Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1899 — Page 7

THE CHILDERN'S CRUSADE

CHAPTER VlL—fCantitisedJ As hr spikf he nude a sagoal. at vhch taro stalwart Tastes tasted at Sttfh% and «t» aboat to drag him off. who Bisnthf. with a shriek she <otfld not restrain. darted forward and that raand the knees of the yocog Turkish prine, csyiag: * . “My lord, ay lord, it is my heather! Give him tome, and 1 wili Mrs*thy name forever! We are the only rfcOdita of ear parents, and they are old. Foipwomsf injams in Mesnrd. bat iwtaje newer ends. Give me any teacher!” Prime Sapkadn aremed to be astraisfccd as be listened to her. for be echoed "Thy brother! This! Bat I tteaght thin was thy teacher!” He posated. as he spoke, to the dead body of Peter, which had aat yet been removed. ( Then, as Blanche began to expiate, he waved her off, saying: “But that is all one. Five years have I suffered in the pri.aat rs the Christians, and they most he avenged. This alone I give thee If thy brother serve me faithfully for five years, I via set him free after that time, and he shall be osy own slave; bat the rest shall be said in the market.” Blanche beard him. and ansarefed: “Thra, if be stays, as do L I came on tins ship to be nigh fern, and I wosld as* go hack to my father and mother without tern. Give ns both oar freedom or neither.'" The yoong Tstfc teemed to he a mated at her speech, for he said: “Nay. say; coimdev that this is bat a foolish thing than sayent. It is good to he free, but a slave is laser than a dag. Take thy freedom and go hoaoe in kappi“l will stay by my brother.” said the nada tinted girt steadily, "had nothing shall tear me from him.”. And as if to show tern that she meant lover than before, bin fomaaanaiag aa yet morn. The Taakish prince and Dragnt contemplated the tno in silence, and Stephen mattered, feebly: "Take thy freedom. Btaaehe, while thoo eanst. Thon const do as an good by staying. and it will he bat one mm* to make “Brother,” trim answered, quietly. SptTfomb!tet ZatTih* ttea^rttaU? Ceriag. and I can help thee. I ton ready to dwdrtete adreemiy. tbsagh I would wtearated » tere heearanSil tiring how be could discharge his shixitioo of gratitude to Blanche. ahaat which be was ertdeatly ia|ii 1 ititisai. withnot lettinggo bis to Btaacte.?tere offered thee liberty, ami Ana hast refosed hat five years" stavery. after which he shall be free. Ask of me the fife and liberty of say of these is exchange for thine ova and thoa shaft have it The proptet saith that gratitade as Ike the seed of wheat that is scattered on fertile groaad: It increaseth forever.” Blanche was satpnsed at the way he spoke, hat shook her head, satyiag. qphtfy: “If than contest grant me the lives of all bere-in letnan for my own. then woafcl I gladly give it ap: bat what profit malil it be to the rent of these poor cieatsres if one were to he reftresed? It voald hot make the bitterness of ska very (he more hitter for those whs remmaed ta chains.” “Nevertheless.” persisted the ytsmg Turk, “ask the liberty of one of these here, and than shak have it ftvrly.” The gni hesitated a moment, and then “Free my brother, thra, and take my Olier ' The Tark bowed his head with a leak at “1 have promised it. and it shall be doM. though I would it had been another. He shall be freed at once.” “Art thoo wilfiag to take thy liberty at the price of that of thy sheer TT CHAPTER Till. The question of the yoong Tork to Stetempt. as iftee speaker despiaed’the perpectcd it to he aasneved in the shai tive. - sakuily, fikp ft said, ia a low tone, as if he were ni«Hy hat that; it needed He shook his head as hem***: ted ftm !?t£mmt;'ilm! Dost Ife-wt »i.b lb, frmbMn?— w U '■"l vrrmU say that raft ar man pnrehssrd hfr stVbf

