Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — Page 6

PRETTY FLOWER’S LOVE CURE

By CLARISSA MACKIE

Lew Kelsey of the Twin Star ranch rode his horse desperately over lonely trails that summer afternoon. There was a look of grim despair on his handsome face, and his bronzed hands clutched the bridle reins until the knuckles showed white. “Turned down, turned down!’’ he muttered over and over again as Corhey, the horse, flew madly through the dust of,the trail. “And she laugh ed—laughed to beat the band—when 1 asked her'. What do you know about that?”

The memory of Anita Rooney’s scornful laugh still rang in, his outraged ears. Why should Pat Rooney’s red headed girl spurn his offer of marriage in that rude way? Had she not accepted his attentions—his gifts? Had she not flirted with him, led him to believe that she loved him? And then when he summoned his courage to offer bet the greatest honor in his gift—his big. warm, honest heart—she had laughed at him and refused! So, while Lew Kelsey rode toward the west where the Wind river mountains piled a dim blue bulk against

SHE POINTED HERE AND THERE ON HIS HAND.

the pale sky, he gloomed sullenly over his unfortunate love affair, and be registered many vows to have done with women forever. He pulled his horse to a standstill on the summit of a hill and looked away to the distant ranges, and he felt a longing to wipe out this old score of fate and start life anew without a woman in the world to turn the sweetness of living to pain and bitterness. As he sat there like a bronze statue of despair, two riders came into viewover the crest of the hill where he sat Astride two wiry Indian pouies were a Shoshone Indian and his ?quaw; the woman was attired in a new dress, and she tinkled with silver ornaments, and her garments were gay with colored beads. The man wore a brand new suit of khaki, new moccasins, and his well oiled black hair bung about his ears. Sun Dog and bis wife. Pretty Flower, were on their way back to the reservation in the Wind river district after a visit to their married daughter at Fort Steele. “How!" grunted Sun Dog as he jogged past the cowpuncher. “How!" returned -Lew pleasantly enough. “How!" smiled Pretty Flower, looking specuiatively at the young man “Me tell you fortune, huh?” Pretty Flower Was a thrifty woman, and her skill at fortune telling added many a silver coin to Sun Dog’s wampum belt '

•‘Fortune!" repeated Lew disdainfully. ‘Tin afraid you haven’t got any good fortune for me. Pretty Flower.” Pretty Flower giggled. “Me find good fortune. Me find nice squaw.” she promised. “Squaw— ugh!” sneered Lew. Pretty Flower looked sharply at him from her little black eyes. In spite of her dull looking countenance, she was unusually keen and discerning. Being a shrewd woman who dealt in fortunes, she was quick ,to recognize in Lew Kelsey all the symptoms of *a young man disappointed in love.” She knew Kelsey was not a drinking man, nor was he a gambler; therefore she attributed his downcast apj>ear ance to a rebuff by the girl he loved. So she put her neatly dressed head on one side and looked at him archly. “Me can cure love ” she insinuated. Lew turned sharply, “You can do what?” be roared. “Me can cure love,” she repeated. “The dickens you can!” growled Lew. turning as red as the sunset. “Me can cure you!” “All right: go ahead'; cure me.” he ordered brazenly. “Good!” grunted Pretty Flower approvingly. Lew Kelsey slipped from the saddle and stood leaning against Corney's side. He held out his muscular, sunburned hand to the Indian. Pretty Flower jumped from her pony and stood beside him. holding his hand In her own red brown fingers.

“Hum! White man want cure f<w love? Listen! Find pretty girl. Lott; pretty girls in Red Spider. Try hard to love new pretty girl. Try hard to forget old pretty girl. Bimeby some day old pretty girl gone from love and new pretty girl most got heart. Then stop there, white man. quick. O d love gone away. New love not quite come. Heart empty; White man safe! That, white man. is Pretty Flower's love cure." She dropped his hand and stepped back, surveying him with bright, watchful eyes. “Well, of all the— Say. Pretty Flower, that’s not a bad scheme of yours!” burst forth Lew excitedly. “That’s some little cure. I believe I’ll try it. Here"’ He i»- >ught •••if a roll of bills and placeu ... guied •-squaw s palm a crisp and crackling five dol.ai note. So Sun Dog and Pretty Flower went joyfully borne jo the reservation, while Lew Kelsey wheeled his horse about and returned to the Twin Star ranch. He reached there just in time for supper, and when the meal had been hurried through be joined his companions in making an elaborate toilet, for they were all going to attend the dance at the schoolhouse in Red Spider that evening.

