Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — Page 4

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

remington. remington r. r. time table. Trains East —5:53a. m.; (except Sunday); 11:18 a. m., (daily); 5:10 p. m.. (daily). Trains West—7:3s a. m., (except Sunday); 12:58 p. m., (daily); 5:44 p. m. (daDy).

John Frey was a business visitor at the county seat Monday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thompson ■were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. Oats harvest has begun in this locality. The crop will be fair, it is thought. Don't forget that Fountain Park Assembly will open Saturday, Aug. 13, and continue to the 28th. Francesville Tribune: ‘Miss Nellie Osborne left for Remington Tuesday where she will make a week's visit with friends. Saturday's Hammond Times: Miss Orpha Timmons left yesterday for her home'in Remington. Ind., where she will spend the remainder of the summer with her mother and then return to Seattle. Wash., 'o resume teaching in the public schools. Miss Timmons has been entertained in Hammond by Mrs. Lawrence.: Beck*-r at J her home in Rimbach atenue and;Miss Inez Eato-n. ar.-her-. home, tn Doty street, for a few days: ■ '

Any lady cat get a silvered •NoDrip” Coffee Strainer by writing Dr. Shoop, Racine. Wis. Send no money. Simply ask for the -No-Drip” Coupon privilege, giving your name and address. Dr. Shoop will also send free his new and very interesting little book describing Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee. Health Coffee is such a close imitation of real coffee, that it requires an expert to tell the difference. And neither is there a grain of real coffee in it. Made from pure toasted grains, malt and nuts, its flavor and taste is exceedingly gratifying. No tedious boiling either, “Made in a minute,” says Dr. Shoop. Write today for the book and “NoDrip" Coupon—John Eger.

PLEASANT RIDGE. Mrs. Clifford Parkison is visitii g at Fickle this week. Mrs. Carter Moore and Mrs. Frank Haskell visited in this vicinity Wednesday. - Last week Mrs. Dick Caldwell bad trouble with the stove smoking, She came to the conclusion the chimney was stopped up. Finally she got Dick in the notion of going up on top of the house and run a pole down the chimney. Dick made two or ‘three unsucessful attempts to get up and was about to give it up, but he gathered all his courage together and up he went. When he reached the chimaey he found a board over the top Ifirge enough to keep him in wood for a week.

A Wild Blizzard Raging Brings danger, suffering—often death —to thousands, who take colds, coughs and lagrippe—that terror of Winter and Spring. Its danger signals are “stuffed up” nostrils, lower part of nose sdre, chills and fever, pain in back of head, and a throatgripping cough. When Grip attacks, as you value your life, don't delay getting Dr. King’s New Discovery. “One bottle cured me,” writes A. L. Dunn, of Pine Valley, Miss., -after being -laid up’ three “weeks with Grip,” For sore lungs, Hemorrhages, Coughs. Colds Whooping Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma, is supreme. 50c. JI.QO. Guaranteed by A. F. Long. .

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We are having nice warm weather again. Otto Schreeg of Chicago is visiting home folks this week. The U. B. Aid Society met at Mrs. Nancy Fay’s Thursday. The U. B. prayer meeting was held at Mike Fay’s Friday night. Emma Hurley • is spending the week with Ad Warren and wife. Mrs. John Marion spent Thursday with George Marion and family. Miss Deva Hurley spent Saturday night and Sunday with home The little daughter of Otis Sheffer, who has been sick, is improving. Rev. Jenkins and wife and son Ross were Rensselaer goers Thursday. The U. B. ladies held an ice cream social Saturday night in the park. Misses Marie and Gertrude Barkley spent Sunday with Miss Grace Price. Rev. Hamilton and wife spent Sunday with Charles Rowen and family. Miss Neva Garriott of Surrey is spending a few days with Miss Marie Gant. Miss Maggie Hurley and Emma and Violet Hurley spent Sunday with Ad Warren and wife. Mrs. Addie Warren and daughter and Emma Hurley spent Thursday with George Marion and family.

How’s This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any Case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. ; w ~ F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made; by his firm. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, 75 cents per bottle. ’ Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.

RANSOM CO. IS ALL RIGHT.

