Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — Page 7

ON THE FLORIDA SPECIAL.

Copyrighted, 1907, by P. C. Eastment.

Miss Carstairs was not so old or so sophisticated that she was dead to the delights of helving three bunches of violets, two boxes of candy and a bun* die of magazines piled up on the seat next to ber. Seemingly unconscious of the glances that bad followed her as she came In, she nevertheless seated herself in her chair with the feeling that she was a person of importance aird ohe whose popularity was evidenced by the number and value of her goiuk away gifts. As it the gods had not been good enough, however, Just as the train pulled out and Richanfl Marston held her hand In a last farewell, the porter staggered In bearing a huge hamper, fruit filled and flower decorated, such a hamper as one sees only in the tropical paradise of millionaires. Marston eyed it jealously. “Such a display of money,” he criticised. “It’s beautiful,” Miss Carstairs assured him. “Oh, well, my violets won’t have a chance now,” but it was a question rather than an assertion, and Miss Carstairs said, “How do you know?” And that was encouragement, or would have been from anybody but Miss C install's. a mind to go on with you to Daytona,” Marston hesitated, and Miss Carstairs said “Oh, do!” and <hat settled it. Marston went to find the conductor and get a chair, and as there wasn’t any but the one next to Helen the porter lifted the bunches of the two boxes of candy and the hamper of fruit and the bundle of magazines and carried them to

“DON’T JOKE,” HE SAID HOARSELY. "I AM PUNISHED ENOUGH.”

the end of the car and piled them where the passengers eyed them and then screwed their necks to get a better view of Miss Carstairs, all of which that young lady enjoyed as much as she enjoyed the distinction of having Richard Marston for a traveling companion. “Think of my hobnobbing with a celebrity,’’ she said. “ ‘Of the making of books there is no end,’ Marston quoted sententiously. “Think rather of my traveling with a beauty.” “And both of us as poor as poor,” Helen sighed. Marston looked at her. “I wonder why you say that?” he asked. “What difference does it make”— Helen stared at him. “I thought”— she gasped. ' “That I wanted to marry you,” he finished for her. “But I don't!” and he settled back in his chair and looked out toward the line of the tropical shore, where a few cocoanut palms were silhouetted against a purple sea. “Oh!’ Helen’s sense of Importance had departed. Suddenly gfce felt immeasurably insignificant, but this feeling was succeeded by one of intense Indignation. “Of all things!” she ejaculated. “Well, I know it’s unusual for a man to withdraw a proposition of that kind in ten minutes, and I know I said some pretty insistent things just before the train left, but I’ve changed my mind. It’s usually a woman’s prerogative.” was his easy’’way t»f getting out of it, “but this time it’s a man’s, and I’ve changed my mind.” For the first time in her life Miss Carstairs could not meet the situation. She simply sat there with her cheeks burning and hated him. Curiosity getting the better of her, however, she asked: “But why?” “That thing,” Marston said succinctly and nodded toward the hamper. “To think you could take a thing like that from—Deering!” Miss Carstairs felt better. She could meet jealousy. , “But I couldn’t help It, could I?” was her Innocent query. “I couldn’t tell the porter to drop the basket on the platform.” "But I was so sure you had turned him down,” Marston complained, “positively, you know—over at the Breakers last night, after the dance.” “I tried to-” I "And couldn’t?” She ngdded. "Too many Inducements? Country

