Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — Page 3

I /11 Ji !l»iiil» z ~ n < Wo. 34 THE man with a good knife knows that every time he .. uses it—and there, are many of them every day—it is a sourse of satisfaction. TTOW many times does somebody ask you to borrow your >* knife? Again there is a feeling of satisfaction in having a good one. A good knife is as convenient and as necessaiy as a good ■**• watch and there is fully as much satisfaction in carrj ing one. You wouldn’t carry a cheap unreliable watch if you could get a good one for the same money or even a few cents more. BUY your knife on the same basis and you will buy it from us. f

Eger’s Hardware Store Rensselaer, Indiana

x --' POSTPONED Big Public Sale As i live on a small farm and have more stock than I -can handle . conveniently, I will sell without reserve' to the highest bidder at the Leek hitch barn in Rensselaer at 2 p. m., the following property on SATURDAY, MARCH », 1912, 2 Head of Horses— Consisting of 2 horse colts, coming two years old. 10 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 1 full blood Jersey cow, due to calf by day of sale: 1 cow coming 3 years old, due to calf May 11; T full blood Jersey heifer, bred to Jersey bull; % Jersey heifer 1 year old, bred to Jersey bull; 1 Jersey bull; 5 spring calves, 3 heifers and 2 steers. 15 Head of Hogs— Consisting of I white sow bred to Duroc boar, a good brood sow; 1 Duroc boar; 13 Shoats, wt. from 50 to 100 lbs. Some Household Goods—Consisting of bedsteads, springs and chairs. Also a good lawn mower. The above property is all good stuff and I will sell it without reserve or regard for what it brings. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent oft for cash. ALBERT DUGGINS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. Ray D. Thompson, Clerk. Big Public Sale. As. I expect to move away, I will offer at Public Auction at my residence in Milroy tp., on the Van Gundy farm, better known as the Doc Smith farm, 8 miles southeast of Rensselaer, 4 miles south of Pleasant Ridge, and 7 miles northeast of Remington, commencing at 10 a. m., on TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1912, II Head of Horses and Colts—Con- ' sisting of 1 Bay Mare 8 years old, wt. 1200; 1 Brown Mare 5 years old, wt. 1175; 1 Bay Mare 11 years old, wt. 1100; 1 Black Mare 11 years old, wt. 1300; 1 Bay Mare 3 years old, unbroke, wt. 1000; 1 Bay Mare 12 years old, wt. 1000. All the above mares are in foal. 1 Black Horse 4 years old, broke to all harness, wt. 1100; 1 Bay Yearling Mare; 1 Bay Horse coming, 2 years, opt of Wilkes family; 2 last spring’s Suckling Colts, both sorrel mares. 2 Head of Cows—Consisting of 2

Jersey milch cows, one fresh last October, other with 3 weeks old calf by side. 6 Head of Poland China Hogs— Consisting of 1 Sow bred to Poland China boar to farrow April 1; 1 Sow to farrow last of May; 1 Sow with 2 pigs; 1 Boar. • Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 2 Wagons, 1 new' and 1 old Studebaker;. 1 rubber-tired Buggy; 1 4-horse Imperial Drill; 1 new Janesville Plow, 3-horse, 16inch; 1 new J; I; Case Plow; 1 3horse Sadley walking Plow; 2 Cultivators, riding; 1 Corn Planter with fertilizer attachment, 120 rods of wire; 1 Disc; 1 2-section Harrow; 5 sets of Harness, 4 sets of work harness, 1 double set driving harness, and numerous other articles not mentioned. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. S. L. SEASS. John Culp, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on grounds. Big Public Sale. i . As I will quit farming and move away, I will offer at Public Sale at my residence, 3 miles north of Mt. Ayr. 5 miles west of Surrey, commencing at 10 a. m., on FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1912, 7 Head of Horses and Mules—Consisting of 1 Iron Gray Mare 6 years old, wt. 1400, in foal to Shaw’s Jack; 1 Bay Mare 11 years old, wt. 1150, in foali; 1 coming three-year-old Mare, wt. 1300; 1 Gray Mare 15 years old, wt. 1400; 1 Bay Gelding 14 years old, wt. 1400; 2 coming yearling Mules, fine ones. 20 Head of Cattle— Consisting of' 8 good Milch Cows, some now fresh, others will be fresh in April; 1 extra good yearling Bull, full-btood-ed Durham; 3 two-year-old Heifers, will be fresh in April; 8 yearling Steers and Heifers. 12 I>ozen Plymouth Rock and Rhode Island Red (Thickens; 7 Turkey Hens; 1 Gobbler. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 2 Faim Wagons, 1 wide tire with hay Tack, 1 narrow tire; 1 Mower; 1 Binder; 1 14-inch Breaking Plolw; 2 Cultivators; 1 Corn Planter with 80 rods of wire; 1 Steel Harrow; 1 one-horse Cultivator; 1 -Carriage; t Spring Wagon; 2 sets good Work Harness; 1 set light Buggy Harness; 1 200-egg Incubator; 1 No. 10 DeLaval Crfeam Separator; some Household and Kitchen Furniture including one Jewel Range, and other articles too numerous to mention. A credit of 9 months will be given On sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cetn off for cash. E. W. STAHL. Chas. Martin, Auctioneer. M. E. Graves, Clerk. Hot lunch on ground

