Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1916 — Page 3

GOLD

By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

SYNOPSIS Ward's challenge to Frank Munroe to |l personal encounter to determine whether'* Munroe is fit to make a trip to Califorrib, in search of gold is accepted. a hammerlock on Ward and wins thijtr^out. They ciiopse the Panama route. Ward, it is an old campaigner. On board shijFtbey meet Johnny Fairfax and Tank Rogerji The four become partners. Arriving at Chagres, Talbot Ward’s knowledge of Spanish and his firm treatment of the native boatmen help wonderfully. The party enters a tropical forest. They reach Gatun, and, after passing through several villages where Ward always diplpmaticallv handles the natives, they arrive in Panama. Ward forces steamship agent to refund passage money because Ship isn't available. Yank has provided accommodations for all- on board a hailing ship. They arrive in San Francisco. * ' CHAPTER Vlll. Start to Make Money. WE found the City hotel offered exactly the same conditions as did-the Parker House, except that the proprietor was curt and had no time for us at all. Prom that point, still dissatisfied, we extended our investigations beyond the Plaza. We found ourselves ankle deep In sandhills on which grew coarse grass and a sort of sage. Crazy, ramshackle huts made of all sorts of material were perched in all sorts of places. Hundreds of tents had been pitched, beneath which and in front of which an extremely simple housekeeping was going in. Hunt as we might we could find no place that looked as though it would take lodgers. Most of even the better looking houses were simply tiny skeletons covered with paper, cloth or paint. By painstaking persistence we kept at it until we had inquired of every building of any pretensions. Then, somewhat discouraged, we picked our way hack to the shore after our heavier goods. The proprietor of the Parker House greeted us with unabated good nature. “I know how you boys feel,” said lie. "There’s lots in your fix. You’d better stick here tonight arid then get organized to camp out if you’re going to be here long. I suppose, though, you’re going to the mines. Well, it'll take you several days to make your plans and get ready. When you get back from the mines you won’t have to think about these things.” “There’s plenty of gold?” ventured Johnny. “Bushels.” “I should think you’d he up there.” “I don’t want any better gold mine than the old Parker House,” said he comfortably. We paid him $24. By now it was late in the afternoon. The wind had dropped, but over the hills to seaward rolled a soft beautiful bank of fog. The sun was blotted out behind it, and a chill fell. The crowds about the Plaza thinned. We economized our best at supper, but had to pay some $8 for the four of us. The bill was ala carte and contained such items as grizzly steak, antelope, elk and wild duck and goose. Grizzly steak, I remember, cost a dollar and a quarter. By the time we had finished it had grown dark. The lamps were alight, and the crowds were beginning to gather. All the buildings and the/ big tent next door were a blaze of illumination. The sounds of music and singing came from every side. A holiday spirit was in the air. Johnny and I were crazy to be up -and doing, hut Talbot sternly repressed us, and Yank agreed with his decision by an Unusually emphatic nod. “It is all a lot of fun, I’ll admit,” said he, “but this is business, and we’ve got to face il. Sit down here on the edge of this veranda, and let’s talk things over. Etow nguch money have you got, l T ank?” % “Two hundred and twenty dollars,” replied Yank promptly. “You’re partners with me, Frank, so I know our assets,” said Talbot with tact. “Johnny?” “Hanged if I know,” replied that youth. “I’ve got quite a lot. I keep Jt in my pack.” “Well, go find out,” advised Talbot." Johnny was gone for some time. We smoked and listened to the rather blatantly mingled strains of music and wached the figures of men hurrying by in the. spangled darkness. Johnny returned very much excited. “I’ve been robbed!” he cried. “Robbed? Is your money all gone?” “No; there’s a little left, but”— Talbot laughed quietly. “Sit down, Johnny, and cool off,” he advised. “If anybody had robbed yon they’d have taken the whole kit and kaboodle. Did you come out ahead on those monte games?” Johnny blushed and laughed a little. “I see what you’re at, but you’re away off there. I just played for small stakes.” “And lost a jlot of them. I sort of look out .tout l game. But that’s all

right. How much did the ‘robbers’ leave you?*’ “Twelve dollars besides what I have in my clothes, s2l in all,” said Johnny. “Well, that's pretty good. You beat

