Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — Page 6

THE FORTUNE HUNTER

Novelized by LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE From (he Play of the

Same Name by WINCHELL SMITH

CHAPTER V, THE nest morning I went out for a walk. L lingered a moment outside Sam Graham’s old and much neglected drug store, thinking of the change that had come over it since the death of Margaret Graham. Betty’s mother, for. despite its out of the way location, the shop had not always been unprofitable. While Margaret lired (my heart still ached with the memory of her name) Sam’s business had prospered. Sire had been one of those women who can rise to any emergency in the interest of her loved cues. The first to realize Sam’s improvidence and lack of execu tive ability, she had taken hold of the business with a firm band and made it pay—while she lived. During Margaret’s regime, as I say, the shop had thrived. Sam had few ill wishers in Radville. The trade came his way. .Then Betty was born, and Margaret died Most of this I have on hearsay. I left Radville shortly after their marriage and did not return until some months after Margaret’s burial. By that time the shop had begun to show signs of neglect Its stock was decimated, its trade likewise. Sam was struggling with nis inventions more fiercely than ever—seeking forgetfulness, I always thought. The business was allowed to take care of itself. He had always a seieDe faith In his tomorrows. Now, the little shop had been flu distanced by the competition of Sothern & Lee. It was twenty years behind the times, as the saying is. Small, darksome, dreary and dingy, it served chiefly as a living room for Sam, his daughter and his cronies as well as for his workshop. He bad a bench and a ramshackle lathe In one corner, where you ’might be snre to find him fntilely pottering at almost any hour. He owned the little building—or that portion of it which it were a farce to ttjrm the equity above the mortgage—and Betty kept house for him in three rooms above the store. I pushed the door open and entered. He looked up with his never failing smile of welcome and a wave his hand “Howdy. Homer! Come In. Well, well, I’m glad to see you Sit down. I think that chair there by the stove will hold together under you.” “What are you doing. Sam?” I asked “Filin’ up the sody fountain. Meant to get it woj-kin’ last month, Homer, but somehow I kind of forgot” He rubbed away briskly at the single faucet which protruded above the counter, lathering it briskly with a metal polish that smelled to heaven. “Do much sody trade. Sam?” He paused, passing his worn old fingers •reflectively across a chin

SAM GRAHAM.

snowy with a stubble of neglected beard “So,” be allowed thoughtfully, “not so much as we used to now that Sothern & Lee ’ve got this newfangled notion of puttin’ ice cream in a nickel glass of sody. Most of the young folks go there now, but still I get a call now and then, and every little bit helps.” He rubbed on ferociously for a moment “Course I’d do more, likely, if I carried a bigger line of flavors.” “How many do you carry?” *<h»e.” be a sigh, “vaHfiW •* While I filled my pipe be continued to mb very industriously. •' ■ “Why don’t you get more?” ' He flashed me one of bis pale, genial BBffln. “I'm thinkln' of tt Homer, noon’s 1 get some money in—neat week, neb be. There’s a man In N*

York that mebbe cflD be int* rested to one of my inventions, Roland Barnette says. Mebbe he’d be willin’ to put a little money in it, Roland says, and of course if be does I'll be able to stock up considerable.” I sighed covertly for him. He rubbed, humming a tuneless rhythm to himself “Roland’s goin’ to write to him about it” “What Invention?” I asked, incredulous Sam put down his bottle of polish and came rouud the counter, beaming. Nothing pleases him better than an opportunity to exhibit some one of his innumerable models. “I’ll show you, Homer.” be volunteered cheerfully, shuffling over to his workbench. He

'I'LL SHOW YOU, HOMER.'

rasped a match over its surface and applied.the flame-to a small gas bracket fixed to the wall. A strong rush of gas extinguished the match, and he turned the flow half off before trying again This time the vapor caught and settled to a steady brilliant flame as white’ as aud much softer than acetylene. “There!” he said in triumph. “What d’ye think of that, Homer?” “Why,” I said. “1 didn’t know you had ah acetylene plant”

”Xo more have I, Homer.” “But what is that, then?’ I demanded. f “It’s my invention.” he 11 aimed proudly. “I’ve been workin* on it twn years, Homer, and only got it goin* yestiddy. It’s goin’ to be a great thing, I tell j-on.” “But what is it, Sam?’

