Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — Page 3

Obliging Jordan.

By, W. F. Bryan.

’ Copyrighted. 1908, by Associated ] > Literary Press. ( *WM4**Vt*V**W*M**MM<MMMI I “Well, sir?” George Jordan swung around In his office chair and regarded Sidney Harlan with a portentous frown. “I though I told you not to bother me again about Vera until you had money enough to support a wife.” “You did,” assented Sidney, “but, you see”— "I don’t see you,” broke in Jordan, “and I have had an eye on you, too, sir. You have some SB,OOO in the bank, drawing 3 per cent. I offered you an opportunity to invest it at 10 per cent, and sou refused.” “But, you see, I thought"— “That’s the trouble. You don’t think right!” thundered Jordan. “You are afraid to risk It in a speculation which, I believe, will do better even than the 10 per cent I ( prophesied. Then you hang on to that absurd farm which is 'bound to be valuable some day’ because it Is on the water front” “It is valuable already,” interrupted Sidney. “In a year from now”— “It will be worth Just as much as it is worth today and will be the same five years hence. A paltry bank account and a hundred acres of your farm, and yet you insist that you are entitled to come here and bother me about Vera every six months. It’s absurd. It wastes my time.” “But this time”— broke in Sidney plea<yngly. . “Last time it was the rumor that a trolley line was to be built, and you wanted to cut your farm up into building lots. You’re dippy about the value of that land. I’ve got 200 acres more

“YOU’RE PAYING TWICE WHAT THAT LAND IS WORTH.”

than that I’ll sell you for your SB,OOO cash. That’s about S4O an acre.’’ “I’ll take you,” agreed Sidney as he drew out bis check book. “Will you hare the transfer made out at once?” Jordan stared Incredulously. It seemed too goo«|-to be true. Though he was a rich man, Jordan was terribly pressed for ready cash with which to swing certain deals, and this SB,OOO would solve several financial problems. Rising, he led the way across the hall to the offices of his lawyers, instructing them to make out a deed to Harlan, and the latter sat down to wait for it, being assured that it would require but a few minutes. The clerk did not explain that a similar deed had been drawn up only a few weeks before, when Jordan had sought to sell the ground for half of what he was getting from Harlan. The deal had fallen through, and It only remained to recopy the document with the new name and terms. In twenty minutes Harlan owned the property and an office boy was on his way to the bank with the- check for Jordan. Harlan followed Jordan to his own offices, but at the'door the elder turned. “If you think you ijave won my admiration with any such grand stand play as this,” he said brutally, “you have made a mistake. You’re paying twice what that land is worth just to. call my bluff. That’s not the sort of man I want for a son-in-law. I want a man who can drive a bargain, not one who can be fooled the way you have been.” “If you will let me explain”— began Harlan; but, with a laugh, Jordan shut the door between them. He was still chuckling over the incident when a card was brought in, to be followed by a sharp, Gager looking man, a local real estate agent “Uncommon cheerful you look,” cominented the' newcomer as he took a chair uninvited. "Just been turning down my daughter’s suitor and getting rid of a lot of useless real estate by loading it on him,” responded Jordan, with a chuckle. “That’s the seventh time I’ve told Harlan that he couldn’t marry Vera.” “And you sold him that parcel of land out by the lake?” asked the other man. ♦ Jordan nodded. “And at forty an

