Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1913 — Page 3

CMoago to NortkweoA XndlanapoUa CbudaiMti, aad tl» South, Xrtratovlßs m 4 French Itofc Spztngi. IHMSIULD XX3KN XABLB. In Effect November >4, J 913. SOUTH BOUND. No. Sl—Fact Mail 4:44 a. at No. 4—LoulsvUle Mail .... 11:44 a. m. No. 37—Indpla. Ex. ....... 11:33 a. n No. 33—Hoosier Limited .. 3:04 p. m No. 39—Milk Accom. 4:34 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Ex. .... 11:05 p. m. NORTHBOUND. No. 4—Louisville Mail ... 4:58 a. m No. 40—Milk Accom. ...... 7:33 Am No. 83—Fast Mall 14:13 a. m No. 38 —Indplß-Chxo. EX. .. 3:39 p. m No. 4— Louisville Mall AEx 3:38 p. m No. 39—Hoosier Limited ■ , p. m Train Na 31 makes connections at Monon for Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 8:14 a. m. No. 14. leaving Lafayette at 4:30, connects with No. 30 at Monon arriving at Rensselaer at 4:03 p. m. Trains Nos. 80 and 33, the “Hooelet Limited." run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. A D. Service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. W. H. BEAM. Agent

PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr. L M. WASHBURN. , physician and subgeon. Makes a specialty of diseases of th* Eyes. Over Both Brothers. SCHUYLER 0. IRWIN LIW, BEAD ESTATE, INSUBANOE. ‘ 2 per cent farm loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. ~ E. P. HO&AN ATTOBNEY AT LAW. Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Real Estate. Will practice in al) the courts. All business attended tr With promptness and dispatch. Bensselaer, Indiana. H. L. BROWNDENTIST. Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods in Dentistry. Gas ad ministered for painless extraction. Office over Larch's Drug Store. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYEB. (Successor 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 subgeon. Office opposite Trust and Savings Bank. Phones: 177—2 rings for office; 8 rings for residence. Bensselaer, Indiana. Dr. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on SOO, real dence—3 rings on 800. Successfully treats both acute and ?hronic diseases. Spinal curvatures s specialty. Dr. E. N. LOT Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell. HOMEOPATHIST. Office—Frame building bn Cullen street east of court house. OFFICE PHONE B®. Residence College Avenue, Phone IM XndUuuu F. H. HEMPHILL, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUBGEON. 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. cxtt ornoni Mayer ~.G. F. Meyer* Marshal W. R. Shesler Clerjt_•.•Chas. Marian Treasurer ....R. D. Thompson Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Councilman. Jst Ward George W. Hopkina 2nd Ward ..D. E. Grow 3rd Ward .....Harry Krealar At LargeC. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Rensselaer, Indiana. Prosecuting Attorney... Fred Longwall Brook, Indiana. Terms of Court—Second Monday la February, April, September and Novenaler. Four week terms. comm orrioua. Clara Judson H. Perkin* Sheriff W. L Hoover AuditorJ. P. Hammond Treasurer A. A. Fell Recorder Geo. W. Scott Surveyor Devere Yeoman Coroner,W. J. Wright Supt Public Schools.... Ernest Lamsoa County Assessor.. John Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy OOKXIIUOnM. Ist District Wm. H. Harshman 2nd District.... Charles F. Stackhouse 2nd District Chas. A. Welch Commissioners’ Court meets the Firs’ Monday of each month. county boakd of ibuoatioi. Trustees Township Wm. Folgerßarkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. SelmerGillam George Parker.. Hanging Grow W. H. Wortley..Jordan Tunis SnipKeftier John Shlrer.....Kankakee H. W. Wood, Jr.;......Marion George L. Parks...Milroy K. P. Lane Newton lOM Kight.Union Albert 8. Keane..Wheatfield Fred Kareh....,Walter Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt....RsMseUer Geo. A. Williams....Roteseiaor James H. Green ReoUngton Geo. a StembelWheatfield Truant Officer, a Bl Steward. Renees Wise Calling Cards—printed or en graved; correct sizes and type faeea. Let The Republican have your next order.

