Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Page 7

Doing Their Duty -Scores of Rensselaer Hfeaders Are “ Learning the Duty of the Kidneys. To filter the blood is the kidneys’ duty. When they fail to do |his the kidneys are weak. Backache and other kidney ills may follow. Help the kidneys do their work. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills—the tested kidney remedy. \ Rensselaer people endorse their worth. » Nelson Randle N. Main St., Rensselaer, says: “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills at different times when suffering from a lame and aching back and other symptoms of disordered kidneys. I got this medicine at Fendig’s drug store. Relief soon followed its use find the backache and other kidney ailments were removed. I do not know of a case where Doan’s Kidney Pills have failed to prove of benefit.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Dhan’s Kidney Pills —the same that Mr. Randle had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.—Advt.

Notice. Notice is hereby given that I will be at may office in Rensselaer on Saturday, July 31, 1915, at 3 o’clock p. m., to sell to the lowest responsible bidder the repair of the following named ditches, including the removing of all willows and obstructions: The Prouty. The Greenfield. The Meneley. The Nowels. Prospective bidders may examine the specifications of said work at my office on any Saturday and should go along the line of said ditches and examine the proposed work before the day of sale. All successful bidders or contractors must give bond in'the sum of twice the amount of the bid with approved security. HARVEY W. WOOD, JR., Township Trustee Marion Township.

An irate customer in a Worcester (Mass.) Chinese laundry demanded an explanation why his laundry was not ready on Thursday, as promised. “But you told hie you would have it today,” he kept declaring. A puzzled look would appear on the Chinaman’s face as if he .did not comprehend, and he would merely answer: “Leddy tomollow.” The patron finally gave it up and departed. Then the proprietor said, “This is one of the times it is handy to forget my English.”

Jasper County Dirt 32<J" acres. Unimproved tract located in Jasper county, 2% miles from R. R. town, fine pike ”oad running along the land about SO mow land, balance in timber pasture, 240 acres black land. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, balance easy terms. Act quick if you want this snap. 9 7 acres, good land, clay subsoil, gravel pit on farm, about all in cultivation, some tile in, good dredge ditch outlet at farm, 6-room house in good repair, new barn, only % mile from railroad town. If you want as good land as there is in Jasper county for little money, here it is, priced at SBS per acre. $3,500 cash, balance long time. 6 acre tract located in Rensselaer, fine large residence with basement, barn, large hennery will equipped for poultry raising, very best of land. Price $6,000, sl*ooo cash/ easy terms on balance. 7 % acre tract. Joins Rensselaer corporation, fair house, on main thoroughfare. Price $3,000, one-half cash, balance easy terms. Can you beat it. 80 acre tract unimproved land one-fourth mile from pike road, about half good black land. sl6 per acre, S7OO cash, balance easy terms. 228 acres improved farm, Jasper county’s very best, $125 per acre. 119% acres. Three miles out from Rensselaer, on stone road, all in cultivation except about 15 acres pasture; well tiled, black loam, clay subsoil; fine set of buildings, 7-room house, barn 32x42, orchard, wind pump and tank. This is a good one. Owner doesn’t live here and will self at a bargain. $135 per acre, onehalf cash, balance easy terms. Might take some trade. 80 acres. U/ 2 miles from R. R. town, some rolling, but mostly black land, clay subsoil, well tiled; 7 acres timber, balance in crop; new 8-room house, new barn 20x30, deep well, orchard. Price SBS. One-half cash, balance easy terms. 156 acres. Level black land, good 6-room house,* barn 20x30, new double cribs, implement sned, orchard, 600 rods tile in; 110 acres in crop, wheat, oats, corn and timothy meadow, balance in pasture; some brush; good fences. R. R. station at farm with two railroads, located in a nicely improved neighborhood, with gooa roads, and only y 2 mile to school. Mtg. $3,500, 5% per cent, 2 years off. Price SBS per acre. Will take some good trade up to $5,000, some cash, easy terms on balance if desired. This is a real bargain, investigate it. We also have, onion lands in any sized tracts desired at law prices. If you have money to loan of any amount on approved security, we can place it for you at 7 per cent interest. ■ I Harvey Davisson & Son Rensselaer a - • Indiana

