Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1907 — Page 6

The KING of DIAMONDS.

Author of “Wings of the Morning,” “Tha Pillar of Light.” Etc. COPYRIGHT. 1004, By EDWARD J. CLODS.

“What has happened?*’ he demanded. "Is anybody hurt?” The man answered: "My horses were startled by the •term. I jumped out and was endeavoring to extricate my niece when this wretched l>oy got In the way.” "Uncle,” protested the girl, "you closed the door on me, and the boy”— “Shut up!” he growled curtly. “Go Inside the bouse!” But his niece shared with him at least one characteristic. She possessed the family temper. , “I will not go away and let yon say things which are not true. Listen to me, Mr. Policeman. Lord Vanstone’ did close the door because he thought the carriage would turn over on top of him. Fpr some reason the accident did not happen Immediately, and the boy ran round to the other side and helped me out Just in time.” "Confound the brnt! I think he was the real cause of the whole affair. Why was he hiding In my doorway?" Lord Vanstone was more enrnged than ever by the girl's obstinate defense of her rescuer and her Insistence on his own seeming cowardice. “I was not hiding. I only took shelter from the storm. I tried to help you because the footman was struggling with the horses. I do not claim any credit for simply opening a door and helping the young lady to alight, but I lost both my dinner and my papers In doing so.” Every one experienced a shock of Surprise at hearing the boy’s elegant diction. Tlio policeman was puzzled. He Instantly understood the facta, but dared not browbeat an earl. "You do not bring any charge against him, my lord?” he said. Bnt his lordship deigned no reply. He told the coachman to arrange for the removal of the carriage, grasped bis niece by the arm and led her, Jtlll protesting, Into the house. The policeman saw the bundle of papers scattered over the roadway and near them the partly eaten bun. After a wrench at his garments he produced a penny. “Here,” he said to the boy. “Buy another bun and be off. It’s a good job for you the young lady spoke up the way she did.” “She merely tolil the truth. That man was a liar.” Refusing the proffered penny, the boy turned on his heel. The policeman looked after him. “That’s a queer kid,” ho thought. "Talked like a regular young gent. I wonder why he is selling papers. Poor lad! He lost a bob's worth at least, and small thanks he got for it.” Passing out of the square by the first eastward street, Philip Anson, with his head erect and hands clinched In his pockets, strode onward at a rapid pace. The lightning was less frequent now, and the thunder was flying away In sullen rumblings. He was wet and hungry, yet, although he had three bnlfi>ence, the remaining balance of the only sales effected that evening, he passed many shops where be could have bought food. In Piccadilly, where the cessation of the storm created a rush of traffic, he was nearly run over by reason of bis own carelessness and received a slash from a whip, accompanied by a loud oath from an angry cabman. He shivered, bnt never even looked around. Crossing Trafalgar square, ho plunged through the vortex of vehicles without troubling to avoid them In the slightest degree. Once the hot breath of a pair of van horses touched his cheek while a speechless driver pulled them back onto their haunches. Again, the off wheel of pn omnibus actually grazed bis heel as be sped behind the statue of Charles I. At last he reached the comparative ■ecluslon of the Embankment and stood for a moment to gaze fixedly at the swirling, glkuting river. “Not here,” he muttered aloud. “I must be nearer to mother—dear old mother! She Is there waiting for me.” He trudged steadily away though Queen Victoria street, Corulitll, Leadenhall street and so on to Johnson’s Mews, In the Mile End road. Pausing at a marine store dealer’s shop kept by an army j>ensloner, an Irishman, With whom he had a slight acquaintance, he entered. An elderly man was laboriously reading a paper of the preceding day’s date. “Good evening, Mr. O’Brien,” he said. “Can you oblige me with a piece of rope? I want a strong piece about three or four yards In length. I can only spare three halfpence.” “Falx, I dunno. They use nails on the crates mostly nowadays. If I have a bit It's at yer sarvice. I wouldn’t be afther chargin’ the likes o’ you.” Philip’s story was known In that hnmble locality, and the old aoldler Sympathized with the boy. “He has tale spunk an’ no mistake,” was his verdict when others said Philip was proud and overbearing. O’Brien moved rheumatlcally about the squalid ‘ shop. At last he found some portion es a clothesline. “Will that dor he inquired. Philip tested It with vigorous pulling against bis knee. "Excellently,” he said. “Let me pay yon for ML” "Aarah, ye!_ Arid, be

