Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Page 2

AN AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD.

CHAPTEH XXL

Yes, they were all at it again—the linnet and robin; the inavts and merle; the cnekoo telling us of his whereabouts in the heart or the thicket! the larks filling ail the wide spaces of the Bky with their silver song. But for this universal twittering, and clear caroling, arid fluttering of wing*, the world was still enough and silent enough, 'file red kitie hardly moved in the meadows golden with buttercups, The olive-green masses of the elms, rising far into the pale blue of the heavens, did not stir a leaf. The warm sunlight seemed to draw forth I a hundred scents from herbs ahd flowers, that hung in the motionless air. As one is idly gazing at all these things, and speculating us to how far a certain white butterfly, that has started early on his travels, will wander before, the heat of noon causes him to close his wings on u head of clover, there is a quiet stirring.of the willow branches, and then 1 a footfall on thp gang board connecting the boat with too shore. Turning forthwith one finds that it is Miss Peggy who has come down through those yellowed meadows, and it is Sir Ewen Cameron who is steadying the plank for her. She has been abroad thus early to gather flowers for the breakfast table, and in each hand she has a great cluster of buttercups. As for the June roses in her cheeks, where did she get them oa so extremely still a morning? And as for the speedwell bine of her eyes—But she passes hastily into the saloon, for the flower glasses have to be filled. Then this long, sandy-haired Highland officer— has he anything to sayY He observes that the morning is beautiful—which is no secret. He thinks he saw a trout rise a little bit further along. Presently he puts this question: “Shall you have any need of Murdoch’s services this autumn?’’. “I fear not.” "He is an exceedingly haud.v fellow—don’t you think so?” "I do.” “And very willing, isn’t he?” “He is." “Well, now, don’t you consider that a young fellow like that would be better in a settled situation than in doing odd jobs about Tobermory, with an occasional month or two’s yachting in the summer?” “I dare say he would—if it was anything of a situation.” "Ho you think he would come to me at laverfask?” “Inverfask?” , “Yes. I would give him a fair wage; he would have employment all the year round, and he might look forward to some Increase of pay if he deserved it.” “A permaneut place at Inverfask—is that what you mean?” “Yes." “Welt, when you put that offer before him, Murdoch will be a proud lad.” “And you arc sure you don’t want hitn this autumn?” “Almost certain—besides, that could not' be allowed to interfere.” “I will go and ask him ut once,” said he: and he, too, disappeared into the suloou. Well, now, the “Nameless Barge” seemed to be just filled with secrets and mysteries on this busy morning; but of course one had no time to pay heed to sach trumpery things, for we had to make an early start in order to get through the chain of locks outside Devizes. After leaving Devizes there are fifteen unites of plain sailing without the interruption of a single lock, so that we made good progress this afternoon. The canal, which is here so little used that it abounds with ail kinds of water plants—the white buttercup conspicuous among them—winds along a high plateau which affords extensive views over the neighboring landscape. Not that we saw this somewhat lonely stretch of country under most favorable conditions. As we stole along by Bishops Cannings and Ail Caunings and Stanton Fitzwarren the still air ueemed to be threatening thunder; the skies were of a cloudy milkywhite, and the hills that rose to the horizon line both on north and south—Boughbridge Hill, Easton Hill, St. Ann’s Hill, Etchilhampton Hill, Wivelsford Hill and the like —were slowly deepening in gloom. Then came rain, and forthwith these idle people fled into the saloon, to books and writing, and tea and what not. All but the faithful Peggy, that is to say I Miss Baggy not only went and fetched the steersman his waterproof, but she also brought out her own; and, having drawn the hood over her pretty brown hair and fastened it securely under her chin, ahe took up her position on the steeringthwart. Was she still anxious, then, to •how her gratitude, inT some vague, tentative way? At all events, her companionship on this somber afternoon was sufficiently welcome. But one soon began to discover what had brought Miss Peggy out' into the rata; her remarks about the weather were speedily over. “Has Col. Cameron," she asks, presently, with a very becoming hesitation, “has Coi. Cameron said anything—anytbtaf particular, to you?” "Nothing very particular." , “No, I suppose not," she continues, uatth the pretty hesitation. “I had to dak turn not to say anything, because —became I don't wish Mr. Duncombe to know. But you ought to know; yes, you to know ** you .think I don’t know?” “And this is the way they keep a young lady’s secret!—making It as plain as the nose on a nun’s face or a weathercock on a steeple. And you are especially anxious jbo‘conceal it from Jaab Duncombe, am you? Don* you think U possible Mr. Duncombe may have his own little affair* to attend to? Well, well, you’ve done It at hut, I suppose; gad it's very Mule you know of the fate you ate making upon—you poor, fluttering, timid, sol-

BY WILLIAM BLACK.

