Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — Page 2

Captain Brabazon

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• CHAPTER I. "I don’t and won’t believe it! There suit be some mistake. It’s too bad to be truef* This reekless assertion came from the lips of a tall girl of seventeen, who was leaning her shabby elbows on a wide, oldfashioned window sill, and looking out on a steady downpour, in an attitude of the deepest dejection; staring blankly at the whity-gray sky, the dripping bushes, the roses like sponges, and the flattened flower beds, with her pretty face drowned in tears. Behind her, gazing gloomily over her head, with his hands in the pockets ot his shooting coat, stood a young man. No, ■ot her lover—for in him we trace a strong family likeness, and notice the same very dark blue eyes and crisp, brown hair —he is merely her youngest brother, who, five minutes previously, had bunt into the room and abruptly informed her that, “just as he expected, he had been spun for the army, and it was his luck all over.” On the carpet beside him lay the Morning Post, containing a list of the successful candidates, among whom, alas! the name of Edward Brabazon does not appear. “Please yourself, my good f»‘rl! Believe it or not, as you like,” be returned gruffly; “I don’t fancy it will make much difference at the Horse Guards. I really wish to goodness, Esme, you would not go on like this.” "But it was your last chance,” she sobbed, In ■ muffled tone. “And, after working so hard, and reading for hours and hours, with a wet towel round your head—it’s too hard.” “Fine weather for young ducks,” suddenly interrupted a gay treble voice; and another girl, having pushed the door open with her knee, entered slowly, bearing a tray covered with jam pots. She is Miss Brabazon—Augusta, known as Gussie, in the bosom of her family;

not so tall as Esme, and not nearly so * pretty; still, as she says herself, "she is by.no means an unprepossessing young person.” She has a bright, vivacious a pair of twinkling, mischievous brown eyes, a neat little figure, and an impudent nose. “Tears!” she exclaimed, carefully depositing her tray on the school room table. “What has happened? Who is dead? or la it only one of the dogs?" “The list la out, and I’ve been spun,” replied her brother. “Oh, nonsense!” she cried, with a gasp of incredulity. “You don’t mean to say •o,” almost snatching the paper out of his band in her eagerness to verify the fact. “▲nd that odious young Thomas has actually passed!” she exclaimed, at length. “A miserable little creature in spectacles, who could never originate one single remark beyond ‘Yea, Miss Brabazon,’ 'No, Mias Brabazon,’ Thank you, Miss Brabasoa,’ that positively dared not say ‘Boo’ to the proverbial goose! And talking of saying ‘Boo* to a goose, who is to break this to Mrs. B.?” “I am, I suppose!” returned the brother, doggedly. “It is the third occasion 1 have had to ‘break’ the same news to her, as you call it. There’s a kind of fatal familiarity about the subject by thia time!” “Mr. Edward, if you please, the mistress wishes to speak to you in the drawing room at once,” said a grlm-looking, elderly woman from the doorway; a person whose figure resembled a deal board covered with a tight black alpaca dress. ‘To me! To speak to me, Nokes?” suddenly sitting upright. “Yes, Mr. Edward, to speak to you,” she answered in a tone of decorous decision; a tone which, being interpreted by these experienced young people, meant, “And won’t you just catch it, that’s all!” ‘Then she must have seen it,” exclaimed Esme, in an awestruck voice. “Oh, Teddy!”

Mrs. Brabazon is seated at' a writing table in one of the windows of the drawing room aa Teddy enters. She is a lady with a very long, upright back, a back that has a distinct character and expression of its own, and that of an aggressive nature. When we look into her face, we discover that she is between forty and fifty, dark and sallow, with thin lips pinched together in a manner that bodes but ill for Master Teddy; In fact, her countenance is the embodiment of a thunder cloud, as she waits in an attitude of rigid expectancy, with the Times spread out before her, her eyes fixed on one particular column, engaged in the amiable task of nursing her wrath to keep it warm. She heard the door open and close, she heard his approaching footsteps without moving for fully sixty seconds. At length she turned her head slightly toward the culprit, and said, in a tone .which had gathered intensity from the preceding awful pause. “This Is a nice business r rapping the paper before her with an impressive forefinger. "Pray what hare you got to say for yourself, sir—eh? I hope you are ashamed. Only,” hastily correcting heroelf, “it is not in your nature to be ashamed of anything. 'Come,*' with a jerk of her chair, "speak; and don’t stand there looking like a foot” ' “What can I say, Mrs. Brabazon?” returned Teddy, with heightened color. *T am awfully sorry I failed to pass. I did my very best as far as working went. I am sorry for all the time that has been wasted ” “Aqd money,” Interpolated the lady, "And money, as you say,” he continued; "and I am very sorry you should be so much disappointed; but, after all, it’s rougher on me than anyone else. 1 shall be the chief sufferer.” • “Chief sufferer I You!” she cried, glaring at him with her fiery little coffeecolored eyes, “you a sufferer! you idle, lazy, good-for-nothing lout! This is the third time you’ve come to me with this same story—failed to pass! Suffer, indeed!” charging back on that unlucky word. “It has been my purse that has