One North Dakota County That Is Not Badly Hurt By Drouth. Regarding the damage done by the droyth in .North Dakota. Messrs. Clow Hendricks write The*Democrat from Lisbon, near which place many former Jasper c-.untv people are located, as follows:? . . Lisbon. ND.. July 14, 1910. Editor Democrat: —-Much has been said among the eastern people about North Dakota and about the drouth, and at this time we wish to absolutely refute any such stories so far as Ransom county is concerned. The writer has been ..absent for the last three weeks, during that time visited Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, parts of Michigan, and as far east as Buffalo, and saw nothing to compare with the banner Ramson county It is nevertheless true that the northern part of the state (especially the northwestern part) has .experienced a bad drouth, and the people of Ransom county always sympathize with our northern neighbors, for if it is not dry with them it is frost.

If any of the farmers of Jasper county (or investors) want to miss it by locating in Ransom change their location they cannot county. The above is hot written to enthuse or mislead anyone but simply to refute the charges that are made again Ransom county, the banner county in the state of North Dakota. Crops of all kinds are good, and our corn would make the Hoosier open his eyes. If the above is worthy of space in ybur valuable paper, you have our permission to publish it. With kindest regards, we remain, Yours truly, CLOW & HENDRICKS.

A FEW SHORT WEEKS. Mr. J. S. Bartell, Edwardsville, 111., writes: “A few months ago my kidneys become congested. I had severe backach and pain across the kidneys and hips. Foley Kidney Pills promptly cured my backache and corrected the action of my kidneys. This was brought about after using them for only a few short weeks and I can cheerfully recommend them.”—-A. F. Long,

BARGAINS IN LAND. 5 acres, on stone road, just outside the corporation. 20 acres, all blackland, in corn, cement walks, good well; four room house and outbuildings. 25 acres, all cultivated, fair house and outbuildings. 120 acres, near station, school, and three churches, 50 acres cultivated. and remainder " pasture. Good five-room house, outbuildings, and fruit. Only s2B.\ Terms, SBOO down. 160 acres, near station, all black prairie land in pasture; lies along large ditch, has. good fence, well, and windmill. Only $35. 88 acres, Barkley township, all black land, in cultivation, lies along large ditch, has some tile and good six-room house, good barn, double cribs, and deep well. Price $55. Terms, SI,OOO down. 105 acres, all cultivated or meadow, lies level and nice, has good outlet for drainage, and has good five-robm house, fair outbuildings;' is on gravel road, price S6O. Terms, $1,500 down. 80 acres, good buildings, orchard, well, all good land, and all in cultivation and well located. Price $55. Also have several farms from 80 to 160 acres which can be bought right, on favorable terms. G. F. MEYERS.

A book on Rheumatism, by Dr. Shoop, of Racine, Wis. tells Some plain truths, and in a pain and practical way. Get this booklet, and a free trial treatment of Dr. Shoop’s Rheumatic Remedy for some disheartened sufferer in your vicinity. Make a' grateful and appreciative friend of some one who is discouraged because of the failures of others to help him. Help me to make this test, and I’ll certainly help your suffering friend. A. JF. Long.

A LEADEN MEDAL.

It Played an Important Part In a Love Affair.

By SARAH J. ATWATER.

[Copyright. 1910. by American Press A«so „ „ eiatfcjn.J —s-... At the breaking out..of our war with the Japanese I bad been somewhat surprised at the devotion of a young lieutenant in the army who seemed to consider me the object of a grand passion. He was several years younger than 1 and extremely boyish. We Russians are a fair haired race, but Paul Nevinsky’s hair was almost white—not with age. for he was but nineteen years old His eyes were a light blue and bis complexion milk and rose, suitable for a girl. No beard had yet sprouted. 1 well remember the day Paul called upon me to say that his regiment was

“I WILL NO LONGER KEEP YOU IN IGNORANCE."

to be transported that very day over the Transsiberian railway to Manchuria. He told me that were it not for leaving me be would be glad to go, since he wished active service. “I am consoled, however." he said, “that I may have an opportunity to gain some honor to place at your feet.” I was moved by this, though I saw no reason why bravery should make me love him. 1 was pleased tbat he wished renown for me rather than for himself. Since he was about to leave me and I might never see him again I had not the beart to chill him. so I hade him goodby without giving him any definite knowledge with regard to my feeling for him. When be left me before going out of the door he turned and gave me a look so melancholy that I advanced a step, took his hands in mine and kissed him.

That kiss put new life into him. With a wave of the hand he walked quickly away, apparently not wishing to risk looking back at me again.