All was merriment in the schoolhouse. The desks and seats had been piled outside, and on the platform were three fiddlers and a cracked piano. But the music was of the popular order, and amusements were few and far between in Red Spider, so that the dancers were not overparticular so long as the fiddlers kept in tune with the piano and their feet could beat time on the hard oaken floor. Anita Rooney Was there. the center of a laughing, joking crowd of men and girls Lew- Kelley stood against the wall and felt a brief pang as his gaze included Anita's crisp red hair and a glimpse of her laughing face. Then he steadied himself and looked about for the girl who was to effect Pretty Flower's love cure.

He knew most of the girls present, but there were on<? or two who were strangers to'him. One of them, a pretty, dark eyed, black haired girl, dressed in white, with a pale blue girdle about her slim waist,' seemed more of a stranger than the others. She was with Dr. Blake's wife, and as LewKelsey was an intimate friend of the Blakes he felt no hesitation in approaching the doctor's wife and in obtaining an introduction to her guest from the east. Esther .Gray. Miss Esther Gray ' proved to be a most delightful acquaintance. She was as sweet and charming as she was pretty, and Lew- felt that there wouldn’t be the least difficulty in losing his heart to Esther. Only the trouble was he might want her to keep it In that case, where was the good of Pretty Flower's love cure?

At any rate, he would be out of love with the scornful Anita! As the evening wore on Lew found himself qqite forgetting Miss Rooney and her ruddy charms On the other hand, Anita sensed that she was losing an admirer. It was all very well to Idugh at Lew Kelsey’s pretensions to her hand and heart: still she had been proud of the attentions of the handsome young cowpuncher, onlyonly—well. Anita Rooney was ambitious. and she had set her heart on marrying well. No mere cowpuncher would do. It must be the ranch owner himself for Pat Rooney's daughter. It was one thing to refuse Lew Kelsey and still have him dangling at her heels a disconsolate lover. It was quite another matter to have him apparently forgetting all about her and paying devoted attention to that black eyed witch from the east. So Anita sent for Lew and told him reproachfully that she had saved three dances for him. “as usual.” and that he bad uot come to claim them; And Lew. who recognized Anita’s wiles, grinned good naturedly ami asked her to dance. Even while his strong arm guided her through the mazes of the waltz, which is still popular in Red Spider district. Anita resentfully felt that his thoughts as well as his eyes were following the graceful figure of Esther Gray.

At the cud of another week b , Pretty Flower’s love cure was Working. Lew had almost forgotten his love for Anita Rooney, while his growing love for Esther ‘tray was an ever present joy. One morning while he was herding cattle on the western rahges the thought of the projected love cure smote his memory. “Ah. 1 couldn't—l couldn't keep myself from loving her!” he said, with a tender smile. "I 11 ask her to ride otit to Sunset point with me.” he decided. “There 111 ask her. and if she'll have me— Why. I'll buy that little ranch of Nickerson's. and We'll we'll call it Paradise. for it can't be anything else with Esther there!" .

It was just at sunset when Esther Gray and Lew Kelsey rode slowly up the slope and rested their horses on the summit of the point. Far to’ the west the'fiery clouds flickered and flamed along the peaks of the distant mountains. Silhouetted against the western skv. the dark forms of the riders told a story to Pretty Flower and her husband, who were gathering herbs on the hillside. The horses were standing close together. and Lew’s arm was about Esther s slender waist, and her dark head was on his shoulder. Pretty Flower looked at Sun Dog and smiled. “It was the love cure.” she whispered softly. Sun Dog grunted approval, and together, hand in hand, the two Indians stole away, for they. too. had been young and had known romance.

FOR THE CHILDREN

How to Make an Aeolian Harp. An aeolian harp can be made by almost any ingenious boy. It consists of a long, narrow Iwx of very thin wood, about five or six inches deep, with a circle in the middle of the upper side an inch and a half in diameter. in which are to be drilled small holes. In this side seven, ten or more strings of very tine gut are stretched over bridges at each end like the bridges of a fiddle and screwed up or relaxed with screw pins. The strings should all be tuned to the same note and the instrument be placed in some current of air where the wind can pass oter its strings with freedom. A window the width of which is equal to the length of the harp, with the sash just raised to give the air admission, is a proper situation. When the air blows upon the strings of the harp with different degrees of force it will excite different degrees of sound. Sometimes the blast brings out all the tones in full concert, and sometimes it sinks to the softest murmurs.

