Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1904 — Page 6

THE TWO STORES GIVE An Absolute Guarantee TO THEIR CUSTOMERS. t We will guarantee beyond any donbt that onr prices are as low, or lower, for good merchandise, than any firm in this county. We honestly believe that we handle more high grade goods on a small margin than any firm in this county. You run no risk here. We solicit your trade, knowing that we can give you better service and prices on account of our push and energy in buying as well as a full and complete stock of of desirable goods. We have over MOO friends who know this G. M. WILCOX & SON.

ROSES Versus DAISIES

By MARAVENE KENNEDY

('npyriyht, 190 k, by As. K. H’ilum

The round fuced daisies, not the boy’s pleading eyes, held her gaze, yet she smiled winsoinely Into the eager little face as she gave him the coveted dime. She smiled whimsically as she took her seat in a crowded car. She held the daisies a moment against the crimson roses on her breast, then reread Walter Antler’s note: Margaret, Dear—lt's hard lines that I can't see you off, but Harding's out on Important business, and I can’t desert the ship. Shall be with you In spirit as are my roses in reality. Write me at once on your arrival. I shall be up soon t or my answer. Qoodby, dearest. My own dearest, Uod grant, some day. Yours only, WALTER. She leaned her fair face to the roses and breathed deeply. It was so sweet to know that she was all in all to the winning, successful man. Her eyes fell to the daisies, and with a sudden suffocation she opened the window. “Is it too much air for you?” she asked courteously of the plain, middle aged woman beside her. The woman laughed pleusantly. “There can’t be too much air for me. I’ve been to the city for two weeks, an’ I’m downright hungry for a whiff of fresh air. I had a good time, I guess. Leastways I did what folks there call havin’ a good time. But I've bad all I ever want. Mereerville's good enough for me after this.” The girl’s, face grew serious. It was the charm of the city that had taken Jier away from her father and mother—and Jack. For two years the city had held her, and till just the month before she had thought she loved It too well to leave for even a few weeks’ vacation. Then had come a longing, a desperate heart sickness, for green fields, peaceful nights and the fragrant, cooling of the hills. She would grow tired of them In a few weeks, she thought wearily. She would long then Just as earnestly for the brilliantly lighted restaurants, the Hungarian music, the sparkle and life of the gay

THE TWO MEN EYED EACH OTHER FOR A MOMENT TENSELY.

crowds about her. She would want the theaters, the concerts, the streets falsing with humanity. Jack met her at the train. He was the same Jack ahe had left—tall, loosely built, unconscious of himself. His pleasant face reflected his clean, honest life, and his easy going gait and ready made clothes spoke the custom as the town. She looked at him tranquilly. No, It was not Jack that had drawn her here. It was bar father or bar mother. How sweet to bare mother tuck her In bed and to feel the soft kiss on her cheek after tie heart hungry mother thought her little ewe lamb Cast asleep. How good, too, to bear father call her Daisy and Girlie once more. _ _____

