Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — Page 2

ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL EPISODE

®ETTY RAWLINS had a bank account, and a huge one at that But Betty bad a greater fortune to her face, for ahe was ns pretty as a spring beauty, and though •he was perverse und pouty when she wanted to be she was ordinarily as •west as a violet Betty lived In the summer time at Lowland Glen, not many miles removed from Fort Sherman, a big garrison with enough young officers on duty to fill the ranks of a company had they been forced to drop the sword and shoulder the K rag- Jorgenson. Batty loved the miltary— what girl doesn’t? —and If the truth be told Betty’s heart was set on marrying Into the soldiery, but she had made up her mind secretly that he couldn't think of looking at anything less than a colonel, and when she thought of It she sighed, for the colonels In Undo Sam’s regulars were nil so dreadfully old, and Betty was only 19, mind you. There was young Roy Lanyard stationed at Fort Sherman. lie was mighty good looking, Betty admitted this to herself, and It wouldn’t be a bit hard to love him, but Roy was only a captain, and nothing but a Colonel would do. Captain Lanyard, to get Into the middle of things at once, was Just as deeperately in love with Betty as a young soldier just old enough to know his own mind can be. He didn’t care a rap about Betty’s

CAPT. ROY LANYARD LOOKED ON AND WAS MISERABLE.

bank account; in fact, he never gave It a thought. It was Just Betty hcfsclf that ho wanted, hut he didn’t dare say MX Now Betty had another failing, not Uncommon among American ghls not old enough thoroughly to understand that Yankee husbands are the best in the world, and Unit was a linn belief that the ideal cond.t on in married life Would be that which would come from • husband who was a combination of Englishman ai d English army officer. “The colonels are younger over there," Mid Betty to herself, "and they are All of aristocratic family, and, oh Well, Englishmen are just too lovely for anything.” The summer colony at Lowland Glen Was unusually large that season. There were bunch* s of swell doings, as the slangy Yale c hingin' of Betty would put It. The army officers from Fort Sherman were much in evidence, and one young captain in particular was very much in evidence In the vicinity of Miss Brtty Rawlins. Betty saw the evidence clearly, and how she did wish that the president would retire some few hundreds of superior officers so that Itoy Ijmynrd could tack the abbreviation “Col." to the front part of his name. One day there was excitement at Lowland (ilea. Mrs. Calumet had Invited two EugUuhinen, one of them an army officer, to spend the month with them at their summer home. The news reached Betty the morning after the arrival o* the Calumet's two guests. Twenty young women had told her about It Let the girls alone for spreading news of this kind. “And Betty," said one of her Informants, “one of the Englishmen is a colonel In bis majesty's service, and young and good looking at that." Betty’s heart gave a thump. “At last,” she murmured to herself. The next afternoon Betty met the Englishmen at the Defter Country Glub. Her heart fluttered a little as (be younger of the two men—the other Was old and out of the running—was Introduced to her. Colonel Reginald Bouthcote was bis name. It fah-ly rang of aristocracy ai d militarism. Betty knsw that he was a simon-pure Englishman all light enough because of bis name, his accent and his clotbes — which didn't fit. For the next week Colonel Reginald Bouthcote was Betty Rawlin’s shadow. Captain Roy Lanyard looked on and was miserable. Betty gave him two dances and about three words during the entire week. “No show for one of Uncle Ban’s poor artfllerynn n when there’s one of King ICd ward's men with a draWf'gnd a monocle about," sighed p»or Captain Boy. Colonel Reginald Southcote was not long in finding out that Betty Rawlins had a pot of money and that she adored the military. Betty asked him cm day what bis regiment was, and rapUed promptly: “I am the colonel a t the Royal Yorlckshlre Regiment,”

Betty had beard tales about Englishmen pretending to be what they were not, but the colonel looked honest enough, and the girl was half ashamed of herself when she went to a library in the city and took down a British military gazette from the shelf and looked for Royal Yorlckshlre Regiment She found It all right, nnd with the name of Reginald Southeote set down as colonel thereof. From that time Betty was very cordial to the colonel. She turned the conversation occasionally on the Boor war, expecting to hear some deeds of daring modestly told, but the colonel was strangely silent on the subject of held service, and Betty put It down to a brave man’s reticence when It came to speaking of his own acts on the field of battle. Betty might not have liked it had she known that when she was looking tip the colonel’s regiment he was making Inquiries in certain financial circles about the extent of her bank account. The report seemed to please him, and he proceeded to make hay while the sun shone, and it was a particularly cloudless month at Lowland Gleu. Betty knew with n girl's intuition that an offer was not far away. She felt a pang, however, every time she saw Captain Lanyard and saw how miserable he looked, though he tiled to put a brave face on the matter. If the truth be told, Betty cried a little In the privney of her room when she looked at the glorious old flag floating In the sunshine at the flagstaff peak In the fort beyond, and sighed and sighed again. One day Lawyer Coke, who looked after Betty Bowlin's estate, heard from a close friend that a certain Englishman had been inquiring about Betty’s financial standing. "Fortune hunter If not a fraud,” said old Coke to himself, and then, ns luck would have It, he happened to pick up a copy of the Broad Arrow, the journal of the united services of Great Britain. Lawyer Coke looked at it. His eyes fell on a paragraph and lie chuckled. He folded the paper up. put It la his pocket nnd took the first train for Lowland Glen. lie marked the paragraph In the paper and put it where he knew Betty would be sure to pick it up, nnd from the nature of the publication he knew she would b? sure to read it from start to finish.

Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was coming when she would have to answer a question put to her by Colonel Reginald Bouthcote. She was thinking of this when she picked up the Broad Arrow. She knew what the paper was, for she had heard of It. She read it eagerly. The date of the paper was three months back. The marked paragraph caught her eye. She read this: “General Powell-Baden inspected the Royal Yorlckshlre Regiment last Thursday. It was the first training day of this militia organization for a year. The new men were in poor trim, and Colonel Reginald Southcote, who has seen no foreign service and very little at home, had hard work to give commands and to sit liis horse properly. The regiment will need overhauling to bring It up to even militia standards.” • The paper dropped from Betty’s fingers. “Militiaman: never saw a day’s real service; couldn’t sit on his horse;" and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts turned to another paragraph that she had read in an American journal. It told how one Captain Boy Landyard had received the Congressional medal of honor for personal gallantry In the saving of the life of a comrade under fierce fire in the Philippine Islands. Betty knew that night at the ball st the hotel that Colonel Reginald Southcote was seeking her out, but she avoided him. Captain Roy Lanynrd met her and she smiled on him, and there was a look In her eyes that made the young soldier’s heart leap. “Won't you go for a walk with me? 1 ’ he said. “Yes,” she answered softly. As they passed down the hotel steps the moonlight fell full upon them, and Lawyer Coke, who was standing on the veranda, smiled, and, being a bit of a wag, he turned to a friend who had been watching the course of events for a month past and said: ■“Alas! Poor Yorlckshlre."—Chicago Record-Herald.

Gladstone’s Statue.

A statue to Gladstone lias recently been placed In Westminster Abbey on the spot marked for It years ago by Dean Stanley. It occupies the last vacant space for a standing figure In the north transept. The London Time* describes the statue. It was made by Mr. Brook of the Royal Academy, and Is a marhl? figure on a marble pedestal, which at present contains no Inscription, On one side Is the statue of Sir Robert Peel, on the other, that of Lord Beaeonsfield. The aisle is called the “Statesmen’s Aisle,” nnd Is near the pulpit. Gladstone stands in the robes of a doctor of civil law of Oxford, with his face turned slightly to the left. The ltkeneaß is good. There Is no ceremony of unveiling monuments which, like this, are erected by the authority of Parliament. No display is necessary to call attention to the honor which the nation pays Its great men. A woman usually follows fashions In dresing her hatr till the second baby comes, when she hasn’t time to experiment, and clings to the style prevalent I then till bar death.

LOST IN THE GRASS.

There Is surely no country half a world away In which the Occidental traveler expects so much delight and ao little adventure as in Japan. Yet Ernest Foxwell has recently related a tale of terrible adventure experienced In Japan y ad Englishwoman btl a few days after her arrival. She was staying at n little country village among the hills, and had gone out In the morning to gather flowers. The path ran across the uplands, where there Is a wild and lonely stretch of country extending for several miles; and the beauty of some wild flowers growing In the tall grass led her to leave the trail unthinkingly, and press farther and farther Into the waving tangle. She was a short woman, and It reached above her head. ‘‘lf I had been a foot taller,” she said, In telling her story, “I should have laugl\ed and been out In a minute or two: but those few Inches buried me alive. “Almost Instantly I felt sick, as you do at the beginning of an earthquake; for although I must have been quite near the path, yet with the grass all round above my head there was no knowing what would happen. I might be going right away at that very moment, and the possibilities came like a shock. I believe I lost my head at once. I could not think, so I kept moving one way, then another. But merely pushing through this tall, tough grass is very tiring work, even if you are on sloping ground and can judge where you will come out; and when it is level all round, the heart is taken out of you from the feeling that every step Is probably burying you deeper. It was like being drowned.” It was not until sunset, after a whole day in the blazing sun, without food or water, constantly wandering, constantly pushing and tearing at stems so stiff nnd serrated that they quickly make the bands bleed, that she walked suddenly out on to open ground and fell fainting in a heap. When she recovered, stars wore shining, and she wns alone on an unknown mountainside. She slept from exhaustion, and the next day followed a winding mountain torrent over rocky land, her shoes and then her stockings worn from her feet, only to find, at sundown, that it had led her to a narrow gorge, without one inch of foothold or shore. The stream dashed through in a torrent that hopelessly barred the way. Light-headed with terror, hunger and weariness, she crouched for o time in despair. Then she suddenly waded into the stream nnd stood until after dawn waist-deep in water, while a rain-storm pelted upon her from above. Whim or instinct, she believed that by the cool rush nnd sting of the water her reason and strength were preserved. The next day she retraced her weary way along the watercourse back to the heights: thence, fixing anew the point to which she must direct her steps, she successfully mnde her way hack to civilization. When at length she reeled Into the hut of a kindly Japanese woman, she had been four days lost without food, and had walked until her feet were so torn and Inflamed it was thought she must havo them amputated; but she fortunately regained her health uncrippled.

