Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — Page 6

THE FORTUNE HUNTER

Novelized by Louis Joseph Vance From the Play of the Same Name by WINCHELL SMITH Copyright. I9IO; by Winchell Smith tod Louis Joseph Vance CHAPTER XXIL BUT at the doorstep of the Methodist church Nat hesitated. \ The building was dimly Lighted, for it was choir practice night, and the door was ajar, but he couldn't bring himself toi enter. Raving and ranting with the extravagance of youth, he passed, through the village, out into the open country, and, in the course of an hour and a half, back, all blindly, circling back to the store, in the course of his wanderings, as instinctively as a carrier pigeon shapes its course for home. It was with incredulity that he found himself again in that cheerful, cherished, homely place. But there he was when he came out of his abstraction—there in those familiar surroundings, with Tracey's round red face beaming at him over the cigar stand like a lively counterfeit of the round red moon he had watched lift up into the skies, back there in the still countryside, just as be paused to turn back to town. »

He recollected his faculties and resumed command of himself sufficiently to acknowledge Tracey’s greeting with a moody word. “All right, Tracey,” he said abruptly. “Yon may go now. I’ll shot np the store.”

He looked at his watch and was surprised to discover that it was no later than half past 8. He seemed to have lived a lifetime in the last few hours.

“Thank you, sir,” said Tracey, with a gush of gratitude. “I’ll be glad to get off. Angie's waitin’.” . “Angie ?’ “Good evening. Mr. Dnnrnn ” i “Oh, Miss TuthillJ” Nat discovered that little rogue, all smiles and dimples and hlushes, not distant from his elbow. “I see you—l was thinking.”

“Guess we know what you was thinkin’ about,” observed Tracey, bringing his hat round the counter. “Everybody in town’s talkin’ about it.” “About what?”

“Ah, you know about what, and •w’e’re mighty glad of it, and we want to congratulate you, don’t we, Angie?” “Oh, yes, indeed, Mr. Duncan. It’s Just too Sweet for anything.” “0 Lord.'” groaned Nat. “I’m awful glad you done It when you did,” pursued Tracey, oblivious to Nat in his own ecstatic temper. “I guess I wouldn’t never’ve got up the spunk to—to tell Angie what I did tonight ’f it hadn’t been we was talkin’ Txmt your engagement to Josie. Then, somehow, it just seemed to bust right out of me. like I couldn't hold it no longer. Didn’t it, Angie?” “Oh. Tracey, how can you talk so!” “Then you’re engaged, too?” Nat in* quired. rousing, himself a little and smiling feebly upon them. “Yes. sir.”

“I’m glad to hear it. It’s great news. Now, run along, both of yiu, and don’t forget you’ll never be so happy again.” With what he thought an expiring

“IT’S JUST TOO SWEET FOB ANYTHING."

flash of humor be raised his bands above their heads. “Bless you, my children !” he said solemnly. “Now, for heaven’s sake, beat it!” Alone he went to the prescription desk and, opening one of the drawers, took oat the firm's books. After that for some fifteen minutes there was nothing to be beard in the store save Nat’s breathing and the scfatehlng of his pen as he figured out a trial balance. Brisk footfalls disturbed hip. He sighed and moved oat into the store to find Kellogg there, snare and easy, as always, yet with that in his man-

ner. perceptible perhaps only to a friend of long standing like Nat, to betray a mind far from complacent. “Oh, you're here!” he cried, with a distinct start of relief. **Tve been looking all over for you." • “I just got in." Nat brushed aside explanations curtly, Intent upon his purpose. “Harry, I’ve got something to say to you. I'm not going through with this thing.” “You’re not?”

“NTo, and that’s final. I was just on the point of drawing yoh a check for three hundred—that’s all my share fft the profits olf this concern so far—and my note for the balance. I’ll pay that op as soon as I'm able, and I’ll work like a terrier until 1 do. But, as for the rest of it, I’m through." j 'J “Oh, you are?" Kellogg took a cha|r and tipped back, frowning gravely. “But what .about your word to me?” “There’s nothing to that, - ’ said Duncan without heat “The word of honor of a man wbo’d stoop to a trick as vile aa I have doesn’t amount to a continental shinplaster. I'll rather be dishonored by breaking it than by ruining a woman's life.” “Very well, if yon /feel that way about it,” said Kellogg as coolly. “And you may keep your check and note; I wouldn’t take them. You can pay me back when it’s convenient—l don’t care when. But what I want to know is what you mean to do.” “I mean to do the only thing left to do. I’m going to shut up here and then see Lockwood and Josie and tell them the whole story ” “HmT Kellogg reflected, quizzical. “You’ve got a pleasant little job ahead of you.”

