Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1917 — Page 7

GOLD

By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

SYNOPSIS Talbot Ward’s challenge to Frank Munroe to a personal encounter to determine whether Munroe is fit to make a trip to California In search of gold Is accepted. Munroe gets a hammerlock on Ward and wins the bout. Arriving at Chagres, Talbot Ward’s knowledge of Spanish and his flrm treatment of tile native boatmen help wonderfully The party enters a tropical forest. They reach Gatun, and, after passing through several villages where Ward always diplomatically handles the natives, they arrive in Panama. Ward puts It up to each man to get 1220 in one day. Munroe makes $25 as a laborer. Johnny gambles and gets $220. Ward astounds the party ,by telling how, by shrewd business deals in one day in the Golden City, he' accumulated several thousand dollars. The party dig their first gold, are not much encouraged when told that’ the value of ’their first pan is 12 cents. Don Gaspar, a Spaniard, and his mann yant Vasquez join forces with the trio and the gold is divided into five parts. After working like beavers several days the miners decide to take a day off and attend a miners’ meeting in town. For sls a week in gold and a drink of whisky twice a day Bagsby promises to Head the party to a rich unexplored mining country. A band of Indians come into the camp to trade. They are thankful for blankets. Later the Indians attempt an ambuscade, but are routed- by rifle shots. Johnny and his express messenger friends arrest tWo of the Hounds who are tried for robbery. The lawless element controls the trial and the Hounds are freed. Robberies grow more frequent as the lawless element holds sway. McNally and Buck Barry are murdered after the fewless element gets control of the dty. Danny Randall organizes a vigilance committee. It Is decided to publicly hang the leaders of the lawless element. The camp buzzes with excitement. Outbursts of the friends of the doomed men are checked by the determined attitude of Danny Randall and his committee.

CHAPTER XXVIII. Johnny Buys a Drink. THE place was full of new buildings, some of them quite elaborate two story structures of brick, and elevated plank sidewalks had taken the place of the old makeshifts. Although the Plaza was still the center of town, the streets immediately off it had gained considerable dignity and importance. There were many clothing stores and a number of new saloons and gambling houses. As we were picking our way along we ran into an old acquaintance in the person of the captain of the Panama. He recognized us at once, and we drew up for a chat. After we had exchanged first news Johnny asked him if he knew of a place where a fair price could be raised on the diamond. “Why, the jewelry store is your ticketj of course,” replied the captain. “So there’s a jewelry store, too!” cried Johnny. “And a good one,” supplemented the -captain. “Come along. I’M take you to it.” It was a good one and carried a large stock of rings, chains, pins, clocks, watches and speaking trumpets. The latter two items were the most prominent, for there were hundreds of watches and apparently thousands of speaking trumpets. They stood in rows on the shelves and depended in ranks from hooks and nails. Most of them were of Silver or of silver gilt, and they were plain,(.chased, engraved, hammered or repoussed, with always an ample space for inscription. After Johnny had concluded a satisfactory arrangement for his diamond I remarked on the preponderance of speaking trumpets. The man grinned rather maliciously at our captain. “They are a very favorite article for presentation by grateful passengers after a successful sea trip,” he said smoothly. . At this our captain exploded. “Are they?” he boomed. “I should think they were! I’ve got a dozen of the confounded things, and as I’ve just got in from a trip I’m expecting another any minute. Good Lord,” he cried as a group of men turned in at the door, “here come some of my passengers now! Come along! Let’s get out of this!” He dragged us out a back door into a very muddy back alley, whence we floundered to dry land with some difficulty. “That was a narrow escape!” he cried, wiping his brow. “Let’s go get a drink. I know the best place.” He led us to a very ornate saloon whose chief attraction was the fact that its ceiling was supported on glass pillars. We duly admired this marvel tend then wandered over to the polished mahogany bar, where we were Joined by the half dozen loafers who had. been lounging around the place. These men did not exactly join us, but they stood expectantly near. Nor were they disappointed. .... i “Come, let’s all take a drink, boys!” Cried the captain heartily. ’ ■ • "They named and tossed off their liquor and then without a word of fare-

Well or thanks shambled back to their roosting places. - —■ “Wkht’s the matter, Billy?” demanded the captain, looking about curiously. “Where’s your usuhl crowd?’ “They’re all down at the Verandah,” replied the barkeeper, passing a cloth over the satiny wood of the bar* “Dorgad’s got a girl tending bar. Pays her sojffe ungodly wages, and he’s getting all the crowd. He’d better make the most of it while it lasts. She won’t stay a week.” - “Why not?” I asked curiously, “Married, sure,” replied the barkeeper briefly. •

There We Had $5 Worth of Various Things Done to Us.

