Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1908 — Page 6

The KING of DIAMONDS.

\ Author of "Wlntfa of the Momintf,” “The Pillar of y. Light,” Etc. y * ♦ COPYRIGHT. 1004. By EDWARD J. CLODE.

SYNOPSIS TO PREVIOUS CHAPTERB. Chapter I—At Johnson’s Mews, a slum In London, Philip Anson, a well reared boy cf about fifteen, loses his mother, the only tdallve, so far as he knows, that he has In the world. He finds a package of letters, many of them from a Sir Philip Morland, refusing aid to Mrs. Anson. Mrs. Anson was a Miss Morland and was thought by her relatives to have married beneath tier station. ll—During a great atorm Philip saves a little girl, addressed as Elf, from being crushed by a carriage. In his squalid apartments Philip, sick of the outlook and discouraged, is about to hang himself when a huge meteor falls in the courtyard. Philip, sympathetic and imaginative, regards it as a message from his mother in heaven. Ill—With some fragments of the meteor Philip goes to a jeweler. He is told that they are diamonds and Is referred to Isaacsteln ft Co., London's largest dealers In diamonds. TV—lsaacsteln Is astounded by the gems Philip shows him and has the boy arrested. V—lsaacsteln explains In court that the gems are doubtless of recent meteoric origin. Vl—The wife of Sir Philip Morland reads In the papers about Philip and his marvelous diamonds and aends to Johnson's Mews to Inquire about him. She learns nothing. Philip Is dismissed from custody, vll—Philip agrees to supply Isaacsteln with a quarter of a million pounds sterling worth of diamonds each year for many years. VIII and IX—At Johnson's Mews, while Philip «is preparing to remove the rest of his diamonds, ne detects an Intruder, who, with the assistance of a policeman. Is captured. He Is a noted criminal named Jocky Mason. Philip removes his diamonds forever from Johnson's Mews. X, XI and Xll—lsaacsteln sells thirty of Philip's diamonds for £62,000. XIII— Ten years later, when Jocky Mason gets out of prison, he sees the Mary Anson Home For Destitute Boys, which was founded by Philip, XlV—Philip rescues a girl from Insult at the hands of two men, one of whom Is Victor Grenier, an ex-fellow convict of Jocky Mason. XV and XVl—The girl rescued by Philip is a Miss Atherley, an opera singer, who proves to be the Elf of Philip's adventure of many years before. Grenier's companion was a nephew of Grenier. His name is Langdon. XVII —Philip receives a letter telling him that Sir Philip Morland is dying and begging him to come. A man calling himself ‘Tir. Williams" meets Philip at the depot and escorts him to the house. XVlll—Philip finds too late that he has fallen into a trap set by Grenier, Jocky Mason ana Langdon. Philip Is struck violently on -the head bv Mason and is supposed to be dead. Ills body is stripped naked and thrown from a cliff into the sea. Grenier, who resembles Philip, is to take his place In the world and got hold -cf his money, for the gang.

