Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — Page 8

News Notes oi r < 7 S . towns tersely 1 old Nearby Towns (8) penings in the Territory V Adjacent to the Jasper Ai Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents Q County Metropolis

MT. AYR.

(From the Pilot.) *"Mr. and Mrs. Janies Shindler were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shindler. Ed Harris drove to Rensselaer Monday. We went along to see the old town.Mr. and Mrs. Dillmon of Morocco canre Monday for a visit with Mrs. Moberly. Mr. Pearson of Danville. 111., was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Long during the week. Scott Brenner has bought a Ford auto, it is reported he will open a garage and auto livery. The boys are having a seige on the Mauck well, , plenty of water, it will clear, then it won't clear. Mrs. Johnson and daughter.. Miss Mary, returned during the week from a visit with friends at Ligonier and other points. During Mary's absence Miss Addie Miller officiated as operator at the Mt. Ayr exchange,. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Anderson of Chicago Heights came Saturday. Mrs. Henderson remaining for a short visit with the Shriver and Barton families while Mr. Anderson went on to Richmond on business. . Charle s Snow, section. foreman, met with a painful accident Friday while unloading switch ties, fell on his foot mashing the bones. Dr. Marfin dressed the wound and Charley will hobble around for a while. Mr. and Mrs. Hufty returned Monday from a week's. outing. Mrs. H. spent her time mostly ay Rossville. Uncle John attended the grand lodge at Indianapolis and visited at Rossville and intermediate points.

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IROQUOIS VALLEY,

Bethel Arnold spent Sunday with Frank Linback. Gertrude Kolhoff was a Rensselaer goer Thursday... Mrs. Chas. Grant was a Rens-' selaer goer Thursday. Marguerite Daugherty spent Sun-’ day with Ethel Marlatt. ' Katie Morgenegg is working for] James Walter's in Rensselaer. Dan Hopkins and Walter Brown! called on Frank Brown Sunday. X. W. Jenkins sj>ent Monday with ins sister. .Mrs. Sam Price. Geneva Lesh of Menominie. Wis.. is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Eli Arnold. Mrs. Emmet Pullins spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Landis. Bud Lewis and family spent Sun-' day with J. M. Torbet's of Pine Grove. Leo Kolhoff attended the band concert Thursday evening in Rensfeelaer. _ . Henry Ropp and family spent Sunday with Chris Morgenegg and family. Vilas Price and Amo- Deere called on Alpha and Will McElfresh Sunday. Frank Brown and Bessie McElfresh spent Sunday with Katie Morgenegg. Amos Deer of Rerrsseaelr is spending the week with his aunt, Mrs. Sam Price. “ - Geo. McElfresh and wife spent Sunday evening with W. A. Green and family. Mrs. Theo. Snow and two children spent Sunday with Mrs. Rhoda Pullins and family. Geo. Ott and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gallagher spent Sunday at the Kankakee. Barney and Meadia McKay are spending this week w’ith their grandfather, W. A. Green. Mrs. Charles Jenkins and sons are visiting friends and relatives in our locality this week. W. A. Green and family spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Fred .Schreiner and family. Fred Schreiner, the carpenter in

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bur vicinity, started Monday to build an addition to Eli Arnold's house. John Schroer and wife. Frank Schroer and wife and Mark Schroer and wife spent Sunday in Wheatfield. ?. " ■■ Those who spent Sunday evening with Ethel Marlatt were Frank Brown. Will and Bessie McElfresh. Anna Richmond and Louis Zillhart.

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MISJUDGED.

"Myrtle," said her father, "I want you to send that young Smltherton about his business. I won t have him coming around here any more. I don't like him.” *_• > “Why, father, I can’t see what you can have against him. He is awfully nice, comes from a very fine family, doesn t use tobacco and he never touches a drop of any kind of liquor.” “That’s all right. I don't like him. He hasn't ‘any sense of humor, and I don’t believe a man who lacks the sense of humor can ever amount to much." \ .. ■ .. "But he has a sense of humor. After you had gone upstairs last night he said you were the funniest thing . he had ever seen."

An Unpleasant Revelation.

"My son/’ said rhe doting parent, “It is your duty to tell the girl you hope ,to marry all about yourself—all your faults and weaknesses. That’s the true test of love.” “1 did,” replied the hopeful. "It wasn't’ much.” '’What did you tell her?” "'5 by, you see, dad, she didn’t really know who you were. So I told her.”'; Eh! And what did she say?” 'She’s an awfully nice girl, dad, and ' she said she'd tried hard to reconcile herself to the unpleasant truth.”

Truly Regrettable.

"A celebrated dancer, you say?" “One of the best known in Europe." “She has youth and beauty, I presume?” “Both.” And yet seems to think her career a failure?”, es. lou see. for some reason or other, she has never been able to hypnotize a male member of a royal family.”