The battle of the Yalu was. I believe, the first great battle of the war. At any rate, it was one of the first. A few weeks after it had been fought I received a little package and a letter. The handwriting on both indicated that they bad been addressed by the same person. 1 opened the letter first. It was from the surgeon of the regiment to which my youthful lover was attached. It read: Lieutenant Paul Nevinsky at the battle of the Yalu distinguished himself. In a charge the Japanese tire was so deadly that all the officers of nis regiment who had not been picked off were driven back before the storm of bullets except Lieutenant Nevinsky, who stood his ground, rallied a small number of men and with them kept the enemy at bay till the others had returned, then completed the charge, winning all that it was intended to accomplish. But in the moment of victory he was struck by a bullet and carried off the field dangerously wounded. I have attended him and extracted the ball. He will not survive. He has asked me to send it to you, saying that since he cannot live to receive a decoration to send you he gives you what he denominates his leaden medal. So many wounded men need my attention that 1 feel 1 am taking time that belongs to them to fulfill my promise. This brief message written by one who was called away from his patient to other multifarious duties was all 1 ever received from Paul. 1 bad no hope that he lived, and when the returns of the killed and wounded came his name was among the dead. I would indeed have been hard hearted if this devotion bad not affected me. I had admirers, but all their admiration seemed trifling beside that of this young man who faced death that he might send me a medal and had instead only had time to send me the bullet that had killed him. But I kept my leaden decoration to myself. No other knew of it or that the man it had struck loved me. Nor did I Intend that others should know of it, especially those men who were honoring me with their devotion and their offers of marriage. I had before me a career, and I did not propose that’lt should be blighted by the blue eyed, beardless boj- who had been killed by the Japanese. • , ; When Count Gravienieff. a noble of high rank, offered himself I would have accepted him at once but for two reasons. First. I did not wish him to think 1 was overanxious for him; second. I wished to complete a year of

tu<>uruing for my young soldier lover. A few days before the expiration of this period a card was sent up to me bearing the name of Paul Nevinsky. Was 1 glad or sorry? 1 don’t know. I only knovt that 1 hurried down stairs. There stood the young soldier, bis cheeks, which had been round, now hollow, bis. complexion a pale yellow, bis eyes sunken in his bead. 1 wished to be taken into his arms tbat my beart might beat against bis. But 1 controlled myself. 1 showed my delight at receiving him back from the dead, but gave no indications that it was from love. Gravienieff was a splendid match, and I was by no means ready to permit this condition of sentiment to interfere with my taking advantage of what it would bring me. ' ' ■ ;

This was Paul’s story: He bad disappointed the surgeons by recovering from bis wound and far more quickly than could have been anticipated. He bad taken part in the subsequent battles of the war fought by the army with which he served and bad returned a general of brigades, covered with decorations. 1 asked liiin why he bad not informed the of his recovery. He replied in a shamefaced way that, having sent me the bullet that killed him. he bad felt that to announce that be had not been killed after all would have put him in a ridiculous position before me. He had therefore put off the announcement of his continued existence from time to time and finally had concluded to commitn:- ate it j<> me in person. He hoped that 1 would not think any the 1 less of him for not haying been killed. While I could not forbear smiling at this absurd self abnegation. 1 confess I was tom bed by it I could not forbear taking his baud, and when he bent forward for a kiss J could not help giving him one, 1 now had two lovers between whom it was not j-iisy for me to decide. On the one hand, there was Gravienieff. who permitted me to understand that it was a great condescension on the part of his family to consent to mingle its blood with mine. Indeed, considering that be (.ame of the oldest stock in Russia and 1 was noble only on my mother’s side, the match would be very advantageous to me. On the other band was my boy soldier, who was so anxious to honor me that be apologized for returning alive after having sent me as a mark of his devotion the bullet that was supposed to have killed him. Never was a woman called upon to decide between such extremes.

