Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1909 — Page 3

A GOOD THING FOR HEALTH. All parties wishing to have any scavenger work done, in cleaning water closets, please drop me a postal card and work will be attended to at once, at 60c per barrel and disinfected. GEO. Bi HELFRICH, / Rensselaer, Ind. Incubator Oil, Incubator Thermometers, Incubator Lamps, and Sanitary Hen Coops and Nests — We have them. EGER BROS. SAY! Why don’t you turn your colts and cattle on some GOOD blue grass pasture this summerT I’ll tell you whose got some, Jay W. Stockton. You ought to speak for a place before it's too late. It’s only 3 % miles west of Rensselaer. R. F. D. No. 3, or phone 627-B. NEW HITCH BARN MANAGEMENT Having purchased an interest in the former Kresler hitch barn on' Cullen street, I invite my old friends and the public in general to call and see me, assuring them fair treatment at all times. HUGH LEAVEL.

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By CARL WILLIAMS.

Copyrighted. 1909, by Associated Literary Press.

Melrose was agog with excitement. The local billposter was hanging the paper of the Denham Repertoire company for a three night run. And Maggie Denham balled from Melrose. “Margaret Denham” she was Wiled, but Melrose recognized her. It was the first time that what Melrose called “a real theater troupe” had visited the little town. This in Itself would have meant much, but Maggie in addiUon created an epoch In town history. Melrose could not know that she was to be a star only for this brief engagement in Melrose. Maggie bad happened to mention that she bad been born in Melrose, and the astute manager bad changed the name of the company from the Metropolitan to Denham Repertoire company for the three night stay. He well knew the value of a local name in a small town. Occasionally Maggie had let fall some scrap of Information as to her departure from the town that.told the rest of the old story of the girl who bad run away from home to go upon the stage. Maggie’s story differed from most, for she had succeeded in achieving her ambition. She had become a fairly

“I'M GLAD HE DIDN'T SEE ME LAST NIGHT AS THE AD ADVENTURRESS."

useful player of parts In the smaller companies. This was her second season with the Metropolitans, and she smiled confidently when Quinlin. the manager, asked her if she felt strong enough to play the star part for three days. It involved a little extra rehearsal, bnt Maggie was delighted. She would show Tom Chambers and the rest of Melrose that she bad made a success. Tom came ahead of the rest of Melrose. because there bad been a time when they two were almost engaged, and she still thought tenderly of those courtship days. She looked about eagerly when the company arrived; buL though every one else in town appeared to have come to the train to stare curiously at Maggie Denham’s troupe, Tom was not there. With a curious sense of blankness Maggie climbed into the ramshackle bus that was to convey the company to the hotel Her triumphant entrance into her home town had gone for naught just because one man was not there. ~r~ ' i

She was angry and surprised to realize that she still cared more for Chambers than she bad ever admitted when he had tried to win her. She had not long to wait, however, for information about the recreant one. Presently a string of callers came to the hotel, and, All of the friends of her school days crowded the hotel parlor, all talking at once. From the babel of voices Maggie gathered that Tom had left town the day before with the evident purpose of avoiding her. The blood throbbed in her temples. It was to give Tom a lesson that she wanted to show to Melrose how well she had succeeded. Now he would not witness her triumph, and she turned strangely depressed until the manager. versed In the handling of the erratic omen of the stage, sensed the situation. “Anyhow, you can do your best.” Quinlin reminded her, “and leave behind a record’that he will be prond of.” “And' who may ‘he* be?” demanded Maggie truculently. "I don’t know,” confessed Qolnlln promptly, “but there is usually a ‘he’ somewhere, and since he does not seem to be around I thought you might like my suggestion.” # Maggie waved- him off with a'jesting remark, but her heart was lighter. Here was something that she could do. So it happened that even her fellow players wondered that evening at the brilliancy with .which she played her part “Ton’ll land on Broadway yet,” they assured her, but even this promise of

