Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — Page 3

SUZETTE.

She Made a Quick Journey and ; Saved the Property.

By FRANK H. BWEET. * [Copyright, 1909, by American Press Association.] “I say they come here and drive away our game!” cried Suzette, stamping her pretty foot “Oui, I say it boldly. Do we not have to search the wood all day now for a deer or a turkey when both used to come to our very door? And they have angle and seine and troll and spear till there be no feesh any more. Do not tell me they have come to civilize, to open up the country and to bring pros-per-i-ty. lath! Have not we been ,huppy hens :.I1 by ourselves on our little slope jror’'ofcinjr the river, and does not our • rauti mother say she was happy hen; ■ hen a little girl, and did not her . iot!u r and her grandmother live here, too. aid be happy in their time? What more is there? Have we not had pros-].er-i-ty? And what do we care for more civilize, more open up? It is not good for us. See!” scornfully and sweeping her arm toward a building

SHE SHOT OVER AND DOWN THE FALLS.

whose many open, mouth-like piazzas grinned affably at them through the trees. “That is their civilize, to dance and be amuse, and they have'put up a—a clubhouse on the bank, at the very top of our own beautiful falls, where they have canvas shells—to shoot the falls, and that be amuse too. And that is not all—non. They”— “Child, child,” remonstrated her mother, “do not go on so. They mean well and want to be friendly. And, anyway, nothing we can do will change”— “That is not all,” repeated Suzette. “This morning some of them come on our own land with things to measure around our own cabin, and I did hear one of them say the slope would soon be theirs and that It would be a beau-tl-ful spot for a bun-ga-low. Think, mother! The land has been ours since the time of my great-grandfather, with nobody but ourselves here, and all the game and fish for us alone, and now they come here and walk across .the land and make some figures, and all they have to do is to send the figures away and the land will be theirs forever and through all time! That is what I bear the man say. Bah! What kind of civilize do you call it, this open up? It is not we who have live here. God did not make two lands for one man.” “H’sh, Suzette!” anxiously. “They may hear you and drive us away when they own the land. We are nothing but squatters, they say.” “We have lived here, and they have not,” flashed Suzette. “And what are the figures but marks that any schoolboy can make! I look at them and know. The first paper the man they call sur-vey-or make he lay down, and the wind blow it toward me. Then he make another. And when they go I pick it up. 1 have it now, and it is nothing but some figures and some letters.” Her mother was usually calm and submissive to fate, but now a quick light flashed to her eyes. “If we could get the paper to Quebec first, Suzette,” she almost breathed, “maybe—maybe the land would be ours. I had an uncle who got some land that way once. Another man was try to get it, but my uncle reach the land place first, and the land have been his ever since, and now no man can take it except they pay him money and he’lkwllllng. If—if we could get our land like that!” Suzette drew a paper from her bosom, and the two women bent over it eagerly, almost reverently, for to both it was alike unintelligible. “Did you hear the man say when he take his paper to the land place, Suzette?” r “Not till next week. They were stand near the cabin, and I could not help to hear. They will fish this week and hunt, and the next week when they start home they will go to Quebec, too, and steal our land.” “If they can,” the submissive face growing yet firmer with its new purpose. “But we try to do like my unde ■lid first, only," with a note of apprehension in her voice, “these people know things, and they have been to

Quebec. The man who try to steal my uncle’s land was only a tramp seller of pins, with slow wits, and it was a race of legs. This may not be so easy, but we will try. You hurry to ths traps .and find your father, Suzette, and tell him to come quick. He must start with the sunset, for it will be a long, hard journey, and he will have to go on foot. When they go it will be with fast horses. But. there Is the week’s start. Hurry, Suzette!” But the girl only drew herself up, shaking her head. “Not father,” she said. “He would never get to Quebec. He would run at first, meaning to do everything, but , when he found water or a sign of game he would stop to fish or hunt and forget everything. No, no, not mon pere. Now. there is a way we must not risk. 1 will go myself.” “You, Suzette!” incredulously. “You cannot, child, it is three days’ journey, and you have never been a day from home.” S “Only two days by water, mother, and I shall go that way. It will be a straight course, and 1 cannot get lost I will take my 50 shillings and some bread.” Ten minutes later the keeper of the boathouse at the head of the falls saw her running down the slope. Suzette never walked when she could run. As she approached the man rose to his feet. There were few visitors at this hour.