■ "And tEe glass" pi77ars _ wffr STWays be here, eh, Billy?” suggested the captain. “Nevertheless I believe well just wander down and look her over.” “Sure,” said Billy indifferently. “That’s where all the rest are.” The Verandah, situated on the Plaza, was crowded to the doors. Behind the bar slaved a half dozen busy drink* mixers. The girl, and a very pretty girl she was, passed the drinks over the counter and took in the dust. We did not try to get near the bar, but after a few moments regained the street. The captain said farewell, and we hunted up by his direction the New York Tonsorial Emporiudn There we had $5 worth of various things done to us, after which we bought new clothes. The old ones we threw out into the street along with a vast collection of others contributed by our predecessors. “Now,” said Johnny. “I feel like a new man. And before, we go any farther I have a little duty to perform.” “Which is?” -

“Afiother drink at the sign of the Glass Pillars, or whatever they cal] the place.” “We don’t want anything more to drink just now,” I protested. “Oblige me in-this one treat.” said Johnny in his best manner. We entered the Arcade, as the bar was called. At once the loafers moved forward. Johnny turned to them witn an engaging air of friendliness. “Come on, boys, let’s all take a drink!” he cried. The glasses were poured. Johnny

The Man Silently Pointed to Its Face With the Muzzle of a Revolver.

raised his. The others followed puit. Then all drained them simultaneously and set down the empty glasses. “And now,” went on Johnny in the same cheerful, friendly tone, “let's all pay for them!” The loafers stared at him a moment. One growled menacingly, but fell silent under his clear glance. One or two others forced a laugh. I’nder Johnny’s compelling eye they all paid. Billy, behind the bar, watched with sardonic amusement. When Johnny proffered his dust the barkeeper thrust it back. . . ■ ' “My treat here,’* said he briefly. b “But” — objected Johnny. ' “It’s a privilege.” “If you put it that way, I thank you, sir,” said Johnny in his grandest manner, and we walked out. “Those bums i made me tired,” was his only comment |to us. “Now* let’s go Hunt up Talbot. I’ll bet my extinct toothbrush .that he’s a well known citizen around here.” Johnny’s extinct toothbrush was perfectly safe. The first man of-whom ! we inquired told us where our friend i lived and added the gratuitous information that the Ward block was near-, ing completion. We looked up the hotel, a new one on Montgomery street. The clerk spoke with respect of Talbot and told us we would probably find him at one of the several places of business he mentioned or at the Ward block. We thanked him and went direct to the Ward block first., AU; ft

us confessed to a great desire see that building. It was to beA three story brick structure, and was situated at one cornel* of the Plaza. We gazed upon it with appropriate awe, for we were accustomed to logs and canvas, find to some extent we were able to realize what Imported bricks and the laying of them meant. The foreman told us that Talbot had gone 'but ‘'Mission way" with Sam Brannan and some others to look at some property and would not be back until late. Johnny and I spent the rest of the afternoon wandering about. Yank retired to the soft chairs of one of the numerous gambling places. His broken leg would not stand so much tramp? ing. . r In the evening, as Talbot had not yet returned, we wandered from one place of amusement to another. The gambling places were more numerous, more elaborate, more important than (fever. Beside the usual rough looking rniners and laborers, who were in tbe great majority, there were small groups of substantial, grave, important looking men conferring. I noticed again the contrast with the mlnij l !? camp gambling halls in the matter of Here was heard but the clink of coin or the dull thud of gold dust, a low murmur of- conversation or an occasional full voiced exclamation.

