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

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, in. itttt, loans and Rem Emote. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. Wns. B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building, Loan and Savings Association, Office over Chicago Department Store, RENSSELAER, IND. 1. F. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. MIAMI! FOLTZ. O. Q. lIITLIR. MAMMV M. KUMMII Foltz, Spltier & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farnt Loans. Office uostairs in Durand Block. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over line's* Millinery 6tore. Rensselaer. Omioi Phone 177. Residence PmOMIi 11®. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rensselaer, * - Indiana. Office up-stairs in Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office and residence 'phones. 204 (Jasper Co.); also (Halleck) 43 at residence. Dr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turfler. Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer. Ind. Honrs: 9 to 13 m; 1 to 4:30 p. m. H. O. Harris. E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit ■ Share of Your Business. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RKNSSCLAKH. IND. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wasson. Vice-Pres. E. L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. sueo.sson to th. Business or tmi csmm.koial ■TAT. .AM K. Opened March 3d, 1902. 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 per cent farm loans. Your business solicited. injßMlff. jjpjf / *S Crown, Bar and Bridge AknC 1 Work. Teeth Without | Plates, Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON .. II YEARS IN RENSSELAER Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. ornoi opposite count nouh. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Lareh’s drug store r frl2ufc ><l REVIVO i MM RESTORES VITALITY wedaeee theabovereealfe On SOdeye. It acta powerfully and quickly. Cure* when aU others tail Soon* men win regain thetr loet maabood. and old men win recover their youthful vigor by eelng -HrHSSSSs •Ueffects of or excesaand Indiscretion, which unfit, one tor study, boeineas or marriage. M Sf^fUfis?s?sar , irtus««s!S and Consumption. Insist oa bavins KBVIVO.no other. It esa be carried la vert pocket . .By mall BI.QO per peck»«!M» slxtog B&jOO. jjgslj BSTliEwoSife#rfesS.*‘' For sale in Rensselaer by J,-A. Larab druggist *

