Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1916 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSE LAWN J. W. Crooks was a Rensselaer visitor with his family Friday night. Cal Burrows of Fair Oaks is assisting in H. H. Nelson’s shop this week. Otis Phillips and Cordell Weaver were Rensselaer visitors Sunday afternoon. J. T. Bess and family entertained relatives from Champaign, Illinois.last week. Win. 11 iff is moving into the Phinley Ball property, just south of Boyle's lumber office. S. M. Laßue is haying his store building painted, which will greatly improve its appearance. Dorsey Right and Lardner Crooks were home over Sunday from their school work at Rensselaer.

D. K. Frye and family autoed to Brook Sunday and visited at the home of Mr. Whitmyer of that place. Fred Nelson filled his silo Saturday, and several more in the Community have their silos filled, while others are ready. Mr. Stebbins, the Standard Oil man from Rensselaer, was in Roselawn Monday looking after the company’s business. Misses Etta Eee and Zella Bess and Miss Burton, who are attending school at Lowell, were home visitors Saturday and Sunday. J. R. Mulder and son and Miss Maggie Mulder, accompanied by Mrs. Conger, autoed to Momenee and Grant Park, Illinois, and Lowell Sunday. .

Sunday school at the M. E. church at 10 o'clock every Sunday. As we have no minister assigned us yet, there will be no preaching until further notice.

J. R. Mulder & Son put in new cedar posts for their hitch rack in front of their property last week, J. R. doing the work in his usual workman-like manner. Mr. Myers of Parr has moved to Roselawn and will conduct a restaurant and pool room in the Right building, which is being remodeled and repaired by Mr. Right. We certainly had some freeze Friday night. Most everything that was not out of the way of frost, was killed in this community, but a great part of the corn was out of the way. The 16-year-old daughter of Mr. Kiersma, northeast of Roselawn, who was critically ill with typhoid fever, succumbed to the disease Friday and burial was made Saturday in the Holland cemetery near Demotte. Mr. Riersma has another daughter and a sop very sick with the same disease, but hopes are held out for their recoverv

Maurice Gorman came in Monday afternoon and telephoned for the sheriff to come to the Lawler ranch and take charge of a party whom they had caught with some harness which had been stolen from the Lawler home ranch south of town. The party caught had been under suspicion for some time and was finally caught with the goods. • The sub-agent, who abscounded with the receipts of the Monon office here, which was reported to The Democrat last Saturday, got away with over $145 all told. He ordered a new suit of clothes, pair of shoes and a hat of a Lafayette merchant before he came here and had them sent here C. O. D., and wrote a money order for the amount and sent it to the merchant at the express company's expense. The fellow seemed to be pretty smooth all the way. He tore up the receipted freight bills he had collected and put them in the stove, but failed to set fire to them. As far as w.e know the company has found no trace of him as yet.

Stop the First Cohl A cold does not get well of itself. The process of wearing out a cold wears you out, and your cough becomes serious if neglected. Hacking coughs drain the energy and sap the vitality. For 47 year? the happy combination of soothing antiseptic balsams in Dr. King’s Now Discovery has healed coughs and relieved congestion. Young and old testify to the effectiveness of Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds. Buy a bottle today at your druggist, 50c—Advt.

wheatfield Herman Stewart ‘Forded’’ to Kouts Friday. Candidate James Clark and family were Sunday visitors here. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Clark returned Sunday afternoon after a two days’ visit with relatives at Kersey. The residence of William Stump was entirely destroyed by fire Saturday evening while the family was at the theater. Much of the household effects went also. The building and contents were partly covered by insurance. Let all come out and hear the Hon. Philip ZoerCher, reporter of the supreme court, at the Primo theater, Wheatfield, Thursday evening, September 21, at 7:30 o’clock, discuss the issues of the day from .a Democratic standpoint.

Don’t Neglect Your t old Neglected colds get worse, instead of better. A stuffed head, a tight chest must be relieved at once. Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey is Nature’s remedy. Honey and glycerine heal the irritated membrane, antiseptic tar loosens the phlegm, you breathe easier and your cold is broken up. Pleasant to take, Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey is an ideal remedy for children as well as grown-ups. At your Druggist, 25c.-—Advt. The new Fashion clothe/are now on display. Drop in, boys, and get posted on the new fall styIes.—HILLIARD & HAM ILL.

