Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — Page 7

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice la hereby Riven that the underelarned has been appointed bv the Clerk of the Circuit Conn of Jasper County, State *of Indiana, executor as per her win of the es tate Of Rebecca J. Smith, late of JaspeConnty, deceased, r Said estate is supposed to be solvent. Marrimon Tudor. Bxqcntor. • Foltz A Spitler Attorneys. August 17,1007. JvJOTICB TO NON-BKSIDBNTS. The State of Indiana, 1 Jasper County, J ' - <*• . In the Jasper Circuit Court, September term, 1907. Barney Spitznagle Michael iL Kennedy vComplalnt No. 7190. Abraham Halleek, et aI.J L'czj"*' '-'.O Now comes the plaintiffs, by S. C. Irwin their attorney, and files their oomplaiut herein, together With an affidavit that the defendant, Ransom Halleek is not a resident of the State of Indiana. Notice Is therefore hereby riven said Defendant that unless he be anaappear on the first day of the next term of the Circuit Court to be holden on the 2nd Monday of September, A. D. 1907, at the Court House in Reusaelaer iu said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in his absence, la Witness Whereof I hereunto set < -, my hand and affix the Seal of said S seal ( court, at this * >—' ’ 10th day of August, A. D. 1907. C. C. Warner, Clerk. NOTICE OF COLLECTION OF DITCH ASSESSMENTS. Notice Is hereby given to all land owners whose lands have been assessed benefits for the construction of the Fletcher Mon nett Ditch, Cause No. 5553, pending iu Commissioners’ Court, to which reference is had, that said ditch has been ordered constructed and that I have advertised the sale of said improvement on September 2, 1907. and that I will require ten (10) per cent of the benefits assessed to be paid at my real • dence In Newton Township, Jasper County, Indiana, on September 30, 1907, and ten (10) per cent thereof every thirty (30) days thereafter until said improvement is paid fort as provided for by statute. Dated this 12th day of August, 1907. CAREY L. CARR. Superintendent. Notice of Sale ot Monnett Ditch Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as superintendent of the Fletcher M ,n----nett Ditch iu Commissioners' Court, cause No. 5553, will sell the main ditch thereof separately and each branch thereof separately promptly at ten o'clock .A. M., on SEPTEMBER 2, 1907, at the Surveyor's Office in the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, to the lowest and beat responsible bidder therefor. This main ditch is to be constructed of eighteen (18) inch tile and leas, reference especially as to size of tile and the depth of out is made to the plans and specifications as now on file in the Auditor's Office, Persons submitting bids will want to hrfve same sealed acoompaning same with a bond that if awarded the contract that he will enter iuto a bond for the faithful performance of same.) I reserve the right to reject any and all bids and the contract shall be conditioned to have same completed on or before January 1.1908. y 4 Dated this 12th day of Aii'nst, 1907. CARY L. CARR, —— Superintendent.

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A PHANTOM TOE.

I could not help thinking, directly 1 had taken a survey of my chamber, that I should never quit It without going through a strange adventure. “Supposing," ruminated I, “supposing the landlord himself should be a practical robber and should have tak-< en the lock and bolt from off this door for the purpose of entering here io the dead of the night, abstracting all my property and perhaps murdering me. I thought the dog had a very, cutthroat air about him.” Now, I had never had any such idea until that moment, for my host was a fat (all Dutchmen are fat), stupid looking fellow, who I don’t believe bad sense enough to understand what a robbery or murder meant, but somehow or other whenever we have anything really toVannoy us (and It certainly was not pleasant to go to bed In a strange place without being able to fasten one’s door) we are sure to aggravate it by myriads of chimeras of our own brain. So on the present occasion. In the midst of a thousand disagreeable reveries, some of the most wild absurdity, 1 Jumped very gloomily into bed, haring first put out my candle, and "soon fell asleep, perfectly tired out with ray day’s riding. How long I lay asleep I 'don’t know, but I suddenly awoke from a disagreeable dream of cutthroats, ghosts and long, winding passages In a haunted inn. An indescribable feeling, such as I never before experienced, hung upon me. It seemed as if every nerve in my body had a hundred spirits tickling it, and this was accompanied by so great a heat that, inwardly cursing , mine host’s sauerkraut and wondering how the Dutchmen coukl endure such poison, I was forced to sit ilp In bed to cool myself. The whole of the room was profoundly dark, excepting at one place, where the moonlight, falling through a crevice in the shutters, threw a straight line of about an Inch or ao thick upon the floor—clear, sharp and Intensely brilliant against the darkness. I leave you to conceive my horror when, upon looking at this said line of light, I saw there a naked human toe—nothing more.

