Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1914 — Page 8

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POSSUM RUN. Mrs. Merril called on Mrs. Hurley Wednesday afternoon. William Pollock called on Thomas Parker Tuesday morning. James Chapman, of Rensselaer, Was out to (his farm Tuesday. Myrtle Parker called on Mrs. Greeley Comer Wednesday morning. Wm. Pollock and Tmomas Parker attended the big sale Thursday. Several from this vicinity attended the dance at Toombs’ Saturday night. Mrs. Hurley and son, John, spent Easter with Roy Hurley find children of Parr. Mrs. Pollock and Mrs. Pierson ■were Gifford callers Wednesday afternoon. John and Carl Stockwell called on, Mr. and Mrs. John Price Tuesday morning. * Mrs. Greeley Comer and Mrs. Thomas Parker called on Mrs. Theodore Smith Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Toombs and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith and family. O. M. Thomas, who has been spending a few days with Wm. Openchain, returned to Ohio Wednesday. Those that spent' Easter with the young folks were: Flpyd, John and Orabelle Swartz. Alai and Floyd Shook, Orpha and Myrtle .Parker.

Spring Laxative and Blood Cleanser. Flush out the accumulated waste and poisons of the winter months: cleans your stomach, liver and kidneys of all impurities. Take Dr. King’s New Life Pills; nothing better for purifying the blood. Mild, non-griping laxative. Cures constipation; makes you feel fine. Take no other. 25c. Recommended by A. F. LONG.

KNIMAN. Most everybody is done sowing oats now. William Cooper is very poorly at thia writing. Mrs. Robart spent Sunday with Mrs. McMurray. Mr. Saylor and daughter, Blanch, were Wheatfield goers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Moore called on Ancil Hilton and family Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Roy Wickizer, of near Tefft, spent Sunday with"her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Peer. Walter Peer returned horde Saturday from Valparaiso, where he had been attending school. Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Ancil Hilton and children called on Mrs. Ross and Alfred Moore’s Wednesday afternoon. Revival meetings closed Saturday night by Rev. Morris and the evange-

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list singer, Mr. Campbell, with great success. Miss Etha Peer, of near Pleasant Grove, spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Peer. Those spending Sunday with D. M. Peer ar. - ’ .Nre: Volney and Dave Peer and . uaiilie.-; Myrtle, Greatte, Lloyd Shell; Irene and Barney Jungles; Rue McMurray; Ivan Saylor; Elmer and Oliver Cambie; Flaudie Nicholsen; Paul Dye; Miks Noland; Gaylord and Lester Hilton; Erbie Moore; Mabel Lancing; Mr. Steinhibler; Olive and Loren e Wiley: Gertrude and Francis Ott; Thelma and Katie Summers; Maud Armstrong: Louise, Mary and William Lake.

Give Comfort to Stout Persons. A good wholesome catharthic that has a stimulating effect on the stomach, liver and bowels is Foley Cathartic Tablets. Thoroughly cleansing in action, they keep you regular with no griping and no unpleasant after effects. They remove that gassy distended feeling so uncomfortable to stout persons,—A .F LONG.

PINE GROVE. Ohloae Torbet helped Mrs. Andy Ropp sew Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Dale were shopping in Rensselaer Wednesday. Several from this vicinity attended literary at Gifford Friday night. Mrs. Will Hayes and sons, Nowell and Lowell, were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nuss, of Laura spent Thursday with Geo. Daniels and family. Mrs. James Torbet attended Ladies’ Aid at Mrs. Wesley Faylot’s Wednesday. ' 1 Mr. and Mrs. John Daniels spent Sunday with the former’s parets, Geo. Daniels, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ropp and daughter, Bessie, and babv, were Rensselaer goers Saturday. ' Those that ate Easter dinner with James Torbet and family tfere: Mr. and Mrs. John Torbet, John Dale and family and Roy Torbet and family.

