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

Upholstering and Repairing Having told tny bicycle repair baainesa, I bare concluded to put In the place of It. and in connection with my undertaking business, a first-class Upholstering and General Furniture , Repair Business. I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. 'PHONE 96. A. B. COWGILL. v y [Note" 1 ) Anyone needing a c S Perkins Wind Mill S J or a Wheeler & Wil- ? c son sewing machine, \ / the two longest life L ) and easiest running v ) machines that are J < made, will save ) S money by baying j l them of me. \ \ J. A. SCHREIBER, l ? TEFFT - - - INDIANA. \ NOTICE TO BREEDERS. WILSON, the - Beautiful Hambletoniau stalthe stand for the * season of 1904 at my barn at Parr. is ti years old, sired by Matador, No. 1070; Dam. Ola, by Modin. Service Fees:—#B.oo to insure colt to stand and suck; *6.00 to insure mare to be in foal. Parting with mare or leaving the county makes service money due and payable at once, KING PHILLIP, the Famous Black .. Jack, will make the stand of 1904 at my barn in Parr. This 'i*e\ * l\ old, «as sired by • Solomon; Dam by lg Porter. 4- ■.iftljf*Jbt. Terms to insure colt to stand and suck, *10.00: to insure mare to be in foal, *B. Parting with mare or leaving the county renders service money due and payable at once W. L. WOOD, Owner. TAYLOR WOOD, Manager. REVIVO <-4A restores VITALITY THE of Me. wsvßssrast Runvimuif produce* the above result* tn SO dwy*. »tctt Dowsrf ally and quickly. Curea when all others tail. Young men wl 11 regriri their lost manhood, aad old Ban win recover their youthful vigor by using BEVIVO. It quickly and surely restores Nervoueneas. Lost Vitality, Impotency, Nightly Emtariona, Lost Power. Felling Memory, Wasting Pi»eism. «fld an effects of self-abuse or excess end indiscretion. Which anflta one for study, business or marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of dieeam. but la a greet nerve ton to and blood builder, bringing beck the pink glow to pale choekeend re storing the Are of youth, ft w*rd* ®&JSKP"i and Consumption, inglat on having BE VIVO, no other. It can be carried In vest pocket. By Bril. •1.00 per package, or six for gfi.OO, with a poel SsrjssrjsxmzSisrjSuST* SOUL MEDICINE CO, CHICAGO, ILL. S For sale in Rensselaer by J, A. Larsh druggist, 60 YEARS’ \U||^^H^,experience I V k J i L J # a m B ■ k ■ Bi^^ 1■ k ■ -/-v Trade Marks Designs 9 1 Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may qutclily ascertain onr opinion free whether an invention la probably patentabla Communications strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patent* taken through Munn A Co. receive cpeeicU notice, without emerge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest rtreolation of any scientific journal. Terms. IS a year; four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. iBUKX&Bsftt OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice ia hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of tbe Circuit Court of Jasper County, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of George R.DickinsoD, late of Jasper county, deceased. ' Said estate ia supposed to be solvent. Albert H. Dickinson. June 18.1804. Administrator. OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that tbe undersigned baa been appointed by the clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administratrix of tbe estate of Frank-Philippi, late of Jasper Connty. deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Eliza Philippi. June 38, 1804. Administratrix. Morris’ English Stable Powder fnNi BAfif PBdkaßfe v Sold bj A. 7. Lone

SUNSET

By F. B. WRIGHT

I found the old man in his favorite place, a grassy nook on tbe mountain aide, gazing across the lake to Where the opposite mountains rose from the water's edge. Darrel had a great store of wisdom—not tbe wisdom of the towns, bnt the lore of the woods, of the snow born streams and the mountains. His voice was as soothing as the wind through great pines or the rush of the river through its gorges. Darrel had lived among these mountains for thirty years, and, please God, he would die here, be said. He would listen Interestedly to what I told him •f life In the great cities, but at the end his eyes always turned with satisfied affection to the ranges that shut him In. “It's mighty nice, I reckon,’’ he would say, “but I couldn’t get along without the sound of the river in my ears or the smell of pine and cedar. Once I thought”— What it was he had once planned I never knew until this night. “Jim,” he said as we lay back in the soft grass smoking—“ Jim, he was my