“It’s gas from crude petroleum. Homer. See!" he coutinued. indicating a tank beneath the bench which seemed to be connected with the bracket by a very simple system of piping, broken by a smaller, cylindrical tank “Ye put the oil in there—just crude as it comes out of the wells, Homer. It don't need refinin’, and it runs through this and down here to this, where it’s vaporized—much the same’s they vaporize gasoline for autymobile engines, ye know—and then It just naturally flows up to the bracket, and there ye are.” “It’s wonderful. Sam,” said h wondering if it really were. “And the best part of it is the economy, Homer. A gallon will run one jet six weeks, day in and out And simple to install. 1 tell ye”— “Have you got it patented yet?” “Yes, sirc“! Took out patents just as soon as it struck me how simple it ’ud be—more than two years ago. Only, of course, it took time to work it out just right, specially when l had rfo stop now and then 'cause 1 needed money for materials. But it’s all right now, Homer; it’s all right now.” “And you say Roland Barnette's writ ing to some one in New York about it?”

“Yes; he promised‘ he would I explained it to Roland, and be seemed real interested. He’s kind, very kind.” 1 was inclined to doubt this and would probably have said something to that effect had not a shadow crossing the window brought me to my feet in consternation But before l could do more than rise Colonel Bohun had flung open the door and stamped in. He" stopped short at sight of me, misguided by his nearsighted eyes, and singled me out with a threatening wave of his heavy stick. “Well, sir,’’ he snarled.; “I’ve come for my answer Have you sense enough in your addled pate to understand that, man? . I’ve come for my answer!”

“And may have it, whatever it may be, for all of me,” I told him. His face flushed a deeper red. “Oh, ft’s only you, is it, Littlejohn? I took you for that fool Graham in this dirty dark hole. Where is he?” I looked to Graham, and he followed the direction of my gaze to the work bench, where Sam stood with his back to it, his worn bands folded quietly before him. He seemed a little whiter than usual, I thought, and perhaps It was only ,my fancy that made him appear to tremble ever so slightly, for he was quite calm and self possessed—so much so that I realized for the first time' there was another man in RadTille besides myself who did not fear old Colonel Bohun “I’m here, colonel,” he said quietly “What is it you wish?” ; The colonel swung on him, shaking with passion. But he held bis tongue

until he bad mastered himself somewhat a feat of self restraint on his part ova - which I manrel to thia day. “Yon know welt Graham,” he said presently. “You got my letter—the letter I wrote you a week ago?” “Yes,” said Sam, with a start of comprehension. “Yes, I got it” “Then why the devit man. don’t yon answer it?” Sam’s apologetic smile sweetened his face: “Why,” he said haltingly, “I’m sure I meant no offense; but, you see. I’m a very busy man. I forgot it” “The devil you forgot it! D’ye expect me to believe that, man?" “I’m afraid yon’ll have to.” Bohun was speechless for a moment, stricken dumb by a second seizure of fury. But again he calmed himself. “Very well; I’ll Swallow that insolence for the present”--“It wasn't meant as su-h. 1 assure”— “Don't in: -rrupt me! D'you hear? I've come f<»r my answer. Yes. I’ve ! come down to that. Graham. If yon ; can’t accord me the common courtesy | of a written reply I’ve come to hear It | from your mouth.” Sam nodded thoughtfully. “Mebbe.” ! he said, "you forget you have failed I to accord niivthe common courtesy of ! any sort of communication whatever j for twenty years. Colonel Bohun. ! Even when my wife, your daughter, di»-d £)>n ignored my message asking j you to her funeral,” “Be silent!" screamed the coloneL I “I>o you think I’m here so bandy words with you. fo->i? l demand my answer ” * * “And as for that.” continued Sam as evenly as if he had not been inter--1 rupted. "your proposition was so preposterous that it eotiM have come only from you nd -deserved no answer ■- But since you want it formally, sir. it's no.” For a moment I feared Bohun would have a stroke. Tlie back of the chair I had just vacated and his stick alone supported him through that dumb, terrible transport. lie shook so violently that I looked momentarily to see the chair break beneath him. There was insanity in his eyes. When finally he was able to articulate it was in broken gasps. “I don't believe it.” he stammered. “It’s a lie! I don’t believe it It’s madness The girl wouldn’t be so mad." “What is it. father?” I don't know which of ns three was the most, startled by that simple question in Betty Graham’s voice. Sam, at all events, showed the least surprise. The old colonel wheeled to-’ ward the back of the store, his jaw dropping and his eyes protruding as though he were confronted with a ghost—as. in a way. he Ivas. Even I had been struck by that strange, heartrending similarity to her mother's tone, and even I trembled a little to hear that voice, as it seemed, from beyond the grave Betty stood at the foot of the staircase. Alarmed by the noise of the colonel's raging, she had stolen down, unheard by any of us. And in that moment I realized as never before that the girl had more of her mother

