Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — Page 2

CHAPTER lll.—(Continued.) Quickly turning from the desk, Robert placed a hand on the shoulder of Uncle Duke, who knelt moaning at his old master's side. ; “Uncle Duke," he said, “you know where Detective Sellars lives on Princes street. Surely you do not believe me guilty of your master’s murder. Can you take Mr. Sellars this note? The assassin of your master must be brought to justice. Are you strong enough?” “Yes, yes. Mars Robert! God bless you, I can’t live long; but 1 can’t die till the murderer of ole master stands on the gallows, and Mars Lang is the man to bring him there.” The old man arose to his feet and hastened out the rear door of the hall as the front door opened. Hurried footsteps were heard, and Herman Craven, bareheaded and in his shirt sleeves, as when he bad left the house, rushed into the library, followed by Silas Cobb, the sheriff qf the connty, and two of his deputies, Lanning and Spears. Dr. Norcum and Coroner Field followed them, and behind came several of the neighbors, who bad been roused. “He has not fled!” cried Herman. “There, sheriff, there stands the murderer of my uncle, caught red-handed in the act!” A heart-rending moan burst from the breast of the banker’s daughter. “There is some mystery here,” she cried. “Though Robert was stauding over my father’s lifeless form with the bloody weapon in his hand that bereft him of life, when my cousin and I entered this room, yet do I feel assured that he is not guilty of my father’s murder. Oh, God! My own dear father murdered! It seems incredible, yet there lie his remains,” and poor Hattie burst into a fresh paroxysm of grief. Mrs. Merwin and Miss Steel, neighbors, accompanied by two other ladies, here entered the room, and the weeping girl was borne from the library. Dr. Norcum had advanced and was examining the body of the murdered man. “Spears, let no man leave the house,” said the sheriff. “I declare," he added, “this affair is terrible, and to think that you, Robert Campbell, should be charged with the murder.” “The charge of Herman Craven is utterly false, and he knows it to be so,” said Robert. “Surely, you, Sheriff Cobb, who have known me all my life, can scarce believe me guilty of the murder of the father of the young lady who will become my wife.” “Your wife!” exclaimed Herman. “The wife of her father’s murderer? Never! And believe me, neither bad my uncle lived, would bis daughter hare become your wife—that is, with his consflht; but ” Here the tall form of Lang Seliars, the great Southern detective, stood in the doorway. Like a flash his keen eye took in, not only every person, but every object that the room contained ere his deep voice broke upon the stillness that pervaded it. “Not since the murder at Mulberry,” he observed, “has there been as atrocious a crime committed in the old North State; nor did I believe that a scoundrel, with the malignity of Ward Lennox, yet cursed the commonwealth with his presence. I was clearly mistaken.” “Great work was that of yours on that case, Mr. Sellars,” said the doctor. “Gods! You rescued Herbert Russell, even from the gallows trap; and even then Ward cheated the gallows." “To dash his brains out at the abutment of Hilton bridge," said Sellars, "and sink beneath the turbid waters of the Cape Fear. But this is a bolder deed. A sailor’s knife—the blade thrust home to the victim’s heart. Have you taken any steps Sheriff Cobb?”

“I was aroused and summoned here by the murdered man’s nephew, who denounced Robert Campbell as the murderer. He assures me that he caught him red-handed in the act; but may I ask what brings you here, Lang Sellars?” _ “If Robert Campbell Is the murderer of our old friend here, then I am summoned by his murderer. In the Mulberry case, it was the murderer of Dr. Taylor who engaged my services to ferret out the criminal, and in the end I brought the crime home to his own door.” “I think there can be no doubt as to his guilt,” said Herman. “It conld have been no other than Robert Campbell,” and here Herman, uninterrupted by Robert, made a statement of the facts, as already related, in so far as his entrance into the room was concerned, aud as to what met his horrified gaze as he crossed the threshold. “You state that you entered the house at ten o’clock,” said the detective; “that you/ound your uncle in this room, and left him seated at his desk when you retired?” “Exactly, Mr. Sellars.” “Were those windows, opening on the lawn on the east side of the house, raised at that time, as they are now?” “They were, Mr. Sellars, to admit the air.” “One moment, gentlemen,” said Lang, as he stepped to the door. “Galban!” The black face of a powerfully built, hut deformed and curiously constructed negro appeared. "Look for footprints under the windows on the east side of the house,” said Sellars. “You have your dark lantern?” “Yes, Mars Lang,” aud the negro was ‘ ou retiwd it o'clock?" into Hiy slippers npil dfltihcd from my

AUNT HANNAH'S SECRET.