By Louis Tracy,

the powers, Isn'F'Tbe poor lad cowld an’ furnished? Luke here, now. In five minutes I’m goln’ to have a cup o’ tny.” “I am awfully obliged to you, but I could not touch a mors&l. I am In a hurry.” “Are ye goln’ a Journey? Have ye got a Job?” “I think so. It looks like a permanency. Good by.” “Goodby, an’ good luck to ye. Sure the boy looks mighty quare. ’Tls grief for his mother has turned his head entirely.” No wqrds could more clearly express Philip’s condition than this friendly summing up. Since his mother's burial he hud been half demented. His curt, disconnected answers had lost him two places as an errand boy, which he could easily have secured. His small stock of money, ridiculously depleted by the generosity with which be met the open hints of the undertaker's assistants, barely sufficed to keep him In food for a week. Then he sought employment, but with such stiff upper lip and haughty Indifference to success that he unknowingly turned those against him who would have assisted him. For two days he was chosen to act as van boy for a parcel delivery firm. He earned a few meals, but In a fit of aberration Induced by the sight of a lady who was dressed In a costume similar to one he remembered his mother wearing at Dieppe, he allowed a ham to be stolen from the rear of the van. This procured his instant dismissal, with threats. Then he Bold newspapers, only to find that every good site was jealously guarded by a gang of roughs who mercilessly bullied any newcomer. Personal strength and courage were unavailing against sheer numbers. His face was still swollen and his ribs sore as the result of being knocked down and kicked at Ludgate Circus. At Charing Cross next day he was hustled under the wheels of an omnibus and narrowly escaped death. So he was driven Into the side streets and the quiet squares. In which, during three or four days, he managed to earn an average of elghtpence daily, which he spent on food. Each night ho crept back to the poor tenement In Johnson’s Mews, his bleak “home” amid the solitude of empty stables and warehouses. The keeper of a coffee stall, touched one night by his woebegone appearance, gave him some half dried coffee grounds In a paper, together with a handful of crusts. "Put ’arf that in a pint of water.” he said, looking critically at the soddoned mass of coffee, “an’ when It comes to a bile let it settle. It’ll surprise you to find *ow grateful an’ comfortin’ it tastes on a cold night. As for tlio crusts, if you bake ’em over the fire, they’re just as good as the rusks you buy in tins.” This good Samaritan had repeated his gift on two occasions, and Philip had a fairly large supply of small coal, sent to his mother by the colliery company, so his position,desperate enough, was yet l)earable had he but sought to accustom himself to the new conditions of life. There was a chance that his wild breedings would have yielded to the necessity to earn a living, and that when next a situation was offered to him he would keep It, but the occurrences of this stormy night had utterly shaken him for the hour. He was on the verge of lunacy. As he passed through the dark archway leading to his abode, the desolate stable yard was fitfully lit by lightning and in the distance he heard the faint rumble of thunder. The elemental strife was beginning again. This was the second and more disastrous outbreak of the evening of March 19. Although wet to the skin, he was warm now on account of his long and rapid walk. When he unlocked the door another flash lightning revealed the dismal Interior. He closed and locked the door behind him. On the mantelpiece were a farthing eandle and some matches. He groped for them and soon had a light On other occasions his next task was to light a fire. By sheer force of habit he gathered together some sticks and bits of paper and arranged them In the grate. But the task was Irksome to him. It was absurd to seek any degree of comfort for the few minutes he had to live. Better end It atonce. Moreover, the storm was sweeping up over the East End with such marvelous speed that the lightning now played through the tiny room with dazzling brilliancy, and the wretched candle burned with blue and ghostlike feebleness. The cold of the bouse, too, began to Btrike chilly. He was so exhausted from hunger that if he did not eat soon be would not hare the strength left to carry out his dread purpose. He sprang erect with a mocking little laugh, picked up the candle and the piece of rope and climbed the atairg. He paused irresolutely at the top, but, yielding to overwhelming desire, went on and stood at the side of the bed on which his mother bad died. He fancied he could see her lying there still, with a smile on her wane face unspoken words of welcome on her Ups. A flood of tears came and he trembled violently.

