Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1904 — Page 6

On Fourteen Trestle

By... Clinton Dangerfield

Oopi/rifl/it, 1903, by T. C. McClure

Across the wide river the trestle, No. 14, stretched unendingly, for the broken ground on both shies necessitated Its covering not only the treacherous yellow tide, but much of the dubious shore beyond. Hinton’s eyes rested dully on the one point of interest the shore under the trestle offered—namely, the small landing where steamers stopped for cotton. The landing boasted a gin, where the product In its raw shape, brought there lu wagon loads by the small farmers, was reduced to proper commercial bulk. Although Hinton and Miss Wade wen* still a hundred yards from the spot where they would pirss the landing below and twice that distance from the trestle’s end, they could eee all its details very plainly, especially the huge open bin, where a quantity of unseeded cotton had been thrown, to be transferred to the snorting, laboring machinery later. “Jolle n’est ce pas?” observed Mls.s ,Wade lightly, with a wave of her hand which covered the surrounding scenery. “That’s French for ‘pretty/” interposed one of the children trotting at Miss Wade's heels. “I have learned that one word anyway,” pursued the speaker proudly*, and I mean to know more, ’cause you and Mr. Hinton talk in It and nobody can understand what you say. llennie, I>ou and me are all goin’ to learn it, so's we can tell secrets In the openest company.” This nmbltlous scholar was one of three youngsters tvho had joint'd the couple in their walk and to w*hose intrusion neither Miss Wade nor her escort objected. Now that he had been finally und completely rejected, Hinton was glad to have their embarrassed silence broken by the chatter of the children. Miss Wade also was glad of their presence. As the 4 o'clock train had passed only a few moments ago, Bhe hud been quite sure It was safe to cross the trestle. Then, Just as she was encouraging the rather laggard footsteps of the -youngest Infant, her blood froze at the

THEY SAW HIM LEAN OVER AND DROP THE SIX-YEAR-OLD.

soufid of a shrill, ominous screech behind them, echoing over the hills. Hinton heard it at the same instant. Evidently some special or perhaps a wildcat engine whs bearing down upon them. And there was still so much trestle before them—so much of that slender network which ottered no places of safety. Looking back, he saw the thin line of smoke that marked the Speeding death—they could never reach the other side in time! The children, in their happy babble, heard nothing, and Hinton, forming an instant plan, said rapidly in French: "Don’t let them know. They will turn stupid with fright, and we could not do anything with them. Obey me, and 1 cun save j you all.” To the mastery in his eye Miss Wade yielded in a sort of blind confidence. He would save them all, she repeated, and the sick terror at her heart lessened its strain a little. She heard him laughingly urge the children to hurry, heard him offering prizes to the one who should pass the gin first and then saw him snatch, up the fat legged six-year-old. Wrapped In their wctchedly slow race, for they had to move with some caution, the children as they stood at last above the gin did not yet hear the thunderous monster, now setting its iron feet on the trestle itself. They only heard Hinton’s sharp command "Stop!” and then their baby faces went white as they saw him lean over and drop the six-year-old into what seemed destruction. But Hinton’s steady, athletic arms bad not failed Mm. Before the astounded child knew wiiat had happened she was lying on her back In the unseeded cotton. With cool and desperate precision Hinton threw the would be French scholar down next, though he bad to tear her frantic hands loose from his neck. The third youngster unceremoniously followed, landing on its bead, but with no worse harm than falling between two loose plies of

