Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1904 — Page 6

SIMPLE JUSTICE

Joshua Everitte was a very just man. He prided himself upon it and eahrled himself accordingly. If there were a dispute between his neighbors, he, like Solomon, was always called in to settle it, which he did indiscriminately and with justice. But there came a time when Justice and Joshua Everitte refused to acknowledge each other. This was when his young and only daughter wished to wed. Jenny Everitte was a very sweet and pretty girl, and it was not surprising that Harry Eld ridge, young, handsome and appreciative of feminine beauty, should 'fall in love with her or that she should reciprocate his affection. Now, among Deacon Everitte’s other qualities and peculiarities, which were not few, he, like other men, having his full slinre of these latter, were an uncomfortably strong will and a still stronger dislike for city people in general and city young men in particular. Harry Eldridge was from the city. That, therefore, was sufficient cause, in the deacon's opinion, for liis refusnl to sanction a marriage between him and Jenny. In vain did the young girl beseech and entreat her stern sire to relent, appealing at last to ids love of Justice In hopes that the quality upon which he prided himself might win him over. But here the deacon was more inexorable than ever. Justice! .Was he not exercising it now in its fullest degree? Was it Justice to allow a fine girl to throw herself away upon a city whippersnapper? Decidedly not That was Injustice- rank Injustice, He would never be guilty of such an act. "But, father, I love him,” pleaded the girl as with clasped hands and wet eyes she stood before this arbiter of Justice, seeing no signs of relenting in the hard, set face before her And which grew harder still at these words. Love! What was love? A hallucination. a mere idiosyncrasy of the human mind, fevered imagination, excited by something pleasing to the eye, a delusion 'which soon vanished when the object which occasioned it departed; sheer nonsense, of which young people were prone to be guilty once in their lives, but which, when they grew older and therefore more sensible, they would scorn to indulge in. Thus reasoned the stern old deacon, sending the young lovers to the depths of woe by Ills set refusal to their pleas. But “love will find a way” and laughs mockingly at locksmiths, even though they be in the form of a stern deacon. In tills case love* cunningly turned the tables against this autocrat and used his argument to its own advantage. The attempted assassination of a millionaire by an anarchist, his ownership, of vast wealth being the cause, gave love its victory and the deacon his defeat, he having expressed himself very strongly on the subject in the presence of the lovers, maintaining it nn outrage and declaring that a man's savings were his own, lie the accumulation an honest one, and which any man with a spark of justice would acknowledge. “You, then, believe that what a man saves is his own?” questioned Harry Eldridge, while a gleam of triumph brightened his eye. “Most certainly, sir; most certainly,” replied the deacon. “What n man saves is his own decidedly, and no man, sir, no uiun has a right to believe otherwise.” The lovers exehang ed glances and a few minutes later were deep in a whispered converse behind the barn. That afternoon Joshua Everitte and bis daughter drove down to the sound, she with the Intention of taking a dip and he of watching her. Scarcely had she donned her bathing suit when Harry - Eldridge appeared upon the scene similarly attired. He, however, did not go Into the water, but, seating himself some little distance away and ©ut of sight of the deacon, watched his sweetheart as she swam and floated about as light and graceful as a swan. Suddenly she threw up her arms and, struggling for a moment, snnk beneath the water. Deacon Everitte shouted and rushed forward as fast as toe could Just as she rose a second time, struggling as before. The poor old man w r rung his hands in despair, but no one was in sight, and he was on the point of going into the water himself despite his rheumatism when Harry Eidridge dashed by and, plunging in, reached her just as she rose for the last time and amid the cries of her father brought her safely' to the shore. Joshua Everitte, after assuring himself

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that site still lived, grasped the young man’s hand, begging to know what be could do to repay him for his noble act. “Give your cqnsent to our marriage, as your daughter now belongs to me," was the answer. "Belongs to you, sir! How so?” demanded the deacon, himself again at these words. “Did you not say this morning that what a man saves is his own?” a reply which caused the deacon's face to grow purple as he heard his own argument thus turned against him; but he bad to answer “Yes.” “Then,” wickedly continued the young man, "don’t you think as I saved her life she rightly belongs to me?” And Joshua Everitte, with his love of justice, wai forced to acknowledge that she did.—New Y'ork Press.

Two Model Husbands.

Two colored women sitting on their front steps were overheard boasting of the many lovable traits and manly virtues of thejr husbands. "Gawge sutninly is a good man to me,” said Mrs. Jackson with feeling in her voice. “Ah have novah been without a day’s wash sence Ah mahied dat man. He gits me all the washin’s Ah can do.” “Well, Ah has this to say foah Ezra,” declared Mrs. Johnson with satisfaction. “Wbeh Ezra gits drunk, he gits drunk like a perfec’ gennelman.”—Lipplncott’s Magzaine.