hlmseir sufficiently to explain bis repudiation of Ronald Dever. “It is a queer coincidence,” he said, “that you should have spoken to me Just when I was dreaming of the little old town in which we both grew to manhood.”,. He bad himself so well in band now that; he spoke almost dreamily. “Of course I was thinking most of the Rlvrgp’ borne, where we both used to visit. Yon probably know that I was engaged to Elsie Rivers when that fortune—which Is the cornerstone of my wealth today—was left me, and I was obliged to go abroad to claim it.” The other gave a startled glance. “No; I never knew that!” he said. Berresford pressed bis lips tightly together before he spoke again. “It was midwinter when I left—springtime when I returned. And, of course. I went at once to our old home town. Elsie was out, her mother said, somewhere around the grounds. I went immediately to our old trystlng place in Lilac lane. There was the same familiar walk, all odorous with bloom and the moonlight falling in a thousand shifting lights and shadows, Just a« 1 always loved to remember”— His voice broke curiously. His companion, a slight, dark man, younger than he, looked at him with frank anxiety In his eyes. “She was there,” went on Berresford. “So was a man whose arm encircled her as they walked. Her head almost touched his shoulder. Her drooping face I could not see distinctly, but the height and walk were those of Elsie, whom I had called my Elsie. I believe,” with a sudden chill change of tone, “that is all I need explain, Dever!” “No,” said Dever quietly, “It isn’t quite all. Who was her escort? Who was the man?” A great wrath shook Berresford from head to feet. He whirled around upon his companion, white to the lips. “You!” he cried. “You, Ronald Dever! I saw you distinctly. You were the man!” Dever spoke in a level and commanding voice. “Come! Let us walk still a little farther. Neither you nor I can afford to Invite public comment. I hope to prove to you that you have been mistaken.” Startled, but incredulous, Berresford accepted the suggestion. “What made you turn, like another Enoch Artieh, and leave the place?” Dever asked.

“Because, being supplanted in my absence, I was another Enbch Arden!” came the reply, passionately spoken. “Listen. After you went abroad Elsie’s cousin came to live with her. They were of the same height and general appearance, although when considered together they do not look alike. I fell in love with Laura. She has been my wife for three years, and—a mighty sweet wife she is. Will you dine with us tonight, Berresford?” Berresford flushed and trembled like a girl. “It was she—not Elsie—that I saw with you?" “Assuredly, as you might have discovered had you been less impulsive in your flight. He mentioned their address. ‘'We’ll expect you at 6.” “No, no; I must go at once to Elsie—if she will listen, if she will forgive me. But there may now be some other person, some other claim.” “There isn’t any one but you. I don’t think there ever would or will be. But come to dinner at 6, as I said. Elsie is just now visiting at our home.” “What?’ shouted Berresford. “Give me that card with your address—quick! HI. cabby! Double fare if you make good time! Walt until 6, indeed. Well, I guess not!” Then he was being driven swiftly southward, and for him all the world —the gracious, sweet, delicious, springtime world—was full of the waving of lilac plumes, the prescient fragrance of lilac blossoms.

Plateau Plains of the West.

A phenomenal feature of the desert plains is the plateau plain. Mesas they are called in the southwestern United States and Mexico. These mesas, as their Spanish name signifies, are extensive. flat topped, table-like areas rising abruptly from the general plain to heights of from 100 or 200 feet to 1,000 feet or more. The great Mesa de Maya, in northeastern New Mexico, is 8,500 feet above the next lower plain. The surface of the plateau plain is usually found to be composed of some hard rock layer, as in the case of the vast Llano Estacado, or “walled staked plains, as it is called by the Texans, or is made up of an extensive lava flow—as, for example, the Mesa de Maya, the Ocate mesa and the majority of the plains of this kind: The surface beneath the lava flows of the mesas is Itself a plain worn out on the beveled edges of the strata. The plateau plain thus represents a former position of the general plains level. It is the best example of circumdenudatlon through vigorous wind scour.— Popular Science Monthly.

Part of the Game.

“I come,” said the great actress to the modest lawyer, “to engage you to get a divorce for me.” ”1 suppose you have a good case,” said the lawyer. “A perfect one,” responded the actress. “And want it got as quietly as possible." said the lawyer. “Quietly as possiblel 1 should say not! What is the use of getting a divorce, I’d like to know, if there is to be no advertising in it?’

Practical Superstition.

“Heard a dog howling all night” “It means a sudden death.”' * “I didn’t know you were superstitious.” ”1 am. It means the finish of the dog.”

