Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1909 — Page 3

....The.... Singing Lady.

By MARTHA C. SANFORD.

Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary Press.

John Tyndal Seymour, Jr., had been tucked into his little shining brass bed at precisely 7 o’clock. Being “tucked In,” however, does not necessarily shut out the wonder world of lights and laughter and singing. John junior had discovered this all by hlmsClf, for often, as tonight, after calling to his nurse and getting no answer, he had crawled out with confidence from under his tight covers and stood by the window watching the grownups in the houses across the air shaft.

He had just climbed back for the third time by actual count when the singing began. John junior loved that singing more than anything else in the world.

He lay very still and flat on his little back, because he had found out that if one ear was burled in the pillow he could not catch all of the notes, especially the soft, low ones. He had not been listening very long when he heard the hall door open and shut, and then he knew that his father had gone out. Perhaps he was going to find the beautiful singing. John junior wished so hard that he might go too. He sat up in bed, haff determined to follow. But, then, hearing the click of the elevator door, he 'knew that it was too late, and so lay back again with a sigh. Suddenly, right in the middle of a note po high and sweet that it made John junior hold his breath in an ecstasy of happiness, the voice stopped. And for a long time it did not go on again. What had happened? Perhaps

THIS TIME SHE SANG ABOUT THE SWEETEST LITTLE FELLOW.

his father—no. If his father had found the singing, he would have just hid behind a curtain somewhere and listened. Of that John junior was sure. At length, quite as suddenly as it had stopped, the singing began again. With a bound John junior was at the window. This was the song he loved best of all. He could hear the words quite clearly as they came floating up from the window far below: Sweetest little fellow Everybody knows. Don’t know what to call him, But he’s mighty like a rose. And little John Junior, who had known no lullabies or mother’s croonings in his lone babyhood, felt that he must follow and find where the beautiful voice came from. After some groping he found his small woolen slippers, and after pulling them on very slowly and carefully he climbed out of the window and began the perilous descent of the fire escape.

The wind blew right through his nightgown, and the iron steps were very cold, but he kept bravely on, afraid only that the grownups in the flats across the air shaft might suddenly peep out from the curtains and see him

The window at the foot of the long ladder stairs was open, Just as John junior expected it would be, so he climbed in softly. The voice was still again, but he was sure he must be very near By the light that came into the room through the transom he could see a big bed, with the covers all turned down as if waiting for some one to creep in, and so, as John junior felt quite shivery, he crept in himself. He had no sooner drawn himself up Into a snug little bunch than the singing began again, and so near that It made his heart thump hard. It came right in over the transom. When the last sound of it had died away he heard a man’s voice—his father's voice! So his father had followed the singing, just as he thought. In a flash John junior was out of the big bed, had opened the door and went pattering down the hall toward the lights and laughter and singing. ' Between the two big curtains he paused and gazed into the wonderland of the grownups. John junior waited until the song was over and then tiptoed in very softly. "Please,” he begged, “won’t you sing about the little fellow* once more?” And then weren't the grownups star-

I■ ' * tied! John junior would never forget It But at last | the beautiful singing lady just gathered him up in her arms, and, her cheeks all pink and her eyes all shining, she sang the song he loved best in the world. And after that John junior never knew exactly what happened, for he went asleep. "Mighty like a rose,” murmured the singing lady, looking tenderly down on the little flushed face nestled against her arm. "Like a rose,” repeated John Junior’s father reverently. And the singing lady, looking up, found the man’s eyes not'upon the child, but upon her. "Take him,” she urged, the quick tears springing to her eyes. “And don’t, don’t make It any harder for me, John.” Then for many nights John junior did not again hear the singing lady’s beautiful voice after his nurse had tucked him in bed, although he lay flat on his back and listened hard with both ears. He questioned his father about it, but got only foolish answers which he knew were not true. The idea of the singing lady going away to learn to sing more beautifully! That was nonsense! Who could teach her anything? And it was just as silly to tell him that when she came back she would not sing for them any more, because lots and lots of people would expect her to sing {or them in a big parlor. John junior knew better than that too. There were plenty of people to hear her in their house and in the houses across the air shaft. At last John junior declined to be trifled with any longer. “Why don’t you write and ask her to come back?” he demanded. 1 “I have, dear,” his father admitted, smiling a little wearily. “And she won’t come?” John senior shook his head. r “Then why don’t you go find her and bring her back?” urged John junior. “I’ll go with you.” The more John junior’s father thought about this plan the more it appealed t;o him. Finally one memorable day he put it into execution. Once 1 more John junior found himself in the wonderland of grownups—so many, many grownups—with millions of twinkling lights. Suddenly out of the babel about him he heard a volte—the singing lady’s voice. And there she was, more beautiful than ever, with her pink cheeks and her shining eyes! It was very, very quiet while she sang, but when she had finished everybody applauded. John Junior clapped too. Then out she came again, and this time she sang about “the sweetest little fellow.’’ And when, bowing and smiling, she walked quite out of sight she tossed one of her roses straight over to where John Junior sat with his father. “We’ve found her! We’ve found her!” he cried. “Come, daddy, let’s go get her.” But the singing lady came to find them behind the velvet curtains, and as she gathered John Junior into her arms and snuggled him up to her close, Just as she had that other happy time, she heard John senior saying, “Mighty like a rose,” and, looking up, she found his eyes upon her as before, full of love and unspoken admiration. And, as before, she said, “Take him,” but, with Infinite sweetness, added, “and I will come back to him soon—and to you.”