“Oh, m’sieu,” she called merrily as she stepped on the platform and slipped past him to the riverside, where the boats were kept, "may I take one of the —er—shells to go over the falls? You know you said I could use them any time when not engaged.” “Certainly, Miss Suzette,” the man answered respectfully. He had orders to treat these first settlers with every consideration possible that did not interfere with business or profit in any way. "Which one will you try?” The girl’s eyes swept over the boats, instantly fixing upon the one she felt to be the strongest and most seaworthy. “This,” she replied as she stepped into it. “Now see if I not go down the falls as nice as any of your hotel people.” A minute later, with shoulders erect and hair flying, she shot over and down the falls, the man standing on the platform watching her. After passing below the rapids the man expected her to turn back by the little side stream prepared for that purpose, up which the boat could be drawn. But, no; she paddled calmly on without looking back and soon disappeared round a bend in the river. The man stood there for some time watching, then resumed his seat, with a chuckle. The girl had likely gone on to some quiet pool for an hour's fishing, or perhaps she was gathering lilies or leaves or just keeping out of sight through some teasing mood. She was a ha ruin scarum thing anyway. But when she had not returned at noon nor at night he grew anxious and at last went to the owner and spoke with him in a low voice, then sought the cabin with faltering steps. Yet somehow, though Suzette’s mother expressed anxiety in a voluble voice, he had a feeling that the words did not reach much farther than the lips, and the feeling lessened his own concern. Very likely the girl was accustomed to such escapades. So little was said about it the next day, and it was not until the end of the third that the disappearance became generally known. Then it seemed chiefly to affect two men who had just come in from a fishing trip. They had planned to leave the week following, but after a hurried consultation they ordered Jhe fastest horses and within half an hour were on the way to Quebec. Three days afterward Suzette rowed to the foot of the rapids, turned into the small side stream and signaled for the keeper to draw her boat up. When she stepped upon the platform her face was pale, but triumphant “You may tell the owner his boat have been very useful to me,” she said, “and that I have not barm it And you may add that I otvn the land around the cabin now and all the slope beyond. All I have to do is to live on it And, oh, yes, if the hotel want to use any more of the water from our spring it must pay us something for the privilege! So far it have paid nothing and tried to take everything, but I will let the use of the boat cancel all that.” And then she started up the slope to meet her mother, who was hurrying down from the cabin. Meanwhile the two men, who followed the girl on fast horses, were galloping toward the land office at Quebec. They traveled fast, but Suzette had got too much a start of them. When they reached Quebec they threw themselves from their jaded horses and went into the office to register the land they found that an entry had been made only a few hours before. There on the books they were shown the name of the girl who had outwitted them. Their fishing trip had been spoiled, they had ruined two valuable horses, and they had got nothing for their pains. And the bad temper of these men was balanced by the rejoicings of Suzette and her mother. They could not return to the times when the deer and wild turkeys could be shot at their doors and when the fish were plentiful in the streams. But people who had plenty of money wanted their property and kept bidding more and more for it every year. At last a hunting club that had purchased many acres lying all about it made them such a fine offer for it that it was accepted. With the money Suzette and her mother went away and purchased a new home. And now the game cornea .gain to their door.

t*M“M’*4+tLTHOUGH I BELIEVE THE MILLENNIUM IS FAR ' ;; AWAY, I ALSO BELIEVE THAT THE WORLD WAS | g HEYER BETTER THAN IT IS TODAY AND THAT IT o /’■‘W «► IS GROWING BETTER EVERY DAY. ‘ 3 The PUBLIC CONSCIENCE, which is keener and more active than ever before, is responsible for the growth in civic righteotisness, and good government depends on the activity and aggressiveness of the average citizen. There was never a time when there have been FEWER IN POLITICS FOR REVENUE ONLY. Tte good people are in the majority. The greatest impediment to good government is the indifference of the righteous man. If there are graft, gambling and “white slave” traffic in any city it is because the officials want them. These laws can be enforced in great cities as well as ini other places IF THE OFFICIALS W ANT THEM ENFORCED. If a city cannot enforce its liquor laws it is a sign that gambling is going on and that graft is back of it. Some American citizens have paid as high as $50,000,000 for a .foreign duke or prince for their daughters. If I had saved every cent of my $5,000 salary as governor it would have taken me 10,000 years to save enough to buy one of the dukes. THE PEOPLE ARE BEING AWAKENED TO THE INJUSTICE OF 80,000,000 BEING TAXED TO MAKE A FEW MEN RICH. THE PUBLIC CONSCIENCE NOW SAYS THAT ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL BE PROSPEROUS RATHER THAN THAT THE FEW BE EXTREMELY WEALTHY. Our republic has lasted 133 years. Athens existed as a republic for 900 years, Rome for 500 years, Carthage for 700 years, and all these republics were WRECKED ON THE ROCKS OF SPECIAL PRIVILEGE. Our republic is founded on the Christian idea of equal rights and brotherhood. You may search through the archives and ruins of those old republics for a charitable institution or an institution for the education of the masses. THE STANDARD OF MORALITY AND THE STANDARD OF JUSTICE ARE HIGHER THAN THEY THEN WERE, AND THIS HAS COME ABOUT THROUGH A QUICKENED PUBLIC CONSCIENCE.