"Burning Daylight”

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had made a strike on Moosehide), all three of whom were not dancing because there were not girls enough to go around, inclined to the suggestion. They were looking for a fifth man when Burning Daylight emerged from the rear room, the Virgin on his arm, the train of dancers in his wake. In response to the hail of the poker-play-ers, he came over to their table in the corner. f “Want to sit in,” said Campbell. “How’s your luck?” “I sure got it tonight,” Burning Daylight answered with enthusiasm, and at the same time felt the Virgin press his arm warningly. She wanted him for the dancing. ‘T sure got my luck with me, but Td sooner dance. I ain’t hankerin’ to take the money away from you-all.” . Nobody urged. They took his refusal as final, and the Virgin was pressing his arm to turn him away in pursuit of the supper-seekers, when he experienced a change of heart. It was not that he did not want to dance, nor that he wanted to hurt her; but that Insistent pressure on his arm put his free man-nature in revolt. The thought in his mind was that he did not want any woman running him. Himself a favorite with women, nevertheless they did not bulk big with him. They were toys, playthings, part of the relaxation from the bigger game of life. He met women along with the whisky and gambling, and from observation he had found that it was far easier to break away from the drink and the cards than from a woman once the man was properly entangled. He resisted the pull on his arm by the mere negative mass of him, and said: “I sort of- feel a hankering to give you-all a flutter.** * Tact and sympathy strove with him, and he smiled with his eyes into the Virgin’s eyes as he said: “You-all go and get some grub. I ain’t hungry. And we’ll dance some more by and by. The night’s young yet. Go it, old girl.” He released his arm and thrust her playfully on the shoulder, at the same time turning to the poker players. **Take off the limit and I’ll go youall.” “Limit’s the roof,” said Jack Kearns. Once started, it was a quiet game, with little or no conversation, though all. about the players the place was a-roar. Elam Harnish had ignited the spark. More and more miners dropped in to the Tivoli and remained. When Burning Daylight went on the tear, no man cared to miss it The dancing floor was full. The luck at the table varied monotonously, no big hands being out. As a result, high play went on with small hands, though no play lasted long. But at three in the morning the big combination of hands arrived. It was the moment of moments that men wait weeks for in a poker game. The news of it tingled over the Tivoli. The onlookers became quiet. The men farther away ceased talking and moved over to the table. The players deserted the other games, and the dancing-floor was forsaken, so that all stood at last, fivescore and more in a compact and silent group, around the poker table. ' The high betting went on, with the draw not in sight. Kearns had dealt, and French Louis had opened the pot with one marker —in his case one hundred dollars. Campbell had merely “seen” it, but Elam Harnish, coming next, had tossed in five hundred dollars, with the remark to MacDonald that he was letting him in easy. MacDonald glancing again at his hand, put in a thousand in markers. Keariis, debating a long time over his hand, finally “saw.” It then cost French Louis nine hundred to remain in the game, which he contributed after a similar debate. It cost Campbell likewise nine hundred to remain and draw cards, but to the surprise of all he saw the nine hundred and raised another thousand. ■ ■ “You-alfsare on the grade at last," Harnish remarked, as he saw the fifteen hundred and raised a thousand in turn. “Helen Breakfast’s sure on top this divide, and you-all had best look out for bustin’ harness.” “Me for that same lady,” accompanied MacDonald’s markers for two thousand and for an additional thou-sand-dollar raise. “I ain’t got no more markers,” Kearns remarked plaintively. “We’d best begin I. O. tJ.’S.” “Glad you’re going to stay,” was MacDonald’s cordial response. “I ain’t stayed yet. I’ve got a thousand in already. How’s it stand now?” “It’ll cost you three thousand for a look in, but nobody will stop you from raising.” — — ’ “Raise —h —l. You must think I got a pat like yourself.” Kearns looked at his hand. “But I’ll tell you what I’ll do, Mac. I’ve got a hunch, and I I’ll just see that three thousand.”