COURT NEWS

* THE TRIAL CALENDAR. The following cases have been set down for trial: Second Week. Wednesday, Sept. 20—State vs. Longstreth (two cases j ; State vs. Cooper; Taylor vs, Winslow estate. Thursday, Sept. 21—State vs. McConnell; State vs. Rice; State vs. Gundy; Baker vs. Baker estate. Friday, Sept. 22—State vs. Walters; Anderson vs. Clark. Third Week. Monday, Sept. 25—Werner vs. Dexter et al; Besser vs, Hammond "State; C. I. & S. Ry. Co. vs. McLoughlin. Tuesday, Sept. 26—Vance vs. Herr. , Wednesday, Sept. 27 —Tlintz vs. Fess; Boyle vs. Neubauer; Smith vs. Gifford. Thursday, Sept. 28—State vs. Morlan; State vs. Stockton. Fourth Week. Monday, Oct. 2—Kanne vs. Eiglesbach; State ex rel Hammond vs Aldrich; Piper vs. Oliver. Tuesday, Oct. 3—Watkins Med. Co. vs. Longstreth et al; WilsonBarr Co. vs. Messman. Wednesday, Oct. 4 —Schreiber vs. Turner; Tribby vs, Lattimore. Thursday, Oct. 5 -Gunyon exc. v.=»; Bolt et al; McMullen vs. Morris et al; hidings vs. Naylor; Sirois vs. Naylor. Friday, Oct. G —Weppler vs. Brooks.

CIVIL CAUSES Emery Elliott, guardian, vs. Otto Schrader—Emmet Laßue, commissioner appointed by the court to sell reap estate, reports that he is unable to sell same and asks for a reappraisement. George F. Meyers and Charles G. Spitler appointed to reappraise same and report September 20. | State Bank of Rensselaer vs. Christ Stoller and John Zehr—cause dismissed by plaintiff. Elizabeth Healy et al vs. Alma Pauly et al—Alonzo Healy, commissioner, reports sale of real estate to Mary Meyer Healy, the highest bidder, at $350, Its 9 and 12, bl 9, Leopold's add to Rensselaer. Sale approved and commissioner allowed =slo for his services, who, after paying of action, is directed to pay residue to the Clerk of the court for distribution as provided in order of April 20, 1916. S. Ray Laßue of Rensselaer admitted to bar. DITCH CAUSES

Firman Thompson ditch—M. B. Price, supt, files final report. J. A. Dunlap allowed S9O attorney fee. Unpaid bills ordered paid as set out in report and cause dropped. Petition of John Marlatt et al for cleaning of Jungles-Davis ditch— Supt. files certificate of completion of contract and court allows contractors contract price, $5,019.72, and cause dropped. . F. Guy Barnard ditch —Engineer files expense account, which is allowed: Harry MeColly, $67; Gilbert Stembel, $22; Emil Hanley, $90.70; Cope Hanley, $66.70; Brook Moore, $4; B. J. Moore, commissioner, $51.50: , Devere Yeoman, $481.76; John Moore, $31.45. PROBATE MATTERS

Estate of F. W. Bedford—Charles W. Postill, a dm., files current report Showing total charges, including appraised value of real estate, to be $ 12,344.37, and total charges $;;,- Si9.i.>. Court allows administrator SIOO ‘fr services and C. M. Sands SIOO for legal services for administration.

Estate of Albert R. Rishling— Candace E. Rishling. widow, asks that property of decedent be set off to her, it being worth less than s.">oo. Charles Mor land and Charles T. Dean selected as appraisers, and appraisement shows property to be worth less than SSOO, and’ same is set off to widow and title vested in her. Ordered that no letters of administration be issued on said estate.

B. J. Gifford estate—George H. Gifford, executor, files current report showing charges of $5,304 81 and credits of $4,455.35. leaving a balance of $908.53 in his hands. Report approved \ Executor also' reports sale of lots S, 0, 10 in town of Gifford to Albert Zook for $225. Sale.approved, etc.

Guardianship of Zulu Right —Edwin U. Right, gdn.. asks for Order to sell undivided 1-3 in lot S. block 5, Wheatfield. Graham's second addition. Court appoints Simon Fendig and R. A. Mannan appraisers, who report value of real estate to be S2OO. Guardian directed to sell same for cash at private sale: Guardian files additional bond for $4 (>0 with A. S. Keen and James C. Anderson as surety. Bond approved. Guardian reports sale of real estate to Morgan L. and Nellie May Sterrett for S2OO cash. Sale approved and guardian charged with proceeds of sale.

Estate of James Shannon—lsaac Shannon appointed administrator and files bond for $2,500 with Simon Shannon and Jacob A. Hensler as surety. Bond approved and letters ordered issued. Estate of Mary Jane Moody—G. L. Thornton, inheritance tax appraiser, files report showing value of estate to be $25,866, and the total tax to be $137.56 after deductions. Cause set for hearing October 6. There is set over or assigned to the heirs at law the following amounts: Granville Moody, widower, $8,586; Mrs. George Dunn. Mrs. Charles E. Lewis, Mrs. George Long, Mrs. Jane Hull, daughters, and Granville Moody, Jr.; son, $3,434 each.