“ We’ve got to ruetle up $220 each.” Frank and me to death. There’s our total assets,” said Talbot and laid a ten dollar gold piece and a dime on his knee. “Well call that dime a curiosity," said he, “for I notice a quarter is .the smallest coin they use out here. Now you see that we’ve got to talk business. Frank and I haven’t got enough to live on for one more day.” “There’s enough among ns” — began Yank. “You mean you already have your share of the partnership finances,” corrected Talbot quickly. “If we’re going to be partners, and that’s desired and understood, I suppose”—we all nodded emphatic agreement—“we must all put in the same amount. I move that said amount be $220 apiece. Yank, you can loaf tomorrow. You’ve got your share all made up. You can put in the day finding out all about getting to the mines and how much it costs and what we will need.” “All right; I’ll do it,” said Yank. “As for the rest of us,” cried Talbot, “we’ve got to rustle up $220 each before tomorrow evening!” “How?*’ I asked blankly. “How should I know? Oqt there” — he waved his hand abroad at the flickering lights—“there is the Golden City, challenging every man as he enters her gates. She offers opportunity and forturie. All a man lias to do is go and take them! Accept the challenge!” “The only way I could take them would he to lift them off some other fellow at the point of a gun,” said Johnny gloomily. We talked the situation over thoroughly and then turned in, having lost our chance to see the sights. Beneath us and in the tent next door went on a tremendous row of talking, laughing and singing that for a little while prevented me from falling asleep. But the set month had done wonders for me ip that way, and shortly I dropped off. Hours later I awakened, shivering with cold, to find the moonlight pouring into the room and the bunks all occupied. My blanket had disappeared, which accounted for my dreams of icebergs. At first I felt inclined to raise a row, then thought better of it and by careful manipulation abstracted two good blankets from the most unprotected of my neighbors and soon slept soundly. We went downstairs and out into the sweetest of mornings. The sun was bright, the sky clear and blue. The wind had not yet risen; balmy warmth showered down through every particle of the ail. I had felt some May days like this back on our old farm. Somehow they were assoclateekln my mind with Sunday morning and the drawling, lazy clucking of hens. Only here there were no hens, and if it was Sunday morning—which it might have been —nobody knew it. We ate frugal breakfast and separated on the agreed business of the day. Yank started for the waterfront to make inquiries as to ways of getting to the mines, Talbot set off at a businesslike pace for the hotel as though he knew fully what he was about, Johnny wandered rather aimlessly to the east, and I as aimlessly to the west. It took me just one hour to discover that I could get all of any kind of work that any dozen men could do and at wages so high thgt at first I had to ask over and over again to make sure I had heard aright. Only none of them would bring me in $220 by evening. The further I looked into that proposition the more absurd, of course, I saw it to be. I could earn from S2O to SSO by plain day labor at some jobs, or I could get fabulous salaries by tlfe month or year, but that was different. After determining this to my satisfaction I came to tlje sensible contusion that I would make what I :ould. The first thing that caught my eye after I had come to this decision was a wagon drawn by four mules coming down the street at a slow walk. The sight did not impress me particularly, but every storekeeper came out from his shop and every passerby stopped to look with respect as the outfit wallowed along. It was driven by a very large, grave, blond man with a twinkle In his eye. “That’s John A. McGlynn,” said a man next my elbow. “Who’s he?” I asked. The man looked at me In astonishment “Don’t know who John McGlynn is?” he demanded. “When did you get here?" / “Last night” “Oh! Well. John haw the only Amer-

