Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1907 — Page 7

John Norman's Opportunity.

By C. R. Frame.

Copyrighted, 1907, by E. C. Parcel!*.

The bands of the city clock pointed to 6, and the streets leading to the (Station fairly hummed with life. Suburban shoppers, business folk and the Idle minority were all homeward .bound. Electric trains whirred and clanged In every direction, and eager crowds surged Into them. “Rosedale! Rosedale!'* shouted the starter. Helen Grey gathered her suit case, string bag and Boston fern and made desperate efforts to secure a place. In her haste she tripped on a loosened shoestring and fell heavily Into her seat. She was weary beyond words with the day’s shopping. It was a hot evening, and the train was packed. Passengers behind her crowded and pushed, jamming her against a man 'at the seat's end. A brass curtain rod (Which she was carrying prodded him sharply In the ribs. She turned to apologize, but the words died on her lips when she found herself confronted by the eager face of “the enemy.” •{With a brief word she drew the offending rod Into place and tried to edge away from him.* He had passed her early In the morning bound cityward In his motor car. She had encountered him a number of times during-the day. and when she had committed her one extravagance, lunch at Maclean’s, he, too, had sauntered in and bad seated himself at a window table beside hers. The enjoyment of her lunch was spoiled by the scrutiny of John Norman's gray eyes. The feud lietween the Normans and Greys was of the fine, unreasonable New England type. There had been real cause for grievance at the outset, two generations back, but when the

HE LOOKED HIS BEWILDERMENT, STANDING MUTELY.

grandnieces of Ezra Grey came to live In the old homestead John Norman, grandson of William the Offender, was more than ready to bury the hatchet, and it was his irony of fate that he should fall in love at sight with Helen Grey. He was rich and popular and the most eligible of Rosedale bachelors. He had never before been anxious in regard to friendship with women. During his thirty-six years there had been so many things that he had considered more important. But for the past four months he had planned and schemed to reach a friendly footing with his neighbors and had failed. They quietly Ignored his friendly advances. snubbed him a few times, and now the fear of marring the armed neutrality kept him from overstepping their limit. As Helen settled beside him in the tram, he was very conscious of the pressure of her arm against his and of the weary droop of her pretty head. He had had her under espionage all day and this accounted for his unusual proceeding, going back to Rosedale by trolley. He was eager to take some of the heavy bundles that incumbered her lap, but be dared not make the suggestion; her shrinking movement from him and her unfriendly glance were earnest of a rebuff. Twilight deepened, and the lights twinkled in the car. When there was elbow room, she must tie her loosened shoestring. She made two or three attempts to reach it, but to tie a shoe in a crowded car, with bundle laden lap and gloved fingers, is no easy feat. John Norman was aware of her efforts, as his foot was beside hers on the rail of the seat ahead. When he felt a sharp tug at his shoestring, he understood its significance. He knew also by the energetic twist that the offending string was tied in a hard knot and that was as it should be. She signaled the conductor to stop at a coroer some distance from her home, rather than at the nearer one, where they must alight together. He understood the significance of this also. She was getting off, bundle laden, to avoid the possibility of any association

with him. Norman's hand stroked his mustache to conceal the smile at her transparent tactics. As the car slowed, she rose burdened with bundles. Then came a struggle, confusion and sickening distress, as she dropped back fairly on John Norman’s knee. Then she realized what the trouble was—she had tied her shoestring to his. She was profoundly grateful for the cool, matter of fact way In which he took her wild behavior. She struggled to her feet again, and all of Rosedale that was riding home In that special electric craned its neck In Intense enjoyment at what was going on. The motorman, angry at the delay, clanged the bell with furious insistence, and the conductor’s sharp, “Hurry up, hurry up, lady; don’t keep the car waiting!” added shill further to her nervous embarrassment. John Norman’s clear voice rang out, “Walt a minute, conductor,” in the tone of one used to being obeyed. The conductor had a profound respect for Mr. John Norman and ran forward to stop the clanging bell. In the meantime Norman had produced his pocketknife and had cut the knotted laces, his and hers. She gave a confused murmur of thanks, and Norman, hastily catching up the parcels, followed her out. There was no word of protest, and his sympathetic glance revealed quivering lips and big brown eyes suffused with tears. The car whirred away, and a faint echo of laughter was borne back. It was the last i straw. “Fools!” he ejaculated, while the girl leaned against a nearby wall and laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. The vagaries of women were beyond his comprehension, and he looked his bewilderment, standing mutely, with suit case, bulging string bag and pot of fern. “Please, please forgive me,” she pleaded. “I cannot imagine how I came to do such a stupid thing.” He liked the pleading tone and the kindly way In which she looked at him. “It was a happy mistake for me,” he said eagerly, “and I hope that we may be friends.” She had an Inkling that there was more than the thought of good fellowship in his mind as he held her hand In a lingering good night. Some months later Mrs. John Norman, looking particularly pretty and charming, leaned across the dinner table and put a pertinent question to her husband. “John, do you remember the evening that I tied myself to you?” “Of course I do. Is it likely that I should forget anything so delightful?” She hesitated. “Isve been thinking”— Color came to her face. “John, did you know that I tied that string to yours?” Norman leaned back In his chair and chuckled. “Of course I did. Why, didn’t I tell you, dearest? Do you think that after watching and waiting for months to make your acquaintance I would throw aside such an opportunity? You tied yourself to me, and I knew it a significant omen for our happy future.”