Boys Would Stay on Farm Were Life Made Attractive.

By JAMES R. GARFIELD,

CHE farm is a PLACE OF DRUDGERY when it should be a PLACE OF BEAUTY. It has lost its hold on the boys because of that deadening drudgery. The country school, with its decreasing numbers, has

NOT THE INSPIRATION OF THE CITY SCHOOLS, with their efficient instructors and their up to date methods, nor has it the healthy tone it had in the days of these lads’ fathers, when the schools were crowded. There is no more vicious association than is often found in the country school. IT SHOULD BE SEEN THAT THE COUNTRY BOY, INSTEAD OF BEING A DULLARD AND VICIOUS, HAS HIS MIND OPENED TO WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD ABOUT HIM AND IS AROUSED SO THAT HE WILL TAKE A KEENER INTEREST IN HIS OWN WORLD AND LIFE.

Independence of the Home Lost In Modern Apartments.

By the Right Rev. JOHN J. GLENNON, Archbishop of St. Louis. CHE modern city dweller has come to be something like the cliff dweller out in the pueblos of the west. Like them, our modern citizens build one above another and, instead of houses of their own, live in apartments that bear somebody else’s name. THERE USED TO BE INDEPENDENCE, BUT THOSE WHO LIVE IN APARTMENTS ARE DEPENDENT IN THEIR COMINGS AND GOINGS, DEPENDENT FOR THEIR LIGHT AND HEAT, DEPENDENT FOR BODY AND SOUL, UPON THE ELEVATOR BOY AND JANITOR. But the MODERN APARTMENT HAS COME TO STAY, and no criticism will prevent its growing popularity. You will say that the citizen today is driven to accept it because he cannot procure sufficient help or the help he procures won’t help him; that there is independence enough to be found in the apartments and time and money and responsibility demand it. I will admit much of this. Still, the apartment house, whatever its advantage, IS NOT AND CANNOT BECOME A HOME. Dependence is still your life’s legend, with obstructions and restrictions of all kinds around it. IT 18 HUMILIATING TO ANY ONE WHO WOULD CLAIM TO BE THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE TO FIND THAT HIS HEAD MUST BE BOWED ALL THE TIME, AND, AS FOR THE FAMILY, THE RULES OF THE UP TO DATE APARTMENT DO NOT SUPPOSE THAT YOU HAVE A FAMILY.

America Afflicted With Good Naturedness.

By the Kev. HUGH BIRCKHEAD.

New York City.

CHERE is one great difficulty in the way of America. It is GOOD NATURE. • It is the good natnred man that OPPOSES PROGRESS. It is he who DOESN’T CARE how he votes or. how he makes money or how he spends it. The good natnred man is chiefly RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WEAKNESSES IN OUR GOVERNMENT, for our slack morals, for the laxity of religious life, and he is gradually bringing into our life a theology that makes God a good natnred being.

World Never Better Than It Is Today.

By JOSEPH W. FOLK.

Former Secretary of the Interior.

Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church.

Former of MtaeourL

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Discovered Sugar Frauds. Richard Parr, chief of the weighers' division of the New York customs house, who is credited with ferreting out the sugar weighing frauds which have developed into a national scandal, is said to be slated for advancement In the service. Mr. Parr, It is said. Is regarded as the one man in the customs service who has the particular understanding of the methods of the sugar trust and other Importers who have defrauded the government which Collector Loeb considers necessary at this crisis of affairs In the customs house. Mr. Parr started In nearly six years ago getting

RICHARD PARR.

evidence against the sugar trust, and there is not a trick of the trust that he does not know. Collector Loeb has always held Mr. Parr in the bighest regard and has been anxious, it is said, to give substantial reward for the work he has done in uncovering the evidence upon which the United States district attorney has proceeded in his criminal prosecutions of sugar trust employees and upon which the collector has been guided in ridding his office of “undesirables.” Mr. Parr is a native of New Yorkstate and has been in the customs service for a number of years.

