Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — Page 6

PURDUE INSTRUCTORS AT STATE FAIR

A CORNER OF PURDUE'S EDUCATIONAL EXHIBIT.

Much of the educational strength of Purdue University will be directed to farm men and women who attend the Indiana State Pair the week of Sept. 7, Prof. G. I. Christie of the Purdue Agricultural Extension Department, promising that what will be offered through Purdue at the fair will in Itself be well worth the time and money it will cost people from the farm to attend the exposition. The farm visitors are especially asked to prepare themselves before hand by making out lists of questions on farm eubjects on which they desire enlightenment and ask the Purdue instructors. about twenty of whom will be at the fair, when they reach the exposition. Last year about 20,000 farm people went to the Purdue building at the fair and during the week the instructors probably answered 100,000 questions along all lines of Hoosier farming. In addition to this kind of information which the Purdue experts will

BRICK AND CONCRETE BUNGALOW.

Design 657, by Glenn L. Saxton. Architect, Minneapolis, Minn.

PERSPECTIVE VIEW-FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN.

The broad projecting eaves in this bungalow design give a very graceful appearance to the exterior. The composition for the outside is rough cast paving brick up to the window sills and white cement rough cast above. The brick gives warmth to the outside in winter, and the rough cast adds poolness in the summer. First floor contains a living room with an open fireplace. The stairway leads out of this room to second story. A high pedestaled archway opens to the dining room. The library is planned so"that it can be used for a den, book room or bedroom. The kitchen arrangement is complete. In the second story three chambers, a large bathroom and a sleeping porch. Size. 30 feet wide by 28 feet deep over main part. First story, 9 feet; second story, 8 feet. Birch floors throughout. Red oak. birch or Washington fir finish in first story, pine to paint in second. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing, $3,000. Upon receipt of $1 the publisher of this paper will furnish a copy of Saxton’s new 1914 book of plans. “American Dwellings.” It contains 310 designs costing from SI,OOO to $G,000; also book of interiors, $1.50 per copy.

Summer Constipation Dangerous. Constipation in summer time is more dangerous than in the fall, winter or spring. The food you eat is often contaminated and is more likely to ferment in your stomach. Then you are apt to drink much cold water during the hot weather, thus injur-

give, the University will have several tons of its best exhibition material at the fair, all spread out in displays which farm people will readily under stand and profit trom. Every line of farming, breeding and home economics in which Hoosier farm people are interested will be covered by the Purdue experts and the displays, and thousahds of farm folks will have opportunity to make "short cuts” toward the solution of questions which will help in advancing development of home affairs. Purdue University will co-operate with the State Board of Agriculture as far as State Fair facilities and Purdue funds will permit in making the coming fair of great educational worth to farm people,” said Prof. Christie. “The fair offers opportunity to absorb much information and inspiration along the line of better farming ami better rural life that will have immeasurable worth to Indiana farm people.”

SECOND FLOOR PLAN.

ing your stomach. Colic, fever, ptomaine poisoning and other ill are natural results. Po-Do-Lax will keep you well, as it increases the bile, the naural laxative, which rids the bowels of the congested poisonous waste. Po-Do-Lax will make you feel better Pleasant and effective. Take a dose tonight. 50c at your druggist.—Advt.

15,000 ARE STRANDED

AMERICANS IN LONDON AND PARIS APPEAL TO U. S. Travelers in Paris Are in Panic, But Said to Be in No Danger—Ask Aid From Washington. Loudon, Aug. 4.—-The 15,000 Americans In London, largely tourists with means, are almost all stranded here, miserable and well-nigh hopeless. Most of them, who had spent nearly all their money and were expecting to sail for home in a few days, are now almost penniless because of the sudden rise in prices of food and transportation, and they see no prospect of getting back to America. Those who have a little money are not in much better condition, for maty of the hotels are closing because their waiters and cooks have fled to Europe and because rates are so high that few can pay them. Moreover, nobody will accept paper mouey, find it is almost impossible to get change even when one has the money to pay a bill. Another phantom which looms up before them is the possibility that the British liners may be taken off the ocean, as has already been done with the Russian, German and nearly all the French boats. In addition to a prolonged banishment from home, nearly all would be penniless in a few days more, and the problem of living at all would be serious.

