Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — Page 2

A New year Is Born What Will It Bring Us?

A New Year is born! Nineteen hundred and fifteen. What will it bring us? Will it be a year of plenty—or •of want? Will it be one of happiness-—or •of misery? Will it be one of honor—or of ■obloquy? Will it be one of life—or of -death? IF WE ONLY KNEW! A New Year! To many of us it will be a year ■of plenty —if we do OUR part — if we but use our brains, and out energy, and our perseverance—if we use them in the RIGHT way. But will we do that ? Will the RIGHT way appeal to us? Many of us have madd the customary , New Year’s resolutions, with the full intention t;o live up to them. i But WILL WE so live Will the year be one in which we place RIGHT above all other considerations? K Will it be one in which we place HONOR above GOLD, and CHARITY above GREED, and GENTLENESS above ARROGANCE? ( Or will we plunge headlong into a- frantic and gasping rush for the golden end of the rainbow? Will it be a year in which our simple WORD is as good—or even better —than our BOND? Or will it be one in which we HAGGLE-, and TWIST, and SQUIRM, and EVADE, and CONCEAL, and DECEIVE? It may be the one, or the other. ' - - But which WILL it be? We mean well—but will we DO WELL? ONLY TIME GAN TELL.

A New Year! > To some it will bring sorrow, and sadness, and tears. It will bring' suffering, and agony, and despair. : : It will bring want, and hunger, and desperation. And from DESPERATION to CRIME is often but a step! And CRIME is the pathway that leads down to the depths of hell—into the arms of the devil—to everlasting torment and the eternal damnation of a soul. But the sadness of such an ending might often be avoided if WE but extended a helping hand IN TIME. Just a little help—a few kind words—a slight effort to obtain food and employment for those who are unfortunate yet worthy —who are TOTTERING UPON THE BRINK. - We MIGHT extend that help —we COULD give SOMETHING—if we WOULD! BUT WILL WE?

A New Year ! And there is a KING of KINGS, who keeps a Great Book, and each page of that book contains the life record of a human being—of US !• It will contain’OL’R records for this new year that is just born, as it contains our records for the years that are gone. And what WILL BE our record for this new year? Will the Great Book record little acts of kindness, of good cheer, of assistance to the maimed and the sightless, and the aged, and the needy, and of, compassion for the. little child that knows no home? OUR records for the new year be such as will'bring a loving simile to the kindly face of the King of Kings? Or will it bow His gentle 'heart in grief and sorrow? It will be as we choose to make it. BUT WHAT WILL WE CHOOSE? A New Year! Will it bring gladness to ALL homes? j Or will it find some who are yet weary, and, heavy laden, and in need of rest and spiritual cheer ? < Not ALL of the good people have their names inscribed /in a church register. The world is full of good people Who seldom see the inside of a house of God, to whom His teachings are but a memory, whose pleasures, on earth are so few there surely must be some

great recompense for them in the life beyond. . Some of these may be closer to us than we think, may be low in the depths of poverty, may be hungering for thefvoice of a minister, yet fearful of entering a church lest they be shamed by their rags. -—A ■ - What will the new year bring to them? Will it cast but a little sunshine into their shadowed lives? Will it send some brother or sister to invite them to a place of worship, where their soul hunger may be appeased by the gentle words.of a man of God? We MIGHT be a “good brother” or a "good sister” to these worthy unfortunates. BUT WILL WE? It MIGHT add cheer even to our OWN hearts. But do we WANT such cheer? A New Year! What will it bring to OUR COUNTRY?

Will it bring us- a continuation of that great PEACE which Providence has thus far bestowed upon us ? Will it blaze for us <a highway through the network of entanglements which have drenched the soil of half the world with the life blood of thousands upon thousands of the most intelligent and enlightened peoples of all times? Will there be a bright and shining star to lead us safely through the appalling perils that now beset the earth? Qr will the new year visit ijpon US the withering blight of WAR, and PESTILENCE, and FAMINE, and EXTERMINATION? Will the sweet -music of the humming wheels of industry and the joyful notes of gladsome voices raised in song be replaced by the roar of cannon, and the shriek of shells, and the bursting of bombs, and the groans of the maimed, and the mutilated, and the dying? Which will it be? IF WE ONLY KNEW?

A New Year is born! Nineteen hundred and fifteen! "And what of that?” you ask. Not much—just a little—and yet EO. MUCH ! Nineteen hundred and fifteen! Only four words, and yet those words signify that today we reckon our time front the year in which Christ was born— Christ was our IDEAL man—our PERFECT nian —the ONLY man who'was in ALL THINGS A MAN! And in the infancy of the new year shall we keep before us the record of the MAN whose memory and. whose deeds even time itself cannot dim? .Shall we keep before us the memory of the man in whose honor we write “1915?”