CALEB CONOVER Railroader

By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

. A Copyright, 1907. Albert Payson Terhune

CHAPTER XX. Election Day. ' RAIN, which Caleb Conover had so eagerly desired as a check on fair weather reformers’ Election Day zeal, began soon after midnight, and with it a gale that is still remembered as the “Big November Wind." The windwhips lashed the many-windowed Mausoleum, and the roar and swirl of dashing water echoed from roof and veranda-cover. A belated equinoctial was sweeping the Mountain State, driven on the breath of a tornado such as not one year in twenty can record, east of the Mississippi. Yet none of the three members of the Conover family, sheltered within the Mausoleum, were awakened by the bellow of the cyclone, for none were asleep. Gerald, despite the early start he must make in the morning, was still dressed, and was slouching back and forth in his suite of apartments, muttering occasionally to himself, and at other times pausing to gaze lifelessly ahead of him. He shambled into an inner chamber, unlocked and opened a drawer in his chiffonier, fumbled for a moment or two with something he took therefrom, then closed and locked the drawer and returned to the light. In a few moments the nervousness had died out of his face and bearing, and with a return of his habitual listless air. he had resumed his walk.

Caleb Conover, stretched on a campbed in the corner of hla study, smiled contentedly as the rain beat in torrents on the panes. But when the gale waxed fiercer and the rain at last ceased, he frowned. “Going to blow off clear and cold after all!" he grumbled, turning over. “And the Weather Bureau’s the only one that can’t be ‘fixed.’" But even the shriek of the storm could not long hold his attention. The Railroader was vaguely troubled as to himself. Heretofore, like Napoleon’s, his steel will had been able to dictate to Nature as imperiously as to his fellow-man. Now he had acquired an unpleasant habit of lying awake for hours in that big lonely study of his, of seeking in vain to recover his old-time power of perfect self-mastery. He thought of Blanche? Yes. there was a nice sort of complication, wasn’t it? Another international marriage and the usual ending thereof. “These foreigners can give us poor Yankee jays cards and spades at the bunco game!” he mused, half-admir-ingly. “They beat our ‘con’ men hands down, for they don’t even need to pay out cash in manufacturing green goods and gold bricks, and they don’t get jugged when they’re found out When’ll American girls get sense? When their parents do, I presume." Even the very patent fiasco attendant on his one conspicuous effort to use this relationship as a master key

RESULTS TELL.

There Can Be No Doubt About the Result in Rensselaer. Results tell the tale. All doubt is removed. The testimony of a Rensseiaer citizen Can be easily investigated. What better proof can be had? Mrs. F. W. Rutherford, College Ave., Rensselaer, Ind-, says: “I have no reason to alter my high opinion of Doan’s Kidney Pills which I publicly professed some years ago. I have even greater confidence in this remedy than I did then, for I found it to be just as represented. I was badly in need of something that would relieve my -suffering. My back ached most of the time and I felt languid and had no ambition. I had dizzy spells and headaches and there were many other symptoms of kidney trouble. When I read that Doan’s Kidney Pills were a good remedy for such complaints, I procured a box at Fendig’s Drug Store and they brought prompt relief. I am seldom without a supply of Doan’s Kidney Pills in the house and I find that a few doses now and then, keep my kidneys in good working order. Others of my family have taken Doan’s Kidney Pills and in each case the results have been of the best.” 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.

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to the portals of society had not wholly discouraged him. Later, when, practically by acclamation, he should have won the Governorship, and when the Princess d’Antri's European triumphs should be noised in Granite, surely then— But now there was no question of acclamation. If he should win it would be by bare margin. He knew that. And, as for Blanche —well, if he could keep the worst of the scandal out of the American papers and make people think his daughter had come home merely because her husband abused her, or because she was tired of her surroundings—if he could achieve this much it would be the best he could expect Gerald, too; he had hoped so much from the boy’s glittering New York connections. Now that Illusion was forever gone. Though his son's more recent behavior had in a slight measure softened the hurt to paternal pride and hope, yet the hurt itself, Caleb khew, must always remain. And that particular pride and hope were forever dead. In a quaint twist of thought over the Biblical story of Job that he had heard on one of his rare visits to church Conover, as he lay staring up into the dark and listening to the noisy rage of the storm, fell to fitting the story to his own case. “The first message I got,” he reflected, becoming grimly entertained in his own analogy, “knocked over my plans for Jerry. Then the second stole from me the only square woman I ever knew and all my chances of a campaign walkover. The third smashed my ideas for Blanche,. and for making a hit in society. The fourth —well, I guess the fourth ain’t showed up yet. Will it clean me out when it does come, I wonder, like it did the feller in the Bible? Let’s see, he had a whiny fool for a wife, too, if I remember it straight Yes, there’s a- whole lot of points in common between me and him. I wonder if he ever run for any office. How was it all those messages of his wound up? ’And—and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.’ That was it.”