And she was glad to see Jack. lie came next evening and told her In his soft, slow voice all the news of the place and—once more—how dearly he loved her. **Do you, Jack?” she nsked wistfully. “Could I mean more to you than this?” She reached out her arms caressingly toward the stretch of green and dewy fragrant flowers lying so peacefully beneath the soft moonlight. ‘‘Could you be happy with me on a hot, paved street, with no trees nor fields of flowers and where the air was—sick?” She laughed tremulously. ‘‘You can’t understand, of course, but—l came home Just for the smell of the grass, the stillness, the pure, sweet air!" His big, warm hand clasped her cold little fingers lovingly. “I do understand,” he said gently. “I went to the city once, was there almost a year, but I had to come back. I was doing well too. I never told you about It. It seemed rather womanish for a big hulking man to hanker for green fields and flowers.” She moved nearer to him. ‘‘There’s a man there,” she said softly, “that—that—l think I—love. He made It very pleasant for me, and he's clever and well to do. I thought a few weeks here would satisfy me, hut 1 know now It won’t. I must have the great big open—l can’t be shut In. Shall I write him ‘No?’ ” Almost to herself she breathed the question agitatedly under her breath. “Not if you truly love him, Daisy,” he said generously. “But I do want you, dear, and—l’d like my chance along with his. Give me two weeks, then send for him and talk things over and decide.” The two weeks were blissful ones for both, but Margaret could not determine how great a share of the joy giving was Jack's. They trudged contentedly along the dusty roads together, pickl'd berries, stole apples and waded streams. They jogged gayly behind old Don, Jack's raw boned delivery horse, and were as satisfied as though he were a thoroughbred. Then she sent for Walter Antler and waited In strange indecision for him to come. She wrote him frankly of her desire for the country, her uncertainty as to her feelings for him and told him about Jack. “I don’t think I understand,” he said uncertainly, standing tall and immaculate beside Margaret the evening of his arrival. His handsome, keen eyes smiled good liumoredly into the girl’s perturbed face. “You say if I will live In the country you will consider my proposal. U-h-m! I would lose my mind, dearest. This place is very sweet and pretty, yes, but two days of it would drive me to drink." He turned to her earnestly. “The city will seem different with a home of your own and plenty of servants and theaters and concerts. Inside of a year you’ll say the city’s the only place on earth to live. Really, my darling, you can’t mean this talk about the country. It’s rank nonsense.” Just then Jack swung lightly out of his buggy and ran up the walk. He did not know Antler had come. The two men eyed each other for a moment tensely. Then Margaret introduced them. She looked full into Jack’s tanned, earnest face, then turned slowly to Antler’s clean cut, virile features. The men breathed deeply. Each knew that the woman he loved was deciding for or against him. Margaret herself did not realize what she was doing. She broke the rasping silence with a low: “I can’t go driving this evening. Jack. Come tomorrow evening. I’ll go then.” “You’ve decided against me,” Antler said, a strange lump in his throat, as Jack drove away. “Yon—you love—him:” “Yes,” she answered gently. “He loves the l!*o I do. You and I are so far apart oa things. It's the outwardness of each other you and I love, I think, ai: i with Jack it's—it's something that comes from within. I thought till you came If you would live In the country I would rather live nor life with you than Jack, but”— "You would not—even then?” he asked eagerly. She was very lovely, tn£ h? thought he fovea her enough sos the sacrifice. She smiled In wondrous sympathy, for had she not measured love that way herself* “I loye him better for all time,” she

said softly./ ’‘He and 1 can be friends and comrades as well as husband and wife, and that’s the only way to be happy ever after.” t

Meissonier as a Portrait Painter.

Melssouler admitted that he would not have made a good portraitist by profession, for with few exceptions he bad succeeded only with sitters whom he liked and knew well. He was not satisfied with painting things as he saw them; he had to understand how they came to have such or such an appearance. Though he claimed to remember every drawing that he had ever made, he also claimed that he did not reduce his knowledge to general formulae. “Before nature, I know nothing in advance”—not even, It appears, wliat size he was going to make his picture or how much he was going to include In It This is the reason that many of his drawings and some of his paintings have been extended in one direction or another by bands of paper or canvas glued on. Meissonier had a strong dramatic Imagination and an 'uncommon sense of harmony, yet they were both occasionally smothered by this devotion to literal fact.

Carried Samples.

During a meeting of the Louisville presbytery a delegate told this story of pioneer days and vouched tot Its accuracy: One of the circuit riders In my part of the state was extremely fond of pepper sauce, and ns he could seldom find any strong enough at places where he stopped he always carried a bottle with him. He happened to be at a hotel one night, though he usually stopped at the home of a friend. A man sat across the table from him and, seeing (he sauce, asked If the minister would share it with him. The request was granted, and the stranger poured out a liberal allowance of the sauce r Into bis soup. At the first swallow he made a wry face and blurted out, “Minister, do you preach hades 7" “Yes, brother,” was the reply. “Why do you ask?” “Because you are the first preacher I ever saw who carried samples,” was the answer.

The Legend of Killarney.

Like many other lakes, those of Klllarney have legendary origin—an enchanted fountain, the spring head of which, If left unclosed at certain times, would inundate the district. One of these legends we give. It throws the responsibility of the awful event on a fair young peasant girl, who was wont to meet her lover — a stranger ignorant of the mystic spell —by the fountain side. One night they were lulled to sleep by the music of Its flow. At daybreak the girl awoke, screaming, “The well, the well!” It was then too late. The water was rushing forth and overtook them as they ran. They were drowned and Involved in their fate the inhabitants of the district. The people still believe that the submerged houses and their inhabitants live beneath and are at times visible to those who stray along the water side.

Wedded With Pope’s Ring.