The following day It was Mason’s duty to report himself under hls ticket-of-leave, but It was quite unusual for the police to give a preliminary warning In this respect. Failure on his part meant arrest. That was all the officials looked after. “What’s up now?" he muttered. "Anyway, Grenier was right. This gives me a cast iron alibi. I’ll acknowledge It at once.” Hlb accomplice, hoping to obtain sleep from champagne, consumed the contents of a small bottle In hls bedroom, while he scanned the columns of the local evening papers for any reference to a “seaside mystery" on the Yorkshire coast. There was none. Anson’s body had not been recovered yet. Before going to bed he wound Philip’s watch. He examined it now with greater interest than be had bestowed ~on It hitherto. Although silver, it appeared to be a good one. He opened the case to examine the works. Inside there was an Inscription: Presented to Philip Anson, aged fifteen years, by the officers and men of th« Whitechapel division of the metropolitan police as a token of their admiration for his bravery in assisting to arrest a notorious burglar. Beneath was the date of Mason’k capture. “Where was I ten years ago?” ht mused. He looked back through the soiled leaves of a sordid record and found that he \yas then acting in a melo drama entitled “The Wages of Sin.” And the wages of sin is death! The drama insisted on the full measure of Biblical accuracy. Altogether Grenier lay down to rest under unenviable conditions. He dreamed that he was falling down precipices and striking sheets of blue water with appalliug splashes. Each time he was awakened by the shock. But lie was a hardy rogue where conscience was concerned, and he swore himself to sleep again. Itest he must have. He must arise with steady head and clear brain. He was early astir. Hls first act was to send for the Yorkshire morning papers. They contained no news of Philip Ansou dead, but the lbcal sheet chronicled hls arrival at York. This was excellent. The banker would see it. A few priuted lines carry great weight In such matters. Then he signed the leases, dispatched them In a typewritten envelope and telegraphed: Documents forwarded this morning. Please meet wishes expressed in letter. “Surely,” he reflected, “Abingdon will not give another thongbt to .my proceedings. Philip Anson is not a boy In leading strings.” He wired to Evelyn: Sorry for misunderstanding. Blue Atom must wait until my return. Here was a way out Whatever that wretched speck of color meant, it could be dealt with subsequently. But Evelyn’s prompt reply only made confusion worse confounded: Delay is impossible. The man has put oft the duchess two days already. So a man and a duchess and a period of time were mixed up with a blue •tom. He must do something desperate—begin his plan of alienation sooner than be intended. He answered:

By Louis Tracy,

Too busy to attend to matter further. Going to Leeds today. Letters here aa usual. And to Leeds he went. Residence in York was a fever—a constant fret. In Leeds he was removed from the arena. He p A sued the afternoon and evening In roaming the streets, consumed with a fiery desire to be doing, daring, braving difficulties. Rut he must wait at least another day before he could lay bands on any portion of Philip Anson's wealth save the money stolen from his pockets. At the hotel there was only one letter and no telegrams. The London bankers wrote: We beg to acknowledge yours of yesterday. Your cash balance at date Is £12.410 9s. Id. Your securities in our possession amount to a net value at today’s prices of about £920,000, including £260,000 consols at par. We will forward you a detailed list if desired and will be pleased to realize any securities as directed. Kindly note that Instructions for sals should be given in your bandwriting and not typed.

There was Joy, Intoxicating almost to madness, in this communication, but it was not unleavened by the elements of danger and delay. His signature had been accepted without demur. He could control an enormous sum without question. These were the entrancing certainties which dazzled his eyes for a time. But It was horribly annoying that a millionaire should keep his current account so low, and the concluding paragraph held a bogey, not wholly unforeseen, but looming large when it actually presented Itself. The memorandum In Philip’s handwriting on Evelyn’s letter was now

Inside the watch there was an inscription.

thrice precious. He hurriedly scrutinized it and at once commenced to practice the words. “Devonshire” and “Sharpe” gave him the capitals for “Dear Sirs.” He was at a loss for a capital “C,” but he saw that Philip used the simplest and boldest outlines In hls caligraphy, and he must risk a “C” without the upper loop. In “Lady M.,” too, he had the foundation of the “£" to precede the requisite figures. Soon he framed a letter in the fewest words possible: Yours of today’s date received. Kindly sell consols value £150,000 and place the same to my credit.

He copied it again and again, until it was written freely and carelessly, and every letter available compared favorably with the orginal in hls posses* blou. Then be posted it, thus saving a day, according to bis calculations.

With this missive committed Irrevocably to the care of bis majesty’s mails, Victor Grenier’s spirits rose. Now, indeed, be was In the whirlpool. Would he emerge high and dry in the El Dorado of gilded vice which be longed to enter, or would fortune consign him to Portland again—perchance to the scaffold? He could not say. He would not feel safe until Philip Anson was a myth and Victor Grenier a reality, with many thousands in the bank.