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suffered! You must make up your mind to earn your own bread, and that without delay. I never dreamed of having to support yon; and what with keeping up the place and Fiorian’s allowance, and your sisters’ expenses, my hand is never out of my pocket!” “Still there is a good deal of spending in three thousand a year, Mrs. Brabazon,” said Teddy, impetuously, his soul revolting at her hypocritical rapacity and meanness. “Three thousand a year! It’s nothing of the sort,” quickly turning to him with a livid face. "What business is the amount of my income to you? It is my money,” passionately, "and not yours! I’ve put up with your insolence too long. I won’t have you another week. I’ve been prepared for this,” pointing a trembling finger to the paper. “I’ve heard of something at the West Coast of Africa that will suit. There you will learn industry, discipline and manners, and 1 never wish to see you again. I shall write about your passage this very day—this very post.” “You need not trouble yourself, Mrs. Brabazon,” interrupted Teddy, decidedly. “I may as well tell you at once that I shall not go to the West Coast of Africa. I can find work for myself. After what you have said, I would rather break stones than be beholden to you for a crumb. I know of something that will suit me better than the yellow fever.” “Take care what you do!” she exclaimed hoarsely. “If you get into low company, or disgrace yourself in any way, I shall wash my hands of you and your affairs. Yon shall be ’’ here she suddenly discovered that Teddy had departed. When he left his stepmother’s presence fee quickly made up his mind what to do. He had failed in passing the examination for an officer, he would enlist as a private in the ranks. He so informed his sisters during the day, and stuck to his determination in spite of all their expostulations. On one thing he was as obstinate as a mule — he would not pass another night in the house as a dependent on his stepmother’s bounty. At 9 o’clock that night he bade his sisters a fond farewell, and left Barrowsford to become a soldier.

CHAPTER 11. Mr. Adrian Brabazon had been an idle, indolent man, whose predilection was congenial society, and who, when his pretty wife died and left him with four small children, had promptly dispatched the boys to school, the girls to the care of their aunt', his sister, shut up at Baronsford, and taken himself off abroad. He spent a good deal of money in an easygoing, gentlemanly fashion, passing as an invalid, a connoisseur in cookery, a patron of the fine arts, and rambling from Italy to the South of France, from Paris to the German Spas, in a kind of perennial circular tour. During his travels he wedded a second wife. Beyond the fact that she was a Mrs. Jupp, widow, aged 40, nothing whatever was known of her antecedents, although the ears of the Maxton gossips were literally aching for particulars. To speak quite frankly, Mrs. Brabazon was not a lady by birth, nor yet one of nature’s gentlewomen. She was a shrewd, sharp, scheming woman, of scant education, who had worked herself up step by step, and who had recently come abroad as confidential traveling maid to an eb derly lady In bad health. She and her employer happened to be inmates of the same hotel in Paris as Mr. Brabazon. It was an unhealthy season, low fever was prowling about and carried off the elderly Englishwoman as one of its first victims. Mr. Brabazon himself became dangerously ill, and was tenderly nursed back to convalescence by Mrs. Jupp, who was a skilled sick nurse, and soft-voiced, soft-footed, sympathetic and soothing. Vague possibilities were floating through Mrs. Jupp’s brain at this period. In addition to a small legacy, she had succeeded to her late mistress’ handsome wardrobe, and made quite an imposing appearance in soft cashmeres and rich black silks, and dainty little lace caps, whenever Mr. Brabazon was sufficiently convalescent to notice such matters. She spoke of herself as companion only to her late “dear friend,” and talked tearfully of better days, far more affluent circumstances, and bewailed her losses in an apocryphal mine in Cornwall. Mrs. Jupp had made herself very necessary to the invalid; he liked her, he was grateful to her. She exactly understood his wants, knew his favorite little dishes, and did not suffer him to be troubled or bored. His health was uncertain, he told himself that he could not dispense with her. He hated the trouble of combating her stronger will, and, telling himself that he was acting for the best, and required a sensible woman to look after him, married her at the English church one morning in November, and, as a reward, his bride carried him away to Italy immediately after the ceremony. Gradually Mr. Brabazon became more and more feeble and decrepit, and during the last year of his life his mind was mnch affected. At first he forgot things that happened thirty years previously, then twenty, then ten, then last year—yesterday. His state was not generally known beyond the small retinue of Italian servants, as for years Mrs. Brabazon had conducted his correspondence and managed all his business, and his present unhappy condition made no alteration in his affairs. She corresponded with her step-children from time to time; stiff, conventional letters, whose contents might have been posted in the market place; but she firmly repressed any desire on their part to come abroad and see their dear papa. The miserable state of his health, she declared in one of her first epistles she wrote to them after her marriage, precluded their much-desired visit, although personally she was languishing to make their acquaintance. At last one day they re-

