Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1904 — Page 7

Loans on Land. We make our own inspections; no delay, no extra expense; interest 5 per cent. Loans on City Property and on Personal security also. Call, write or telephone No. 35. The First National Bank RENSSELAER. INDIANA. "far"er*FRIENDS ; Will this Interest You? ] ♦ > The line of goods I shall handle this season are all * high grade, every Buggy and Carriage will be a guaranteed job. I have several good makes —Studebaker, Page Bros., Gates, Osborne and others. Studebaker Farm Wagons are the best ironed and have the best box ever put on a wagon. The two best mowers and binders on the market— McCormick and Milwaukee. I have extras for both machines. The best of all, the Kemp Manure Spreader, makes farmers more money than any implement ever put on the farm. I have the Birdsell Cloves Huller of South Bend, Ind. It gets all the seed. An English sparrow would go hungry on the seed it < leaves in the straw. I have the McCormick Shredder, i and Corn Harvester, the world’s best. Come and see. i A Watch, one that will keep time, given Free < with each buggy and carriage sale I am, yours truly, i On Front Street C. A. ROBERTS. «

Farms and CityJroperty For Sale 1 and Exchange. i •1 We can trade your farm or city property for a •) ranch in Kansas, North Dakota or Minnesota. •) We have some good farms here in Jasper county — 42 acres and two houses in small town; want 80 or 120 acre farm for same. Also 160 acres, So acres, 115 acres to exchange for city property or merchan- (C dise, and 396 acres in Wisconsin to trade for an In- •) diana farm and will assume a mortgage. •) We can order that Rubber Tired Buggy, only $52 Call on or Address: — •) flartin Bros. : Box 14. KNIMAN, IND. g TAKBTHB WABASH j TO (• The Worlds Greatest Fair 1 ST. LOUIS % April 30—December 31. « WHY? *> RFf AIISF It is the only line landing passengers over its own rails CP at main entrance of grounds, where it has erected a $50,000 (M Passenger Station, and maintains in connection therewith a Bureau of Information for the accommodation of its patrons. It has Past Express SHUTULE TRAIN SERVICE between Union Station and §) Grounds, with a Capacity of 35,000 Passengers per hour, YOU ARE SAFE IN TRAVELING VIA THE WABASH (!) SUPERIOR EQUIPMENT—Wide Vestibnled Coaches, CP Chair Cars, Diners and Sleepers. #) LINE LAID WITH 85 POUND STEEL RAILS. (• EVERY TRAIN PROTECTED BY THE BLOCK SYSTEM. a) $50,000,000 EXPOSITION (P Comprising 60 State and Territory Buildings. 60 Foreign Buildings. 500 DISTINCT BUILDINGS COVERING 1,340 ACRES. g WHY GO ABROAD? (£ When yon can at your own door, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, enjoy P) the advantages and pleasures of a “TOUR OP THE WORLD?” M Low rates and Liberal Limits shown elsewhere in paper. P) Write nearest WABASH Agent or THOS. FOLLEN, P. St T. A„ Lafayette, Ind. CP C. S, CRANE, Gen. Paaa. St Tkt. Agt. I s . 1 . ni , Mn •) • H. V. P. TAYLOR. Aaa’t Gen. Paaa. St Tkt. Agt. 1 St ‘ Loulß, Mo ’ (L

WANTED!- FAITHFUL PERSON TO travel for wfcll eetxblished house in a few counties, caning on retail merchants and Menu. Local territonr. Salary sio 00 per Creek with expenses additional, all payable in cash each week. Money for expenses advanced. Position permameut. Business successful and rushintr. Manufacturers and Wholesalers, Dept. 1, third floor, 884 Dearborn St, Chicago. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat o^oe.

The McCoy Bank Failure Will not hinder or delay us in the making of farm loans at 5 per cent interest on terms best known. See ns if yon desire anything of the kind. Baughman & Williams, ' Attorneys and Loan Agents. ’Phone 329.