For tbe first instant I thought the vision most be some effect of moonlight, then that I was only half awake and could not see distinctly. So I rubbed my eyes two or three times and looked again. Still there was the accursed thing—plain, distinct, immovable—marblelike iu Its fixedness and rigidity, but iu everything else horribly human. 1 am not an easily frightened man. No one who has traveled so much and seen so much and been exposed to ao many dangers as I have should be, but there was something so unusual in the appearance of this single toe that for a short time I could not think what to do, so I did nothing but stare at it In a state of utter bewilderment. At length, however, as the toe did not vanish . under my steady gaze, I thought I might as well change my tactics, and remembering that all mid,eight invaders, be they thieves, ghosts or devils, dislike nothing so much as a good noise I shouted out in a loud voice:

“Who’s there?” The toe immediately disappeared In the darkuess. Almost simultaueously with my words I leaped out of bed and rushed toward the place where I had beheld the strange appearance. The next Instant I ran against something and felt an Iron grip round my body. After this I have no distinct recollection of what occurred, excepting that a fearful struggle ensued between me and my unseen opponent; that every now and then we were violently burled to the floor, from which we always rose again in an instant, locked in a deadly embrace; that we tugged and strained and pulled and pushed, I in the convulsive and frantic energy of a fight for life, he (for by this time I had discovered that the intruder was a human beipg) actuated by some passion of which I was ignorant; that we whirled round and round and round, cheek to cheek and atm to arm, In fierce contest, until the' room appeared to whiz round with us, and that at last a dozen people (my fellow traveler among them), roused, I suppose, by our repeated falls, came pouring into the room with lights and showed me struggling with a man biding nothing on but a shirt, whose long, tangled hair and wild, unsettled eyes told me he was insane. And then, for the first time, I became aware that I had received in the conflict several gashes from a knife, which my opponent still held in his hand.

To conclude my story In a few words (for I dare say all of you by this time are getting very tired), It turned out that'my midnight visitor was a madman who was being conveyed to a lunatic asylum at The Hague and that he and his keeper had been obliged to stop at Delft on their way. The poor fellow had contrived during the night to escape from his keeper, who had carelessly forgotten to lock the door of his chamber, and with that Irresistible desire to shed blood* peculiar to many insane people had possessed himself of a pocketknlfe belonging to the man who had charge of him, entered my room, which was most likely the only one in the house unfastened, and was probably meditating the fatal stroke when I saw his toe In the moonlight, the rest of bis body being hidden in the shade. After this terrible freak of his he was watched with much greater strictness, but I ought to observe, as some excuse for the keeper’s negligence, (that this was the first act of violence ha had ever attempted.

Trescott’s Graduation.

By JAMES CHAMBERS.

Copyrighted. 1907. by a H. Sutcliffe.

Trescott clipped the advertisement from the paper and tucked It Into his pocketbook. He bad about made up his mind to go to one of the fashionable resorts for bis month’s vacation, but this appealing advertisement decided him. It was just a few lines of small type, but every sentence painted alluringly the delights of a summer on a farm and announced that Elm farm was to be rented for the month of August at an extremely reasonable rate. Trescott wrote to “E. Marsden, agent,” and the answer decided him. He could have a far better time than would be his If cooped up in some stuffy room at an expensive hotel, and the thought of a wbole house to himself for an entire month was attractive after having occupied the tiny bedroom and parlor of a bachelor apartment for eleven months. So Marsden engaged to have the farmhouse put In proper order by the first Saturday In August. It was with pleasurable anticipation thatTrescottclimbed Into the buckboard that met him at the station. The farm was a comfortable looking place, some fifteen acres in extent, and bordering a small lake. The house, a two story frame, was painted, and beds of flowers made the front yard gorgeous. Inside it was the pink of cleanliness, but the place struck a chill to his soul. The arrangement of the furniture reminded him of the cheap boarding bouse in which he had spent his first years in the city, and try as he would he could not alter the gaunt arrangement of the place. He had sent some money to the agent with the request that some simple groceries be put in, and he had no trouble in getting bis supper, but the moment the meal was