“I don't care about that I deserve all that's coming to me I owe Josie a duty. Why, It’s awful. Harry, to trick a girl Into caring for you and then to —to”—

“Break her heart?” Kellogg’s tone was sardonic. “That’s what I meant.”

“Don’t flatter yourself, my boy. Josie Lockwood doesn’t love you. She just set herself to win yon because you’re the best chance she’s seen.” Kellogg laughed quietly. “The system would have worked just as well If any one else had tried it” “

“Do you think so—honest?* Nat’s eagerness to believe him was undisguised.

‘Tin sure of it The trouble is that people will say you’ve thrown her over —there isn’t any one in Radville who hasn't heard the news by this time—and that's going to make the girl feel pretty cheap, but only for awhile. She’ll get over it and solace herself with the next best thing. And don’t forget—you lose a fortune.” “No, I don't.” Duncan disclaimed. “I never had it, and now I don’t want It”

“That’s true enough,” Kellogg ad mitted evenly "And I hope you’ll al a-ays feel that way about It; but believe me, you’ll find plenty of money a great help if you want to live a happy life.” “There are better things than money to make a man happy. I’ll pass up the money and try for the others.” “That’s true too. But when did you find It out?”

“Here—this last year. You know I had everything my heart desired until the governor cashed in, and I used to think I was a pretty happy kid in those days. But now I’ve learned that you can beat that kind of happiness to Harry’’—Duncan was growing almost sententious —“the real way to, be happy is to work and have your work amount to something and —and to have some one who believes in you to work for.” “Is this a sermon, Nat?’ “Call it what you tike. It goes, just the same. That’s what I’ve found out this year.” (To Be Continued.)

Elusive. The ever changing ocean Is full of charms and fish; But, oh. the former doesn’t make i An appetizing dish! , . Poor Crop. John Bull calls across to Uncle Sam by wireless: .■ ■ “ - .. “How's your crops, uncle, this season?” “Ain't started to raise nothing yet but the Maine.” I Mr. Tightwad. / “She earns every/eent she spends.” “Does she really ?' “Yes!” “The clfever thing! How?” “By getting it out of her husband.” Curious. , V “He forgot be was married.” . “What!” “I said he forgot he was married.” “How did he accomplish it?” Hard Task. “What is your idea of a good cook?” “One who can get up a dollar dinner out of a quarter’s worth of material.” ■: r A */■ ‘ 1 \ Missed His Opportunity. “He was bora great.” “Maybe, but he hasn’t lived up to 1C .. :

Miss IDA at. TAKBEim. This is what Miss Ida Tarbell, the biographer of Standard Oil and author of “Life of Lincoln.” lias to say about woman’s civic duty:

“The most valuable citizen in the world is the woman who stays at home and properly brings up a family of children.

“A woman's first and most important duty to the state is the same as it always has been since the beginning of things—the rearing of good citizens.

“There is no achievement, literary, artistic, what you will, which a woman can perform that is of the same vital significance to the nation as the rearing of a family of men tally, morally, physically healthy boys and girls. There is no profession containing such real honor for a woman as that of homemaking. And it is the great national job for the majority of us. Let Us see that we stick to It. We can’t do anything better.”

Miss Tarbell’s interviewer here interposed that it was not possible for all women to marry, and she was asked what civic duties were best performed by the single ones. Miss Tarbell said: “They still serve the state in many ways. The highest service that they can perform is to become teachers. Women do excellent work on boards of hospitals, reformatories, prisons, asylums and schools. Indeed, there should be a proportion of women on all such boards, though there should be men also.

The Old Reliable.

“Radium is the new elixir of life.” “What does it cost?” “Only f10,000,000 an ounce.” “I’ll stick to P ie ” ,

Woman’s World

No Career Greater Than Homsmaking, Says Miss Tarbell.

C by J E. Purdy.

“As factory and milk and tenement house inspectors women do splendid service. There should be many more women probation officers. All state institutions taking care of women and children should be largely administered by women.”