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She Blazed Trail

SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS CHAPTERS. Ch avtek I—Morrison & Daly, lumbermen on the Sagauaw waters of Michigan, drive a hard bargain with Radway, a contractor. II and lll—Harry Thorpe, having left his dependent sister Helen, at service, tries for work at Morrison & Daly’s, fails and takes a job at choring until lie can go to Railway's camp. IV—Thorpe at Railway's making lumber road. The men uttempt hazing. Thorpe puts on the gloves and knocks out the champion. V and Vl—Radway ruuuiug behind owing to slack management. Thorpe a ’’swampej;.” Death of his chum, Paul. The men “chip in for the widow.” Radway goes home for Christmas, leaving Dyer, the scaler. in charge. VII and Vlll—Long delay waiting for roads to freeze. Thorite hurt and sent to Sisters' hospital. Railway fails Thorpe out of work. IX—Thorpe demands pay of M. & D. for work done by Kadway. The contract was illegal, and the firm have profited by the work done. M. AD. settle the account. X-Thorpe provides for Helen's education anil goes into the north woods to locate valuable tract. Mukes a friend of Injun Charley aud a Chicago hoy tourist, Wallace Carpenter. XI anil Xll—Wallace has capital and helps Thorpe buy land. Dyer, the old scaler for Radway. is out looking for land for M. A D. Thorpe goes to Detroit to head off his rivals' land purchase. XIII and XlV—Wallace sends telegraph order to Thorpe at the land office just in time to head off M. A I). in a 530.000 purchase. M. A D. offer to buy. Thorpe won't sell. War declared. XV and XVl—Tim Shearer, former foreman for M. A D., hires with Thorpe. Thorpe takes forcible possession of a dock M. A I), have built abutting his new purchase. The rival firms agree to work in harmony. XVII—M. A D. close a gate in the dam above Thorp«?'s logs. Thorpe puts out a sentinel with a Winchester. Mischief ends, hut M. A D. bring two suits aginst Thorpe. CHAPTER XVll—Continued. Next day, while passing out of the cook camp, he addressed one of the men. J ‘'Well, Billy,” be Inquired, “how do you like your fiddler?” “All right,” replied Billy, with emphasis. “She’s got some go to her.” The work proceeded finely, and yet the young lumberman had sense enough to know that while a crew such as this is supremely effective it requires careful haudling to keep it good humored and willing. He knew every man by his first name and each day made it a point to talk with him for a moment or so. The subject was invariably some phase of the work. Thorpe never permitted himself the familiarity of introducing any other topic. He never replied directly to an objection or a request, but listened to it noncommittally and later, without explanation or reasoning, acted as his judgment dictated. Even Shearer, with whom he was in most intimate contact, respected this trait in him. Gradually he came to feel that he was making a way with his men. It was a status not assured as yet uor ever very firm, but a status for all that. Then one day one of the best men, a teamster, came in to make some objec-, tion to tbe cooking. As a matter of fact, tbe cooking was perfectly good, but the lumber jack is a great hand to growl, and he usually begins with his food. Thorpe listened to bis vague objections in silence. “All right,” he remarked simply. Next day he touched the man on the shoulder Just as he was starting to work. “Step into the office and get your time,” said he. “What’s the matter?” asked the man. “I don’t need you any longer.” The two entered the little office? Thorpe looked through the ledger and van book and finally handed the man his slip. “I’ll have no growlers in this camp,” said Thorpe, with decision. “By thunder,” cried the man, “you”—• “You get out of here!” cried Thorpe, with a concentrated blaze of energetic passion that made the fellow step back. “I ain’t goin’ to get on the wrong side of the law by foolin’ with this office,” cried the other at the door, “bqt if I had you outside for a minute”— “Leave this office!” shouted Thorpe. “S’pose you make me!” challenged the man insolently. In a moment the defiance had come, endangering the careful structure Thorpe had reared with such pains. The young main was suddenly angry in exactly the same blind, unreasoning manner as when he had leaped single handed to tackle Dyer’s crew. Without a word he sprang across the shack, seized a two bladed ax from the pile behind the door, swung it around 'his bead and cast it full at the now frightened teamster. The latter dodged, and the swirling steel buried itself in the snow bank beyond. Without an instant’s hesitation Thorpe reached back for another. The man took to his heels. “I don’t want to see you around here again!” shouted Thorpe after him. Then in a moment he returned to the office and sat down, overcome with contrition. “It might have been murder,” he told himself, awe stricken. But, as it happened, nothing could have turned out better. Thorpe had instinctively seized the only method by which these strong men could be Impressed. Now the entire crew looked with vast admiration on their boss as a man who intended to have bis own way no matter what difficulties or consequences might tend to deter him. And that is the kind of man they liked. Injun Charley, silent and enigmatical as ever, had constructed a log shack near a little ireek in the hard wood. There he attended diligently to the business of trapping. Thorpe rarely j found time to visit him, but he often glided into the office, smoked a pipeful of the white man’s tobacco in friendly fashion hi the stove and glided, out