SHE HAS STOLEN DOWN UNHEARD.

in her than lay in that prodnction of Margaret Graham’s voice. As she waited there one detected in her pose something of her mother's quiet dignity, in her eyes more than a little of-Margaret's tragedy. Of beauty I saw scant trace, I own, but in those days my eyes were blinded by the signs of overwork and insufficient nourishment that marred her young features, by the hopeless dowdiness of her garments. ' Abruptly she moved swiftly to her father's side and slipped her hand into his. “What is it, father?” she repeated, eying Colonel Bohun coldly. , “Why, Betty.” he said, tremulous—“why, Betty.,, your grandfather here, ibak been kind enough to offer to taka

yon and educate you and make a lady •of you. and -and we were just talking It over, dear—just talking it over.” “Do you mean that?” she flung at Mobun > He straighteued up aud held himself Wvell in baud. ”Is it the first you hare ■heard of it?” ; “Yes.” She looked inquiringly at .Tier father. j “Why didu’t yon tell her?” Bohun [persisted harshly. “Were you afraid?” * ’’No.*’ Sam shook his head slowly. “I wasn'f afraid, but it was unnecessary. You see. Betty, Colonel Bohun ‘is willing to do all this for you on sevjeral cpnditious. You must leave me jahd never see me again. You mustn’t (even recognize me should we meet jjupon the street. You must change your name to Bohun and never permit wourself to be known as Betty GraIham. Then you must”— I “Never mind, daddy, dear.” said the rrl.' “That is enough. I know now. understand why you never told me. It's impossible. Colonel Bohun knew 'that when he made the offer, of bourse. He made it simply to harass yoit! daddy.. It's his revenge.” > , "And that’s your answer.' miss?” [snapped the Lionel.- livid with wrath, j “1 would r.of.” she told him slowly, •“accept a favor from you. sir, if I were Eta rving.” ! Bohtiu drew himseif up. starve.” he told her aud' walked out of the shop (To Re Continued.) -

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FOR SAFE AND TRADE. 21 acres four blocks from court house, on cement walk. 25 acres, five room house, easy terms. 80 acres on stone road, four miles out, $65. 60 acres, Washington county, improved. Will trade. 100 acres, Polk county. 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 s&<■■ . vV ill traJe. 6b 1 acres, vll improved, in Dickey county, ... D. Will trade. 80 acres 70 cultivated, on pike road, free mail, telephone and onefourth mile to school; lies at head of large ditch, has five roam house, good, barn, i illk he :se, chicken house, good well and bearing orchard. Price $45. Will sell on easy terms or will consider some good trade ' • V."'' ■■■■ 160 acres, fair improvements, 130 acres, cultivated, all good soil, lies on large ditch and near station. Will sell on easy terms or take trade as first payment. Price $55. 180 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 G. F. MEYERS. SALE BILL SEASON. The Democrat wants to print your sale bills this season, if yo,u are going to have a sale.' Wfe are fully prepared to get you out an attractive bill. A good line of display type, stock cuts, etc., enables us to do the work in an artistic manner, A free notice of the sale complete in The Democrat goes with each set of bills, and you know “everybody reads The Democrat.” Orders by mqil or phone will receive prbmpt and careful attention. \ ■ .

This is the Handy Store During the heat of summer there are a fyost 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 frdshest fruits from far and neaL < In. short, there is every requisite here to enable a housekeeper to prepare appetizing njeals easily and quickly. ’ , And best of all, the grades that we handle are guaranteed to be pure and wholesome. t Try us on anything you like MCFARLAND & SON RELIABLE GROCERS.