Johnny, who could never resist the tables, was soon laying very small stakes on monte. After a time I tired of the close, air and heavy smoke and slipped away. The lower part of the town was impossible on account of the mud, so I made my way out along the edge of the hills. The moon was sailing overhead. The shadows of the hin<s hnne doen in the hollows ond abruutr a wide landscape slept mine unearthly radiance. A thousand thousand cheerful frogs piped up a chorus against the brooding moon stillness they could not quite break. After the glare of the Arcade and the feverish hum and bustle of the busy new city this still peace was almost overpowering. I felt somehow' that I dared not give way to it all at once, but must admit its influence trickle by trickle until my spirit had become a little accustomed. Thus gradually I dropped into a reverie. The toil, excitement, strain, striving of the past eigfot or nine months fell swiftly into the background. I relaxed, and in the calm of the relaxation for the first time old memories found room. How long I had tramped, lost in this dreaming, I did not know, but at some point I must have turned back, for I came to somewhere near the .end of Sacramento street, if it could be said to have-an end, to find the moon far up toward the zenith. A man overtook me, walking rapidly. I caught the gleam of a watch chain, and on 'ft sudden impulse I turned toward him. “Can you tell me what time it Is?” I asked. The man extended his watch in the moonlight and silently pointed to its face with the muzzle of a revolver! “Half past 12,” said he. “Good Lord!’ I cried, with a shout of laughter. “Do you take me for a robber, Talbot?’

(T 6 be continued.)

GOODLAND

(From the Herald) Mr. and Mrs. Willard Capes are rejoicing over the arrival of a son. Barney Clark was out on our streets Tuesday meeting his many friends, who were glad to see him. Thursday, January 4, was J. M. Wilson’s seventy-fifth birthday and he was most agreeably surprised by the members of his family. Miss Sadie Heaton returned to her home in Winamac Monday after a short visit here with her aunt, Mrs. J; R. Hazen, and family. A. C. Ginter and Miss Mary Haywood of Peotone, Illinois, visited Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Spaulding Sunday and attended the funeral of John Curl held Monday afternoon. A session meeting was held at the German-Lutheran church Monday night and the church records were gone over and same were found to be in excellent condition. Rev. Henry Paul of Denham was present. Miss' Mildred Winship, who has been a tonsilitis patient at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. A. Doland, for the past two weeks, is much improved and expects to return to her studies soon at Forest Park college, St. Louis, Missouri. Tuesday evening the many friends of the Chris Gautsche family gathered at their home on west Inion street and gave them a farewell party. The Gautsehe’s have purchased a fine farm ‘ near Owens, Wisconsin, and are soon to move there. Mr. Gautsche left this week and the family will follow later.

< Miss Laura Johnston is-a patient at the Presbyterian hospijtal in Chicago, » havings an operation for appendicitis on Monday and is doing as well as could be expected. . Mrs. Fay Burgess, who accompanied her to Chicago Monday morning, returned home* Monday evening. Miss Mary Watt went to Chicago Wednesday to be at her bedside, John Alfred Curl, son of John and Sally Curl, was born in Oxford, Benton county, Indiana, September 3, 1870, and passed away at the Mercy hospital in Chicago January 6, * 1917,, aged 47 years, 4 months and 3 days. He made his homo for many years with Lewis Spaulding of nortb of town, after which he moved to Rensselaer and resided 'for many years. About twelve years ago he went to Peotone, Illinois, where he was ap . iron worker. He acquired the distinction "of , being the champion corn, busker of Illinois. He went out each year and husked corn for Senator A. C. Thompson near Piper City. About the middle of December he was stricken with uremic poisoning and was taken, to the Mercy hospital in Chicago where he passed on January j 6. The remains were brought to Goodland Sunday night,

and taken to the residence of the} deceased’s sister. Airs. A. W. Verrill, where on Monday afternoon Mineral services ..were conducted by Rev. W. C. Aye of the M; E. church. Interment was made in the Goodland cemetery.

Home Cookery

Southern Baked Ham. Clean ham carefully in cold water, scrubbing the rind thoroughly with a brush ; then soak for twenty-four hours, Place ham in a large vessel, cover with water to which -two pounds of sugar, two dozen whole cloves and a dozen small pieces of mace have been added. Bring gradually to a boil and simmer gently for five hours. Allow, ham to cool in the liquor and when cold remove the rind. Thrust in the ham about two dozen whole cloves at regular spaces; beat two eggs and brush the ham over with the beaten egg. Mix a cupful of stale bread eruinhs, ground fine, with one tablespoonful of sugar and crust the ham over with this. Place in a hot oven in a baking pdn with a pint of port wine or sherry and baste occasionally with this wine until it is all soaked into the ham.