After which plunge into the theological exegesis—the first and last whereof he ever was guilty—Caleb Conover turned his thoughts to the morrow’s election, and thus communed with himself till dawn caught him openeyed and unsleepy, his splendid strength and energy in nowise diminished by forty-eight hours of wakefulness. It was a tattered, desolate world that met the Railroader’s eyes as he gazed down from his window across the broad grounds and over the city that lay at their foot. The wind had fallen, and a pink-gray light was filling the clean-swept sky. Nature seemed ashamed to look on the results ,-of her own violence, for the dawnlight crept timidly over the sleeping houses. And, with the first glimmers In the east, the people of city and State were afoot, for history was to be made. Election Day had begun.

CHAPTER XXI. The Fourth Messenger of Job. MIDNIGHT had again come IMI around. The election was long since over, yet the city did not ring with the uproar incident .on such affairs. For the result was not yet known. The storm of the previous night had cut off telegraph and telephone communication in twenty parts of the Mountain State. Granite itself was isolated. Hundreds of mechanics were at work repairing! the various lines of broken wire and replacing overthrown poles. But the work had not yet sufficiently progressed to allow the full transmission of election returns from the up-State counties. Train service remained unimpaired, save for an occasional broken trestle one or two of the minor branches of the C. G. & X. And since nightfall some of the returns had been brought to Granite by rail, but these merely proved the closeness of the conflict, and gave no true hint as to the actual outcome. The Granite .vote was all in, hours ago. From the slums and the dark places of the city’s underworld the long-trained servants of the Machine had swarmed to the polls, overwhelming all opposition from the smaller and more respectable element, and had carried Granite tumultuously for Conover.

The Railroader, with a dozen or more men, sat about the big centre table. The Railroader, with a dozen or more men—district leaders, ward captains and picked adherents of his own —eat about the big centre table of his study, an Arthur, somewhat changed fit the modernizing and surrounded by

news, “Conover 7,910, Standish 5. 495.” "Why don’t we hear from Grafton?" asked Staatz. “They’re patching up the connection now," answered the operator. "It’s the farthest city -on the line. You’ve got all the rest of the returns from its county.” “That place is a regular nest of reformers, from the mayor down,” commented Bourke. “And besides, Standish won a lot of votes by his grandstand scrap in the op’ra house there last month. It looks bad.” “Most reform places do after they’ve tried a dose of their own medicine for awhile,” answered Caleb. “But we’ve spent enough good dough there to square the whole noble army of martyrs. I guess Grafton’s O. K.” “Boss,” said Billy Shevlin, “you’re the only man in this whole shootin' match what ain’t all hectic over this fight. An’ you’re the one man who’s IT or out in th’ woolly white snow accordin’ to th’ way that genial beast of prey th’ free independent an’ otherwise bought-up voters jumps. Ain’t you worried none?” “What good’d that do? No use paying twice, if there’s anything to worry about And if there ain’t, what’s the use of wasting a lot of good anxiety?" Again the footman came in. This time not with coffee, but with a card. “I thought I told Gaines I wasn’t to be broke in oh this evening," began Conover, glowering at the intruder. “Say I can’t see anyone. I’m busy, and —” But he changed his mind. He had taken the card as he spoke. Now, as he read it. he said: “I’ll be back in a few minutes, boys My New York lawyer wants me for something.” He left the study and hurried downstairs to where, in the hall, a man stood awaiting him.

“Come in here, Wendell,” directed the Railroader, shaking hands with his new guest, and leading the way to the library. “What’re you doing in this part of the country? Glad to see you.” “I bring you bad news—very bad news, I am afraid,” began the lawyer as Conover closed the library door behind them. “I know that," snapped Caleb. “I knew it as soon as I saw your face, but I didn’t want you shouting it out in the hall where my butler could hear you. That’s why I—well, what is it? Tell me. can’t you?" "Your son—” “Yes, Jerry, of course. I knew that, too. But what’s he done this time?” “This is, as I said, a very serious—” “Good Lord, man! I didn’t suppose you’d took a four-hour train ride from New York a night like this to tell me he’d won a ping pong prize or joined the Y. M. C. A. The chap that’s got to have news broke to him has a head too thick for truth to be let into it any other way. Don’t stand there like a lump of putty. What’s up?” The lawyer, flushing at the coarse invective, spared the father no longer. He spoke, and to the point.