LEFT IN CHARCE

By Phil Bryce

CopwrUjhL, 1903, by T. C. MuChtrt

“Now, Sadie,” said Aunt Deborah Warner to her niece, who had come down irom Chicago to pnsß a month at the old farmhouse, “I've got to drive to town this afternoon to sign some law papers. You'U be ‘ left all alone in charge f6r -three or four hours. Do you think you'll be scared?" “What will there be to aoare me?” asked the girl of twenty, who was swinging in a hammock. “Why, nothing at aIL If a tin peddler comes along you want to shake your head before he has time to get down from his wagon. If a tramp stops and opens the gate you must look as fierce as you can and motion him to pass on. If you see a mad dog you will run Into the house of course, and if a robber tries to enter you Just stand right up to him and tell him you’ve got a loaded gun in the house and know bow to shoot."

“But is there a loaded gun?" asked Sadie as she slightly shivered at the thought. “I guess that okl gun behind the closet door In my bedroom has been loaded for the last ten years. Uncle Elisha kept it loaded for owls before he died. Don't shoot a robber unless he comes to rob and can't be persuaded otherwise, and then shoot at his legs and give him a chance to live and reform," “But I must shoot if be refuses to go away?" “You must Yon must point the gun In his direction and shut your eyes; and don't faint awag when you hear the report” Half an hour after Aunt departure a tin peddler . dwro up to the gate, but before he had hardly halted hie rig Miss FtatOe was shaking her head at the rate of forty shakes a minute. He called out that he had added mouse traps and washboards

“ABE YOU A ROBBER OB ONLY A COMMON MAN?" INQUIRED THE GIBL.

to his regular stock, but forty more shakes discouraged him into passing on. Twenty minutes later she beard the latch of the gate suddenly click, and she dumped herself out of the hammock to hud a first class specimen of the Weary Willie advancing up the path. She motioned as Aunt Deborah had told her to. She motioned with both hands at once, but the tramp paid no attention. He was within five feet of her when she cried out: "Stop where you are.*” “That’s better," he said 4s be came to a halt *1 took It from your flinging your arms about that you had St Vitus dance. Any cold wittles which want eatin’ up?" “Sir," commanded Sadie as she drew herself up, **l want yon to understand that I have a gun."* “Just so, little one," “And It’s loaded." “Persactly. A gun te as harmless as a rag doll when It isn’t loaded. I’d like to change places with the gun for an hour or two." “If you do not at once go av4ay," continued Sadie In trembling tones, *T shall be under the painful naeesslty of shooting you." “By ginger, but what a heroine:” laughed the tramp. He understood the situation. He knew that she was alone and weedy to be scared into a fit, bat was making a brave bluff against her womanly weakness. There was a strain of chivalry in his composition. Stapling beck and lifting bis greasy old cap off bis tousled hair be bowed and saids “Fair miss, please observe that I gracefully retire and give yoo the victory.” * When be had disappeared down the road Miss Sadie congratulated herself on her nerve and sat down on the steps of the veranda to look tar a mad dog. Aunt Deborah had said a mad dog would come next These was a slip somewhere, however, for It was a robber that showed up about forty nklnutes after the tramp’s broad back bad become only a dot against the sky line. The robber came from the west walking in the middle of the highway. As he reached the barn, a few rods below the house, be turned in and was quickly lost to sight Sadie waited with beating heart for ten minutes to see If he Intended to advance upon the bouse from the barn and take her by sor>