Hundreds of Americans arrived on good trains from the interior, glad to ride as live stock just to get here. The Americans here have organized themselves into a committee, and demanded that their government help them. They got Ambassador Page to ask Washington for transportation, and they were greatly relieved to hear, through Mr. Page, that their congress has voted money for their relief. Paris, Aug. 4. —Many hundreds of Americans, largely toiirista, are panicstricken here at the prospect of being shut up in Paris during the war. Many of them are tourists with little money, and the situation is disheartening even for the wealthy ; for all trains to Boulogne have been stopped, nobody is allowed to leave the country without a special permit, and the only way now open—through Spain—is a long, dangerous and expensive trip. The leaders of the Americans have formed a committee and have taken up their troubles with Ambassador Myron T. Herrick and are urging him to influence their government to help them. Washington, Aug. 4.—For the purpose of relieving American tourists who are "stranded” in Europe because of the imposibility of cashing their checks or letters of credit. New York bankers have arranged with the state and treasury departments to send huge sums to Europe. Arrangements were completed last night, when it was said the shipments will total $3,500,000.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. ,j , Chicago. Aug. !. Open- High- l.ow- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. ing. Sept. 57%-88 .88 .85 .86% Dec. ~..91%-92 .92 .89% -91%-% May .97-97% .97% .96 .9744 Corn— Sept. ..71%-% .71% .66’4 ,67% Sept., old ...71% .70% .66% .67% Dec....63%-64 .64% .61% .62% May ...5/., ..66% .67% .65 ,63% Oats— J Sept36%-37 .37 .34% -.35% Dec. ..'38%-39 .89% .37 .37% May 41%-% .42% .40% .41% FLOUR—MiIk rs are not quoting prices owing to the unsettled condition of the wheat market. BUTTER—Creamery, extras, 28%c; extra firsts. 26%®27%c; firsts. 24@25%c: seconds. 21®23%c: centralized. 23%®26c; packing stock. 19®19%c; ladles, 19%@20%c. EGGS—Miscellaneous lots, cases included. 15@20c; cases included, 15@20c; cases returned. 14%@19%c; ordinary firsts, IS® 19c: firsts. 19%®'20c: extras. 22%@23e. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys. 16c: chickens, fowls, 15c; broilers, I6®18c; roosters. ll%c: geese, 8@10c; ducks, 12®14c; springs, 15c; guinea hens, $3.50 per doz. NEW POTATOES-Virginia. $2.25®2 50; per bbl.; Kansas and Missouri Ohio*. 60® 65c: home grown and Minnesota Ohio®, 63@65c per bu. New York, Aug. 3. WHEAT—Prices nominal, trade virtually suspended: No. 1 northern. 31.08%; No. 2 red. 93%c; September, 95%c; December 31.00. CORN—Stronger, business lifeless; export. 85%c; Argentine, 83c. OATS—lxtwer. dealings small; No. 2 white. 43%@44c: standard. 4i!@43%c; No 3 White. 41%®42%c.

Live Stock. i Chicago. Aug. 3. CATTLE— Steers, good to choice heavy, 35.50510.00; steers, fair to good. $7.05®8.60; yearlings, good to choice. $8 L 50®9.70: inferior steers, 37.50®'.90; distillery steers. 35.40 '89.80; stockers. $6.00®7.25; feeding steers, $7.25(87.90; medium to good beef cows, $5.50 '<>6.3o; stock cows. $4.75®5.55: fair to choice heifers, $6.50@8,1d; stock heifers/ [email protected]; good to choice cows. $5.75@7,25; common to good cutters, 34100(85.00: butcher bulls, 36.75 ®7.25; bologna bulls, HOGS—Choice light, 170®200 lbs., $8.45® 9.00; prime light buteherp, 200(8230 lbs.. $8 40(88.90; prime medium weight, butchers' 230®270 lbs., $8.30(88.85: prime heavy butchers. 270<tt350 lbs.. $8.30®8.75: mixed heavy packing. $8.15®8.55; heavy packing 38 15® 8.40; pigs, 35.fi0®9.00.

