Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1905 — Page 3

Blacksmith and Wood-Work Shop FRONT ST. NORTH OF K. P. BUILDING. laWk Blacksmithing w and Repairing WA, Horse-Shoeing, Boiler and Engine Work, Windmills, Tanks and Supplies, Well XMM Drilling and Well Repairing, MACHINE WORK A SPECIALTY. Residence Phone 259 E Lfl E R QWIN & CO.

RENSSELAER FEED STORE | A THE NEW IMPLEMENT HOUSE 1 See our stock and get our prices before placing your order. We have the agency for a number of the best tools made such as the Oliver Plows, Sure Drop Corn Planter, Superior Seeders, Brown Cultivators, Harrison Wagons, Disk and Spike Tooth Harrows of all kinds. Agents for Armour’s Fertilizer. Remember our Prices are Right and our Goods are the Best. Come and see us. A. L. BRANCH.

FARMERS! FARMERS! ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A SALE? Employ the “Hustling Pair” of auctioneers. Why? We get the highest prices, we treat your friends and bidders with courtesy, we guarantee satisfaction or no pay. Get our terms before you employ your auctioneer. Phone 515-H. HARMON & GRANT, Rensselaer, Ind.

Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CAKK TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OK OLD ONES—TO GROW RICH? Do you want to know about rich farming tends, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from 13.0 i to *5.00 an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to *150.00 within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (0) short weeks? Of places where truck growing and fruit raising yield enormous returns each year? Of ajand where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable manufacturing industries; of rich mineral locations, 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 Industrial Agent LouisvHle & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.

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PRUDENCE of PEGGY

By Ethel Harrington

Peggy dwelt with her maiden aunt. She had been brought up so irreproachably that her prudence passed into a proverb among her friends. Peggy walked circumspectly through a careless world. So correct was she that her mere presence was the stamp qf propriety, and had she been a little older she could have sidetracked all the young matrons as chaperons. Peggy represented the phenomenon of an old head on young shoulders. She looked ahead and was never taken at a disadvantage. Old maids’ children are proverbially flawless. Her aunt expected Peggy to love with discrimination and marry wisely, a fitting crown to so exemplary a girlhood, but the appearance of James Dunbar proved a stumbling

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block. Peggy lost her heart completely. Only her head saved her from Its weak promptings. “What you ask is impossible, Jim; On what should we live?” “I’ve a hundred a month and am promised a raise.” “Which you can’t spend until you earn. No, Jim, I'm not extravagant, but how could we live and save for a rainy day?” “Not much to save at first. Surely you care for me, Peggy ? Why, I worship you, so nothing else matters. I won’t let you want, and we can wait for luxuries.” Peggy shook her head. The struggle was so great she dared not trust her voice. “Well, be engaged—promise to wait for me.” “Oh, Jim, you tear at my”— “Your prudence.” Dunbar’s voice grew a little hard. "I meant heartstrings, but that does not matter. You are going to Cheltmore in charge of the telegraph office. The conditions will be new. We are both young. Aunt Margaret says we can afford to wait. When you get your raise come aud ask”— "Encouraging!” cried Dunbar, with scorn. “Work and plan for a girl who for ‘prudent reasons’ may he married before my aim is accomplished! If you are afraid to marry now, all right, but at least give me your promise or it all ends here.” “If you talk to me like this now, what will you do when we are married?” Peggy in her anger still looked ahead. They were walking, and now they instinctively turned toward home. Aunt Margaret was pleased with her niece’s decision. “You acted prudently, as always.” Great praise, yet somehow it failed to comfort Peggy. James Dunbar went to his new post without a word, and life became a dull, spiritless affair to Peggy. She lost her appetite and forgot how to laugh. Aunt Margaret, growing anxious, dosed her with old fashioned remedies, but neither referred to Peggy’s decision. At length came a break In the monotony. Stella Moss, recently married, wrote Peggy of her happiness and begged her company for a week. Peggy read, with amazement, that she lived at Cheltmore. James Dunbar had been appointed telegraph operator at Cheltmore. The opportunity could not be resisted. Peggy in a delirium of hopefulness accepted with her aunt’s permission. Neither spoke of the possibilities of the visit up to the last day: then Aunt Margaret cleared her throat. “My dear, your decision about Mr. Dunbar was prudent, but”— “I don’t suppose I shall see him,” ventured Peggy hypocritically.