“JIM WAS LYIN’ IN HIS BUNK."

partner. We was pardners from the first, though he was younger than me. Thar warn't never a better man than Jim. White as you make ’em, straight as one of these here pine saplin's, spry as a deer. We prospected it together, an’ we timbered it, an’ we ranched it share an’ share alike, come good times or bad, until”— The old man paused a moment. One pinnacle of snow was like a flame of Are, and far down below the darkling lake reflected the flame. “It was twenty years ago that Mary came here with her father, old man Drury. He took up a claim down td the end of the lake. Mary was just a little gal then, that I could take on my knees an’ play with an’ teach to fish an’ paddle a canoe. An’ year by year she growed and growed, pretty as some flower put down here in a crevice of the rocks. An' then one day—l mind it well—l seed she was a woman an’ that I loved her. Thar wasn’t never no spring like that spring, nor no day like that day. “I didn’t tell her so—l was feared a’most to touch her. I was so rough an’ rude an’ she so like a flower, but I thought on her a heap. It didn’t make no difference whar I was, layin’ out on the mountain side with only the stars for a roof, workin’ in the shaft or settin’ in my shack listenin’ to the wind howlin’ through the timber an’ the cracklin’ of the fire, Mary was everywhar. She was In the first star that came shinin’ out at night. In the first flowers that sprung up In the bottom lands. The voice of the river in the shallow places was like her laughter.” The old man pointed a sinewy finger down toward a clump of trees below us. “It was thar on that point, with the river on one side an’ the lake on the other, that I built my house, settin’ up here of an evenjn’. It was to be a real house—not a log shack—an’ vines all over It an’ a garden. Many a night I’ve built that house an’ lived In it an’ watched Mary rockin’ the cradle. I used to travel, too, them nights, me an’ Mary, to the east an’ faroff kentries what she’d read about. “Jim used to wonder why I left him an’ come out here by myself, but It was because I wanted to be alone an’ think about It all. I never told him nothin’ of how I felt. “An’ then one evenin’ I went down to Mary’s bouse for to tell her. It were gettin’ dark, as It might be this very evenin’. I landed quiet an’ came up the path, an’ then I knowed what I might have knowed all along, for Jim an’ Mary were settin’ lookin’ at the sunset —an’ each other—an’ I knowed they loved each other, an’ that was nigh ten years ago. “I had forgot that I was old an’ rough, an’ she was young, an’ that it was as natural for her to love Jim as flowers to love tbe sun, but I didn’t think of that then. I was wildlike as I paddled away up the lake an’ climbed the trail to tbe shack an’ sat thar In the dark cursin’ him. God forgive me. - “He come home by an* by, did Jim. I could hear him whistlin’ way down the mountain side as if be was happy.