East Buffalo, N. Y.. Aug. 3. CATTLE—Markt t active. 10® 15c higher; prime steers. $9.(5(89.75; shipping -steers’ $« 25®9 25; butcher grades, $8.00(88.75; heifers. $7.50®8.60; cows. [email protected]; bulls. $5.00 ©.7.50; milch cows and springers, S3O 00® 90.00. CALVES Market active arul steadycull to choice, $6.00®11.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market active, 25®50c higher; choice lambs, [email protected]; cull to fair, [email protected]; yearlings, $6.00®7 50' sheep. [email protected]. HOGS—Market slow and steady; Yorkers. $9.30419.40; pigs. [email protected]; mixed, $9.80 C 9 .40; heavy. [email protected]; roughs, SB.OG®B 28/ Stags, $6.75®7.25. '

Oodles, the Avenger

He Was Half Witted, but Faithful

By M. J. PHILLIPS

"The New York attorney, he goes tomorrow,” said Frederic. the fat French landlord of Pete Cheue. His wife, a thin little woman, with a sharp voice and a heart of gold, blazed into sudden anger. 'He stayed too long, and he goes too soon!” she cried. Frederic took his pipe from his mouth and turned ponderously. lou mean—what?” he questioned. "T mean that our Tberese"— Frederic gazed uncomprehendingly, and she made a gesture of impatience at his stupidity. ”Tchk! Can't you see? She likes him too well,” Her husband's mouth sagged open. He held the pipe in his pudgy hand. His black beard rippled over his breast. His eyebrows vvere raised in amazement and something of dismay. He looked like a wondrousiy carved statue, for he sat very still. But one’s mouth cannot stay open indefinitely. Frederic's closed reluctantly. He peered Into his pipe and drew forth his buckskin tobacco pouch. “Chut!” he commented. Mme. Leeoeur ceased her agitated rocking. “ ‘Chut!’ ” she snapped. “ ‘Chut!’ And our only child is breaking her heart. Look for yourself. They are coming.” She inclined her head sideways. Her husband turned in his stout chair, all together, like a piece of machinery, and looked up the one street of the backwoods Michigan town. It was a pretty sight that Frederic saw’—one that appealed to the quick sentimental perceptions of his race. A man and a girl were coming toward the hotel on the veranda of which they sat. The man was of the city, apd his neat, fashionable clothing was in striking contrast to the Mackinaw garb of the few woodsmen who

THEN HE TOTTERED AND FELT,

ounged in doorways. He was talking .eagerly to the girl, who kept pace with him, and his keen young face was alight with the visions of one who is both dreamer and doer. The girl was a glorious creature, whose roundness was not plumpness and whose slenderness was not thinness. Her luxurious brown hair was uncovered. She walked in Indian moccasins with the springy ease of a frontiersman. , Her big, dark eyes were turned on young Amidon with flattering attention. In their depths was an unconscious and pitiful revelation of her heart. They paused a moment by the rude steps. “We are going down to the falls,” said the lawyer. “I want to explain to Miss Therese what our company means to do here. Why, M. Lecoeur, the country above is a natural reservoir. A dam will furnish power to light every town within a hundred miles of here and run tlie mills besides." He turned to Therese as he finished as one turns to a friend who comprehends. But there was nothing in his look or his manner but impersonal enthusiasm; no hint that he was conscious of her sex or of her loveliness, “Your company is rich, M. Amidon?” quelled the landlord. A smile came to the lawyer's boyish face. “They have barrels of it.” he replied. Mme. Lecoeur turned to her husband when the young people had gone on. “You see. you see?" she demanded. “She cannot get enough of looking at him. And he—his head is full of danu and electric lights and mills. Tchkmen!” “My daughter,” she continued, “is worthy of any man in the land. She has graduated from the Grayling high school. She can bake and sweep and sew. She is as merry as a robin. She