“Your son,” he arid, "is in the police station on a charge of murder." "Your son,” he said, "is in the West Thirtieth Street police station on a charge of murder.” Conover looked at him without a start, without visible emotion. For a full half minute he made no reply, no comment Nor did his light, keen eyes flicker or turn aside. Then —and Wendell feared from his words that the tidings had turned Caleb’s brain—the Railroader muttered, half to himself: " ‘And 1 only am escaped alone to tell thee.’” (To be Continued.)

Notice to the Public About Paper Hanging.

Why are you paying fancy prices for paperhanging. We do not charge extra for trimming your paper. I have not raised prices. My prices remain just the same as in former years. One price to all; No premiums asked. I do not belong to any trust or combination. Don’t wait; first called, first served. Thanking you for past favors, I remain, Yours for business, W. 8. Richards & Son, Phone 331, Rensselaer, Ind. Painting, paperhanging and decorating.

President Taft’s order placing 4th class postmasters under the protection of civil service is to be attacked in congress. This was made evident Tuesday when Representative Ferris, of Oklahoma, introduced a bill to revoke the executive order issued on Oct. 15, 1912, and restore the 4th class offices to the spoils system.

LIVE STOCK

CHOICE MUTTON AND LAMB. Large Profits for Farmers Who Make a Specialty of the Mutton Breeds. It has been claimed by those who have'tried the experiment that sheep will eat a more extensive variety of plants than any other domestic animal. Hence the great value of sheeo on a farm where weeds and bushes abound. The weeds will be eaten generally as readily as the grasses This taste for a variety extends to dried weeds found in hay or straw, which makes sheep practically omnivorous of vegetable matter, and this propensity * also makes the sheep a useful animal in utilizing otherwise waste products of the farm. While there are many farmers who believe that the fine wool sheep are profitable, yet the majority of those interested in sheep are giving their attention to the mutton breeds, which not only produce wool, hut also grow to large size, afford superior lambs for market, and enrich the land.- Investigation of the sheep industry by the Department of Agriculture shows that this country does not supply itself with mutton. Sheep will give a large profit on valuable land, which Is demonstrated by the fact that in England and Scotland, where rents are high, the best lands are devoted to sheep. In this country the average is about 25 sheep on 1000 acres, while in Scotland the average is 1380 sheep per 1000 acres, England sustaining 680 sheep on 1000 acres. Tn United States we have made wool the special object in keeping sheep, but in England and Scotland the wool is secondary, the preference being for choice mutton, and the use of mutton breeds of sheep only. Occasionally a prime carcass is sold at a high price on the stalls of some leading American market, and yet the same quality of mutton is found in every market in Great Britain; in fact, the mutton sold here, coming as it does largely from crossbreeds and cqmmon sheep, would be almost unsalable in Europe, for the reason that we have allowed the opportunity of securing large profits to pass by in the vain effort to make wool alone pay instead of wool and choice mutton. Farmers in the United States are becoming aware of the mistakes of the past, and the best specimens of mutton breeds of sheep have been selected in England and imported into this country, with the result that the value of the sheep in the United States is greater than evei before. Many experiments have been made in feeding the mutton breeds, in order to give the farmers full information regarding their use, the Government having issued bulletins which will po doubt greatly assist in fostering the breeding of mutton sheep. It is not to be overlooked that farmers should abandon the belief that sheep are self-supporting, as the keeping of sheep on hillsides, and with liberty to roam at will, producing wool but inferior carcassess, is not profitable, compared with providing the sheep with shelter, good pasturage, grain and special care when the lambs come in. It is possible that more expense must be Incurred with the mutton breeds than with the fine-wool sheep, but the profits will be larger, and less land will be required for obtaining the same profit than can be derived from inferior sheep.

Sow and Pig Brooder House.