A. Comedy of Youth Founded by Mr. Manners on His Great Play of the Same Title—lllustrations From Photographs of the Play

SYNOPSIS. Frank O’Connell, young Irish patriot, is shot and wounded by "British soldiers while making a home rule speech. H« la aided by Angela Kingsnorth. an English society girl, who defends him. Angela takes O’Connell to her brother's home and helps to nurse him. He recovers, and he and the girl become fast friends. ; O'Connell when well Is sent to jail for disturbing the peace. He finally writes Angela that he has finished his sentence, j O’Connell and Angela wed. She has espoused the Irish cause. Her brother, a member of parliament, is very angry. i The happy couple come to America to live. A daughter is born to them. Angela’s brother refuses to help the couple In any way. Angela dies. | O'Connell names his daughter Margaret and calls her ••Peg.” O'Connell receives a most important letter from England, which perplexes him. O’Connell allows Peg to visit England at her uncle’s request. The elder Kingsnortti’s heart had finally softened toward his dead sister’s little girl. Peg goes to the home of the Chichester family in England at the direction of Mr. Hawkes, Kingsnorth’s attorney, as Kingsnorth suddenly dies. She first meets itthel Chichester and Brent, a married man in love with Ethel. She interrupts them by accident in a secret meeting CHAPTER XIV. I: Peg In England. JOW long have you been here?”! || again asked Ethel of Peg. ■ 1 “Sure 1 only came in this minnit,” said Peg innocently and with a little note of fear. She was not accustomed to fine looking, splendidly dressed yoAng ladies like Ethel. “ “What do you want?’’ demanded the young lady. “Nothin’,” said Peg reassuringly. “Nothing?” echoed Ethel, growing angrier every moment “Not a thing. I was just told to wait” said Peg. I “Who told you?” “A gentleman.” replied Peg. “What gentleman?” asked i Ethel sharply and suspiciously. “Just a gentleman.” Peg, afteif fumbling nervously in her pocket produced

Peg Bent Down Over Michael.

the card Mr. Hawkes had given her, which Michael immediately attempted to take possession of. Peg snatched it away from the dog and handed it to the young lady. “He told me to wait there!” Ethel took the card irritably and read: “ ‘Mrs. Chichester, Regal Villa.’ And what do you want with Mrs. Chichester?” she asked Peg, atthe same time looking at the shabby clothes, the hungry looking dog and the soiled parcel. “I don’t want anything trltb her. I was just told to wait.” “Who are you?’* Peg was now getting angry too. There was no mistaking the manner •rs the proud young lady. Peg chafed under it. She looked up sullenly into Ethel’s face and said: “I was not to say a wurrd, I'm tellin’ ye. I was just to wait.” Peg settled back in the chair and stroked Michael. This questioning was not at all to her liking. She wished Mr. Hawkes would come and get her out of a most embarrassing position. But until he did she was not going to disobey his instructions. He told her to say nothing, sff nothing would she say. Ethel turned abruptly to Brent and found that gentleman looking at the odd little stranger somewhat admiringly. She gave an impatient ejaculation

PEG O' MY HEART

By J. Hartley Manners

anti turned back to Teg quickly: “You say you have only been here a minute?” —— “That’s all,” replied Peg—“just a minnit.” “Were we talking when you came in?” “Ye were.” Ethel could scarcely conceal her rage. “Did you hear what we said?” “Some of it—not much,” said Peg. “What did you hear?” “ ‘Please don’t\4t’s so hot this mornin’,’ ” said Peg, with no attempt at imitation, just as if she were stating a simple, ordinary occurrence. Ethel flushed scarlet. Brent smiled. “You refuse to say why you’re here or who you are?” Ethel again asked. “It isn’t me that’s refusin’. All the gentleman said to me was: ‘Ye gs> to the place that’s written down on the card an’ sit down there an’ wait. An’ that’s all ye do.’ ” Ethel again turned to the perplexed Brent. “Eh?” “Extraordinary!” >And Brent shook his head. The position was unbearable. Ethel decided instantly how to relieve it. She looked freezingly down at the forlorn looking little intruder and said: “The servants’ quarters are at the back of the house.” “Are they?” asked Peg without moving and not in any way taking the statement to refer to her. “And I may save you the trouble, of waiting by telling you we are quite provided with servants. We do not need any further assistance.” Peg just looked at Ethel and then bent down over Michael. Ethel’s last shot had struck home. Poor Peg was cut through to her soul. How she longed at that moment to be back home with her father in New York. Before she could say anything Ethel continued: v “If you insist on waiting, kindly do so there.” Peg took Michael up in her arms, collected once more her packages and walked to the windows. Again she heard the cold, hard tones of Ethel’s voice speaking to her: ; “Follow the path to your right until you come to a door. Knock and ask permission to wait there, and for your future guidance go to the back door of a house and ring. Don’t walk unannounced into a private room.” Peg tried to explain: “Ye see, ma’am, I didn’t know. All the gentleman said was, ‘Go there an’ wait’ ” “’"'hat will do.” “I’m sorry I disturbed ye.” And she glanced at the embarrassed Brent. “That will do!” said Ethel finally. Toor Peg nodded and wandered, off through the windows sore at heart. She went down the path until she reached the door Ethel mentioned. She knocked at it. "While she is waiting for admission we will return to the fortunes of the rudely disturbed lovers (?). Ethel turned indignantly to Brent as the little figure went off down the path.