acre,” he said, with a grin. “Got rid of the whole 200 acres. He’s an idea that some of these days the land is going to be worth something. I knew he had SB,OOO In bank, and I le* him buy the lot for just what he had. I bet he can’t even pay the taxes.” “You haven’t delivered the deeds yet, have you?” “Did you think I was going to give him a chance to cool off?” demanded Jordan. “That’s not my way of doing business. I just took him across the hall and had the deeds drawn and turned over to him. The money Is in the bank by now.’’ “And you can’t possibly get it back?” asked the other man anxiously. “I couldn't be forced to take it back.” was the answer, followed by a rumbling laugh. “I’ve put that parcel on poor Harlan so tight that it’s going to stick. What’s worrying you about it?” “Jordan, Harlan didn't tell you that be had given forty acres of bis land to the Mower and Reaper people, did he?" asked the agent. “They’re going to take a site on the other side of the river,” said Jordan. “I picked up a few acres cheap just the other side of their plant They employ several thousand people, and there will be a fortune in sites for homes for the workmen.” “They were planning to build over there,” said the visitor slowly, “but the cost of the land was run up when it was discovered who wanted it Then Harlan came along and, heard of th® deal and gave them forty acres outright and looked to the other sixty to make his profit. Now you’re made him a present of 200 acres for S4O when I came to offer you an even SIOO an acre.* For a moment Jordan’s face purpled. He knew the ground, and he knew that the 300 acres were about all that could be Used by the factory and the town that would arise near by. fit would l>e Impossible to pick up any more land, for Harlan's holdings were on a peninsula, and the Jordan tract was immediately behind that On the other side of the road was a marsh that it. would scarcely pay to fill in. Harlan had the game in bls own hands. The visitor took his departure when he found that Jordan had no land to sell, and the old man was left alone to think things over. As the result of his cogitations he reached for the telephone and called up his house. when he heard his daughter’s voice in answer. “Tell him to wait,” he added. “Ask him to stay to dinner. We might as well settle when you two are to be married.” “I wanted to let him in on my information.” explained Sidney when Vera demanded light on the peculiar message. “Itseems that he wants his son-in-law to be able to do him, and— I did him—just to oblige.” “And you'll sell the land back to him?” urged Vera. “Not a bit of it,” asserted Harlan. “He wouldn’t really like me if I did.”

Effect of an "H.”

A cockney whose name ,was Ogton, which he, following the usage of his class, pronounced Hogtown, settled at the beginning of the last century in the city of New York, where he did business as a trader. His prefixing of the “h” was the occasion of a postoffice story which Dunlap, the author of the “History of the Arts of Design,” tells. Before the clerks of the postoffiee knew Ogton he called day after day to inquire if, there were “any letters for John Hogtown.” - “None, sir,” was the invariable answer. “Very strange,” said be, feeling uneasy about the goods he had ordered from Euglanil and the bills of exchange he had remitted. One day after the usual question, “Any letters for John Hogtown?'' his eye. following the clerk, noticed that he was looking among the letters beginning With H. “ ’Olio!” cried he. “What are you looking there for? I said John Hogtown.” “I know it, sir, and I am looking for John Hogtown, and there’s nothing for you.” “Nay, nay!” shouted John. “Don’t look among the haltches. Look among the hoes.” And among the O’s We-re found a pile of letters addressed to John Ogton, which had been accumulating for many a week.

He Obeyed Orders.

Years ago when Clemenceau was the mayor of Martre and at the same time a deputy he opened a dispensary in the quarter, where advice was given free, for Clemenceau is a specialist in skin diseases. One day he noticed that be had just one hour in which to get his luncheon and go down to the chamber, where he had to interpellate the government. He called his assistant and said, “How many more patients are there waiting?” “Six,” replied the man. Four of these six had their cased diagnosed, and Clemenceau, after another glance at his watch, said, “Tell the other two to undress at once, as I have only two more minutes to wait.” One entered, and Clemenceau wrote out a prescription in the twinkling of an eye.. The last man came in as naked as the day when he was born. Clemenceau eyed him for a minute and thei. laid: “You are suffering from no wkin disease. What have you come here to worry me for?” The man looked at him aghast for a minute and replied: “Skin disease? I never said I had a skin disease. Your man came in and told me to undress, M. le Depute, and I did so. All I wanted to ask you was to use your influence to get my sister a place in the postoffices in Algeria.” Clemenceau smiled, took his name and did nse his Influence.

WOMAN AND FASHION

A New Model. This costume is a combination of ths jumper and modified dlrectolre style. It Is in a smoke gray shade of crepe de chine, with sash of gray satin caught together over the left hip with a fancy embroidered ornament in silver

COSTUME OF GRAY CRAPE.

bullion. The ends of the sash are weighted with long silver bullion tassels. The gulmpe is of white chiffon, with trimmings of gray satin buttons and simulated buttonholes of the same material. The hat of black velvet is trimmed with white satin and white wings.

