Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Page 2

. Loans on Lapd.j it I We make our own inspections; no delay, no k extra expense; interest 5 per cent. Loans on City Property and on Personal security also. I Call, write or telephone No. 35. j j The First National Bank; RENSSELAER, INDIANA. g I FARfIER FRIENDS, \ | Will this Interest You? $ !; line of goods I shall handle this season are all J every Buggy and Carriage will be a guar- J 1 job. I have several good makes —Studebaker, J Bros., Gates, Osborne and others. J debaker Farm Wagons are the best ironed and J he best box ever put on a wagon. J i two best mowers and binders on the market — J rmick and Milwaukee. I have extras for both J nes. The best of all, the Kemp Manure Spread- T ikes farmers more money than any implement J >ut on the farm. I have the Birdsell Clover J rof South Bend, Ind. It gets all the seed. An J sh sparrow would go hungry on the seed it J ; in the straw. I have the McCormick Shredder, J orn Harvester, the world’s best. Come and see. J I am, yours truly, ▼ C. A. ROBERTS. | ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦

! [IRS M HIM | | PARR, IND.’ I nplIE YEAR 1904 finds us with a com- « * plete Farmers. Supply Store. Our 9 grocery department is filled with a com- 9 « plete new stock of fresh goods. Our dry 9 g goods department is complete with good 9 * line of staple goods. Our farm implement department is also complete. Can furnish 9 you with everything a farmer needs on a farm. We have the largest and best 9 selection of good farm and driving horses 9 in Northern Indiana. Everyone has a 9 chance to try the horse before he takes it 2 away. If he isn’t right, don’t take him; £ try another until you are satisfied. It is 9 satisfied customers we want. Our buggy 9 department is the largest and most com- £ I plete that you can find. Our buggies are £ bought right and sold right. We will sell £ you a cheap buggy or a good one. We 2 will tell you just what you are buying. £ We want you to get value received for 9 every dollar you spend with us. It is satisfied customers we want. Rernember we 9 sell for cash and on tim£, but not on open £ account. Come and see us, if you don’t buy, for we will then become acquainted. £ But remember our business is to sell goods and lots of them. '■£ (urns M MUM | W. L. Wood, Proprietor. \

In a Masquerade

By Harriet G. Canfield

...Copyright, 1008, by T. C. McClure...

Leslie Wolcott threw himself on the green bench near the stone wall. It was shady there under the big maple. He had been In the fields all day, directing his men and working with them. After nine months in the dingy ofiices of Grant & Wolcott it was good to be in the country once more. He pulled his straw bat over his eyes and made overtures to the “sandman.” “I’ll take a little nap,” he said drowsily and then sat bolt upright. Some one on the other side of the wall was speaking his name. It was a woman's voice—a young woman’s—and she was angry. “Mr. Wolcott, indeed!" she was saying. “Why, father had no idea he lived next door when he rented this little place for the summer. Father isn’t like you, Aunt Hetty; he isn’t always trying to marry me off!” “There, there!” the lady addressed as “Aunt Hetty” replied soothingly. “I simply expressed my pleasure at your father’s unusual foresight in renting a place near Mr. Wolcott’s, a young man who is not only wealthy, but well bred and well educated.” “ ‘Foresight!’ ” the girlish voice cried Indignantly. “I’ve never met Mr. Wolcott, and I’ve no desire to meet him. The very fact that he is rich is enough to prejudice me against him! What can there possibly be to foresee?” “That will do, Elizabeth! I had supposed a Garter incapable of such Ingratitude as you*have expressed!” There was the soft swish of skirts over the grass, and then Leslie Wolcott awoke to the fact that he had been eavesdropping. Well, like other listeners, he had heard little good of himself. He lay staring up into the leaves, trying to imagine what Elizabeth Carter was like—this girl who was “prejudiced against him.” He was interested and slightly piqued. The more he recalled the conversation the more Interested he became. His sister was away; would not return for a month. Must he wait until Edith came

"I’m LESLIE, THE OVERSEER,” HE SAID REASSURINGLY.