Nest Eggs—A Game. Have you ever played nest eggs? It is a game for any number of players up to nine, and you must make as many shallow holes in the ground as there are players. Every nest has three or four marbles placed in it to represent the eggs, and the nests are numbered. one belonging to each player. Ten feet away from tile holes a mark is drawn, and from this one of the players previously decided upon rolls a ball toward the nests, beside which the owners are standing. As soon-as the ball drops into- the hole all the remaining players run away as fast as they can. The owner of the nest into which the ball has rolled must snatch up the ball and try to throw it at one of the runners. If he hits his mark the player who is hit loses one of his nest eggs and in turn throws the ball at another player. Every one being hit loses an egg, and so does the thrower who misses. The game is won by the player who is last to lose his nest eggs. Instead of holes, boys who participate may substitute their caps.

Riddles. Why must chimney sweeping be a very agreeable business? Because it suits (soots) every one who tries it. In what color should a secret be kept? Immolate (in violet). Perfect with a head, perfect without a head; perfect with a tail, perfect without a tail; perfect with either, neither or both? A wig. What is the difference between reckless speculation and a slice of bacon? One is a rash thing, the other a rasher. Why is a joke less durable than a church bell? Because after it has-been told (tolled) a few times it is worn out. Why is Canada like wourtship? Because it borders on the United States. If an egg could speak what preserve would it name? Ma-me-laid (marina-

laden Hunting the- Egg. Hunting the egg is great sport on Easter. The hostess must have lots of eggs dyed ready for her guests. These eggs must be hidden away in the garden (or in the house where there is no outdoors) in many but of the way places. The guests then hunt for the eggs and are allowed to keep all they find. This game may be followed by the egg tbrowing game. .One player stands with a basket tilled with soft cotton or straw at a given distance from the player, who has a full basket of dyed hard boiled eggs. The idea of the game is to throw the eggs, one at a time, into the basket without letting them drop. This game may crack the shells of your eggs, but it is a good game and a fun producer. An Ancient Gauge. In the historical annals of Korea there is found a reference to rain gauges, which translates as follows: In the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Sejo (1442) the king ordered constructed a bronze instrument to measure the rainfall, much like those used now in the weather bureau. It is a vase resting on a stone base and was placed in the observatory. Each time it rained the attendants measured the height of water in the vase and reported to the king. Similar instruments were also placed in all the prov inces The rain gauge, therefore, had its inception as far back as the tifteenth century.

A Coin Trick. Place a strip of smooth paper on a table so that the end of it hangs over the edge. Stand a new penny on edge upon the paper and announce that you will take the paper away without touching the peuny or disturbing it from itk position. It looks impossible, hut if you take hold of the paper firmly and give it a smart, steady pull it will slide away and leave the penny standing, unmoved, in its platje. You may not be able to do this th« first time you try, but a little practice will make yon perfect. Easter Eggs. "Oh, grandpa, in thejhedge we've found Four Easter eggs all colored blue! They’re in the sweetest little nest. We want to show our prize to you.” Said grandpa: "Touch them not. my dean. Those eggs God dyed with colors rare. The mother bird will soon come back And guard her nest with loving care These Easter eggs in leaf hid nests Imprison countless s®ng birds bright That soon will break the tinted shell And rise and sing in joyous flight.”

