Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — Page 6

| What Shall I The Havest Be? H This is the way we figure it— H Most everybody prefers highM class eatables. We handle only that kind— H hence our deduction is natH nral enough, isn't it? H Suppose you let us do you up an order some of these days H just for a trial. B Get some of our Coffee and some of that Tea that we B are all the time talking about. B Don’t forget about the Breakfl fast Bacon. B And all the great number of every day needs we take pains to have JUST RIGHT. I McFarland & Son ■ Reliable Grocers.

Automobile | LIVERY | :: ? ;; We have just purchased ” *’ another touring car and '• ;; will place both cars at ;• the public’s service. ” • ■ We drive our own cars ;; and guarantee satisfaction. •• • • ! ’ When in need of a car we 11 ’• will be glad to serve • • ” you. Our prices are ;; ” right and our cars " • ■ reliable. •• «• • • Phone 262 - 141 or call at our shop : nm 1 «> « » ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ls tai to We have a supply of mon- -> ey to loan on farms at «► Five Per Cent <►■ . «* < ► and a reasonable commis- ’’ sion, and shall be glad to answer inquiries by mail " lor by ’phone : : : . “ The f ksi Ndiioiio! Bonk t. > North Side Public Square < ► Ulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I I = I I ' I I I I I i 1 1 A.). HARMON| AUCTIONEER | S RENSSELAER, - - IND. S = = S Sly experience in the Auction S S business has proven that I han- ; S- die your sales right and treat a _ your patrons with courtesy 8 S from start to finish. It al- E I ways pays to employ an auct- E ioneer who is successful in his ® business and a judge of what B he is selling. If this is the f kind of an auctioneer you want E to sell your sale, see me before g dating your sale. Satisfaction guaranteed. I TERMS REASONABLE. 8

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IN A MOOTED GROVE

A Tangle That Was Settled In Court and Then Out of Court. By RICHARD BARKER SHELTON [Copyright. 1909. by Associated Literary Press.J “Well." said Hillis shortly to the gray haired lawyer, who seemed rather bored with the whole matter, "what do you advise?" The attorney grinned unpleasantly. “Rip up this fence and set it where it belongs—2oo yards to the south,” said he. "Your deed reads perfectly clear. This fence belongs the other side of the grove. The grove is yours. You’ve paid for it" Hillis frowned. “I hate trouble.” he observed. “I’m a newcomer here. I don’t want to start on my career as owner of this place by antagonizing people.’’ "Then let it go," said the other disgustedly. “Let 'em put their fences on to your land as much as you please. In a little while, let 'em once get the

“OH!” SHE SAID, LOOKING IN EMBARRASSMENT, “OH!”

idea you're an easy mark, and they’ll encroach on you right and left.” llillls straightened himself, and his eyes flashed. “If it’s a matter of precedent”— he began. “It is,” said the lawyer laconically. “I know the crowd round here." “Very well, then,” said Hillis; “I’ll have the gardener and some of the men fix this matter up in short order. Back goes the fence where it belongs. Two hundred yards to the south, you say? Good! ' I’ll see it goes there.” “A man may just as well stand up for bis rights,” the lawyer remarked, “and in thia vicinity I know perfectly well what I'm saying when I advise you to keep ’em off your toes at the outset” Hillis turned on his heel and made his way back toward the bouse, the lawyer following. Twenty minutes later Tim, the gardener, was tearing down the offending fence, while two helpers he had inveigled into service were digging post holes for its resetting on the other side of the grove. But next morning Tim, with a lugubrious expression on his homely face, appeared before Hillis, who was lounging in the library of the bouse he had recently purchased. “The fence is back, sir,” he began—“back just where it was before we tore it down.” “Then take it down once more and set it the other side of the grove,” Hillis commanded. All the mopping Tim labored again with his helpers, but at dusk Hillis, walking down to inspect the job, found the fence in its original position. “H'm!” he mused. “We’ll take a band in this thing personally. I think. Ho, TUn!” Tim. who was coming through the bushes, hastened bls steps. “You see how it is,” said Hillis to bis gardener. “Call the men and move It once more. I shall keep an eye on it after you move it this time.” Once again the fence came down and went up again farther to the south. Darkness came on. and Tim and the men worked by the light of lanterns. When the work was done Hillis said curtly: . “I’ll stay here now until this matter is settled one way or the other. Bring me down a bite to eat. Tim.” Tim brought the lunch from the house, and Hillis settled himself with his back against a pine to keep his vigil at the fence. It was nearing 11 o’elock when he heard and low voices. He arose and strode to the fence. Two men armed with shovels and saws were already starting in on it. “That fence stays just where tt it this time," said Hillis quietly. “Does it, indeed?” said a quiet voice and out of the darkness stepped a young woman. “You have no right to this grove,*' said the girl. “You. I presume, are Mr. Hillis, who has bought the Armi tage place?” "I am.” said Hillis. This grove is ours," she went on. 'You are Miss Gray?” Hillis asked. The girl nodded. •Permit me to any I am equally sure