The Girl With Red Hair. If your hair is golden brown or of the color that lovers of “fine writing” call “the Titian tint,” which means it Is red, you may make it still more attractive by wearing a jet coronet with bands of cut jet to weave in the puffs on the back and'sides. The hair must puff out until the bead resembles the top of a rain barrel adorned with hoops of onkum. A woman of prominence in Vanity Fair at a party the other night confided to a friend that three yards of cut jet trimming had been needed to produce the striking effect achieved in her coiffure. The hair vi as waved and parted and came down low on each side of her forehead. Then came a wreath of puffs, topped by the coronet of Jet. Then came a monstrous braid of hair coiledaround the head, and In and out was woven the cut Jet Close to the neck was a row of clinging ringlets, and small jet headed pins kept these embellLslijnents in {dace.

Dressy Directoire Hat. One of the new exclusive shapes of the directoire mode is in the lines of the shepherdess. In this instance it is developed in a royal purple velvet combined with satin, which forms numerous small pipings on the upper

THE SHEPHERDESS SHAPE.

brim. The crown, which is large and low, is trimmed with huge white wings posed flat against the front and sides. Streamers of purple velvet ribbon hang from the back of the crown over the wide brim and are knotted and brought forward to bang over the shoulder to the waist line. A Silk Season. Silk will be very much worn this season. Not the kind of taffeta we used to wear. Nobody wants to rustle now; we da not want to look starched or to shine; we must look as wilted and clinging as is possible. As the demand for silk is greater the weave will be improved. We find rich, heavy liberty satins and dull silks in the shops like those that were worn in our grandmothers' days. Silk costs more now than it did. but it wears bettor. It is new a material for the street as well as for church and other occasions for simple dressing.

WASHINGTON LETTER

[Special Correspondence.] President Roosevelt; returning to Washington from Oyster Bay to resume his final season’s work as president, Informally dedicated the new Union station, the “presidential station.” During the absence of the chief magistrate from the capital the finishing touches have been put upon the great railway terminal. It has been called the presidential station because, for 'the first time in an edifice of this kind, special apartments have been set aside for the use of the president when be is beginning or ending a railroad jourtiey. The Presidential Station. Although the new station has many points of distinction, being, for Instance, the largest and costliest railroad terminal in the world, its most notable novelty is the presidential suit No other ruler of a republic has ever had such facilities. Indeed, no foreign sovereign has had apartments of equal luxury and convenience.. The presidential apartments occupy the eastern end of this marble masterpiece and extend the full width of the building. At the southeast corner Is the main entrance to the suit —an arched carriage portal of simple and imposing architecture. The nature of the quarters is indicated only by sculpture over the doorway, representing the seal of the United States, surrounded by flags. If preferred, entrance or egress may be had on the east front, where several doors open from the apartments to a corridor or portico spacious enough to permit half a dozen carriages to be drawn up. The Reception Room.

The main entrance opens on a vestibule. This communicates with the main reception room, from which open most of the doors on the east front. This reception room is high ceilinged, almost as large as the historic east room at the White House and suggestive of that salon In its general dimensions. It has a mosaic floor, and the fresco ornamentation and other decorations, which are very elaborate, are in blue and gold. The use in the decorative scheme of the figure of the American eagle and the shield with the stars and stripes conveys a hint as to the character of the room. The woodwork and furniture are of mahogany. The suit is lighted by day by a row of large windows opening to the east At night both concealed and exposed lights are utilized. In the reception room are three chandeliers, and there are also eight massive ornamental brackets on the side walls. Train Shed and Concourse. Through a vestibule at the north end the presidential suit communicates with the train shed and concourse. This concourse is 754 by 130 feet large enough. It has been said, to accommodate the entire standing army of the United States. Trains, enter this $20.000,000 station on thirty-three tracks. The presidential specials will use the track at the eastern end of the yard nearest the state suit That will require but a short walk from cars to carriages for the presidential party.