And while 1 was undecided, or. rather, while I was unable to hurt my young lover by turning him away for the man it seemed best for me to marry, my position was a delicate one. When the count learned that Paul Nevinsky was his rival he was very much astonished. Paul had no fortune. was a commoner and was iff, years and appearance a mere boy. That such a man should presume to compete with him for the favor of any woman was a great blow to Gravienieff's vanity. That I should consider Paul at all in competition with a nobleman of his rank and wealth somewhat diminished the count’s good opinion of me. I believe that on this account, bad he not been too proud to give in to such an inferior person, he would have withdrawn his proposal for my band As for Paul, when he first learned that he had a rival in Count Gravienieff all hope deserted him. “I would not truly love you.” he said, “should 1 insist upon your bestowing yourself ou me when a position so much more exalted than I could give you is in store for you.” I could not but contrast the self confidence of the count with the modesty of the little general. Nevertheless I was not so affected by this difference between the two men as by the fact that the one considered himself too good for me. while the other cared only for the honors he had won that he might lay them at my feet. One evening my two lovers happened to call upon me at the same hour. As soon as the count saw the general his brow darkened. 1 introduced them. The count bowed stiffly. The general returned the salute with more amiability than might have been expected under the circumstances. The count’s forbearance with me for keeping him so long in doubt broke down. “I cannot consent,” be said haughtily. “to be placed in rivalry with one who. though he has distinguished himself on the field of battle, belongs to an entirely different class from my own. I have offered you my heart and hand. It remains for you to decide whether you prefer to be the wife of a noble or the wife of a commoner. If General Nevinsky can bestow upon you what 1 am able to bestow I will resign you for your own good. If not. let him cease to come between you and me.” , '

“Count” I said. “I will no longer keep you in ignorance of my decision. I fully appreciate the substantial honors you are able to bestow upon me. General Nevinsky has already made me one gift which I bold in greater esteem than the wealth 1 would share with you as your countess. That gift has won. Being called upon to choose between you. 1 choose him who gave me this.”

Catching hold of a small gold chain about, ray neck. 1 drew from under my bodice that which was attached to It—a leaden bullet. The count stood for a moment astonished that a bit of metal should overbalance his estates: that the little general should have won me with a bullet, But he knew that my decision was against him and in favor of the giver of the ball of lead. He withdrew haughtily, and the moment the door was closed behind him my accepted snitor knelt at my feet.

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A partial list of our lands that we are offering for sale in Ransom county. We only give a few of the many bargains we have in first class lands, and with our wide experience and acquaintance throughout the county we can always help you find a snap. Come and see ns. No. 1. 320 acres, 3% miles from good town; 70 acres under plow, balance prairie. A fine hay tract and very good soil. If broke up and sown to flax would half pay for the farm first year above expense. Price S3O per acre. a No. 2. 160 acres. All under cultivation, very best of soiL 7% miles from town. No buildings (except granary.) Price S3B per acre. No. 3. 160 acres 5 miles from town. Lays gently rolling; black loam with clay sub-soil. Price S4O per acre. > No. 4. 160 acres all under plow. 4 miles from Elliott. Very best of soil. No buildings. Price $41.50 per acre. No. 5. 320 acres. Lays very fine and the very best of soil. 140 acres under plow; balance prairie. 4 miles from town. Price $37.50 per acre. No. 6. 3‘ 0 acres well improved; good set ouildings; nice grove and lays gently rolling. Very best of soil with clay sub-soil. 6 miles from to*n. Price $47.50 per acre. No. 7. 320 acres well improved. Good buildings and practically all under plow. 4 miles from good town- Price $37.50 per acre. No. 8. 320 acres 5% miles from town. Lays very fine. 135 acres under plow; 16G acres fenced. No* buildings. Here v is a snap. S3O per acre.

No. 9. 800 acres well improved. Fine set of buildings, good soil. 450 acres under plow; balance can be broke; one-half section fenced with 3 wires and cedar posts. 6% miles from town. This is a snap. $32.50 per acre. No. 10. 480 acres. This is one of the finest farms in the county. 6 miles from town, good 10-room house with furnace heat; fine large barn, granary and other out buildings. Nice grove. All under cultivation, Price for quick sale $47.50 per acre. No. 11. 160 acres. All prairie; lays fine and good soil. Price s3l per acre. No. 12. 320 acres, 4 miles from Lisbon; lays gently rolling. AH prairie and' it’s a snap. S4O per acre. No. 13. 160 acre, all prairie. 8 miles from , Lisbon. Very best of soil; lays gently rolling. Price $32.50 per acre. No. 14. 160 acres, all under plow; lays gently rolling; very best of soil. This is a snap. $37.50 per acre. - No. 15. 320 acres 5 miles from Lisbon, improved; lays gently roll- ‘ ing. Very best of soil. Good buildings. Price for quick sale $36.50 per acre. All the above lands are subject to sale, withdrawal, or change in price without notice. We have cheaper land where the soil is not quite so heavy that has always raised good crops. Nearly alt the above list have possible connection with R. F. D. and Telephone. School houses and churches are many > throughtout the county, as the map will show. If interested, do not fail to write us for particulars. CLOW & HENDRICKS, Lisbon, No. Dak.