Guard the boy against an early fall cold. He'll enjoy wearing one of our new sweaters. $1 to $2.50. — HILLIARD & HAMILL.

HARRIET GRAY

: Unknown Fate Brought Out Who She Was

by ESTHER VANDEVEER

My mother died when I was a little girl and my father when I was twenty. I understood from my lawyers that the estate left by my father would give me a comfortable income, and, since I had no ties at home, I concluded to travel. Hearing of friends about to sail for Europe, I secured an invitation to be one of their party. Before going I set my house in order and did what I had been long averse to doing, looked over family papers that had been accumulating for years. There was a trunk full of them, pnd I set about examining them with a view to destroying such as could be of no further use. Many of them needed but a basty glance, and some scarcely needed that. I found one envelope marked “Harriet Gray” and, opening it, took ©ut a number of miscellaneous papers, consisting mostly of receipted bills. There was a deed to a lot on one of the business streets in the city In which I lived, the maker of the deed having transferred the property “ip consideration of sl.” I didn’t think the paper of much importance, the lot being of so little value. The envelope also contained a will drawn by Edward Oglesby in favor of Harriet Gray.

I hafl no knowledge of business matters, apd if I had I doubt if 1 should have considered these documents of any Importance. They were yellow with age and had probably been in the trunk for many years. Ilad they not

“I KEPT MY EYES FIXED ON HIS FACE WHILE HE READ.”

been oosolete father would doubtless have removed them long ago. Probably every one who had once been Interested In them was dead. However. I concluded to put these papers, together with a few others I thought it best not to destroy, in a tin box. The other papers I burned. Having made all necessary arrangements, I went abroad. During my absence 1 fell in with various persons, among others a young man named Schuyler. Ned Schuyler was seeing Europe on SGOO. My first sight of him was one evening when sitting on the porch of an Inn located on the bank of one of the Swiss lakes 1 saw him coming up the road with the springy step of youth and evidently ns light hearted as if he had had a letter of credit in his pocket for 100.000 francs. He ate supper at the inn and In the evening made the acquaintance of our party.

The place being attractive as well aa Inexpensive, we all remained there for some time, boating on the lake, climbing the mountains bordering on it and visiting the sights in the neighborhood. Somehow in all these excursion# Ned Schuyler fell to me. Americana meeting abroad often become intimate, and there are more matches mad® while traveling for pleasure than under any other conditions. At any rate, such was the ease with us; not that we made a match, but we wanted to make one. The reason we failed was the pride of the man. He had educated himself, and .it had made him independent A wife with an income ol her own would not be a drag on him. but he was too proud to ask a woman to marry him;-while not able to support her. It seemed to him like saying to her, “Marry me and spend your own money.’’ We met at several places while abroad, the persons I was with' thinking it to be by accident, but there was no accident. We arranged meetings. The last of these meetings abroad was at Genoa, from whence I sailed for home. We lived in cities in America not far distant from each other, and I •xacted a promise from him that he would come to see me after his return. My lover set out on a tramp to Nice the day before my steamer sailed. 1 was very disconsolate at having part *d with him and while wandering about the hotel took up the registei and turned the pages to the name he had written In it. He had signed his name Edward Gray Schuyler. Something In the name was familiar

to me, but I could not tell' in what part On the voyage I thought a good deal about it and one day it occurred to me that I had confused the names in my mind with those in the papers i had found in the trunk at home. There were Edward Oglesby and Harriet Gray, but no Schuyler. The day after my arrival I got out the tin box and selecting the envelope marked Harriet Gray went through every paper in it thoroughly. There were a number of them, but they were mostly accounts, checks that had been paid and returned by the banks, tax receipts, etc. The only two names that seemed to have any connection with Ned Schuyler were the Edward in Edward Oglesby and the Gray in Harriet Gray. One morning while reading a newspaper I saw the following notice:

The handsome office building. No. street, has been finished is now ready for occupancy. Occupants of other buildings in the neighborhood are to be congratulated, for the lot on which the building has been erected remained vacant for many years. It formerly a part of the Oglesby estate, which at the death of Edward Oglesby fell into litigation long delayed.

Here was the name. Edward Oglesby, staring me in the face again. I recalled that I had seen it in the Harriet Gray papers and determined to get them out again and learn if this notice hud any connection with them. I read the description of the last name in the deed, and. while there was no number given, the street was named and was the same as that on which the new building was located.