COMMISSIONERS’ ALLOWANCES. "„ 5 ! ‘/e the allowances made by y oard of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana, at their regular April term. 1914. Judson H Perkins, sal clerk $375.00 Healey & Clark, supplies same.... 2.00 J P Hammond, sal auditor 425 00 Same, sal clerk Co c0unci1...,,. 150*00 Burt-Haywood Co, supplies same.. 500 Healey & Clark, assessors’ blanks 5.00 A A r ell. sal treasurer 562 50 Levey Bros, supplies same ...i 32 Burroughs Add Mach Co. exp treas 3*25 Geo U Scott, sal recorder 425.00 \V I Hoover, sheriff's salary 350.00 Same, sheriff’s fees..... 23.00 l>e\ ere 1 eoman, per diem surveyor 52.00 Same, same . 56.00 Burt-Haywood Co. supplies same.. 16.26 Ernest Lamson, per diem Co Supt 135.00 Healey & Clark, supplies same...., 3.50 Burt-Haywood Co. same.* « '35.00 Iva Bill, office help same ? 12 50 Charles Morlan. janitor c h 1 45.00 J I. Griggs, fireman c h 45.00 Charles Morlan, exp court house.. .50 City of Rensselaer, water c h 87.50 Same, lights c h.... 16*64 Monon Coal Co, coal c h 195.77 W R Gates, hauling coal c h 25.09 Associated Mfg Co, supplies ch.. 750 J Holcomb Mfg co. same 11.03 AP W Paper Co, same.. ..... 20.00 A A Fell 1 exp 5ame........ .62 Same, freight on coal c h 85*86 J'A Grant, exp c h ..... 223 City Rensselaer, lights jail 7*21 Hamilton & Kellner, supplies same 6.00 Associated Mfg Co, same 7->8 J A Grant, same 7;o Mary Anderson, labor Co farm ]<7oo Jasper Cooper, 5ame,.26.00 J W Smith, same ... Dr. Hansson. veterinary ser same 300 Roth Bros, supplies same 16 00 John Eger, sam e 140 75 W J Wright, 5ame........ 35 69 Julia E Work, exp poor children 254*10 Board of State Charities, same.. .80 Healey & Clark. R R elec. Car tp 28*50 W I Hoover, post notice same.... 2'50 F E Babcock, public printing 10.45 Healey & Clark, same 13.45 DeVere Yeoman, Co assm Grant dt 30 00 Same, bridge engineer... 6.50 James Bullis, erow bounty.... 1 20 Elmer Biggs, same ." <BO J Otis Crandall, same <7O George W Caster, 5ame........... 290 J E Dunn, same <4O Clifford Elder, same .. .. . . '2O Ray Fidler, same .... .60 C A Hensler, same..... <OO Andrew Hotter, same... 70 Frank Hill, same ......... 190 Louis Jamison, same /.*/ Joseph Lehe, same /' / £3O Harvey E Roadifer. same .10 Edward Walters, same ’4O Chauncey H Woods, 5ame...... 3 60 Healey & Clark, not pet Hobbs dt 22 00 Same, same Kennedy ditch .... 9,00 F E Babcock, Irwin stone road.... 30.50 Healey & Clark, same.... 3150 I E Babcock, not re-let Jungles dt 5.00 ”. eale y & Clark, exp elec Jordan tp 25.50 V I Hoover, post elec notices.... 390 Same, same Jordan 140 Rochester Bridge Co, bdg 2534 Same, same No. 2595 700.00 East St Louis Bdg Co, No. 2564 2,000*00 , pray, per diem high supt.. 52.40 A Woodworth, gravel road repair.. 18 40 r red Popp, same.. 19 02 F X rguso ,’?’ same •/’ 60*86 E C Maxwell, 5ame.............. 43 35 Joseph Hotler same.... 34 °5 Jacob A May, same...„./’« 7445 E D Britten, same...*. 54.52 Rensselaer Lumber Co, same 17 07 A A Fell, int Delehanty ditch/.’ 70 00 Same, same Davis ditch...’... 25 00 Same, same Marble ditch......." 45’00 Same same Maxwell ditch O G Barajett, sal Co agent 166.66 same, expense same 73 10 Treas White Co, exp chg of venue 54.00 Same, same 14.00 Same, same 14.00 Same, same 44 00 JOSEPH P. Auditor Jasper County, Indiana.

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ILLUSIVE BEAUTY. I HAVE loved flowers tTiat fade, Within whose magic tents Rich hues have marriage made With sweet unmemoried scents. A honeymoon delight— A joy of love at sight That ages in an hour— My song be like a flower! I have loved airs that die Before their charm is writ Along a liquid sky Trembling to welcome it. Notes that with pulse of fire Proclaim the spirit’s desire. Then die and are nowhere; My song be like an air! Die, song, die like a breath And wither as a bloom; Fear not a flowery death, Dread not an airy tomb! Fly with delight, fly hence! ’Twas thine love's tender sense To feast; now on thy bier Beauty shall shed a tear. —Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate of England. STATESMEN AND SALARIES. T®* sairrhs so great are seen That all with envious gaze discern them Borne men may suffer anguish keen Because they draw, but cannot earn them. --Washington Evening Star.

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