Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1920 — Page 4

THE NEW ELLIS OPERA HOUSE yM— i; ft ■ iiiiiiaw— I. I— UI in ii i —. "■ Friday and Saturday, February 6-7 The War Mothers of Jasper Co. Praseat -• ;_: THE COMEDY SUCCESS “THE GIRL UP-STAIRS” Piaiassi wader the personal directions of Miss Alice B. Hughe, ■■■■■WMaaßaamsaßacHWSJsss , 1 । THE CAST A* they first ajipeir: Klaus Penner - --- George Padgitt TinT Alice Witham Jack Pickwick Howard York Arthur Carstairs - -Herald Littlefield Mn. Pickwick — Iva Healey Johnnie * <- By Humelf Vet* Vera______-____—--------------------Luella Harmon Hie Investigator - Louis Miller Algernon Carruthers French Crooks Tootsie Tootsie •==s===ss=====s=s=s=============== SYNOPSIS ■ . Act 1 The Flat Downstairs. Act 11. The Flat Upstairs. Act 111. Same as act one. ~ Curtain 8: IS p. as. Promptly PRICES: Main Floor 50c, tax sc; Logos 35c, tax 4e; Balcony 35c, tax 4c; Gallery 25c, tax Bc. — Seats On sale at Long’s Drug Store.

Fri. and Sat. Specials FLOUR—White Star, made from selected Turkey Red Wheat—guaranteed to be as good as any flour you ever used* regardless of price, or your money refunded. 49 pounds $3.65 24 1-2 pounds $1.85 Pears, Relish Brand No. 4 can, 2 lbs. net, fancy fruit, per can. s .,44c Syrup, White Plume table syrup, 85 per cent corn syrup, 1$ per cent rock candy syrup. Special per gallon 95c Salmon, Cracker jack brand. Regular 30c seller, per can 23c Oranges Head Lettuce * Tangerines Parsnips Grape fruit , t Cabbage Bananas * Sweet Potatoes Apple* Rowles & Parker — Phone 95 Phone 275

IF WE KNEW THEN

WHAT WE KNOW NOW

WE'D HAVE SAVED MONEY

KID WISE

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Diamond Cut Diamond

By JANE BUNKER

CosyrlMit by th. Bobba-Merrlll Comnau* She unpacked. She found a slipper. Where could be its mate? Absentmindedly she thrust her hand into it and found—her gift! “And you see the prophecy was fulfilled,” she told me. “I had been chosen —as the Duval girl said. Everything came out precisely as she predicted —the diamonds really came to me ta Paris, though I didn’t know It at the time; there were seven; they were worth enough to make me financially independent, so I can go on with my work for spiritualism; they came without human knowledge; I found them among my things—every detail was correct” - 7 — - It was t frank, straightforward story, told with a heat of conviction that I think prevented her reading the astonishment that must have kept growing in my face all the time. It was amazing every way I looked at it; the thing that struck me most

It Was Amazing.

was how her memory had slipped one little cog and allowed her belief to roll smoothly off and land her —in Tibet! She thought the box had been sent to her In Paris, but she had worn her slippers on the steamer! I was about to remind her of this as the first Step to what I saw was going to b.e a very painful revelation, when she burst out, “But how could he have known about the diamonds? — that I had them in Paris. The only way I can explain it is that either the Duval girl told him —and she was in a trance and wouldn’t have remembered her prophecy—or he’s a wonderful psychic himself. . . . But the audacity of the man —saying he put them in my slipper!” “Claire did,” I corrected, by way of beginning. “It’s the same thing. What a lie — to say they’re his I” I hurried on: “Claire did it on the steamer —the night before we landed. That was how she had been set to smuggle them through the customs house. She didn’t know what was In the box —she thought it a cipher on tissue paper to save her father’s life, and if it was found on her he’d be put to death; but if it was found on you or me—all couldn’t explain, for we didn’t know anything.” “And do you believe that?” Mrs. Delario demanded, her face a picture of amazement —at me! With that I w<mt through the whole story of my experiences with monsieur, adding no comments on her story, but telling only his and Claire’s —and the legend of the diamonds. It took a long time—it took a long nerve. While I talked I did not once look at her—l would not witness the