He vfrote the sum on a slip of paper, signed his name, and consigned it to the center of the table. French Louis became the focus .of all eyes. He fingered his cards nervously for a pace. Then, with a “By Gar! Ah got not one leetle beet hunch,” he regretfully tossed his hand into the discards. The next moment the hundred and odd pairs of eyes shifted to Campbell. “I won’t hump you, Jack,” he said, contenting himself with calling the requisite two thousand. The eyes shifted to Harnish, who scribbled on a piece of paper and shoved it forward. ‘TH just let you-all know this ain’t DO school society of phllan-

thropy,” fie salcT ‘T see yous JacJc, and I raise you a thousand. Here’s where you-all get action on your pat, Mac.” "Action’s what I fatten on, and I lift another thousand.” was MacDonild’s rejoinder. "Still got that hunch. Jack?” f ; "I still got that hunch.” Kearns fingered his cards a long time. “And i’ll play it, but you’ve got to know how I stand. There’s my steamer, the Bella—worth twenty thousand if she’s worth an ounce. There’s Slxty-Mlle with five thousand in stock on the shelves. And you I got a sawmill coming in. It’s at Linderman now, and the scow is building. Am I good?” “Dig in; you’re sure good," was Daylight’s answer. “And while we’re about it, I may mention casual that I got twenty thousand in Mac’s safe, there, and there’s twenty thousand more in the ground on Moosehide. You know the ground, Campbell. Is they that-all in the dirt?” ' “There sure is, Daylight.’* "How much does it cost now?" Kearns asked. “Two thousand to see.” “We’ll sure hump you if you-all come in,” Daylight warned him. “It’s an almighty good hunch,” Kearns said, adding his slip to the growing heap. “I can feel her crawlin’ up and down my back.” ,

“We’ll Dance Some More By and By. The Night’s Young Yet.”

"I ain’t got a hunch, but I got a tolerable good hand,” Campbell announced, as he slid in his slip; “but it’s not a raising hand.” "Mine Is,” Daylight paused and wrote. “I see that thousand and raise her the same old thousand.” The Virgin, standing behind him, then did what a man’s best friend was not privileged to do. Reaching over Daylight’s shoulder, she picked up his hand and read it, at the same time shielding the faces of the cards close to his chest. What she saw were three queens and a pair of eights, but nobobdy guessed what she saw. Every player’s eyes were on her face as she scanned the cards, but no sign did she give. She laid the hand face down again on the table and slowly the lingering eyes withdrew from her, having learned nothing. MacDonald smiled benevolently. “I see you, Daylight, and I hump this time for two thousand. How’s that hunch, Jack?” “Still a-crawling, Mac. You got me now, but that hunch is a rip-snorter persuadin’ sort of a critter, and it’s my plain duty to ride it. I call for three thousand. And I got another hunch; Daylight’s going to call, too.” “He sure is,” Daylight agreed, after Campbell had thrown up his hand. “He knows when he’s up against it, and he plays accordin’. I see that two thousand, and then I’ll see- the draw.” In a dead silence, save for the low voices of the three players, the draw was made. Thirty-four thousand dollars were already in the pot, and the play possibly not half over. To the Virgin’s amazement, Daylight held up his three queens, discarding his eights and calling for two cards. And this time not even she dared look at what he had drawn. She knew her limit of control. Nor did he look. The two new .cards lay face down on the table where they hud been dealt to him. "Got enough,” was the reply. “You can draw if you want to, you know,” Kearns warned him. "Nope; this’ll do me.” Kearns himself drew two cards, but did not look at them. Still Harnish let his cards lie. “I never bet in the teedi of a pat hand,” he said slowly, looking at the saloon keeper. “You-all start her rolling, Mac.” MacDonald counted his cards carefully, to make doubly sure it was not a foul hand, wrote a sum on a paper slip, and slid it into the pot, with the simple utterance: “Five thousand.” Kearns, with every eye upon him, looked at his two-card draw, counted the other three to dispel any doubt of holding more than five cards, and wrote on a'betting slip. “I see you, Mac,” he said, “and I raise her a little thousand just so as to keep Daylight out.” The concentrated gaze shifted to Daylight. He likewise examined his draw and counted his five cards. “I see that six thousand, and I raise her five thousand . . . just to try and keep you out, Jack.” , “And I raise you five thousand just to lend a hand at keeping Jack out," MacDonald said in turn. His voice was slightly husky and strained, and a nervous twitch in the corner of his mouth followed speech. Kearns was pale, and those who looked on_ noted that his hand tram.-