By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

again without having spoken a dozen words. Wallace made one visit before the big snows came, and was charmed. He ate with gusto of the “salt horse,” baked beans, stewed prunes, mince pie and cakes. He tramped around gayly in his moccasins or on the fancy snowshoes he promptly purchased of Injun Charley. There was nothing new to report in regard to financial matters. The loan had been negotiated easily on the basis of a mortgage guaranteed by Carpenter’s personal signature. Nothing had been heard from Morrison & Daly. By the end of the winter some 4,000,000 feet of logs were piled in the bed or upon the banks of the stream. To understand what that means you must imagine a pile of solid timber a mile in length. This tremendous mass lay directly in the course of the stream. When the winter broke up it had to be separated and floated piecemeal down the current. The process is an interesting and dangerous one and one of great delicacy. It requires for its successful completion picked men of skill and demands as toll its yearly quota of cripples and dead. While on the drive men work fourteen hours a day up to their waists in water filled with floating ice. On the Ossawinamakee, as has been stated, three dams had been erected to simplify the process of driving. When the logs were in right distribution the gates were raised, and the proper head of water floated them down. Now, the river being navigable, Thorpe was possessed of certain rights on it. Technically he was entitled to a normal head of water whenever he needed it. or a special head, according to agreement with the parties owning the dam. Early in the drive he found that Morrison & Daly intended to cause him trouble. It began in a narrows-of the river between high, rocky banks. Thorpe’s drive was floating though close packed. The situation was ticklish. Men with spiked boots ran here and there from one bobbing log to another, pushing with their peaveys, hurrying one log. retarding another, working like beavers to keep the whole mass straight The entire surface of the water was practically covered with the floating timbers. In a moment, as though by magic, the loose wooden carpet ground together. A log in advance up-ended, another thrust under it. The whole mass ground together, stopped and began rapidly to pile up. Tbe men escaped to the shore in a marvelous manner of their own.. Tim Shearer found that the gate at the dam above had been closed. The man in charge had simply obeyed orders. He supposed M. & D. wished to back up the water for their own logs. Tim indulged in some picturesque language. “You ain’t got no right to close off more’n enough to leave us th’ nat’ral flow unless by agreement,” he concluded, and opened the gates. Then It was a question of breaking the jam. This had to be done by pulling out or chopping through certain “key" logs which locked the whole mass. Men stood under the face of imminent ruin—over them a frowning sheer wall of bristling logs, behind which pressed the weight of the rising waters—and hacked and tugged calmly until the mass began to stir. Then they escaped. A moment later, with a roar, the jam vomited down on the spot where they had stood. It was dangerous work. Just one half day later it had to be done again and for the same reason. This time Thorpe went back with Shearer. No one was at the dam, but the gates were closed. The two opened them again.

“I’m he,” said the young fellow.

That very evening a man rode up on horseback inquiring for Mr. Thorpe. *Tm he,” said the yonng fellow. The man thereupon dismounted and served a paper. It proved to be an injunction Issued by Judge Sherman en-

Joining Thorpe against Interfering: with the property of Morrison & Daly—to wit, certain dams erected at designated points on the Ossawinamakee. There bad not elapsed sufficient time since tbe commission of the offense for the other firm to secure the Issuance of this interesting document, so it was at once evident that the whole affair had been prearranged. After serving the injunction the official rode away. “Of all the consummate gall!” exploded Thorpe. “Trying to enjoin me from touching a dam when they’re refusing me the natural flow! They must have bribed the fool judge. Why, his Injunction isn’t worth the powder to blow it up.” “Then you’re all right, ain’t ye?” inquired Tim. “It’ll be the middle of summer before we get a hearing in court,” said he. “Oh, they’re a cute layout! They expect to hang me up until it’s too late to do anything with the season's cut.” He arose and began to pace back and forth. “Tim,” said he, “is there a man in the crew who’s afraid of nothlug and will obey orders?*’ “A dozen.” replied Tim promptly. “Who’s the best?” “Scotty Parsons.” “Ask him to step here.” In a moment the man entered the office. “Scotty,” said Thorpe, “I want you to understand that I stand responsible for whatever I order you to do.” “All right, sir.” replied the man. “In the morning,” said Thorpe, “you take two men and build some sort of a shack right over the sluice gate of that second dam. I want you to live there day and night. Never leave it, not even for a minute. The cookee will bring you grub. Take this Winchester. If any of the men from up river try to go out on the dam, you warn them off. If they persist, you shoot near them.’ If they keep coming, you shoot at them. Understand?” “You bet!” answered Scotty, with enthusiasm. “All right,” concluded Thorpe. Next day Scotty established himself, as had been agreed. He did not need to shoot anybody. Daly himself came down to investigate the state of affairs. He attempted to parley, but Scotty would have none of it. “Get out!” was his first and last word. At the mouth of the river booms of logs chained together at the ends had been prepared. Into the inciosure the drive was floated and stopped. Then a raft was formed by passing new’ rnanila ropes over the logs, to each one of which the line was fastened by a hardwood forked pin driven astride of it. A tug dragged the raft to Marquette. Now Thorpe was summoned legally on two counts. First. Judge Sherman cited him for contempt of court; second, Morrison & Daly sued him for alleged damages in obstructing their drive for holding open the dam sluice beyond the legal head of water.