home to begin the acquaintance? No; he doubted if Miss Carter would return her call. A sudden inspiration came to him. The farm hands called him “Mr. Leslie”—most of them had been on the place since he was a boy—and it was as "Mr. Leslie” that he would make the acquaintance of hia new neighbors. The father seemed old and feeble, Leslie saw him in the evening, wandering among the rosebushes on the lawn. A girl of thirteen or fourteen was with him, but “Elizabeth” did not appear. In the morning he was starting for the fields when her voice came to him over the high stone wall. “Madge,” she called, “come here and help me carry this rug; it’s so heavy!” Madge was slow in coming, but Leslie vaulted over the wall and ran up the steps of the little cottage. A shapely head, covered with braids of soft brown hair, turned at his coming and two great, dark eyes looked at him inquiringly. “Pardon me,” he said, “but you called.” “Yes,” she replied, “I called my sister. Is there anything I can do for you ?” “N-no,” he stammered. ”1 came to ask you thai question. I was on the other side of the wall, and”— She looked at him quickly, suspiciously, he thought, and seemed relieved at the sight of bis blue overalls and old straw hat. “I’m ’Leslie, the overseer,” he said reassuringly. “May I lift the rug for you now, Miss Carter?” “Thank you,” she said, and she thanked him again when he carried it to the porch and spread it carefully on the floor. Madge and her father came up and she Introduced him to them. “Mr. Leslie, father,’ 1 she said, “Mr. Wolcotfs overseer.” The old gentleman extended his hand cordially. “Came over the wall, did you?” he asked laughingly. “Well, come over againcome often. I envy you the ability to do so, young man.” In the days that followed Leslie made the most of Mr. Carter’s invitation, to the evident delight of Madge

i and the disgust of Aunt Hetty, who complained that she seldom found them alone now, when she came out for the day—that forward overseer was always there! Leslie knew her opinion of him. Madge, child fashion, had repeated her aunt’s language. “My!” she said. M I wish you had seen Beth’s eyes flash! She stood up so straight jtnd tall—like this—and she said, ‘Please be careful how you speak of my friends!’ ” Leslie’s face flushed with pleasure. “It was kind of Miss Elizabeth to say that,” be murmured. “Oh, she likes you. But Aunt Hetty is worried because Mr. Wolcott isn’t at home. You see, she would like to have him fall in love with Beth and marry her. ‘Elizabeth,’ she said, ‘what will Mr. Wolcott and his sister think when they come home and find that you have been so intimate with their hired man?’ And Beth said. ‘They will think that I recognize a gentleman when I meet one.’ I’m sorry Aunt Hetty says such horrid things about you!” “I’m glad!” Leslie cried, to the amazement of bis little friend. At the end of the month Edith Wolcott came home and was immediately taken into her brother’s confidence. “Don’t give me away when you call there,” he cautioned her. “Not if I can help it,” she said laughingly. Elizabeth received her politely, but Aunt Hetty, who was present, was more than cordial. “I’m so glad that you and your brother have returned, Miss Wolcott,” she said. “There has been no one for my nieces to associate with in your absence.” “You forget our friend Mr. Leslie,” Elizabeth said quietly, and Edith Wolcott’s heart went out to her then and there. “Speak to her, Leslie,” she urged that evening, “before she returns my call. I can’t keep your secret much longer.” “I will now,” he said determinedly. “I caught a glimpse of her white dress out there in the moonlight. Wish me good luck, little sister.” An hour later Edith heard his step on the walk. She met him at the door, a question in her eyes. “Congratulations?” she asked. “Yes, for ‘Mr. Leslie.’ I’m jealous of that overseer!” he said, smiling ruefully. “Beth was willing to take him for better or worse, but Leslie Wolcott she”— “Oh!” Edith cried. “She didn’t reject you, Leslie?” “No, but I need your sympathy; she put me on three months’ probation!”

Never Went Back on His Friends.