Already be was planning plausible lies to keep Mason out of his fair share of the plunder. A few more forged letters would easily establish the fact that he >vas unable to obtain a bigger haul than, say, £50,000. And what did Mason want with £25,000? He was a gnurled man, with crude tastes. Twenty, fifteen, ten thousand would be ample for bis wants. The sooner he drank himself to death the better.

With each fresh cigar Mason's moiety shrank in dimensions. The murder was a mere affair of a vengeful blow, but this steady sucking of the millionaire's riches required finesse, a dashing adroitness, the superb impudence of a Cagliostro. But if his confederate’s Interests suffered, the total fixed in Grenier's original scheme in nowise became affected. He meant to have a hundred thousand pounds, and he firmly decided not to go beyond that amount. His letter to the bankers named £150.000, and he calculated that by stopping short at two-thirds of the available

'sum he would uot give auy grounds for suspicion or personal inquiry. Yet he would shirk nothing. Mr. Abingdon and Miss Atherley must be avoided at all events, others be would face blithely. He took care to have ever on the table in his sitting room at goodly supply of wines and spirits. If any one sought an interview. It might %e helpful to sham a slight degree of intoxication. The difference between Philip drunk and Philip sober would then be accounted for readily. But rest—that was denied him. It was one thing to harden himself against surprise, quite another to forget that disfigured corpse swirling about In the North sea. He wished now that Philip Anson had not been cast forth naked. It was a blunder not to dress him, to provide him with means of identification with some unknown Smith or Jones. When he closed his eyes he conld see a shadowy form wavering helplessly in green depths. Never before were bis hands smeared with blood. He had touched every crime save murder.

Physically he was a coward. In plotting the attack on Philip be had taxed his ingenuity for weeks to discover some means where he need not become Mason's actual helper. He rejected project after project. The thing might be bungled, sq be must attend to each part of the undertaking himself abort of using a bludgeon. He slept again and dreamed of long flights through space pursued by demons. How he longed for day! How slowly the hours passed after dawn until the newspapers were obtainable, with their columns of emptiness for him. A letter came from Evelyn. It was a trifle reserved, with an impulse to tears concealed in it: I asked mother for £3O, so the Blue Atom incident has ended, but I don't think I will ever understand the mood In which you wrote your last telegram. Perhaps your letter now in the post—l half expected it at midday—will explain matters somewhat.

He consigned Blue Atom to a sultry clime and began to ask himself why Mr. Abingdon had not written. The ex-magistrate’s reticence annoyed him. r A letter even remonstrating with him Lwould be grateful. This silence was [irritating; it savored of doubt, and {doubt was the one phase of thought he lavished to keep out of Mr. Abingdon’s ‘mind at that moment. As for Evelyn, she mistrusted even hls telegrams, while a bank had accepted his signature without reservation. He would punish her with zest Philip Anson’s memory would be poisoned In her heart long before she realized that be was dead. (To be continued.)

A PIANO AT A NOMINAL PRICE.

Chicago’s largest music house, Lyon Healy, announces a Triple Clearing Sale of Pianos. Nearly one thousand splendid instruments are offered without reserve until all are sold. In this stock are all the fine new Mehlin, Hardman, Ivers & Pond, Smith & Nixon and other noted pianos formerly owned by the Thompson Music Co., the Healy Co., and the big F. G. Therle Piano Co. All these concerns were bought out for spot cash by Lyon & Healy and the public may now share the advantage. In this sale are also a number of Steinway and Weber pianos, in upright pianos neat instruments at SIOO, $l2O, $l4O, $l5O, $165, $l9O, S2OO and upwards. This Is an unprecedented opportunity that will not occur again. Any piano not proving entirely satisfactory may be returned at their expense. Address Lyon & Healy, 77 Adams street, Chicago. Distance is on obstacle, for in proportion to the saving to be made the freight charges are insignificant. Any banker will assure you of the entire responsibility of Lyon & Healy, and their record of 4 4 years for honorable dealing. Write to-day so as to avoid disappointment.

DENTISTRY.