Alighted Too Soon.

It liad taken considerable persuasion to Induce the old lady to trust herself In nn automobile; but finally she consented because, says the Automobile Magazine, she was anxious to reach the bedside of her sick grandchild in a village some twenty miles away. The owner of the big automobile, who was touring through Long Island, had been very kind about it. He chanced to be near the station when the old lady found she had missed her train, and° when he overheard her lamentations he Insisted that she should accompany him. Hls route lay through that particular one of the halfdozen Long Island villages named Hampton where the sick grandchild lay. They started at last, and everything went well until, in, attempting to pass a wagon which occupied most of the road, the flying automobile went unexpectedly into the ditch, and rather violently deposited its occupants in an adjoining field. Recovering from the shock, although somewhat confused from the rather unusual method of alighting, the old lady asked of the chagrined chauffeur: “Is this a-a-a Hampton?" "No, ma’am,” he managed to gasp; “this is an accident.” “O dear!” said the old lady. “Then I hadn’t oughter have got out here, had I?”

A Hanging Railroad.

A banging overhead electric railroad for London, similar to that in use in Elberfeld, Germany, is projected by a group of German, American and English financiers. A parliamentary concession will be asked to swing the single track required over the Thames from its south end for eight miles.

Consumption of Iron in Germany. In Germany the annual consumptUm of Iron per capita Is 168 pounds and thg production just doable that amount. After an angel reaches thirty-five and wears an old wrapper ecrcss the alley to borrow butter from a neighbor, she looks pretty tough. After all, the greatest aid to health Is regulating the diet

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Free Trade and Hard Time*. The Kansas City Star Is quoted in the American Economist as saying: “The resolution which England has practically reached, of departing from her Immemorial principles of free trade, is a valuable object lesson to the United States, and has already had a beneficial eeffet In bringing to a halt those statesmen who were contemplating a drastic overhauling and revision of our tariff schedules. England Is now suffering all the evils of five trade, while this country is enjoying the advantages of a protective tariff, and perhaps undergoing some of Its mischiefs also. * * * If protection causes wealth and trusts, the (Converse is also true—free trade produces hard times and panics.” Here is an admission that protection causes trusts. We need then discuss only the proposition that free trade produces hard time§. Protectionists seldom look past England and delight in contrasting conditions in England and America. They find day wages considerably higher here than in -England, and they begin tp crow about the tariff as a means of taxing ourselves rich. They neglect to observe that a laborer here produces so much more in a day that piece wages here are usually lower than in England, as James G. Blaine found when, as Secretary of State, he made a report on this subject. They also neglect to observe that because of free trade the cost of living is lower

Postmaster General Payne—" The investigation is nearly ended." —Willi amsport (Pa.) Grit.

in England, and to allow for this In estimating real wages; that is, what a man can buy with his day’s work. But this is not all. The protectionists forget to tell us that England Is the only free trade country in Europe, and that times are even harder in protected Germany, Italy and Russia and other countries than in England; that, Indeed, It is mainly from the protected countries of Europe that the flood of Immigrants is now coming. They are being driven out by excessive tariff and other taxes. Those who remain are rapidly becoming socialists and threatening to overturn protection and perhaps the government with it. The socialists made great gains in the German elections a few weeks ago because of hard times, which their speakers attributed largely to high tariff taxes and merciless tariff trusts In steel, coal, coke, etc. In this connection, It may be noted that five years ago the German writers, editors and business men were “whooping it up” for protection and trusts (cartels) there, jus as our learned commercial writers have been doing here for three years. They said that the great syndicates controlling the'‘industries of Germany could regulate production, adjust supply to demand and all the rest of It, so that there could be no over production and therefore no real depression in business/. Most Germans were optimistic then. Now all Is changed. Three years of severe depression aneb hard times have developed a big crop of pessimists and “croakers.” They are cursing high tariff duties and trusts “to beat the band.” They are ridiculing the optimists of five years ago and parading their prophesies before the people. The trust-footers In Germany just now are very meek and bumble specimens of mankind. They have had their day and are now having their night. Is there not a lesson In Germany’s experience with trusts for us? Why will our great heads not learn this lesson? The Iron Age contains a long editorial entitled. “A Theory of Industrial Depressions.” It says: “There Is good reason to believe that panics, followed by periods of industrial depression of greater or less duration, were formerly due to causes rather psychological than material,” and that owing to recent greater changes In Industry, designated “co-ordinations” by Mr. Carfcegie, we have ‘a series of entirely