SOUTHEASTERN LANDS

Charles J. Dean, -Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana. Rich prairie lands in Northern Texas adjoining Oklahoma line; smooth ns a door, rich, black, deep soil covered with a thick growth of Buffalo grass; soil will produce all cropß, and fruit and alfalfa to perfection. Prices run from $4 to SB. We are cutting these up in small trncts at $8 per acre for a short time. One-third cash, balance in yearly payments at 6 per cent interest. Pecos Valley, New Mexico, irrigated lands; excels California for fruit and climate. Finest stock and alfalfa proposition in the United States. Water is supplied by natural water courses, irrigation company and artesian wells. These lands are offered at $25 to SSO per acre, in small tracts for fruit growing, within 3 to 7 miles of Santa Fe railroad and excellent towns; in large tracts for grassing purposes. The lands are selling from $6 to sls per acre. Oklahoma—l hare a large list of lands in Oklahoma and Kansas, can sell land in any county in Oklahoma, at from $lO to $36 per acre. Cheap rates, less than half fare, on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. For further information, write or call on CHAS. J. DEAN, Rensselaer, Indiana, Immigration Agent for Santa Fe R. R.

NOTICE TO FARMERS. Hnving purchased Mr. Waymire’s interest in the blacksmithing business on Front street formerly conducted by Waymire & King, I wish to announce that I will henceforth devote my whole attention to same and request our former customers and others, to call and see me. Messrs. Hansen and Wartena, the well known and reliable smiths, are with me and we can handle your work promptly and in a satisfactory manner. Phone No. 112. Call on us from any part of the city to bring your work to the shop. Frank King. Don’t Forget the New Lumber Yard Where you can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Piaster; also the celebrated alabastscent Wall Plaster. I solicit a share of your trade at my old stand. Respectfully, Hiram Day.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and deneral Ooaslp of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: Your correspondent met Gen. Grosvenor, Representative from Ohio, yesterday as he was coming out of the House after adjournment, and asked him where his sympathies were in the Jap-Ruso war. “They are with Japan,” he said, “notwithstanding that she struck the first blow and struck it somewhat below the belt. But she’ll get licked if she doesn’t look out,” he added. “Your faith doesn’t seem to follow your sympathies, General,” I suggested. “Well, this is the way it is,” he explained; “I don’t know whether the Japs are good fighting men. Anybody can fight afloat, where there is not much apparent danger, but to stand up and go forward in the midst of whistling bullets and hurling shells, is another thing altogether. If the yellow men can stand up in front of white men, and fight them equally, man for man —that is, if a Japanese regiment is equal to a Russian regiment—then the.., Japs will win and capture the whole Pacific seaboard. But that’s the conundrum.” This morning I dropped into the War Department and called on Gen. Greeley, of Artie fame, and propounded to him the same question, “I hope Japan will come out ahead,” he said, “but I doubt it. It is very doubtful if the little brown men will stand up in front of the white men’s rifles. They have never proved it. But we may be a little fast in assuming that the Russians are all equal to white men. A good many of them are of mixed blood from the tropics. Not more than a hundred millions are pure Europeans and the Poles, Jews and Finns can hardly be counted on. Even if the Japs should ' conquer, they would not expect to hold even Manchuria, though they might seize Vladivostock. But the Russians are ahead in the betting at the present moment, without regard to sympathies.” t t t While the Agricultural bill was being discussed in the Senate it was apparent that the appropriations recommended by the House would be largely increased, and the number of so-called “divisions” in that department were to be raised to the rank of “bureaus” with a corresponding growth of salaries for all the “chiefs,” assistant “chiefs” and the rest of the big Indians. The misquito-killing division is to become a “bureau,” if the House consents; also the ornithological or English-sparrow and hen-hawk division, which is now called a “biological survey.” Senator Nelson of Minnesota 6ays that this last division has never done anything of practical importance to agriculture, and never will; it is purely ornamental and frightfully “scientific.” Senator Proctor, of the Vermont marble yards, who knows as much about farming as did the late Horace Greeley, has the bill in charge, and whenever a Senator objects to an item he replies: “The Secretary said it was necessary.” Senator Bailey of Texas, a very observing man, said if he had his way he would abolish the whole thing, free seeds, bird-catchers, horse-training, mountain climbing, chrysanthemum-raising and all. The State agriculural colleges can look after the interests of farming in their respective states much better than a central establishment at Washington. ttt