Itary creature. Banishment to the regions of perpetual Ice—that is a pretty future for you. Think of the gales howling down from the North Bea—the glens blocked up with snow—no communication with the rest of the wordl—the rivers and lakes hard frozen— hail changing to sleet, and sleet changing to hail—a Polar bear prowling round the riofts—a walrus——” “And a carpeoter—you mustn’t forget the carpenter," said this young lady, who isn’t as easily frightened as you might imagine. “Does he wear his decorations when he goes to a levee at Buckingham Palace T “Haven’t the least idea.” “The! Victoria Cross, anyway. He must wear the Victoria Cross at nay state ceremony where the queen is present, surely? Is it true that when the queen presents the Victoria Cross to any one, she pins it on his breast wkh her own hands?" “I believe so.” “I should like to sc* that done,” she observed, absently. There was a long-protracted ramble, and the curiosity of our young American friend about everything relating to the the modes of life there proved to be quite insatiable, just as it was simple, honest and ingenuous. When we got back to the boat the dusk had come down, and all the little red windows were aglow; but Mrs. Threepenny-bit did not go on board; Col. Cameron did; and we guessed that she had sent him to summon Mr. Duncombe away from his books. “Your servant, colonel!" says Miss Peggy, as we come up. “What do you mean?” the smaller wotner woman answers. “Have yon changed services, Peggy? You’ve been a sailor all the way through; are you goiug to leave the navy for the army?” “Yes,” says Miss Peggy, lightly. “1 have enlisted. And what’s more, I've got my marching orders.” “Where for?" This tall young recruit brings up the palm of her hand to her forehead, and makes a very fair imitation of a military salute. "For Inverfask, colonel,” she says, and the night conceals the laughing shyness of her cheeks.

CHAPTEH XXII. Early on this fair morning the welcome sunlight is all around as, touching here and there on the ted roofs half bidden among the willows and elms, making the old-fashioned inn and the ivied bridge quite picturesque, and striking into the clear water so that we can see shoals of small fish darting this way and that over the beds of green weed. And here is Miss Peggy herself, as radiant as the dawn, her eyes shining and without malice; a placid content upon her tranquil lips. “So this is the last day of our voyage?” she says. “The last full day. We shall leave a few miles to do to-morrow, so as to get into Beading about noon.” “When one looks back,” she says, rather pensively, “all those places we have seen appear to be very far away how. Doesn’t it seem ages since we saw Windsor Castle, with the royal standard high up in the pale blue sky ? Do you remember the fearful rain at Oxford, and the floods?” “And Mr. A’Beeket? yes. Tell me, did you ever answer the letter he was so kind as to send yon about the antiquities of Gloucester?” “Well, I did not,” she says, hastily. “Don’t you think yottr wife will do that for me? She ought. The information was for the whole party.” At breakfast there was clearly a foreshadowing of the end; for already these good people were beginning to talk of the chief impressions produced by this long water-ramble of ours. Miss Peggy’s fixed ideas seemed to be the remoteness and the silence of those solitudes through which we had passed, and the profusion of wild flowers. Mrs. Threepenny bit, on the other hand, had some fancy that in these rural wanderings you got to understand something of the hold that the Church of England has on the national mind, the prominence of it even in the landscape—the small, venerable, strong, square-towered building dominating the tiniest village, the great cathedral the principal feature and the proudest possession of the town. As we glided along through the haw-thorn-scented air onr chief difficulty was to tell whether we were on a river or a canal, for the Kennet and Avon canal and the river Kennet intertwist themselves in a remarkable manner and seem to have all their chief characteristics in common.

About midday we came in sight of Newbury, the pink house* of which looked very pleasant among the golden meadows and the various greens of poplar and maple. We bad a delightful stroll in the afternoon along the banks of the winding waterway that is sometimes the canal and sometimes the Kennet, and sometimes both combined. That night was our last on board, and yet it cannot be said we were a particularly mournful company. To-morrow we should be back in the Thames again, at Reading. Should we take her down to Kingston, whence we had started, and find her quarters there? Or should we send her np the river to Henley, with a view to the forthcoming regatta? M I will settle that matter for yon,” said Col. Cameron, as we sat at dinner. “Or rather I have settled it for yon. lam going to buy this boat.” “Really?” says one of us, who seems to think he might have been consulted. “I will explain,” says this tall Highlander, with great equanimity, “dost below the belt of wood at Inverfask there is a quiet little bay, very fairly protected by rocks—ln fact, dose to the shore it is perfectly I propose to anchor a buoy some way out, and have a wire rope connecting it with the land; then, you perceive, by means of a traveler, yon could run this boat along whenever yon wished, and you would be out at sea safe and secure—* small floating home that would be very convenient for a hundred things. You might want As