A New Year! Will it reveal to us A MANY Is there one among us whose life js so spotless—whose deed's are so glorious-—that the years and centuries of time will but add lustre to his fame? Is there? And if not, WHY NOT? Will the new year pro.duce.even one man—one REAL MAN—who will tower above his fellow men as Christ did above ALL men And will that MAN come from OCR ranks—from OUR little circle? Will it be YOU? And if not, WHY NOT?

A New Year is born! And what will WE be in, this year? We may not be a Christ, but we MAY keep before us the memory of his gentle humility, his kindly deeds, of his great sacrifice that the world might be better, and stronger, and grow in the enlightment of advancing civilization. We may take into our business lives his spirit of honesty, and of truthfulness, and of fairness to oui fellow men. We may not reach his degree of perfection, but we MAY so conduct our business dealings and our private lives that We will not be a reproach to one who gave his all for us. It would cost us NOTHING to keep his glorious memoiy before us, to follow at least slightly in his footsteps, and it would be of INESTIMABLE VALUE to us.

BUT WILL WE? | Or will we spend six days of the week in serving the devli and expect an hour in church on Sunday to boost us through the Pearly Gates? Will we be MEN—or WHAT? We may be the one or the other--AS'AVE CHOOSE. But which WILL it be? And again, ONLY TIME WILL TELL.

WHERE THE TRUTH LIES.

Lake County Tinies: Terre Haute is an example of. a city that is making Indiana, a by-word. It is. so steeped and soused in municipal rottenness that it makes the average wellinformed Hoosier blush when the city is mentioned in a gathering where outside state citizens discuss Terre Haute.

The city is an example, lurid in the extreme of municipal governments rum with the soft pedal. Whenever anything happened in Terre Haute it was always “for Heavens-sake-keep-quiet-abdut -it nobody’s-business-but-our-own.” The newspapers were gagged and bridled. Lake county knows what it is to have some of its cities ruled by corrupt practices reputable newspapers were asked to keep quiet. There is always a crowd which is condemning the newspapers for exposing these conditions. This newspaper has been roundly damned in the past because it has refused to be silent over reeking municipal rottenness. It has been all but mobbed. Other papers have had the same experience. There is always some party or person trying to put a Maxim silencer on a newspaper. In commenting on this condition the Fort Wayne News says: “The Terre Haute newspapers complain that Terre Haute is being given a great deal of very unpleasant and unprofitable advertising by the federal court’s investigation of the recent election frauds. The expression is hardly felicitous. A federal grand jury investigation could not injure Terre Haute in any manner if it were not that Terre Haute's conduct had been decidedly reprehensible. If everything there had been above criticism a grand jury investigation would have merely added to the city’s laurels by proving such a celestial state of. affairs. Therefore, the investigation at present in progress is unpleasant and unprofitable only in that, it tends to give added publicity to a condition of shame without parallel in Indiana. “It isn't the grand'jury investigation that’s the matter with Terre Haute, but rotten social conditions which exist there today and which have existed there for many years, first endured then pitied, and finally embraced by the civic spirit of that modern Gomorrah. Lawlessness anu immorality are enthroned there, not because the bestial and bandit eleriient is the more numerous, but because it has the whip hand. The. merchants, the lawyers, the doctors, the ministers, the journalists, the real estate men, apd all other men engaged'in reputable pursuits have always deprecated “crusades" and have insisted upon the soft pedal policy, going on the theory, that “it would hurt business” to have a showdown. As a consequence the lowbrow element has simply taken that city and today, so long have they been steeped in the environment of iniquity, the better people actually deprecate and deplore the ‘unpleasant advertising’ that would give promise of a civic regeneration there if only there were those virile enough and true enough to seize the opportunity that will be presented when the federal court gets through with some of those who have done so much to make the name of Terre Haute a by-word and a reproach not only in Indiana but throughout the whole United States.” „

NEW YEAR THOUGHTS.

