Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — Page 5

A Cliase Piano] : » £ It will go to the Most Popular Church, Sunday S £ School, Lodge or Club in Jasper County. 2 (• The Democrat wants to know which Church, Sunday School, Lodge or Club in (F (• Jasper County has the most friends. To gain this interesting information we have •) Ml planned a voting contest in which everybody may participate. The contest will open •) July i. On December 22, the Democrat will present to the winner, entirely free of cost g A Magnificent Chase Piano, Valued at $300.00 Now g (• on Display at Rowles & Parker’s Dry Goods Store. ej (• This fine instrument is one of the best known and most popular makes on the •) (• market. The name, CHASE, on a piano has long stood for quality of a superior •) Ml kind. The cut that you see below hardly does justice to the artistic appearance of this pian. Its perfect tone, quality, and durability are vouched for by | Starr Piaiio Co.,| » . •] K| From whom it was purchased by us. The Starr Piano Company are manufacturers •) HI and large dealers in high grade instruments, and their guarantee of quality means much. •) (• ILII II ' •] U Illi B i Hi 111 £ '1 •] M 'I II s [• ~ r> 1* O jil hH •) | L^-,M-- O - 1I - i This is a case where you can bring down two birds witfi one shot. The plan of R) J the contest is to allow the privilege of voting to all new subscribers to this paper, and J to all present subscribers who extend their subscriptions during the months of July, *5 August, September, October, November and December. Thus by simply paying the •> > usual low subscription price of the Democrat, you not only get the brightest and best •] JI newspaper in this part of the State delivered to you every week, but you add the •) weight of your vote in favor of your Church, Sunday School, Lodge or Club—which- •) £ ever you choose to vote for. Votes will be credited as follows: WITH EACH NEW SUBSCRIPTION PAID IN ADVANCE • For 6 Months. 60 Cents 5 Votes Feri Year, 91.00 20 Votes (L For 9 Years, 92.0050 Votes For every Dollar paid on old subscriptions IO Votes )► Subscriptions may be paid at the office of The Democrat or to any of our agents or accredited solicitors or be sent in JI by mail. In the latter case be sure to give the name of the orranisation you wish your vote to be cast. >_ The votes will be counted every week and a statement of the prepress of the contest will be published tn the columns < of f The Democrat from week to week. , ;• Get Busy. We mean exactly what we say. We intend to give this Piano •] >• to some organization December 22,1905. If your organization needs a J Piano here is a chance to get it Free of Cost. Besides we will pay a liberal com- 5 mission to all organizations who enter the contest, for the subscriptions they turn in. Get your name announced on July 15. It will aid you in getting votes. ] you VOTE flow. rr| » I————— J SEND ALL VOTES TO -S : THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT, J £ Rensselaer, Indiana. •<

A VARIATION

By ROBERT JERMAIN COLE

“Men are such monotonous creatures. They march together like that always.” The girl waved her hand lightly toward a file of militia that paraded down Fifth avenue. Her companion did not answer immediately. “You must reduce your complaint to specific charges, Miss Breen,” said the young lawyer at length. “What, for example, renders man so tiresome to you?” “I’m sure I don’t know what makes him so. I only know that he is,” returned the girl. “He—l mean they—all wear forever the same kind of clothes, walk with the same stride, stick to the same amusements”— “Are true to the same friends,” finished her listener for her, “and, worst of ail, persist in expressing admiration for the same girl in the same words. You must find it monotonous.” “Don’t be personal, Mr. Roscommon,” protested his companion, with a blush. “I am discussing fact, and that is always personal,” replied the man. “It Is true, isn’t it?” Roscommon had a quiet habit of persistence. He did not talk much, but what he did say was apt to start his companion into a frantic garrulity of self defense. “What do you mean?” asked the girl. “You certainly would not accuse me of bragging about the number of my admirers. I was only speaking in a general way.” Roscommon was silent, and the girl went on:

“I refuse to testify against myself, but you must give me credit for knowing a few other women. Besides, I have read the novels written by creatures of your own sex. They ought to say a good word for the ingenuity of man, yet their heroes all make love In precisely the same way.” They turned as they walked into Fifty-seventh street, where Miss Breen had lived with her aunt since her father's death. She had always gone with a rather gay set, but a few months after she came out her father had lost most of his money. For the last three years that he lived he Insisted on her accepting many Invitations, although they were able to do little entertaining.

“AND YOU HAVEN'T ONCE SAID 'I LOVE YOU,' "SHE EXCLAIMED.

