Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — Page 3

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i mw uh Renters of the old settled communities, you can come to Michigan and secure a home of your own with a small payment down and the remainder on very easy terms. Cut over lands sell from |8 to sls per acre. Stockmen have good opportunities here for grazing lands, furnished with good spring water. Homeseekers’ tickets will be on sale. April 6 and 10. May 4 and 18. From Chicago, Michigan City and Benton Harbor, via Pere Marquette R. R. If you are interested, address all inquiries to JOHN A. MILLER Box No. A-3. Brethren, Mich.

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IF ONE LIVED LONG ENOUGH.

If you and I could live 200 years or so, Perhaps our cherished Ills we'd manage to outgrow; We might cultivate the while ' An ingratiating smile, For a scowl would surely bore us, With two centuries before us. « ► Perhaps we'd be less critical if quite as- ' sured that We * Could still- cavort around here in two-thousand-nine A. D. We might try to make amends To our irritating friends; \ We could treat their faults with levity, When we thought of our longevity. When we’d grown philosophical and bald and free from care, We’d have of sorrow even less than we should have of hair. So we all could do our parts To give peace to greiving hearts, As things are suppose we try it— We'd be sure to profit by it. 'Tis said the ‘'compound int’rest on a single dollar would, In 20 generations put us millions to the good! I should like to start out now. With a dollar, anyhow; But I don’t know hpw to collar That first, fundamental dollar. —Chicago News.

In Lilac Days

By GERTRUDE MANSFIELD.

Copyrighted, 1909, by Associated Literary Press.

“Eh, what’s that?” Alan Berresford, tall, athletic, good looking, swinging at a rattling pace down the city streets, flung around as an odor, fraint, fragrant, delicious, assailed his nostrils. “Lilacs, by Jupiter!” Lilacs, in truth. The street stand at the corner brimmed over with them—great purple swaying plumes of sweetness among their cool, green,, smooth, heart shaped leaves. “Lilacs, sir?" The swarthy skinned young vender evidently expected a liberal purchaser. “Tee—no; wait a minute!” And this prosperous man of affairs, whose dictum could shake the board of trade building over on Lasalle street to its foundations, stood looking absently at the flowers, lost in retrospection. Lilacs! He qaw all at once the quaint home in a pretty, peaceful country town. He saw, too, tbe overgrown old garden where the peonies and .gooseberries interlaced silken stems and briety branches, and farther back still, Just where the emerald slopes of the orchard came gently dimpling down, a secluded green stretch of pathway. At either side a row of lilac bushes grew higher than a man’s bead —a way of bloom and beauty, of overwhelming fragrance. Lilac lane they called it And when the moon rose and set shifting shadows about the place it was a luminous mosaic of moving leaves and silvery lights where he and Elsie walked. “Lilacs, sir?” “Yes—a lot.” Berresford pulled himself together with a start Ah, that all seemed so long ago! Had he been letting himself drift into a sentimental dream—here, in broad daylight on one of the most crowded streets of a great city? He glanced around half guiltily. Then, with a little cynical smile and shrug of his shoulders, be turned to the Greek flower seller. “Send those to my hotel.” He motioned to a great earthen Jar full of the beautiful blooms. He penciled name and number on his

"HER DROOPING FAOE I OOULD NOT SEE DISTINOTLY."

business card and handed It to the man with a bill. Then, receiving his change, he walked on, the scent of the lilacs still seeming to perfume the surging city street ‘tflello. Berresford!” But the man addressed apparently did not bear, in this place of blare and bustle his thoughts had gone astray. He was no longer walking down the street of a western metropolis. He was walking with a girl in a gown of palest rose and green through the changeful lights and shadows that flickered over Lilac lane.

"Hold <>n, Alan! What la the matter with you? You’ll get run over the first thing you know! Can't you speak to an old.friend?” Berresford swung around. An old friend! All the dreaminess went out of his eyes. His jaws were set—hard. Yes, a Judas friend—one who could and did betray! And that now, just now, in this crowded city street he should loom up—he who bad been responsible for such disillusion, such sorrow, such loneliness! “Ronald!” he cried in scorn. “How dare you speak to me?” Amazement was apparent on the face of the man who had addressed him. “Alan Berresford, have yo* gone clean daft? Why should I not speak to you? We who sat side by side in the same school, went swimming in the same creek, went sweathearting together”— Berresford controlled himself with an effort Men were passing whom he knew whose salutations, deferential and admiring, be mechanically acknowledged. The necessity for self control was obvious. “We must not attract attention,” he said. “Let us walk on."