A Literal View.

Sweet 'i oung Thing—Do you know, these incubating arrangements are humble life tragedies to me in their .mechanical substitution to the little chickies for a real mother. They strike me as melancholy. Practical Farmer-—Perhaps they are. They’re brooders themselves, you know.

HARD, HARD. HARD.

Clarence—They say that you should not put a $5 hat on a 5-cent head. Percy—Well, its easier to mark down the hat than to mark ud the head.«+

Tough Luck.

some of these ‘harbingers of spring,* " .. -J ay ® ,r d said in an Injured tone. Don't get to work pretty soon, by jing. -■ 111 have to build a nest of my own.”

Paternal Duty.

"I am trying to, keep my boy from using slang.” “Do you find it hard?”

"By George, yes! No matter how often I lecture him, he doesn't seem to get wise to the fact that 1 »m in earnest.”

The Skeptic.

"Does Bliggins know much about gold mines?" "Not a thing in the world.” \ "What makes you so sure of that?" "He keeps investing In them."

Do you read The Democrat?

THE DAMAGED ARTICLE

By ANNIE HINRICHSEN

(Couvright. 1911. by Associated Literary Press) A donkey, drawing a small cart, strolled leisurely along the road. It was a winding road, which led up a long hill and lost itself on the high cliffs above the lake. The donkey followed the road to the cliffs and as his driver left his destination to his own wishes he turned into a fork that ended at a cabin built on the edge of a bluff. Here he stopped, planted his feet wide apart and refused to retrace his journey. Miss Neale stepped from the cart and tried to turn him. Billy stood. From behind the cabin rolled a tiny bear cub. Billy, with one jump, loosened Miss Neale’s hold on the bridle, turned and galloped down the road. “My bear is harmless.” a young man came from the cabin. "I am sorry your donkey has been frightened. '

Mildred Neale’s eyes opened wide. Well-groomed young men in tailored clothes did not inhabit the cliff cabins. The young man looked after the departing Billy. “Is your home far from here?” “Six miles.” “Will you let me take you there in my car?” , “A car in this region?” “I brought a lot of my junk, including my car, with me when I moved here,” the man explained. “Since my bear—l found him in the woods the other day—has chased away your steed, you will surely let me provide you with another conveyance.” ‘‘You do not belong in this part of the world do you?” he asked as th© car glided away from the cliffs. I live at the V. i.low Branch farm You know the place?” “A model, up-to-date little farm. I have often passed it.” “I own and massage it. I am a woman agriculturist.” Her brown eyes met his frankly without the wavering of self consciousness. Her voice was devoid of the accent of the locality. “Have you always lived at Willow Branch farm?” he asked. “No. The place was my refuge after my father’s death. When his estate was settled this farm, which I had

never seen, was all that was left for me. I came here to try for my fortune as a lady farmer. And you? Why are you living on the bluff?” He turned abruptly from her, gripped the steering wheel and shot the car suddenly forward. When he spoke again he had apparently forgotten her question. Nearly every day the big car came from the cliff above the lake to Willow Branch farm. Even Billy, who at first acquaintance had feared it as greatly as he had the bear, recognized it as a familiar friend. "No man,” the cliff dweller announced, "has a right to bind a woman unless he can come to her as a whole man, sound in body and in reputation. The greater his love the less willing should be he to give her less than she gives him ” As Barnard spoke Mildred watched his face. On his forehead and around his eyes and lips were lines of mental pain.” "But suppose,” she suggested, "that the woman cares for him?” "He should not allow her to" he answered curtly. “He should go away —as —as I intend to.” "Are you going away?” “I must It is the only decent thing I can do. You know I love you, Mildred. But you don’t know—you don’t know why I must not ask vou to love me.” He hurried out of the room. A few hours later Billy trotted into the yard of the cliff dweller’s cabin. He had come very fast. His driver jumped from the cart before it stopped and hurried toward the house. Barnard came to meet her. "It is not true.” Her face was white and her Ups were quivering, but her voice was firm. "I do not believe a word of it You could not have done “Done what?" She opened a newspaper she carried. It was the magazine section of a Sunday edition filled with stories of people famous and infamous. On the front page was a large picture of the

cliff dweller. Beneath ft were great black letters. “Remarkable Disappearance of Daring Embezzler. Man Who Wrecked Garden Bank Still at Liberty. No Clew.” Several columns descriptive of the gentlemanly malefactor and his crimes followed. The cliff dweller reaS the story. “So you don’t believe I did it?” he asked. “I know you did not.” “Why do you know it?” “Because I know absolutely that you are good and honorable and true. I know it by the look in your eyes and the set of your chin and by the intuition which is given to a woman to show her the difference* between truth and dishonor. I understand now why you would not ask me to care for you. You thought your wrecked reputation made you a man unfit for a woman to love.’ But you are not a bank wrecker, and I care for you even if you will not ask me to.” . ■ • “Will you go back into the world with me if I give myself up and stand by me while I try to prove my innocence?” “Yes”

He turned a page of the paper. The second page contained a picture of a man weak of chin and crafty of eye. Beneath it in large letters were the words. “John Morley Barnard, Young Millionaire Seeks Health in Lonely Cabin on Lake Shore. Well Known Capitalist Lives in Retirement with an Automobile and a Pet Bear.” There were several columns describing the young man’s brilliant business career, his nervous breakdown, his cabin and his bear.