J. P. Gognot, Lawrence Co., 111., a very successful hog breeder, has devised what he calls a handy sow and pig. brooder house, it la used

SOW AND PIG BROODER HOUSE, for a sow with pigs only, but may also be used for pigs after weaning, or even mature hogs. It is also a handy small house for other purposes about the farm and may be used for temporary storage of fruits and vegetables. Being on runners and without a floor, it may be hauled to the field and placed over potatoes, or other vegetables, piled in heaps on frosty nights. This sow and pig house is practically a roof on runners. It is 6xß feet, inside measurments. The runners fire 2xß inch boards. Four rafters are made of 2x4 inch stuff and four matched Ix 3 boards. The roofing is made of Georgia pine ship lap, and the gables are pine siding. The house is 5 feet high at the ridge, and the cost of material at this point is |5,00, not counting paint. Such a house kept well painted should last ten to twenty years, and pay for itself many times over.

Sheep Notes.

Don’t deny yonr flock shade and water, and don’t forget salt. Feed heavily, but sensibly, and market as early as possible. Teach the ram to lead; it mates him tractable sad managable.

REMINGTON.

Coleman Merritt spent Tuesday 4n Logansport. The junior to senior banquet was held Thursday evening.. Will Beal purchased a new Richmond touring car last week. Mrs. Rowe Robinson left Tuesday to visit her sister in Chicago. A church erection social is being; prepared for Thursday, May Ist. ~ A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Brown Thursday of last week. Blanchard Elmore came through from Indianapolis in a Richmond Sunday. Mails are still very uncertain, but the train schedules are regular once more. The last number of the lecture course will be on Saturday evening, April 19th. John Zimmerman is giving the interior of his meat market a new coat of paint. Next Sabbath the communion sevice will be observed in the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Hargreaves was in Illinois last week visiting relatives in Clifton and Kankakee. Mrs. Blanchard Elmore spent last week visiting relatives in Earl Park, returning Saturday evening. The Woman’s Missionary Society is dated to meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Frank Peck. Mr. Zink resigned his position in the Hensler meat market last week. Claude Maxwell will take his place. The Presbyterian Tea last week cleared the- ladies the neat sum of S2O, although the weather was threatening. A congregational meeting last Sunday resulted In the election of new trustees and deacons, several being re-elected. Irene Balcom, who is teaching music in the public schools at Covington, Ind., is home this week for the spring vacation, Bids for the contract of erecting the Presbyterian church are now in the hands of the building committee, Messrs. John Wilson, Frank Howard and Fred Burger. Clubs. The Fortnightly Club was scheduled for Wednesday of this week, the hostesses being Mrs. McNary and Mrs. Washbum at the home of the latter. Mrs. Rowe Robinson will receive the Sew & Sew Club on Friday, May 2, there being no session until that date. The Study Club met Monday evening with Miss Musselman. The annual will be given at an early date. The Federation play is dated for Friday evening, April 11th. The Library will be located in the old bank room and opened at an early date. Several of our club ladies are planning to attend the district club convention in Rensselaer. < The Dance Club had an evening of pleasure Tuesday of this week.

HANGING GROVE.

Mrs. R. L. Bussell and Mrs. Chas. Ferguson were in Rensselaer Thursday. Joseph W. Nagel has moved to the former McAffee farm, and will manage the land for J. J. Lawler, the present owner. All the schools in this township will close .this week, except the Moore. Some will be out Friday and some on Saturday. Saturday the teachers gathered at the Banta school for a final social picnic. They took their dinners and spent the entire day having a good time. John Herr has shipped in a car load of cedar posts from Michigan and contemplates building a lot of new fence this spring. He is also counting on building a new house this summer. Sam Cook motored over near Reynolds Sunday afternoon with a party of young folks in their Jaekson car. They did not get far enough south to see much damage wrought by high water. Mr. and Mrs. Ringelsen moved to Rensselaer Monday. They are located in the west part of town near the cemetery. Ther daughter, Mrs. John Wilkins, and two children will also make their home with her parents. Chas. Erb found a package near his home on the stone road Monday evening which contained a new pair of overalls, and if the party who lost them is depending on them for a change of clothes he can have same by calling on Mr. Erb. G. W. Hobson is putting in a tile ; along the public road south of Parker and running past his house. This will be an excellent improvement, as it will drain some mud puddles in the road that have been quite a nuisance. The township is to pay a portion of the expense, according to the benefit derived.

Better Order Cemetery Work Done Without Delay.

If you want work done at the cemetery now Is the time to arrang.' for It The work is more easily done In the spring, the grass gets a better start and It Is impossible to give the best attention to details when the orders are rushed in Just before Memorial Day. Many wanted flower beds last year after the plants were exhausted. us know In time this year and to be sure to be in time do It right away. Weston Celnetery Association, J. EL Holden, Sexton.