1915—Get it right. 1914 was a punk year. Let’s forget it. U Now, altogether!" Let’s make it a year of PUSH. ’Tis said that even the snow is red “over the way.’’ Russia is buying millions of horseshoes in this country, The iron heel, again. May the new year bring you' happiness, a full pocketbook, and'a wife —if you haven’t ohe. Chicago is making trousers for Europe. Let us hope it will not fall to the lot of the widows and orphans to use them. L A contemporary says the day of the political grandstander and fourflusher is gone by. But the grandstander and the fourflusher still remain. Having ushered the 1915 infant into the world without mishap, we may now turn our attention to discoursing on the merits of the European folly. * Christabel Pankhurst announces that she will resume her campaign in England as soon as the war is over. No peace in sight now! Old J. Bull would rather fight Germany than the Buffs.

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Why She Wrote a Novel

By F. A. MITCHEL

Miss Winifred Wells, who had written a novel under the name of Thomas Erskine Mortimer, received a letter one morning which read as follows: Thomas Erskine Mortimer, Esq.: Dear Sir—l write to ask you where you got the name of your hero, Edgar Wheatleigh? My name is Edgar Wheatleigh, and I am curious, to know how you happened. to hit upon it for your clearly drawn character. I am very truly yours, EDGAR WHEATLEIGH.

Now, Wells, a young lady of twenty-one summers, had taken the name from the city directory, and it occurred to her that It belonged to her correspondent She was about to reply that she had done so when an idea popped into her head whereby she might have some fun. She wrote Mr. Wheatleigh, signing herself Mortimer, that she had heard a friend speak of a Mr, in high terms and na3 Keen given the salient points In his character, which she had embodied In her hero. This person of her novel was undoubtedly another than her questioner. This brought a reply from Mr. Wheatleigh giving a few points as to his antecedents with a view to discovering whether or not he was the hero of the novel. Miss Wells, affecting to be much surprised at the points he gave her, admitted that he was doubtless Identical with the man who had been described to her. In this letter also she wrote under the guise of her nom de plume. Mr. Wheatleigh wrote again, asking for the name of the friend who had described him. The reply was that the writer was doubtful whether he should give the name. However, since his informer might not be the original observer he would strain a point and do so. The outline from which the character had been drawn was a Miss Winifred Wells To this she added her address. The next scene in this diminutive comedy was a call from Mr. Wheatleigh. Miss Wells came down with his card in her hand looking very much pleased. “It’s a long while since we have met,” she remarked. “You have grown from boy to man since I saw you last. I should not have known you.” Mr. in the novel was a copy of a grand gentleman character in one of Ouida’s novels. He would not be so ungallant as to admit that he did not remember this friend of his childhood.

“I would know you,” he said, “had 1 not had the slightest knowledge vs your Identity. The only reason I might not have recognized you is that from a rather pretty child you have grown to be a superb woman.” Miss Wells was not only delighted with her device, but with a man of such unblushing assurance. “But how,” she asked, “have you found me out after all these years?" “In a very singular way. My friend Tom Mortimer wrote a novel naming one of his characters for me. When I asked him how he learned certain features concerning me, the original of his character, be said that they had been given him by an old friend of mine, Winnie Wells.” This came very near being too much for the authoress, but she repressed her mirth. “How long have you known Tom?’ she asked. “Tom? Why, I have known him ever since we were little toddlers together, our homes having adjoined each other.” “Did he say 1 gave you any points as to your character?” Mr. Wheatleigh, though a scamp, was, so far as his own merits were concerned, a modest one. He said that Tom bad endowed him with traits he did not possess. Nevertheless he knew that Miss Wells had spoken very highly of him. He was bent on knowing who she was and what had been this child connection between them; but, although be beat the bush Incessantly, he uncovered nothing. At last Miss Wells gave him all the information he wished and more, too, had he known It was manufactured. “You have evidently forgotten what passed between us the night you went away,” she said, revealing what It was by dropping her eyes to the floor. “Forgotten It! I shall never forget It What I said then I repeat now. 1 am as unchanged as the rocks.” “Then why did yon never write?" “Why didn’t I write? Why, for the best of reasons. I broke my right arm three days after we parted.” Miss Wells burst Into a laugh that made the bouse ring. When it subsided she told Mr. Wheatleigh the whole story. He was as much delighted with it as she was with the success of her trick. “Well,” he said when it Was all out, "for once in my life I’m a~ hero—the hero of a story. What I said when last we met I repeat now. I said then that you were the girl for me, and 1 say It now I’ll have no other. I swear it" Miss Wells laughed again, taking the declaration as a matter of gallantry. And so It was at the time Intended. But the acquaintance having been thus pleasantly formed was continued. Mr. Wheatleigh insisted on the authoress making him the hero of a novel. She declined to do this, but the matter w« finally compromised by his making her his wife. He now accuses her of havIng written a novel for no other purpose than to secure a husband

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