Had I connected Ned Schuyler with the matter I should have been eager to learn more about it As it was, not knowing how to proceed for information, I did nothing for several days. 1 hen one day I went to my lawyer’s otiice to pay some taxes, and while there I concluded to mention my find and ask how 1 could learn something in the matter. My father had done business through the firm for many years, and it was now carried on by Mr. Tucker, the grandson of the original head. After handing him the funds for the taxes I asked him if he <knew anything about the new building of which I had read in the newspaper. “I should think so,” was his reply. ‘‘l inherited a suit about it for clients of my father.”

“Who was the owner, Edward Oglesby, and what had my father to do with him?” “Edward Oglesby owned the lot on which this building of which you speak stands. lie and your father were intimate friends and both my father’s clients.” “Who was Harriet Gray'?” “Mr. Oglesby’s stepdaughter. Mr. Oglesby had no children of his own, and it was supposed that he would leave his property to her. But be died intestate. She claimed that he had left a will in her favor, but it was never found. She declared that it had been left by her stepfather in our keeping, but a careful search among our papers failed to produce it. We had a great deal of trouble with the man she married. who would not believe but that we had feloniously destroyed or withheld the will. Indeed. I think the charge was indirectly the cause of my father’s death.”

By this time I was suppressing a wild excitement. I rushed to ask one more question, but dreaded to do so. fearing that I would be disappointed In the reply. Finally I found voice to speak it. “Whom did Harriet Gray marry?’’ “Her husband's name, I believe, was Schuyler." The riddle was solved. Ned Schuyler was the son of Harriet Graj' and took a part of his name from Edward Oglesby, Ills wife’s stepfather, and part from his mother’s maiden name. As soon as I could gather my wits I went on asking questions. My next was: “Suppose a will of Edward Oglesby leaving all his property to Harriet Gray should be produced now. How would it affect the property?” "Her heirs would claim it, and in the end undoubtedly the courts would give it to them.”

A happy girl i was when I went home conscious that I had the key to a fortune for the man I loved. He was to arrive within a few days, and I resolved to impart the finding of his mother’s will first of all persons to him. One week after his arrival he kept his promise to come to see me. I could scarcely wait to make inquiries confirming my theory as to his identity, bu* when l did I was told by him that his mother’s maiden name was Harriet Gray and her father was Henry Schuyler. I had the will in a desk near by and. taking it out. handed it to him. I kept my eyes fixed on his - face while he read the document, and it was a study. Being an only child, he saw at a glance that if the will were genuine the right to the property described was vested in him.

When my find was reported to Mr. Tucker and his astonishment had abated I asked him how the will could have got into my father’s possession. The only explanation he could give was that the papers of the two clients had got mixed In the affair and that these papers belonging to Mr. Oglesby had been handed to my father. He had doubtless put them away without looking at them.

Ned Schuyler effected a compromise with those in possession of the estate that was his by inheritance, and it made him rich. He was obliged to give up a great deal in order, to avoid litigation, but even with this surrender his estate was worth much more than it had been when the will was made Since Ned was now far richer than I he no longer scrupled to ask me to be his wife. Besides, it was I through whose instrumentality his property came to him.

CHILD MUST BE TRAINED TO MAKE OWN DECISIONS

"Those other boys might be so rough or careless in their speech!”

OP all the weak, inconclusive, modern parents—is this what we’ve come to?” said Professor Marshall to hjs wife after a scene with their eighteen-year-old daughter, in Dorothy Canfield’s new novel, “The Bent Twig.”

' After eighteen years of "training” Sylvia manifests a desire to do what other young people are doing, to drift with the majority, to enjoy people and pastimes not approved by her parents. Having allowed their daughter to make decisions all these years, In the hope that she would thus learn to make right decisions, the father cries out helplessly when her decision in the first really serious situation Is opposed to the parental judgment. He is tempted to appeal to "parental authority.” We must reach out the hand to pull her back, or she will make a horrible mistake!

But the mother sticks to her principles. They had taught their children to think Independently, and now it was Impossible to use force. They had tried to give the children standards of conduct and by these they would stand. She had faith that in a crisis these standards and ideals would pull her through.

The most that parents can do for their children is to give them standards and ideals that will serve in emergencies as well as in the routine of life. But how often are we tempted to lose faith in our own teachings, and to resort to lock and key, as was Professor Marshall! How often do we see no choice but that between force and perdition!