It is mine" said t"I have not moved the fence without being very sure of my position." The girl bit her lips. “If my men move it. what will you do?" “They aren't going to move it, Miss Gray.” said Hillis very quietly. “There is law in the land. We shall see.” she replied. “I am not going to let the tne:i iw.ke any trouble now, but the cor.: > decide it." She mor ’ followed by the two men. z > ra muttering angrily. But Hilli •• i:< if. nothing more of ths fence save « v.< rd from bis attorney, who inform'd him the Grays bad taken the matter to court and through his own alertness they had lost their case. Hillis grinned and was relieved that the matter was settled. Some weeks later he strolled down to the mooted grove. He was sitting on a stump when he heard a strange sound to the left—the sound as of some one sobbing. He arose and moved softly in that direction. There, seated on a fallen pine, her face covered with iter hands, was Miss Gray. “Oh!” she said, looking up in embarrassment. “Oh!” Sbe jumped to her feet and started to move away. “Miss Gray, just a moment, please.”, said Hillis, stepping quickly to her side. Something in his voice made her halt her footsteps, even against her will.

She faced him defiantly. “You’ll pardon my trespassing, I trust.” she said slowly. “But this grove is very much to me—and—and since we lost lt”_ “I didn’t understand about it,” Hillis said contritely, but the girl was gone. Next evening, after a busy day at the county seat. Hillis drove over to the Grays’. He had a tactful little speech all prepared, but somehow, face to face with the girl, the speech took sudden wings. “I have brought you the deed to that grove,” he broke out awkwardly, “and now you must take it and put your fence where it was originally,” he hurried on. “Indeed not,” said she. “I couldn’t possibly do that. The grove is yours. We are quite wrong in the matter.” Long did Hillis argue, but the girl was obdurate. He w-alked homeward feeling decidedly like a cad. However, Hillis was a persistent mortal, and thereafter he went dally to the Grays’, ostensibly to argue with the girl about accepting the grove, but in reality he knew It was something utterly different that took him on his dally errand. “Now. why.” said the girl one evening after some two weeks of this—“why should you be so anxious to give up that grove when you were so anxious to keep It in the first place?” “Well.” said Hillis, with an uneasy laugh, “there’s a Scriptural injunction, you know, about loving your neighbor. I believe we are instructed to love our neighbor as ourself. Now, I have gone that Injunction one better. I—l love my neighbor, a certain one of my neighbors, very much better than I do myself or anything else in the world. I— l—hang it—l’m rather awkward about saying things, but perhaps you understand.” Her hand rested lightly on his arm. and she was smiling up at him radiantly. “I’ll take the grbve now,” she laughed softly..

ONLY TOO TRUE.

The People Pay Little Attention to Public Extravagance. A few nights ago I sat with a party of men—one an upstate banker, two New York merchants, one of the head of a great corporation whose product enters into the manufacture of a dozen or more leading staples used in nearly every home, and the other engaged in a large way with International trading; the fourth gentleman, a literary man of recognized attainments, and the last other than myself, a politician of national repute—an honest man, though the reputed possessor of a large fortune acquired principally by making shrewd Investments and as a result of advanced information respecting Wall street operations. The topic, entirely by chance, was the extravagance of the present age, and the consensus of the opinion expressed and assented to by alll was to the effect that national, state and municipal governments rush into engagements involving in execution vast sums of money raised and to be raised through the only available source, taxation of the people, and many times larger than the known w’ealth of the country or the probable endurance of the people’s prosperity warrants. The people, inherently committed to woeful waste and prodigality according to their means in personal expenditures, are blind to proper realization of the meaning of these stupendous budgets. They are too much absorbed in their own pursuits to give attention, even could many of them do so understandingly, to the direction affairs are taking. The multiplicity and duplication of public offices and thelncumbents thereof, mny of whom are In charge of vast expenditure of public funds are in the hands of men who never have made and never could make commercial success in business ventures of any description. They look on while graft, direct and indirect, runs riot with the people’s money. Contemplation of the foregoing picture is not pleasant Is it too grossly painted?—Communication in N„ew York Sun.

For Attractive Sale Bills come to The Democrat .

FARMERS’ FESTIVAL To Be Held At PARR, IND. Friday and Saturday, Oclcbar 81 PROGRAM FRIDAY, OCTOBER Bth There will be a Ball Game in the afternoon, and farmers are invited to bring their produce in order that it may be listed for Saturday’s display. The committee has arranged to erect a North Pole from Corn. Anyone desiring to participate in this should have their corn on the ground by 10 o’clock. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9th 9:00 - 10:00—Receiving and arranging farm products for display. 10:00 ■ 10:30—Short speeches by Prof. Sparling, Judge Thompson, L. H. Hamilton, S. T. Comer, I. F. Meader, J. E. Alter, and Amos Alter. koo—Judging farm products. I: 3° Judging poultry. 2:00 —Colt Show. 3:00 —Races and other events.