Peter, coo tin rung: I will answer thee as becomes a Christian gentleman. There lies the body sfmy feo-ter-brother, who took do cross, bat followed me for the Imre of me. He lies tend on thy deck, and I was the cause off his deathjand the captivity off aS these poor the cosud of my father; spit* off my mother's tears. My sister is ia thy power; and tert for me she would not he here. Take me; pcnhfi me as kmg aa* as bfsrvily aa than wilt. Nothing can be worse than my deserts. Bnt I charge rime (had thaw send her away, and with her that ate man who led no hither. She has asked for my freedom. I refuse it- I refuse to let her share my captivity, and I ask that man. and beg a ransom from all Christians for these children who have Ins led into misery. As for myself, Iv 3 take who followed me m bonds. Cham me to should be the ft** sufiriw * He spoke earnestly, bat without earthuauum, m a low, dear tone, with Ins eyes fixed on those of the young Turk, who their interview, with a sense of respect Saphadim nodded slowly and said ia xn“That h the way oar prophet mated have judged the matter. If thou mere a Bat thy words are wise and shall he perfffftfd, 1 * Then, torning to the old motet, who had deaf to all that was psocing, he caaflia“What, haw there! Awake and hear what we have decided for thee!” tmned slowly rawed Ftphidim stared at him with mane surprise. as the aid mu spoke; tea, with the respect for age white all Modems shew, he tste Urn what had been agreed on. free, to go with her to the cities and castles of the Franks and teg a ransom for these fools, whom thsa hast led away to dest ruction. Art thoo willing to gn with then rase to las feet with fifinkr and steadng ta man stepped and eyed the boy fixedly. He •reared ts he enable to speak for a fifties, bnt at teat said; that I raw m the market place as Taned as if a voice ftom heaven ctekdto Ined Stephen, why did rimy art kH me “Enoagh of this. Then vhmVlrt have thonght as aR that ere then dtest lead thee to five, to see the erase qnmccs of hte poepht cy. | Wat thsa go and tag a forehead, with a wistful tekrtdefte! drew round turn. He seemed to he £stranght with the woe that had ranm an head the question chwriy, cametoHbbtee an* took tea hand, saying gently: “Hsly They wffl net let have consented teat thoq snd I ihsff fitakhte^^refiteltefte all. and whathhail I say when rim metle “Father HBdeteaafl, art thou sure than ptedto thee to let ter only nopr forget OH, Isftft smCimnA ftftril iwtif^ Then, as he dad aot answer, she hies* on: ©at tint Cm - ra k— - re ' • -_ ;■■■■; ’?■ ■» '■ .- - ■ ! ... .

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THE TWO HR. SPRINGS.

S— *ißm Isbaiiy Kcginrat mre ta tee TwntSelft Infantry at Gup IfaE ays tee Snr Tote setts, is mrenFMtte Company L wtate teenteee,n lYnsiylranion. Is a pcimte ta Crapny M. Sosa after tee mJhn nl arrived at to get very tutnisg letters from a shirh acre aaae tee Ins welcome for Private Rpttas tras deridag test be wt te able to ten at a distance. tagtoMta teapsiile■tatlj affeefiante strata, and wanttap ta know if there Private Spring thonght off a lot of tetass teat tecooAlaae if te had teen, has as tbc flsir cocmpoadrat had omitAt ttetetahtof tee tangle Sergeant the aeggraat. “That's what.” iqfail the other man. “Wei, teat's ae. tea.” arid the aer“Sny.” te added, as a thraght track ten. "do yoa get tasters from a gM "No. I dcaX” repted tee otter. “Not as many as I ought te.” “T do. mere than I aoght ta.” said the swgwant- "T gsrey ttegte jama” trade for ’em.” ntf the private; grte“Tzsat's a ca,” answered tee Masaaehnsetts maa. aad aD was satisfactorily arranged, except for the caatests of dhwdayaßikUamßackuge.

QUEER THINGS ABOUT MANKIND

Vln* Rm Are Taller or Rnvier The average aright of a maa ta the a wwonaa 125. finhuMa aa peter. ****** travel «US ate a year. Ia rightytat years a hired oqptede snrii travel E.ISRRM mßea. Ihr teat matter, a mmnesUjr active WtaiMfßoaCteffilltain.

TREASURE SEEKING IN PARIS.