Capitol Improvements. Alterations and Improvements in and about the capital and the house office building which will cost about $150,000 are being made under direction of Superintendent Elliott Woods, who iS rushing the work so that It shall be completed before congress convenes Dec. 7. For years the inadequacy of the elevator service on the house side of the capital has been a source of constant complaint during sessions. Throughout the last session this lack was greatly increased by the occupancy for the ffirst time of the house office building, the tenancy of whose roopis by representatives. committees and clerical forces made a lot of travel through the tunnel and more than doubled the number of passengers carried daily In the southwest elevator. New Elevator Being Built. . When congress adjourned the intention was to install another elevator on the house side, running the shaft through the small room in (the west corridor at the south end of the lobby formerly known as the speaker's room and to keep this elevator exclusively for use by members and newspaper men. It was found, however, that to locate the shaft there would necessitate too much cutting away of thefoundations o? the building, and another scheme was devised. Representative Jenkins, chairman of the committee on judiciary, agreed to vacate the judicary room on the south • corridor, gallery floor, and to take In lieu the speaker's private room for executive committee work and a large room in the office building for hearings. Workmen are now cutting an elevator shaft through the judiciary room, which.will give entrance from the ground fioot on to the east hall, just inside the south capital entrance, which will connect on the basement floor with a branch tunnel linking the office building and the capital, for the convenience of newspaper men, clerks and others. • ——r-r? • • House Postoffiee to Be Moved. The house postoffice will be moved to the office building, and the space thus Vacated will be partially used by the new shaft. The old (present) elevator serving the southwest corner of the capital will be closed to the public and reserved for members and the press exclusively. The speaker may or may not retain the rooms formerly used by the ways and means committee on the house floor, south corridor. Additionally two rooms on the first floor of the house office building, southwest corner, wffl be at bis disposal.

CARL SCHOFIELD.

SHALL THE PEOPLE RULE? Let Them Assist In Bearing the Legitimate Expenses off the Campaign to This End. TO THE EDITOR: There are no secrets in this Campaign. Strictly practicing what he preaches, Mr. Bryan would not win victory with tainted money paying the election expenses. Not a dollar is to be accepted which requires any promise, either express or implied, other than for HONEST, IMPARTIAL GOVERNMENT. Mr. Bryan will enter the White House absolutely free from entangling alliances, free to serve all classes of honest citizens alike, or he will not enter at all. Hence the course is* plain. The campaign of Bryan and Kern must be conducted by the people. The people must pay the necessary campaign expenses if they want public servants who will servo their Interests. Special Interests and favored classes, having secured “SWOLLEN FORTUNES” by purchasing favors in the past with MILLIONS CONTRIBUTED TO CONTROL ELECTIONS, stand ready to give MILLIONS MORE FOR CONTINUED FAVORS. But that class never gives a dollar unless it buys a pledge. Mr. Bryan says, from March 4th, 1909, “LET THE PEOPLE RULE.” This can come only if the people pay their own bills, and control their own elections. “BEWARE OF THE TRUSTS ’BEARING GIFTS.’ ” That policy of the favored few buying a mortgage on the Government menat that the Candidate for President knew a few people only in an entire State. j Bryan says, “We will take the cause of PEOPLE’S RULE home to the people and will know people in every country.” You can serve the grand cause of popular government. Your paper reaches the fireside of the patriot who loves his country for his country’s GOOD; as distinguished from the greedy possessor of swollen fortunes who loves his country only for his country's GOODS. Please carry this letter in BOLD TYPE at the mast head of your paper. Asking every one who favors Government by the people to pay you, at once, as many dollars as he can spare to aid the Campaign for BRYAN, KERN AND PEOPLE’S RULE. You forward these gifts of honest hearts and homes every two weeks to the Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, with the name of each contributor and the amount given. The Treasurer will forward you a certificate like the copy enclosed for each one, asking you to deliver these certificates. Once more, you should be a part of the Great Organization bearing the Lamp of Light to every nook and corner of Free America. Our Country is for the People; its Government must be by the People. • Sincerely, NORMAN E. MACK, Chm. Democratic Nat. Committee. M. C. WfiTMORE, Chairman Finance Committee. C N HASKELL, Treasurer. j " Chicago, Aug. 15, 1908. * AMOUNTS COLLECTED BY THE DEMOCRAT. Previously Acknowledged $34.00 Collected since last report 4.00' \ Total 38.00

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Notice To Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. j' In the matter of the estate of ' Karah McKillip, deceased,. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September term, 1908. Notice is hereby given that Charles M. Smith, as administrator of the estate of Karah McKillip, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 10th day of October, 1908, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required- to appear in said Court and show cause, if any be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. CHARLES M. SMITH, Administrator. Dated September 18, 1908. TYPEWRITER PAPERS. The Democrat handles several different grades of typevQ-iter papers in legal size form, put up In neat pasteboard boxes so that it may be kept clean, and corners do not get turn'ed or soiled. We cut this paper from flat stock in any quantity desired. We invite an inspection of this class of paper from users of typewriters and from attorneys. Clementine: Don't try to make angel food unless you ase Gold Menial Flour. Bslixua.

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