Household Economics. To make biscuits light—drench with gasoline and ignite before serving. To keep servants—chloroform and lock in the cellar. To get rid of peddlers—buy all they have. To remove fruit stains from linenuse the scissors. To keep rats out of the pantry—put all the food in the cellar. To entertain women visitors—let them read all your private papers. To entertain men visitors—feed the brutes. v To keep children at home—lock ’em in the garret. To keep hubby at home—lock up al! his clothes. To prevent accidents in the kitchenfill the kerosene can with water. To stop leaks in pipes—send .n a hurry up for the nearest plumber. To economize on coal—get a gas range. ‘ - To test freshness of eggs—drop on hard surface. To propitiate tne janitor—you can’t do it.—lJppincott’s. Large Waists. The Venus of Milo dressed in Parisian modes might pass muster now. Thirty inches is none too big for a waist. Paris made the law, and every one followed it joyously. Even the stays, pull as you may, will not give you a small waist It is even rumored, that Frenchwomen pad the front of the figure to cause it to appear straight, but the one desideratum is to keep the hips to the straight tine.

Catherine de' Medici when she introduced the bone corset made thirteen inches the right size for the waist, and many a woman at court sacrificed her life to attain it.. - There is no necessity to have long bones to keep in the hips. Coutil or brocade may be cut so as to confine the dimensions. Digestive organs are now left full and easy play. r Women and Suffragettes. On > his visit to America Father Vaughan of London (called by Chesterton “the Mayfair priest who makes the comfortable classes feel uncomfortable”) was asked. “Would you give votes to women?” ' “1 would make no difficulty about giving votes to women,” he answered. “But, you understand.” he added, with twinkling eye, “once you give votes to women the suffragettes would be wanting them also.” — Success.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Warning—A Jolly Game. ■ This is a fine game. Any number of boys can play it, one of whom is called the “cock,” while the others are called “chickens.” “Loose bounds'* are made near a wall or fence, about four feet wide and twelve feet long. The cock takes his place within the bounds; the chickens stand about In various parts of the playground. The cock claps his hands together and cries: ■ ” ,• Warning once! Warning twice! A bushel of wheat, a bushel of rye.

When t|ie cock crows out Jump I! ne then crows and, keeping his bands still clasped before him, runs after the other players. When he touches one he and the player so touched immediately make for the bounds. The other players try to capture them before they get back, and if they succeed they are privileged to get on the backs of the cock and the chick and ride home. The cock and his chick then come forth again, hand in hand, and try to touch some other of the players. As soon as they do this they loose hands, and they and the player now touched run to the bounds as before, while the others try to catch them and secure a ride. T!je three now come out in the same man ner If while trying to touch the other boys the cock and his chicks loose bends before they have touched any one they may be ridden immediately if they are caught before reaching bounds.

Hunting the Thimble. Last spring Mrs. Albert Tomlin of Atlantic City, X. J., went to visit her father and mother, who. live on a farm near Tuekerton. and one day the chickens got into the kitchen garden. She was sewing, but she ran to chase them out. and when she had got the last chicken where it should be she found that her silver thimble was lost. She hunted all through the garden, but she could not find it.

That is chapter 1. Chapter 2 opens in the winter time, and Mrs. Tomlin is seen making pumpkin pies. The pumpkin that she used in this chapter of the story had been sent to her from her father’s, farm. She cut one of them open, and as the (pieces fell apart out dropped a silver thimble. It was the one she had lost She thought that the fairies must have been at work, but after awbile she came to the conclusion that the thimble had fallen from her finger into a pumpkin blossom as she chased the chickens and that the pumpkin had grown around it. —Chicago News.

An Amusing Trick. [. You l>egin by declaring that if any one will write something on paper you will undertake to say what there is upon it. Should any one take you. tell him, when he has written something on a piece of paper, to roll it up small and hold the paper straight up in his hand and after making him hold it up a number of different ways say, “Now place the paper on the floor in the middle of the room and, in order that I may not have the chance of lifting it up in the ieast, place both your feet upon it: I will then proceed to take up a candle, a stick or anything else you please and inform you at once what is on the paper.” After going through all sorts of maneuvers to mislead the spectators and keep alive their curiosity you finally turn to the gentleman who is standing with both feet on the paper, remarking: “I have undertaken to state what was upon that piece of paper. You are upon it!” With many a hearty laugh you will be declared the winner of the bet