By H. E. Scott

“You believed his life was being assailed r “Far from it. I supposed one of his Scute attacks of rheumatism had seized \m.V “When you retired you left no one below with your uncle?” “No one. I think the servants, even, had retired." “Your uncle was expecting no one?” “Certainly not. He stated that he should soon retire." “Herman Craven,” said Robert, looking him full in the eyes, “did not your uncle inform you that he was expecting roe here after ten o’clock, and that I would bring with me money with which to take up a note of ten thousand dollars?” “He did not,” said Herman. “He informed me that he did, when he admitted me to the house. Did you not hear my summons at the door?” “Your summons? You made no summons.” “Did you not hear the door bell not five minutes before you descended the stairs?” “The door bell has not been sounded tonight.” “Mars Lang, I—l ” The voice was Hannah’s, but she halted as suddenly as she had commenced, and stood, an ashy pallor on her countenance, quaking as with fear. AJI eyes were at once fixed an the trembling negress. But one person in the room had caught the quick meaning glance that Herman Craven had cast in her direction, and noted that that glance had sealed the lips of the negress. “What were you about to say, Hannah?” "Nothing, Mars Lang, nothing,” and Hannah went weeping from the room. Robert Campbell now told of his call at the bank that afternoon, and related the subsequent events, as he had to Hattie. “Twelve thousand five hundred dollars is a considerable sum,” said Lang, “and this money—this bag of coin ?” "There is no evidence that he had a bag of coin in his possession,” said the sheriff. “Certainly not,” said Long; “but It is evident that this note was this day paid. If you are familiar with Alvin Deßosette’s signature, you will recognize it, here. You can establish the fact that you left the express office a few minutes before you entered this house, as you state, Robert?” “Certainly.”

“Mr. De Reset to, then, to-night had consented to the marriage of his daughter and yourself?" “He had, Mr. Sellars, and expressed much satisfaction at the prospect of our union.” “I know that statement to be false!” cried Herman, “for this very day at the bank my uncle said to me: ‘Herman, 1 am getting to be an old man. My fondest wish is that I may lire to see you and my loved daughter united.’ You may judge, gentlemen, if a few hours later he would have consented to his daughter's marriage with the wretch who has murdered him.” “Liar! Craven by name and nature, you know you lie!" cried Robert, and but for the strong arm of SeUars he would have felled him to the floor. “Perhaps,” said Herman, shrinking back, “you will deny'that Hattie fainted after we had entered this room, and I had denounced you as the murderer of my uncle. You would have slain me also, had I not hastened from the house with the cry of murder.” “You yourself best know the falsity of your charge,” replied Robert. “I only

pray that the perpetrator of this bloody deed may be brought to answer for his crime on the gallows, and I have an abiding faith in Mr. Sellart’ ability to solve this mysterious murder.” “Aud I,” said the doctor. “This bag of coin you state that you placed- ” “On the desk, before Mr. Deßoßette, when I left him to attend the door, Mr. Sellars.” “Well?" “When I returned to the room I found the banker gasping his last and the bag of coin gone.” “What evidence have you,” asked the sheriff, “that you had a bag of coin?" “Yes! Yes!” exclaimed Herman. “What evidence have you of that fact?” * “None," said Robert, “save my word and this cancelled note. As I have stated, there is evidence that I left the express office with a bag of coiu.” By directions of the coroner, the body of the banker had been borne to his chamber and laid on the bed. “The inquest will be held at ten o'clock to-morrow,” he said. “Until which time I shall hold Robert Campbell in custody,” said the sheriff. “I approve of your course," observed the detective. “Circumstances would indicate that he is the murderer.” “You, Mr. Sellars? You believe me guilty?” exclaimed Robert, for the first time alarmed. “I know a murder has been committed,” said Sellars. “If your statement is true, a robbery also. You are in the custody of the sheriff.”