springy dlrtylsh white, which saved Its spinal column from any hurt. “You next," said Hinton calmly. “It’s the one chance. The train is almost upon us.” As he spoke he lifted the girl, and she found herself trusting to bis cool self possession lu spite of the horror before her. >Vbttt she might strike, where fall, she did not know. She only knew that lu his steady eyes flamed a hero she had not dreamed of in their conventional acquaintance. She thought of this us she thought of muity other things in her descent to the cotton below. The drop was a fearful one, and it seemed to her that she passed an eternity before she touched anything. Then, like the first of the children, she lay on her hack, staring up at the black muss thundering past above. As it reached the spot from whence she had been thrown she saw Hinton, his hands pointed above his bead, leap far out toward the center of the stream, beading as far us possible from the saving cotton. Ignoring the howls of the indignant children, who altogether failed to comprehend the reason for their brusque and unwilling flight downward, she scrambled out of the bin ami ran to the edge of the shore. Had Hinton struck one of the numerous crags abounding in the river? Would he never rise again? Her screams for aid brought the few men at work to her immediately. One of them unlocked a little llatboat moored to the shore, but as they prepared to push her off a brown head lifted itself from the muddy current, and Hinton, blowing the water from bis mouth, clambered up on the little pier, liis face growing radiant as he saw the girl unhurt. “Oh, you!” she cried. “You are”— She choked. “How are the kids?” asked Hinton a little thickly. “Safe as If they had merely been tossed Into bed. Ob, Mr. Hinton —Robert—l” “Don’t feel obliged to say anything pretty,” Interrupted Hinton a little ironically, misconstruing her embarrassment. “I’ve often dived from as great heights.” “You’d never dive twice Into that river an’ come out alive,” Interpolated the gin fireman abruptly. “What did you think of ns you winged your way down?” inquired Ilinton lightly ns they turned toward the wailing chorus of angry Infants, who found the sides of the bln too high to scramble out. Miss Wade went scarlet. “I thought of a lot of things!” she murmured. “Yes,” said Hinton politely, but with the wound she had given him before they had set foot on the trestle now reopening. He had saved her—for some other man! “I thought especially,” stammered Miss Wade, “of a—a proverb”— “Yes? May I ask the saw?” “It’s a—that it’s a woman’s privilege to change her mind,” murmured Miss 'Wade.

Sam Weller’s Valentine.

Lovely cfeetur, I feel myself ashamed and completely circumscribed in a dressin’ of you, for you are a nice gal and nothin’ but it. Afore I see you I thought all women was alike, but now I And what a rcg’lar soft headed ink-red-lous turnip I must ha’ been, for there ain’t nobody like you, though I like you better than nothin’ at all. So I take the privilege of the day, Mary my dear—as the gentleman in difficulties did ven he walked out of a Sunday—to tell you the first and only time I see you your likeness was took on my hurt In much quicker time and brighter colors than ever a likeness was took by the profeel inncheen (which perhaps you may have heard on Mary my dear), although it does finish u portrait and put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang It up by and all In two minutes and a quarter. Except of me Mary my denr as your walentlne and think over what I’ve said. My dear Mary I will now conclude.— Charles Dickens.

A Vegetable Pepsin.

The useful properties of the papnw plant have long been known to the various natives und have, been taken advantage of by them, as can be seen by reference to the works of travelers, who can themselves vouch for the accuracy of the accounts they narrate. Thus Drury in “The Useful Plants Of India” states that old hogs and poultry which are fed upon the leaves and fruit, however tough the meat they afford might otherwise be, art* thus rendered perfectly tender and good if eaten as soon as killed. Browne, too, in his “Natural History of Jamaica” says that meat becomes tender after being washed with water to which the Juice of the pupaw tree has been added, and if left in such water ten minutes it will fall from the spit while roasting or separate Into shreds while boiling.— Chambers’ Journal.

A Great Player.

Many good stories are told of Sir Walter Parratt, the master of the king’s music. Here Is one Illustrative of his extraordinary memory: Some eight or ten men were assembled one evening In one of the lodges attached to St. Michael’s college. Tenbury. Sir Walter Parra tt and Ilerr von Holst played In turn upon the piano such music as was asked for. This went on for some time, until at last the chessboard was brought out. Sir Walter then proposed to play two men at chess In consultation, still remaining at the piano and playing from memory what was demanded either from Bach, Beethoven, Mosart, Chopin or Mendelssohn. Without even a glance at the chessboard he won the game in an hour.—London Globe. Bead The Democrat for news.

WHY THIS LIBERALITY?