{ a*.*.’.,. if J A \ // j JHttY JOHN Q. 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 kndwn on application. All correspondence answered promptly. Best of refer' ences 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 V 4 U practice In alt the courts Offlc* over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. F. Irwin. 8. C. Irwia Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loann. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER. IND. 1.0. O. F. Bldg. Phone 159 John A. Dunlaps 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 property. Farm and jcity fire Insurance Attorneys (or , AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Office - over Chicago Department Store RENSSELAER. 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. Hartsell. Phone, Office and Residence, 442.

S. Herbert Moore, fl. D. J, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. All calls will receive 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, lift.

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 80, Residence 169.

TELEPHONES Office, 2 on 300 Residence > on *o# Dr. F. A. Tuifier OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Graduate American Sohool of Osteopathy, Post Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —9-12 a. m., 1-6 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. -7 Office over Larsh’s drug store.

Dr. J. H. Hansson VETERNARY SURGEON— Now at Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office In 1 Harr a Bank Building. Phone 443.

PARKER’S HAIR BALSAM beautifies the hair. Yrocootes a luxuriant growth. Hover Fans to Bestore Gray to its Youthful Color.

‘ WBtTTbTi . 1 . 1 WulsliHliMUlHai ■■ W ■ V 9 ■ ' ' ' » 1 Chicago to Northwest, Indlanapol*. Cincinnati and the South, Loulevtlio and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect June, 1910. SOUTH BOUND. <o.3l—Fast MaU 4:45 a No. 6—Louisville Mail (daily) 10-65 a No.33—lnd’polia Mali (ffiUlyL. 1:59 £ {£ vo.39—Mkk accomm (dally).. 4:02 p. m. So. 3—Chi.' to Louisville 11:05 p! m. ‘ v NORTH BOUND. <o. 4 —Mail (dally) 4.55 a. m. 2? ilk aveomm. (dally) 7:31 a. m. N 0.32 Bast Mall (dai1y)....,, 10.05 a. m. No. 6 —Mail and Ex. (dally)., 3:17 p. m No.3o—Cln. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:02 p. m. Nc. 4 wfll stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south ot Morion, and take passengers for Loweii. Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct con---ection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen’l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic MgrJ ‘ „ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICER 3. ' Mayor G. f. Meyers Marshal j. K. Davis Cterk Chas. Morlan Treasurer R. d. Thompson Attorney Mose Leopold CivU Engineer L. C. Klosterman Fire Chief ~j. j. Montgomery Fire Warden .C. B. Stewart Councilmen. Ist Ward George Hopkins 2nd Ward Elzie Grow 3rd Ward Frank Kresler At Large....! C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge........ Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred LongweU Terms of Court—Second Monday In February, April, September and November, Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff..... ........Louis P. Shire? Auditor. James N. Leatherman Treasurer......... J. D. A liman Recorder j. W. Tilton Surveyor .W. F. Osborns Coroner. W. J. Wright SupL Public Schools Ernest Lamson County Assessor... .John Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District.... John Pettet 2nd District.... Frederick Waymire 3rd District.... Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer ....Gillam George Parker............. Hanging Grove W. H. WorUey Jordan Tunis Snip ....Keener John Shlrer... .....Kankakee Edward Parklson Marlon George L. Parks.. ....Milroy I” Newton Isaac Kight Union S. D. Clark Wheatfleld Fred Karch.. ....Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. Eng1i5h,................Ren55e1aer James H. Green.. Remington Geo. O. Stembel ..Wheatfleld Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer

TRUSTEES' CARDS, - JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Wednesday of each month. Persons having business with ine will please govern themselves accordingly. Post-. office address, Rensselaer, Ind.; R-R-4. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business st his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNBHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township attends to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Fostofflce address, Fair Oaks. Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

FOR SALE 6, 7 or S per cent First Mortgages secured by Improved Real Estate worth from three to five times the amount of the mortgage. We collect and remit interest and principal without charge. $2,000,000 in First Mortgage Loans, without one dollar loss, is our record. Write us for map of Oklahoma and for information concerning our First Mortgage Loans and Oklahoma Alfalfa lands. A- C. FARMER & CO., 208 Xorth Robinson St., Oklahoma Gify, Okla.

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