All you’ve “guessed” about artificial teeth may be wrong; what we know about them is the result of long experience. Possibly it would surprise you to know how reasonable In price they are made our way. We make so many sets that we can afford to give you more reasonable prices than most dentists do —that Is, for first-class work. We are told again and again ant, Ivan hoe (Hagermann Pass), New Castle, Grand Junction, Colo.; Helper, Salt Lake City, Ogden, Lemay, Rambo (bn the lake), Utah; Stockton, Oakland, San Francisco, San Ardo, Watsonville, Pajaro, San Luis, Obispo, California. While at that our work is by far the best In the district. We always intended that it should be; we always try to give superlative service. We use the best materials, take greatest pains. Our fee depends upon what requires to be done. We always give estimates most gladly, and we guarantee entire satisfaction. J. W. HORTON, Dentist. „ On East Side.

FOR SALE. A brick livery barn with good basement. Three good office rooms above, all occupied. Two good business rooms on ground floor, one with good basement, all occupied. The price is right. LAWRENCE OR CONRAD HILDEBRAND, Rensselaer, Ind. McKay sells ice cream in any amount from one-half pint to ten gallons.

Northern experiment stations would perform a real service for the northern orchardiar if they would discover some orchard cover crop that could be used Instead of clover, the price of whlcb this year has been almost prohibitive and the getting of a stand of which Is not an easy matter.

Where an abundance of clean straw or even light manure is available s good layer of It scattered among the raspberry bushes is a first rate thing. This covering not only keeps down a rank growth of weeds, but serves aa s mulch to hold the moisture when the dry weather comes on.

The old Indian sign that corn should uot be planted until tbe leaf of the bur oak is as large as a squirrel’s ear is based on a pretty sound meteorological philosophy In that It takes real warm weatber, something more than is indicated by the first robin’s song or croak of frog, to start buds on tbe deep rooted oak.

Tbe experience of a good many farmers in the north part of the corn belt last year points quite conclusively to the fact that the rather small and early maturing variety of native corn is a better agricultural asset than the big shoe peg kernel variety that gets pinched by the frost at both ends of tbe season and sours on the cob after it is put in the crib.

One section of 200 acres near the town of Sanford. Fla., has given a gross return of $250,000, or $1,250 per acre, when devoted to the growing of celery. This was in a portion of the state formerly devoted to orange growing. bnt the killing freeze of some two years ago. which wiped out almost every orange grove in the state, made the raising of some other crop necessary.

One of the results of the prevalence of the rabbit peat in Australia haa been the building of a rabbit proof fence across the continent a distance of 2,020 miles. The cost of this bunny barricade, which was recently completed, was close to $1,250,000. It it furnished at Intervals of five miles with systems of traps, In which hundreds of rabbits are captured and destroyed dally. On the eastern side of the fence rabbits are said to be teeming and vegetation almost completely destroyed, while on the west side the rodents have not aa yet put in an appearance.

The highest dam In the world was lately begun near Cody, Wyo., when the first stone was laid on solid rock sixty-five feet below the bed of the river In the foundation of the big Shoshone river dam, which is being built under the government reclamation service. Exclusive of the foundation, the dam will be 315 feet high, overtopping any structure of its kind In the world, and will form a reservoir for a water supply which will make possible the conversion of 120,000,000 acres of land which produces now naught but sagebrush. greasewood and cactus Into productive orchards, gardens and grainfields.

A bulletin issued by the bureau of statistics of the federal department of agriculture gives the estimated losses of the different kinds of farm animals for the year ended April 1, 1908, as follows: Horses, per cent loss from disease 1.7, number 342,000; cattle, from exposure and disease 3.1 per cent, 2.203.000; sheep, from exposure and disease 4.5 per cent, 2,478,000; swine, from disease 5.2 per cent, 2,940,000. In the case of botb cattle and sheep the looses from exposure for the year Just closed are considerably less than for the preceding year and still smaller In comparison with the figures given for the ten year average loss from this cause.