’bled’ as" he wrote his slip; But~Eis votee was unchanged. "I lift her along for five thou* sand;” he said. Daylight was now in the center. The kerosene lamps above flung high lights from the rash of sweat on his forehead. The bronze of his cheeks was darkened by the accession of blood. His black eyes glittered and his nostrils were dls.tended and eager. They were large nostrils, tokening his descent from savage ancestors who had survived by virtue of deep lungs and generous air-passages. Yet, unlike MacDonald, hts voice was firm and customary, and, unlike Kearns his band did not tremble when he wrote. "I call, for ten thousand,” he said. “Not that I’m afraid of you-all, Mac. It’s-that hunch of Jack’s.” "I hump his hunch for five thousand just the same,” said MacDonald. “I had the best hand before the draw, and I still guess I got It.” “Mebbe this Is a case where a hunch after the draw Is better’n the hunch before,” Kearns remarked; wherefore duty says, ‘Lift her, Jack, lift her,’ and so I lift her another five thousald.” Daylight leaned back in his chair and gazed up at the kerosene lamps while he computed aloud: "I was in nine thousand before the draw, and I saw and raised eleven thousand—that makes thirty. I’m only good for ten more.” He leaned forward and looked at Kearns. “So I call er five thousand.” “You can raise If you want,” Kearns answered. “Your dogs are good for five thousaid In this game." “Nary dawg. You-all can win my dust and dirt, but nary one of my dawgs. I just call.” The saloon keeper Anally spoke: “If anybody else wins, they’ll have to take a mortgage on the Tivoli.” The two other players nodded. “So I call, too.” MacDonald added his slip for five thousand. Not one of them claimed the pot, and not one of them called the size of his hand. Simultaneously and In silence they faced their cards on the table, while a general tiptoeing and craning of necks took place among the onlookers. Daylight showed four queens and an ace; MaoDonald four jacks and an ace, and Kearns four kings and a trey. Kearns reached forward with an encircling movement of his arm and drew the pot In to him, his arm shaking as he did so. Daylight picked the ace from his hand and tossed it over alongside MacDonald’s ace, saying: “That’s what cheered me along, Mac. I knowed It was only kings that could beat me, and he had them. "What did you-all have?” he asked, all Interest, turning to Campbell. “Straight flush of four, open at both ends —a good drawing hand.” “You bet! You could a’ made a straight, a straight flush or a flush out of It,” / “That’s what I thought,” Campbell said, sadly. "It cost me six thousand before I quit.” "I wlsht you-all’d drawn," Daylight laughed. “Then I wouldn’t a’ caught that fourth queen. Now I’ve got to take Billy Rawlins’ mall contract and mush for Dyea. What’s the size of the killing, Jack?" Kearns attempted to count the pot, but was too excited. Daylight drew It across to him, with flrm Angers separating and stacking the markers and I. O. U.’s and with clear brain adding the sum. “One hundred and twenty-seven thousand,” he announced. “You-all can sell out now, Jack, and head for home.” The winner smiled and nodded, but seemed incapable of speech. “Name your snake-juice, you-all—-the winner pays!” Daylight called out loudly to all about him, at the same time rising from his chair and catching the Virgin by the arm. “Come on for a reel, you-all dancers. The night’s young yet, and It’s Helen Breakfast and the mail contract for me in the morning. Here, you-all Rawlins, you —J hereby do take over that same contract, and I start for salt water at nine a. m.—savvee? Come on, you-all! Where’s that fiddler?” (To be Continued.)