“He may reopen the —er—subject. Do not be hasty. I have been peculiarly blessed. I have the comfort of a daughter without the drawback of a husband. Every one Is not so fortunate.” Peggy kissed her aunt. then, gathering her baggage, entered the cab. As she bought her ticket the agent Inquired whether she wished Cheltmore In Pennsylvania or New York. “Pennsylvania,” said Peggy. It seemed more expensive and a longer trip than she had anticipated, but it was not until late in the afternoon that she suspected a mistake. The conductor Informed her that the train was due at 7. Peggy remembered

Stella’s writing that if she took the 8 o'clock train she would arrive In ample time for dinner. The train had pulled out at 3:15, and Peggy had charged the discrepancy to her watch. Now she grew anxious. Her preparations had not been made with her usual forethought. She had cared only for the fact that she was going to Cheltmore and that Jim was there. On reaching her destination the worst was soon known. There was no such address as Stella had given, and the directory proved that she did not reside In Cheltmore, Pa. Peggy, a little frightened, retraced her steps to the station to inquire for the next train for Philadelphia. The first person she ran Into was Dunbar. “Peggy—why, Peggy!” Then, remembering their difference, he thrust his hands into his pockets and turned silent. “Jim—l—l’ve done a stupid thing. I’ve come to the wrong Cheltmore.” Peggy sank crestfallen into the nearest seat and strove to force bnck her tears. Dunbar’s heart softened. “Explain, dear.” “I’m to visit Stella at Cheltmore. I I thought there was only one. When Is the next train back?” “To Philadelphia?” inquired Dunbar slowly. “Of course. llow soon?” He evaded the question. “Peggy, is cold reason so satisfactory? Didn't you miss me just a little?” “Oh, Jim, hut the train. It will be so late. What will aunt say?’’ “I’ll satisfy all questions If you answer one of mine. Do you love me enough to share my struggles?” Peggy tried to take her eyes from him. but he held her with the strength of love that shone In his. She smiled a little mistily. “It’s not wisdom perhaps, but”— “You trust me absolutely?” demanded Dunbar. “For all time,” murmured Peggy. “Then come, dear!” He hurried her to the telegraph office, which was empty, and began rapidly ticking off a message. Then he scrawled a few words on a blank form. “Sweetheart, prepare to be brave. Your reputation for prudence is shattered beyond repair. But as it brought you to me I have no complaint. There is no train to Philadelphia before noon tomorrow.” “No train”- she faltered. “I hated to toll you. That’s why 1 secured your promise first. I'll take you now to a friend of mine, Mrs. Davis. She's n monument of propriety.”,. “What will Aunt Margaret say?” repeated Peggy dismally. “Fin not sure, but she rather likes me,” said Dunbar, smiling. “Anyhow, we shall know when we get her answer to my telegram.” “Yours—what did you say?” “Read,” suggested her lover as he held the copy before her and slipped one arm about her. “Peggy arrived—wedding tomorrow —come”— “Oh, oh!” gasped Peggy in confusion. Then surrendering herself to his arms she whispered, “I love you.” “You love me, and I’ve earned promotion. We begin life with one hundred and fifty, so even ‘prudence’ may be appeased.” “But, Jim—tomorrow—l’m not ready —wbat will people say?” “That ‘Prudent Teggy’ is only human after all, but as you change your name, what does it matter?”

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“Why is it that some men will not give a direct and unequivocal answer to even the simplest and most inconsequential questions put to them?” asked a thoughtful citizen. “It is a curious thing that you will find a great many men who simply w r ill not give you a direct answer to the question, though there may exist absolutely no reason in the world for quibbling or for hesitating to answer without equivocation. I was just reading a story of a well known lawyer who is so in the habit of qualifying his answers that he will not tell a friend the time of day without in some way putting in a ’saving clause,’ a remark that his watch is probably a little slow or a little fast or something of that sort. One of the presidents. I think it was Van Buren, was of this type and on one occasion refused to say whether the sun rose In the east or the west, remarking that east and west were purely relative terms and what might be east to one man might be west to another. Personally I have known many men who dropped into this habit, and, singularly, some of them have been the most positive and most aggressive characters I have ever known. They would assert things and back them up ignorantly. But ask them a question, and forthwith they would deal you out a qualified answer or often what would amount to no answer at all.”—New Orleans TimesDemoerat.

Special Prices For Undesirables.

New York restaurants that decline certain classes of trade have a special menu card that is placed In the hands of undesirable guests. The prices are marked away up to six or seven times the standard charges. A small steak costs from $1.50 to $3. three boiled eggs St. an oyster stew So cents and a cup of tea or coffee half a dollar. In one of these restaurants the other night two orientals who insisted on being served paid S 3 for steaks that cost other customers not more than half a dollar. A colored couple dropped in for breakfast and read the special bill of fare with Increasing astonishment. “They don’t charge 50 cents for a cup of coffee!” remarked the man Incredulously. not understanding the situation. “Le's gwlne right away out o’ yere,” ■aid the woman, showing her whits teeth. “This ain’t no lit place for docent cullud folks.”—New York Press.

