Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1905 — Page 7

• ■■ "■■ ryw "-» Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect June 29,1903. South Bound. iSS: JjaSaaarftaKßfiffi:.-?* i: S: SS: t S: No. 35—Ciuciunati * (daily).. 11.*® P» m, •No. 4ft—Local freight No. 31—Fast Hall North Bound. No.' 3B^Cluo\nuati y kxpre*i fdoiiy').. 4:49 a. m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (dally) 7:31 a. m. andVxprtia, (daibr) j.. 3:30 p. m. •No.3o—Cln.to Chicago Yea. Mall.. 6:32p.m. tNo. 38 —Cln. to Chicago 2:67 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a. m. •Daily except Sunday. tSnnday only. . . . Hammond ha* bean made a regular stop for No. 30. . T . No. 32 and 83 now atop at Cedar Lake. Frank J. Bub, G. P. A., W. H. MoDokl, Preaident and Gen. M'g r, Chas. H. Rooxwill, Traffic MVr. •MIOAM. W. H. Beam, Agent. Renaaelaer. 1. I. & I. RAILROAD. In Bflect May 29, 1904. Stations In Jabpkb Co. I Went Baat am pm am pm Shelby. Mall and Exp...9:10 506 9:50 4:48 DeMotte, •“ ■* ...8:56 5:03 10:<» 5.(8 Kersey, “ “ ...8:54 5:00 10:07 5.-05 Wheatield, “ “ ...8:43 4:47 10:18 5:15 Dunnville, “ “ ...8:35 4:38 10:26 5:22 GEO. L. FORESTER, D.P.A., SOUTH BUND, IND.

Bell Phone 181. Lafayette Phone 879. WABASH Arrival and departure of trains from Th« Lafayette Passenger Station Twerfth and Erie Street* In effect Sunday, December 4,1904. GOING EAST. No. 38. Eastern Express daily 3:38 a.m No. 3, Toledo & Pittsburg Ex, da.. 3:58 a.m No. 8. Buffalo Mali, daily 6:00 a.m No. *6. Mail and Express daily 8:46 a.m No. 4. Continental Limited, dai1y..3:39 p.m No. 34. Alaotic Express, daily 2:48 p.m No. 16. Pittsburg & Buffalo Ex. da.6:57 p.m No. t>o. Lafayette Ac. ex Sunday ar.7:35 p.m OOINO WEST. No. 15. Buffalo & St. Louis Ex. da.l :5l a.m No. 51. Springfield Ac..ex.Suuday..o:l6 a.m No. 19. S>t. Louis Express dally 8:08 a m No. 9. Kansas City Fast Mail dailv.B:Bo a.m No. 7. Mall and Express, daily 1:08 p.m No. 1. Continental Limited , daily.. 1:84 p.m No. 6. Fast Mail, daily 7:51 p.m No. 8. Western Express, daily ....11:58 a.m No, 0 does not run between Ft. Wayne and Detroit No. 2. Eastern Express daily, has through sleepers St. Louis to Boston; St. Louis to New York, and buffet sleeper St. Louis to Toledo, Vestibuled free reclining chair car, St. Louis to Buffalo Through sleeper and chair car Pittsburg. Sleeper to Montreal. Dicing car serving meals. No. 4, Continental Limited, daily, has through Pullman sleeper. St. Louie to New York and Boston. Coaches St. Louis to New York without change. Dining car serves meals. Does not handle baggage between Lafayette and Fort Wayne. No. 8. Mail and Express, daily, has connection with sleeper at Toledo for New York and Bostoo via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern

and New York Central R. R. No. 8. Through sleeper to New York City, via D. L. &W. Ry. Chair car to Buffalo free. Sleeper to Detroit and Buffalo.

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Captain Oakman actually gasped for breath. Then with a rapidly throbbing heart he reread the precious letter. “Captain Trqpholm, her brother 1” he repeated. “How can that bet Impossible ! And yet that is what she writes. What can it meant” In his bewilderment and mystification he turned the letter over. Lo, on the other page was the inevitable female postscript: P. B.—lt has occurred to me that you may be puzzled by my reference to Captain Trenholm as my brother. When General Eldridge married my mother, she was the widow of a banker named Trenholm of New Orleans. Her only child was a boy, Wager. She therefore is the mother of him and me, though General Eldridge is my father, but not 'the father of Captain Trenholm. In law I suppose we are half brother and half sister, but you will agree that I am warranted in insisting that such a noble, brave man is my full brother and shall be such so long sa be and I live. A. E. When Captain Oakman finally grasped the height, length, breadth and depth of this momentous truth, his feelings were “peculiar,” and I am sure the reader will grasp the height, length, breadth and depth of that statement.