i\au wagon in town. Broiffclit it out *om xetv York i« pieces and put tt together himself. Broke fo>ur wild California mules to drag her. He’s a wonder!” I could not then see quite how this exploit made him such a wonder, but on a sudden inspiration I splashed out through the mud and climbed into the wagon. McGlynn looked back at me. “Freightin',” said he, *'is S2O a ton, and at that rate it’ll cost you about S3O, you dirty hippopotamus. These ain’t no safe movers, these mules!” Unmoved, I clambered up beside him. “I want a job,” said I, “for today ohly.” “Do ye now?” “Can you give me one?” “I can, mebbe. And do you understand the inner aspirations of mules, mebbe?” “I was brought up on a farm.” “And the principles of elementary navigation by dead reckoning?” I looked at him blankly. “I mean mudholes,” he explained. “Can you keep out of them?” “I can try.” He pulled up the team, handed me the reins and clambered over the wheel. “You’re hired. At 6 o’clock I’ll find you and pay you off. You get $25.” “What am I to do?” “You go to the shore, and you rustle about whenever you see anything that looks like freight, and you look at It, and when you see anything marked with a diamond and an II inside of it you pilo it on and take it up to Howard Mellin & Co. And If you can’t lift it, then leave it for another trip, and bullyrag those skinflints at H. M. & Co.’s to send a man down to help you.” “What’s that, John?” inquired a cool, amused voice. McGlynn and I looked around. A tall, perfectly dressed figure stood on the sidewalk surveying us quizzically. This was a smooth shaven man of i>erhaps thirty-five years of age, grave faced, clean cut, with an air of rather ponderous, slow dignity that nevertheless became his style very well. He was dressed In tall white hat, a white winged collar, a black stock, a long tailed blue coat with gilt buttons, an embroidered white waistcoat, dapper buff trousers and varnished bobts. He carried a polished cane arid wore several heavy pieces of gold jewelry—awatch fob, a scarf pin, and the like. His movements were leisurely, his voice low. It seemed to me then that somehow the perfection of his appointments anil the calm deliberation of his movement made him more incongruous anil remarkable than did the most bizarre whims of the miners. “Is it yourself, Judge Girvin?” re-

“lt'll cost you about $30, you dirty hippopotamus.’’

plied McGlynn. “I’m just telling this young man that he can’t have the job of driving my little California canaries for but one day because I’ve hired a fine lawyer from the east at $275 a month to drive my mules for me.” “You have done well,” said Judge Girvin in his grave, courteous tones. “For the whole business of a lawyer is to know how to manage mules and asses so as to make them pay.” I enjoyed my day hugely. My eminent position on the driver’s seat—eminent lloth actually and figuratively—gave me n fine opportunity to see the sights and to enjoy the homage men seemed inclined to accord the only wagon in town. The feel of the warm air was' most grateful. Such difficulties as offered served merely to add zest to the job. At noon I ate some pilot bread and a can of sardines bought from my employers. About 2 o’clock the wind came up from the sea and the air filled with the hurrying clouds of dust. At 5 o’clock a small boy boarded me. “You’re to drive the mules up to McGlynn’s and unhitch them and leave them,” said he. “I’m to show you the way.” “Where’s McGlynn?” I asked. “He’s getting his mail.” (To be continued.)

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BANK ROBBERS STOLE AUTO.

Machine Used In Homer Theft Recovered In Cham|>aign, 111. Danville, 111., August 30. —The automobile used by the bank robbers who opened the safes of two banks at Homer early yesterday, and escaped with $14,000, was stolen in Dan* ville Monday night. Ie lelonged to James Sconce of Sidell. Chief of Police Walker of this city went to Champaign yesterday, where a stolen car hart been found, and identified it as the one ftoTen. An empty sack, such as is used in banks to carry money, was found in the machine. It evidently had oWn abandoned by tha robbers after they had reached Champaign pfcVn- on a tra*nJ&

Arrest Made In Recent Robbery At Oxford.