Nigerian Superstitions.

“The natives of southern Nigeria, Africa,” says a traveler, “are extremely superstitious. Most of the people wear some kind of charm around their neck or waist in the belief that they are thus protected from illness or death from their enemies. When, however, the talisman has lost its supposed bower and its wearer feels the hand of death upon him be submits to his fate—he is wanted by the fetich. To many places and things they attach a superstitious veneration. The rock found at the source of the river Imo is considered sacred and as such la safely guarded. Every village has Its sacred grove, surrounded by human skulls, chatties and rotten eggshells on sticks.

“They believe that a spirit haunts the locality of a murder or the sacred grove at night, and no native would pass near such a place during the darkness. Any unusual phenomenon is by them attributed to a supernatural agency. Not only has a village its good spirit, but also its evil spirit, and When any misfortune of any kind overtakes a village a process of driving out the latter is Indulged In with the help of much noise and every one beating the walls of the huts with sticks.”

Parrots.

There is an idea that the brilliantly colored parrots do not talk. There is no reason why they should not, and many possess the imitative instinct. One of the most richly colored of all is the purple capped lory, from the' Moluccas. Its whole body is crimson and rose, its wings are green, and its crest is purple. It is a thickset bird, like a big bullfinch, and can be highly educated. It is tame and gentle, an excellent "linguist” and mimic, never shrieks and is very amiable. It is also, a ventriloquist It -is worth noting that some of the lories, which are very fond of flowers, have been poisoned by being given laburnum blossoms. There is a belief that parrots should not be allowed water to drink, but only sopped food. We believe that this is a mistake, which causes them great misery. They are hot great water drinkers, and some species can go without It for a considerable time. But in their native state most of those that have been observed come regularly to the water holes to drink.—London Express. - - - —...

VETOES CLEMENCY BILL

President Refuses Condonation of Na* val Officer’s Bibulousness. Washington, Feb. 9. President Roosevelt returned without approval a bill which would advance in rank Lieutenant Commander Kenneth McAlpine of the navy. The message quotes a report which states the officer left the service as a result of his indulgence in alcoholic intoxicants. \ The president says the bill would undermine discipline.

Potts to Command Georgia. Washington, Feb. 9—Captain T. M. Potts has been selected to command the battleship Georgia, taking the place formerly held by Captain Edward F. Qualtrough. who was suspended from duty following trial by court martial at Gibraltar.

To Pay Fare on Own Road.

Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 15.—Louis W. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, will pay fare on his own road hereafter. He Informed Governor Johnson that he would accept appointment as a member of the state highway commission.

Warm Times.

Gunner—Going downtown this morning the floor of the car caught afire. I never laughed so much in my life. Guyer—What was laughable? Gunner—Why, it was the first time the conductor didn’t have to tell the passengers to "step lively.”—Chicago News.

She Holds the Center.

“Yes, she demanded a play In which she could bold the center of the stage.” “And she holds It?” “For three hours. Why, they even bring on a screen and put it around her when she wants to make a change of costume.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Question of Relative Merit.

A little boy of eight years, attending school away from home, wrote a letter to bls sister, from which the following extract is taken: “We had a spelling match In school today, and I spelled all the boys down and won the meddle.”—Delineator.

Just So.

Colonel White—Your son is quite a singer, isn’t he, Busenbark? Brother Busenbark—Yassah! Yassah! ’Bleeged to yo’ for axin’. Dat boy, sah, am suttln’ly de most malodorous cul’ud pusson in dis whole town.—Puck.

Disappointed.

“Look here,” said Mr. Chuggins, “that motor car doesn’t make anything like the.speed you guaranteed.” “How do you know?” “I’ve been running it a week and haven’t been arrested.”—Houston Post,

Recent Fiction.

“Have you read any of the recent fiction?” “I have read it all.” “Where?” “In Dumas, forty years ago.”—Boston Traveler. >

After Church.

"What was that sentence the choir repeated so often during the litany?” “As near as I could make out it was •We are all miserable singers.’ ’’—Boston Courier.

And Frenzying Too.