As we become more experienced in this business of parenthood our feeling of responsibility grows upon us, we realize how much better our Judgment is than that of the children, we realize more and more the dangers and the temptations that beset them. And of course we wish to save them

Boys Often Spend Too Much Money on Girls

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

(Copyright, 1916.) Pleasures are like poppies spread— You seize the flower, its bloom is shed! Or like the snowflake in the river— A moment white, then melts forever.

The most foolish course a young man who works hard to earn his

have the benefit of it as anyone. If by springtime he has not been able to save enough to buy a new suit of clothes—even inexpensive ones —the girls on whom he lavished his money will be the first to comment on his shabbiness, and decline to be seen in his company.

Popularity—that is, the honest kind —cannot be bought. It is given spontaneously and for sterling worth. A sensible young man measures his garment according to his cloth, as the old saying goes. That is, he lets a crowd of jolly girls who expect to be “treated” every time they happen to meet a man, severely alone. That is a sufficient and dignified rebuke to girls who suggest they’d like a soda, etc. The majority of men are too sensible to buy popularity. They would rather just one nice girl would admire them, one who would have her dinner before they started out for a stroll of an evening or to the theater, and would refuse to gorge herself after the show at his expense. The greatest fear many a mother feels is that her boy is spending too

By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG

money can .pursue is to lavish his earnings on girls, with the hope of making himself popular with them. He could make no greater mistake, for the very girls who accept his ice cream and bonbons, theater tickets, etc., are the ones who give him the name of spendthrift. They infer that he cannot keep what he earns, and they might as well

from these dangers, we wish to give them the full benefit of our superior judgment. But there is a limit beyond which the child simply will not profit from the wisdom of others, except in a negative way—that is, in the way of doing nothing at all. Nor should we deny the child the privilege of acquiring his judgment by means of the kinds of experiences that have given us our insight. At any rate, we cannot save the child by building a fence around him, as the mother of a ten-year-old boy tried to do, to protect him from the rough manners and “bad language” of other boys. The mother had kept the child with her almost constantly, when he was not in school. In time she contrived to delegate portions of this burden to paid deputies. When it was suggested to the mother that the boy might profit more from outdoor games and the companionship of other boys, she expressed the fear that some of those “other boys” might be so rough, or so careless in their speech! *

If the home is not capable of compensating for the roughness of boys and the giggles of girls, he will surely not be saved by padlocks and shutters. For a few years this mother will be able to shield her child from the inconsiderate rudeness of the world outside, just as she was shielded In her youth. But in the absence of a will and a steadfast purpose, her child will either succumb to the temptations that are sure to come when he gets beyond his mother’s protection, or he will be obliged to retire for the rest of his days to the only kind of life for which the seclusion and darkness have fitted him.

By tying the hands you may keep one from doing harm, but you cannot thus destroy the desire to do the objectionable deed. It is better to leave the hands free, and to train them to do what you approve.

much money on girls. It sets the pace for reckless living and has brought many a well-meaning youth to ruin. A girl who accepts the attentions of a young man who she knows earns his money by toil should study the situation before she accepts an invitation from him that calls for a carriage if she wears her pretty, filmy party dress. She should know that he could afford such extravagance only now and then. If she really has his interest at heart she will wear a dress that cannot spoil or that laundering will make as good as new, and either take a car to their destination or walk if the distance is not too great and the weather is fine.

A man can well understand such a girl will make a good, prudent wife. His earnings would be safe in her keeping. If an employer finds that a young man has not been able to lay bv a dollar of his earnings for a twelvemonth, his declaration that he had spent it all on girls would bring him sharp criticism, and the statement would sound almost unbelievable.

In looking backward, reckoning all the money spent uselessly on girls, no wonder the squanderer grows bitterly angry with himself. It has been a case of a fool and his money. It does not take some men very long to learn their little lesson. Others are years in finding out that the saving, industrious man, who knows how to take care of his bank roll has far outdistanced him even in the opinion of the frivolous girls. Money is hard to earn. It should not be allowed to sift through a man’s pocket like sands in the hourglass. It is a man’s reputation for prudent-* ly saving which brings him respect, admiration and popularity in a community.

The Sport Hat

Despite the fact that pockets are very generally in evidence in dressy suits, as well as on sport garb, the designers of accessories have advanced little hags made to match hats, and usually evolved in colors that offer decorative contrast with the costume. One of the latest ideas is shown in a Paris hat, which is of maroon-col-, ored suede in sailor shape and Ivhich has a crown of white kid. This hat is accompanied by a bag of the suede, which has a cut-out design in brown and white matching the band on the hat.

Another expression of the same idea is a hat of taffeta with a very high crown, made of plaited tafTeta and caught through the center with a colored velvet ribbon.