CHAPTER XIX. CONCLUSION. The wooing and winning of Miss Adele Eldridge by Captain Ledyard Oakman would form a delightful story of itself, bnt it is not onr purpose to dwell upon it. In due time he found the necessary pretext for journeying southward, and when he presented himself at the heme of General Arthur Eldridge he was warmly welcomed by the old veteran, his stepson, Captain Trenholm, the latter’s mother and lastly by the young lady herself. One piece of good fortune was in the hands of the ex-Union officer. He possessed abundant means. His southern friends, like the vast majority in that section, were impoverished by the war. Oakman could not offer them pecuniary help, but he di ' lersuade Captain Trenholm to join him in a business venture in which the knowledge and experience of the ex-Confederate formed a fair offset to the capital invested by Oakman. Then, too, a valuable iron deposit was located on the plantation of General Eldridge, which, being developed, the soldier, before he was aware, found himself in comfortable circumstances. And then the wedding followed in due course. But several years passed before the happy husband dared to tell the happy wife the secret of that first visit of his to the old plantation in Georgia. It is a fact which may not be generally known that among the most valuable epies in the south were numbers of northern women who went thither and engaged in teaching when it became clear that war would soon break out between the sections. This statement was made to me by General Sherman himself, and in my sketch of that great Union leader I have given a typical incident as it fell from his lips. One of the most daring and valuable female spies was Marian Harriman, from New England. As has been stated elsewhere, she secured an engagement as governess and companion in the family of General Eldridge, with the real purpose of gathering information for the Union armies. General Sherman knew her exact location, and when he started on his march from Atlanta to the sea and approached her neighborhood he detached Lieutenant Oakman and one of his scouts to communicate with Miss Harriman and bring back whatever she might have to send to him. Previous to the visit of the officer, Sam Borland, the scout, apprised her of the situation, so that she was expecting the visit of the lieutenant. The two knew each other when they met, and it will be conceded that they played their parts well. The woman was so bitter in her sentiments that she was rebuked by Mrs. Eldridge and her daughter. She refused to remain under the same roof with the Union officer, which was a convenient arrangement, since it gave her the opportunity she needed to carry out her farreaching schemes. She made her home with Mrs. Benware and her sister, they being the only two persons in that section whom she trusted with her secret. Thus located only a few miles distant, she was able to meet Oakman now and then secretly and maintain a perfect understanding with him. Her well known sympathies enabled her to gain the confidence of several of the Confederate leaders, from whom she obtained valuable information. She proved her nerve by riding a considerable distance to their headquarters, and through arts intuitive with her sex she wove together in the form of drawings and memoranda on the sheet of paper that which Lien tenant Oakman declared General Sherman would pay a fortune to obtain. The chief difficulty with the female spy was to get the paper to the Union commander. It was imprudent for her to undertake its delivery, and the visit of Oakman to that section, therefore, was to secure it from her. It will be understood that when he was captured in the home of Mrs. Benware the call was a close one, not only for himself, but for Miss Harriman. Had the all important document been discovered, it inevitably would have been traced to her, despite every effort of the young man, and it often happens in time of war that the sex of a spy doss not render her an “immune. ”

BY EDWARD S. ELLIS.

The legerdemain used on that occasion would have done credit to the late Herrmann. Lieutenant Oakman passed the document to Miss Harriman, and she, in the most natural manner conceivable, stood just behind and at his side, denouncing him in scathing terms. And the feat was accomplished under the eyes of the squad of irregular guerrillas, eagerly seeking an excuse for taking his life. Mrs. Benware, failing to see the lightninglike transfer, groaned in spirit over the seemingly fatal misfortune. When the moment came in which a donbt thrown upon the alleged handwriting of Captain Trenholm by Miss Harriman would have insured the shooting of the prisoner, she interposed by declaring unreservedly (though with painful regret) that the writing was his. That assertion saved the lieutenant for the time, bnt, as has beea made clear, his captors were “irregulars,” who manifested a determination to hit upon some pretext, as in the venerable incident of the wolf and lamb, for thrusting him off the earth. He was still in great peril, and only by a desperate rush could he gain a possible chance of saving himself. It has been shown what he did, and it remains to add that Miss Harriman took good care not to indulge in the privilege of her wx and scream until the signs of retura-

Several years passed before the happy husband dared to tell the happy wife.