“Say, if your friends are always striking you for a loan”— “Yes.” "Isn’t that frenzied finance?”—Puck.

Game of Confessions.

Let each player write three (faults of his on his paper. The papers are then mixed and distributed. Again each player writes a name on the paper,' and after a second mixing the contents of the papers are read aloud-

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Big Public Sale The undersigned is about to move to North Dakota, and will offer at Public Auction at his residence in Carpenter Township, 3 miles Blast and 2 miles North of Goodland, 4 miles West and 2 miles North of Remington, commencing at 10 a. m., on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1909, 1 Matched Team of Grey Horses — Mare, .rears old, weight XjSKOwHMuL 2300. 3 Head of Cattle —Consisting of 2 Cows, fresh soon, other now- giving milk; 1 Jersey Bull, two years old. Ten Shoats and 2 Brood Sows. 8 Tons Timothy Hay In Mow. Implements, Wagons, Etc. —Consisting of 3 Farm Wagons 2 Carriages; 2 Top Buggies; 1 Road Wagon; 2 Deering Binders, one 8foot, one 6-foot; 1 Mower; 1 Hay Rake; 1 Hay Rack; 2 Sulky Plows; one 16-inch, one 18-inch; 1 Riding Cultivator; 1 Walking Cultivator; 1 Riding Gopher;, 1 Walking Gopher; 1 Endgate Seeder with box; 2 Corn Planters, with wire; 3 Spaders; 3 set of Harrows; 1 set Double Harness; 1 set Single Harness; 2 Hand Corn Shelters; 1 Cider Press- 1 Galvanized Water Ttank; 1 Tank Heater; some Hedge Posts; 1 Feed Grinder; 2 Grindstones; 1 Eagle Claw Cultivator; 12 rods Woven wire Fence; 1 Truck Rider; 1 Incubator, 240 egg capacity; 2 Brooders. Household and Kitchen Furniture: — Including 1 Base Burnet; 1 Coal Heater; 1 Cook Stove; 1 Organ; 2 Washing Machines; 2 Churns; 1 Lounge; 3 Cupboards; 1 Sewing Machine, Bedsteads, and numerous other articles not herein mentioned. A credit of 12 months will be given on all sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent'off for cash, where entitled to credit. HENRY HOFMANN Frank Eck, Auctioneer. Ellis Jones, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Ground.

Big Public Sale As I expect to give up farming I will offer at Public Sale at my residence, 2 miles South and % mile East of Rensselaer, on the farm known as the Kannal Farm, commencing at 10 a. m., on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1909, 8 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Grey Horse, coming 10 years old, wt. 1350; 1 Brown Horse, coming 8 years old, wt. 1300; 1 Sorrel Horse, coming 11 years old, wt. 1200; 1 Brown Gelding, 3 years old, wt. 1300; 1 Bay Mare, 3 years old, wt. 1400, an extra good one; 2 Black Colts, yearlings. 21 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 3 Milch Cows, to be fresh in early spring; 6 two-year-old Heifers,

one a half Jersey, in the spring; 4 Spring Calves, two steers, two heifers; 7 Yearlings, (one a full blood Jersey Yearling Helfer) two steers, five heifers. 9 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 1 Brood Sow, with pig, will farrofr last of March; 1 Chester White Boar, weight about 300; 7 Shoats, weight about 40 pounds each. Farm Tools, Household Goods, Etc.—Consisting of 1 McCormick Binder, good as new; 1 Champion Mower; 1 Sulky Plow; 1 Walking Plow; 1 Peacock Riding Cultivator, with Gopher attachment; 1 Corn Planter, with 100 rods of wibe; 1 Disc Harrows 1 Flexible Harrow; 1 Farm Wagon, with triple box, broad tire; 1 Carriage; 1 Hand Seeder; 1 Hand Corn Sheller; 1 Hay Rack; 1 Endgate Seeder; 2 sets Work Harness; 1 Scoop-Board; 1 Grindstone; 10 rods Woven Wire; 15 bushels White Seed Corn; some Household and Kitchen Furniture, including 1 Weber Piano and numerous other articles. A credit of 11 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. A. A. BEAVER. A. J. Harmon, Auctioneer, R. D. Thompson, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Ground.