In official dignity and cburchly splendor the recent wedding of Miss Margaret F. Maloney to L. Carberry Ritchie at Spring Lake, N. J., eclipsed any ceremony of the kind heretofore witnessed in America. The ring used on the occasion had been blessed by Pope Pius X. and was brought from Rome by Cardinal Satol--11, who performed the wedding ceremony, assisted by Bishop McFaul of Trenton. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia delivered an address. In addl-

MRS. L. CARBERBY RITCHIE.

tion to those eminent churchmen there were half a dozen other distinguished members of the clergy present. Mrs. Ritchie is a daughter of Martin Maloney of Philadelphia, financier and atreet railway magnate. He attained fame and the basis for bis immense fortune by inventing the “fishtail burner" for electric lights. The presence of so many dignitaries at the wedding was a mark of the gratitude of the church for the philanthropy of the father of the bride, who obtained the title of marquis from Pope Leo XIII. for his generosity. During the last twenty years he has given over a million dollars to forward the charity work of the church. Mr. Ritchie Is a young Washington lawyer. Th* Proper Costume. One summer when William Carey was at Narragansett Pier he was Invited to a dance where the guests were requested to appear as characters from the Bible, says the New York Times. The coming party was being discussed at the casino when a young man who was an object of general ridicule because of his habit of padding his legs when in golf costume said to Mr. Carey: _ "What would you advise me to go aar "Oh,” answered Mr. Carey, “I think *the fatted cal t would be about right for your

THE CITY COUNCIL.

Report of Proceedings at Monday Night's nesting. The city council met in regular session Monday evening with all members present. A report of the fire department was adopted. It ahows that Charles Robinson and Fred Parcells through long absence from the city have lost their membership and that Charlie Sprigg has tendered his resignation. They also recommended that Montgomery Burk be accepted as a member of the company. The light committee and superintendent of the light plant were empowered to sell the old dynamo at the plant. J. H. Perkins and others petitioned for a sidewalk on Grace street. Matter referred to street committee. The mayor was authorized, for the city, to sign a petition asking for more funds for the construction of the Carnegie library building. An ordinance granting a telephone franchize to Dr. Besser, of Remington, was passed to the third reading. In the matter of raising certain cement walkß the property owners were authorized to make such changes at their own expense. The following bills were allowed. ROAD FUND. Jerome Harmon, hauling 4 00 J. L. Adams *• 4 50 Wm. Parks “ 4 00 Bruce Hardy, work on street 6 00 Chas. Bowers “ “ “ 10 60 Tom Parker “ “ *• 600 John Brown ** “ “ 480 Harve Casto “ “ “ 210 Geo. Newman “ “ “ 4 55 John Ramey “ “ “ 180 C. Seelman “ “ “ 300 G. Hopkins “ “ ** 1 75 Ed Randle “ “ “ 225 Verne Hopkins “ " “ 75 A 1 Fletcher “ “ “ 175 E. R. Hopkins “ “ “ 1 00 Perrie Thompson, burying dog .... 50 Leslie Clark, printing 3 00 Lucius Strong, city’s assessment Division and Scott St. sewer. 180 13 Thos. Moore, work on sewer. ... 2 25 CORPORATION FUND. F. M. Abbott, salary 22 50 S. R. Nichols, collecting taxes 37 50 WATER FUND. Sandard Oil Co., oil 15 86 Conrad Hilderbrand, salary 30 00 J. H. Chapman, interest water works bonds 1022 55 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND. Varney Electrical Supply Co,, supplies 12 68 C. S. Chamberlain, salary 50 00 C. L. Thornton, “ 30 00 Lem Huston, “ 30 00 A. L. Branch, hauling coal 14 90 J. 11. Chapman, freight 179 03

An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

MONON FREIGHT TERMINAL. Railroad Will Erect a Roundhouse at Hammond This Summer. The Monon railroad is making preparations to establish a freight terminal at Hammond. The road has expended a great deal of money in buying land and in patting down side tracks. It has two well equipped yards, one for northbound trains and the other for southbound trains. It has put in coal shutes and has established a water system. The next thing will be the erection of a round bouse that will have from ten to twelve stalls; and it is expected that the work of building this will begin in a short time. As soon as the round house is completed. Hammond will be made the terminal freight traffic on the Monon railroad.

File your claims with E. P. Honan in the MoCoy bankautcy proceedings. He has the necessary blanks.

What Becomes of It If a man eats two pounds daily, near two pounds daily must in some way pass from his body, or disease and a premature death is a speedy and inevitable result. The food that is eaten must contain the elements necessary to supply nutriment to the system and free from all substances that bind the bowels. D? PRICE'S WHEAT FLAKE CELERY FOOD t f ‘ if eaten daily there will be a daily action of the bowels; waste removea, nutriment retained. It’s Nature’s food for man. Served hot or cold. hiatabla —Nitritiras —Easy of Dilution and RoaffltolEat Or. Price, the creator of Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder and Delicious Flavoring Extracts.' Prepared by PRICE CEREAL™ FOOD COHPARY, Chicago, Mlaolo. Per Sale By THK CHICAGO BARGAIN STORK. B. Poreythe, Proprietor.