T am coming to you, mother," be murmured. “You told me to trust la God, but I think God has forgotten me, I don’t want to live. I want to join yon, and then perhaps God will remember me.” He stooped and kissed the pillow, nestling his face against it, as he was wont to fondle the dear face that rested there so many weary days. Then he resolutely turned away, descended four steps of the ladder-like stairs and tied the clothesline firmly to a hook which had been driven into the ceUlng during the harness room period of the room beneath. With equal deliberation he knotted the other end of the cord round his neck, and he calculated that by springing from the stairs he would receive sufficient shock to become insensible very quickly, while his feet would dangle several Inches above the floor. There was a terrible coolness, a settled fixity of purpose far beyond his years, In the manner of these final preparations. At last they were completed. He blew out the candle and stood erect. At that Instant the room became absolutely flooded with lightning, not in a single vivid flash, but In a trembling, continuous glare that suggested the effect of some luminous constellation fierce with electric energy. Before his eyes was exhibited a startling panorama of the familiar objects of his lonely abode. The brightness, so sustained and tremulous, startled him Back from the very brink of death. “I will wait,” he said. “When the thunder comes, then I will Jump.” Even as the thought formed in hts mind a ball of fire so glowing, so iridescent, in Its flaming heat that It dominated the electric waves fluttering In the overburdened air darted past the little window thpt looked out over the tiny yard In the rear of the house and crashed through the flagstones with the din of a ten inch shell. Philip, elevated on the stairway, distinctly saw the molten splash which accompanied its Impact He saw the heavy stones riven asunder as if they were tissue paper, and from the hole caused by the thunderbolt or meteor came a radiance that sent a spreading shaft of light upward like the beam of a searchlight. The warmth, too, of the object was almost overpowering. Were not the surrounding walls constructed of stone and brick there must have been an immediate . outbreak of Are. As It was, the glass in the windows cracked and the woodwork began to scorch. In the same instant a dreadful rolljof thunder swept over the locality, and a deluge of rain, without any further warning, descended. All this seemed to the wondering boy to be a very long time In passing. In reality It occupied but a very few seconds. People In the distant street could not distinguish the crash of the fallen meteor from the accompanying (bunder, and the downpour of rain came In the very nick of time to prevent the wood In the house and the neighboring factories from blazing forth Into a disastrous fire. The torrent of water caused a dense volume of steam to generate in the back yard, and this helped to minimize the strange light shooting up from the cavity. There was a mad hissing and crackling as the rain poured over the meteor and gradually dulled its brightness. Pandemonium raged In that curiously secluded nook. Amazed and cowed, not by the natural phenomenon he had witnessed, but by the Interpretation he placed on It, the boy unfastened the rope from his neck. “Very well, mother,” he whispered aloud. “If It Is your wish, I will live. I suppose that God speaks in this way,” [TO BE CONTINUED]

AS OTHERS THINK.

Everyone In Rensselaer Has a Right to His Own Opinion. While everyone has a right to his own opinion, yet it is wise to always consider what others think and profit by their experience. Nothing makes life so miserable, or interfere so widely with the usefulness of the average American, as indigestion, and it is well for us to give fair consideration to what others think about this remarkable affiction. B. F. Fendig is positive that in Mi-o-na stomach tablets he has an absolute cure for indigestion and the many disagreeable symptoms that follow this disease, such as distress after eating, coated tongue, bad taste in mouth, dizziness, flatulence, nervousness and ityHis action in selling Mi-o-ma on a guarantee to refund the money unless its cares, shows plainly his belief in the value of this remedy. He takee all the risk, and there will be no oharge whatever for Mi-o-na unless you are satisfied that it has relieved yon of indigestion.

LAND BAROAINS 480 acres, mostly smooth black prairie land in meadow or pasture; has large ditob, ou main road, near good markets, fenoed but no buildings. Fine for cultivation or pasture. Will divide to suit and sell on easy terms at the low price of S3O per acre.- G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale:— Pure White Wyandotte cockerels, SI.OO eaoh, Duston strain. Allen Witham, R-R-2 Rensselaer, Ind. Sale bills printed while you wait at the Democrat office,

Farm and Garden

FEEDING SHEEP.