ceived a letter with an inch-deep black border, announcing the not unexpected death of their father; and Mrs. Brabazon, haring buried him under a touching and handsome white monument in the cemetery at Florence, disposed of her villa, dismissed her servants and returned as a widow to reign at Baronsford. The will created a profound sensation. Everything was left in the hands of Mrs. Brabazon until Florian attained his majority, and he was not to come of age until he was twenty-five. Over the fortunes of her step-daughters and their matrimonial possibilities her power was absolute. She was sole mistress of the property till Florian came of age, and guardian to the four young Brabazons. The interest of the money in the funds, the whole yearly rental of Baronsford, and the nice, large, quarterly dividends accruing from the first Mrs. Brabazon’s fortune were exclusively hers during the minority of the testator’s children. There were no executors, no trustees; all power was vested in one person, and that person was the widow. “The will of a madman!” shrieked public opinion. "A shameful, unnatural, wicked will; most unfair to the young people.” But after a while public opinion veered around, like a weathercock that it is, and gravely declared that when you came to look into the matter, the will gained upon you, and that really, after all, Adrian Brabazon had more sense than they imagined. It was far wiser to leave the property in the hands of a clever, sensible person, who would keep the house together, and probably put by the money she saved for the benefit of her step-chil-dren, and be a second mother to them all, than if everything had gone to idle, thriftless, extravagant Florian. After that day when Teddy so unceremoniously left her presence Mrs. Brabazon never once mentioned his name, and maintained an ostentatious deportment of injured innocence, generally taking her meals in her own sitting room, greatly to the relief of her step-daughters, who talked about their missing brother with bated breath, and minds full of misgiving and conjecture. At last, one morning, the news came. He had done it. Esme knew it from her first glance at Mrs. Brabazon’s upper lip, as she entered the dining room with a bundle of letters in her hand. "There xyill be no prayers this morning,” she said abruptly, sending the servants back into the hall. "You can all go! I am not in a fit frame of mind to go down on my knees and ask a blessing on this house and family. Ido not know when I hare been so upset as I am today. I suppose you have heard about your previous brother?” with a sneer specially dedicated to Esme; and now taking her place before the teapot, as though it were a kind of judgment-seat; “he has written to you, I know, this Private Brown, of the Prince’s lancers.” "What!” cried Florian, startled out of his usual lethargy. "Oh, nonseuse! you don't mean to say that the idiot has enlisted?”

“He has.” she returned, with vicious energy. “He is now a soldier in the ranks; a common soldier.” “Well, of all the idiots!” ejaculated Florian. contemptuously. “He has disgraced us,” continued Mrs. Brabazon, hoarsely, snatching up the sugar tongs in a kind of blind fury, and commencing to make tea; but her hand shook so violently that half the lumps were scattered about the tray. “If he had gone to sea it would not have-mat-tered; no one would have known. What will people say?” she demanded, fiercely, of her audience. “He had every advantage, and I had the promise of an excellent appointment for him on the West Coast of Africa, as deputy superintendent of a jail; but, without a word, he leaves my roof and walks off and enlists as Private Brown. Such base ingratitude never was beard of. Gussie and Esme were both in tears, and Florian was slicing the ham before him very delicately and very deliberately, with an air of deep meditation on his sallow brow. "His name I forbid to be mentioned by any one in this house,” proceeded Mrs. Brabazon. "I forbid you girls to correspond with him or speak of him! Ijdward has as much passed out of your lives now as if his death were in the morning’s paper. I have desired Nokes to keep all the front blinds down for three days.” (To be continued.)

