Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — Page 6

THE FORTUNE HUNTER

Novelized by LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE

From the Play of the Same Name by WINCHELL SMITH CepynZk’. 1918. by Wnchetl Smith usd Lottis Joseph Vanee

CHAPTER IV. THE 21st of June was a day of memorable triumph to a day of memorable events for Radville. Only the evening previous WUI Bigelow and 1 had indulged in acrimonious argument in the office'of the Bigelow House, the subject of contention being the importance of the work to whk-h 1 am devoting my declining years—to wit, the recording of the history of Radville township. Westerly county, in Pennsylvania, Will maintaining with that obstinacy for which be is famous that nothing ever had happened, does happen, can or will happen in our community. I insisting gently. but Gruily. that it knows no day unmarked by important oceur-

THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER.

renee <for it would ill become me, as the only literary man in Radville. to yield a point in dispute with the proprietor of the town taverm Besides, he was wrong, even as I was indisputably right, only he had not the grace to admit it. We ended vulgarly wi& a bet. Will wagering me the best five cent clear Havana in the Bigelow House sample room that nothing worth mentioning would take place tn Radrille before sundown of the following day. 1 left him. returning to my room at .Miss Carpenter's (Will and I are old friends. but I refuse to eat the food be serves bis guests>. warmed by the prospect of certain triumph if a little appalled by the prospect of winning the stake and sympathizing a little with Will. wbo. for ail his egregious Stubbornness, has some excuse for upholding bis unreasonable and ridiculous views. ? < At 5:45 the evening train lurched in.

bearing the mysterious stranger. ; Tracey Tanner saw him first, having driven down to the station with his ■father's surrey on the off chance of picking up a quarter or so from some drummer wishing to be conveyed to the Bigelow House. Only out landau pay money for hacks in Radville. . Everybody else walks, of course. Naturally Tracey took the mysterious stranger for a druminer. He had three trunks and a heavy packing box, so Trareyfs misapprehension was pardonable. Instinctively be drove him to yt}A Bigelow House. Will now and again makes Tracey a present of a bottle of sarsaparilla or lemon pop, with the result that Tracey calls Tannehill, who runs the opposition hotel, a Klr»T»nint and never takes strangers except on their express desire. The mysterious arranger merely asked to be driven to the best hotel. This is not meet COtnmer'.-ial travelers, wic. as a rule, know where they want to go, even in a strange town, haring made Iwqwlry in advance from their

' Will Bigelow was dozing behind the desk, tolled by the sound of Hl Nott's voice in the barroom as he explained to a«l and sundry just how he had in advertently permitted Watty the tailor to best him at checkers that morning; otherwise the office was deserted. Tra-ey wakened Will by stamping heavily across the floor, and Will me cbznirally pushed down his spectacles and d:j ;nd 41 pen in ink. slewing the register n-und for the l guest’s signature. lie s.-is he knew at a glance that the mysterious stranger was no traveling man. But this is a moot point Tracey’s memory beins minutely a curate and at variance with Will’s assertion The mysterious stranger was a young man. rather severely clothed tn a dark suit which excited no interest in Rieelow's understanding although I, when I save . had no difficulty in realizing i.. ' It had never been made by a tailor y. hose place of business was more than live doors removed from Fifth avenue. He was tallish, but not really tall, and carriied himself with a slight stoop which took away from bis real height. Tracey says he had a way of looking at you as if he was smiling inside at some joke he'd beard a long time ago, and 1 don’t know but that’s a fairly apt description of his ordinary expression. He had a way. too. of nodding jerkily at you—just once—to show he recognize! yon or understood what you were driving at; at other times he carried his head a trifle to one side and slightly forward. He was a man you wouldn’t forget, somehow, though what there was about him that was remarkable nobody seemed to know. He nod led that, jerky way in answer to VViii Bigelow’s “Gdevenin’,” and without saying anything took the pen and started to register He had to stop; however, for Tracey was pressing bin so close upon the right that be couldn’t get any play for his elbow, and after a minute or two be asked Tracey politely would he mind stepping round to the left, where he could see just as well So Tracey did. Then be wrote his name in a good round band. “Nathaniel Duncan, N. Y.” “I’d like a room with a bath.” be told Will, “something simple and chaste, within the means of a man in moderate circumstances.” Will thought he was joking at first, but be didn't smile, so Will explained that there was a bathroom on the third' floor at tbe end of the hall, though there wasn’t much call for it “I could give you a room next to that,” he said "but you wouldn’t want it, 1 guess.’’ “Why not?” asked the mysterious stranger.