When Umbrellas Were First Used.

The introduction of the umbrella In some places has been regarded of sufficient importance to be included in the local annals. About 1780 a red leghorn umbrella was introduced into Bristol and it created quite a sensation in the city. It was about the same period that an umbrella was first carried in the streets of Stamford, Lincolnshire. It was of Chinese manufacture and was brought to Stamford from Glasgow. Mrs. Stockdale in 1776 is recorded to have brought from the island of Grenada, in the West Indies, the first umbrella seen in Cartmel, Lancashire. In 1779 Dr. Spens, a popular physician, carried an umbrella in the streets of Edinburgh, and he is credited with introducing it into the Scottish capital. John Jameson, a Glasgow surgeon, visited Paris about 1781 or 1782 and brought back with him an umbrella, which was the first seen in Glasgow, where it attracted unusual attention. William Symington was the first person to carry an umbrella in Paisley. It is related by Horace Walpole In bis account of the punishment of Dr. Shebberere for libel, Dec. 5, 1758, that when he was in the pillory a footman held over him an umbrella to keep off the rain. This has been described as an aristocratic style of beaning punishment. The undersheriff got into trouble for permitting the indulgence. —London Chronicle.

Why Bill Was Umpire.

A cricket match was being played in a meadow- adjacent to Farmer Cowstick’s orchard, and the worthy agriculturist Was at the wicket. There had been great difficulty about an umpire for this match, and when a boy from the local school for young gentlemen volunteered to act he was gladly accepted. Presently, to all appearances, the farmer was run out, but the umpire said no; and in the next over he was obviously stumped, but still the decision was in his favor, much to the wicket keeper’s disgust. Then when the farmer had compiled over fifty runs, he was palpably “leg before.” “’Ow’s that?” called the bowler. The youthful umpire hesitated over his decision and looked uncomfortable, with a nervous glance over his shoulder in the direction of the orchard. Then a juvenile voice hurtled across the meadow from the direction of the lane: “You can, give the old bloke ‘out’ now, Billy—we’ve got all the plums we want!” The farmer didn’t wait for the official decision, nor did the umpire stay to give it—London Telegraph.

FARM AND GARDEN

MARKETING ‘TRUCK. Good Potatoes Should Be Smooth, With Shallow Eye*. Truck growing Is a modern horticultural outgrowth due to Improved facilities for rapid transportation. Be fore the advent of extensive steam navigation and the present great extension of railroads each city and town depended for Its supply of vegetables ►on Its immediate surrounding country. Today the most distant states in the Union are sending truck by boat and train load to the great northern centers of population. There is nothing that

THE 1-3 BARREL VENEER BASKET, gives the pride and profit than to beat bls neighbor Into the market with early potatoes. Such potatoes have to be handled carefully and are usually shipped in the one-third barrel veneer basket, shown in the cut, which Is also used for shipping llmas, snap beans, peas and cucumbers. Good potatoes should be smooth, free from knobs or second growths and should have shallow eyes. Varieties should not be mixed in the same barrel or package. It hurts their sale to have long potatoes mixed with round ones.— Maryland Experiment Station.

Nitrogen In the Sugar Beet. The results of some German experiments show that the presence of nitrogen in the beet may reduce the quality of the juice and be detrimental to the manufacture of sugar. The quantity of injurious nitrogen found In the root varied with the kind of seed. The use of a single nitrogenous fertilizer, whether in the ftirm of nitrate or ammonia, increased the quantity of nitrogen in the beet, but the use of barnyard manure up to about twenty-seven tons per acre under conditions of a normal rainfall produced no injurious effect. When a heavy application of nitrate of soda up to about 1,000 pounds per acre is masie the injurious effetft may be largely reduced by the addition of potash and superphosphate.