Children’s Diseases Very Prevalent. Whooping cough is about everywhere. Measles and scarlet fever almost as bad. Use Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for inflamed throats and coughing. Mrs. I. C. Hostler, Grand Island, Neb., says: “My three children had severe attacks of whooping cough, and a very few doses o f Foley's Honey and Tar Compound gave great relief.”—A. F. LONG.

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Mr. Tolin is getting better at this writing. , a nd Mrs. Eli Dungan visited with Earl Kennedy Sunday. Frank Elijah and Carl Wooton were Kentland goers last week. Mrs. Harry Young, who is working on the Hamilton dredge is verv sick. . . ' . ’ ; Mrs. McComb and Mrs. Bert Sullivan visited with Mrs. Sam Butts W ednesday. Mrs. McComb, Bert Sullivan and fannlj took Sunday dinner with Lew Sullivan and family. Mrs. Frank Elijah was called to Indianapolis last Sunday by the death of her uncle.

Reliable l —Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound. Just be sure that you buy Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound—it is reliable medicine for coughs, colds, croup, whooping coughs, bronchial and lagrippe coughs, which are weakening to the system. It also gives prompt and definite results for hoarseness, tickling throat and stuffy w h eezy breath in g.—A. F. LONG

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My Swimming Prize

It Was Lost, but Was Found

By JOHN TURNLEE

My summer outings are invariably passed at the seashore, for I am not only fond of the salt air, but of the salt water. I lore to breathe the former and bathe in the latter. I learned to - im when I was a little girl eight years of age, and as 1 grew older proved so rapidly that I was at home as much in the water as out of it. But one summer while swimming at a seaside resort I was taught the difference between the water and the land. I was swimming beyond the ropes, with no one near me, when I was taken with cramps. 1 called for help, but was too far from the shore for my cries to be heard. Fortunately a pier extended near me into the ocean and on the pier was a man. What he was doing there I did not know at the time. Indeed, I did not know that he was there. All I did know came to me after an interval of unconsciousness Then I was lying on the sand with persons about me, some of whom were making me very uncomfortable by trying to get water out of me. My first act on recovering my senses was to put my hand on my breast, where I expected to find a gold Maltese cross that was there when I went into the water. It was gone. Singularly enough my loss crowded out of my mind the fact that I had barely escaped drowning. . The cross was a prize 1 had won at a swimming match when I was fifteen years old. I always wore it in the water and never at any other time. When I did not find it on feeling for it I assumed that it had teeome detached from me while I was being brought out of the surf. Of course I asked questions as to how I came to be rescued. All I could learn was that a man saw me from the pier, jumped off into the water and swam for me. Before jumping he shouted to those on the beach, se-

PINNED TO HIS BATHING SUIT WAS MY MALTESE CrOSS.

cured their attention and a boat was sent out for me. My rescuer reached me when 1 came to the surface and swam with me toward the beach. Those in the boat made such poor progress that be got me into shallow’ water almost before they got the boat launched. Indeed, I was not taken into it at all. As to the man who saved my life. I could gather very little about him. This was probably due to the fact that when I had recovered from my illness all those who had witnessed the rescue had left the place for their homes. At any rate, I could not find a person who was on the beach when I was brought The.next winter I was visiting a friend in a neighboring city and enjoying one social function after another. Jenny Hatch, the girl I visited, had known me from childhood and had often been with me in the water when 1 wore my prize won at the juvenile swimming match. One evening after a ball Jenny told me that she had seen during the evening my cross, or one exactly like it. on the lapel of a young man’s coat. She had no acquaintance with him. consequently she could not speak to him about it. 1 asked her why she had not contrived to secure an introduction to him. whereupon she reminded ipe that it was the privilege of the man to ask for an introduction to a woman, not a woman’s privilege to ask an introduction to a man. The incident reopened the matter of my rescue the summer before. Could it be possible that my little cross was not under water 1 after all. but had fallen info the possession of a stranger? My name was engraved on it as well as a statement of how it had been won. Why had this person worn it on the lapel of his coat instead of on his watch charm if indeed he must wear it at all? If I could have a look at it I could tell whether or not it was mine without looking at the inscription on the back. I charged Jenny if she saw the man who wore it again to leave no stone upturned to discover where be got it. Several of my girl friends kpew of