At Long Range.

In the Franco-German war, 1870, at Gravelotte, the German cavalry lost 200 horses and 100 men, while their artillery lost 1.300 horses and 050 men. At Thionvllle. a terribly fierce battle, the German cavalry lost 1,600 horses and 1.400 men. while their artillery lost 1,000 horses and 730 men; but at the battle of Weerth the German cavalry lost only 50 horses to 00 men. This shows that when the fighting is close and hot the men fall in greater numbers than the horses. From the relative loss of men and horses you can tell whether it was a defeat or a victory; for in a victory the difference between men lost and horses lost would not be very great, while in a defeat and retirement the loss of horses would be immense. In a well-contested hand-to-hand fight of cavalry the loss of horses !* about equal to the loss of men. When the British troops were engaged in the Peninsular war they lost in each of th® 15 battle® an average of 18 horses to 19 men, showing fierce and close fighting. On the other hand, the loss of horses is very great when the cavalry have to go a long distance over open ground before delivering the charge, as they are exposed to the enemy’s fire. At Fonteno# the French killed 87 British cavalrymen and 337 of their horses.

Fifty to One.

War is not such a dangerous game an people think. In spite of all efforts to annihilate each other, enemies do comparatively slight damage. During the Franco-German war, with its scores of battles on a vast scale, only 10% men In each 1,000 were killed and 108 wounded. while 4% per 1,000 were missing. Thus any soldier engaged had about nine chances to one that he would not get a scratch, and over fifty chances to one that he would notxbe killed. Moat of the wounds received were slight—that is to say, one-fourth of an the wounds were severe, and three-fourths were slight. But tt Is surprising bow small a wound disables a man and knocks him out of the rapks.

NEWS FROM OUR COLONIES.

The higher class of Fi&pinos arc very exclusive. They are educated, refined and intelligent and great lovcjfs of music and the fine arts, as far as they have had opportunity to become familiar with them. "Few Americans,” writes a Manila correspondent, ’’become familiar enough with the better class of people to realize that they are very clever. They live in strict retirement all day, but at night they shine with brilliancy and beauty upon those who are fortunate enough to be admitted to tfeeir circle. They are natural born mwuHans. In fact, 1 think all Filipinos are. A very pleasant evening can be spent in the house of some of the wealthiest merchants of the city who are natives when once the ice IF broken and the invitation given. The largest business enterprises in the city are owned and controlled by natives and their homes are models of luxury and comfort. Few of them live in the walled city, but preferably build out on the Malacauan, the ■well residence* street of Manila.” A Kansas man who is with the United States telegraph corps in the Philippines in a letter home tells of the difficulties which the corps encounters. Recently two big army .wagons, each drawn by six mules, were loaded with rubber insulated wire, a battery and a reel to reel it out, keeping up with the troops. The road became so bad they had to strap the reel on a mule’s back .and the rest of the wire on other mules, leaving the wagon in the mud up to the hubs. One mule Carried the folding field telegraph table, with instruments all attached. Every few miles they would stop and telegraph back to Manila the progress of the column. ’To do so they viould take the table off the mule, unfold it, cut the wire from the reel on the other mule, connect it with the instruments and do the necessary telegraphing. This was generally done when the troops stopped for a few minutes to rest.

Spaniards are going to Cuba in almost as large numbers as Americans, according to the latest report to the War Department from the port of Havana. During January 1,720 persons from the United States landed on the island, 1,200 from Spain and 546 from other countries. For the year 1899 the total Spanish immigration to Cuba was 16,260; American, 22.301. Only 257 persons left the island for Spain, while 1,722 left for the United States. The port collections for the month, $1,152,513.43. were the largest of any month since the Stars and Stripes began to float over the governor general’s pulaee. The steamship Tacoma brings the news that the Japanese Government has prohibited further emigration of Japanese to Hawaii. For months thousands of Japs have been leaving Yokohama monthly, being, shipped generally by employment bureans, which expected a fee from each. It now develops that 4,000 more Japs have been shipped than the agencies had employment for. These laborers are now in distress, and the strict sanitary regulations enforced at Honolulu add to their troubles. Japan is contributing to their support. In the Hawaiian Islands, according to the latest reports, there are 21,616 Chinese. Of these 15 are doctors, merchants and traders number 822, including 3 women; 1,356 are clerks and salesmen, 18 of these women; of mechanics there are 220; mariners, 15 only; fishermen, 294; drivers and teamsters, 105. In the country, apart from Honolulu, there are 36 Chinese coffee planters, 98 ranchers, 718 rice planters, 2 of them women; of farmers and agriculturists 1.278, and the laborers number 10,941. There are no Chinese lawyers. A little item from the Manila Tribune gives a fair idea of the cost of living in America’s Oriental capital. Lee You, a Chinaman, runs a restaurant and the prices are given in Mexican money. Steak is worth 25 cents; bacon and eggs, the same; pie. 10 cents; coffee, 10 cents; tea, 5 cents; chicken, or chicken pot pie, 50 cents; pork chops, 25 cents. If the prices are reduced to American money they would be just about one-half. A well-known Cuban correspondent, J. D. Wbelpley, writes from Havana under recent date that the feeling against annexation to the United States is surprisingly strong on the island. The American who visits Cuba to-day, he says, “will be astounded at the strenuous demand for independence and the strong feeling of resentment, unmistakably manifest, at the continued presence of Americans in control of the island.” The Manila (P. I.) Times states that the attendance of children at the Manila schools was 4,849 for the month of Noveml>er last, a gain of thirty-two girls and thirty-one boys as compared with the previous month.