Rand McNally & Co., are sending out to farmers all over the country an, agricultural monthly, “Farm Life,” as a compliment of the national banks, This magazine is to come to us for a year free! No one hath shown more love for us than these free-hearted bankers. Such extravagant praise of farmers and farm life hath never yet appeared in print. To read this extravagant sheet the wonder is that any man would be fool enough to be a banker when he is able to be a farmer. These publishers know just about as much of a farm and of the real farm life as a goose does of Latin. In one of its prosperity pictures cit represents farmers hauling off oats and ear-corn in six-inch gravel beds. Why in this the year of our Lord 1904, this particular year, should my farm paper* come free? See. A Farmer.

WHICH SHALL IT BE?

William Randolph Hearst, congressman, editor and candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, in a recent editorial, said: “The trust is the most powerful thing in this country to-day—-with one exception. That exception is the genuine democracy, the body of the plain people of the country. ** * Behind the trust, stands the shrewd, conscientiousless lawyer, willing tosell his brain to provide schemes to cheat the people. Working for the trusts are all the legislators who are corrupt. All the judges who can be influenced in favor of the few against the many whose pay they take, whose servants they are supposed to be.” Does anybody who professes to have even a little bit of sense doubfrthe truth of the above extract? We hope not —for the boasted superiority of American intellect, we hope not. But there are a great many people who think —“O yes, we know S these things, but so long as it don’t effect us too severely, and eo long as there is a show for us to share in the distribution of the loot, we believe that it would be better to let things go as they are.” That is what is called being “conservative” and a great many people seem to think that “conservative” is a mighty word; that it was the rock upon which this nation, was founded. But no! This nation was founded upon the worst kind of “radicalism” which means originality, and if it is to be preserved and made to grow and prosper as it should, radicalism must again take the place of conservatism, and that before long. Conservatism means nothing more or less than “tending or desiring to preserve” not the United States, but the conditions which Mr, Hearst describes in the extract quoted ajjove. Now are there enough people in the United States who want to preserve the trusts, with all their attendant evils, to elect a republican president and congress this year? For the republican party is the avowed supporter of the trusts, just as the trusts are the supporters (and rulers) of the republican party. Forty years ago, if we had been a voter, we would have been a republican voter, for at that time the party stood for the weak and distressed, and was the moving spirit in the emancipation of four million human beings from the chains of slavery. But the party is now under the control of a few men, and instead of doing any noble work tending to the uplifting of humanity, it is trying to bind the country down with a commercial despotism, which in the end, would be but little better than the slavery whose cause the party espoused forty years ago. Very recently the supreme court handed down a decision in the Northern Securities case which ruled that certain millionaires were liable to fine and imprisonment for violation of the antitrust law. The President has since been reported to be “much amused” at the efforts now being made to induce him to enforce this law. He is afraid to enforce it simply because the men involved are rich men, and is trying to ignore the subject as fit only for cranks and “radicala” Verily it is easier for a millionaire to steal a million dollars than it is for a poor woman to steal .a loaf of bread. So much for “conversatism.” Let -the rich alone, and let ns all grovel at their feet, like so many dogs, thankful for the few scrape that fall from oar master’s tables. Let them disregard the law, let them buy legislatures and congresses, let them have everything in sight, and call it “prosperity.” That will be the dictation of the American people next fall if they