Mildred glanced through the story. “And that is you? I looked at the first page and then came as fast as Billy would bring me to tell you 1 believed in you.” “The compositor of the paper in making up the edition transposed th© two pictures and put my picture in the embezzler’s story and his picture in mine.”

“Then if you are not a fugitive from ■ justice why did you wish me not to care for you?”

“I. am a nervous wreck. You are strong and beautiful and young. You are making a success of the work you were brave enough to undertake. You have made for yourself a full and happy life. To tie you to an invalid would be a crime. A sick man is a miserable object, fit only for pity. I detest pity. I did not tell you anything about my illness because I did not want you to pity me. And I could not ask you to marry an invalid. I love you too well to place you at the mercy of a sick man’s temper. But, when I am well again I’ll come back to you if you will let me

“You poor damaged article,” she laughed with happy mockery: "You are to be well and strong again with my help. You have asked me to marry you. You asked me if I would stand by you while you tried to prove your innocence and I said yes. You won’t jilt me now, will you?”

The KITCHEN CABINET

~ u ’ fir. Jw OME of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived; But what torment of grief you endured From evils which never arrived. —Emerson.

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The ONLOOKER

by WILBVR D. NESBIT

SPW'i'JIERE

I know that it is spring, though I hear no robin sing, Though I see no Jeweled flashing of the blue bird on the wing; I know that spring is here, though no laughing leaves appear, Though the snowflakes scurry swiftly through the chilly atmosphere; Yet still ’tis spring, T know, though no dandelions blow And the meadows still are sleeping ’neath their covering of snow; I even know ’tis spring though no poets rise and sing In a Hoosier dialectic roundelay made of “Bejing!” No balmy southern breeze brings the humming of the bees And no marvel-sweep o? blossoms bursts upon the apple trees, Yet I know that spring has come, though the frogs are sleeping, dumb, And the fingers that would play upon the pipes of Pan are numb. But this symptom never falls-*—every spring one’s eye it hails. So I’ll sing ’tis spring, although we’re swept by fiercest arctic gales. Spring is with us; spring is here; in the dally prints ‘appear Many wild, prophetic statements that a miner’s strike is near.

Card of Thanks.

Our congressman -has favored us with a package of nasturtium seeds, two packages of sweet peas, and an assortment of beans, corn, and pumpkin seeds, for which we are duly and truly thankful. We can use the beans, and perhaps the corn will stew up all right We may have at times said things about congress which indicated somewhat of a rancorous disposition, but these things were expressed on the spur of the moment. There have been times when we asked for quick action on the higher cost of living and got a public document on “The Approximate Result of Permitting the Use of Three Per Cent. Grades in the Roadbed of the Panama Canal,” and on these occasions we have overlooked the compliment to our literary taste and harped upon our imagined grievances. Let bygones be bygones. If our congressman will hustle along a few samples of anthracite coal and some individual packages of coffee, not to mention early spring chickens, we shall be as patriotic as the next man. But our gardening and agricultural pursuits consist mainly of reading seed catalogues and believing folks who say they are selling us fresh eggs and country butter.

Hysterically Historical.

'T observe that, in your historical novel, the heroine weeps almost continually,” remarked the Astute Publisher to the Eminent Author. “Yes,” responded the Eminent ’’Author, “you see, the times described in the story were days of stress and Perth” “Well,” said the Astute Publisher, “don’t you think it would be more fitting to call it a hysterical novel?”

A New Excuse.

“You never loved me,” exclaimed the bride of a week. “True, I did not,” answered the brutal bridegroom,‘“with a sneer, as he wrote an order for the expressman to come for her baggage. “Then why did you marry me?” she moaned, gazing tearfully into the mirror to see if her hat was straight. “I did it,” he answered hoarsely, “to pay an election bet.”

Evidence of Sagacity.

“Would you rather be wise or beautiful?” asked Fate of the Coy Young Malden. , “Beautiful,” replied the damsel. - Ah, you are wise already,” commented Fate, as she tied up a package of cosmetics.

And Vice Versa.

Tigg—There’s one good thing about these college yells. Wlgg—What is it? —They can’t sing those glee (songs while they are yelling.

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