Big Public Sale The undersigned will offer at Public Auction at his residence 3 miles South and 3 miles West of Rensselaer, on what is known as the McCoy land in Jordan Township, now owned by Chas. F. Hill, commencing at 10 a. m., on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1909, 7 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 Bay Mare 9 years old, wt 1200, in foal to Makeever’s Jack; 1 Bay Mare 9 years old, wt. 1200, in foal to Joe Patch; 1 Sorrel Mare 5 years old, wt. 1150, in foal to Joe Patch; 1 Black Horse 10 years old, wt. 1300; 1 Roan Horse 10 years old, wt 1300; F 1 Grey Horse 5 ” I ' l - wt 1200; ' 1 Bay Horse 5 years ■ old. wt 1150; 1 Bay Horse 5 years old, wt 1200; 1 Bay Horse 3 years old, wt. 1000; 1 Bay Horse 3 years old. wt. 1000; 1 Sorrel Mare 3 years old, wt. 1100; 1 Bay Mare 2 years old. wt. 1000; 1 Grey Mare 2 years old. wt. 1000- 1 Bay Mare 1 year old, wt. 850; 1 Pair Pony Colts, 1 year old, will sell separate; 1 Spring Colt, sired by Joe Patch; 1 Grey Horse, 4 years old, lady broke, single, double or saddle, extra good traveler. ‘ 7 Head of Cattle —Consisting of 3 Milch Cows, extra good ones, to be fresh last of April, all giving milk now;

-- THE NEW ■ North Side Meat Market IS NOW OPEN AND READY FOR BUSINESS. We handle everything in the meat line. I will also handle tallow, hides, and pay the best price for fancy veal and fat beef stock. phone i 5.. JOSEPH PUTTS

The Anvil Chorus “Order is Heaven’s first law,” DeArmond’s work’s without flaw; “Instinct builds a nest that’s true,” DeArmond shapes the horseshoe. W. s. DeARMOND, Tefft,

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4 head of coming Yearlings. 6 Head of Hoar—Consisting of 1 Duroc Boar, wt. 17a pounds; 5 young Brood Sows to farrow In April. Farm Implements, Wagons, Harness, Etc. —Consisting of 1 Deering Binder, 6-foot cut; 1 International Manure Spreader, about new; 1 John Deere Gang Plow; 1 John Deere Sulky Plow; 1 Lowdown Seeder, with grass seed attachment; 4 Riding Cultivators, one Gate, one John Deere, one Avery, one Brown; 1 Walking Cultivator; 1 John Deere Hay Tedder, used only a few days; 1 Mowing Machine; 2 three-sec-tion Wood Harrows; 1 John Deere Disc; 1 Narrow Tired Wagon; 1 Broad Tired- Wagon; one Single Buggy; 3 sets Work Harness; 1 set Single Harness; 1 set Double Driving Harness; 1 Hay Rack; 1 set Blacksmith Tools; a few bushels of choice Seed Corn; and many other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of 12 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash, where entitled to credit. JOHN A. WILLIAMS Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch by James Bullis.

ADMINISTRATOR’S Big Public Sale. Notice is hereby given that the Undersigned, as administrator of the estate of James Rodgers, deceased, late of Jasper county, Indiana, will expose at Public Sale at the late residence of said James Rodgers, four miles south of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a. m., on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1909 The following described personal property, towit: « Head of Horses —Consisting of 1 Colt; 1 Team Matched Horse and Mare. 3- , year-olds, wt. 1200 : 1 five-year-Driving Mare; 1 five- year-old Mare; 1 eight-year-old Horse. 17 Head of Cattle!—Consisting of 3 Milk Cows; 2 Yearling Heifers; 7 two-year-old Steers; 5, Calves. Fanning Implements, Wagons, Harness, Etc.—Consisting of Plow's, Harrows, Binder, Mower, Buggies, Wagons, one lot of Blacksmith Tools, Scrapers, Corn Planter, one set of Single Harness, two sets of Work Harness; about 5 tons of Hay; 100 bushels of Corn; Household and Kitchen Furniture; and many other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of 9 months will be given on all sums of over $lO, with usual conditions. THOMAS C. CAIN, Adm. A. J. Harmon, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Ground. LINOTYPE COMPOSITION. The Democrat has a fine new Model 5 Standard Linotype and in addition to doing all Its own work is prepared to handle considerable outside composition. At present we have six and eight point mats only, light and bold face, and can set matter most any measure desired up to 30 ems long and on 6, 8, 9 or 10 point slug. All work handled carefully and promptly and at reasonable prices. We also cast 6-polnt border slugs 30 ems long, for sale at 5c per slug, 12 slugs for 50 cents. They are the cheapest and best border printers can buy for ads and job work. Asia ail: Your mother used Gold Medal Flour. You can’t find better. Don’t try.

e. s - Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect June 14, 1908. SOUTH BOUND. No. s—Louisville Mall (dally) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lnd’polls Mail (daily).. 2:01p.m. No.39—Milk accomm. (daily) 5:40 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Ex. (dally) 11:05 p. m. No.3l—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mall (dally) 4:30 a.m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31 a. m. No.32—Fast Mall (daily) 9:55 n m No. 6 —Mail and Ex. (dally).. 3:25 n tn •No.3o—Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:36 p. m. No.3B—Cin. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:57 p. m. •Dally except Sunday. No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowen, Hammond and Chicago. No. '33 makes 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.

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