Fowler, Ind., August 30.—Boyd Slayter, a salesman handling disinfectant and floor varnish and polish, has been arrested in Chicago and is being hell at the lequest of Sheriff HamiltomOf Benton county. It is alleged thal Slayter is the man who robbed tnlt Daniel Messner store at Oxford th wboks ago last Saturday night of silks and merchandise to the value of $2,500. Slayter is known to have been in Oxford on the night of the robbery. He made the town his headquarters, but has not been seen since the robbery. The sheriff and Deputy Prosecutor Wilbur Nolin received a tip two weeks ago that Slayter might know something of the robbery and a systematic search was instituted. It was learned that inad been stopping at the Metz hotel in Lafayette, but inquiry there showed‘that he had not been there for over a month. The authorities learned at Lafayette that Slayter was supposed to be in Chicago* • C. M. Stewart, the general storekeeper at Barce, who is acquainted with Slayter, has gone to Chicago to identify him. Sheriff Hamilton left this afternoon for Indianapolis, where he will get requisition papers on the governor of Illinois for Slayter. The alleged robber will be brought here for trial.

What a Pretty Maid Can Do.

A pretty maid can make a wist man a fool. She can make a sane man dippy. She can turn sunsbind into gloom, or misery into joy. She can have a of young bloods and bald headed old bachelors trotting after her fihe a pack of hungry dogs trailing a bone. She can raise more simon pure unadulterated hell in a man’s heart in a minute than he can dispell ir. a lifetime of effort. She is an object of envy and a thing of joy, and there is no end to her possibilities. For all the world admires a pretty maid. —Ex.

State of ,Obio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, as. ■ Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be eured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.—Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed' in my presence, this 6th day of A. D., 1886. (Seal) 4. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts through the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by all druggists, 76c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. r

LETTERS FROM OUR READERS

Lark, North Dak., A-ug. 27, ’l6. Editor of Jasper County Democrat: Enclosed please find check for $3.00 for your paper. We are always glad when it arrives and scan its pages like a big letter from home. We sold our 316 acre farm in Kenosha, Wis., and bought a ranch of 1040 acres at Flasher, N. Dak. We are one and one-half miles from ,a railroad station on the Northern Pacific. I do not like it here, as well as in Wisconsin, but Mr. Reynolds thinks it a place of wonderful opportunities for a young man. We have over 4 0 Holsteins and I 2 horses', five of which are pure bred black Perclieron mares. Have three fine eo-Jts. Had between 350 and 400 acres of small grain, wheat, oats, sppltz and flax. The wheat was almost a failure on account of the black' rust. We had our crop insured afcainst hail, and enough hail came to collect 50 per cent damage, so we will be O. K. The ranch has good barns for horses and cows, silo, sheds and out buildings, but just a homesteader’s shack. So we had to build and are nutting up a seven-room cottage which we expect to get into before wo see any Dakota blizzards. Have had no frost yet and hope it will wait a month yet, but they itay around here we can expect it any time. We are all well and think it% a very healthful country. With regards to you, and all old friends in Jasper. I am, KATHRYN GILMORE REYNOLDS. P. S. —Send paper to Lark, No. Dakota.

Would Divorce Fifth Wife.

Valparaiso, Ind , August 30. —Geo. D. Gray, a wealthy farmer, and a former trustee of Liberty township, is seeking a divorce from ift*fifth wife, whom he married a yeas ago in Chicago. Gray’s other wives were either divorced or they died. Mrs. Gray, in her defense, alleges that Gray has boasted that he will have his seventh wife before he dies and that he has threatened to kill her.