“Because." said Will, “’taint near the sample room.” “That doesn’t make any difference. I'm on the wagon.” The only sense Will could of that was that the young man was traveling for a buggy house and hadn't brought any samples with him. **J thought.” he allowed, “as how you’d be wantin’ a place to display your samples. but of course if you’re in the wagon business”— “Oh.” said Mr. Duncan, “1 thought you meant the ’sample room’ over there.” He nodded toward the bar. “That’s what you call the dispensaries of intoxicating liquors in this part of the country, is it not?’ Will made a noise resembling an affirmative and as soon as he got his breatb explained that traveling men generally wanted a sort of a show room next to theirs and that that was called a sample room too. “But I’m not a traveling man,” said the mysterious stranger. “So 1 shall have as little use for the one as the other.” “Then the room on the third floor’ll do for you.” said Wilt “How long do you calculate on stayin’?” “That will depend.” said Mr. Duncan, “a day or so. perhaps longer, until I can find comfortable and more permanent quarters.” . In his amazement Will jabbed the pen so hard into the potato beside the ink well that he never could get the nib out and had to buy a new one. “You don’t mean to say you're thinkin’ of coming here to live?’ he gasped. . "Yes. 1 do.” said the young man apologetically. “I don’t think you’ll find me in the way. I shall be very quiet and unobtrusive. I’m a student looking for a quiet place in which to pursue my studies.” “Well.” said Will, “you’ve found it, all right. There ain’t no quieter place in Pennsylvania than Radville, Mr. Duncan. 1 hope you'll like it,” he said, sarcastic.

“1 shall endeavor to.” said the young > man “And now may Igoto my room, please? 1 should like to renovate my : travel stained person to some extent * before dinner.” “ ' “You'll have time,” said WilL “Dinner’s at noon tomorrow 1 guess you’re thinkin' about supper. That’s ready now. Here. Tracey, you carry thia gentleman's things up to No. 43.” I have never been able to understand how we failed to hear of it at Miss Carpenter’s befor* 7 o’clock. That was the hour wht n, haring finished supper and my first evening pipe, 1 started down town to the Citizen office, intending to stop in at the Bigelow House ou the way and confound Will with the list of the day’s happenings. Main street was pretty well crowded for that hour, I remembered noticing, and most of the townsfolk were grouped together on the corners, underneath the lamps, discussing something rather excitedly. I paid no particular attention, realizing that between Caesar. Pete Willing. Roland Burnette’s suit and the checker game they had enough to talk about So it wasn’t until I walked into the Bigelow House office that 1 either heard or saw anything of the mysterious stranger. WiU Bigelow was in his usual place