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THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACIE BIBLE STUDIES

HE HEALETH THEIR DISEASES.' Mark i, 29-45—March 10. ■"Himself took our infirmities, and bore our Sicknesses."—Matthew viii, n. CODAY’S ‘STUDY follows closely the one of a week ago. When Jesus left the Capernaum synagogue He went to St. Peter’s home. There St. Peter’s mother-in-law lay sick of a fever. It was the work of but a moment for the Savior to take her by the hand and to raise her up to health. Meantime the fame of Jesus had spread and by evening there were crowds importuning His healing words and touch: “And He healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many demons, and suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew Him.” Nothing is more attractive to the human mind than the miraculous power

of healing disease. No one enjoys disease, pain and suffering. People would be glad to be healed of disease, even if they were assur- 1 ed that the cures were performed by the power of Satan himself. It should not Surprise us today that manj’ false doctrines, wholly out of harmony

with God’s Word, commend themselves to the poor, groaning creation by promises of relief from physical ailments. But since these healers hold various and antagonistic doctrines, it is manifest that all are not of God, if any of them are. To our understanding, the Bible teaches that no miraculous healing at the present time is authorized by God’s Word. St. Paul declared by inspiration that the gifts granted to the early Church, and exercised by Jesus and the Apostles and those to whom they personally communicated them* would pass away. The miracles were merely with a view to the establishment of the early Church.

Neither the Lord Nor th* Apostles Healed Believers. It is quite true that under the Law Covenant which God made with Israel He agreed that sickness would be a penalty for violation of the Law, and health a reward for the obedient. The statement of the Prophet, "Who heaieth all thy diseases,” was applicable physlcally'to the Israelites under the Law Covenapt It has also a spiritual application to the Church, the New Creation. , But the healing of the New Creatfire and the healing of bib flesh are, different things. The New Creature's soul sickness and heart troubles are all cured by the Good Physician—even though his flesh may suffer pain and go down into death. We are to remember that the condition upon which we were begotten of the Holy Spirit to be new creatures was a full surrender of the flesh and its interests, as living sacrifices— Romans xii, 1. ' Nor is this anchange from I he Lord’s dealings with the Church from the very beginning. So far as the records show, all. or nearly all, who were healed

The counterfeit healer.

of any attempt to miraculously recover him. Similarly, in the case of Timothy, we find that St. Paul neither sent him napkins nor handkerchiefs for his healing, nor advised him to pray for his own healing. On the contrary, he advised certain medicines, “for thy stomach's sake.” Indeed, we believe that for God’s consecrated people to 'iKSk for physical healing would be to attempt to take back again what they have specifically consecrated to the Lord. A Cleansed Leper Thankful. Today’s lesson mentions another case of healing. Leprosy was regarded by the Jews as an incurable disease, and as a type of sin. The leper of this study had fhlth in the power of Jesus, and came and kneeled before Him and entreated healing, cleansing. His prayer was answered. Jesus admonished the leper not to make known so great a miracle; but iu his thankfulness he could not restrain himself; he told it everywhere. The result was that Jesus could opt thereafter visit the large cities because He would be overwhelmed with the number brought to Him for healing. But alas! they were more appreciative of the restitution blessings than the great privilege which our Lord specially offered them of becoming His followers and joint-heirs in His- Kingdom, which, by and by. will dispense restitution blessings and pealing far and near to every member of Adam’s race, condemned through the fall of Adam, and redeemed by the precious blood of Calvary.

The true healer restoring St. Peter's mother.

by Jesus and the Apostles, were “sinners.”. Surely there is no record of a single Instance in which nny of the Apostles were healed of any disease. Although St. Paul healed many sick, yet when Epaphroditus was. sick and *nigh unto death” we have no mention