“At leant I can give bond for my appearance to-morrow?" said Robert. “There is no bond admissible in this case, young man," observed the sheriff. “Come, you must accompany me. You roust forego your trip to Baltimore." “I had abaandoncd the idea of making it,” said Robert. "You can scarce believe me so heartless as to leave my affianced’s side in her affliction.” “You will be at no great distanoe’from Miss Deßosette while you are in my custody,” the sheriff said, as he linked arms with his prisoner. ' . ' * Robert cast one glanee at the detective; but in his stern face he read no hope, and moaning: *‘lfy love! my Hattie! My poor old mother and my sister,” with bowed head 1# accompanied the sheriff from the Sellars followed at the outer

"You round none, Lanning?” “I was not quite sure, sheriff; Yen see, there has been no rain recently, and it was hard to determine. I thought I would examine at daylight.” “It is useless,” said Sellars; “there are none there.” “Robert! Robert!” The cry came, from the white Ups of Hattie, who had descended the stairs. “Yes, darling; be brave, and have faith in the one who loves you, for until the inquest shall have been held, I am a prisoner in the hands of the sheriff. I am deemed the murderer of your dear father.” “It is false!” moaned Hattie, as she twined her arms about his neck. “God bless you, dear Hattie. Mr. Sellars——” The detective took her half-unconscious from his arms, and, with the words: “Do not wait for me, Sheriff Cobb; there are other links to this chain. We yet know, but that a murder has been committed; presumably yon have the criminal in custody. Calban, remain where you are. Ring the door bell if any one save Dr. Norcum and those who entered the house since you have been here pass out,” conveyed her Into the house and closed the door. As he turned from it with his senseless burden the agitated form of Hannah, the negress, confronted him. * ? “Mars Lang, I ” “Not a word, Hannah, not a word,” said SeUars, quickly, “not to a living soul. Do not leave the house. Never be alone. I know your secret. Silence, and wait!” (To be continued.)

BOOKKEEPING IN BABYLONIA.

Imperishable Records of an Ancient Business Firm. Paper and ink are perishable things, like certain otber “modern improvements,” bat some of the clay tablets used by earlier civilizations still survive. In the buried city of Nippur American explorers have recently found In one room more than seven hundred of them, the business records of a rich firm of merchants, Ulurashu Sons. These documents are dated in the reigns of Artaxerxes I. (465-425 B. C.) and Darius 11. (423-405 B. C.). The tables are of various sizes, some resembling tbe ordinary cake of soap of commerce. They are covered with cuneiform characters, clear and distinct as when tbe bookkeepers of Ulurashu Inscribed them, twenty-five hundred years ago. Among them is this guaranty for twenty years that an emerald is so well set that it will not fall out: “Bel-ahlddina and Bel-shumu, sons of Bel, and Hatln, son of Bazuzu, spoke unto Bel-nadinsbumu, son of Morashn, as follows: 'As concerns tbe gold ring set with an emerald, we guarantee that for twenty years the emerald will not fall out of ring. If it should fail out before the expiration of twenty years, Bel-ahiddina (and the two others) shall pay to Bel-nadinsbumu an indemnity of ten mana of silver.’ ” Then follow the names of seven witnesses and of an official who is described as “tbe scribe of tbe Concordance of Proper Names.” Tbe document concludes with the thumb-nail marks of the contracting parties. There are also leases of various kinds and contracts for tbe sale of sun-dried bricks and otber mercbandlse, and for the loan oLjeed corn and oxen for plowing. Queen’s Dress Old-Fashioned. Queen Victoria has a horror of velvet and cannot bear to touch it None of the furniture In the royal palaces is covered with the fabric, and all her Majesty’s gowns are made of the richest silks and brocades, but no velvet Is ever permitted to be among them. For over thirty years tbe Queen, has never changed her cut or style of dress. She wears the same fashions as when tbe Prince Consort died, and probably nothing would persuade her to alter tbe custom now and don fashionable raiment. At tbe last jubilee her daughters were able to modify the sleeves of their mother’s “procession” dress and to get her into a bonnet that was actually becoming, but now she has gone back to tbe Old styles, and no one can make her budge. Tbe materials used to make up these dowdy clothes are tbe richest and finest to be procured in- London shops, and, when ornamented with tbe splendid laces and embroideries in the Queen's possession, Victoria does not look otherwise than queenly, even If her figure has been wickedly described as a feather bed tied in the middle. But then she la privileged to go without any ahapa.,