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Y prise, but as time went on she made op her mind that he had come to steal hay or straw instead of household effects. He must be driven away Just the same, and she was the only one to drive him. Aunt Deborah depended upon her. It was another ten minutes before tbe girl oould work up courage enough to go to uftcr tbe okl shotgun und drag it forth by its muzzle. But once armed she felt braver and made ber way along tbe path to tbe barn, whose doors stood wide open to tbe summer wind and sunshine. She approached them cautiorusly, fearing that the stranger was In ambush and ready to spring forth. Bnt as she finally stood and looked into the barn she was considerably relieved to find the man lying at full length on a scant bed of bay. Robbers do not generally take a daylight nap before robbing, and, though the man looked wayworn and somewhat disreputable, his face as far as she could see It was not evil looking. Perhaps he was not a robber. “Are' you—you a robber or only a common man?*’ inquired the girl at last as she hugged the shotgun. The man sat up and smiled In a sickly way and looked around with a bewildered air. and it was a minute before he vaguely replied: “I guess I’m only a common man, but I want to vest, and I’m so tired, and I feel"— “It will be my duty to shoot you, you know, if you don’t move on.” “Yes? Well, I don’t care much." “But I’ll only shoot you in the legs and thus give you a chance to reform. Do you think yon could reform after being shot in the legs?" “I—l dunno, but I’ll try my hardest,” said the trespasser as he struggled to his feet. “However, I think I’d rather have a doctor than a dose %f birdshot. Is your—your father—or any one else—about—abouP’— He lurched and staggered and collapsed, and Sadie let the gun fall to the floor and bent over him. It wasn’t a minute before she discovered that he was burning with fever and shaking with a chill at the same time, and all further thoughts of robbers and shooting were driven from her head. She brought him water and later on stopped a farmer driving by and got help to move the stranger to the house and put him to bed. “He’s no tramp," said the country doctor who was called in. “He’s some college fellow probably, with a rich dad behind him. who’s been making a walking tour. He probably got soaked in that thunderstorm yesterday, and he’ll be In bed for four or five days as a result Here’s your little romance,-and if you don’t make the best of it you’re a queer girL” That Miss Sadie Davis was not a queer girl and that she did make the best of it was proved a year latex. Tbe diagnosis of the doctor was correct, and the tourist with the rich dad was taken into the house as a summer boarder. He" took advantage of circumstances to woo and win and take unto himself a wife and to preserve tbe old shotgun as a souvenis of their first meeting.

Mated.

Any one with half an eye could see that be was madly in love with her, but be bad not courage enough to put his fate to the test But she was a young lady who knew her way about as the saying goes, and one night she suggested a game of chess. He, poor fellow, eagerly swallowed the bait If be was a novice at lovemaking he was certainly no novice at chess, and he soon had the fair maid hopelessly beaten. “AhJ” be exclaimed as he pot her In a hopeless corner. “You’re In a tight corner now, Miss MabeL” Sbe looked at him with those beautiful eyes of hers and then said: “I hadn’t noticed any compression, George. Have I no escape?" “None whatever,” said the guileless George. “I shall mate yon next move.” “Oh, George!" aaid she, with a becoming blush. “Er—hadn’t yon better ask father first?" They are married now, and Georg* often wonders if she is as dense at ebess as sbe would make him believe.

House Decorations.

A new treatment of my leaded liall window may Interest others. This particular window is three feet wide and one and a half feet deep. The curtain materials are white point d’ esprit and light green china silk. The effect produoed is that at silk over white curtains. Economy is sulwerved by having only two yards of the silk, the modus operand! as follows: First the silk i§ run on the rod (one yard), then the two white curtains, then the remaining silk one. They are drawn hack on the rod on either side, leaving the window exposed, on the wide ledge of which stands a jardiniere containing asparagus fern. This window gives character to the whole reception hall. Silk in shades to harmonize with the wall may be substituted.— Good Housekeeping.

Planked Shad. A dinner fish dish should be broiled or baked. Planked shad is quite pqssible at home. Dry and seasoned cherry wood planks are to be had at house furnishing shops, and the broiler on most gas stoves is well adapted to this kind of cooking. See that the plank is beveled on the under side with two crosspieces of wood. Split a shad up the back, remove the backbone, out off the head and tail and season with salt on both sides. Fasten the sliad to the plank with small, thin nails, butter it well and broil under a pretty good flame. In about thirty minutes remove and serve on the plank, spread with plain butter or, better still, with maitre d’hotel.