give year visitor* afternoon tea. Or yog might have a little dinner party in the saloon, for the fua of the thing. 1 have seemed Murdoch: be will be captain, cook and steward. Or yon aught be quite hg yourselves; and if it was a hot evening, aad the midge* troubling yon oa shore, you just step on board, and haul yon metres oat to ten. Or, again, supposing Mr. Duncombe were coming round that way—l hope he will—and wanted a quiet day’s work done, worJdn’t that be a secure retreat for him? There could be no better isolation, sorely, or more perfect silence. That would be a place to writer “It sound* tempting, certainty.” young Shakspeare made answer, perhaps with mistral visions or not absolute isolation floating before his mind. “Of course yon won Id hare to ask per- • mission.” Inverfask continued, “and not from me. It is not for myself I propose to make the purchase. It is to be a little present.” * * Why was it that all this time oar pretty Peggy had been sitting- with eyes downcast? Did she know of this sodacions scheme; and could it concern her in | any way? “Then,” said be, “when I have got possession of the boot—then she will no longer be known ax the ’Nameless Barge.’ Oh, no; when she is at her new moorings in the North wc mast find a proper name for her.” He looked across the table and Peggy’s eyes were still downcast. “And do you know what I propose to call her? Well, I hare been thinking I could not do better than call her Rosalind’s Bower.” tThe cad.)

PAPER COLLARS STILL IN STYLE.

Urge Quantities Arc Still Hushctmred for Western Trade. “It may surprise yon to know that paper collars are coming into demand again,” said a traveling salesman who handles men's furnishing goods, “and it ipay also surprise you to know that the demand right along, for years and years back, has been large enough to keep three or fonr good-sized factories going continually at full capacity. 1 used to wonder what became of the output, for I never saw anybody wearing the things, and finally I made it my particular bus! css to ascertain. I was astonished at the extent of the trade. It reaches all over the West and Southwest, and along the entire Northern frontier, from Seattle to Bangor. \TOerever the towns or camps are widely scattered, implying, I suppose, that whqre laundries are scarce and poor, there is a demand for paper collars. The hugest shipments, however, go into the lumber districts of Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the men wear an outlandish costume peculiar to the region and not to be fonnd elsewhere on the continent. Their “Sunday’ trousers, for Instance, are generally plaids seven or eight Inches square, in the brightest colors Imaginable; their bats are in solid red, bine, green or purple, and a paper collar on a fancy flannel shirt is considered a very effective combination.

“Thousands of gross go to dealers in the small towns throughout the timber belt op there, and almost as many are sent Into the Adirondack counties of Northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. 1 noticed that there was an especially large and steady demand from the maple sugar district—in fact, there seems to be some sort of mysterions affinity between paper collars and forests, leading people who earn their livelihood in the great woods to yearn for paper collars when they ’dress up.’ It wonid be n nice problem for students. Still another section where the sales have been enormous is in the northern end of Nebraska, where the country is settled up almost entirely by Swedes and Norwegians. I was amused, in looking over the order book of one of the big factories, to note that the collars sent to Xehraswa were all of one pattern—a peculiarly hideous, narrow, little turned over, the design of which must have been Imported from Europe. I have seen pictures of Baltic peasants wearing such chokers, bat have never micountered one in the life. To return to the point In reference to an increase in the demand, I know positively that it has almost doubled since the Ist of August and that several new factories are now in coarse of equipment. Where the new trade comes from I haven’t the least idea."—New Orleans Times^Democrat.

HIS LAST WORK.

Mcrgenthalrr Perfect* lL«lirf-M»ki.j Machine Jast Before He Dtea. In the summer of 1896 Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the linotype machine, who died in Baltimore recently, spent two days at PainesvUle, Ohio, studying the working of a basket machine, whfch he afterward modified and improved, and which was the last work completed just before his death. The machine as completed is as much a revolution in basket making as the linotype has proved to be in typesetting. Where an expert operator formerly produced 300 grape baskets daily by hand, the same operator with the machine, with greater ease, can now produce 4,000 baskets daily, aad these machinemade baskets are said to be superior in every way to the hand-made article. The machine Is of one horse-power, and can easily be attended by a girl. Its capacity being the same as that of twelve hand operator*. It Is practically a self-feeding machine, as the supplies of bottoms, strips for the sides and bands are placed In stocks near enough for the wonderful Iron Lands to reach out and setae, and while one watches these wonderful hands reach out for the material the bosket Is finished, and the machine, as It were, holds its breath, or, rather, Its hands, for n second, while tbs basket Is delivered, whan It Immediately begins again Its wooderfol performance.—Philadelphia Rcc It Is fignred that the wealth po* Burned by Mss than one-third of the United States senators amounts to Staffi fttmonnjfwn

FACTS ABOUT THE CENSUS.

