Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — Page 7

NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2681. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Marion Township across the Howe ditch on the highway betweefi Sections Said bridge to be repaired according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, same to consist of concrete repair abutments. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied bv bond -and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2679. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, *#lll receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Marion Township across the Howe Ditch on the highway between Sections 8 and 9, Township 28 North, Range 6 West. Said bridge to be repaired\accordlng to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, same to consist of concrete abutments and releveling of bridge. All bids to be on fije by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right' to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2721. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for bridge repair in Hanging Grove Township, across Clayton Ditch on the highway east and west, Section 36, Township 29 North, Range 5 West. Said bridge to be repaired aeeording to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office, one new abutment, 1 Ibeam and fioor^ All bids to bm on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to (be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, v Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. NO. 2722. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a new bridge in Gillam Township over the Smallfelt Ditch on the highway north and south, Sections 2 and 3, Township 29 North, Range 5 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right' to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. f JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, NOJICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2723. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a new bridge in Keener Township over the —— Ditch on the north and south highway between Sections 16 and 17, Township 31 North, Range 7 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 2726. Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, March 2. 1915, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a* new bridge in Keener Township on the east and west highway between Sections 15 and 22, Township 32 North, Range 7 West. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right' to reject any and all bids. 11 By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, I Auditor Jfasper County. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Indiana, will, on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, receive sealed bids for furnishing groceries, dry goods and meat's for the use of County Poor Asylum. All bids to be on file by 1 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right' to reject any and all Bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper Countv. Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, 'will, .on Tuesday, March 2, 1915, receive sealed bids on “County Road” repair material, consisting of crushed limestone of various sizes F. O. B. to the following places: GoOdland, Percy Junction, Remington, McCoysburg, Pleasant Ridge, Rensselaer, Fair Oaks, Demotte, Stoutsberg, Wheatfield, Tefft and Medaryville. All bids to boj on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by affidavit as required by law. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County. Notice to Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. In the matter of the estate of Mary B. Kays,; deceased, in the Jasper Circuit Court, February term, 1915. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Mary B. Kays, deceased, and all persons in--1 terested in said estate, to aippear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on the 6th day of March, 1915, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Harvey E. Parkison, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said court, on said day and make proof of their hearship, or claim to any part of said estate. HARVEY E. PAREISON, Administrator. W. H. Parkison, attorney for estate. Let The Democrat supply you with typewriter ribbons and carbon papers. We have ribbons for all makes of standard typewriters, and handle the very grade of carbon papers.

ARK OF THE LORD IN WICKED HANDS

1 Samuel 4:1-18 — Feb. Si. h Corrupt —A Demoralized People—Attempt to Bring God Into the War—The Ark of the Covenant Captured—Same principle In Operation Today—Tragic Death of Eli and His Two Sons —Which Nations Are In Covenant Relationship With God? “Be i/e doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deluding your own selves.”—Jas. 1:22. SOME twenty years after God’s prediction of the calamities to befall Eli and his family, the tragedy related In this lesson occurred. In all that time Eli, now ninety-eight years old, iiad allowed matters to continue in his sons’ hands, notwithstanding their dishonesty in the things of God, and their immorality and pernicious example. We are not to overestimate the moral and religious conditions of the people during

those twenty years, but we may assume that the evil example of the priests, the sons of Eli, had a demoralizing effect According to God’s Covenant with the nation, He was bound to punish them. A fresh invasion of the Philistines took place. The

Israelites went out to meet them in battle and were defeated. In their chagrin they looked to 6od, just as all the nations of Europe today are doing. Indeed, the Israelites had more ground for attempting to bring God into the war, for invoking the assistance of religious symbols, etc., than have the warring kingdoms of today; for God had declared that they were His special people, and that He would protect them as long as they would be loyal to Him. On the other hand, the kingdoms of this world have no such Divine promise, have no ground for such expectations of Divine aid. They are falsely styling themselves Christian, kingdoms—- “ Christendom”; whereas they have neither part nor lot with the Lord. He recognizes no nations except Natural Israel of the past and Spiritual Israel of the present—l Peter 2:9. A Present-Day Parallel. The Israelites doubtless had read how the Ark of the Lord went before them in ttye Wilderness journey, how it was in the midst of the Jordan when the people crossed dry-shod, and how it was in the procession that marched . around Jericho when the walls fell. So they determined to bring the Ark and put it into the battle. Their reasoning apparently was that God would not permit the Ark of the Covenant to be injured or captured; and that hence the victory would be bound to come to Israel. The people forgot that they had been living in violation of their Covenant Vvith God; and that that Covenant called for punishment upon them at the hand of their enemies. They forgot that the two priests were thieves and robbers, garbed as the priests of God; that they were immoral, impure, posing as the representatives of the Divine Holiness.