FROM CALIFORNIA.

Burnett, Cali. Mch., 12. Editor Democrat: Since owf last letter we have purchased a home near Burnett, Los Angeles Co., Cali,, two miles from Long Beoch and about eighteen miles south of Los Angeles. The Salt Lake R. R. runs a quarter of a mile from the house, and the electric car line three quarters of a mile. The surrounding country is settled by people mostly from Indiana and Michigan, who raise fruits and vegetables for the Los Angeles and nearby markets. Hundreds of dollars are realized annually from the sale of English violets, carnations, pink and many other varieties. A whole acre of fuchias in bloom, half a mile from the house, fills the air with fragrance. The lowest temperature during the entire winter was not sufficient to freeze the tomatoes and beans, and only slightly wilted the more delicate plants such rs cannas and calla lilies. Blackberries are in bloom and one can have green peas and strawberries every day in the year. The cannery a quarter mile distant, handles a large quantity of peaches, apricots, pears, plums, guavas and loquotsin their season. Here also the lemons are cured. They are picked'green, the regulation size being two and a half inches in diameter, wrapped in tissue paper and placed in boxes in a dark place for a number of weeks during which time the skin of the lemon grows thin and tender.

From our house, on a clear day, one can see Santa Catalina Island, which from 300 to 500 tourists visit daily to enjoy the fishing and the famous marine gardens, and Long Beach a rapidly growing

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH 14, 1905. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans $225,367 98 Capital Stock S3O 000 00 U. S. and County Bonds... 26,100 00 Surplus and Profits 15.724 39 Bank Building: 7,000 00 Circulation. 7.500 00 Cash and due from banks 70.509 06 Deposits 276.052 03 $329,276 42 $329,276 42 DIRECTORS. A. Parklson, John M. Wasson. E. L. Hollingsworth, President. Vice-President. Cashier. James T. Randle. Oeo. E. Hurray. fob loons 0 specify s snare 01 Your Poironaae is aliened.

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A Fine Rubber Tire Top Buggy. and look over our line. We a keep from 30 to 60 jobs on the floor at all times. Remember, we guarantee every job we sell. If it goes wrong we gladly make it right. If you are going to buy anything in our line you can't afford to miss this chance. It means $90.00 to some one; it may be to you. During this sale as heretofore we will continue to give you value received for every do I ar spent witn us. YOURS FOR BUSINESS. K. A. PARKER. ITaInG, FOR LOW PRICES | 4- 7 X ! The Laurel Steel Range is Best Stove on the Market. ; x r t X J x | BEST BARB WIRE, 80 rod Spools, . . . $2.65 £ X A discount of 20 per cent, on GUNS for the next ♦ ♦ 30 days. Loaded Shells alwavs on hand. + | POULTRY NETTING—A complete line and at | X Lowest Prices. 1 X STEEL WIRE NAILS, ... to 3c per pound. | X Cnl I In and ••• me and gat Prices on Other Goode. + | ! t Near the Depot. J - t. zaring. j

city of more than ten thousand inhabitants. San Pedro, which will have one of the finest harbors on the coast when the Government breakwater —more than soven miles in length—is completed, and Wilmington, a thriving little city on the Southern Pacific, are also visable. The rainfall this winter has been unusually heavy and as a consequence the country is looking fine. Long Beach is tilled as never before with tourists, Hocking to the coast to escape the rigors of an eastern winter. March 14th: Since writing the above a very heavy rain has fallen, almost 48 hours a steady warm rain which makes the farmers more jubilant than for years, as heavy rains means but little irrigation. I will close my letter by saying this country is good enough for us. Kenton and Kenton.

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CLOSINQ OUT AT COST. I will close out for cash my stock of general merchandise at Parr at cost, commencing, March 21. W. O. Williams, Parr, Ind. FOR SALE, CORN AT 33 'i CENTS PER BUSHEL. Do you want corn for 33 cents per bushel? We have it in Hominy Meal at S2O per ton. For fattening stock, 100 pounds of Hominy Meal, at the least estimate, will put on as many pounds of fat as three bushels of best corn. This feed is for sale at the Rensselaer Feed Store. A. L. Branch. For Rent: —Residence property of eight rooms, with chicken lot, barn and fruit. Enquire of A. L. Branch. Read The Democrat for news.