house, town house, trips to Europe, diamonds—O Lord'S” Marston groaned as he finished the catalogue. ‘‘No.” She tUrued from him to a contemplation of the scenery, and for a time they rode in silence, passing beyond the long line of palms to the orange groves—brilliant Wretches of yellow and green that filled the car with the fragrance of wedding bouquets. Suddenly Marston flung out, “What was it that kept you from turning him down positively, Helen?” * She leaned forward and spoke with conviction. “I might do worse than marry Deering.” “A pork packer.” “It’s better to marry a pork packer than to have nothing to pack?* she Informed him. Marston fixed her with a stern eye. “I |ell you right now, Helen,” he said, “that I won’t run this race in competition With Deering. I don’t trot in the same class. You can give him up or give me up.” Helen reached over and touched the electric bell. “Will you bring me some telegraph blanks?” she said to the porter when he came. “And now will you leild me a pencil?” she asked Marston as she fluttered the leaves of the yellow pad. “What are you going to do?” Mastiton questioned as be handed it to her. “I am going to telegraph to Deering,” she said. “I told him that I would say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ by telegraph.” Marston went white. “Don’t do anything rash, Helen,” he warned. “I sha|l do as I pleast,” said Miss Carstairs, and he leaned back and snapped out, “Oh, of course.” She sat with the pencil poised. “1 wish you’d toss a penny for me,” she said at last. “Heads I do it—tails I don’t” “I will do nothing of the kind.” “Oh, well, don’t!” She scribbled a hasty word and reached for the bell. But Marston stopped her. “What have you written?” he demanded sternly. The other passengers were growing speculative as to the actions of the handsome young couple. Helen, suddenly conscious of their observation, commanded: “Go up there and get me one of my boxes of candy and some fruit. People will think you are proposing to me.” “I am. Will you fnarry me, Helen?” “Not until you get my candy.” He came back, staggering under Deering’s hamper, and passed the porter going out, with a telegraph blank in his hand. Marston dropped the hamper on the seat in front of Miss Carstairs and hurried after the porter. And then Helen waited. A half hour passed—three-quarters. She grew worried. Did he care enough to hurt himself in any way? It wasn’t like Richard to kill himself for disappointed love. She rose and w ent through the train. The eyes of the other passengers followed her. She walked with ease and lightness, and from the topmost wave of her brown hair to the tip of her tan boots she was absolutely correct, modish, beautiful. She found Marston on the observation platform, with his moody eyes fixed on the shining rails that seemed to slip from beneath the train to end In the sunset. As she came up behind him she saw' something in his face that touched her with tenderness. She dropped her hands on his shoulders. “Oh, little bad boy,” she said, “you read the telegram!” “Don’t Joke,” he said hoarsely. “I am punished enough.” “If you had not been so—so Impertinent,” Miss Carstairs informed him, “I should have told you before that I promised Deering to wire whether I had decided to —to marry you, not whether I was going to marry him.” Marston gazed at her in a dazed way. “Then your ‘yes’ meant”— ‘That I am going to marry you, little bad boy?’ said Miss Carstairs coolly.

By Philip Kean.

Japan possesses a remarkable timepiece. It is contained in a frame three feet wide and five feet long, representing a noonday landscape of great beauty. In the foreground plum and chertrees and rich plants appear in full bloom. In the rear is seen a Hill, gradual In ascent, from which apparently flows a cascade, admirably Imitated in crystal. From this point a threadlike stream meanders, encircling rocks and Islands In Its windings, and finally losing itself in a faroff stretch of woodland. In a miniature sky a golden sun turns on a silver wire, striking the hours on silver gongs as it passes. Each hour is marked on the frame by a creeping tortoise, which serves the place of a hand. A bird of exquisite plumage warbles at tlfe close of each hour, and as the song ceases a mouse sallies forth from a neighboring grotto and, scampering over the hill to the garden, is soon lost to view.

“Professor,” said an acquaintance, "you understand Latin, Ao you not?" “Well,” replied the professor, “I may be said to have a fair knowledge of Latin, yes.” “I know everybody says you have. I wish you would tell me what ‘vollx’ means. Nobody that I have asked seems to have heard the word.” “If there la any such word as vollx, madam, of which I> have serious doubts, I certainly do not know what It means.” “You surprise me, professor. A man of your attainments ought to know that vollx meand Vol IX.” The professor devoted a moment to calling up his reserves and bringing his light artillery Into action. “It Is no wonder, madam,” he said, “that I did nqt. see the point of your joke. You left the point out of it”— London Tlt-Blts.

A Horological Curiosity.

Missed the Point

FARM AND GARDEN

APPLE BLOTCH. In Extrema Cases a Crock May Almost Encircle the Fruit. Apple blotch first appears on thesur faye of the apple as a small irregular browm spot, which slowly increases In size until after several weeks it reaches one-fourth to one-half inch in diame ter. A Several blotches may occur on the same fruit, and In'the Ozarks during the past season it was not uncommon to find twenty to fifty blotches on a single apple, covering practically the entire surface. The tissues of the in

MAIDEN BLUSH APPLE.