He sat In the doorway, lookin’ np at the stars an’ talkin’ about the claim we had an’ if the mine panned out an’ of the money we’d get for onr red cedar logs. An’ then be said, shylike, aa If ’twas something wonderful: •What do you think, Jack,’ says he, I’m goln’ to be married soon—to—to llary,’ he says. pit was well he couldn’t see my face then In the dark, for something got holt of my heart when I heerd him ■ay tt in so many words. I said something, I dunno what, but he was too happy to notice, or maybe he thought I was hurt at his breakln’ our pardnershlp. Anyway he went on talkin’ of his plans for makln’ money, of bulldln’ a home, of how he loved Mary an’ she him. I hardly heerd him, though the words come back to me later. I was kind of dazed like. I saw a man onct whose foot was crushed by a fall of rock in a minit. He didn’t seem to feel no pain right at first, an’ maybe ’twas the same with me. “It was after Jim had quit an’ gone to bed an’ I roamin’ abroad through the dark that I felt It All night I tramped through the timber, thlnkln’ an’ flgbtin’ with the wild beast In me. I had loved her first. Thar was plenty other women for him to be happy with. What right had he with his good looks an’ youth to come between us—he, my pardner, to steal the flower I had watched an’ tended? “I was crazy that night—plumb crazy. Along toward day I come down the mountain straight as a stream for the cabin an’ with my mind made up. 1 would kill him whar he was. He should never have Mary. As for me, I warn’t thlnkln’ about myself. I went into the shack an’ found my bantin’ knife. Jim was lyin’ In his bunk, the faint light from the window on his face, an’ he was smilin’. Once I tried to send the knife down an' failed, an' twice I tried, but again the strength lb my arm seemed to give out I stood thar lookin’ down at him, an’ then I flung the knife away an’ came out here an’ watched the dawn come up over the mountains an’ tbe mist roll offer the lake an’ thought of all that Jim had been to me —an’ of Mary. It was natural she should love him an’ not me. Me! I was right old enough to be her father, let alone bein’ rough an’ ill favored. As for Jim, how was he to know that I cared, or if he did know he couldn’t help lovin’ whar nature told him to/' Like to like. Youth to youth, wh<y could help lovin’ Jim —or Mary ? / “I wrostled it out here, with the sun cornin’ 'up a glory over the mountains, an’ at the last I seen how foolish I had been an’ knowed it was Mary’s happiness I wanted—an’ Jim’s. “They was married an’ lived here for awhile until Mary’s little gal died, an’ then she couldn’t seem to bear the place, an’ Jim took her east—him an’ me. for what I had was his’n. I get a letter onct In awhile. They’re happy an’ doin’ well." Darrel pointed to a vine covered bowlder near by on which there was cut a rude cross. “After little Mary died—so pretty, so tiny—l brung her here in my arms an’ laid her thar—Mary cryin’ beside mean’ now I love to come here an’ set after the day’s work is done. No; 1 couldn’t go east. I couldn't leave her,” he said simply. The blush had died from the sky. The crests of the mountains shone out cold and white. The night bad come, but it was a night radiant with the light of myriads of stars.

Tom Matthews’ Decision

By CYRUS DERICKSON

Cnpi/righU 1903. bp K. M. Whitehead

His name was Thomas Matthews, but everybody around the store called him Tom. He had come to the business of Haines & Co. when a boy ten years old, and in fourteen years he had gained the position of bookkeeper and cashier. At every stage he had been complimented on his honesty and fidelity, and the day he took charge of the books and the cash Harris, the active partner, said to one of the “Co.:” “Well, Johnson, I feel a load off my mind. Tom is as straight as a string, and we need not worry about him. I don’t believe that he could be tempted to do a crooked thing.” Never did a young man carry a cleaner record into an office. There had been a thousand chances for peculation, but Tom had not been tempted. If any one had whispered in his ear that temptation was going to get the best of him he would have smiled at the idea. He had put in another year when it came and during that year had married and established a home. The firm had made him a liberal present in cash, and up to the hour of his temptation, had his books been examined and his cash counted, they would have been found correct to a dot. To oblige a friend he took SSO from the cash account for three or four days. The friend repaid the loan and put Tom on to a “sure thing” in the stock market. Tom invested his week’s salary and made S2OO. It was his first speculation, and the thing seemed so easy that he gave it a whirl a month later and came out several hundred dollars to the good. The man who wants to speculate can run across “sure things” every hour in the day. Tom had known of scores of men in trusted positions going wrong through speculation, but bis name should never be added to the list. He would make or lose with his own money, and not a penny belong-

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lng to Haines & Co. should be put In peril. That was the policy he pursued for six months, sometimes gaining and sometimes losing; but, of course, there

“WHAT AM I TO DO?" WAILED TOM.