can walk from here to Tahqfiema in four hours, and it is twenty miles. “She has taste, too, Frederic—a taste she did not inherit'from.''the Lecoeurs. Faith, no. “She has the high heeled, small shoes and a gown no bigger around than your trousers leg— great, fat—oaf! She has even been three times to Bay City. She Is as innocent and unspoiled as a babe. Why does he not see?’’ She had spoken rapidly in French. Her husband removed his pipe in order to shake his head slowly. “I will tell you why he does not see,’’ she said, switching to English to answer her own question. “He has had no time but to bargain and plair and buy the land. “If he could stay here for two weeks more, with his mind free of business, he could not help loving her. But he will go without seeing or speaking, and it will kill her.” She sighed -wistfully. “If he would but fall sick. She is a splendid nurse.” They turned guiltily at a sound behind in the doorway, but at sight of the queer face looking down at them Mme. Lecoeur spoke relievedly. “Oh, Oodles! It is you!” Oodles Napper was one of “God’s innocents,” a silent young half wit who roamed the wilderness, flitting here and there as the errant fancy took him. The door of every settler from the straits to Saginaw bay was open to him. No one dreamed of charging him for food and lodging. But he paid in his own way nevertheless. He was a mighty hunter. He always carried a rifle, and his aim was of the deadliest. Birds and squirrels and deer in season he brought to the homes of his friends. Now the wide, thin, upturned mouth was doleful; the small blue eves were dull. “You heard. Oodles?” Mme. Lecoeur and all of Pere Cbeue knew that he loved Therese, as the dog loves his mistress, with a dumb love that asks nothing but the privilege to serve. The half wit nodded.

“Yes,” he murmured. “Sorry—sorry.” He looted to the north after jTberese and Amidon. “Where to, Oodles?” Frederic had noted that he carried rifle and pack. “Tahquema—south.” Without another word or look he turned toward the blue hills. Soon be disappeared in the scrub at the end of the street. When the village had been shut off by tag alders and bushes Oodles’ long strides shortened. Unconsciously he came to a standstill. He stood for several minutes in an indecision that was painful. His lips moved sound lessly. Evidently it was a time of intense mental agitation; for the sweat burst out on his forehead, and his hands clinched until the knuckles showed white through the brown skin, and the tendons in his wrists drew like cords. At last a resolution was reached. Heading west, he began to run swift ly, but with great caution. He slipped through the brush like a wild thing. His face took on a new expression—queer and terrible. As be ran'be bore to the north in a half circle. Presently he came out on a little knoll, threw himself flat in the long grass and peered between the trunks of a clump of jack pines. Yes, there they stood on the bank of the river, near the rapids. The lawyer, his face alight, was pointing as he explained the plans of his company to Therese.