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COUNTY OFFICERS. Clqrk Wm. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor. W.C. Babcock Treasurer.... R. A. Parkison. Recorder ... Robertß. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner ...TruittP. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor.. ..Johnß. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District.. Simeon A. Dowel) 3rd District Frederick Waymire Commissioner's court—First Monday of each month. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan. Clerk.. ; Schuyler C. Irwin Treasurer C. C. Starr Attorney .Harry R. Kurrie' Civil Engineer H. L. Gramble Fire Chief ..Edgar M. Parceli COVNCILMKM. Ist ward .G. E. 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. .Charles E. Milk Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February. April, September and November. COUNTY BOARD OF .EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS, Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. Prevo Gillam John F. Pettit... .. Walker Samuel R. Niehols Barkley James D. Babcock J Marion Marcus.W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. Bierma Keener J. C. Kaupke Kankakee Albert S. Keene Wheatfield John A. Lamborn Carpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer. Union TOWN ob cm 3. D. Allman Remington J. F. Warren Renaoetaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfield Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt......Renaee«aer

CHURCHES. <■ First Baptist—Preaching even? two weeks at 10:45 a. in. and 7 p, m; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p. ni. Q 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„ 3:80; S. Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30: Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. A. L, Ward, pastor. Ladies* Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Presbyerian—Comer Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:80; Y. P. S. C. E„ 6:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday 7:30; 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 Sundays; Tuesday 7; Junior League3:Bo alternate Sunday: Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. 11. M. Middleton, Pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by -appointment. Church of God—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:80; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. A. H. Zilmer, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine's. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:BOand 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Father’ihomas Meyer pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge. No. 135, A. F. and A. M., meets first and third Mondays of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. Imes, Evening St An 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. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; George Stricxfaden, Chief Ranger. Magdalene Court-No. 386. meets the find and 4tii Sundays of each month, Mias Mary Meyer. C. R.; Mrs. Mary Drake, R. S.: MissCindaMacklenberg. F. 8. Odd Fellows—lroquois Lodge, No. 144, I O. O. F., meets every Thursday. E. M. Parcels, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 301. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month, J. M. Cowden, C. P.; J. B. vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Lodge— No. 846. first and third Fridays of each month. Miso Delma Nowlee, N. G.; Miss Belle Adams, Sec’y. I. O. OF Foresters—Court Jasper, No. 1703, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. J. N. Leatherman, C. D. H. C. R: C. L. Thornton, R. 8. Maccabees—Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. F. W. Cisaei, Commander; Isaac Porter, Record Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 83, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday. C. Robinson, C. C.t N. W. Reeve, K. of R. AS. I Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— No. 47, meets 3d and 4th Thursday, every month, Mrs. Lulu Huff, M. E. C. _Mrs. Josie Woodworth. M of R. C. Grand Army.—Rensselaer Poet No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night; J, A. Burnban, Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Adjutant. Rensselaer Women’s Relief Corpsmeets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. C, Thornton, President; Mrs. fills Hopkins. Robert H. Milroy CiRCLE-Meeta every Thursday in LU. O. F. block, Mrs. Ben). Sayler, Pres.; Carrie I. Porter. Sec’y. Holly Council.—No. 7. Daughters of Liberty meets 3d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Moss, Recording Secretary. Rensselaer Camp.—No. 4413. Modern Woodman Of America, meets First and Third