defeat of Mr deep religious convictions and the dissolution of her hopes. I ended apologetically. “So you see, according to that, the diamonds really belong to the Emperor William," 1 could not bring myself to come opt With It flat-footedly and say they positively did. “Well?" Her tone was so peculiar that I looked up quickly. And her face was a study. She was obviously puzzled, but amazement still held Its ground — amazement at me; pity at me, too. for my credulity. And a moment before I had been almost ready to shed tears over her! “He’s cleverer than I thought,” she commented. “Much. Oh, very much cleverer—if he can deceive you like that “And he's much more dangerous than I thought—be must have very powerful occult Influences working with him, or very remarkable psychics on the earth plane who can get names and dates. And it all shows how careful I’ve got to be. . . . Tm glad you told me. I see how I must guard myself.” I experienced a strong revulsion of feeling toward her--her manner of taking what Td told her gave me a positive shock. Td wasted both my sympathy and my reasoning powers on her. And I saw the machinations she’d be the center of—the wrath of the Emperor William, that rd been threatened with, hounding her, perhaps to death. I must save her from her own folly—l must convince her In spite of herself and for her own good. If I didn’t De Ravenol would before he got through with her, and I hated to think what jtje’d do: he had too much at stake himself to care what happened to her. “But wait a minute,” I struck In boldly; “you’re forgetting that you wore the slippers on the steamer —that knocks Paris: the diamonds could not have been in the slipper when you bought it—or while you were in Paris.” “Why, so I did,” she admitted. And I thought for a second that she wavered —that I had given her belief a serious blow. But if I did it rebounded immediately. “And that makes it only the more wonaerrui!” she cried, and repeated it with delight at the clenching discovery. She did not notice my dry and somewhat disgusted, “It certainly does,” but bubbled on: “It only goes to show their powers—their all-seeing, all-helping powers! They made me the gift in Paris, and then, seeing it might be discovered too soon—at a time the knowledge I possessed such wealth and was smuggling it —though I didn’t know I was smuggling it —but I should have felt I ought to say something at the customs house if I had known it on the steamer — n I cut in with’ positive violence: “You mean they—whoever they are —put the box in your slipper In Paris, then took it out on the steamer so you could wear the slipper—and then put it back after you had worn the slipper? You mean that?” —

“Certainly. Why not V she answered calmly. I declare I could almost have sworn at her! “Why notI” I gasped. “Why—not?” she repeated, looking at me darkly. “If they can put ft there they can take it out —that is simple every-day reason. Why!—you yourself gave me the proof!—you told me it was once in the other slipper—the one you carried off!” In the face of such arguments, seriously put, I was helpless. “If they didn’t, who did?” she demanded. “Remember — Claire never told you she did—that’s what he says—and he’s a consummate scoundrel, capable of any fabrication of the truth to gain his ends and rob a defenseless woman.”. Her question and her face both challenged me—demanded the blow direct; but I ducked the issue in a general protest “But really, Mrs. Delarlo, you know —a million dollars’ worth of diamonds don’t —just happen.” “That’s what makes it so wonderful that it did happen—and to me! —to humble little me, who never could have expected It” Her eyes glowed with mystic fire. “To suspect would have been to doubt God’s providence—his prom-ises-—everything. How could I? How dared I? I had prayed—the prayer had been answered —” she spoke very solemnly, and added: “I would not let myself doubt” "But you hadn’t prayed for diamonds.” “God—and the masters who carry out the, supreme plan—answer prayers in their own way.” She said it as Jf she were admonishing a child, and then snatched- the next argument out ofu)(y mouth. , “Don’t millions

pray every day, on their bended knees, •Give us this day our dally bread'— believing they will get it from a divine source, and Is it any harder for Ged to give the diamonds than a crust?” 1 was defeated. She went on—in a rather unsteady voice—and told mo what she’d thus far held back —the end of the prophecy, not yet fulfilled and that she nightly anticipated: the ultimate revelation and ordination: one of the masters was to wing an invisible flight through the air, straight from Tibet to the room where we sat, and to place upon her bosom the mystic seal —seven blood-red stains, in symbol of seven bleedings of the contrite heart purging Itself of its seven deadly sins. And this. In the last word, is what the diamonds meant to her —the fulfillment of the most passionately cherished aspiration of her life. “He will come—he will follow his gift—it will draw him like a magnet,” she finished joyously. I was put to rout. The very unreasonableness of her belief constituted for It a sort of dignity. It commanded respect by its Isolation and the storms of argument it had withstood. I got out the box of diamonds and handed it to her. She came out of the inner light in which she’d been silently basking. A shadow crossed her face. She started back —but I thrust them into her hand. And with that I rose. “You don’t mean—” she began. “I can’t discuss it any further today,” I said, and I hastened out of the house. It was absolutely the only thing I could do. CTO BE CONTINUED)