Overcharging the government for supplies and pocketing the profits is likely to be dangerous business hereafter, in the light of the verdict of “guilty” which the jury in the post office frauds and conspiracy case against Macben and his confederates, the Groffs and Lorenz, so prompily rendered on the 26th inst at the conclusion of the trial here. The conspirators have been admitted to bail in $20,000 each, but if the trial holds good it will not be long before they will be behind the bars —a warning to all "grafters” who are in the employ of the government. Even Samuel Gross, against whom the prosecution admitted there was not sufficient evidence to conviot, was included in the verdict, which is said to have fallen in the” court room like a bolt from the blue. There will probably be an appeal to a higher court, but it may not be allowed. t t t The streets of Washington are made lively by thirty-eight carriages kept by the government for its well paid employes. These are driven by men carried on the rolls os watchmen, laborers and messengers. A private secretary, or the “chief’ of a bureau, in a government coach, with a colored

man on the box, is a sight to aiajke one’s mouth water. It is awo a sufficient commentary npon the Civil Service, that such things can be. ttt At the eleventh hour ex-Secre-tary Root has explained the whole matter. 1 To sum it up and boil it down he says: Columbia held the Isthmus of Panama subject to the convenience of the world; and that Panama, as a province, “owned” the isthmus, which ithad never morally alienated. If this had only come before the debate in the Senate it would have saved much time. These two brandnew doctrines of world convenience and moral alienation knock all the text books higher than Gilderoy’s celebrated kite. ttt Those who watched the personal controversy in the senate on Washington’s birthday between Senator Hoar of Mass., and Foraker of Ohio, could not regard it as necessary, or dignified. There is too much hot-headed eagerness on the part of Senators, who should know better, to rush to the rescue, full of words and fury, whenever they imagine the Executive has been criticised. The policing of the White House is not the special province of the Senate, and Senator Foraker need not put himself on the force. Each co-ordinate branch of the government has only to look after its own affairs. There is a silence which is becoming to one’s selfrespect, and the senate is a good place to maintain it. ttt Hitches regarding the construction of the great canal have already appeared. No money can be paid to Panama until the Spooner act is modified; a clear title to the property can hardly be claimed until the suit Colombia has brought against the French Canal company is decided. A vast amount of machinery must be made before a shovel full of dirt can be moved.

“THE DARLINGS OF THE GOD’S.”

The only important theatrical event in Chicago since the burning of the Iroquois Theatre is the engagement of Miss Blanche Bates in the Japanese play, “The Darling of the Gods,” written by David Belasco and John Luther Long, now going on at the Grand Opera House. “The Darling of the Gods” is the only attraction in Chicago which has been permitted by the City authorities to use its electric lighting paint, that having been found absolutely safe by the City Electrician’s office. At all the other theatres in Chicago the use of arc lights is prohibited, thus making it impossible for the attractions to light the plays prop- j erly. “The Darling of the Gods” : is particularly timely now during j the Russo-Japanese War as the i theme of the play revolves about : the fighting spirit of the Samurai, ! that noble old elan in Japan ; which lived and died for its : swords. Everybody in Chicago is using the opportunity to familiarize him or herself with Japanese customs, ideas and mode of living by witnessing the performance of “The Darling of the Gods.” This is the first Japanese play to be produced in New York, where it ran for two seasons at the Belasco Theatre. It is a story of old Japan, full of peotry, action and sentiment, and the Japanese atmosphere is not rudely dispelled by the introduction of characters in modern dress. The authors are Mr. David Belasco and Mr. John Luther Long, the distinguished literateur. The star of of the organization is Miss Blanche Bates, who in the role of the Princess Yo-San, daughter of the Prince of Tosan, has given to the theatrical world one of the greatest impersonators ever known. The company which will be seen in “The Darling of the Gods” is one of peculiar excellence, including Robert C. Haines, George Arliss, Charles Walcott, Albert Bruning, Mrs. Chas. Walcott, Eleanor Moretti, Ada Lewis, Mrs. F. M. Bates and seventy-five others. The play is in five acts and nine pictures, distributed as follows: “The God of the Mountain;” “A Look into the Garden within the Yashiki of the Prince of Tosan;” “The Great State Hall during the Night of the Feast of the Thousand Welcomes“Karzashi Forks at the Hour of the Ox;” “The Shoji of Yo-San among the Moon-Flowers;” “Behind the Shoji of Yo-San’s Sanctuary;” “The Old Sword Room of the Cabinet of the Minister of War;” “The Meeting Place at the Rained Shrine of the Goddess Kwannon;” “The Red Bamboo Forest;” “The Mountain of Sheide;” “Between the Heavens and the Helli;” and lastly, “The First Celestial Heavens.”

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