Best draft inare $2.50 Best colt under six months old. 5.00 Second best ;. .. 2.50 Third best 1.50 Best male colt 6 inos. and under 5.00 Second bjst 2.50 Third best 1.50 Best double driver 2.50 Second best 1.50 Best single driver 2.50 Second best 1.50 Twenty per cent will be deducted from the premiums of the winners. Entrance free. Best ten ears of yellow corn . . 2-50 Second best 1.50 Third best .. . 1.00

pr a™au /T Hors^— Chas - Pul!in - C. F. Stackhouse and D. S. Makeever; Vegetables—Addie Comer, Amos A ter and Harvey Davisson; Horticulture—Leslie Alter, Chas.. Halleck and Prof. S. E. Sparling- ’ J ° hn SchrOyer ’ and H ' J ' Dexter = France- J. L. Babcock, S. T. Comer, W. L. Wood’, Chas. Pu lin and Firman Thompson; Flowersand Deeorations-rlndus Wiseman, Mrs- Clarence Hurley, Fern WiTcox and T F°DunlaT S °' MaßlC "“ J ° e Pullin ’ Frank McCurtain, Leslie Alter, J. Music will be furnished by the, Parr Band during the entire sessions of the fair. Anyone desiring to exhibit other stock or produce are invited to do so. For St and Privileges, see W. L. Wood or S. A. Brusnahan. S. T. COMER, President. CHASED LAKIN, Secretary. W. L. Wood, Treasurer.

I Millions to Loan! | I We are prepared to take care £ of all the Farm Loan business In j thia and adjoining counties at / Lowest Rates and Best Terms, S regardless of ths “financial strin- j J gency.” If you have a lean com- J i Ing due or desire a new loan It wIN J not be necessary to pay the ex- t j cesslve rates demanded by our r ) competitors. * J FIVE PER CENT. s Ml Mu ■ froam Semico | | ' g i lrwin & Irwin t J Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer. & IHIJ H ! i - ’ i! ; I DEALER IN 1 ’ ! lime li BncNnil i! Cum. |i • —i, REI&BELAER, IRD. ** Washing False Hair. Never wash false hair in soap and water. Instead get some gasoline, put it tn an earthen bowl and literally souse the hair up and down in this until all the dirt is out. The amount , of dirt the gasoline gets out of the hair will be a surprise to most women.

Premiums will be Paid as follows:

Best ten ears of white corn . . 2.00 Second best 1.00 Best peck of oats 1.00 Second best 50 Wheat .. . 2.00 Second best 1.00 Best peck of potatoes 1.00 Second best 50 Best peck of sweet potatoes .. .50 Tallest and best stalk of corn . .50 Largest tomato 25 Largest cabbage 50 Largest squash 50 Largest pumpkin . 25 Largest beet ....... . . ...... .25 Largest turnip 25 Largest sunflower 25 Best ten ears of pop-corn 25

Farmer's Mutual Insuranca ASSOCIATION OF BENTON, JASPER AND WHITE COUNTIES, Insures all farm property against fire and lightning. Pays two-thirds on all personal property. Face value of policj on buildings. Over s2,ooq,oooinsurance in force. All losses paid promptly. FRANK E. FISHER, W. H. CHEADLE. Secretary. President MARION I. ADAMS, Solicitor

Why Did this Man Let His Whiskers Grow? <jx O HE SAYS: “TO GET THEM OUT OF MY SYSTEM." Perhaps you have something you wish WFj to ,8 et of your system. It may be ' uric acid, which causes rheumatism, or MT impute blood which is destroying your ■ l health. dßw Railelgh's Rn-lei-01 for the Blood, •jEjig will quickly drive these impurities from your system. KU>MEX-OL POSITIVELY CUKES THESE DREADFUL DISEASES ■*< OOUT >re •■—•* h nrieeeU la the >W. JTs* •t/ZhJES iKffiCJ)???' 1 *y. cm Bawleigh's famous "Pay after You are sauatlau Flan." WaH forme. If you cut wait, write ma to-day. Send Orders to WM. PUCKETT, Jr., R *! Tl ! nnto "-

Best pair chickens, B. P. Rocks 1.00 Second Best 50 Best pr. chicks, Part. Cochins. 1.00 Second Best 50 Best pr. chicks, Wyandott. . . . 1.00 Second Best 50 AU dealers in chickens are invited to make a display on the grounds. RACES AND OTHER EVENTS. 100 yard dash, free for all . . .$2.00 50 yard dash, free for all .... 1.00 Roys under thirteen years ... .75 Little girls, ten years old 75 Fat man’s race 1.00 Pillow fight 75 Tug of war, Newton township vs. Union, six on a side .... 2.00