If the late Senator Mark Hanna owed his faculty for winning elections to any one trait it was to the candid way he had of putting confidence in others. Nobody knew better how to get reportorial favor. At the outset of his tour of Ohio during the late election he called the newspaper men on his private car around him. “Now, beys,” he said, “we’ll be together for several weeks, and while we are on board we'll be just like one big family. You are my guests, and you will be treated as though the car was my house. I will have many things to say that are not intended for print. We will form many plans that we do not wish made public. I don't intend to chase you out on to the platform,

“THAT'S A LIE,” SAID THE SENATOR.

and I will not whisper. You’ll hear every word, and you will know as well as I do what Is not intended for publication.” And some of the things said on the car would stir politics from coast to coast if printed, but they will remain secrets. In a few words at a meeting in a small town in the Interior of the state his answer to a question was a key to his whole character. "Isn’t it true that you got jobs for fifteen of the men who voted for you for senator?” a man in the audience asked. “That’s a lie,” was Hanna’s answer. “There were more than fifteen, for I never go back on my friends.”

His Rise.

“I thought you said once you wouldn’t be seen with him if he were the last man on earth?” “Oh, but he has the swiftest automobile In town!”—Chicago Record-Herald. Read Tbe Democrat for news.

Morris* English Stable Liniment ftni. MspwMOs Sold br A. F. Long.

I ft m BA I toft 1 iOOIVNBfV OP WASHINGTON AND VAN RBNSSSLABR STRBBTS. DIRECTORS: | John Eger, Pres. Delos Thompson, Cashier, g Lucius Strong Granville Moody Warren Robinson | jg === \ Does a general banking business, Loans Money on 5 5 all kinds of approved security; buys notes, pays in- j | terest on savings; pays taxes for customers and others. | | mis nrnk mi ne Glut 10 tiiem Iran Fora io its customers consisieni vnn \ | Telephone 42. Sole BiMno Principles. | Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CARE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OB OLD ONES—TO GROW RICH? Do yon want to know about rich farming land*, fertile, well located, on a Trank Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from $8.0,1 to SB.OO an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to $150.00 within 10 years? Abont stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding }s bnt six (6) short weeks? Of places where track growingjmd fruit raising yield enormous returns each year? Of a land where you can lire out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable manufacturing industries; of rich mineral Ideations, and splendid business openings. * If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Induatrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.

CITY COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.

The city council met in regular session Monday evening with all members present. The report of the city engineer on the Vine and Milton street sewers was presented. It shows the cost of Van Rensselaer sewer to be |247 and the Vine and Milton street sewer to be $ 1075.71. The city treasurer’s report for month ending May 30th shows funds in electric light fund amounting to $307.23 and in water fund amounting to $425.39. The road fund is overdrawn $1877.67; corporation fund, $4331.82; electric light fund $1823.52. A large proportion of the outstanding warrants in these funds have been paid since the date covered by the re port, however. The property owners on Clark street were ordered to at once put in the sidewalks ordered last fall. The light committee was given two weeks more to consider the salary ordinance governing the light and water employes. The city attorney and ordinance committee were instructed to draft an ordinance govering Weston Cemetery. The Van Rensselaer, Vine and Milton street sewers were referred to the city commissioners for assessment. The insurance on the city hall and hose cart was ordered renewed. The following bills were allowed. ROAD FUND. V. Chas. Seelman, mowing 8 io Geo. Newman, work on road 7 50 Ed Randle, work on sidewalk 3 00 John Brown “ “ “ 300 Elmer McClure “ “ “ 3 00 Wm. Shelhart, work on street 2 25 Chas. Bowers, “ “ “ 300 Tom Parker, hauling gravel *9 5° Bruce Hardy, “ “ 13 00 A 1 Fletcher “ . I 20 Dave Gasaway “ “ 1 80 Wm. Simons “ 9 75 Firman Rutherford, hauling gravel... 75° S. O. Baker, mowing 1 50 Leslie Clark, printing 17 00 CORPORATION FUND. J. H. Chapman, salary 63 00 Chas. Morlan, salary and fees 47 85 F. M. Abbott, marshal 22 50 H. L. Gamble, city engineer 29 10 A. E- Kirk, assisting engineer. 9 30 ’ WATER FUND. Jas. B. Clow & Sons, supplies 17 32 John Hordeman, work on main 7 50 Conrad Ililderbrand salary 30 00 White & Marion, tapping main 2 OO J. H.' Chapman, interest paid on bond 288 72 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. A L. Branch, hauling coal 34 30 C. S. Chamberlain, salary 50 00 C. L. Thornton, “ 30 00 Lem Huston, “ 30 00 Frank King, repair work 875 J. H. Chapman, freight..... 62 32

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