Satisfactory Davies For Holding Hay, Silags or Grain. In describing a hay and grain rack a well known sheep feeder writes In National Stockman and Fanner aa follows; The best kind of a device will depend upon what is to be done with the sheep. If for fattening sheep or those being wintered as stores I have never found a better rack than the single one

SINGLE RACK.

shown in the eul for a side rack or ti stand so that the back side of It will form an alley fence, or It may stand out in the pen so sheep cun go all around it It can be made double, as is also pictured. In either case the posts should be thirty inches high. The flat part of each side of bottom should be ten inches wide. The slnnting pieces of double rack should each be ten Inches and put together as shown. In the single rack the slanting board should be fourteen Inches.

The bottom strip on both racks should be eight and the top strip four inches wide respectively. This will make the uprights between sheep fourteen inches in the clear, and they should lap on both the bottom and top strip far enough to be nailed firmly with clinch nails., These uprights should be three Inches wide and planed so as to be smooth, and the distance apart will depend upon the size of sheep. Lambs will do well with them one foot from the centers, but larger

DOUBLE BACK.

sheep should have them far enough apart so there will be room for sheep to come up and eat without crowding. These strips allow the sheep to come straight up to the rack and eat, but prevent one sheep from crowding all the others out of the rack, which a stout sheep is sure to do without these crosspieces. The slanting boards ou the bottom have their lower edges slanted off so as to fit tightly upon the bottom board and be well nailed. These racks may be of any convenient length, but if no more than eighteen feet long they will need only three sets of posts or legs. In these racks can be fed hay, silage, roots and grain by being cleaned of soiled or dirty food, which Is very easily done with a wooden shovel made on purpose or by a stiff broom.

Roots For Farm Animals.

If roots are stored in a pit In the field a high, dry place should be chosen. If the ground Is clayey the roots should be placed on top of the ground. If It Is gravelly and drainage"ls good a shallow pit about five feet wide and of necessary length may be shoveled out The roots should be carefully placed In a gable shaped pile about five feet wide and as long as convenient A thin layer of straw should then be laid over the pile and this covered with six te eight Inches of earth. Another and thicker layer of straw and a final layer of earth will complete the work. Ventilators should be placed at intervals of ten or fifteen feet which should be closed when sweating has ceased. The pit should not be .opened on warm days in winter. A ditch for drainage should be cut around the pit Roots stored In this way do not keep as well as when stored in a good cellar; therefore they should be fed out as early as possible. —New York Cornell Experiment Station. \

Celery Stored In Cellars.

Where celery is stored in/cellars the temperature should be kept low and plenty of ventilation maintained. The warmth and dampness of the ordinary cellar have a tendency to cause the celery to decay, but these conditions can frequently be overcome. Celery will readily absorb any odor that may be present In the atmosphere of the storage place, and care should be taken Jo provide sanitary conditions. The plants should have most of their roots attached, and a bed of moist sand in which to set them should be provided.

Apple Paring Machines.

Paring machines are made for operating either by hand*or power. The mote recent patterns have two or even three forks for holding the applee while they are being pared. The attendant puts an apple on one of the forks while one on another fork is bn tog peeled.—H. P. Gould.

HMlms to Loan! Ws are prepared to taka oare as all tha Farm Lean bualneaa In thle and adjoining oountlee at Low ear Rates and Best Teems, regardless of the ”flnaaolal stringency.” If you havo a loan coming dua or daalra a new lean It will! not ha necessary to pay tha axeaaalva rates demandsd by our competitors. FIVE PER CENT. Bmoii GomiDtssion • Prompt service Irwin & Irwin Odd Fellow* Bldg., Rensselaer, Ind.