the matter, and one ot them came to me one day with a story that she had seen a young man at a reception who wore on his breast a gold Maltese cross. She had taken pains to ask one who knew him what It,meant and was informed that it was a decoration given for saving life. Naturally this story served to stimulate the interest already excited Jn me with regard to the decoration and its wearer*. Was there any connection between my rescue and this man? I had always regretted not being able to express my gratitude to my rescuer, and now a wild hope sprang up withiu me that he had been discovered—discovered, but not attained. He was drifting near me as one ship may drift near another in a fog, unseen by me, only reported by others. One evening at a dance I met and received marked attention from one Howard Woodruff. 1 told him that there was a young man floating on the social sea who wore a gold cross in which I was interested. He seemed much interested himself and asked me wbat there was in the cross that concerned me, whereupon 1 told him t'-:< circumstances of my rescue. lie promised me that he would keep 1.1 ; eyes open for the possessor of the cross and if he saw him wearing it would interrogate him with regard to it and report to me at once.

For the rest of the winter Mr. Wqodruff was continually tantalizing me with reports of this man who was wearing a decoration for life saving. He was always hearing of him, but never getting near him. At one time he told me that the map had won his decoration by saving some one from a burning building; at another he had beard an entirely different story—the honor had been bestowed for having snatched a child from before a locomotive. Either of these stories would have settled my mind as to the matter if I could have depended on it. But upon questioning my informer I drew forth the fact that what he had heard was the merest hearsay. " As the winter was drawing to a close Mr. Woodruff's attentions to me increased, and he began to display some jealousy of this unknown person In whom I took such an interest. “I believe you are in love with him.” he said to me one day. “In love with him?” I replied. “How can I be in love with one I have never seen?” “Well, then, you are in love with a fancy picture you have created of him. Ten to one it is no decoration lie wears, but has been given him by some girl with whom he is spoons.” I grew fond of my admirer—indeed, so fond of him that when he asked me to be his wife I consented. He was always quizzing me, and the man who was wearing the Maltese cross was a favorite subject with him. He asked me when the spring came on whether I would go to the seaside resort, and. when I said that I would, but should not be so venturesome as before, he said he would spend his vacation with me there. ‘

“Perhaps we will meet the man who is sporting your cross.” he added. "If we do 1 shall get him out iu the water and drown him.” This display of jealousy pleased me. and I retorted I had a sentimental fancy that the man who wore the cross was the person who had saved my life, and if 1 should meet him I was sure I should sap in love with him. Then my fiance looked grave, and I laughed him back to his former status. When the summer came I went to my usual resort several weeks before my lover joined me. As soon as he t'tune he asked me if I had seen anything’of the fellow who bad saved me or the one who wore my prize aud if they had turned out to be one and the same person. I teased him for awhile by hinting that I had met him and that be was an Adonis. Whether he believed me or not I didn't know. At any rate, he pretended he did. Lovers are never very certain about anything concerning the loved one and are easily frigntened. The morning after .my fiance’s arrival we went to the beach together for a bath. We met on the sands, each in bathing costume, and what did I see pinned to his bathing suit but my Maltese cross. I looked at him with eyes big as saucers. He burst iuto a laugh. “You have lieen very stupid,” he said. 1

“Is that my cross?” “Of course it is.” “Where did you get it?” “Last summer, when you collapsed in the water and I brought you In. in some way or other it became detached from your bathing dress and got caught in mine.” I was paralyzed. “I thought 1 would keep it,” he went on. “and fool my friends by letting them think itwas a decoration of some sort. I’ve had n 6 end of fun with it. At last I heard of your inquiries and concluded I had better not wear it any more. In case I should meet you you might claim your property from me.” “Do you mean to tell me that you are the person who saved my life?" “I dragged you ashore; others got the life back into you." “And you have been fooling me all this time?” I was half angry, but the smile he gave me brought me round, and I began to realize that my rescuer stood before me. If we had not been in the midst of a throng I would have thrown myself into his arms; as it was I impulsively grasped bis hand In both of mine. “Come.” he said, “let’s go take a dip.” Despite the onlookers. we walked hand in band to the brink and swam out to tbe place where I had collapsed.