It is important to the agricultural interests of the United States that an accurst* census of farm products should be taken. W. H. Lloyd in the National Rural presents some valuable bints that will aid in the work of the next enumeration if heeded by the farmers of the tyA “farm” is all the-land cultivated or held for agricultural purposes under one management, whether In a single body or separate parcels. Tax assessors,' collectors and equalizers cannot ierve as enumerators, or haveaccess to the census returns, or to tbe ; information therein contained. There are-more than 5,000,000 farms, plantations, randies, stock ranges and, market gardens in the United States, all of which, for census panftses, wdl bo designated as “farnis." The first really valuable census of agriculture in the United States was taken in 18o<k of the crops of 1849. The next enumeration of agriculture will be taken in June, 1900, of the products of 1899. If every farmer wiU begin at once to prepare a careful record of all the facts which the enumerator will be instructed to record in June, 1900, he will, save time for himself and the officer, and insure more accurate returns to the Uovernment.

Instead of recording several farms on one schedule in the twelfth census, as heretofore, each farm will be accorded a separate blank, the entries on which will not be known to any save sworn officers of the department. No names will be published in connection with information secured from the people. The enumerator will ask for the size and value of each farm, the value of buildings, and the aggregate value of all machinery, implements, vehicles, harness, etc., used thereon; and the amount of land owned and leased, respectively, by said occupant. He will also ask for the acreage and value of each crop, and the acreage of Improved, unimproved and irrigated lands. The designation "each crop” includes an grains, cotton, corn, rice, sugar cane, sugar beets, sorghum, hay, clover, wild grasses, gathered forage, flax, hemp, hops, peanuts, tobacco, seeds, nuts, tropical fruits, small fraits, orchard fruits, nursery and greenhouse stock, broom corn, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams, all vegetables, including the product of all family, truck and market gardens, etc.; also new or unusual crops, when fonnd.

If a person who moves from a farm between the end of the crop year 1899 and Jane 1, 1900, will leave a written record of the prodnets and crops of that farm for 1899 where it will reach the appropriate enumerator, the statistics of his operations for that year will not be lost. He will be required to give the enumerator of the district in which he lives on Jane 1,. 1900; the acreage, value, buildings, machinery, implements and live stock of the farm he then occupies. The enumerator will ask for the number and value of the live stock on the farm Jane 1,1900, which will be reported under a number of heads, such as horses, colts, moles, asses, cows, heifers, steers, calves, bolls, ewes, rams, lambs, swine, goats, chickens (including guinea fowl), turkeys, geese, ducks, bees, etc. He will also ask for the quantity and value of milk, cream, butter, cheese, raisins, prunes, molasses, sirup, sugar, eggs, beeswax, honey, wool, wine, cider, vinegar, dried and evaporated fraits, forest products, and, generally, all articles made at home, or for the home, from farm materials in 1899.

DIED IN A FIRE TRAP.

Fiflcca Victim* of Tenement Hsriae Horror at Newark. Fifteen persons, a majority of whom were children, were burned to death at a tenement house at Newark, N. J., Monday morning. Thirteen bodies were recovered from the rains within three hours after the flames had been extinguished. *n>e building was a three-story frame structure, formerly used ss a church, but transformed into a tenement house with small rooms, scarcely 8 by 10 feet in dimensions, opening into narrow hallways on both the second and third floors, forming a veritable fire trap. This location is fat the heart of the Italian district. There were at least twelve families in the place, sixty persons in all, of whom perhaps fifty were children, unable to care for themselves. The flames spread with frightful rapidity and the place was like a roaring caldron when the firemen reached the scene. One after another the women, and then the men, were taken down, while other firemen devoted their attention to drowning oat the flames. This they succeeded in doing in less than an boor, but daring that hour a frightful sacrifice had been offered. Nearly every room in the house contained its victim. Few were really burned to death. Most of them were smothered to death.

Sparks from the Wires.