A X*n Match Scratcher.

At last has a way been found for the tidy housekeeper to rid her walls of that unsightly but necessary article, a match Fretty little pictures take tbclr place, but If you look closely you will see some clever person has thought of the bright idea of combining the two. A quaint little Dutch scene is frnmed In passe partout, and some portion of the glass Is ground to the necessary roughness to ignite the match. If It becomes marked it can easily be wiped clean again with a damp cloth.

An Organ Without Stops.

There is a man living in an Eleventh street flat who has no music in his soul, and there is a man on the lower floor whose soul is fall of it. The lower floor man not long ago added a four lung parlor organ to his lares and penates, and two healthy daughters of his began to practice on it. Several nights later a friend paid a visit to the first man, and as soon as he got inside the apartment he heard the parlor organ on the lower floor. “Pine toned instrument, that,” he said, because ha, too, had some music in his souL The music!ess man granted. “Whose make is it?" the visitor asked. “Don't know,” was the ungracious answer. “How many stops has It?" The host pulled himself up for a powerful effort. “Well,” he replied, “it’s been in the house for about a week now, and in that time it hasn’t bad any that I have been able to discover”—New York Press.

Lather and Shaving.

"It always makes me tired,” said an old barber, "when a man tells me to quit wasting so mncb time robbing in the lather and hurry along with his shave. If he only knew It, he is laying a sure foundation for a chapped and sore face. The reason for using soap In shaving is to remove the grease always close to the skin and on the surface of the beard. This cannot be done without rubbing It well in. Many persons who shave themselves do not understand this and wonder why they have sore faces. They blame the bay ram and change off to witch hasel or something else. Rubbing the soap In well makes the beard soft and pliable. It also lessens the chances of the rasor slipping. Always rub the lather wall 1» with tbs fingers, never with the brush.*

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SOUTHEASTERN LANDS

Charles J. Dean, Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana. Rich prairie lands in Northern Texas adjoining Oklahoma line; smooth as a floor, rich, black, deep soil covered with a thick growth of Buffalo grass: soil will produce all crops, and fruit and alfalfa to perfection. Prices run from $4 to £B. We are cutting these up in small tracts at $8 per acre for a short time, One-third cash, balance in yearly payments at 0 per cent interest. Pecos Valley, New Nexico, irrigated lands; excels California for fruit and climate. Finest stock and alfalfa proposition in the United Statee. 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 have a large list of lands in Oklahoma and Kansas, can sell land in any County in Oklahoma, at from $lO to S3O per acre. Oheap 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. Call on Austin A Hopkins for terms on farm and city loans for five years.

FARM LOANS.

We make farm loans on the most favorable terms and in the shortest time obtainable anywhere. Loans on city property are made by us for one, two, three, four and five years, with privilege of partial payments on any interest payment day; also loans on personal security. Call at our .office and see if we cannot make just the kind of a loan you are needing, or call us up by telephone as we have both the long distance Bell and Independent telephones in our office. Austin <fc Hopkins, Rensselaer, Indiana.

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TO THE PEOPLE.

Having purchased the J. W. Freshour blacksmith shop, I am prepared to do all kinds of work in iron and wood. I have in my employ Mr. John Worden, who is an expert in plow and wood work. I also employ Mr. Ed. Moon, the expert horse-shoer. He has worked under the intruction of some of the best veterinaries and understands the anatomy of the foot thoroughly, and can remedy all -faults known to the horse, such as interfering, forging, padling, cross-firing, knee-knocking and stumbling. A set of the latest improved Barcus horse-stocks, for safely handling the wild and vicious horse. I hope to retain all old customers and as many new ones as will give me their patronage. All my work ia guaranteed. Jesse Ball, Proprietor.

Austin & Hopkins offer better terms on farm loans and city property than any firm in Jasper County.

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