If the true reason could be got at the difference between the milk production of a cow In different seasons, barring that due to the process of maturing, It would quite likely be found to be the kind of a pasture she had,*} fact not fully realized perhaps at the time. From the financial standpoint abundant pasturage, for which one pays $8 or $9 for the season. Is a decidedly better proposition than that which may be had for $6, but which does not furnish a sufficient amount of nutrition above that actually required to keep the physical organism of the cow going. Unless the feed In a pasture Is exceptionally heavy it ought not to carry more than two cows for every three acres. On this acconnt pasturage that is nominally cheap may be very expensive.

Doubtless a good many readers of these notes will some time this spring be under necessity of grading up about their premises and getting a lawn started, and in the doing of this it is well to remember two or three simple thing*. One is that so far as may be possible the soil used for a top dressing should not only be fine and rich, but should be as free as possible from weed seeds. When the soil has been graded up as one desires it should be floated or rolled until it is firm and solid. This will give the lawn grass which is sown a suitable seed bed and will keep the plot from being •easily marred should any person or stray animal tread on it. White clover and blue grass make an excellent lawn in most sections and should be sown at the rate of three parts of blue grass to one of clover. Frequent watering in case of an insufficient rainfall will be all that is needed to give a good stand of grass. The new grass should not be mowed until it has made a good growth and developed a fairly strong root Oats are sometimes sown with the grass seed as a sort of nurse crop; but this is not necessary if care is exercised in the particulars mentioned.

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C cfncinn.ti 0 .^ or iS we * t ’ Indianapolis, UckXW. ' LOU, * VU '* RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect Feb. 25, 1908. _ SOUTH bound. No. 6—Louisville Mail (daily) io-sk. vnioZMiliP 0118 MaU w*uy?- 2:015; 5; No-39-Mllk accomm. (dally) 6:40 p.m. (daily) 11:05 p. m •N0.45—-Local freight...,., 12*62 r* m No.3l—Fast Mail. 4:4! £ NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mall (dai1y)........ 4 -30 a m No.4o—Milk accomm. (daily) 731 a m No.32—Fast Mail (dally L... 9:|| a! m No. 6—Mall and Ex. (daily).. 3:18 nm" *No.So—Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:36 p" m - F hl - (Sun.oniy) 2:67 p. ml •No.46—Local freight 9'66a m. •Dally except Sunday. 00 a ' “* No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from pointa south of Monon, and take passengers for LowelL Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connection At Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen’l’Mgr. CHAS. H. ROCKWELL. Traffic Mgr _ „ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

Jordan Township. The undersigned, trustee of Jordan township, attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month; also at the Shlde schoolhouse on the east side, on the third Saturday of each month between the hours of 9 a. m. and 3 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 township, attends to official business at hls residence on Thursday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address Rensselaer, Indiana. Phone 26-A, Mt. Ayr Exchange. W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee. Union Township. The undersigned, trustee of Union township,, attends to official business at hls residence on Friday of each week. Persons having business with me will ? lease govern themselves accordingly. 'ostoffice address, Rensselaer, Indiana, R. F. D. 2. HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. CITY 6FF)CERB. Mayor .J. H. 8. EUls Marshal W. S. Parks Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer ...H. L. Gamble Fire Chief.. J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery Councllmen. Ist ward H. L. Brown 2nd ward ...J. F. Irwin 3rd ward Eii Gerber At large. .G. G. SplUer, Jay W. Williams COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff John O’Connor Auditor J. N. Leatherman Trea5urer..................J. D. Allman Rec0rder......... J. W. Tilton Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools. .Ernest R. Lamson County Assessor.... John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwln Commissioners. Ist District .John Pettet 2nd District. Frederick Waymlre 3rd Di5trict.......... Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees. Townships. Washington Cook Hanging Grove M. W. Coppess Glllam Grand Davisson Barkley Charles F. Stackhouse Marion Charles E. Sage Jordan W. B, Yeoman Newton George L. Parks Milroy 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 E. C. English ..Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer. .C. M. Sands, Rensselaer JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney R. O. Graves Terms of Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms.

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