[The fruit shows effects of apple blotch.] vaded area being dwarfed by the action of the fungus, "further growth of the apple results in a cracking of the fruit similar to that produced by the apple scab fungus. The cracks range front one-fourth to one inch in length and frequently extend almost to the center of the apple. In extreme cases a crack may almost encircle the apple, practically dividing it in half, and one crack may intersect another, forming a cross. Fruits only slightly affected with the disease maygo through the season without developing cracks. These are more commonly developed shortly before the fruit matures, though a few may occur earlier in the season. The skin being thus broken, the fruit becomes an easy prey to other fungi and soon goes down in decay. As a rule, the affected fruit drops prematurely, and the unsprayed Ren Davis trees left as checks in the .demonstration blocks at Bentonvllle, Ark., sped 50 per cent of their crop some days before picking time. Infection does not begin to take place until the fruit is nearly half grown. The blotch was first observed on the check trees June 26, and only a few affected fruits could be found on that date. On July 16 a large i»ercentage of the Ben Davis apples was affected, and by the middle of August it was clearlyseen that the crop waS pfhctically lost. It developed first on fruit on the lower branches and within the shaded portions of the tree, but finally spread to almost the entire crop.—W. M. Scott. Best Cows Are Cheapest. The high priced cow is not so expensive as she seems in view of what she produces. The average cow produces milk or butter to the value of $52.50, and she costs ssl a year, reckoning that the manure she produces offsets the care given her. This shows that the cow does not do a great deal toward raising the mortgage on the farm. Assuming that it costs no more to keep a good cow than a poor one, the figures will show- that the good cow- is relatively cheaper. The average cow will produce 5,000 pounds of milk a year, while a choice cow will produce as high as 10,000, meaning a profit of $225 against the almost even balance sheet of the average cow, while Pleterje 11., a Holstein, has a record of 30,000 pounds of milk a year, which would make a profit of $1,050 Professor Cooley in American Cultivator. Great Thing For Fruit Growers. It would be a great thing for fruit growing if.the market would distinguish sharply - between apples for different purposes. Apples that are not recommendable for dessert may still be very useful for many other purposes. It is not so much a question of not growing apples of different grades of quality as of finding the proper- uses for these grades. I think it is a mistake at the present time to recommend that certain apples be not grown merely because, they are not of high eating quality.—L. 11. Bailey in Rural New’ Yorker. Drinking Dish Protector. A drinking dish protector in the pouftry yard is the next best thing to a drinking fountain for keeping water

DISH PROTECTOR

made of tw<> onefoot squares of board. One is sawed across diagonally and the other nailed to the two triangular pieces thus formed. The Shorthorns. Perhaps the best claim to the qualifications of the two purpose breed is possessed by the Shorthorn. As is well known, there are two distinct types, one which is fair in milk production, but excellent in beef, and another tolerably good in beef, but valued most fqr heavy milking qualities. In thia country the beef type is more common, while in English dairy sections the Shorthorn dairy strains are very prominent—American Cultivator.

WOMAN’S DANGER PERIODS

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"IMPROVED” METHODS OF DITCHING.

The people of Milroy and Carpenter townships, in Jasper county, and of Princeton township in White county, have been considerably vexed over the long delay in the construction of the Nessius ditch. This ditch was commenced about five years ago and dredges have worked on the ditch from time to time, some of them standing over winter in the ditch and the sand drifting in behind them. About one year ago the dredge left the ditch at its outlet in the old Waukrusha ditch. The ditch has never been accepted and for a mile and a half or two miles has two to four feet of dirt in the bottom yet to be removed, and for the entire length, for more than eight miles, is not according to specifications and has not been fully accepted. Although a large amount of money has been paid out on this ditch, and there is more than $7,000 yet in the hands of the treasurers 6f White and Jasper counties to be expended, the land at the source of this ditch overflows about as badly as it did before the ditch was worked and the people are very much exasperated about the improvement and the dilatory methods of the contractor. Last week during the high water he placed teams on the banks on each side of the ditch connecting them to a large plow in the bottom of the ditch by means of long ropes, and with his helpers, who were provided with bathing suits, attempted to stir the sand in the bottom of the ditch so that it would wash down stream. The water was over the handles of the plow and the “diver” was almost under water as he held the handles of the plow in an effort to remove the debris in the bottom of the stream arid to set it afloat. By frequently changing men at the plow, and permitting the wet man to change clothes, they were enabled to stir the sand quite a good deal and quite an amount of it floated a few hundred feet down stream but it was impossible to stir enough of it to get it down to the required depth. Perhaps a few more efforts of this kind will so level off the dirt that they can “hood-wink” the surveyor into accepting the ditch. If this plan proves successful it will surely bring about quite a revolution in the ditch business, and the people may expect much cheaper work in the future. The interested parties, whose crops have been ruined for several years because of these dilatory tactics, are waiting with interest the outcome of this new process of ditching. “A Casual Observer.”

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NOTICE. The firm of Flynn & Collins will be dissolved the first of August; the business will be continued by Alfred Collins. The indebtedness to the firm must be settled at once.

? . JI * STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK » . OP RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH a 6, 1907. RKBOUHCIS. LIABILITIES. Loans $32.1.961 72 Capital Stock- .....$ 30,000 00 U. 8. and County Boids... 89,400 90 Surplus and Pr0fit*...22,496 81 Bank Building' 8,000 00 Circulating Notes,.-........, 7,500 00 Cash and due from banks 93.074 68 Deposits 406,442 59 $466.439 40 ' s ' $466.439 40 DIRECTORS. A. PARK ISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vice-President. Cashier. * JAMES T. RANDLE, GEO. E. HURRAY. ’ Fam in 0 specially. ...... 1 snare 01 Your won® is »cw -

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