Mrs. Bcnj. Morgen stern, 108, New Jork, is dead. Wm. Barts, colored, was lynched at Basket Mills. S. C. Burglars cracked a safe in Davidson, N. C-, and seemed S6OO. Five men were killed and forty wounded in strikers’ riot at Rio de Janeiro. Dr. H. N. Selfridge, Oakland, Cal., has cured himself of cancer by X-rays treat* Cleveland, Ohio, bloods were eanght for 910,000 in the Security Savings Society bubble at Chicago. Believed that Charles Betsch and two other prospectors have been frozen to death in Alaska. The consumption of cotton per head haa more than doubled in Germany since ISIS. French statistics are said to prove that 211 French ofltaers threw np their commissions to join the Boers. Four thousand continental emigrants per month are rushing to England to take vacant situations at higktr wages. Mayor Harrison of Chicago paid the city would use the water power of the drainage canal fas municipal purposes. Exteashre>opper mines,in the Mazapil district. Mexico, hare heea purchased by the Rothschilds. Consideration 9800,000.

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COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk i. .Wm. H.Cqover Sheriff ........Nate J. Reed Auditor W, C, Babcock Treasurer.... „ R. A, Park iso 11 Roeqrder Robert B. Porter Surveyor ..Myrt B. Price Coromor TrulttP. Wrigbt Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor ...JohnE. Phillips CQMUISSIONBBO. Ist District ..Abraham Halleck 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Way mire Commissioner’s court—First Monday of each mouth. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor...; Thomas J.McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer.. ~k . .... C.C, Starr Attorney Harry R. Kurri* Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parceb COUNCILUKN. Ist ward ,G. K. Murray, Chas. Dean. 2nd ward .John Eger, C.G, Spitler 3rd ward J. C. McColly, J. C.Gwin JUDICIAL. _ Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney- Chnrles B. Miili Terms of Court.—Second Mondu v in February, April, September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, TBUSTKKS. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grovt A. W. Prevo Gil lam John F. Pettit ..Walker Samuel R. Nichols Barkley James D. Babcock Marion ; Marcus W. Reed Jordan 1 Jackson Freeland Newton i C.C. B-erma Keener 1 J.C. Kanpke.. Kankakee Albert S. Keene .; Wheat field John A. Lam born Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer Union TOWN OE CITY J. D. Allman Remington J. F. Wafrren Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfisr I Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Reusie.acr CHURCHES. First Baptist—Preaching ev«r two weeks at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p, m; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. m. Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. F. meets Sunday, 6:30 P. M. Christian—Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 9:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E.. 3:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. 1,, Ward, pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbykrian—Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:46 and 7:80: Sunday school 9:80; Y.P. S. O. K., 6:80; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:80: Ladies’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist—Preaching at 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7: Junior League_2:Bo alternate Sunday: Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. ILM. Middleton. Pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. . Church of God—Comer Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:80; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. A. H. Zilmer, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine’s. Corner Division and. Susan. Services 7:3oand 10:80 a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Father '1 botnas Meyer pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic— Prairie Lodge, No. 135, A.F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondaysofeach month. J. M. Wasson. W. M.; W. J. Inies, Evening Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E.S., meets first and third Wednesdays of each month. Maude Spitler, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. Catholic Order Forresters—^ Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 3 p. tn. J. M. Healy Sec’y; George Stricßfaden, Chief Ranger. Magdalene Court-No. 886. meets the 2nd and A i Sundays of each month. Miss SfS'JtaasEst.m RS - : Odd Fellows— lroquois Lodge, No. 144, I O. O. F., meets every Thursday. E. M. Parcels, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Remssklarr Encampment-No. 301.1, o. O. F., meets second aftd fourth Fridays of each month. S. M. Cowden.C, P.; J. R. Vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rkbkkah Degree Lodge— No. 846. m -ets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Deltna Nowlee, N. G.; Miss Belle Adams, Sec’y. - I. O. of Foresters —Court Jasper, No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. J. N. Leatherman, C. D. H. C. R: C. L. Thornton, R. S. Maccabees— Rensselaer sent. No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. W. Clsset, Commander; Isaac Porter, Record Keeper. _ Pythian— Rensselaer Lodge No. 83, IPVYSLJEST Rensselaer Tkmple, Rathbooe Sitters,No. 47, meets .3d and 4th Thursday, ST-?: E - £ Grand Army.—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. J, A. Pumhan, Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Adjutant. Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C. Thornton, President; Mrs. Ella Hopkins. Sec’y. Robert H. Milroy Circle—Meets every Holly Council.— No. 7. Daughters of Lib'l§lsKi