behind the desk and looked. 1 thought, rather disgruntled. His reply to my “Howdy. Will?” sounded somewhat snappish. Bui be got out of his chair and moved round the end of tbe desk just as the young man came out of the dining room door. Then Will pulled up. and J realized that he was calling my attention to the stranger. Will grabbed my arm without saying anything and pulled me into the bar “Hello 7* 1 said aS he went round behind and opened tbe cigar case. “What’s np?" He took on: tiro boxes of the fines’ five-centers in town and placed them before me ‘"Them’s up.” be said. “You win Have one " It stagger-xi me to have him give tn that way. 1 bad l»een looking forward to a long and diverting dispute. “I guess you've heard everything worth bearing about today’s history,” 1 said, disappointed, as 1 selected the least unpleasant looking of the cigars. “No, 1 haven’t," he said “I didn’t have to bear anything. What earned you that smoke took place right here in this office. Here." he said, striking a match for me 1 had been trying to put the cigar away so that 1 might dispose of it without hurting Will's feelings, but he had me, so 1 recklessly poked the thing into the automatic clipper and then into my mouth "W bat do you mean?”' I asked, puffing - "Come ’long outside.” said Will, and we went out on tbe porch just in time' to see Mr Durnau going wearily upstairs to his room. “I mean.” said Will, "him And then he told me all •bout it “But things like that don’t happen every day.” -he wound up defensively. "I’ll go you another cigar on toioorrqvr.” . , “No. you won’t.’ ’ 1 said indignantly and furtively drop|>ed the infamous thing over the railing. (To Be Continued.)

LION FONDLES A CHILD. In Pittsburg a savage lion fondled the hand that a ch’tld thrust into his cage. Danger to a child is sometimes great when least regarded. Often through Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. They slay thousands that Dr. King's New Discovery cOuld have saved. “A few doses cured our baby of a very bad case of Croup,” writes Mrs. George b. Davis, of Flat Rock, N. C., “We always give it to him when he’takes cold. Its a wonderful medicine for babies.” Best for Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Asthma? Hemorrhages, Weak Lungs. 50c. SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guarantied by A. F. Long. FOR SALE AND TIRADE. 21 acres four blocks from court house, on cement walk. 25 acres, five room house, easy terms. SO acres on stone road, four miles out, $65. 69 acres. Washington cc -nty, improved. Willtrade. 160 acres. Polk countj, Ark., clear. Will trade and pay difference. Three acres, all black truck and garden land, near station, on public road, good four-room house, good barn, smoke house, chicken house, good well and young orchard. Price SSOO. Will trade. 631 acres, well improved, in Dickey county, N. D. Will trade. SO acres, 7b cultivated, on pike road, free mail, telephone and onefourth mile to school; lies at head of large ditch, has five-room house, good barn, milk house, chicken house, good well and orchard. Price $45. Will jsell on easy terms or will consider some good trade. 160 acres, fair improvements, 130 acres all good soil, lies on large ditch and near station. Wil! sell on easy terms or take trade as first payment. Price $55. ISO acres, all fine soil, 110 acres in cultivation, remainder pasture has large eight-room house, outbuildings, large bearing orchard, steel tower wind mill, and well located. Price $65. Sell on easy terms or will trade. G. F. MEYERS. Genuine Quaker Parchment Butter Wrappers, either blank or printed, always on sale at The Democrat office.

This is the Handy Store During the heat of summer there are a host of appetizing things that we can supply ready to eat. No necessity at all for cooking oneself cooking meals. • ■' Our canned goods department is always ready to serve you. Potted Ham, Sliced Beef. Delicacies in biscuits to no end. The freshest fruits from far and near. In short, there is every requisite here to enable a housekeeper to prepare appetizing meals easily and quickly. ’ • And best of all, the grades that we handle are guaranteed to be pure and wholesome. Try us on anything you like MCFARLAND & SON RELIABLE GROCERS.

A woman who always dresses th« salad at the table has various accompaniments brought to her with the oil and vinegar. Sometimes a sweet red pepper chopjied very fine is used; at another time hard boiled eggs reduced to flakes serve as a foundation for the dressing. Chervil and chives chopped very flue are sometimes in tbe bottom of the bowl, and when the salad is plain lettuce there may be a slice of onion chopped very tine or a green pepper minced or even a tomato. The three tablespoon fills of oil and one of vinegar, sail and paprika go into the bowl, whatever contain, and are emulsified with them. A New Scup. Not every one knows that the common field sorrel makes a soup that is popular in France. A cultivated kind with larger leaves and somewhat less acid flavor than the wild kind is sometimes found h. re in tile fancy markets. Wash, drain and chop about a pint of the sorrel and mix it with minced chives. Turn the mixture into a pan with a tablesj oor ful of butter and cook very slowly for ten minutes. At the end of the time add three cupfuls of i>oi!ing water with salt and pepper and boil for five minutes. Remove from the fire, stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs and turn into a soup tureen over croutons.

