Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — Page 3

<— ■ »>■'''» » Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cln-< cinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect December, 1910. SOUTH BOUND. No.3l—Fast Mail (daily).... 4:45 a. m. No. s—'Louisville Mail (daily). 11:06 a. m. No.37—Chicago to Cincinnati. 11:30 a. m. No.33—lnd'poiis Mail (dailyj. 1:58 p. rn. No.3S—Milk Accom (daily).. 5:58 p. m. No. 3 —Chicago to Louisville. .11:05 p. m. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail (dai1y),.*......... 4:59 a. m. No.4o—Mnk Accom (daily).; 7:35 a. m. No. 32 —Fast Mail ■ (daily).... .10:05 a. m. No.3B—Cincinnati to Chicago. 2:53 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Ex. (daily).. 3:15 p. m. N 0.30 —Gin. to Chi. Ves. Mail. 5:58 p. m. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let oft 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. \V. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor G. F. Meyers Marshal George Mustard Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer R. D. Thompson Attorney Mose Leopold Civil Engineer........L. C. Klosterman Fire Chief... ...J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councilman. Ist Ward George Hopkins 2nd Ward Elsie Grow 3rd Ward Frank Kresler At Large.... C. J. Dean, A. G, Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge........ Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney .Fred Longweli Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERB. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff W. L Hoover Auditor -. James N. Le&therman Treasurer J. D. Allman Rec0rder....................J. W. Tilton Surveyor .W. F. Osborne Coroner W. J. Wright SupL Public 5ch0015..... Ernest Lamsoc County Assessor .John Q. Lewis Health 0fficer..................E. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District....... Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd LMstrict ..Charles T. Denham Conir-yissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer. Glilam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shlrer nankakee Edward Parklson Marlon George L. Parks...... Mllroy E. J. Lane Newton Isaac Klght Union 8. D. Clark.... Wheatfleld Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English, Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel... Wheatfleld Truant Officer. .C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. 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 ine will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. , W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNBHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton 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. Postoffica 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. Postofllce address. Fair Oaks. Indiana. ISAAC RIGHT

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HOW THE STORY WAS FINISHED

The Office Hack Gets a Start In Literature.