AFTER EIGHT YEARS

Rensselaer Testimony Remains Unshaken. Time is the best test of truth. Here is a Rensselaer story that has stood the test of time. It is a story with a point which will come straight home to many of us. Landy McGee, fur dealer, Rensselaer, says: “I suffered from a lame back and such severe pains across my loins thatx I could hardly move. I couldn’t rest well and my kidneys were too active. I used several medicines, but nothing seemed to relieve hie until I got Doan’s Kidney Pills at Fendig’s drug store. The backache and pains in my loins soon left and the kidney secretibns became natural.” OVER EIGHT YEARS LATER, Mr. McGee said: “Doan’s Kidney Pills are still my stand-by. I think they are fine and I am never without them in the house.” Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mr. McGee had. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Rensselaer Christian Science Society hold services every Sunday morning at 10:45. Sunday school at 9:45. Wednesday evening at 7:30. 'Subject Sunday, February Bth, “Spirit.” The public is welcome to attend any service.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH W.- T. Barbre, Pastor Remember the Bible School next Sunday. We hope many who were out last Sunday will be back this Sunday. Help us make last Sunday our low tide. Preparatory to the annual meeting, the pastor will preach next Sunday moniing on “The Scriptural Qualifications and Duties of Church Officers.” Every officer in the chqrch should hear this sermon. Every member of the church has a greater obligation to the chureh now that so many are sick. Be in your place next Sunday. The Intermediates will meet at three o’clock Sunday afternoon. Y.- P. S. C. E. /will meet at six o’clock. Subject: “The Worth While Life,” Miss Lillian Dancke, Leader. Evening preaching service at 7 o’clock. VIRGIE CHURCH. There will be preaching Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Rev. W. T. Barbre will preach. AH are invited. BAPTIST CHURCH. Bible school, 9:30. Public worship at 10:45 a. m. You are invited to attend. Come and join our large Bible, class. ; MRS. SIDNEY ASH, Superintendent.

NOTICE. There win be no meeting of the Health Culture Club until further notice because of the furnace at the library being out of commission. Attorney W. H. Parkinson of Lafayette was in 'Rensselaer today.

William KaMe of Frankfort was in Rensselaer today. Mrs. Charles W. Rhoades went to Chicago this morning. Mrs. E. W. Strecker went to Covington today for a visit with friends. * Mrs. Leo Wolfe of Hammond spet today here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold. A/ttorney P. R. Blue of Wheatfield was looking after legal matters here today. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rowles, Geo. Long, Chas. Pefley and Fred Hemphill went to Chicago this morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bruner of Rantoul, IH., attended the Jacob Wilcox funeral here today. February is acting real springlike and the days Kve been balmy and pleasant. One of the best bulls boughkat the Congress sale will be sold by Amsler and son at the Floyd Amsler farm on Saturday, Feb. 28. Fred Richert of Foresman was in Rensselaer today. Mr. Richert has been at Corydon and from here returned to his home. J ■ ■ —— Fifty nine head of pure bred Shorthorn cows will be sold at the Amsler and Son sale on Saturday, February 28. _ , . --— Mrs. John Kohloff is spending the week with his sister, Mrs. Jesse Graham of Goodland, Mrs. Graham has an attack of appendicitis. Scheurich and Yeoman will sell four cows and two heifers, coming yearlings, at the Amsler pure bred Shorthorn cattle sale. * 111 —■ a ■■■■*>*** Mrs. J. C. Vanatta of Brookston, came today for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Schaupp, who is recoverinng from an attack of grippe. Archie Lee has moved his electrical shop from the building which is to be occupied by the A. F. Long drug store when remodeled to the Stockton building opposite the Republican office. ——

BARKLEY ITEMS

Amos Davisson and family were called to the John Maxwell home last Sunday. Mrs. Fred Markin was confined to her bed with the grippe the first of the week. Mary and Pearline Williams spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Williams. John Johnson, hired man of Ralph Moore was taken to bis home Tuesday on account of illness. Jud Adams, wife and Alice Sigman were guests at the Charlie Moody home last Sunday. Jesse Eldredge was quite sick the first of the week. The Pleasant Lawn school was closed last week on account of the illness- of the teacher, Miss Irene Price. The school is closed this week on account of sickness in the homes and among the children. ■ Mrs. Paul Hall and baby daughter returned to their home Saturday. Wm. Snedeker is confined to the house with illness at this writing. Miss Viola Wolf spent several days last week visiting her sister, Mrs. Williard Tanner. Mrs. Tom Walters is suffering from the effects of a very severe cold. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moore had as their guest for several days, Mrs. Moore’s mother, Mrs. Grimm, of LaPorte. Sunday school next Sunday morning ait the Barkley church at 10 | o’clock. Dr. W. E. McKenzie, the district superintendent, will preach at eleven o’clock. ' Dr. McKenzie always has a message that does one good. Come and hear, him next Sunday morning. The second quarterly conference of the Barkley circuit will be held at 2 o’clock, at the church. The Epworth League will meet at six thirty. Last Sunday evening the League took up the study'of different phases of China. This study will continue throughout .this month and on Fab. 29 Stereopticon pictures on China will be exhibited. Gome to these Sunday evening meetings and get the information that is given there and then you will enjpy the pictures later.

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