Spiced Plums. For the sirup allow oue pound of sugar to each pound of fruit and a scant pint of vinegar to every three pounds of sugar. To each peck of plums allow one tables(>oonful of ground cinnamon, one of cloves, one of mace and one of allspice. Prick each plum well with a darning needle, add the spices to the sirup and pour the sirup., boiling hot. over the plums. Let them stand three days, then skim out the plums and boil the sirup down until quite thi k. so there is just enough to cover the fruit. Pour hot over the plums. Set a way in a stone jar, with paraffin paper over the top.

Sv. set Apple Pickles. Make .th three pounds or sugar anj o at of vinegar and while it is fe:;. • ut in about a teaspoonful each cl > laud allspice and a stick non broken in bits. When the sirup b *4® well ..put in seven pounds of go. .iMffiDhiiig apples, pared, cored and cut : 3 quarters. Turn them over gently with a wooden spoon, being careful not to break them. Cook until you.can penetrate with a fork and then turn into jars. More apples can be added from time to time, if you have them in a stone crock, until the crock is full. These will keep for a year. Apple Lemonade. Take Six tart apples, three lemons, one-quarter stick of cinnamon, four cups of sugar, two bay leaves, one cup of raisins and one orange. Wash, quarter and core the apples. Put them into the kettle with the raisins, bay leaves and cinnamon. Add two quarts of water and bring to the boiling point. Add two quarts more of cold water in which the sugar and grated rind of the lemons and orange have been dissolved. Simmer slowly half an hour, strain and when ready to serve add the juice of the lemons and the orange. Set on ice until very cold.

Spiced Pears. To seven pounds of fruit, one quart of vinegar, three pounds of sugar and a tablespoonful each of cloves and stick cinnamon. Put the fruit, sugar and spices in the jars in layers and let stand overnight. In the morning drain off the juice and let it boil up. then pour over the fruit. Repeat this process and on the third morning add vinegar to the sirup and when boiling turn in the fruit and cook until the pears are transparent and can be pierced with a fork. Oatmeal Cookies. Sift a quart of flour twice with a teaspoonful of salt and one of baking soda and stir into it three cups of dry oatmeal. When the meal and flour are thoroughly mixed add a cupful of melted butter and two cupfuls of powdered, sugar. Add enough cold water to make a dough that can be rolled out. roll thin, cut into rounds and bake. Keep in a tin box in a dry place. Try This. Small white turnips cut into dice, browned slowly in. butter, boiled tender in stock or hot water flavored with beef extract and then mixed with a small can of peas that have been drained from their liquor and heated through and served with croutons is a French way of cooking the fapiiliar vegetable. Corn Pudding, Cut the corn from the cob. Mash rather fine; for each cupful of corn one cupful of milk and one beaten egg; add a spoonful of butter; pepper and salt to taste; pnt into a baking dish. Bake twenty minutes until a light brown. ■ ■ V \

Cookery Points

For the Children

General Baden - Powell, Founder of Boy Scouts.

Photo by American Press Association.

The boy and girl scouts of America will lie glad to learn that Lieutenant General Sir Robert S. S. Baden-Powell of the British army, originator and founder of the scout movement, is soon to visit the United States. The general recently lauded in Canada with sixteen boy scouts from England under command of Captain Arthur Wade. These boys are the pick of the English scouts and are experts In the work. They have been showing the, Canadians how well they are drilled, and those who have seen them are full of praise. The boys will also give drills and demonstrations in this country, ft being General Baden-Powell's idea to instruct the youth of America in the benefits of training along military lines.