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send the republican candidate to the White House. People are just beginning to wake up to Mr. Hearst’s strength as a presidential candidate. Two or three states have already instructed for him, and their action will have effect on| the others. There is a great deal of tommyrot now being exhaled in regard to his candidacy, none of which amounts to anything. The fact remains that he seems to have at present a better hold on the nomination than anybody else, and we hope that he gets it. Mr. Hearst is a rich man, he pays out more money in salaries to his employes in three days than the office of President of the U. S. pays in a year, being the largest single employer of labor in the United States, and yet he never had a strike on his hands. He is dissatisfied with present conditions, and he is determined to change them. If we want the Sherman anti-trust law enforced, and if /we want the anti-trust laws made stronger, he is the man to elect for president. It is a standing joke that Democratic success at the polls is a sure omen of hard times. Now just compare this country with a man that goes out and gets too much liquid cheer; that is, plain drunk. He may stay drunk for days, and be having a big time all along, but when a real friend comes along, (which the bar-keeper is not) he is hustled off home to sober up. Then he has a terrible time; head-ache, drowsiness, dizziness, pain in the back, and many other discomforts. But can this be laid, at the door of the friend that brought him hojne? No, it is the result of his over-indulgence. This sphering up process with the drunk man is identical with the country’s periods of depression, or “hard times.” The republican party takes Uncle Sam out and gets him drunk, then it falls to the lot of the democratic party to take him home and “sober him up.” The comparison is awkward, but it is correct. Tne country has lately been on a terrible “spree,” and it ought to be corralled before it breaks its fool neck. ***

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, Parties desiring to borrow money and to offer farm lands as security wilL do well to see us before placing their loans. We have the best facilities for placing loans and we believe we can save you money. Our contracts are from two to ten years with privilege of paying at any interest paying time. While others have either raised their rates or quit business, we still have an unlimited amount of cash at 5 per cent interest. See ns, we will you good. Baughman & Williams, Attorneys & Abstracters, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 329. Can You Beat This. 36 in. Water Color Window Shades 20c 36 in. Water Color Window Shades 25c Mattresses, $1.75 up. Furniture of all kinds at rockbottom prices. Call and be convinced. Bringham & Thornburg, Furniture dealers, Nowels Block. Buy your typewriter paper at The Democrat office and save money. Dozens of people are taking advantage of pur big subscription offer of the Democrat and the St. Louis Twice-a-Week Republic, both papers for only $1.50.

GUY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H.S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer: James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief , C. B. Steward COUNCILMEN. Ist ward Henry Wood, Fred Phillips 2d ward W. S. Parks, B, F. Ferguson 3d ward J, C. McColly, Emerald Aldrich COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor J, N. Leatherman Treasurer S. R. Nichols Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSION EBS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Gillam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue , Marion John Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheatfleld Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William L. Parks Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Supt Rensseleer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Besse Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield I * JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday In February, April, September and November. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee.

Real Estate Transfers,

Emmet L. Hollingsworth to Elias Arnold, Mch. 24, eH nw 28-30-6. 80 acres, Jordan, $4,000. William M. Hoover to William 1. Hoover, Mch. 28, pt sw sw 1-28-7, 0H acres, Marion, SSOO. Joseph Yeoman to Robert J. Yeoman, Feb. 20, pt ei4 se se 19-29-7, Newton, sl. Auditor Jasper Co., to George K. Hollingsworth, Mch. 30, It 5, bl 2, Rensselaer, Antrim & Paxton’s add, $11.72, Same to same, Mch. 30. It 1,2, bl 6, Rensselaer, $1.62. Lewis Poyer to Charles E. Hershman, Mch. 23, e'A ne 20-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $3,000. Jessie F. Bruner to Clair M. Blue, Jan. 25, It 6, bl 2, DeMotte, A. L. McDonald’s add,s3o. Joseph G. Jackson to Julia A. Randle, Mch. 7, pt out It 61, $550. Candace L. Loughridge to Isaac Kight, Mch. 11, sVi nw 2-30-7, sw ne 2-30-7, s!4 a>4 se ne 2-30-7, nM sVi 2-30-7, 210 acres, Union, $4,606.70. Candace L. Loughridge to George B. Davidson, Mch. 11, s 3-4 s!4 2-80-7, 240 acres. Union, $5,833.30. Peter Leibenheimer to Bert P. Biggs, Mch. 12, sw 31-28.0, 116.95 acres. Jordan, $7,600. George B. Davidson to Isaac Kight, Apr. 2, und H pt se ne 2-30-7, 30 acres. Union, S6OO. Thomas C. Churchill to William H. Churchill, Oct. 31, Its 22, 23, bl 10, Rensselaer, Weston's add. SSOO. Lottie Halleck to Eugene Barfoot, Mch. 24, pt nw nw 31-31-7, 14.84 acres, Union, $2,200, Mrs. Libbie Kincaid et al to Oliver P, Braddock, Jan. 10. nH nw 25-31-0, Walker. $2,000. Louis A. Schatzley to Sarah A. Connor, Apr. 4, pt se ne 20-32-7, 2 acres. Keener, S2OO.