The girl was looking up at her companion. Even at that distance the half wit read the unconscious pathos of her attitude. With swift fierceness he drew the rifle to his shoulder, sighted carefully and fired. Amidon paused in the midst of his sentence, blank amazement on his face. Then he tottered and fell. Therese’s scream echoed high above the bur of the rapids. The half wit ran away, more like a wild thing than ever. ***♦♦♦♦ Therese and her lover, who was also her husband, stood on the porch of the Lecoeur house in the gloaming. Her dark eyes were pools of brooding happiness. The man, mimicking a shy schoolboy, edged over and took her hand. She laughed and leaned against him. Its good to be here,” he said. “Do you know what day it is?” He looked down at her, eyes round with recollection. “By Jove!” he cried. “It's just a year—a year ago today.” She nodded. They were silent a moment, and then he went on: “If it hadn't been for that I'd never have discovered how much I cared. 1 was going away without a word to vou Think of that! “But you hadn't finished binding me up before I was crazy about you, and the longer you nursed me the more 1 loved you.” His arm went round her. She nestled against him and sighed contentedly. “The chap who did it was a marksman,” he continued. “There I was, gesticulating like Mark Antdny, and along comes a bullet and breaks my arm-snip-like that. 1 wonder who it was? “I’d like to know so I could thank him. The fellow did me a good turn.” She shuddered a little. "I was frightened—at first. But it did come out al! right, didn't it?" “It certainly did,” returned Amidon. And now let's talk of something more serious. Kiss me," he said severely. A chuckle came from the doorway behind, and they turned guiltily, like children. “Oh,” said Therese, relieved, “it’s only Oodles!’’

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Non-Resident Notice.

State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss. In the Jasper Circuit Court, tc September Term, A. D. 1911. Richard C. Gregg vs. John M. Ellis; William W. Hinds; Georgiana Hinds; Georgeannie Hinds; Georgina Hinds; Edward Moss; and John L. Goben. Complaint No. 8258. The plaintiff in the above cause having filed his bill of complaint therein together with an affidavit that the defendants above named are non-residents of the State of Indiana, and that the cause of action alleged in the complaint is founded upon a contract in relation to real estate in the State of Indiana, and is connected with a contract in relation to real estate in the State of Indiana. Now, therefore, each of the said above named defendant is hereby notified that unless each of the same be and appear on the 13th day of the next term of the Circuit Court to be holden on the 3rd Monday of September, A. D. 1914, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be taken as confessed by each of said defendants not so answering or demurring and the said complaint will be heard and determined by the court in the absence of such defendants not answering or demurring. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said (SEAL) court this 6th day of August,A. D., 1914. JUDSON H. PERKINS, Clerk.

Expenditures and Tax Levies for the Year 1915.

The Trustee of Hanging Grove Township, Jasper County, Indiana, proposes for the next yearly Expenditures and Tax Levies by the Advisory Board, at its annual meeting to be held at the school house of school district No. 5. Tuesday, September 1, 1914, at 9 o’clock a. m., the following estimates and amounts, for the said year: Township—Expenditures $1,307.19, and Township tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. Local Tuition—Expenditures sl,307.19, and Local Tuition tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars. Special School—'Expenditures sl,63 3.59, and Special School tax 25 cents on the hundred dollars. Road—Expenditures $1,307.19, and Road tax 20 cents on the hundred dollars, to be worked out on the highways. Additional Road —Expenditures, $653,59, and Road tax 10 cents on the one hundred dollars, to be paid as taxes. Poor; —Expenditures for preceding year $326.79, and Poor tax cents on the hundred dollars. The total expenditures recommended $6,535.94, and total tax levy 100 cents on the hundred dollars. GEORGE PARKER, Trustee of Hanging Grove Township. August 1, 1914.

Expenditures and Tax Levies for the Year 1915.

The Trustee of Gillam Township, Jasper County Indiana, proposes for the yearly expenditues and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meeting, to be held at the residence of trustee, on the Ist day of September, 1914, commencing at 2 o’clock p. m., the following estimates and amounts for said year: Township—Expenditures $966.05, and Township tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars. Local Tuition—Expenditures sl,4 8 1.28 and tax 23 cents on the hundred dollars. Special School Tax-—Expenditures $966.05, and tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars. Road Tax—Expenditures $966.05, and tax 1 5 cents on the hundred dollars. Total expenditures $4,379.43, and total tax 68 'cents on the hundred dollars. Net taxable property of Township $644,035. JOHN W. SELMER, Trustee. Dated July 31, 1914

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