Fish Pudding. Two pounds of fresh fish, two eggs. Grated onion to taste. Cook fish until tender in water to which a little salt has been added. When done remove bones and mash. To the fish add white sauce, onion and eggs, beaten together until very light. Grease mold, put in fish mixture and set in pan of hot water. Allow to steam for forty minutes, keeping water just below boiling point Before putting into oven cover pudding with oiled paper. Garnish with lemon and parsley before serving. Smothered Rabbit. An old rabbit is good prepared in this way, as it loses none of its flavor in boiling: Put a deep iron pot on the stove with about two tablespoonfuls of smoking hot fat. Have the rabbit cut up, salted and rolled in flour; drop in the pot, sprinkle with pepper and cover. Stir every few minutes until each piece is good and brown. Pour boiling water enough to cover and boil twenty minutes. Add a little milk tend flour for thickening. Cinnamon Apples. medium sized apples, peeled and cored; two cupfuls of sugar, two bananas, one cupful of water, one-half cupful of candy cinnamon drops. Make sirup. When the sirup is boiling put in apples, stuffed with bananas, and two or three cinnamon drops. Sprinkle rest of candy over apples Hashed Brown Potatoes. Cut cold boiled potatoes in small pieces (two cupfuls), season with salt and pepper, cook three minutes in onethird cupful of bacon drippings, stirring constantly. .Let stand a few seconds to brown underneath. Fold like an omelet and serve on a hot platter. Chocolate Cream Icing. Four tablespoonfuls of evaporated milk, two cupfuls of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of vanilla or any flavoring desired and one to two tablespoonfuls of cocoa.

Chic Winter Dress

The handsome velvet dress herewith illustrated is designed for misses. It Is featured In burgundy, blacker navy blue and is trimmed with white geor-

VELVET DRESS FOB MISSES.

gette crape collar and cuffs hemstitched. The girdle is of silk ribbon, with ends ornamented with ‘‘dewdabs.” Design by Franklin Simon & Co., * New York city. ~ »<. * ;

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PRESIDENT WILSON GIVES FORCE JO MOVEMENT FOR BETTER ROADS

Whatever Indiana accomplishes in a highway in road buflding, cannot buj feel the effects of the big nonpartisan “Good Roads” day, as a part of the Indiana Celebration, when President Wilson came to Indianapolis to make a speech on good roads, and reviewed from the Soldiers and bailors’ Monument, the exact center of Indiana road system, a parade of autos that represented every part of the state. •

President came with the message, of better roads, as a means to a fuller life and larger civilization. He has given his support to national building cf roads, to the federal aid for .the states which have highway departments. Indiana is to get more than two milfton dollars, if the legislature at this session creates the highway department. Indiana joins with Texas and South Carolina as being without the fold of states having highway departments. President Wilson brought vvjth him the word “co-operation,” that is still the.battle cry in the movement for the State Highway department, which, it is intended to build a system of main market highways with government aid that will be a tribute to the judgment of Indiana men. The president said: “It is perfectly obvious'that you must have an intricate and perfect network of roads throughout the length and breadth of this great continent before you will have released the energies of America. Good roads are necessary for every practical aspect of our lives, to draw neighborhoods together, to create community of feeling, to create those arteries which may be cornu pared to the arteries of the human body. “So that the words I want you to carry in your mind in connection with this good roads cause aro these:

LUKE W. DUFFEY

Introducing the bill creating the State Highway Department, Representative Luke W. Duffey, from Marion county, became parent of a -legislative child, of which he is mighty proud. Duffey, in close touch with farming and business interests of the state and bom a good roads enthusiast, has been one of the workers who have been untiring for shaping events so that the State Highway Department, the acceptance of federal aid in road building, standardization of specifications, etc., is inevitable.