Warsaw Barracks.

The barracks at Warsaw, erected by the Russian Czars to bold In check the unruly Poles, are by far the most spacious in tbe world. Tbe guns in the walls facing tbe city could easily level the capital of old Poland to the ground, while the garrison maintained, -numbering nearly 40,000 troops, could overawe any rebellion, unless the conspirators bad aid from outside. Tbe barracks cover some 5,000 acres in the highest portion of the suburbs. The barracks at Aldershot, England, are the second largest In the world, having accommodations for 20,000 troops, and covering 4,000 acres. The Curragh barracks, at Kildare, In Ireland, are in. ten squares, each of which has sufficient space for an entire regiment and Us officers. According to Jf. Adhemur Leclerc, French resident In Kratia, Cambodia, the Phongs, a wild people of that country. have the type of the North American Indians. They believe In a God, whom they call Brah. and In another life and In ghosts. They eat almost every kind of flesh, and make an lntoxlsense of smell Is so keen that they profess to know Individual animals by it Thar have neither music nor dance.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

!- _■ /-..f ' ■■■ * ■ i - . ’nM '■ '"Wfcf”- < •* ' Mp". ' Sl ' RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Big Story from Onaltliin A boot • J Mountain of Blackannken lffOth React meat Receives Warm Welcome Home-Prisoner Does to Work. Abram Robeson, near Grantsburg, while hunting for a stray hone, which had been missing for two noticed a large Mack snake, which retreated toward a cave formed by an overhanging ledge of rocks in one of tbe high bluffs susrounding his pasture lands. His horse-was found lying in this cavern, but covered by what looked to him like a mountain of snakes, so numerous were the reptiles. Robeson fled to his home and secured his shotgun, with which he returned and opened fire until his cartridges were exhausted. After the battle he counted the bodies of 413 snakes lying around and over the body of his hone, which was dead. Indiana Poldiers Return. The 160th Indiana volunteer infantry, after just one year of service, has returned to Indiana, having been mastered ont at Savannah. The regiment was one of the first ordered to Cuba after the evacuation. It was stationed at Matansaa. The twelve companies scattered to their respective towns at once. Every town that furnishes an organization extended a public reception.- The colonel of the regiment, George W. Gander, lives at Marion, and most of the staff officers are from that city.

Ax-Prisoner Turns Ont Well. Henry Berner, twenty years a prisoner at Jeffersonville, and for the last year a guard, has accepted a position at Dayton. Berner was an expert machinist, having had charge of the machinery at the institution, and a genius. He once made a clock frame inlaid with 2.500 different pieces of wood, which he sold for SIOO. He was sentenced to life for killing a man at Vincennes, and during the twenty years he was confined his wife sought continuously for a pardon.

