong taste. “Is It a trick of Conover's or a bit of treachery on the part of the men he trusts? In either case, there’s only one course a winner can take with a thing of this kind. Picking up the letter. he crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the fireplace. “Better not say anything about it to Ansel,” he decided as he watched the paper twist open under the heat and break into blaze. “He’d only Call me a visionary crank again. And if It’s a trap, the precautions he’d take would play straight into Conover’s hand.”

Some blocks away, in his Pompton Avenue Mausoleum, the Railroader was giving final orders to the henchmen to whom he had intrusted the details of watching Standish’s forthcoming tour. And some of these same details he had even intrusted to the unenthusiastic Gerald.

CHAPTER VIII. Caleb Works at Long Range. CLIVE Standish opened his upstate tour the following night in the small town of 4228EJ Wayne. It was a farming centre, and the hall was tolerably well, filled with bearded and tanned men who had an outdoor look. Some of them had brought their wives; sallow, dyspeptic, angular creatures with the patient, dull faces of women who live close to nature and are too busy to profit thereby. 1 The audience listened Interestedly as Clive outlined the Boss-ridden condition of the Mountain State, the exorbitant cost of transporting and handling agricultural products, the unjust taxes that fell so heavily on the farmer and the wage-earner, the false system of legislation and the betrayal of the people’s rights by the men they were bamboozled into electing to represent them and protect their interests. He went on to tell how New York and other States had from time to time risen and shaken off a similar yoke of Bossism, and to show how, both materially and in point of selfrespect, the voters of the Mountain State could profit by following such examples. In closing he briefly described the nature, aims and purposes of the Civic League and the practical reforms to which he himself stood pledged. It did Clive’s heart good to see how readily his audience responded in interest to his pleas. He had not spoken ten minutes before he felt he had his house with him. He finished amid a salvo of applause. His hearers flocked about him as he came down from the platform, shaking, his hand, asking him questions, praising his discourse. One big farmer slapped him on the back, crying: “You’re all right, Mr. Standish! If you can carry out all you've promised, I guess Wills County’ll stand by you, solid. But why on earth didn’t you advertise you was comin’ to Wayne to-night? If it hadn’t been for your agent that passed through here yesterday and told some of the boys at the hotel and the postofflce, you wouldn't ’a’ had anyone to hear you. If we’d known what was comin', this hall’d ’a’ been packed.” “But surely you read my advertisements in your local papers!” exclaimed Clive, “I—”

“We sure didn’t read anything of the kind.” retorted a dairyman. “I read everything in the Wayne Clarion, from editorials to soap ads., an’ there hasn’t been a line printed about your meetin’.” “I sent my agent ahead to place paid advertisements with every paper along my route," said the puzzled Standish. “And you say he was in town here yesterday. So he couldn’t have skipped Wayne. I’ll drop in on the editor of the Clarion on my way to the station and ask him why the advertisement was overlooked.” Accordingly, a half-hour later, en route for the midnight train, Standish sought out the Clarion office and demanded an Interview with its editor-in-chief. *‘l -guess that’s me," observed a fat, shirt-sleeved man, who looked from his task of tinkering with a linotype machine's Inner mysteries. "I'm Mr. Gerrett, editor-in-chief, managing editor, city editor, too. My repertorlal staff's out to supper, this being pay day and he being hungry. Were you wanting to subscribe or—? Take a chair, anyhow,” he broke off, sweep'ng a pile of proofs off a three-legged stool. ’’Now, what can I do for you?" “My name is Standish," began Clive, "and I called to find out why—” "Oh!” The staccato monosyllable served as clearing house for all Gerretts genial'ty, for he froze—as much as a stout and perspirng man can -Into editorial super-dignity. Aware that the atmosphere had congealed but without un-

derstanding Clive continued: “My agent called here, did he not? And left an advertisement of—” “Yes,” snapped Garrett, “he did. I was out. He left it with my foreman with the cash for it. I mailed a check for the amount this morning to your League headquarters at Granite." “But why? The advert—” "The ad.’s in my waste-basket. Now, as this is my busy night, maybe you’ll clear out and let"—” "Look here!” said Clive, sternly, and refusing to notice the opened door, ‘‘what does this mean?" ~~~ ~~~~ “It means we don’t want your ads. nor your money.” “Were you too crowded for space and had to leave the advertisement out?” . " “No, we weren’t. We don’t want any dealings with you or the alleged ‘League’ you’re running. That’s all. Ain’t that plain enough?” "No,” answered Clive, tryinglo keep coo1, “I want a reason.” “You’ll keep on wanting, it, then. I’m boss of this office, and —” "The real boss? I doubt it. If you were, what reason would you have for turning away paid advertisements? I may do you an injustice, my friend, but I think you’re acting under orders.” “You’re off!” shouted Gerrett, reddening. “I run this paper as I choose. And I don’t take orders from any man. I—” “Nor passes? Nor freight rebates on paper rolls, and —”