new economic postulates, which confuse statistics and silence prophecy.” It, however, suggests strongly that our trusts and banks, by working harmoniously together, cau avert panics and depression, and asserts “It will be dangerous to attempt to formulate law's which are Intended to explain what may never again happen.” This editorial may have been copied from some German magazine of 1898. Possibly within two years this same Iron Age may be blaming our tariff and trusts for hard times and be quoting some of to-day's strong anti-trust articles In German papers. It Is even now uncertain If our trusts are making friends of all. Our present day trust-tooters should not forget that those who laugh best laugh last.—Byron W. Holt. Protection rnd Bounties in Canada The close connection between protection and bounties and the beauties of both. If you want to squander money, is evident from what we can now* see in Canada. Two or three years ago Canada began tp pay bounties to her manufacturers of Iron and steel. These amounted to $5 or s<> per ton but were to diminish each year and to disappear in seven years. Besides these bounties there was a protective', tariff averaging about $5 per ton or one-half the average American duty on steel goods. Of course, the steel Industry began to flourish in Canada. Big mills sprang into exist-

ence and stocks brirufull of water were put upon the market. Great earnings were necessary to pay dividends on all this watered capital. Now that the bounties are being scaled down some of the steel companies there are beginning to worry about their dividends. A big movement Is on foot to induce the Canadian government to increase the tariff duties on iroii and steel to about the American rates. It Is said that jthe big infant steel industry will not abide permanently In Canada unless treated more liberally by the government. When the Minister of Finance, Hon. Mr. Fielding, introduced the bounty system in 1899, It was practically promised that the industry would soon be able to produce iron at $0 a ton. The manufacturers claim that the promising infant has not fulfilled expectations, but refuse to submit figures showing exact cost of production, which the Premier, Sir Wilfred Laurier, is mean enough to Insist on having before he is willing to grant the extra duty to the howling Infant. Such unkind treatment will surely drive this infant Industry out of Canada. If it will but come to us wo will spread our protecting wings ov« it and let it share the tariff pap with our steel trust, as long as we can stand the strain. But the billion-dol-’ lar infant is not leaving much for our common million-dollar babies.—Byron W. Holt.

Puzzle: Locate the “lowa Idea!"— SL Taul Globe.

j ■" ■ 1 ■ '■ 1 *" Connecticut has 3,000,000 peach trees, Massachusetts 800,000. Rhode Island 100,000, and Southern New Hampshire 30.000.

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Or HKNMKLAKR, INDAddlson Park Ison, Pres. John M. Wasson. Vice Pres. E. L. Hollirgs worth. Cashier auooissoa to tns busimbss •» tmb osmbuoiu STATS BABAOpened March 3, 1003, at the old location, NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. ; A general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on all cities at home and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 par cent, farm loans. Your Business Solicited.

i'MMlßiil Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect June 29,1902. South Bound. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lndianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2:01 p. m. No. 39—Milk aocomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. It :2S p. m. •No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. nt. No.3l—Fast Mall 4:49a.m. North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) i^Oa.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31u. ra. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:53 a. ra. No. o—Mall and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p. m. •No. 30—Cin. to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 0:32p.m. JNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. •No. 40—Local freight 9:55 a. m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only, Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Rekd, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gen. M’g'r. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g'r. CHICAOO. W. H. Beau, Agent. Rensselaer.

CITY OFFICERS. Mayor 3. H. S. Elli* Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer J. C. ThrawU , Fire Chief C. B. Steward cous cilui!*. Ist ward Henry Wood. Fred Phillips 4d ward W. S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 8d ward J.C. McColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk.. John F. Major Sheriff... Abram G. Hardv Auditor W. C. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Purkison. Recorder Robertß. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner .... Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District. ... Abraham Halleck 2nd District... Frederick Waymire Brd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan G ilium Lewis Shrier ~.Walkor Ellas Arnold Barkley Charles M. 81ue... Marion John Bill Jordan ‘Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S. L. Luce * Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee D. Clark WlicatUeld Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith., Slilroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt. Reusselecr G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse Rcmlugton Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield

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