CHAPTER XVIII. E ENDING the call of trial Thorpe took a three weeks’ vacation to visit liis ' sister. Time, filled with excitement and responsibility. had erased from his mind the bitterness of their parting. Now he found himself so impatient that he could hardly wait to get there. He learned on his nrrival that she was not at home. Mrs. Renwick proved not nearly so cordial as the year before, but Thorpe, absorbed in his eagerness. did not notice it. Mrs. Renwick thought Helen had gone over to the Hugheses. Thorpe found the Hughes residence without difficulty and turned up the straight walk to the veranda. On the steps of the latter a rug had been spread. A dozen youths and maidens lounged on its soft surface. Thorpe, as be approached tbe light from a tgll lamp just inside the ball, hesitated, vainly trying to make out the figures before him. So it was that Helen Thorpe saw him first and came fluttering to meet him. “Oh, Harry! What a surprise!” she cried, and flung her arms about bis neck to kiss him. “How do you do, Helen?” he replied sedately. This was the meeting he had anticipated so long. The presence of others brought out in him irresistibly the repression of public display which was so strong an element of his career. A little chilled, Helen turned to introduce him to her friends. He took a place on the steps and sat without saying a word all the evening. There was nothing for him to say. These young people talked thoughtlessly, as young people do, of the affairs belonging to their own little circle. He had thought pine and forest and the trail so long that he found these square elbowed subjects refusing to be jostled aside by any trivialities. He took Helen back to Mrs. Renwick’s about 10 o’clock. They walked slowly beneath the broad leaved maples, whose shadows danced under the tall electric lights, and talked. “How have you done, Harry?” she inquired anxiously. “Your letters have been so vague.” “Pretty well,” he replied. “If things go right I hope some day to have a better place for you than this-” Her heart contracted suddenly. It was all she could do to keep from barsting into tears. Tbe indefiniteness of his answer exasperated her and filled her with sullen despair. She said nothing for twenty steps. Then: “Harry,” she said quietly, “can yon take me away from Mrs. Renwlek’s?” “I don't know, Helen. I can’t tell yet Not Just now, at any rate.” “Harry,” she cried, “you don’t know what you’re doing. I .tell you I can’t stand Mrs. Renwick any longer. I know you’ve worked hard and that

you’d give me more if you could. But so have I worked hard. Now we ougbt to change this in some way. I can get a position as teacher of some other work somewhere. Won’t you let me do that?” Thorpe was thinking that it would be easy enough to obtain Wallace Carpenter’s consent to his taking SI,OOO from the profits of the year. But he knew also that the struggle In the courts might need every cent the new company could spare. It would look much better were be to wait until after the verdict. If favorable, there would be no difficulty about sparing the money. If adverse, there would be no money to spare. And so until tbe tiling was absolutely certain be hesitated to explain the situation to Helen for fear of disappointing her. “I think you’d better wait, Helen,” said lie. “There ’ll bo time enough for all that later when it becomes necessary.” “And in the meantime stay with Mrs. Renwick?” flashed Helen. “Yes. I hope it will not have to be for very long." “How long do you think, Harry?” pleaded the girl. "That depends on circumstances,” replied Thorpe. “Oh!” she oried indignantly. “Harry,” she ventured after a time, “why not write to Uncle Amos? His wanting us to tome to him seems to me very generous.” “You will do nothing of the kind,” commanded Thorpe sternly. “Amos Thorpe is an unscrupulous man who became unscrupulously rich. He deliberately used our father as a tool and then destroyed him. I consider that any one of our family who would have anything to do with him is a traitor!” The girl did not reply. Next morning Thorpe felt uneasily repentant for his stroug language. After ail, the girl did lead a monotonous life, and he could not blame her for rebelling against It from time to time. Her remarks had been born of tbe rebellion; tiiey had meant nothing in themselves. He could not doubt for a moment her loyalty to the family. That night he wrote Wallace Carpenter for SI,OOO. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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