“D’ye mean to insult me?

“D’ye mean to insult me?” bellowed Gerrett, wallowing forward, threatening as a fat black thundercloud, “I’ll have you know —” “I don’t think,” replied Clive calmly, and receding not a step, “I don’t think you could be insulted, Mr. Gerrett. You are making rather a pitiful exhibition of yourself. Why not own up to it you are acting under orders of the ‘Machine,’ whose tool you are? The ‘Machine’ which is so afraid of the truth that it takes pains to muzzle the press. The ‘Machine’ that is so well aware of its own rottenness, it dare not let the people whom it is defrauding hear the other side of the case. Why not admit you are bought?” Gerrett was sputtering unintelligible wrath. “Get out of my office!” he roared at last. “Certainly,” assented Standish, “I’ve learned all I wanted to. You serve your masters well. I hope they pay you as adequately.” He turned to the door. Before he reached It a thin youth with inksmears on his fingers swung in. "Hard luck!” exclaimed the newcomer. "That Standish meeting’s raised a lot of Interest downtown. Pity we can’t run anything on ’it! It’d make a dandy first-page spread.” "Shut up!” bellowed Gerrett "You young—” "Don’t scold him,” counselled Standish, walking out. “He dldnt make any break. We’re all three in the secret." (To be Continued.)

CASTOR IA BOr Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of C+uLf-Jj' Church of God. Elder S. J. Lindsay, of Oregon, 111., will preach at the Church of God next Sunday at 10:45 a, m., and 7 p. m. Everybody cordially Lyceum Course Dates. Jan. 31.—Maclnnes Neilson. March 10.-Sarah Mildred Willmer. April 14.—The Bohannans. John W. Nowels will offer 15 head of cattle, 8 of which are extra good milk cows, at his sale, Feb. sth. "I have four children, a husband out of work, and nothing to eat,’< wrote a New York mother to President Taft In a letter received at the White House Wednesday, inclosing two $lO Confederate notes which She asked to have redeemed. 'f— ’ If yo uwant a good horse or cow attend 8. B. Lowman’s sale on Feb. 7th. A Classified Adv. will find it

See George F. Meyers’ list of Farms tor Sale in another column. J. C. Ashby, of came today to visit Albert Witham. Attorney William Guthrie, of Monticello, was a Rensselaer visitor today. Mr. and Mrs. Elizur Sage and son, Kermit, made a trip to Lafayette today. t Special low prices on suits and overcoats. See window display. The G. E. MURRAY Co. Ben Smith, the cement contractor, is sick at his home on North Forest street. Mrs. Allie Potts and Mrs. Mary Powell went to Monon today for a short visit. .. W. H. AVortley, trustee of Jordan township, made a. business trip to Lowell today. Miss Eva Sutton, of Lafayette, came last evening to visit Miss Georgia Harris. Mrs. J. W. Williams and Mrs. C. H. Porter and J. W. Stockton made a trip to MonOn today.

Men’s heavy-fleeced Union Suits, SI.OO value, 75c. The G. E. MURRAY Co. Ed Duvall, Jr., went to Indiana Harbor today, where he has procured a job as an electrician. Miss Eastham and Miss Stover, two teachers in the ' Rensselaer schools, went to Chicago this afternoon.— Feb. sth is the date of John W. Nowels’ farm and stock sale, 2 miles north and 2 miles west of Rensselaer. Mrs. W. B. Yeoman and daughter left today tor Monon and will go from there to their home at Columbia City. H. W. Wood, Jr., township trustee, has completed his removal to the D. T. Halstead property, on East Cedar street. The new ones for spring are here. Big reductions on the Old Ones. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Mrs. Senia Jenkins and two sons returned to Wheatfield yesterday. They came here to attend the funeral of Amy Deer. J. W. Paxton and wife, of South Bend, came this morning for a visit until tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Kate R. Watson and others. ... If your shoes don’t wear to suit you, buy the Barnyard. We guarantee them. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Mrs. W. H. Haskell, of Clinton, Ind., who has been making a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. Wm. F. Clarke and family, left this morning for Terre Haute. Miss Alice Shedd went to Otterbein this afternoon to sing tonight at a recital being given by the high school. Miss Shedd taught school there for two or three years.