He W'as Worried and llo|K*lenN “For 10 years I was bothered with kidney trouble,” writes T. F. Hutchinson, Little Rock, Ark. ”1 was worried and had almost given up all hopes. I used five boxes of Foley Kidney Pills and aoi now a well man.’* Foley Kidney Pills drive out. aches, pains, rheumatism and all kidney trouble symptoms. Sold everywhere.—Ad vt. Most of the lead product of this country is smeltered in three stales, Missouri, Idaho t and Utah/ the amounts in 101 c being, respectively, 1 <15,654 tons, 106,680 tons and 106,. 105 tons, Notice of Ditch Letting. Notice is hereby given that the trustee of Union township, Jasper county, Indiana, will at his office on the sth day of September, 1016, at 2 o’clock p. m., receive bids for the improvement by cleaning, cutting willows and repairing the following ditches: The Amos Davisson Ditch, The Charles Lakin Ditch, The Moffitt Ditch, The Plummer Ditch, west branch, The Plummer Ditch, upper part, Branch to Iroquois Lateral, No. 3, Lateral No. 2 of Iroquois Ditch, The Thompson-Norman "Ditch. Plans and specifications are on file in my Office showing the number of cubic of excavation, where excavation is necessary, and „• the work to be performed in making such repairs, by sections of one hundred feet. Bidders will be required to file a certified check or give bond with their bid in the sum of SIOO, conditioned that if awarded contract they will within five (5) days, enter into a contract and give bond with two freehold sureties in a sum not than double the amount of the coptract so awarded. GEOR'GE HAMMERTON, Trustee Union Township.

VIVID PAGEANT STAGED AT NIGHT

Centennial Spectacle at State Fair or Big Scale, Studenta of Hoosler history will find in th« Indiana centennial pageant, which is to be the chief feature of the Indiana state fair the week of Sept. 4, a vivid portrayal of the chief episodes which marked the development of the Commonwealth, from the time the first French explorers came Into the wilderness until the close of the Civil war There were many hishlstorlc both thrilling and pleasing, during this stretch of Indiana history and in writing the serenarlo for the spectacle J. Saunders Gordon, of St. Louis, brings them out forcefully. He spent several months informing himself of Indiana history, of the spirit of the times of which-he writers, tlje outstanding features of the state’s fopngtion, the customs of the Indians, the EYench explorers, the British aniT’plonher soldiers, the dally life of the settlors who sought homes of peace, fidelity the spectacle follow? thd state’s expansion. down to the time when the present era of high civic development began. Mr. Gordon not only wrote the Benarlo of the spectacle, but he device!} ths rich scenic accessories which will embellish tW production. He planned the forts, the log cabins, the Indian ana scenery which will serve as the background of the big production. He also planned the elaborate display of fireworks which Is to follow the spectacle each evening, giving a pronoiptvced Rooster centennial flavor to the huge set pieces and the aerial displays that are to be fired. In addition to all these preparations, Mr. Gordon ha’s directed the formation of the groups of people who will give life to the night pageant and has directed the rehearsals of the hundreds of men and women who will present the production. The spectacle will be given on a stage about 500 feet long, with all the scenic vesture necessary to make it a, great and brilliant production. Some of Indiana’s most historical men will have speaking parts in the pageant, among them Governor William Henry Harrison; Tecumseh, the most famous of Indiana’s red warrlers; Col. Shuler, who gave chase to Morgan, the Civil war raider; and a number cf others. White and Indian soldiers on foot and on horseback, fighting the battles of Vincennes and Tippecanoe; pioneer men and womdp Venturing into (he virgin Hoosier wilderness with their" ox teams to set up their log cabins and clear the ground for their farms; the building of the first statehouse at Corydon and adopting the state’s constitution under the historic elm tree at that place, are only a few of the intense incidents whioh are woven into the dramatic action which abounds throughout the spectacle. There Is intense interest over the state this year in all affairs relating to Indiana’s centennial. Many veTy elaborate spectacles have been given, while that at the Indiana state fair will not only measure up to them In magnitude and splendor, but It will have additional picturesque richness, since It Is the only great pageant of the year to be staged after night with brilliant Illuminating effects. YOU CAN MAKE MONEY right around your home, just 'as hundreds of men and women are doing. Work is easy, pleasant and permanently profitable. Be your own boss and build your own business. You take no risk, make sure profit right along. Send name, address, one reference. L. BROWN, 66 Murray St., New York City. Subscribe for The Democrat.