SUMMARY OF THE WORLD’S EVENTS

IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN TO LAST ANALYSIS. ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS Brief Notes Covering Happenings In This Country and Abroad That Are of Legitimate Interest to All the People. Washington f x Ihe senate at Washington passed the bill raising to an embassy the United States legation to Argentina. The bill had already passed the house and now goes to President Wilson, who approves it. • • • Although there has been no formal announcement from the White House at W ashingten as yet of the date for the wedding of Secretary McAdoo and Miss Eleanor _ Randolph Wilson, friends say Friday, May 8, has been tentatively selected. The affair is expected to be private. • * *. E. P. Holcpmbe, chief supervisor of the Indiana bureau at Washington, shot and killed himself In a room of a hotel. Holcombe’s associates believe despondency over his physical condition led to the suicide.

Unqualified disapproval was expressed by President Wilson at Washington of the proposal in congress to curtail the anti-trust legislative program for this session. Later members of the house judiciary sub-com-mittee declared that an effort would be made to report out quickly a single measure embodying the substance of all the separate tentative trust bills. • • • Contracts for the construction of two colliers intended primarily to transport coal to the coaling stations at the terminals of the Panama' canal, but so designed and fitted as to be available also for use by the navy In time of w r ar, have been ordered by Secretary Daniels at Washington for 1987,500 each.’ • • • Domestic Harry K. Thaw has won his fight for a writ of habeas corpus. Federal Judge Edgar Aldrich of the United States district court of New Hampshire handed down his decision on the petition of Thaw asking that he be discharged from the extradition proceedings under which the state of New ork has been trying to force Thaw’s return to Matteawan. The American and National leagues on Tuesday started the struggle which will determine the 1914 of the respective organizations. On Monday Ift Baltimore the Federals, the third major league, had its opening and 30,000 wild, shouting Marylanders saw their team win the inaugural dash. ♦ • • Fire at Edinburg, 111., wiped out a block of brick structures. The loss is estimated at |BO,OOO. De Lloyd Thompson “looped, the loop” eight times at Los Angeles, breaking Lincoln Beachey’s record as a trick aviator. • • *

The International Society of Surgery began in New York the first meeting ever held by it outside of Brussels, with distinguished surgeons from many countries in attendance. • * * The two wage scale committees of the Illinois miners and coal mine operators have concluded the task of hearing the 700 demands and referred the subject as a whole to a sub-com-mittee composed of 12 men. The wage scale committee will not meet before the sub-committee is ready to report. * • • Seven persons lost their lives—five women, a man and a two-year-old baby —during a fire which swept through five floors of the Melvin, a fashionable apartment house, in Boston. M. O’Brien, engineer of a Lake Shore passenger train, flagged a speeding east-bound Pere Marquette flyer at Indiana Harbor and prevented a collision with his own train, which had been derailed. The heroic action of O’Brien prevented a second and more serious wrick. Several persons were hurt. ♦ * * Full discussion of the responsibility of parents to see that their childreh are trained in good citizenship has been provided for in the program of. the third international congress on' the welfare of the child, which will open at Washington April 22. • * • Laurence Drke, a nephew of James B. Duke, the millionaire tobacco manfacturer, will settle for $3,500 the suit brought against him at Seattle by Alvin Simmons, whose father he killed by running him down in his automobile.

Rev. Otis IX Spurgeon of Des Moines told the grand jury at Denver, Colo., how he was dragged out of a hotel by kidnapers 24 miles away and flogged. Afterward six men were indicted on charges of kidnaping growing out of the deportation.

