Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1908 — Page 6

THEIR ANONYMOUS LETTERS.

By C. B. LEWIS.

Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Literary Press.

Everybody, including themselves, •aid It whs a love match between Kitty Kayne and Harry Smedley and that •uch love, trust and confidence were •eldoni to lie found. It did not all end ■with the honeymoon, as a certain crusty old bachelor predicted, but when they had been married a whole year the doves were still cooing Then one evening Mrs. Smedley had a lawn party, and as half a dozen people sat together it was announced that the writer of an anonymous letter had succeeded in separating a certain man and his wife. All expressed their Borrow and Indignation, but host and hostess felt called upon to go further. “The husband who will pay the slightest attention to an anonymous letter should be tabooed from association with all sensible people, 4 was the observation of the husband as ho placed his arm around his wife’s waist. “No one but a coward writes those letters, and no one but a coward would act upon them.” “If 1 should get a hundred anonyUjpus letters concerning Harry I should only laugh at them,” added the wife as she kissed him liefore them all. Three mornings later nt his office Mr. Smedley received a letter. As it was addressed in the handwriting of a

SOMETHING OCCURRED TO CHANGE HIS PLAN.

woman Ue felt quite a bit of curiosity about it. He opened the envelope to find it contained an anonymous letterno date, no signature, just the words: “Watch your wife and you will discover’’— The young husband laughed and started to tear up the missive. Then he restrained his hand, and his laugh faded to a grin. It was a good joke to send him such a missive. lie would carry it home at noon and laugh over it with his little wife. When the coward picked him out to receive such a warning he took the wrong man. He whistled and put the letter in his pocket and began his work. It. was funny, it would raise a laugh. They would show it to their circle, and others would laugh with them. Five minutes later he was saying to himself: "Watch your wife and you will discover” Discover what? he mentally kicked himself for asking, and yet the query kept bobbing up. A contemptible coward of a woman wrote that unfinished sentence and wrote it to make trouble. If he could find her out she should suffer for it. Discover anything wrong on the. part of his pure hearted little wife! The idea was villainous. He put it aside again and again and felt himself almost as moan as the writer when it bobbed up again. The forenoon was so long that he left the office half an hour before 12 and start cd for home, lie wanted to show the letter to his wife and-have a laugh over it. but something occurred to change his plan. He was within a block of the house when a man came out, gave a look up and down the street and hurried away. Then, too, as he entered the door his wife exclaimed in surprise and almost demanded to know why he was half an hour ahead of his time. He kissed her, but it was a perfunctory kiss. She nestled up to him, but he thought ho could feel her trembling. At 9 o'clock that same morning the carrier had left a letter for her in a man's handwriting. She opened it, thinking that it might be a bill from the grocer, and the next moment her merry laugh rang out. "Watch husband and you will discover”— were its sole contents. Watch Harry? For what? Suspect him of what? It was an anonymous letter, but it was too funny. She felt like running out and showing it to the girl in the kitchen. She would go and ■how ft to a couple of her friends and let them enjoy the laugh with her. She put on her hat Then she halted. The laugh had died away. Could there be anything In it? Was it possible that Harry was deceiving her?. No, never! She would tear up the letter and never

refer to it. No, she would not. She would keep it. and they would have a great laugh over it at noon. She held to this last resolve for half an hour, and then the missive was bidden away, and she was going about the houue with pule cheeks aud compressed lips. At 11 o’clock the doorbell rung, and a traveling clock tinker asked If she had anything in Ills line to do. He set an obstinate clock going aud collected a quarter for his skill. He was the man whom the husband saw glide furtively away. You will always read furtiveuess in a clock tinker’s movements if the sun happens to shine on him just right. So it happened that neither letter was produced to be laughed over. There was constraint, and both husband and wife felt it. They were no longer natural in their behavior, and that very fact aroused suspicions. “She is deceiving me” and “He is deceiving me” were what they were saying to themselves, and the seed planted by the anonymous letter writer had taken fair root. At any moment during the next mouth had both letters been produced all would have been made plain and the situation would have been cleared up iu ten minutes. But they were not produced. They were treasured. The strained relations became paiuTtul, blit what could either do? They* could uot accuse each other on an anonymous letter. They did a great deal of thinking, however. It so happened that both had been engaged previous to their own engagement? What did “Watch your wife and you will discover” mean except that Kitty’s old lover was writing to her, seeing bfer secretly, persuading her that lie could never, never love another and suggesting an elopement to a faraway isle?