“Outrageous!” she cried. “Poor little wretch!” Brent walked to the windows and looked after her. “She’s quite pretty.” Ethel looked understandingly at him. “Is she?” / “In a shabby sort of way. Didn’t you think so?” Ethel glared coldly at him. “I never notice the lower orders. You apparently do.” “Oh, yes—often. They’re very interesting—at times.” He strained to get a last glimpse of the intruder. “Do you know, she’s the strangest little apparition”— “She’s only a few yards away.if you care to follow her!” Her tone brought Brent up sharply. He turned away from the window and found . Ethel, arms folded, eyes flashing, waiting for him. Something in her manner alarmed him. He had gone too far. “Why, Ethel,” he said as he came toward her. “Suppose Yny mother had walked In here—or Alaric—instead <5? that creature? Never do such a thing again.” “I was carried away,” he hastened to explain. “Kindly exercise a little more restraint. You had better go now.” There was a finality of dismissal in her tone as she passed him and crossed to the great staircase. He followed her: “May I call tomorrow?” “No,” she answered decidedly; “not tomorrow.” “The following day, then,” he urged. “Perhaps.” “Remember, I build on you.” She looked searchlngly at him. “I suppose we are worthy of each other.” Through the open windows came the sound of voices. “Go!” she said imperatively. And she passed on up the stairs. Brent went rapidly to the door. Before either he

could open it or Ethel go out of sight Alaric burst in through the windows. "Hello. Brent!" he cried cheerfully. “Disturbin’ ye?" And he caught Ethel as she was about to disappear, “Or you Ethel?" Ethel turned and seated herself with her little white lap dog clasped in her hands, then answered coolly: “You’ve not disturbed me.” “I'm just going,’’ said Brent “Well, wait a moment." And Alaric turned to the window and beckoned to some one on the path, and in from the garden came Mr. Montgomery Hawkes. "Come in,” said the energetic Alaric. “Come in, Ethel. I want you to meet Mr. Hawkes. Mr. Hawkes—my sister; Mr. Brent—Mr. Hawkes.” Having satisfactorily introduced every one,- he said to Ethel: “See if the mater’s well enough to come down, like a dear, will ye? This gentleman has come from London to see her. D’ye mind? And come back yourself, too, like an angel. He says he has some business that concerns the whole family." “ Alaric bustled Hawkes into a chair and then seized the somewhat uncomfortable Brent by an unwilling hand and shook it warmly as he asked: “Must you go?” “Yes,” replied Brent, with a sigh of relief. Alaric dashed to the door and opened it as though to speed the visitor on his way. “So sorry I was out when you called,” lied Alaric nimbly. “Run in any time, Always delighted to see you—delighted. Is the angel wife all well?” Brent bowed. “Thank you.” “And the darling child?” Brent frowned. He crossed to the door and turned in the frame and admonished Alaric: "Please give my remembrances to your mother.” Then he passed out As he disappeared the Irrepressible Alaric called after him: ‘’Certainly. She’ll be so disappointed not to have seen you. Run in any time —any time at all.” Alaric closed the door and saw his mother and Ethel coming down the stairs. All traces of emotion had disappeared from Ethel’s face and manner. She was once again in perfect command of herself. She carried a beautiful little French poodle in her arms and was feeding her with sugar. Alaric fussily brought his mother forward. “Mater, dear,” he said. “I found this gentleman in a rose bed inquiring the way to "our lodge, lie's come all the way from dear old London just to see you. Mr. Hawkes, my mother." Mrs. Chichester looked at Hawkes anxiously. . “You have come tb see me?"