Reed’s Cushion Sole shoes are the shoes for this wet weather. They assure dry feet, so essential to good health. ~ Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Mrs. George Steinkamp and children and Mrs. Jane Collins, of Huntington, Ind., returned to their home today, after a ten days’ visit with her mother, Mrs. Clara Biggs. Mrs. C. E. Green, of Hamilton, N. Dak, who has been visiting B. F. Barnes and family, and Mrs. J. T. Murray went to Kniman yesterday afternoon, and returned this morning. The D. A. R. will meet with Mrs. G. E. Murray Saturday afternoon at 2:30. The program will be as follows; “My Trip Abroad,” Miss Shedd; vocal solo, by Mrs. H. J Kannal. Judge Hanley and Attorney Frank Foltz went to Kentland this morning. The William T. Beahler will case will come up there today. The case of S. C. Irwin vs. Everett Halstead was also set to be tried there today. James and George Kennedy and sister, Mrs. Mary Taylor, went to St. Anne, 111., today, where their sister, Mrs. C. H. Mustard, formerly of this place, was expecting to undergo an operation for the removal of a cancer.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stewart, of Hanging Grove township, drove to town this morning and went from here via train to Montmorenci for a visit of several days with their son, Rev. O. 8. Stewart, pastor of the M. E. church at that place. H. T. Farris and J. S. Maddox, who built the open part of the Mitchell ditch, were down from Gillam township this morning getting part of the money for their work All is due but part of the assessments have not been paid. Miss Caroline Flint left this morning for Bowman, N. Dak., where she is proving up a claim. She has been spending the winter with her parents, Mr. ‘and Mrs. E. E. Flint. She was accompanied to the west by M. A. Tripp, of Marmouth, N. Dak., who had been visiting the Flint family for several days. Mr. Tripp is the station agent for the Milwaukee railroad at Marmouth.

FAIR EXCHANGE. . t . f' A New Back for an Old One—How a Made a Bad Back Strong. ' —— The back aches at times with h dull, indescribable feeling, making you weary and restless; piercing pains shoot across the region of the kidneys, and again the loins are so lame that to stoop is agony. No use to rub or apply a plaster to the back if the kidneys are weak: You cannot reach the cause. Follow the example of this Rensselaer citizen. ' J. C. Carmichael, Webster & Vine Sts., Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I suffered from’ lame back and sharp, shooting pains through my loins. The kidney secretions passed too frequently, especially at night, and thus my rest was broken. Nothing relieved me until I procured Doan’s Kidney Pills from Fendig’s Drug Store. This preparation not only corrected the kidney weakness but relieved my aches and pains and improved my condition in , every way. Doan’s Kidney Pills are worthy of all the praise given them.” 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.

FARMS FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE 22 acres, improved, near good town, $l,lOO. 21 acres, tour 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 bargain 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, •%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 buildings, 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. xji. » i i in hi, | THE BEST / REMEDY I RHEUMATISM 1 ■ Lumbago, Sciatica, Gout, Neural- B ■ gia, Kidney Troubles, Catarrh and R ■ Asthma B I “5-DROPS” 1 STOP THE PAIN B ■ Gives Quick Relief ■ ,B It stops the aches and pains, ra- R 3| Hevea swollen Joints and musoles n fl —acts almost Hke mairic. DestroiM ■ fl the excess uric acid and is quick. ■ M safe and sure in its results. No ■ 3 Other remedy like it. Sample B 5 free on request. S ' SOLD BY DRUGGISTS B - B One Dollar per bottle, or sent pre- B B paid upon receipt of price if not S ■ obtainable in your locality. B W SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO. > IM Lake Street Chleqi Constipation,Slok ■ Saur Stomach, Belohlng and 1 B Liver Troubles. 280 Per Wsj*” at Druggists. ./y EMA 1 A