came a day when the market was upset, and he found himself on the wrong 6ide of it and had to “borrow” from the firm to make good his margins. Such a step is always called “borrowing,” and the man who takes it always feels himself thoroughly honest. The market continued to drop, and in four or five days Tom was closed out and owed the firm SSOO besides. He could have raised that through friends and squared things up, but be had lost by the market and he meant to make good by the market. There must be cashiers who borrow the firm's money and are lucky enough to return it, but no one ever hears of them. It Is of those who would return it if they could, but find it impossible, that are held up to public gaze and sent to prison. Tbe SSOO became SI,OOO and then had SSOO added to it before Tom let go of stocks. That was a larger sum than be could raise outside. The end of the year was drawing near, and if his books were overhauled he must surely be branded as an embezzler. He had “covered” the shortage in a way, but an expert would uncover it In half an hour. The trusted cashier who goes wrong has a choice to make. He can face the music and take his punishment or be can flee the country or commit suicide. He puts off his decision to the very last houf, hoping he knows not what, hut the hour comes at last when he must make it That boor came to Tom Mat-

thews, and he remained behind in the office to decide what step he should take. lie fully realized that he must choose between the three evils, but tbe hours went by and he could not make up his mind. He should have left tht store at 6 o’clock, but he was still there at 9 and at 9 was yet undecided. As he sat with his face in his hands and the office only dimly illuminated by a single gas jet something touched him on the arm, and he lifted his head to find a stranger standing beside him. “You must excuse me for calling so late,” observed tbe man. “but the fact Is I had some difficulty in getting into the store.” “Who are you, and what do you want?” asked Tom, more puzzled than startled. “Oh, as to my niune, you can pick out any old thing, but as to what I want, I dropped in to do a little business with you.” “But the store is closed.” “Yes, I know, and that’s my best time for doing business. Don't you savey ?” “You don’t mean that you are a burglar—a robber?” queried Tom, after looking the man over for a moment and wondering if it was a real live man who stood before him. “That’s pretty close to It,” laughed the man as he sat down on the nearest chair and brought out a cigar and lighted It. When he had taken a few puffs he resumed: “I’ve had my eye on this plant for some time, and when I got in tonight I didn’t expect to have your company. How does it come that you are here, and what's the matter that you look so seedy? I'd been spying on you for half an hour before I entered the office, and I think you’ve got a peck of trouble on your mind. Let’s hear what it is.” It was a strange situation, but the cashier was in a strange nuxxL The caller had said that he was a burglar and had come with designs, but yet there was a touch of sympathy in his tones. Tom hesitated for a moment and then told him all. The man listened, nodding or shaking his head now and then, and when he had heard all he said: “Look here, my boy, there’s only one Way in this thing. You’ve got to be either all good or all bad. You can’t be half and half and make a go of it I’m all bad, and I get along very well. What are you going to do?Y "For God's sake, what am I to do?” wailed Tom. / “Want to turn bad?” “No.” “Is there money enough In the safe to t#ike you out of the country?” “There’s about SBOO in there, but I wouldn’t touch a penny of it. I’ve yielded to temptation, but I’m no thief.” “And if yon were given a chance?” queried the burglar after awhile. “A chance! Why, man, I’d live on crusts before I’d put myself in this position again. Think of my fonr-

teen years’ record! Think of my wife and relatives!” “Yes. The game wasn’t worth the candle. Suppose you give me your home address.” “What for?” as he wrote it down. “Just to know where you live. Suppose that we also go out now.” “Yes, but—but”— “Just to get out, you know. I’d like that SBOO in the safe, but to get it I’d have to crack you on the head and add to your troubles. If I were you I’d go home and manage to keep this thing to myself for a day or two longer. Come, let’s walk out together. l*our way is up the street, and mine is down. So long to you.” Before Tom left his house next morning a messenger brought a package containing $1,500 addressed to him. An hour after the package had been delivered the senior partner of the firm was saying to the burglar of the night before^ “Well, I’m glad he took it that way, and he shall have his chance. Tom’s honest, and we have got to have honest men about us. I don’t think he’ll meddle with stocks again, and on Thursday when his books are overhauled they will be found all O. K. All right, Simpson; all right. You worked it beautifully.”

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