“On a very important and a very private family matter,” replied Hawkes gravely. “Important? Private?” asked Mrs. Chichester in surprise. “We’re the family, Mr. Hawkes,” ventured Alaric helpfully. Mrs. Chichester's forebodings came uppermost. After the news of the bank’s failure nothing would surprise her now in the way of calamity. What could this grave, dignified looking man want with them? Her eyes filled. “Is it bad news?” she* faltered. "Oh, dear, no,” answered Mr.Hawkes genially. “Well, is it good news?" queried Alaric. “In a measure,” said the lawyer. “Then, for heaven’s sake, get at it. You’ve got me all clammy. We could do .with a little good news. Wait a minute! Is it by any chance about the bank?” “No,” replied Mr. Hawkes. lie cleared his throat and said solemnly and impressively to Mrs. Chichester: “It is about your late brother, Nathaniel Kingsnorth.” “Late!” cried Mrs. Chichester. “Is Nathaniel dead?" “Yes, madam,” said Hawkes gravely. “He died ten days ago.” Mrs. Chichester sat down and silently wept. Nathaniel to have died without her being with him to comfort him and arrange things with him! It was most unfortunate. “Poor old Nat,” Alaric said. “Eh, Ethel?" “Never saw him,” answered Ethel, her face and voice totally without emotion. “You say he died ten days ago?” asked Mrs. Chichester. Mr. Hawkes bowed. “Why was I not informed? The funeral”— “There was no funeral,” replied Mr. Hawkes. “No funeral?" said Alaric in astonishment. a • “No,” replied the lawyer. “In obedience to his written wishes he was cremated, and no one was present except the chief executor and myself,” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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Russia and Prohibition By James C. Kelly If any nation is a promising field for the prohibition experiment, that nation is Russia. Russia has long been accustomed to bow to the will of its imperial government with a servility inherent in its people and demanded by its religion. It was not until the Czar issued his ukase demanding prohibition that the Russian people refused to submit to the royal command. The Literary Digest, of July 10, in an article entitled, “Difficulties with Prohibition in Russia,*’ says: , “The wave of temperance which swept Russia at the beginning of the war, after the Czar’s ukase forbidding the sale of spirituous liquors, is rapidly receding, Deprived of vodka, to which they were so strongly addicted, the Russian people, we are told by some outspoken organs of the press of that country, are consuming various poisonous substitutes, the secret manufacture and sale of which are assuming considerable proportions throughout the Empire. Cases of poisoning caused by these drinks are a daily occurrence. Writing in the Russki Vratch (Petrograd), Dr. Novoselski gives interesting figures showing the growth of mortality due to alcoholism in Petrograd. According to his official data, these were 26 cases of death from delirium tremens in the period from August 17 to September 13, 1914; 33 cases from September 14 to October 11; 34 from October 12 to November 8; 43 from November 9 to December 6; 53 from December 7 to January 3, 1915; 58 from January 4 to January 31, and 66 from February 1 to February 28. Commenting upon these figures, Dr. Novoselski writes: Before Prohibition the mortality figures varied and changed without definite regularity; after prohibition they show a regular and constant increase. The Prohibition measures were becoming stricter and stricter; at first the sale of vodka was forbidden everywhere, but at the first-class restaurants; then the prohibition was extended also to those restaurants, but with the permission to sell beer and wine; and lastly there followed a general and complete inhibition of the free traffic in any and all alcoholic drinks in general. And the mortality from alcoholism increased as those measures progressed. * * The constant rise of the mortality figures, which bears testimony to the growing number of consumers of different substitutes for vodka, shows that these are used not only by confirmed drunkards, but generally by those classes who before the prohibition law ITScd to drink moderately. * * * Frdm the report of the Obukhow Hospital at Petrograd, it can be seen that among the victims of alcoholism who entered the hospital were Persons of all ages (mainly twenty to thirty years of age) and all occupations.-—Adv.

STORY AND ONE-HALF RESIDENCE. Design 701, by Glenn L. Saxton, Architect, Minneapolis. Minn. - 'wmgk I. ■’■■l j SiP W, 4 - » linMinirr- i ” v mWI--PERSPECTIVE VIEW—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. - ■ / _= \ ' £ mrr F~ H BREAKFASTS I / ! l ; i3-o"x7-fc' 1 p '"""Hi I : f ? | j5.d.b0.,4 J I • I KITCHEN ; | I CHAMBER —— W 1 1 I I'6'XIO-IO , 13-OXIS-0 | . ; i Hfa i -.-TrJj I' l l' l ' lMai 11 " *1 ' CjHAMBpR ! - pX i y I, U.IVING M ! |C J | J X ! 25-0" X 14-0“ I | I 1 1 R » W ' 11 a -° <ci p-ts ; ■ r I ■ I] • Lh I I | | * 1% I | Z ! n CHAMBER I - ! ■est VEGIf““" ■ ■ ■ I l3’-O’XI4-6“ I I *J I • i n n * PIAZZA i U U 5 • hr- ■-.-■ —x i ! R°°F- <' ■ - L - J FIRST FLOOR PLAN. SECOND FLOOR PLAN. The exterior of this story and one-half residence is a comblnat m of clapboarding and shingles. The clapboarding runs to a belt course around the upper half of the building, which is painted white. The shingles about this belt course can be stained either a chocolate brown or a moss green. All trimmings are ivory white, thus making a very beautiful combination. The molded stone effect on the piazza and for the fireplace can be produced with brick, which should be a very dark red. Attention is directed to the windows In the closets In the second story. The housekeeper can ventilate the closets by these, windows, thus keeping the closets moth proof. £>ize, 26 feet wide by 36 feet deep over the main part. First story, 9 feet; second story, 8 feet; basement, 7 feet. These heights are to be in the clear when finished. Cost to build, exclusive of heating and plumbing, $3,500. Upon receipt of $1 the publisher of thisvnaper will furnish a copy of Saxton’s book of plans, “American Dwellings.” It contains over 300 designs costing from SI,OOO to $6,000; also a book of interiors, $1 per copy. Try a Want Ad. in the Democrat.