The Self Balanced Pail. You lay a stick across the table, letting one third of it project over the edge, and you undertake to hang a pail of water on it without either fastening the stick on the table or letting the pail rest on any support, and this feat the laws of gravitation will enable you literally to accomplish. You take a pail of water and hang it by the handle upon the projecting end of the stick in such a manner that the handle may rest on it in an inclined position, with the middle of the pail within the edge of the table. That it may be fixed in this situation place another stick with one of its ends resting against the side at the bottom of the pail and its other end against the first stick, where there should be a nptch tb retain it. By these means the pail will remain fixed in that situation without being able to incline to either side, nor can the stick slide along the table or move along its edge without raising the center of gravity of the pail and the water it contains. Duck Stone. This game may be played by any number. A large stone is selected and placed on a particular spot, and the players first “pink for duck,” which they do by throwing their stones up to the mark. The one whose stone is farthest from it becomes “duck.” The duck places his stone on the large one, while the rest of the players return to the “bounds.” Each one pitches his stone at that of the duck, endeavoring to knock it off. If any one succeeds in doing this duck must replace it, while the throwers pidk up their stones and run to bounds., When duck has replied his stone he runs after any of the other players, and if he manages toll touch one of them that one becomes duck. Wake Up! The baby is waking, , 1 The muQns are baking. The kettle's beginning to steam. The birdies are singing. The school bell Is ringing. " r • And pussle cat’s drinking some cream.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstract#, Real Batata, Loan* Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Flair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

J. F. Irwin. B. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Law, Rea) Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loana. Office m Odd Fellows' Block. • RENSSELAER. IND.

I O. O F. Bldg. Phone 169 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER. Practice in all courta. 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 city fire Insurance. Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION Office over Chicago Department Store RENSSErAER. 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, H. D. \ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. All calls will receive prompt attention night or day from my office over the Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 261. Rensselaer - - Indiana.

E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Opposite the Jasper Savings ft Trust Company Bank. Offlca Phone 177. Residence Phone, 110.

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 109. TELEPHONES Office, 2 on 304 Residence I on 100

Dr. F. A. Tuifier OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the founder. Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —9-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Montlcello, Ind. 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’B drug store.

Dr. J. H. Hansson VETERNARY SURGEON—Now al Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harr’s Bank Building. Phone 443.

Mrs. J. W. riauck CHICAGO MUSIC COLLEGE GRADUATE OF 15 Years Experience Will instruct a limited number of Pupils in Piano Work Call at residence or address Box 97 RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

A. E. Kirk’s Pharmacy Drugs, Paints, Oils, Wall Paper, and Everything Carried In a FirstClass Drug Store. PARR - * INDIANA. V. T 1

CIRCULARS r—-•- % m - / C stands for circular*, clear == g| V and concise, 1 n stands for . printing them, H H 1 also the price. g s V for the job, done so cheap J= = v and so well, = VL 1 for the increase in goods = you will selL Matt U 4 your Order Toddy

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i t . --- - ; Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Clncinnatl and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. | ■" ' 1 RENSSELAER TIMETABLE. * In Effect December, 1910. SOUTH BOUND. N 0.31 —Fast Mail t da11y).... 4:45 a. m. No. s—Louisville Mail (daily). 11:06 a. m. No.37—Chicago to CinclnnaU.il:3o a. m. N 0.3 Mail (daily!. 1:58 p. in. N 0.39 —-Milk Accom (daily).. 5:58 p. m. No. 3 —Chicago to Louisville. .11:05 p. m. NORTH BOUND. | No. 4—Mail (daily) 4:59 a. m. No.4o—Mi,k Accom (daily).. 7:35 a. m., No.32—Fast Mail (daily)..... 10:05 a. m. N 0.38 —Cincinnati to Chicago. 2:53 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Ex. (daily).. 3:15 p. m. N 0.30 —Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mail. 5:58 p. m. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowell, Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connections at Monon for Lafayette. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. - - CITY OFFICERS. Mayor G. F. Meyers Marshal George Mustard Clerk... Chan. Morlen Treasurer R. D. Thompson Attorney . ...Mose Leopold Civil Engineer..... .V.L. C. Klosterman Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councllmen. Ist Ward George Hopkins 2nd Ward Elsie Grow 3rd Ward > Frank Kre?ler At Large ...C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred Longwell Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff W. L Hoover Auditor...... James N. Leathenoan Treasurer J. D. Allman Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor. W. F. Osborne Coroner. .. W. J. Wright BupL Public Schools Ernest Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer ...E. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Fettet 2nd District Charles F. Stackhouse 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 Glllam George Parker....... Hanging Orovs W. H. Wortley., Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shirer han kikes Edward Parkison .Marion George L. Parks... Milroy E. J. Lane Newton Isaac Eight....... ....Union S. D. Clark Wheatfleld Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson. Co. Supt Rensselasr E. C. English, Rensselaer James H. Green... Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer. .C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer

TRUSTEES* CARDS. ! — i JORDAN TOWNBHIP. 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 me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNBHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newtoa township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays-of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflcs address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-S. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. 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. Postofflce address. Fair Oaks. Indiana. ISAAC EIGHT,

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