Her liveliness of speech and manner, a trifle defiant, masked a hurt pride. She won followers easily among the men—too easily to suit her high spirit. They gave her flattery in plenty, which comforted her as little as gold offered to a starving woman. She was all heart and had almost no vanity. When her father died she was hungry for some one to lavish her affections upon. Yet no one had divined this. The Impression bad gone about that she would marry anybody for money. She hated poverty, but she hated a lie still worse. When they entered the bouse she took off her hat and stood a moment beside a table. “You may sit down,” she said condescendingly to Roscommon. “I shall stand up awhile. You haven’t made me tired yet.” “If you were one of these unvarying men how would you propose to a girl?” asked the young man gravely. Miss Breen promptly sat down. After she had rested and meditated for half a minute, she answered: “It would depend on the girl. That’s the very point. Instead of having a formula, such as you men hand down from father to son, I should study the nature of the woman and find words to appeal to her and to her alone. If she loved flowers, I’d spend my last dime on a rose. They say a battle was lost once for want of a horseshoe. More women’s hearts are lost for want of a chocolate drop than are dreamed of in your philosophy.” “I Lave no philosophy that will fit the race of women," corrected the lawyer.

“I’m glad to hear you admit your Ignorance!” laughed Miss Breen. “I did not say I was ignorant I merely said I had no theories," observed Roscommon. “Vary well, here is a fact for you. I know a man that told a girl of his ambition to be a painter. Then be asked her to marry him. Now, this girl didn't care a hairpin for art and the only idea she had about It was that artists were always poor and

shabby. She was just ready to tan Tn love with him, and If she bad 11 wouldn’t have mattered what he did for a living. If he only bad sense enough to tell her bow prettily her hair s£one In the lamplight he wouldn’t be a sour old bachelor now, and she”— “It looks just as well in the daylight,” remarked Roscommon, addressing the mirror behind Madge. “I hope the subject doesn’t bore you, Miss Breen,” be went on, “but you have made an impossible condition. You say a man should know the girl. That Is well if he can. But now suppose the one thing he knows about her is that he wants to know more. Perhaps the very mystery of her nature attracts him.” “Then let him surprise her into some revelation of herself.” They were silent for a long time after this. The short winter day was almost gone. They could yet see each other through the twilight “Miss Breen, did you ever hear that I was a millionaire?” The question came from Roscommon with startling suddenness. His tone was harsh and had a ring of self satisfaction in it Madge Breen turned impulsively and then looked away, but not before he was aware of the hurt, disappointed expression in her wide open eyes. “No, and I hate you for telling me now,” she flashed. “I did not tell you. I only asked a question." The harshness was all gone from his tone. For the first time that afternoon Roscommon’s voice grew tender. He leaned toward his companion and said:

“They told me you cared only for money—that you had no heart. I knew they lied, but I wanted you to prove it to me. You have shown ine the girl I have been waiting to see. You have taught me the way to woo her. I am not rich, Madge, and if I were I should never dream that money could buy you. You say that all men are alike. All but one, you mean. The man you love will be transfigured. I ask you to be my wife, dear, not because of what I can give you, but because of what I can take. A man with any other ambition would not have room to keep the treasure of your love. You can do what you will with me. The only thing I shall boast of Is a boundless capacity for being loved. Do you want such a man?”

“And you haven’t once said, ’I love you,’ ” she exclaimed with a touch of amusement In her voice. “That is a slight variation from the usual form. Do you suspect I shall do It all?” “You would have to try me to find out, no matter what I might say,” replied Roscommon. “Well,” she breathed softly and then paused. He rose and walked to her chair and waited, with his head bent toward hers. “Please,” she whispered, “if you don’t love me never let me find it out.”

A Discreet Servant.

A certain duke was diniug iu full kilt dress at a highland anniversary dinner, bls piper standing behind his chair. At dessert a very handsome and valuable snuffbox belonging to one of the guests was handed round. When the time came to return it to its owner the snuffbox could not be discovered anywhere. A search was made, but with no result, the duke being especially anxious al>out it. On the next anniversary he again donned the kilt—which be had not worn in the interval—for the annual dinner. As he was dressing he happened to put his band in his sporran and there, to bis astonishment, found the box which had been lost at the last year’s dinner. He turned to his piper and said: “Why, this is the snuffbox we were all looking for! Did you not see me put it away in my sporran?” “Yea, your grace.” “Then why did you not tell me?” demanded the duke. “Because I thought your grace required the little matter kept quiet,” responded the piper, with a knowing wink.

The Shell In the Salt Box.

Many, many years ago I lay on the the ocean. I had been lying there listening to what the salt sea said for ages. A big wave came along and awept me up on a sandy shore. A little boy found me and dug a bole In the sand and burled me deep down, and there I lay listening to what the sand said for ages. After a long time another little boy, digging in the sand one day, picked me up and took me home In his little pall. After a long rids on the train I lay In • basket with lots of other shells. One day a lady looked at me and said, “What a fine scoop for the aalt In the kitchen one of these shells would make.” Bo here I am. It isn’t my old ocean of course, but something like It.