Impecunious Lauder.

Harry Lauder, a man who is never to be trifled with in such matters, had an experience with a small grafter not so very long since. He was in the smoking compartment of a Pullman. A “britber Scot” asked him for a match to light his pipe. Lauder selected one precious match and handed it cautiously to the requester, who produced a pipe, an empty one, and then began feeling in his pockets somewhat ostentatiously for his tobacco pouch. Lauder looked on cannily. “Why, man,” said the other, “I've lost me tobacco.” “Then you’ll no be wanting the match,” said Lauder, grasping eagerly for what he came near losing.

When Twain Wes Funny.

At Mark Twain’s dinner table one day there was a party of guests, for whom Mark was doing his best in the way of entertaining. A lady turned to the daughter of the humorist, then a little girl, and said, “Your father is a very funny man.” “Yes,” responded the child, “when we have company.”

Former Sugar Trust Official.

James F. Bendernagel, recently indicted by the federal grand jury at New York for complicity in the alleged sugar weighing frauds, was formerly general superintendent of the American Sugar company’s refinery in Brooklyn. Mr. Bendernagel was arrested on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government by means of false

JAMES F. BENDERNAGEL.

weighing of sugar importations. His first indictment was quashed, but the federal grand jury immediately found a new indictment Mr. Bendernagel has been superintendent of the sugar trust’s refineries in Brooklyn for thir-ty-five years and has been in charge of that institution’s activities at the port of New York for that time. It has been estimated that during the period of his control of affairs that duties aggregating millions of dollars have been diverted from tbe government b> means of short weighing.

WHY SALVES FAIL TO CUBE ECZEMA.

They Clog the Pores Only a Liquid Can Reach the Inner Skin.

Since the old-fashioned theory of curing eczema through the blood has been given up by scientists, many different salves have been tried for skin diseases. But it has been found that these salves only clog the pores and can not penetrate to the inner skin below the epidermis where the eczema germs are lodged. This—the quality of penetrating —probably explains the tremendous success of the only standard liquid eczema cure, oil of wintergren as compounded In D. D. D. Prescription. After ten years of cure after cure, the world’s leading skin speclalts have accepted this as the true eczema cure. We ourselves do not hesitate to recommend D. D. D. Prescription at SI.OO a bottle, but for the benefit of those who have never tried the prescription, we have arranged with the D. D. D. Laboratories of Chicago for a special large trial bottle at 25 cents on a special offer now. This first bottle ought to convince every sufferer, and, at any rate, It will surely take away the itch at once.— B. F. Fendig, Rensselaer, Ind.

FRUIT CAKE FOR CHRISTMAS.

We have several orders now In for fruit cakes for Christmas, and request that all others desiring this kind of bakery goods leave their order at an early date, as they should “season” some time before being used-

LEAVEL’S BAKERY.

Tickling, tight Coughs, can be surely and quickly loosened with a prescription Druggists are dispensing everywhere as Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy. And it is so very, very different than common cough medicines. No Opium, no Chloroform, absolutely nothing harsh or unsafe. The tender leaves of a harmless, lung healing mountainous shrub, gives the curative properties to Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy. Those leaves have the power to calm the most distressing Cough and to soothe and heal the most sensitive bronchial membrane. Mothers should, for safety’s sake alone, always demand Dr. Shoop's. It can with perfect freedom be given to even the youngest babes. Test it yourself and see! Sold by all dealers.

CHRISTMAS TREES.

There will be on sale at A. F. bong’s store one of the finest assortments of Christmas trees ever brought to Rensselaer, just the size for your home or school or church.

The old fashioned way of dosing a weak stomach, or stimulating the Heart or Kidneys is all wrong. Dr. Shoop first pointed out this error. This is why hie prescription—Dr. Shoop’s Restorative—is directed entirely to the cause of these ailments —the weak inside or controling nerves. It isn’t so difficult, says Dr. Shoop, to strengthen a weak Stomach, Heart, or Kidneys, if one goes at it correctly. Each inside organ has its controling or inside nerve. When these nerves fail, then those organs must surely falter. These vital truths are leading druggists everywhere to dispense and recommend Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. Test it a few days, and see! Improvement will promptly and surely followSold by all dealers.

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