Widespread Belief teit Grut Treasure* Are Midden in the City. Same Parisians are actually kept from wandering by conviction that there is bidden treasure behind the walla, or beneath the flooring, or in the chimney nook, or under the roof. Yoa are told that during the nunaberles sieges to which Paris has been subjected. and the internal revolutions it has undergone, there exists not a cellar or a garret but has become the receptacle of some part of the immense riches accumulated in religious houses and obi families. There is, perhaps, nothing irrational in the supposition that in the good old times convents were made the depositories not only of the secrets of the aristocracy, bnt of the jewels likewise, instances must have occurred wherein these deposits were buried and remain undiscovered, together with the treasure off the confraternity. But human felly has of late years exalted this rational possibility into dazzling certainty. Every means is now resorted to, and more gold and s preeious time expended than the most valuable treasure eonld repay, in order to seize the secret which still resists discovery. “While you of the matter-of-fact, plodding Anglo-Saxon race are toiling and bruiting in Australia and California searching for gold, we gold-seekers of Paris find it here beneath our feet in the old quarters of the city round Notre Dame and the Hotel de Ville, where gold Is teeming in greater plenty than amid the rocky bowlders of California, or beneath the soil of Ballarat,” said Dncasse, the great treasure s?eker. As if to mock this feverish and nevereeasing chase, not one of the great tin ditfona! treasures—of which four are believed to exist—has been yet brought to tight, although now' and then some token is vouchsafed of their real existence. From time to time, for instance, the tradition of the famous treasure buried by Napoleon's order, on his hurried departure from the Tuileries before Waterloo, is justified by the turning up in ail parts of the palace garden of gold pieces and silver crowns. TIIO holes of the elm trees down the middle aliey of the garden were all marked with hieroglyphic signs, which, ceasing at certain points, began again on the time trees of the Terrace of the Feuiliians. But the elm tree where these signs began and the lime tree on which they have ended have been uprooted and the soil all about them turned over without avail. Then, during the laylag oct of the Bois de Boulogne, great interest was excited by the fencing off of a portion of the wood close to the Pre Catelan, and ransacking of th*s small spot for a month, under the superintendence of a government officer, while crowds waited anxiously outside the line to see one of the forty workmen strike upon the golden deposit confidently believed to have been buried there by Fouche, Duke of Otranto. The hoard is actually calculated ns part of the family wealth.—Chambers’ Journal.

HE TOOK PEARS.

The Company Might Have a Choice, bnt Hobby Hod None. “Will yoa have pears or green gages'!” asked the lady of the house at the party the other night. There was a large dish of pears and a very small dish of green gages, and the company conceived a diabolical plot. “Gages, please,” said the first; and from all the way down the table, “Gages,” please,” came back to the hostess. The smiles vanished from her face, even as the gages did from the dish. “I can recommend those pears.” she said, by-and-by; “I did them myself,” hat the demand from the foot was the same as at the top, “Gages, please.” At length: “My dear, pears or gages?” “My dear” had been chatting to his fair neighbor, and bad not noticed the tittle ware of disturbance. “Gages, please, dear,” he replies, without looking up. “Xo, my love, you’ll take pears,” came the words, smooth and sweet in their tone, but charged with the emphasis of pent-up wrath. Bo “my love” took the pears, and when he got upstairs that night learned what ■ brute he had been, and what a detestable, rude company be had entertataed that evening.

Could Not Be Returned.

This Is one of the yarns of childhood. Six-year-old Tommie was sent by his eldest sister to the corner grocery to buy a pound of lump sngnr. He played alleys mi his way to the store, and by the time he arrived there he had forgotten what kind of sugar he was sent for. So be took home a pound of the granulated article. His. eldest sister seat him bock to the store to get lump* sugar. ’After the proprietor of the grocery shop had made the change for the little lad be engaged Tommie in con-. Tenotfem. “Tommie,” said he, “I understand there is a new member of your family.*’ “Yes; sir,” replied the kin; “I’ve got a little brother.” “Well, tew do yon like that, hey?” inquired the grocery man. A . < “Don’t like it at all,” said Tommie; “ratter have a little sister.” “Then, why don’t you change him, “Well, we would if we could: but I don’t suppose we can. You see; we have used him four days now” - l l Ctauritadiaas increasing iAtte Congo CaaaiballtPt if largely increasing In = __ L ; It’s a poor Rind of repentance that doesn’t Insure against a repetition of fSptl? 1 /.•} 11>| u(yyj A single epigram may outlive a vob

TEN DIE IN RACE WAR.

Negroes Are Run Down by Mob of White* for Plotting Revenge. A war of extermination is on between the Whites and negroes in Little River County in the extreme, southwest corner of Arkansas, and seven of the latter are known to be dead. Many other negroes are missing. The wholesale lynching is the result of the murder of James A. Stockton, a planter, last Saturday by a big negro called “General” Duckett. After hiding for some time Duckett gave himself up and was being taken toward Richmond, the county seat, when lie was taken by a mob and lynched. He confessed to a carefully laid plan by the negroes to precipitate a race war, and told of many whites who were marked for execution. It was learned from Duckett that there were twentythree negroes in the plot, and their names were given. Several parties of white men started out to execute speedy vengeance on the plotters. The negroes became panic-stricken and fled in all directions. Willis Boyd, O. C. Reed and Minor Wilson, three negroes, were taken from an officer lynched near Silver City, in Y’azoo County, Miss. They were the ringleaders in a race encounter at the. Midnight plantation. After being shot to death their bodies were cut down and thrown into the Yazoo river.

FEAR WAR IN SAMOA.