r ■■ ■ ■ .... ffTyM Class Distinction Is op Un-American; Neighborliness Should Prevail. CopyrtahtbTx B. By JACOB A * R,,S ’ A «‘hor and Journalist, Purdy, Boston. ■ . . ! ; WENTY years ago there wasn’t a single settlement in’ < I * * New York city. Now there are more than sixty of J < ► them, and the settlement idea is spreading everyj o where. 3 1 33 The settlement is not a cure-all. It’s just a means of giving us something that in our modern cities we otherwise haven’t got at aII—NEIGHBORLINESS in the true sense of the word. In the small villages from which our cities grew there was democracy in social relations. The city has killed that. But it is ESSENTIAL TO A FULL AND COMPLETE LIFE, and we must revive it. ALL THE GRABPING AND THE GREED OF. THIB WORLD COMEB FROM NOT REGARDING OUR FELLOWB AS OUR NEIGHBORS. ONE DOESN'T TRAMPLE HIS NEIGHBORS. HE WORKS WITH THEM TO A COMMON END. WE MUST COME TO LOOK ON ALL THE WORLD AS OUR NEIGHBORS. We must do away with the idea of classes. THERE ISN’T ANY JUSTIFICATION FOR CLASS LINES IN AMERICA. They are unjust, unwholesome, unrighteous and un-American. Why should we have class lines here in this country and one man despise another just because he has been lucky enough to make a little more money ? A man has some right to be proud of what he makes with his own hands and his own brains, but HE HASN’T ANY BUSINESS PUTTING ON AIRS over what he is merely trying to spend. WE ARE ALL WORKINGMEN HERE IN AMERICA. I have never seen a man that was worth anything who didn’t work in one way or another. I think that often the man who sits at a desk does harder work than the man who handles a shovel. But, anyway, they BOTH ARE WORKINGMEN. * THERE ARE JUST TWO CLASBEB, THOSE WHO WORK AND THOSE WHO DON’T, AND THERE ISN’T ANY REA3ON WHY ALL THOSE WHO WORK SHOULDN’T BE NEIGHBORS TO EACH OTHER IN THE TRUE SENSE.

Woman’s Position Would Be Lowered by the Ballot. By Mrs. STUYVESANT FISH. New York Society Leader and AntisuflYatflst. 1 THINE too well of women to imagine that they can be benefited by mixing in. the mire of politics. They ALWAYS HAVE MOVED AND EVER SHOULD MOVE IN A HIGHER SPHERE and deal with better and more lasting thing 3 than the election of this one or that other to office. We cannot and ought not to go against nature. From time of Adam and Eve men and women have occupied different positions in life and have discharged different duties, and this we cannot alter. Women have rights, and they should know and maintain those rights, but this can he done WITHOUT THE BALLOT by working on .the lines where woman’s power is limitless. WOMEN MUST ACT TOGETHER, WHICH THEY NEVER YET HAVE DONE. THEN THEY MUST USE THEIR BRAINB TO GET WHAT THEY WANT THROUGH THE MEANS WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN THEM SO ABUNDANTLY. ANY WOMAN OF BRAINS—I WILL NOT BAY BEAUTY, BUT OF CHARM AND ATTRACTIVENESSCAN DRAW WHAT BHE NEEDS FROM MOBT MEN. One argument made by the suffragettes is that a woman has no, control over her own property. However this may have been years ago, at the present time it is not the case generally throughout the United States. Besides this, a woman can have the advice of the most able men in the country just BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN and alone. Were she to meet man as an equal in the struggle for existence her position would be far worse. EVEN THOUGH BLESSED OR CURSED WITH THE VOTE, BHE COULD NOT THEN HOPE FOR WHAT SHE NOW GETB SO LARGELY AND FREELY THROUGH THE CHIVALRY OF EDUCATED MEN TOWARD OUR BEX.

We Are Overhasty In Criticising Our Presidents. Bt ELBERT H. CARY, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United State* Steel Corporation. IF during a national administration ills befall the country as the result of whatever conditions, it is natural to PLACE THE BLAME ON THE PRESIDENT. In such cases all the good that he may have done or the success that he may hare attained for the nation is overlooked for the time being. WE ARE GREAT ADMIRERS OF A PRESIDENT IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIS INAUGURATION, BUT DURING HIS TERM, AS TIME GOES BY AND WHEN IN SOME WAY AND FOR 80ME Jgpp % REASON WE MEET WITH OPPOSITION TO OUR IHIkNM PARTICULAR PLANS AND WISHES, WE CHANGE OUR MIND AND BEGIN TO CRITICISE. Hr I would not minimize the obligations attached MjßMk to the exalted position of president or the RIGHT TO CRITICISE in proper language and spirit from time to time his acts and words. But EVERY CITIZEN OF THIS COUNTRY SHARES THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE CONDITIONS AND THE RE SULTS. If the leading men would at all times show a disposition, to harmonize with the work of those who have been elected to positions of public trust, ASSUMING THEIR INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY for the character and reputation and moral and material conditions of the country, instead of resorting to complaint and condemnation of official action, sometimes even defying the law itself, the grounds for MUCH OF THE UNFAVORABLE CRITICISM OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT WOULD DISAPPEAR. . .7

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