ing consciousness on the part of the half strangled soldier warned her that it was prudent to do so. “By this time,” said Captain Oakman, in recalling the incident, “I had begun to feel that I was the meanest man between the Atlantic and the Pacific. ’ ’ “And why?” asked his wife, turning her eyes reproachfully upon him. “They say all is fair in love and war, and I know that both sides employed hundreds of spies. I had no compunction in turning off to your plantation to obtain what Miss Harriman was preparing for ns. When, however, I saw how thoroughly yon trusted her and the advantage she was taking of yonr confidence, my conscience troubled me.” “Bnt can a spy be snccessfnl throngh employing any other means for gaining information ?” “I presume not. Such was the reply I made to the upbraidings of my better nature. I shut my eyes and kept at it until the time came when I could stand it no longer.” “When was that?” “After your brother stood alone in front of the men who were thirsting for my life and held them at bay, and you came forth and made me take yonr horse and use him in my flight. I felt as I galloped off in the moonlight that I was a despicable wretch without the first spark of gratitude. Miss Harriman had betrayed yonr confidence, bnt she conld not bring the betrayal to full fruition without my help, and I was giving her that help at the risk of her life find my own. True, I was in the uniform of the Union army, and therefore it might be claimed technically that I was not a spy, bnt that made my meanness the more atrocious. I was taking advantage of the trust placed in me by your brother. Unable to provide me with an escort, he did everything in his power to save me from danger and annoyance. “Well, to cut my story short, I turned off from the highway and rode straight to the home cf Mrs. Benware, where Miss Harriman had left the letter for me, though she herself was absent. I made sure that the document was the right one and then threw it into the fire and waited until it changed to ashes. Then, with the help of Ackers and Masters, I reached onr lines, and the incident waa closed, so far as I was concerned.” 44 What became of Miss Harriman?” asked the wife after a moment’s silence. “She left the south at the close of the war. Since she has no intention of ever returning, and the war is over, I have no hesitation in telling yon her secret. She was paid a generous sum for her services, and I suppose what she did may be looked upon js Jegitimate. All

the same, however, it is an unpleasant recollection, and 1 am sure, wife, that yon despise her.” "Ido.” “Why t” “Because she consented to become a hypocrite. And what can be more despicable than such a person?” “Nothing, and for a time I was one. ” “No, never! Or,” added the wife, with a twinkle of her fine eyes, “if yon were, you repented in time, and then, too, hypocrisy is sometimes pardonable in a man, but never in a woman, for his motive may be commendable, while hers cannot be. ’ ’ “Spoken like a woman, and like the truest, best wife either north or south of the late Mason and Dixon’s line.” THE END.

When Hearts Were Brave, and True

JOHN P RITTER.

CHAPTER I. AN INTERCEPTED ELOPEMENT. Of the many historic valleys which lie in the great state of New York that of the W allkill river is perhaps the most romantic. Winding through the counties of Orange and Ulster, it is inclosed on the west by the rugged Shawangunk range of mountains, a vast amphitheater of rocks, piled into the most fantastic shapes and abounding in picturesque lakes and beautiful ravines. On the summit of Sky Top, the highest peak of the range, lies the far famed Lake Mohonk, surrounded on all sides by marvelous precipices. On the tops of mountains farther south ar6 situated Lake Minnewaska and Long pond, both remarkable for the depth and clearness of their water and the sublimity of their rocky shores. Apart from the ’ natural beauties of the region history and tradition have invested it with peculiar interest. Every lonely road has its tale of tragedy, every narrow mountain pass its story of encounter with Indian or Tory bandit, and every rock bound lake its legend. It was from an unlettered chronicler of the valley, spinning his rude bnt picturesque yarns to a group of fireside listeners, that I am indebted for the facts embodied in the following narrative: At the base of the Shawangunk mountain, in Orange county, there lived at the outbreak of the Revolution a well to do farmer whose name was Price. His little family consisted of himself, a comely daughter named Zadie and a talented and handsome young man, Edward Roblin, whom he treated like a son, although he was but a farmhand in his employ. Now, inasmuch as the young people were thrown constantly into each other’s company, with few other associates of their own age, it was bnt natural that a tender and enduring affection should develop and ripen between them. Either Mr. Price was lacking in observation, or else the lovers deported themselves with great discretion during their courtship. But the fact remains that the first intimation the old man had of their mutual regard was when Edward Roblin boldly asked him for the hand of his daughter in marriage. The request fell upon him like a thunderbolt. “You impudent young scdundrel!” he exclaimed in a towering passion. “Give yon my daughter ? I’llseO'ycra to the devil first. ” \ In vain the young man pleaded His cause. In vain did Zadie join her entreaties to his. The old man remained immovable. “You can’t have my daughter, sir, and that’s the end of it,” he cried angrily. And, to prove the finality of his decision, he drove the young man from his presence, ordered his daughter to her room and forbade their speaking to one another again. Having thus asserted his authority over his little household, he lighted his pipe and locked himself up in the kitchen to puff his fury away in tobacco smoke. “What, throw the gal away on snch a pauper, ” he pondered, “when she can have old Caleb Shnrker for a hnsband ? Shnrker is the richest farmer this side of Goshen, and I’ve done well to put a stop to this nonsense.” The thought that he had acted wisely in separating the lovers operated to cool his rage, and ere he had finished his second pipe he had entirely recovered his equanimity. In one important matter, however, he failed to exhibit the wise foresight for which he was noted—he did not discharge Edward Roblin from his employ. In fact, he could not well manage his farm without him. And so it happened that, although the lovers studiously avoided holding any communication in his presence, they found means of carrying on a clandestine courtship behind his back. This prudent conduct on their part completely lulled the old man’s suspicions, and he relapsed into his former unobserving ways. In fact, Zadie carried her deception to snch a length that she apparently consented to receive the addresses of Caleb Shnrker, a concession which was highly gratifying to her avaricious father. Unskilled as he was in the cunning duplicities of love, he was convinced that the young people had submitted meekly to his will. But it was not long before he was rudely awakened from this error. One morning, about a month after his refusal of Roblin’s suit, the young man was not fonnd at his chores. Mr. Price was surprised at this, as he waa invariably an early riser. So he went to his room and knocked. There was no response. He opened the door. The room waa empty, nor did the bed bear evidence of having been occupied during the night. The old man’s gyea dilated, and hia