Today, as in the days of Eli’s sons, the people shout as they couple the Cause of God with their national projects. Again they forget that God’s Cause is under Divine direction, and will prosper best by the permission of a great defeat to all these systems of men, preparing incidentally for the establishment of Messiah’s Kingdom, after the Armageddon of the Bible shall have humbled the world and made them ready to accept the new King Immanuel and His Kingdom. There was a great slaughter and a scattering of the Israelites. Eli’s two sons were slain. The Ark of God was captured. A swift runner the sad intelligence to Shiloh, where Eli as judge sat upon his high seat In the gate, fearfully remembering the twenof disaster. The runner reported to Eli that the battle had gone against the Israelites, that his tw’o sons were slain and that the Ark of the Lord had been captured by the Philistines. When Eli learned that his precious treasure, for which he was guardian

The Death of Eli the Priest.

trusted to him was not interfered with by those of his own household. His loyalty to God was not sufficiently great to hinder him from shirking his responsibility. In his character was too much of the spirit of “pence at any price,” not enough of that which is prepared to die for righteousness’ sake. Israel Different From Other Nations. Tnto- tesson taught to God s (fovenant people, Israel, the Lord next sent chastisements upon the Philistines, so that they were glad to return the Ark to the people of God. This does not authorize us in supposing that pestilences, etc., are special punishments of God. We must remember that the nation of Israel was in covenant relationship with God and tinder Divine supervision

The Ark of the Covenant.

by Divine appointment, had been taken by the Philistines, the poor old man fell over in a faint, his chair toppled, his neck was broken. Although faithful at heart until death at nine-ty-eight, nevertheless he is not without reproof In that he neglected to see that the work en-

November Joe

The Detective of the Woods

By HESKETH PRICHARD

‘ SYNOPSIS. t—,.f • James Quaritch engages November Joe as his guide. Joe and he go to Big Tree portage to investigate the murder of a trapper named Lyon. Joe decides that the murderer followed Lyon to his camp and shot him from a, canoe. By studying woodland evidence and making clever deductions Joe discovers the murderer, Iligliamson. Lumberman Close reports that Blackmask, a highTVayinan, is robbing his men. Six lumberjacks are robbed by the same ,man. Joe makes a careful examination of the scene of the robbery. Close is accused by his men, but Joe arrests Chris, one of the lumberjacks, the real robber. Sally Rone, a widow, has been rooDea of valuable pelts. Joe and Evans, a gam« warden, search for the thief. Sally’s lover, Val Black, is suspected, but Joe catches the actual culprit, Injiq Sylvester. Millionaire Planx’s daughter Virginia has been abducted. The abductors demand $150,000 ransom for Virginia. Joe’s investigations indicate that one Hank Harper lias abducted the girl. Joe ascertains that Virginia had-herself abducted to get the ransom for her lover. Joe goes after- Cecil Atterson, who has stolen SIOO,OOO.

- CHAPTER XI, Phedre Pointarre. IT was still early afternoon when we arrived in Lendeville, a few scattered farms and a single general store. Outride one of the farmhouses Joe paused. f “I know the Chap that lives in here,” he said. "He’s a pretty mean kind of a man. Mr. Quaritch. I may find a way to make him talk, though If he thought I wanted information he’d not part with it.” “Say, McAndrew,” began Joe, “what’s your price for hiring two strong horses and a good buckboard to take us and our outfit on from here to the Burnt Lands by Sandy pond?” “Twenty dollars.” “Huh!” said Joe, “we don’t want to buy the old horses!” / The Scotchman’s shaven lips (he wore a chin beard and whiskers) opened. “It would na’ pay to do it for less."