An Impossible Story. A certain king once made a proclamation that he would give a golden ball to any one of his subjects who would tell him the most wonderful story, -but it must be quite impossible for the story to be true or the prize would not be given. Ffom all parts of the kingdom people came to him with remarkable stories, but the king declared that it was not quite possible for one and all of them to be true, and the prize was not awarded. At last there came an old man. followed by two servants bearing an immense jar between “May it please y(Jur majesty,” said the old man, “your most excellent father borrowed from my father this jar full of gold, promising that your majesty would pay the same amount back to me.” “Oh, that is absurd and impossible!” said the astonished king as he looked at the huge jar. “Then If it is impossible,” said the old man, “I have fairly won the golden ball, but if my story be true your majesty ought to pay your father's debt.” Thus the king was obliged to declare that the old man had won the prize.

Conundrums. Why is a nail fast in the wall like an old man? Because it is infirm. How are all lawyers related? They are brothers-in-law. What is the most popular paper at the summer resorts? Fly paper. Why is the fly one of the grocer's best customers? Because it settles on the spot Why does an aeronaut dislike speaking about his trips? It is a soar point with him. What is unable to think or speak, yet tells the truth to all the world? A pair of scales. What country does a crying baby sigh for? More-rock-oh or Lap-land. Why is a shabby coat like a man with insomnia? Because it has not had a nap for a long time.

She Beat the Boys. There was* a swimming match held In the river at Nottingham. England, not long ago in which fourteen boys and one girl participated. The prize was $lO, and it was won by the girt, who is the daughter of poor parents. The distance was three miles, and she beat the same boy by a number of yards. After she had won the prize she swam a mile farther to show what she could do. The boys of the world, •wflfll have to kick out further and faster to keep up with the girls.

Points of the Compass. A little girl had been told by her teacher tb stand with her faee north and her right hand would be at the east, her left hand would be at the west and her back would be at the south. Starting to go over it. the teacher asked. “Now tell me what is in front of you?” After some thought the child replied. *My stomach.” . News. An old gnu asked a shy new grra—’Twas on the plains, this Interview—•‘Oh, have you heard the news today?” The new gnu trembled. “Where are they? Noise frightens me!” and fast he fied. 1 1 The old gnu hoarsely laughed and said: “Well, If that isn't too absurd! I thought the meaning of that word Even a new gnu knew.” v —Youth'e Companion.

JOHN 0. CULP Live Stock and General Auctioneer, RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Phone 262. Sales made anywhere in the United States. Satisfaction guaranteed on my part or no pay. Terms reasonable for first-class work and made known on application. All correspondence answered promptly. Best of references furnished from bankers, business men and stockmen. If you need my services address me; I can make money for all who employ me. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. , RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. F. Irwin. 8. C. Irwtv Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loane. Office w *Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER IND. L O. O. F. Bldg. Phone 159 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER Practice in all courts. Estates settled. £.* Farm Loans. Collection department. Notary in the office. Rensselaer, , Indiana.

Arthur H. Hopkins,] Law, Loans and Real * Estate. Loans on farm and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city prop* erty. Farm and city fire insurance Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING. LBAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over Chicago Department Store. RENSSEuAER. IND. F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of Women and low grades of fever. Office in Williams block, opposite Court House. Formerly occupied by Dr. HartPhone, Office and Residence, 442. S. Herbert Moore, H. D. J PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. au calls will recgive prompt attention night or day from my office over the Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 251. Rensselaer - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon Opposite the Jasper Savings & Trust Company Bank. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 116. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA, Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Dr. E. N. Loy HOMEOPATHIST. Office East Side of Court House Square. Phones—Office 89, Residence 169. TELEPHONES Office, 2 on 36 Residence 3 on IH Dr. F. A. Tuifler OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN.

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