The letter carrier was questioned as to what letters he delivered at the house. A private detective was paid $5 a day to search the town for the old lover. The boy that mowed the lawn was instructed to keep watch on all life Insurance and sewing machine agents calling at the house, and the husband began to feel himself a Sherlock Holmes. Something was also done on the other hand. Night after night as the husband lay sleeping—for even jealous husbands do sleep—a form clad in white might have been seen going through his pockets in search of damaging evidence. Ills weekly visits to his Masonic lodge had to be verified. If he went out in the evening to order soap at the grocery he was followed. Of course he must in some way be In communication with his old love and have abandonment or divorce In view. Just let him try It! If he ran away he should be brought back In chains. If he applied for a divorce she would fight the case to the last court in the land. Naturally their set noticed that something was wrong, strive as the couple might before company, but no one knew just what was the trouble, and for once the mutual friend did not in terfere and make matters worse. A more miserable couple did not exist, but no explanations were asked for or volunteered. Anything of the sort would have been taken for falsehoods. “Watch your wife” and “Watch your husbttnd” were watchwords ever before them. Separation, at least, must have been the ultimate result had not the jokers finally decided to show their hands. One morning as the young husband reached his desk another letter in a certain chlrography awaited him. His heart gave a jump. In this he would be told something specific. He dreaded to open it, and yet he thirsted for the solution. After a hesitation lasting five minutes the envelope was torn away. The next moment a bareheaded, man, holding a sheet of note paper In his hand, was running down the street. A block from home he encountered a woman, also on the run and also holding an open letter in her hand. “Kitty, my darling!” “Oh, my dear Harry!” “I Just got this by mall.” “And I just got this." And when they recalled that every woman in the block was watching them they compared notes. He read: —“that she Is using Alien's hair tonic on her hair!" And hers: —“that your Barry Is getting a bald spot on top of his head!” And then the doves came back and cooed and never flew the coop any more.

An Expert.

In one of the interior towns there lives a farmer who brings butter, eggs and produce to market, aud, being illiterate. also brings with him his son to do the “figuring.” The other day the son was ill aud the old man had to venture alone. For awhile he got along pretty well by letting his customers do the figuring, but presently he sold two rolls of butter to a woman who could not figure any better than he. The farmer was much puzzled, but, being resolved that she should not know that his early education had been neglected, he took a scrap of paper from bls pocket and began. He put down a lot of marks on the paper and then said: “Let’s see; dot’s a dot, figure’s a figure. two from one and none remains, with three to carry—sl.so, madam, please." She paid over the $1.50, took the butter home, had It weighed and “fig-, nred up" by her daughter, who discovered that the price should have been s2.lo'Hnstead of sl.so.—St. Loute Globe-Democrat. Little dogs start the hare, but great ones catch it.—ltalian Proverb.

Farm and Garden

JAPANESE INTENSIVE FARMING Tha Way the Little Brown Folks Til' Their Small Estates. With very few exceptions the whole of the land under grain of any kind Is i absolutely flat' If it is not so by naj ture the Japanese farmer levels and banks it up till it is horizontal. In the narrow valleys there are elaborate series of terraces running up the slope of the hills till the fields become so small as to accommodate but a double row of plants. The more typical grain

A MOSAIC IN GOLD AND GREEN.

country, however, lies-in broader val leys or along the coast, where there are many wide plains which were once be neath the water. If one looks down on these from a slight elevation they appear like some elaborately designed mathematical figure or as though a cloth had been spread over the earth with mosaic patterns in gold and green. Each little field is as nearly rectangular as circumstances will allow. Many of them, therefore, are perfect rectangles. for where the plain is broad it is easy to tit into it small fields of twen ty or thirty foot in length. Many of the plats are even less than this. Some barley fields are only six feet by a dozen or so. The pattern of this mosaic is vividly marked out .by the coloring of the vari ous crops. Today the barley is ripe and stands golden in the sunshine. The ricefields. however, are but bare expanses of mud or water, for the rice is not yet planted out. but is growing in small, oblong fields by itself, which show a vivid emerald green growth of little plants only three or four inches high At the end of May some of the farmers are beginning to reap their ripe barley ami wheat, and when this Is finished they will be free to plant out what is to them the much more important crop, the rice. Reaping and planting of grain together one may see in the same acre. There is no broadcast sowing of grain here. Each seed grain has an individuality and is separately tended. The barley is planted in rows, perhaps three feet or six feet long, and each row is a foot or eighteen inches from the next, so that a worker can pass between the rows to tend and woea and finally to reap each individual plant. In many cases each row grows on a little semicircular ridge four or five feet horizontally and about a foot high, so that the barley Is well drain ed, though the next little field may He under several inches of water. In the whole district of Okuna there was only owe of the ripe fields “laid" by the wind, and that was one of the larger—nearly thirty feet across. It is not to be Inferred from this that the Japanese farmers do not have to contend with heavy winds and pitiless, beating rains. Japan is a particularly windy country, and this year has been n very bad season, for even in April there was heavy snow—snow so thick that it entirely disorganized the telegraphic and railway communication for a few days. The wheat and barley are all sown in the autumn, so that they get the benefit of the winder sunshine, which is clear and brilliant and very hot. This, of course, is the chief cause

JAPANESE CUTTING THE GRAIN

of the early ripening of the grain, for from the time it is sown till the time it is reaped it never has a spell of dull weather that lasts more than a few days. Japanese men and women cut their rows of grain\by holding each plant’s stalks together in one hand and cutting them off with a sharp. I>ent knife at the end of a straight handle a foot or more in length. The handful is laid tidily ou the ridge where it has grown.' and Its neighbor is placed besidejlt till the small field is covered by the straws. To thrash, the heads are cut off the stalks and then pounded with a heavy wooden mallet

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DRIED SWAMP MUCK.