“Then there’s others hs will.” '“And what might their names be?” Inquired McAndrew ironically. “Them as took up Bank Clerk Atterson w r hen he was here six weeks back.” “Weel, you’re wrang!” cried McAndrew, “for Bank Clerk Atferson juist walked in Avith young Simon Pointarre and lived with the family at their new mill. So the price is twenty or I’ll nae hearness a horse for ye.” “Then I’ll have to go on to Simon Pointarre. I’ve heard him well spoken of.” “Have ye now? That’s queer, for he”“Maybe, then, it was his brother,” said Joe quickly. “Which?” “The other one that was with An derson at Red river.” “There was nae one. only the old man, Simon and the two girrls.” “Well, anyway, I’ll -ask the Pointarre’s price - before I close with yours.” “I’ll make a reduce to sl7 if ye agree here and now 7 .” November said something further of Atterson’s high regard for Simon Pointarre, which goaded old McAndrew to fury. “And 1 suppose It was love of Simon that made him employ that family.” he snarled. “Oh, yes, that’s comic. ’Twas Simon and no that grinning lassie they call Phedre! Atterson? Tush! I tell ye, if ever a man made a fule O’ himself”—

But here, despite McAndrew’s tests, Joe left the farm. At the store which was next visited we learned the position of the Pointarre steading and the fact that old Pointarre, the daughters, Phedre and Claire, and one son, Simon, were at home. * • The door w 7 as opened by a girl of about twenty years of age. Her bright brown eyes and hair made her very good looking. Joe gave her a quick glance. “I came to see your sister.” said be. “Simon,” called the girl, “here’s a man to see Phedre.” “What’s yoqr business?” growled a man’s voice from the inner room. “Why sent you ?” “Can’t tell that, but 1 guess Miss Pointarre will know when I give her the message.” “Well. 1 suppose you’d best see her. She’s dow r n bringing in the cows. You’ll find her below there in the meadow.” Joe thanked him ahd we set off. A twig broke my foot, and the girl swung round at the noise. “What do you want?” she asked.

She was tall and really gloriously handsome. % > “I’ve come from Atterson. I’ve just seen him,” said November. “There are many people who see him ’(every day. Wbat of that?” “Huh: Don't they read the newspaper in Leudeville? There’s something about him going round. I came thinking you'd sure want to hear,” said November. The rose in Phedre’s beautiful face. “They're saying." went on Joe, “that he robbed the bank is employed of SIOO,OOO, and instead of trying to get away on the train or by one of the steamers he made for the woods.” Thedre turned away as if bored. “What interest have I in this? It ennuies me to listen.” “Wait!” replied November. “With the police I went and soon struck Atterson's trail on the old colonial post road and in time come up with Atterson himself nigh Red river. The police takes Atterson prisoner, but they found nothing. Though they searched him and all round about the camp, they found nothing.” “He had hidden it, I suppose.” “So the police thought. And I thought the same till"—November’s gaze never left her face—“till I see his eyes. pupils were like pin points in his head.” He paused and added: “I got the bottle of whisky that was in his pack. It’ll go In as evidence." “Of what?" she cried impatiently. “That Ar#*rson was drugged and thg

“Atterson isn’t the only man who’d break the taw for love of me."

bank property stole rrom him. You see,” continued Joe, “this robbery wasn’t altogether Atterson’s own Idea.” ■ “Ah!" “No, I guess he had the first notion of it when he was on bis vacation six weeks back. He was in love with a wonderful handsome girl. Klue eyes she had and black hair, and her teeth was as good as yours. Sho pretended to be in love with him, but nil along she was in love with—well, I can’t say who she was in love with—herself likely. Anyway, I expect she used all her influence to make Atterson rob the bank and then light out for the woods with the stuff. He does all she wants. On his way to the woods she meets him with a pack of food nnd necessaries. In that pack was a bottle of drugged whisky. She asks him where he’s going to camp that night, he suspects nothing and tells her, and off she goes in a canoe up Red river till she comes to opposite where he’s lying drugged. She lands and robs him, but she don’t want him to know who done !that, so she plays an old game to com ceal her tracks. She’s a rare active young woman, so she carries out her plan, gets back to her canoe and home ( to Lendeville. Need I tell any more about her?”