And walk on in silence they did. It was not until they had gone several blocks that Beresford could control himself 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 had himself so well in hand now that he spoke almost dreamily. “Of course 1 was thinking most of the Rivers’ home, Where we both used to visit You probably know that I was engaged to Elsie Rivers when that fortune—which is the cornerstone of my wealth today—was left me, and 1 was obliged to go abroad to claim it.” The other gave a startled glance. “No; I never knew that?' he said. Berresford pressed his 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, ail odorous with bloom and the moonlight falling In a thousand shifting lights and shadows, just as 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. “Bo 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 bad called my Elsie. I believe,” with a sudden chill change of tone, “that Is all 1 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 bls companion, white to the lips. “You!” be 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 Arden, and leave the place?” Dever asked. > “Because, being supplanted In my absence, I was another Enoch Arden!” came the reply, passionately spoken. “Listen. After you went abroad Elsie’s cousin came to live with her. They were o? the same height and general appearance, although when considered together they do not look alike. I fell in love with Isaura. 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 ypu 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 fl, as I said. Elsie is just now visiting at our home.” “What?” shouted Berresford. “Give me that card with your address—quick! HL cabby! Double fare if you make good time! Walt until fl, 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 1 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 Eatacado, or “walled plains,” or 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, tbe 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 circumdenudation through rigorous 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.” _ “I 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 possible! I 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.” “1 didn’t know you were superstitious.” “I am. It means the finish of the dog.” *

CROKER CALLS ON TAFT

President and Former Tammany Chief Discuss Golf and Horses. Washington, April 6.—Richard Croker called on President Taft at the White House. His visit was purely a social one. ‘ The two chatted principally on the tonic of horses and golf.

Rubber Shod Rocking Chair.

A western inventor has demised a pneumatic shoe or tread, which may be applied to the rockers of a chair, so as to render the motion of the chair easy and noiseless and prevent creeping and damage to the floor and walls

NOISELESS ROCKER.

of the apartment or to the furniture with which the rocker may come in contact The shoes may be applied to tbe rockers irrespective of their width or form, and each shoe is formed with a bumper at the rear end, which during excessive backward movement of the chair will engage the floor and thus prevent overturning. Scientific American.

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Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

THE ACCIDENTAL WINNERS. A portion of the luck we have We make ourselves perhaps, But much the greater part of it Comes in the line of snaps. We rustle for our dally bread And lose out In the fight, And then there comes a streak of luck, And everything is bright. We hustle forth at break of day Resolved to grab a chunk Of what success there is In sight By labor, skill or spunk, And when the sun has laid aside Its labors for the day Without a thing to show for it We seek our homeward way. By coaxing, flattery or threats. By talking through our hat. By graft or grab or push or pull Or anything like that, We cannot get a grasp on luck. Inducing it to play A little while in our back lot To pass the time of day. Luck like a summer sigh comes down, Or like an April rain, j Or like a poor relation who Comes on most any train. You cannot catch it with a net Or dig It with a hoe. For if it comes to you it comes. And that is all you know. Profitable/ “I thought you told me he was in his dotage.” " “He Is.” “Well, he skinned me out of SSO in a deal.” “You see, his is a case of precocious second childhood.” For Her to Pay. A duke he would a-wooing go. He didn’t care for beauty. He wanted one on whom there’d be A very heavy duty— In fact, he didn’t care how great. For she was billed to pay the freight. Not if She Saw Him. “I am fond of pretty girls.” “I am surprised.” “Why?” “That you ever got near enough to one to become so.” Doubtful Prospect. Sweet Mary Jane, two hundredweight— I've seen the scales, and it is straight. But we shall cancel all our dates, Though it may cause a stir, For she has bought a pair of skates. And I am dodging her. The Way He Liked Them. “Are you fond of diamonds?” “Under some circumstances.” rWhat?” “Straight flush.” No Chance. Some blessings brighten as they take their flight. And some Can’t brighten even then, because They never come.

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