“TOD CAN HELP!” SHE CONCEDED, WITH A SMILE.

over and the dishes washed he went out of doors to smoke his pipe. He did not enter the place again until it was time to seek the chill bedroom. It was raining the next morning, and he spent a most miserable day roaming about the dreary rooms and wishing for the Sunday papers. He had a couple of books in his satchel, but he could not make himself comfortable enough to read, and. after vainly seeking to the furniture about into some semblance of comfort, he gave it up and dragged an old rocker out to the barn. Here, at least, he felt less oppressed by the dreariness of it all. He spent a fairly comfortable after: noon and was just about to rouse himself to go in and prepare supper when the sound of wheeis caught his ear, followed in a moment by the jangle of the doorbell. He raced across the yard and through the house to present himself at the door. A young girl stood on the porch, while an elderly woman sat In the covered buggy. “Good afternoon,” was her brisk greeting. “Is Mrs. Trescott at home?” There isn’t any Mrs. Trescott.” he said, with a laugh, “unless you mean my mother. She la In England just now.” <

“I am Miss Marsden,” she explained “I drove out to get acquainted ane see how you liked the place. I sup posed, of course, that there was a fam ily.” “There Isn’t any family,” he “and I don’t like the place. Of ajj the dismal places I was ever in this 1« the worst I was going In to tell yout brother so in the morning. ‘Comfort able and homelike,* ” he quoted from the advertisement "And he promised to have it all fixed up.” “There was a woman here all day Friday,” the girl said.’ “Didn’t she clean up properly Y' “She cleaned up,” he conceded, “but I can’t make the place look homelike. I shiver every time I look at it I’m going to change the name and call it Lemon farm Instead.” “I guess It’s not as bad as that,” she said, with a rippling laugh. “I thought there wonld be a woman In the family

nr ■ to make things look ‘homey,’ so I did not cqme myself. May we come in?” He stood aside in silent Invitation. He followed them Into the bouse, and bis admiration for the personality of the brisk young woman increased as she rapidly moved from room to room, giving the touch here and there that was needed to transform the apartments. “You’re a magician,” he declared as, with a final pat to the sefa pillows. She transformed the parlor and moved Into the dining room. “Now It looks like a place to be lived in." “It’s the purely feminine touch that no bachelor can acquire,” she said, with a little laugh. “If I had known that you were alone, I should have been out yesterday morning before you arrived.” “I’m glad you waited,” he said simply. “Won’t you and your mother stay to supper? I can cook If I can’t keep bouse. I will put the horse up and you can telephone your brother.” “I am ‘E. Marsden,’ ” she explained. “I have no brother. When father died I decided to keep up the business. Eva Marsden did not took very well, and, besides, people do not like to do business with a woman. So, between the simple Initial and a typewriter, I manage to get along.” “You should come to* town,’’ he advised, “and call yourself a ‘homemaker.’ It ought to be worth a lot of money.”' “That might be profitable In winter,” she agreed. “Perhaps I will try It” “But In the meantime, supper,” he insisted. "I’ll look after the librae. There are a couple of magazines you might care to look at while I am gone. I shall not be long.” He dashed out to get the horse under cover. He returned the back way and surprised the girl bustling about the kitchen. “You can help,” she conceded, with a smile, “but I Just know that you can’t make biscuit.” s 'But 1 can,” be insisted. “I’ll show you some day. Meantime I’ll make the coffee and put the things on the table.” “The table is all set,” she cried. “Y'ou must think me a very slow housekeei>or.” ' “It takes me longer than that,” he admitted, “though I suppose %at practice makes perfect, and before long I shall be able to do as well as you.” “I’ll come to tea on your last night here and let you give a graduation exhibition,” she promised, with a laugh. “Meantime you might get some fresh water.” Trescott was sorry to see them drive off, but the girl lef? behind the fragrant memory of her presence, and the place seemed homelike at last Trescott saw much of the Marsdens in the days that followed, and long before the end of his month he had come to love the light hearted girl who had faced the world so bravely when necessity demanded. The vacation drew to a close all too soon, and Trescott insisted upon bolding Eva to her promise to attend his graduation exhibition. Afterward they sat out under the trees while Mrs. Marsden drowsed contentedly upon the porch. “Have you been thinking over that homemaking proposition?” he asked. Eva looked up, with a smile. “I think I lack the courage to make a try,” she confessed. “It has been very easy here. It is best to leave well enough alone.” “Do y.ou think you would care to take on a single contract?” he suggested. “Y'ou have spoiled me for a bachelor apartment” “I might help you get started in a flat,” she agreed. “I usually take a vacation after the summer season Is over. I could help you buy your things and settle them.” “But I should want you to stay and help use them,” he explained—“to be a perpetual homemaker to one lone bachelor. What do you say, dear?” “I think,” she whispered, “that I should like that plan better than the first” ‘"Then seal the contract with a kiss,” pleaded Trescott.