WlthinOnr Border*. Good prospects for fruit around Delphi. Terre Haute has decided to have a street fair. Gale Richards, 2, Kokomo, drowned in a well. • Fresh outbreak of smallpox at New Albany. Highwaymen robbed a fanner of 328 near Marion. James Halpin of Evansville committed suicide. Ont of work. Hartford City postoffice turns in 510*000 a year from 9,000 people. Two ten-inch gas pipe mains will be laid from Greeutown to Chicago. * Glass works at Swayzee is tbe only nonunion factory in the gas belt. A buzzard was killed near Shoals that had a sheep's bell tied to its neck. John Doenges, Connersville, feU from a ten-foot ladder and broke his skulL E. H. Peters, Snmmltville, lost an arm in a premature explosion of dynamite. Westerman-Stewart rolling mills at Marion will raise employes’ wages 10 per cent. The old' project of a railroad from Fort Wayne to Indianapolis, by way of Marion, has been revived. Kokomo factory received an order for several motorcycles, to be used in carrying mail in Porto Rico. At Valparaiso, John Lenick, aged 11 years, was instantly killed by a telegraph pole which fell on him. Frank Woodmansee, Seymour, bankrupt. Liabilities $6,477, assets $8.50 in cash and a $lO watch. Fire did several thousand dollars damage to the Indiana Brewing Company’s $300,000 plant at Marion. Victor Mann, 22, Elkhart, who was a member of the 157th Indiana, is dead from an overdose of morphine. Deputy internal revenue collectors seised 12,000 cigars at Terre Haute and 4,000 at New Albany. Hod counterfeit stamps. Henry Weber, aged 26, and one of the best known young druggists in Evansville, committed suicide by taking prussic acid. Program is announced for the tenth annual convention of the Indiana union of literary clubs at Terre Haute, May 17 to 19. A 2-year-old child at Logansport was found sleeping behipd a door, after half the town had been called ont to assist in the search.

Charles E. Williams, of the firm of Wood. Williams & Co., furniture dealers, was found dead with a broken neck at Terre Haute. Pari* green was discovered in the floor being used by Mrs. K. D. Ferran, wife of a Shelbyvillo grain merchant, who had been out of town. Little son of S. D. Oldendorf, Lebanon, while playing with fire, threw a can of blazing oil on James Smith’s son, and he was fatally burned. James Haipy, aged 35 years and single, committed suicide at Evansville by.taking morphine. He was despondent because he lost his position a month before. The Allen County grand jury returned five indictments against J. F. Schell, alleging embezzlement and larceny. Schell was until recently president of the Schell Loan ahd Investment Company. Cora Q. Comer of Chicago has filed suit in the Federal court at Indianapolis against Michael A. Jordan of Logansport, demanding 530,000 for breach of promise. Miss Comer is 20 years of age. Jordan is worth SIOO,OOO aud is a physician. Gov. Mount has appointed as new members of the State Board of Education Joseph J. Mills, president of Earlham College; William T. Scott, president of Franklin College, and Enoch G. Machan, county superintendent of La(> range' County.. • ■. t:* y '' Dr. J. H. Forest secured a judgment in the Superior Court of Madison County against the Sterling Oil Company of Chicago for $5,000 and SBOO interest. As the leases for which the debt was incurred did not yield as rich returns as was expected, I S? I* 'i i . 11 r * divorce and asked for *n injunetios to •Mwffpnt h<*r husband rarrvinff ftn a. kj'a . v# ■ ' ** _ . “

Danny's Letter.

Company. - ?v: While In Chicago Danny’s father received the following letter from the little boy: “Dere Rapa: Did you see Mr. Armor kill the big fat hog with the black tale and didn’t be’think it was a busstart I was sorry to see the hogs leave the farm and you most of all. Your loving son, DAN!IY|f ; —Youth’s Companion.

Abolish the Death Penalty.

At Albany the law makers are wrangling over the abolition of the death penalty. The man who succeeds will prove as great a benefactor to the breaker of man’s laws as Hostetteris Stomach Bitters has to the breaker of -nature’s laws. If you’ve neglected your stomach until indigestion and constipation are upon you, try Bastetter’a Stomach Bitters.

Making Himself Clearer.