"I did not do the shooting. The men who fired the shots were Gyp, Louie and Vallon. I wus miles away. It was a gamblers’ fight Becker had, nothing to do with the case.” Epitomized, this is the “confession of Frank Cirofici, alias “Dago Frank,” who with three othpr “gunmen" was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. • * * Investigation by a federal grand jury at Philadelphia of alleged custom frauds was completed when the jury recommended that the government proceed to recover the duty losses suffered because of alleged Irregularities in the importation of personal goods by Wanamakers. ' * ■ • . • ■’ Following a struggle In which her man companion got away, Mrs. Helen N. Wilson, alias Mary Ryan, sixty years old, a former member of the Sophie Lyons band, was arrested in her rooms at Los Angeles, Cal. The police say she is the widow of Jack Prince, bank robber, killed in Chicago, and in the last 16 months has robbed Los Angeles stores of more than sixteen thousand dollars’ worth of goods. Foreign Militant suffragettes renewed the campaign of the firebrand in the north of England. The big grandstand at Hull football grounds was burned. • * ♦ Desiderio Arias, leader of the latest revolution in the northern provinces of the Dominican republic, has been declared an outlaw and removed from his government office. • • • The German aviator Relchelt carried a woman passenger with him on a flight near London. At a height off 200 feet the motor exploded and the! monoplane shot blazing to the earth.. The woman , was dead when extri-, cated. Reichelt died at a hospital. • • • Mexican Revolt

Armed intervention in Mexico has practically begun. With the majority of the ships of the American navy proceeding or under orders to proceed at once to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Mexico, the United States government gave General Huerta final warning that unless a salute was fired to the Stars and Stripes within a reasonable time to atone "for repeated offenses against the rights and dignity of the United States” serious eventualities would result. • ♦ • President Wilson told Senators Shively and Lodge and Representatives 1 Flood and Cooper at a White House conference at Washington that he Intended to take drastic steps to force Huerta out of the presidenoy of Mexico. .• • • ■''' Under orders to proceed to Tamptoo as speedily as possible, the Atlantic battleship fleet In command of Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, command-er-in-chlef, steamed out of Hampton Roads. • • ♦ All information that reached Washington from Mexico City tended to show , that Huerta was unconvinced that the United States was in earnest. He thought the Washington government wa» bluffing. Some anti-Ameri-can demonstrations at Vera Cruz and other points were reported. •' ♦ ♦ * A United States naval demonstration on the Pacific coast of Mexico was ordered by the secretary of the navy. Many Americans are leaving Mexico City for Vera Cruz in. the belief that that city will not be a safe place for them. * * * General Huerta submitted to an executive session of the Mexican senate at Mexico City the demand of the American government for a salute to the flag. No answer to the demand reached the Washington government* however.

Personal Jane Est, a young woman follower of the Industrial Workers of the World, was found guilty of disorderly conduct by a magistrate in the New York women’s court for disturbing the Easter services in the Madison Square Presbyterian church. She was remanded for sentence. * • • Vincent Astor is seriously ill with, pneumonia at the country place of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Huntington in NewYork, whose daughter, Helen, he is to marry on April 30. • • * Mrs. T. Monpure Perkins, one of the famous Langhorne beauties, died suddenly while visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, in New York. * • ♦ Gustave Hamel, an aviator, at Hendon, England, beat his own record of 21 loops by executing 22 at a height of 4,000 fefet in a monoplane. • • • ■ Norman Gaynor,, second son of the late Mayor Gaynor of-New York, and . Miss Elizabeth B. Page, daughter of Dr. Frank Page and niece of Thomas J Nelson Page, American ambassador to ; Italy, were married at Fairfax, Va. • • • Maj. Benjamin M. Koehler of the coast artillery corps has been sen* fenced to dismissal from the army by the court-martial which tried him on charges of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman,” according to an announcement from Washington by Secretary of War Garrison.