Mussulman Law Against Painting.

“Do you paint?” I asked, going toward the easel, disguising my surprise at meeting with such disregard of Mussulman customs In this orthodox household. “No, not. painting, just playing. It Is only an Impression, not a reproduction, of one of Allah’s realities.” Good Mussulmans do not believe in “reproducing Allah’s realities,” yet there stood on l the easel a charming pastel. Even orthodox Moslems I saw were not above beating the devil round the stump. - ' “How very beautiful!” I exclaimed. “Atehe Hanum, you are an artist” “Pray, pray, young Hanum,” she protested, a little frightened, I thought; “pray do not say such things. I am not an artist I only play with the colors.” “Let me see some more of your playing,” I persisted. Rather reluctantly, though wishing to comply with her guest’s desires, ■he brought out a large portfolio containing several pastels and water colors, and we sat down on a rug to examine them. Whether they were well done or not I cannot tell, but they were full of life and happiness. The curious part was that whenever she painted any outdoor life she painted It from her window, and on the Panvas first was the window and then through it you saw the landscape as she saw it—Demetra Vaka Brown in Appleton’s.

Mora Appropriate.

Reggy Sapp—The Idea of Miss Wose leaving me and saying she had other fish to fry! Do you think that was proper? Miss Tabasco—l should say not! She •hould have said she had other lobsters to broil.—Chicago News.

“Owen Moore Went Away, Owen Moore Than He Could Pay; Owen Moore Came Back One Day, Owen Moore.” is <?\\ VQ Poor Mr * ® wen \\\ A Moore no doubt lived in a smal * c ‘ ty or * own 0 where * r * ed *° ma^e a living by running a NHL store. The people who W ( were his neighbors in that town and on the 4 | farms around town bought most of their . things from the great | Mail Order houses, { SPtfi P neglecting to trade 1 I /Wjs —’ with Mr. Moore. I Quite naturally, Mr. | Moore failed In busiAM I ness and went away 1 owing more than he V S fT9 cou,d pay * He had to tTJ F go away and find a loy \ cation in some town where the people pat\—U ronlzed home merchants. But the funny poet who wrote those lines was mistaken about Owen Moore coming back one day. Mr. Moore, having been burnt once, would not stick his fingers in the same fire again. No, indeed! Mr. Moore would stay away, not because he was Owen Mobre than he could pay, but because if he ever came back and started again in business there he would be Owen Moore still. He would let the old town continue to grow street grass. Have you been the cause of any Owen Moore tragedies In your town?

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English Sparrow Useful.

In regard to the English sparrow as being destructive to locusts a Medora (Ill.) letter says that thirteen year locusts have appeared In large numbers In Macoupin county, in the woodlands, and fears are expressed that they may damage crops. The discovery has been made, however, that the English sparrow, condemned as one of the farmer’s worst enemies. Is an avowed enemy of the locust, against which It Is waging war and !s killing them by the thousands.—Country Gentleman.

Restoring Wrinkled Silk.

Wrinkled silks may be made to look almost as fresh as when new by sponging the surface with a weak solution of gum arable and by pressing on the wrong side with a moderate hot iron. Loft Over Cabbage. Mix cold boiled cabbage with a little Coated cheese, moisten with milk, put In a stoneware baking dish and ccwer with buttered crumbs. When baked this will prove a very palatable dish.