Differences of Thre: Powers Have K cached an Acute Stage. Differences between the three powers in control at Samoa have reached such an acute stage that repudiation of the Berlin treaty is more than probable. Despite the unanimous testimony of the representatives of the United States and Great Britain, the German Government eontinnes to uphold the course of Consul Rose at Apia. If the present agreement is overthrown there is little likelihood of a new understanding and the islands will be at the mercy of whichever party can muster the greatest strength. Recent events at Apia have made the strain more dangerous. Admiral Kautz, with the approval of the British authorities. has sustained the actions of Chief Justice Chambers. The American naval commander called a meeting of ail officials for March 17, and, although no news has been received since that date, many express the fear that serious results followed the conference. Should this be the ease the Germans will undoubtedly attempt to "hold the Americans responsible, the Berlin theory being that unanimous action is necessary under the treaty provisions.

AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.

Bradstrcet'a Show* Chance* During the Past Week. Special cable and telegraphic dispatches to Bradstreet’s indicate the following changes in the available supply of grain last Saturday, as compared with the preceding Saturday: Wheat— Bushels. United States and Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains, Increase 17,000 Liverpool Corn Trade News, afloat for and in Europe, increase 300,000 Total supply. Increase ....317,000 Corn, United States anil Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains, increase. .530,000 Oats. United States and Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains, Increase. .567.000 Among the more important decreases reported to Bradstreet's not given in the official visible supply statement are those of 292.000 bushels at Galveston and 200,000 bushels at northwestern interior elevators. The principal increases are those of 174.000 bushels at Ontario and Manitoba storage points. The aggregate stock of wheat held at Portland, Ore., and Taeoma and Seattle, Wash., decreased 277,000 bushels duriug the week.

TEST MONY IS CUMULATIVE.

Board of Tnqnlry Goes Back to New York with 1 nterestlng Information. The members of the Government inquiry finished their labors in Chicago and left for New York. The testimony of Gov. Theodore Roosevelt will be received, after which the court will proceed to Governor’s Island. The evidence brought forth on their last day in Chicago wa* largely cumnlative iu its character, consisting mainly of criticisms of the canned beef and refrigerator beef from soldiers who ate it and watched its effects in Cuba and Porto Itico. David Fleischmann, a bellboy in the Morrison hotel, told cf a visit to the stock yards in company of an unknown man whose purpose he supposed to be an experiment in the matter of preserving beef by chemical treatment. Clark Marshall, the provision specialist, whose testimony was expected to be sensational, threw no additional light on the question, his evidence being principally the expression of opinion that canned beef as now put on the market is totally unfit for human food.

STATEMENT OF FOREIGN TRADE.

February Report loaned by the Bureau of SfotUtfc*. The February statement of the imports and exports of the United States, issued by the bureau of statistics, shows as follows: Imports of merchandise during February. 1899, $00,200,032. of which $28,074,179 was free of duty; increase over February, IS9B, about $7,18G,000. Exports of merchandise, $93,884,149; decrease, $1,000,000. Imports of gold, $3,148,906; decrease $1,000,000. Exports of gold, $324,840; decrease $700,000. Imports of silver, $1,427,027; decrease $658.000. Exports of silver, $4,562,196; Increase SBOO,OOO.

FATAL FIRE AT MEMPHIS.

Four Persons fuffocoted sod Thrra Others Seriously Injured. - In a fire which broke out in a boarding house at Memphis four people lost their lives and several were seriously injured. The origin' Of the fire is not known. It was the second fire in the same building during the night, and it is thought the earlier blase was aot entirely extinguished. The fire was a remarkably rapid one, and had made considerable headway by the time the firemen arrived on the scene. ** 4 ‘ - ; ’-' f i.. - -1. . : . > ' *