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MAGNUM BONUM POTATO.

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(S) FOFierS’ Mod owooce Motion, Of Benton. White and Jasper Counties, hbphehbntkd by MARION I. ADAMS, RBNSSKLAER. IND. CYCLONE INSURANCE. Am also agent for the State Mutual, which insures against cyclones, wind and hail.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Joseph J. Miller, late of Jasa per County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. , WERNER MILLER, August 29, 1908 Administrator. Sept. 2,9, 16 NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. To All Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that I have been appointed Trustee of the estate of Gamaliel G. Garrison, assigned, and of all the property and effects of the said Garrison, and that I have duly qualified as such Trustee, and I do require: Ail persons indebted to said Garrison to render an accounting to me, at my office in Remington. Indiana, and to pay amounts due said Garrison to me. All persons having in their possession any property belonging to said Garrison to deliver the same to me. All persons having claims against said Garrison tq file same with me by October Ist. 1908. „ H. R. HARTMAN. Dated September 4. 1908. septs-12-19 NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND L EG AT EES. In the matter of the estate of Rebecca J. Smith, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, Septemebr term, 1908. l Notice is hereby given ■ to the credltbrs. heirs and legatees of Rebecca J. Smith, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 22nd. day of Septemebr, 1908, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Marrimon Tudor, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others Interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. MARRIMON TUDOR. _ _ ... , Administrator. Foltz & Spitler, Attys, for Estate.

NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Margaret A. Beaver, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September term, 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Margaret A. Beaver, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 28th day of September, 1908, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of William H. Beaver, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. WILLIAM H. BEAVER. „ , „ Administrator. Foltz & Spitler, Attys for Estate. Sept. 2,9, 16. NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREQITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Sarah J. Paris, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court. September term. 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Sarah J. Par- ; is, deceased, and all persons interested |in said estate, to appear In the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 21st dav [of September. 1908, being the day fixed land endorsed on the final settlement I- account of David H.- Yeoman, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why huch final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. DAVID H. YEOMAN, „ , „ Administrator, fcoltz & Spitler. Attys for Estate. Aug. 26. Sept. 2, 9. Notice of Ditch Petition and Docketing, State of Indiana, County of Benton, ss: • In the Benton Circuit Court, October term. 1908. PETITION FOR PUBLIC DRAIN. In the matter 'of the petition of James', H. Gilbert et al. for a public ditch and drain In Gilboa Township, Benton county, Indiana, and Carpenter township, Jasper county, Indiana. To Sarah Blumier. Dina Blumier. Fred Shoenbeck, Keever Clymer. „.Xp u , are hert 'by notified that on the 24th. day of August, A. D. 1908, one James H. Gilbert et al. filed their verified petition in duplicate in the office of the Clerk of the Benton Circuit Lourt at Fowler, Indiana, praying for the location and establishment of a certain public ditch and drain, part open and part tile, in Gilboa Township, Benton County, State of Indiana, and Carpenter Township, Jasper County, Indiana, the general route of said drain being described in said above petition as follows: A public ditch and drain commencing on the public highway running east and west on ■ the south side of Section two (2) in I ownship twenty-six (26) North of Range seven (7) West in Benton Coiinty. Indiana, at a point about six <<>> rods due east of the southwest corner of said Section, and running thence through said Section two <2> in a general north-easterly direction to the County line road between Benton and Jasper Counties, State of Indiana, and intersecting said .County line road at a point about sixty (60) rods due west of the north-east corner of said Section two ' <l. thence running east on and along said County line road to the north-east corner of said Section two (2), thence in a general north-easterly direction through the south-west quarter of Section thirty-six 136) Township twentyseven (27) North, of Range seven (7) West, in Carpenter Township. Jasper County, Indiana, to a point about four rods due east of the north-east corner of said south-west quarter, thence due east on the half section line dividing said section thirty-six (36) into north and south halves for a distance of about sixty (60) rods, where the same ends and terminates in a natural water course, known as “Carpenter Creek.” That the location and establishment of said drain will effect your lands ana real estate in Carpenter Township,- Jasper County, Indiana. Yoh are further notified that said petition in duplicate is now on file in the office of the Clerk bt the Benton Circuit Court of Benton County, Indiana, and that the same is now pending before the said Benton Circuit Court, at the Court House at Fowler, Indiana; and that the time set for the docketing of said petition and cause of action in said Court is the Fifth day of October, A. D 1908 the same being the First Judicial day of the October term, A. D„ 1908, of said Court, and that said petition will be heard and the same will eorne on for hearing before said Benton Circuit Court at said date so set for the docketing of the same. “ Witness my hand and/the seal of the at Fowler, Indiana, thj® 24th. day of August A. D.. 1908 T [SEA W „„„ JAMES R. TURNER. James H. Gilbert, et al.. Petitioners.. I certify that the above Is a true and exact| copy of the original notice In this cause. E. Barce, Atty. JAMES H. GILBERT.