RALSTON NAMED OFFICIALS

Gathered Much Valuable Information, Force of Which Is Seen In Good Roads Ideas. When Samuel M. Ralston gave over his duties as Governor of Indiana to James P. Goodrich, there parsed from the service a rear good roads enthusiast. The work Ralston did for good roads will be long remembered. Much of the enthusiasm of the present day for better roads and the belief that Indiana should have a highway department, with the state deriving the benefit of Federal aid, comes from the missionary work done under his administration and under the spirit of his enthusiasm. The report of the highway commission, appointed by him June 22, 1914 —the report being made Dec. 26, 1914— was one of the forward steps toward the consummation of an ideal system, of main market roads in Indiana. ,It is the idea of the men behind the State Highway Department bill to make those roads a reality. e Qn that commission was the late Addison C. Harris, jurist, publicist and diplomat; Thomas Taggart, exSenator; Leonard B. Clore, William H. O’Brien and R. L. Sackett. On the advisory committee were Lewis Taylor, Newburg; Prof. E. R. Cummings, Bloomington; Albert P. Fenn, Tell City; I. Newt. Brown, Franklin; William P. Franklin, Danville; Maurice Douglas, Flatrock; Clarence A. Kenyon, Indianapolis; John H. Retherford, Muncie; D. F. Maish,Frankfort;,J, G. Short, Hillsboro; Mike Duffey, Fowler; William Jones, Fairmount; Oliver Kline, Hunfington; \Senator George V. Kell, Ft. Wayne and Aaron Jones, South hbmml y ■

President Wilson Reviewing Parade.

First, nationalization, getting all the fibres of. this great vital people united in a single organism; second, mobilization, getting them so related to each other, so co-ordinating, so organized, so led, so united, that when they move they move as a single great, irresistible conquering force; and th® third word that I want you to consider is the word that I suppose affords the key to doing these things, that word is the word co-operation.” Supporters of the president’s idea say that there is little co-operation in making the 1017 townships the power of bonding for road-building. It has been said that there are 5,000 road officers in the state—no head to this body of men—no uniformity of engineering, no •standard of specifications, little that would make for in-' telligent, organized, efficient and economical road building.; This co-opera-tion, it is pointed out would be' brought about, by a state highway department, with the federal aid.

PRAISES FEDERAL ROAD ACT

Secretary of Agriculture Houston Succinctly Points Out the Merit* i of Legislation. Secretary of Agriculture Houston thus succinctly points out the merits of the Federal Aid road legislation approved July 11, 1916, under which Indiana will get Federal Aid of $2,109,000, after its own highway department is established: “Of no less importance for agriculture and for the national development is the Federal Aid Road Act, approved July 11, 1916. This measure will conduce to the establishment of more effective highway machinery in each State, strongly influence the development of good road building along right lines, stimulate larger 1 production and better marketing, promote a fuller and more attractive rural life, add greatly to the convenience and economic welfare of all the people;, ami strengthen the national foundations.

“This bill meets the requisites of sound legislation and practice; It provides for cooperation between the Federal and State government, and gives the people the advantage of the best thought of the experts of both jurisdictions. It contemplates the expenditure within five years from Federal and State sources of $160,000,000 in the country at large and of $lO,000,000 additional out of the Federal treasury in the national forests. It will develop the requisite machinery for safe-guarding the expenditure of every dollar already provided by the people of the nation. It is estimated that at present the equivalent of $225,000,000 is being expended for. roads and it is also stated that perhaps 50 per cent of this is uneconomically expended.. It may be confidently predicted that, as a result .of the act, vast improvements will be made in the expenditure of funds for roads and that the nation will have more ample guaranty that it will get its full value in this direction.”

Mother Is Critical.

'Mother doesn’t think much more of daughter’s chain than she does cfpa’s friends.—Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Good Roads Mean

Better farmers, and greater farm efficiency. production, cheaper distribution; hence cheaper commodities. Purer millT and fresher vegetables. More work accomplished and more time for pleasure.” More tourists and moremoney spent at hc<ne. Less gasoline, less tire trouble, more comfort. - Better rural schools, better school attendance. Better rural churches and better social conditions. More attractive rural homes, and more boys and girls staying on the farm. Greater progress, better citizenship. Who can doubt the urgency of an improvement that will tend toward these conditions?—S. E. Bradt. * - . A'’'.' '