The editorial staff of the Pacific Magazine consisted of, first, the editor and proprietor, Edward Farnham, capitalist and litterateur; two readers and a young man named Arthur Otis, who did odd jobs in the “making up” that were not considered of sufficient importance to take up the time of the others. One day Mr. Farnham laid a manuscript novel on Otis' desk and said: “There’s a novel by Donald Fox. L want you to go over it and get it ready for the printer.” Mr. Farnham usually gave bis orders, to Otis especially. without comment, but today' he was very much pleased and added: “We must begin that in May. i’ve been keeping a place for it. Anything by Fox will increase the circulation 50 per cent, it ought to. It cost 10 cents a M’ord for the serial right alone. This is the best thing, in my judgment, he’s ever done; a new departure; not a bit in his usual style.” Otis never made a reply to anything the bead of the concern said. He took the manuscript and began to work upon it immediately. The next day he took, it to his chief and pointed out what he considered a defect, suggesting tlftit it be referred back to the author to be changed! Mr. Farnham scowled, examined the pages referred to and told Otis that he was not employed to tell eminent writers how to write novels. When Otis had concluded his work he laid the. manuscript on Mr. Farnham’s desk and remarked: “I see, sir, that the work is not finished.” “Mr. Fox hu3 promised to have it all in by the required time.” “But, sir,” said the clerk, as a shade of anxiety passed over his face, “don’t you fear that if anything should happen to Mr. Fox”— “Well?” said the manager in icy tone. “Gould any one else finish it?” “No. but I’m going to take the risk.” In due time the story appeared, and its reception was far beyond what the manager had looked for. The criticisms were fine, all critics noting the new departure of the author. One day when the story had been running six months Otis noticed a gentleman whom he was told was the celebrated Donald Fox talking with the manager. After the visitor had gone Mr. Farnham brought a package to Otis’ desk. “The closing chapters of Fox’s great novel,” he said. The next morning Otis stood by his chief’s desk waiting permission to speak. “Well?” said the manager, looking up. “Have you read these chapters of Mr. Fox’s novel?” asked the understrapper. “No.” • “They are entirely unlike the rest The public will not believe Mr. Fox wrote them. They are very abrupt.” It was on the chief’s tongue to tell his subordinate to attend to his own business, but the last words changed the impulse. Since the author was to be paid 10 cents a word for the work it would not be to his interest to close it abruptly. “Leave it,” said the chief. For the next few days Otis sat at his desk surrounded by a cyclone. From what he overheard he judged that Fox had confessed that he had hired a literary man who had done some good work to write the story at 5 cents a word. The author had been taken ill and died when the work was about two-thirds finished. Fox had hurriedly written the last chapters himself. As soon as he gathered this information Otis walked humbly to the chiefs desk. “Would you like, sir, Mr. Fox’s novel continued in the same vein as the earlier chapters?” “Like It? We’re in the biggest hole”— He stopped short He remembered that Otis had warned him of this very possibility. "Was there any understanding with Mr. Fox as to the length of the story?” asked Otis. Farnham looked at the young man with amazement. None of his employees had ever dared ask him about the terms of his contracts before. "Do you know your business?” "Yes, sir. But”"Well, do it, and let other people’s business alone.” . "I’ve understood that Mr. Fox was to get 10 cents a word and that he sublet the work for 5 cents a wprd. but I don’t know how long the story was to be.” "Well, sir. why should you know?’ fact is. Mr. Farnham, I’m intetestM.” "Interested! You impudent”— "Yes. sir; pecuniarily interested. You see. Mr. Farnham, Mr. Fox got 10 cents a word and sublet it to Andy Nichols at 5 cents. Nichols sublet it to me at 2 cents a word. That’s pretty poor pay, you know, but if I’m to be permitted to string it out I can make a good thing after all.” There was a dead silence in the editorial rooms for thirty seconds. Then the chief said: "Ran it to suit yourself at 10 cents a word.” And that’s how Arthur Otis got his start in literature.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Guarding the Treasire. The equipment for the game is not difficult to procure. Cans are always available. Decide by counting out who shall be“it” or the miser who most guard his treasure. The miser will take a position directly over the can, his treasure, one foot on each side. At least, this is the position usually chosen as being the best suited for guarding the can. There Is no rule, however, about this, and some boys prefer other defenses, as standing just behind the can or continually moving about it. The rest of the boys are robbers and circle about it, attempting to steal the treasure, of, iu other words, kick* it away without being tagged. If one succeeds another immediately kiqjis it. and away goes the can down the street with a crowd of yelling robbers after it. doing their best to keep the poor miser from regaining his position over tSbe treasure. If the miser succeeds in tagging any boy who has kicked the can before another boy kicks it, the boy tagged becomes the miser and must stand over the treasure. Hold Fast. Even the tots can play at the good game of “hold fast,” while even the older boys and girls will find it sufficiently puzzling to make a quarter hour pass bliti Ny. The only requisite is a number of lengths of tape all of the same number of inches, or if the tape is not at hand cut silesia or any cotton goods into narrow strips and use this. The person who leads the game holds one end of each of the tapes. The opposite end of each strip is held by >me other player, and all players other than the leader form a semicircle, which the leader himself must stand facing. When the leader says “Hold fast!” all players must let go their tapes, and when he says “Let go!” they must, on the contrary, hold them fast. Any one obeying the commands literally, as some are sure to do, must pay forfeits. Not Such a Goose After All. Geese can tell their eggs from others that are very much like them. A goose that Was sitting on several eggs was supplied by the dairymaid with an equal number of duck’s eggs because she thought that so large a bird ought to be able to hatch a larger brood than her own. But the next morning the girl found all the duck eggs on the ground. They had been taken out of the nest and placed there without breaking. She put them back again, but It was of no use—the goose would have nothing to do with them and deposited them oii the ground as before. Fearing lest she should leave the nest in disgust, the dairymaid did not dare to persevere with the duck eggs, and Madam Goose came off triumphant from the contest. The Largest Cake Ever Baked. The largest cake ever baked was ordered by Augustus, . king of Saxony, when entertaining Frederick William, king of Prussia, June, 1730. Five thousand eggs, one ton of milk, one ton of butter, one ton of yeast and thirty-six bushels of flour, besides flavors and trimmings, were used. All around the Immense outside ran a trimming of biscuits and gingerbread nuts. Eight horses were used to draw it Into camp on a special wooden platform made for the purpose with a tent raised over it. It was cut by a carpenter with a gigantic knife, a knife of such size that the handle rested on his shoulder as he used it. As for the eating, it is sufficient to say that it was brought into a camp of 30,000 soldiers. About Drums. Drams have always been made by native races, who use them to help drive away evil spirits, to terrify their foes, to make their men fight better and to summon friends together. They are of all sizes, sorts and shapes. In China drums are made of baked clay, bowl shaped, with a skin stretched across the top. A drum from Central America is cone shaped, over four feet in height and is hollowed out of a solid block of wood. An Ashanti drum is shaped like a large bottle. A Mandingo drum resembles a tenpin upside down, and a Friendly island dram, between four and five feet high, is like a hollowed post with a head of leather not more than six inches across. What the Elephant Had. Money is the root of all evil, they say, and certainly it proved uncomfortable enough for Hattie, one of the elephants in the zoo at Central park, New York. Hattie was punished for the sin of covetousness. She limped when she walked, and the keeper thought that her corns must be hurting her. He cut off the corns, but Hattie still limped, and then he poked about ip her feet to find what was wrong. He found several things—a lot of little pebbles, a good sized marble and a silver quarter. The coin had made all the trouble, because it had been wedged into a tender part of the foot. Mary's Chilblains. “My chilblains hurt me, though it’s spring.” Said Mary to her cat. "Don’t cry. my dear," Bob answered her. “I know a cure for that. "You Just look up your skipping rope And use it well each day, And in a week, you mark my words, You’ll And they’ve gone away." So Mary skipped with Bob each day, And, wonderful to tell. Before a single week had gone Her chilblains all were well!