lower jaw dropped in blank amazement. “A pretty how-d’ye-do I’ ’ he muttered suspiciously, then hurried off to the room occupied by his daughter. On reaching it he did not pause to kfiock upon the door, but flung it open with a loud bang. Then the truth broke in upon hia mind so suddenly that he staggered and gasped for breath, for Zadie’s room was without an occupant. The bed waa unruffled, and the pillowsbams still in place. A chest of drawers, with its compartments open, showed plainly that it had recently been rifled of its contents* and various articles of feminine attirn lay here and there upon the floor where they had been thrown when discarded by their owner. It was evident that the lovers had eloped. At first Mr. Price was so dumfounded by the discovery that he stood speechless and trembling in the doorway. Then, as he gradually awoke to a full realization of the deception which had been played upon him, he began to rave like one possessed. 4 ‘Hoodwinked 1 Deceived! Played for a blamed old fool!” be roared, shaking his fist at the empty air. “Bnt I’ll catch ye yet, my pretty birds, and make ye repent this escapade. ’ ’ Then he hurried out to the barn and harnessed his fleetest horse to hia chaise. As it was fully 20 miles to the dominie’s, he hoped that he might yet intercept the fugitives. Bnt he did not go after them at once, as he had other plans in view. The local magistrate lived abont a mile from the farmhouse, and thither he drove at 'full speed. Luckily that functionary was at home regaling himself with a breakfast of pork and potatoes in his kitchen, and when Price announced the object of his visit he willingly consented to assist him. Indeed

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"Now, arrest that varlet at once,” he added fiercely.

so anxious was he to please the rich farmer that, within five minutes from the beginning of their interview, Price left his presence armed with a warrant for young Roblin’s arrest, issued on a false accusation for debt. With this document in his pocket the old man hurried off to the constable’s to enlist him in carrying out his design. And again he was favored by fortune in finding that officer at home. “I’ve got a job for you, Reynolds,’* he explained as he drew rein at the constable’s door. “I want you to come with me and arrest that scoundrel of a Roblin. The varlet has run away deeply in my debt. ’ ’ “But do ye know whar to find him?’* asked the officer. “Have no fear on that score,” was thereply. “He’s run off with my darter to get married, and we’ll be sure to find him at the dominie’s.” “That is if we git thar before him,’* returned the constable as he clambered into the chaise. A moment afterward they were flying over the mountain roads as if pursued by a band of furies. In the meantime the lovers had reached the dominie’s house and had been accorded a gracious reception. Indeed the good man smiled so benignly as he ushered them into his parlor that all their misgivings were allayed, but when they stated the object of their visit his countenance underwent a change. He pursed up his lips, knitted his brows and looked so wise and cautious that all their fears returned. “So you have run away to get married,” he said with a dubious shake of the head. “Well, you must grant m« time to consider the matter before I consent to unite you. ” After much parleying and delay the dominie consented to perform the ceremony. So everything was made ready for the marriage, and the young couple stood up to plight their vows, when, just as the ceremony was beginning, two men burst furiously into the room. Zadie uttered a piercing cry and fell fainting into the arms of her lover, who, rendered desperate by this blighting cf his hopes, had turned a defiant front to the intruders. “We arrived in the nick of time, Reynolds,” cried Farmer Price triumphantly. “Five minutes more, and it would have been too late.” Then, pointing a forefinger at Roblin, “Now, arrest that varlet at once, ” he added fiercely. Realizing that resistance would ha useless, the young man submitted to his fate, while Zadie, disconsolate and inconsolable, was taken back by her father. Later in the day the unfortunate Roblin found himself an inmate of the Goshen jail, a companion of felons of the basest sort, falsely accused, yet without a single friend to rescue him from the dutches of the law. To Be Continued. Read The Democrat for news.

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