Cutworms. The successful method of fighting the cutworm is based on the fact that he is fond of sweets. The sweet tooth is as well developed as that of any candy loving boy. Into a pint of molasses or any sirup stir thoroughly a heaping teaspoonful of parts green. Mix this with a pailful of bran or other finely ground feed. Scatter a little of the mixture in the hills or along the rows where the worms are at work, suggests a writer in lowa Homestead. They wilt eat it and be killed if you have been careful to secure good fresh parts green.

Beat Tools the Cheapest. So much of the work of the garden is done by hand that a farmer is inexcusable w’ho does not provide himself with the best tools that are made. Some do not appear to realize that as much improvement has been made in tools for garden work as for cultivating and harvesting farm crops. When he sees the weeders and cultivators operated by horsepower, he will find that the amount of work necessarily done by hand has been greatly reduced and is not at all burdensome.—American Cultivator. Early Norther Potato. Few potatoes have done so much for the farmer as the famous Early Rose, both in its own self and in its numerous progeny. The smooth, long, small eyed potato known as the Early Norther is much like its parent, but is earlier

EARLY BOSS SEEDLING POTATO.

and even more prolific, according to American Agriculturist. Even in poor seasons it has been known to yield more than sixtyfold. It seems to be destined to become a rival of the important early sorts. Horse Talk. Don’t compel me to eat more salt than I want by .mixing it with my oats. I know letter than any other animal how much I need. Don’t think-because I go free under the whip I don’t get tired. You would move up if under the whip. Don’t whip me when I get frightened along the road or I will expect it next time and maybe make trouble.—Farm Journal.

NOON IN RENSSELAER. What is Going on In Town When the Clock Strikes ta. Noon, the dinner hour, the hour of comfort, of pleasure and relaxation—the one hour in the twentyfour which comes to men and women of every station with greatef similarity than the hour of any other function in life. Promptly as the clock strikes 12 in Rensselaer the shadows on anxious faces turn to lines of good will, and if villainous hot bread, pie, spices and other indigestibles were excluded there would be no such words as dyspepsia or indigestion in the dictionary. But the contrary is true, and medical science has to step in and aid the man or woman who has been too busy to pay proper attention to health. The greatest step forward in medical discovery is Mi-o-na, that cures all stomach and digestive troubles. In hundreds of (he best homes in Rensselaer and adjoining towns the handy little tablets, so pheasant to take, yet so effective, have given quick and lasting relief in indigestion and that disagreeable full feeling after eating. Mi-o-na acts very gently. Much of its wonderful power over indigestion comes from its uniform but sustaining action. The required stimulating and strengthening is given to the important organs of digestion without producing the slightest weakness or reaction. A 50-cent box lasts for a couple of weeks and will ward off a dozen attacks of indigestion. B. F. fendig gives a guarantee, absolute and unqualified, with every box of Mi-o-na to refund the money if it does not give satisfaction. Butter wrappers printed while you wait at The Democrat office. Wanted—To buy live foxes; highest prices paid. B. W. Price, Lafayette, Ind. For Sale;—l3 head one-year-old full blood Shropshire ewes. Hall V. Zimmerman, Route 3. Remington. Ind. Come and see me for Osborne mowers and binders and get my prices on a general line of implements. Vance Collins, For Sale: 49 acres, splendid buildings. Price $3,000; “SI,OOO cash, balance back on farm, or can use $2,000 residence, SI,OOO back on farm. Box 512, Milan, Ind. Greatest Assembly Talent at Fountain Park, Remington, Ind., Aug. 10th to 25th inclusive. Hon. Wm. J. Bryan day, Aug. 14th; Hon. James E. Watson day, Aug. 17th.

$27.50 PER ACRE.

Having sold 240 acres out of my 960 acre tract of land, I will how offer the remaining 720 acres in bodies of 80 acres or more to suit purchasers, at the low price of $27.50 per acre on favorable terms. First comers may have choice of land which will be all smooth, clean black prairie soil. As an investment this cannot be duplicated. Abstracts furnished with each piece sold showing good title. We will be pleased to show you these lands at any time. For any information regarding these lands call at my office or write me. G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind.

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■ STATEMENT OP TNE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER; IND., MARCH *6, 1907. BXSOUKCM. LIABILITIES. L0am...5325,964 72 Capital Stock-.. 530,000 00 U. S. and County Bondi .. 39,400 00 Surplus and Profit* 22,496 81 Bank Bui Idins- 8,000 00 Circulating Note*..- 7,500 00 Cash and due from bank* 98,074 68 Deposit*. 406,442 59 $466,439 40 $466,439 40 DIRECTORS. A. PARK ISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, Preaident. Vlce-Pre*ident. Cashier. JAMES T. RANDLE. OEO. E. HURRAY. Rm twins 0 specially 1 snore 01 ion wiraoooe is soiidieo

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