OLD TESTAMENT TIMES BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

W -BIBLE STUDIESTOO MUCH MONEY— FREE-WILL OFFERINGS ONLY II Kings 12:1-16—April 23 'Then the people rejoiced, for they offered - willingly.”—l Chron. 29:9. SIXTEEN years passed after the incidents of our previous study and found King Joash in his twenty-third year. Already he had made suggestions to the priests respecting the repairs of the temple, which was considerably dilapidated, because the people were still halfhearted in the worship of Jehovah. The influence of the idolatry of surrounding nations was still upon them. Some of them still burned incense upon JJie altars of Baal. Priests Poor Business Men King Joash found that allowing the priests to collect the money and therewith to repair the temple showed no results. Not every good-hearted man

has e x ec u f ive ability. Tbe record does not tell that the priests were dishonest in the use of the money collected for their affairs. Nor does it say that t h e y spent the money unwisely. Possibly the p eop l e dhl not h a v e confi-

dence in the priests and did not give so freely on that account However, the King noted the fact that the temple continued to be dilapidated and called for the priests and said to tbem, “Why repair ye not the breaches of the temple?” The answer of the priests is not given, but tbe King’s mandate was. “Now, therefore, take no more money from your acquaintances.” The King passed over the matter as lightly and courteously as possible, without charging the priests with embezzlement or neglect. Church Begging Doing Harm. There is a lesson in this matter for us. The people like to see results. (1) They want to know that monies that are donated for benevolent purposes are not all absorbed for office expenses. (2) Voluntary offerings have the approval of both God and men, rather than offerings that are importuned, coaxed, begged, wheedled from saints and sinners. Everybody who gives to the Lord’s cause is advantaged thereby; he not only forwards a benevolent Cause, but stimulates and cultivates generosity in his own heart It was our Lord who said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive”— where the giving is willing and voluntary. Church begging is undoubtedly doing great harm. The remark has been made that the chief item of religion.-id some churches is begging for moneyprivate solicitation, and also public solicitation, by .the passing around of the collection box. Church fairs, church suppers, grab-bags, etc., etc., are still more reprehensible than the collection box and private solicitation. Some one has called such efforts the “milking of the goats.” The Lord’s people are supposed to be sheep; the world’s people, goats. Breaks In the Temple Wall Viewing the spiritual temple we perceive that, outwardly, as represented by the magnificent churches of metropolitan cities, nothing more could be desired than what is now enjoyed. Describing the Church conditions of our day, the Scriptures portray our condition under the figure of the Laodicean Church, thus: “1 know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot; 1 would thou wert cold or hot. So, then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, 1 will spew thee out of My mouth. Because thou sayest. lam

Joash repairing the temple.

thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve. that thou mayest see.” —Rev. 3:15-18. It is from the spiritual standpoint, therefore, that the temple of today needs to have repairs. Outwardly, the Church is rich; spiritually, she is poor. The majority of her educated, Including ministers, have abandoned all faith in the Bible as the Word of God. Yet they are not known as infidels, but by the less harsh term, “Higher Critics,” “Evolutionists.” The Duty of the Hour Noting, the spiritual impairment of the House of God, the Church, all who love the Lord and who worship Him should do their part, make their contribution, toward the improvement of these spiritual conditions. It is not to be left wholly in the bands of the clerical or priestly class. The people in general are to appreciate the situation and each delight to do his part in the rebuilding of the spiritual walls of Zion. Those spiritual walls consist of “the faith that was once delivered to the salnta.”

Donating monies for temple repairs.

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