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RANSOM COUNTY, THE BANNER COUNTY OF NORTH DAKOTA.

Mr. William B. Donohue, representing the John Mueller Laud Co., of Lisbon, No. Dak., will take a party of land-seekers to that section of the northwest about Aug. Bth, and would be pleased to correspond with anyone in this vicinity desiring to join the party. Crops in that locality are looking fine, and prospective parchasers will be granted special low rates, good for thirty days. Call on or address Mr. Donohue, at Brookston, Ind., for further particulars.

ABOUT LEGAL NOTICES.

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Purchasers of “Wabash World’s Fair Tickets” will be given a booklet containing cuts of all buildings, of the city, and a plot of the grounds.

OFFICES FOR RENT. Two good offices, west side of public square. E. L. Hollingsworth, at First National Bank. Ml! FARMERS OF MIRK MR The Farmers Mutual Insurance Association is represented by Geo. J. Nichols, Wheatfield, Ind. -YELLOWSTONE PARK TOUR. Every Expense Included la Ttckst—Personally Conducted Party The only exclusive Yellowstone Park excursion from this section in 1904 will be run by the Monou Route, Chicago & North-West-ern and Northern Pacific railways, leaving Cincinnati, Louisville aDd Indianapolis on August 8. The train will be called “The Yellowstone Park Special” and will be composed of Pullman palace sleepers, dining and baggage cars. It will rnn to Yellowstone Park and return without change, although stops for sightseeing will be made at seneral places. Stop-overs will be granted either in the Park or on the return trip. Anyone may reaerve as much Pullman space as desired. A)1 expenses will be included in the ticket and everything furnished will be first-class. An illustrated folder telling all about the tour can be had by calling on or addressing R. P. ALGEO, Dist. Pass. Agt. Monon Route, 8 N, Illinois St. Indianapolis, Ind. THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. Forty million bottles of August Flower in the United States alone since its introduction! And the demand for it is still growing. Isn't that a fine showing of success? Don’t it prove that August Flower has had unfailing success in the cure of indigestion and dyspepsia—the two greatest enemies of health and happiness? Does it not afford the best evidence that August Flower is a sure specific for all stomach and intestinal disorders?—that it has proved itself the best of all liver regulators? August Flower has a matchless record of over thirtyfive years iD curing the ailing millions of these distressing complaints—a success that is becoming wider in its scope every day, at home and abroad, as the fame of August Flower spreads. Trial bottles, 25c; regular size, 750. For sale by A. F. Long.

Real Estate Transfers,

Sarah Stockton to Simon P. Thompson, July 5, w‘4 nw 82-30-7, 80 acres, Newton, SOOO. Sidney Granger to Lucy N. Granger, April 0, pt nw 26-32-7, Demotte, $117.50, q. c. d. Fred Granger to same, Aug. 1, 1903, same lands, S4O, q. c. d. Marquis J. Granger to Willie F. Granger et al, Dec. 13,1901. same lands, S4O, q. c. d. 9 Sadie Clark to same, Feb. 27, 1902, same lands, S4O. q. c. d, Alma Jarvis to same. Dec. 9, 1901, same lands, S4O. q. c, d. Lewis S. Mitchell to Commodore P, Mitchell, July 5, und Hs aw 30-31-5, und >6 nw 36-31-5, Gillam. SSOO. Samuel O. Dyer to Daniel W. Zehr, Jan, 25, sw sw 17-28-5, eK se 18-28-6, pt w‘A se 18-28-5, Milroy, SIO,OOO. August M. Scbreiberto Rosa Schreiber, July 14, ne sw 22-21-5, nw se 22-81-5, 80 acres, Gillam, $3,500. William E. Moore to Wentworth L. Porter, July 15, ne 12-29-7. Marion, $7,200. Stephen Buckley heirs to Alonzo Buckley. July 12, n-tt 20-27-7, Carpenter $88,760, Celeate M. Sweeney et al to Joseph Eaton. July 1, pt sw 12-32-7, 10 acres, Keener. 1140. John M. Debolt to John T. Sarver. June 22, uK sw 83-28-7, 80 acres, Jordan, $4,800, Joseph L. Tyler etal to Jesse I. Tyler, July 25, pt nw 20-32-7. Keener, sl. John Robb etal to Horace Marble, July 23. Its 10.11, bl 2, Wheatfield. $l6O.