Rheumatism I her* found a triad and tested core for Rheumatism t Not a remedy that will straighten the distorted limbs of chronic cripples, nor tom bony growths back to flash again. That Is Impossible. But I can now sorely kill the pains and pangs of this deplorable disease. In Germany—with a Chemist In the City of Darmstadt—l found the last ingredient with Which Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Remedy was made a perfected, dependable prescription. Without that last ingredient. I successfully treated many, many cases of Rheumatism; bnt now, at last. It uniformly cures all curable cases of this! heretofore much dreaded disease. Those sand-like granular wastes, found in Rheumatic Blood, seem to dissolve and pass away under the action of this remedy as freely as does sugar when added to pure water. And then, when dissolved, these poisonous waits* freely pass from the system, and the cause of Rheumatism Is gone forever. There la now no reel need—no actual excuse to suffer longer without help. We sell, and in confidence recommend Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Reined A. F. LONG. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. L ew, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA Wnt. B. Austin. 4 Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell .and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building, Loan and Savings Association, Office over Chicago Department Store, RENSSELAER, IND. J.P.lrwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance. 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSRLABR, INDIANA. Frank Foltz C. G, Spitler Foltz & Spitler (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Bcoks in the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Chas. M. Sands LAWYER LAW, COLLECTIONS AND ABSTRACTS Office: Room 1, I. O, O. F. Building. Office Phone No. 140 Rensselaer - Indiana Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, - - - Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office uostairs in Durand Block, E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Orrifli Pmoni 177. Rmibinoi Pmoni, Isl, M. D. Qwin, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON; Office opposite Postoffice, In Murray's new building. Phonz 90S, day or night. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician ond surgeon, RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Chronle Diseases a Specialty. A. N. Lakin, M. D. Pbyalclan and Surgeon DeMotte, . . • . Indiana. ’Phone DeMotte, Day or Night. H. L. Brown, . DENTIST. Office over Larch's drug store The Democrat and the Chicago Daily Examiner, both a full year, for only 13.00. ■ fj

Chloago to Northwoat, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and tha South, Loulovlllo and Franoh Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, in Effaot Fall. 26,1906. South Bound. go. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a m SiSllSfi'rSi'i.tefc!-.; }#£;- No.Sl—Feat Mall ......: 4:41 North Bound. (daily) 1 ;3l a.'aa !!S!S:S •No. Local freight 0:55 a. m •Daily except Sunday. tSunday only. No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers fdr Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon. _ „ „ Frank J. Rxxd, G. P. a., We H. MoDokl, President and Gen. MVr. Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M’g’r, OMtOASO. W. H. Bxam Agent. Rensselaer.

towaip HUB’ mm, Jordan Township. The undersigned, trustee of Jordan town* ship, attends to official busineaa at his res! dence on the first Saturday of each month: alao at the Shtde schoolhouse on the east side, on the third Saturday of each month between the hours of 9 a. m.. and 8 p. m. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Goodland. Ind. R-F-D. CHAS. E SAGE, Trustee. Newton Township. The undersigned, trustee of Newton town - ship, attends to official busineaa at hia residence on Thursday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address Rensselaer, Indiana. Phone 36-A Mt. Ayr Exchange. W. B. YEOMAN. Trustee. Union Township. The undersigned. trustee of Union township, attends to official busineaa at his residence on Friday of each week. Persona having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Indiana. R. F. D. 3. HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. JCirr, TOWHSHIP DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor... ..J. H.S. Ellis Marshal Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer- Moses Leopold Attorney ... Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer R. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Steward councllmxn. Ist ward -1.... H. L. Brown 2d ward J. F. Irwin 8d ward Ell Gerber At Large C. G. Spitler, Jay W. Williams COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C, Warner Sheriff John O’Connor Auditor J, N. LeatheYman Treasurer ...S. R. Nichols Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest R. Lamaon County Assessor John Q. Lewis COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymire •rd District .Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD GF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Washington Cook. Hanging Grove M. W. Coppess Gillam Grant Davisson Barkley Charles E. Stackhouse .Marion Charles E. Sage— .Jordan W. B. Yeoman Newton George L. Parks Mllroy Fred Karch.. Walker Henry Feldman..., Keener Charles Stalbaum .Kankakee Robert A.Mannan.... Wheatfleld Anson A. Fell Carpenter Harvey Davisson Union Ernest Lamson Co. Supt Rensselaer B. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green. Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatneld Truant Officer W. S. Parks, Rensselaer JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney R. O. Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday In February. April. September and November.

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