MONEY ON FARMS. A special fund io loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Call at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. MONON CHEAP RATES. Commencing March Ist and continuing daily to and including April 80th, one way second cUsacolonist tickets will be sold to Billings. Montana, aDd intermediate points for $27.00. Helena, Butte, Anaconda,Missoula and intermediate points, $32.00, Spokane, Washington, $32,70. Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, $85.30. To points in California $34.45. - On March Ist and 15, one wav 2nd class colonist tickets to points in Kansas, Oklahomo and Indian Territory, $11,20, To pointa in Texaa $12.70, W. H. Beam, Agent.

Thfl It Will Pay You to ■IV Investigate My Offers Xlirrar Improved and Unimproved U1121.Q1 1 FARMS for Sale in Bay O *** Comity, Michigan. Unexcelled for sugar-beet cuIIIDQT ture, the most profitable linn I crop a farmer can raise. “““I Bay County hasßo miles of aa I stone roads and is a good market gardening district, lllllllllV No better land in the United VUUIIIV States for general crops. w Low prices and easy terms. Ilf A postal will bring full par- ... , ticulars. MIPII JOHN C. HARRIS IYIIUIII I Bk. Blk, West Bay, Mich Kenton Stables SURREY, INDIANA. flMt KENTUCKY MORGAN. KENTUCKY MORGAN is chestnut in color, no marks, foaled in 1901. bred by L. L. Dorsey. Anchorage, Ky.; got by Rustler, son of Ruskin, by Ren Franklin; dam, Kenna (registered) chestnut, bred by J. C. Parker, Queechee, Vermont: got by Queechee Lambert. son of Daniel Lambert; 2d dam bred by Mr. Kenyon. Queechee, Vt.; got by Richardson Horse, son of Green Mountain Morgan; 3d dam said to be Morgan. Terms: —110,00 to insure colt to stand and suck. RIGHWOOD SQUIRREL. RICHWOOD , —■- SQUIRREL is a dark brown 11 o May 3d. 1901; bred by J. S. Taylor, Richmond, Ky. .» —rani'*r Sire, Richmond Squirrel No, 896, sire of Black Squirrel No. 58; dam, DuchesS, dam of Richwood No. 10430, sire Squire Taltaadge No, 648, and Lady Clay; 2d dam. Belle. Terms:—slo.oo to 1 nsure colt to stand and suck 60LIATH NO. 7639. GOLIATH is a dark bay horse bred by Simon Hegner. Ko- * komo. Ind., registered under Ak l) by Lamoreuux 3394. l* o by Favori 401. out *of Pelotte 439. Dam, R o de z 1922. He weighs 1900 pounds and has good style and action. Terms:—sß to insure colt to stand and suck. JAMES MADISON NO. 287. JAMES nADISON u was foaled July 21, 1898; color black hands, weight 900 pounds; sire. Ira- * ported Gladstone; MM. ■: dam. a noted IS hands Jennet,—Terms; $lO to insure colt to stand and suck. HENRY CLAY. (Jack.) I HBNRY CLAY is a black Jack with white points, sired by Keatucky John, a 16 hand! Jack; dam,al4H hand JennetL Will serve! a limited number of mares only this season at $lO to insure colt to stand and suck. The above horses and Jacks will stand the season of 1904 at Simon Kenton’s farm H mile east of Surrey. Service money becomes due at once if mare is parted with; product held good for service. Due care taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. No business will be done on Saturday afternoons. 0. J. KENTON, Rensselaer, Ind. SKUS FOimffIMET^TAR