As Aaiaala* Farfett.

A favorite sentence for transgressors of the laws of games Is the following: Two persons stand at opposite ends of the room, each holding a lighted candle. They advance slowly and with deep gravity look into each other’s faces. When they meet the following dialogue takes place: “The Princess Hugger-Mugger is dead, defunct and gone.” “Can it be possiblet Alack and alas!” They then retreat to their starting points with the same solemnity. The fact that they must not smile makes it very difficult to refrain.—lndoor and Outdoor Games.

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BANK IN HANDS OF A RECEIVER

Fraud Order Issued Against a Financial Concern in St. Louis. . EX-JUDGE SPENCER IN CHARGE Sums on Deposit Amount to Sl,» 500,000 and There Is Other Security. Original and Daring Plan of Obtaining Control of Money Formulated by Edward G. Lewis. St. Louis, July 11. —Former Judge Seldten P. Spencer has been appointed receiver for the People’s United States bank, against which a fraud order has. been issued by the federal postal authorities. Judge McEllbinney, of the St. Louis circuit court, made the appointment at the request of Secretary of State Swanger of Missouri. Judge Spencer qualified with a bond of $250,000 and took charge of the bank. Secretary of State Swanger made the following report in regard to the bank’s assets: “The People’s United States bank has various sums on deposit with banks in different cities of the United States, the total amount of cash being about $1,500,000. It has also $75,000 In government bonds. There are also securities of the University Heights property and of the Lewis Publishing company amounting to $900,000.” Capital Stock. 52.500 000.

The People’s United States bank wae organized by Edward G. Lewis, of St Louis, last year, and has a capital stock of $2,500,000. The banking bueldom was conducted along new linen, most of the subscriptions for stock and deposits being solicited and received by mall. On the authority of Postmaster General Cortelyou the fraud order was issued, it being directed against E. G. Lewis and the People’s United States bands. They are barred from the us® of the mails pending a full investigation by the government and the banking authorities of Missouri. Original and Daring Plan. Probably in the history of all banking no more original or during plan for obtaining control of money was formulated than that of Lewis, now condemned by the iwstal authorities. In six years Lewis, who began with nothing, has built up a magazine with a circulation of I.tktO.OOO and another with 700.000 subscribers. With the subscription list of the Woman's Magazine and the Woman's Home Journal as a basis he planned to organize a great mail order l>ank which should dominate the financial world and bring into circulation the hoarded gold of the fanners. He got $2,500,000 in cash from 65,000 stockholders and the deposits of 500,000 persons for the bank. Will Pay Depositors on Demand. St. Louis, July 12. —Receiver S. P. Spencer of the People’s United States bank, lias been directed by Judge McIlhenney, of the St. Ix>uis county circuit court, to pay depositors on demand. The order was Issued at the request of Receiver Spencer. On Spencer’s suggestion, also, the bond of the receiver was increased from $250,000 to $1,000,000.

Stock holders Will Lose $600,000.

St. Ixiuis, July 13.—1 tis now estimated that the 65.000 stockholders of the People’s United States Mall Order bank, founded by E. G. Lewis, who are scattered over every state and territory in the Union, will lose over $600,000 when the affairs of that institution are finally wound up.

Christian Endeavorers Adjourn.

Baltimore, July 11. —The climax of the enthusiasm engendered by the Christian Endeavor convention came with the closing session, which was held in Armory hall, and with the reading of an affectionate message from Father Clark, who is ill at his home, and has not been at the convention at all. “The last word” was said by Rev. James L. Hill. Then, singing the hymn "God Be with You Till We Meet Again.” the vast audiennce filed out of the Armory and the twenty-sec-ond international Christian Endeavor connvention was ended.

Equitable Salaries Reduced.

New York, July 13.—Sweeping reductions in the salaries of various officials and employes of the Equitable society are announced by Chairman Morton. These changes become effective Aug. 1 ard cause a saving of 1160,000 to >200,000 a year. The reductions range from 10 per cent., beginning with >2.600 a year, te 20 per cent.. Including Morton’s own salary.

State of Missouri Restrained.

Kansas City, July 13. —Judge John F. Phillips, in the United States district court here, granted the temporary injunction prayed for by Missouri railroads restsinlng the state railway and warehouse commissioners of Missouri and the attorney general of the state from enforcing the maximum freight rate law enacted by the last legislature. Son to Princess of Wales. London, July 18.—The princess of Wales has been safely delivered of a. son.