Cactus Cal—The coyote thet hex been holding up so many of our cltisens was himself held up last night. Arizona Artie—Sho’! Who held him up? Cactus Cal—Oh, me an’ several other regulators. Arizona Arlie—Did he make much resistance? Cactus Cal—Naw. Yer zee. what we held him up with wux a rope.—Judge.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Aak your Grocer to-day to show yea a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury aa well as tike adult. AH who try it. like It SRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of ocha or Java, hot It is made from para grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. % the price of coffee. 18c. and 25 cte. per package. Sold by all grocerp. _■

Leaser of Two Evils.

When her husband ate tbe bread she had made her joy was for the moment complete. But presently there gathered the inevitable cloud of doubt. “Is It because be loves me,” she asked herself, “or is It to keep me from making bread pudding?” Not In tbe Inscrutable face of the man could she an answer find.—Detroit Journal.

Than la more catarrh m uns section of tba country than all other dhentes put together, and until the last few years was supposed to hs incurable. For a grant many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Science baa proven catarrh to be a constitutional dlsmcn t* U Hal{To»^rrh , Cu , re. manufactured byP. J. Cheney At Co.. Toledo. Ohio. Is the only constitutional cure on the market. It Is takea lnternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It nets directly on the btood and mucous surfaces ot the system. They offer one hundred dollars for aay case it fails to cure. Send for testimonials. Address, - CHKffEY A CoTTaleda, <X

Making a Sure Thing of It.

“I was just paying a bet, papa,” exclaimed the young woman who had been caught Indulging In oscillatory exercises. “I bet him a kiss.” “And what did he bet?” “A-a-onother kiss,” was the hesitating reply.—Chicago Evening Pott. -

Shake Into Tour Shoes

Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, nervous feet and instantly takes the si ingout of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Alto’s Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain core for sweating, calkins and hot, tired, aching feet Try it to-dap. Sold by aU druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c, in stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allan S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. T.

Spring Bitters.

Major Drinkerupp—Did yo’ evah take spring bitters, Kun’l? Colonel Onceagaln—l did, snh. I was married In April.—Judge.

Lame's Family ‘Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. la order to ha healthy this is necessary. Acta gently on the liver and kidneys. Caras side headache. Price 25 and SOe. Discretion in speech is more than dotuence.—Bacon.

A CHARMING grandmother 1 What a pleasant influence in the house Is a delight- ■■■■■ ful old lady in geod health 1 Mrs. Molub Barber, St. James, Mo., writes: “I took Lydia B. PinkhamV Vegetable Compound during change of life, and have passed through' that . . . , critical period safely. I suffered for mmg"M § •wmmgmmj yean with falling of the womb and mmmmnmm m ! mmr %oma female weakness. At tifitot could n hardly stand on my fact, also had mMmJBf, M iEwJT leucorrhoea. I tried several good i ■»■— doctors, but instead of getting better, grew worse all the time. A mend advised me to try Mrs. Pipkham's Compound. X did so and after taking sin bottles, was cured of both leucorrhoea and telling of womb. lam now enjoying good than over* X * j' Compound. \ w } frit*V ®lb;' ’ ‘ - and I am now sound , ■ f - - , - , . T:., Ww&wWm-

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Pygmy Unbelievers.

' 4 good story is told by Captain Guy Barrows la his books, “The Land of the Pygmies,” about a white man who was amusing himself by explaining to some African savages, Hie Mobunghl, the wonders of the steam engine and steamship. He drew diagrams on the sand, and the audience listened and looked with apparently intense interest At last be asked his hearers whether they understood. “Yes,” they replied, “they thought they did.” “There was a deep silence,” Captain Borrows s;|ys, “for some time, and then a voice In the center of the crowd expressed the unspoken sentiments of the whole assembly in one emphatic word, uttered in a tone of the deepest' conviction—‘Liar!’ ” The lecturer's thoughts are not recorded.

A King's Practical Charity.

King Oscar of Sweden and Norway, always ready with his purse in the promotion of scientific research, appears to have rendered a great service to mankind by having, at bis own expense, caussd a deaf and dumb man to be trained under a certain system of massage of throat, ears, etc., cdvocated by a great Swedish surgeon, with the result that the lucky patient has begun to speak and can hear.