TO HURRY VOLUNTEERS HOME

'Plans to. Get Theta Awa jr from Cuba br April 25. Adjutant General Corbin hit undertaken to get all the volunteers out of Cuba by April 25. and arrangements are now beihg perfewd with that end in view. This is fully taro weeks within the limit of May 10 set by the President’ before he left for the South. The proportions, p t the undertaking may be realised when it is remembered that twenty-three regimehts raitst be by sea to United Staton ports within a month.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD. v . Trie* to Kill liio Brothers-CM Cater Vico County— Kokomo For* Arreted for Serious Crime—Killed in * Box* ing Boat-Tin Plate Plant Sold. While visiting his dying father near Shelby ville, Edward Bernbeimer became desperately insane. Going into the bouse,, be threatened to kill the little child of his sister, but was prevented, and apparently became quieter. Later in the evening he had another seizure, and iu his freuxy secured an ax and tried to brain his brother George. As he lifted the ax the other brother jumped behind him and succeeded in grabbing the handle of the weapon. The three men then engaged in a rough and tumble struggle, in which the crazy man freed himself and onc-e more securing the ax drove his brothers, sisters and stepmother from the house, they being compelled to flee to the house of a neighbor for safety. It was feared the furious man would kill his father, but he made no attack on him. The officers were sent for and Bernheimer was placed in jaiL Excitement Over Oil Find. There is mnch excitement in Terre Haute over the preparations being made to commence boring for oil east and south of the city. A month or so ago oil was struck by men who were boring in an endeavor to locate a vein of coal and, although the flow was not large, experts profess to believe that there is much oil underlying Vigo County. A company headed by Crawford Fairbanks, president of the American Strawboard trust, is securing options on a large number of farm* and it is understood that drilling will commence as soon as the frost is oat of the ground. Boys Cause $30,003 Damage. Eleven schoolboys, aged from 11 to I*s, were jailed at Kokomo, as part of a gang of thieves who have been dismantling machinery in shops and factories and selling the brass at junk shops. They are sons of prominent residents and bumness men. They sold two car loads of brass before detection and destroyed SpO.OOO worth of machinery. .

Tin Plate Plant la Fold. For a consideration of $1 the American Tin Plate Company’s $2,000,000 plants at El wood —the largest tin plate plant in the uation —have been turned over to the tin plate trust through D. W. McCarghey of Chicago. The valuation of the plants was placed at but $250,000 and SOSO worth of revenue stamps were attached. Blow Bursts Boxer's Heart. Charles McCoy and Carl Comer, each about 17 years of age, were boxing at Center, when Comer struck McCoy a blow over the heart that burst a vein, and allowed all the blood to poor out into the abdominal cavity. Death was almost instantaneous. Within Oar Borders. Attica will have a $50,000 sanitarium. Anti-trust bottle house erected at LafeL Diamond coal mine, near Evansville, sold for $13,000. Markham & Stephens will reopen their distillery near Rosewood; Indiana stands second in glass production in the United States. Shelbyville Council cat the marshal's salary from S7OO to $350 a year. Samuel Gronnert, ah Indianian, is managing editor of the London Telegraph. Miss Gertrude Kemp. Fisher’s Station, went to Chicago and is mysterionsly missing. Mrs. James Keiser, Anderson, went shopping the other day and did not return. Because Dr. Joseph D. Kelley of Ehrmandale squandered his money for liquor, his wife, Mrs. Elsie Kelley, shot him through the breast. S. M. Austin, a traveling salesman for a Philadelphia wholesale paint house, was instantly killed by tbe Chicago-New York special on the Lake Shore at Osceola. John Ferriter, serving a life sentence in the Michigan City |*enitentiary for the murder of Policeman Charles Ware of Indianapolis two years ago, escaped by overpowering a guard he was assisting outside the prison walls. The lamp chimney factories in the Indiana gas belt have closed down indefinitely, many of them discharging all workers and advising them to seek employment in other channels. The reason given for the shut-down is the sluggish markets. Five persons were injured, two fatally, in a runaway during a. funeral at Evansville. The fire persons were in a hack and. the team became frightened at a street car. The hack was completely demolished and the funeral procession was stopped an hour. Congressman A. L. Brick and Joseph B. Arnold have sold to Josiah C. Houck 58(1 acres of land in Olive township, the consideration being SII,OOO. The land is adjacent to the great Kankakee region and is partly marsh. It will be drained and au Amish colony will be started there. Monroe City was thrown into a flatter by the elopement and romantic marriage of Frank Owens and Miss Annie Lloyd. Miss Lloyd ostensibly went to church, but instead met her lover, who was waiting in a buggy, and started to Rev. llr. Denny’s home to be married. They met the minister on the road and made known their wishes and insisted that the ceremony be performed then and there, whereupon tbe minister, while all were seated in their vehicles, had them join hands and pronounced the words that made them one. The couple, accompanied by dm reverend gentleman, drove to the home of the bride to ask parental blessings. The prfi mother, when apprised of the fact, tainted. Postmaster Lloyd had forbidden kh daughter keeping company with Owens. which resulted in the elopement. The Christian Chnreh congregation o t Vincennes has decided to build a fine new stone church and $5.500 ,aras raised hr volantary subseripthjns at the first meeting. Congressman George, W. Cromer baa chosen Scott Fulton of Hartford City to represent the fQghtb Indiana cmifiemion * al district ia the West Point military ind^^onMilL^g about two seconds. The windows ratikd and beds trembled perceptibly.