During Joe’s story Phedre’s color had slowly died away. “You are very clever!” she said hit terly. “But why should you tell me all this?” “Because I’m going to advise yon to hand over the SIOO,OOO you took from Atterson. I’m In this case for the bank.” 5 “I?” she exclaimed violently. “Do you dare to say that I had anything whatever to do with this robbery, that I have the $100,000? Bah! I know nothing about It How should I?” j Joe shrugged his shoulders. “Then I beg your pardon, Miss Pointarre, and I say good bye. I must go and make |my report to the police and let them act their own way.” He turned, but before he had gone more than a step 'or two she called to him. ! “There is one point you have missed for a* your cleverness," she said: l“Suppose what you have said Is true, may it not be that the girl who robbed Atterson took the money just to return it to the bank?” “Don’t seem to be that way, for she has just denied all knowledge of the property and denied she had it before two witnesses. Besides, when Atterson comes to know that he’s been • made a catspaw of he’ll be liable to ;turn king’s evidence. No, miss, your 'only chance is to band over the stuff —here and now.” “To you!” she scoffed, “And who ate. you? What right bavejou”— __

| “I’m in .this case for the bank. Old McAndrew knows me well and can tell you my name.” “What is it?” “People mostly call me November Joe." She threw back her head—every attitude, every movement of hers was wonderful. “Now, supposing that the money could be found, what would you do?” “I’d eo to the bank and tell them I'd make shift to get every cent back safe for them if they’d agree not to prosecute anybody." "So you are man enough not tojivlsh ko see me in trouble?” November looked at her. “I was sure not thinking of you at all,” he said simply, “but of Bank Clerk Atterson, who’s lost the girl he robbed for and ruined himself for. I’d hate tq see that chap overpunished 4lth a dose of jail too. But the bank only wants their money, and I guess if they they’ll be apt to think the less abopt the robbery the better. So if you take my advice —why, now’s the time to see old McAndrew. You see. Miss Poiutarre, I’ve got the cinch on you.” | She stood still for awhile. “I’ll see old man McAndrew,” she cried sudthis way.” j Joe turned after her, nnd I followed. Without arousing McAndrew’s suspicions, Jod satisfied the girl ns to ills Identity. s Before dark she met us again. “There!” she said, thrusting a packet info Joe’s bund. “But look' out for yourself! Atterson isn’t the only man who’d break tho law for love of me. Think of that at night in tho lonely bush!” I saw her sharp white teeth grind together as the wonte came from between them. “My!” ejaculated November, looking after her receding figure, “she’s a bad loser, ain’t she, Mr. Quacltch?” **** * * ' * We went back into Quebec nnd Joe made over to the bank the amount of their loss as soon ns Harris, the manager, agreed (rather against Ills will) that nt> questions should be nsked nor action taken. The same evening I, not being under the same embargo regarding inquired from Joe how in tho world the fair Fhcdfe covered her tracks from the canoe to where Atterson was lying. “That was simple for an active girl. She walked ashore along the paddle, nnd after her return to the canoe throw water upon tho mark it made in tho .mud. Didn’t 3011 notice how faint it was?” “But when she got on shore —how did she hide her trnil then?” “It’s not a new trick. Slip took a couple of short logs with her in tho canoe. First she’d put one down and step onto it, then she’d put the other one farther up and step onto that. Next she’d lift tho ono behind, and so on. Why did sho do that? Well, I reckon she thought tho trick good enough to blind Atterson. If he’d found a woman’s tracks nftet being robbed he’d have suspected.” “But you said beforo we left Atter--Bon’s camp that whoever robbed him was middle height, a light weight and had black hair.” “Well, hadn’t she? Light weight because the logs wasn’t much drove into the ground, not tall since the marks of them was so close together.” “But the'black hair?” Joe laughed. “That was tho surest thing of the lot and put me wise to it and Phedre at the start Twisted up in the buckle of the Dack she gave Atterson I found sevOTal strands of splendid black hair. She must ’a' caught her hair in the buckles while carrying It.” .“But, Joe, you also said at Red river that the person who robbed Atterson was not more than twenty-five years old?” “Well, the hair proved it was a woman. and what but being in love with her face would make a slap up bank clerk like Atterson have any truck with u settler’s girl? And them kind are early ripe and go off their looks at twenty-five.-t guess, Mr. Quaritch, her age was a pretty safe shot. (TO BE CONTINUED )

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