Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — Page 4

Erskine's Case

By MARY PARRISH

(Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) •j Andrew Carr agreed to take young [Erskine into his law office because [he was the son of his old friend, lie [kept him there because he was making gdM. “Fred Hasn’t done anything extraordinary so far.” lie confided to his chum, "imt I trust. 1' him with a pretty important case the other day, and he put it through. The trouble is he. has a bee in bis bonnet. Well, I suppose you’ve got to expect it. Like all [young fellows he has fallen in love, and' wants to get married.” “Well, what’s to hinder?” asked the other, j “The trouble is the girl has just been graduated from a law school, and he wants me to take her into the office. Well, I won’t have if. I don't believe in woman lawyers. I won’t have the office all upset. If she wants to marry “him let her stay home and make a home for him. If he persists in his fool notions I suppose I’ll have to part with him.” And the old man heaved a sigh of regret. Fred Erskine had begun work on a very important case. It seemed rather strange to him that Carr had entrusted him with such a big undertaking, only stipulating that he was to be occasionally advised as to the progress of the affair; and consulted if necessary. He confided the matter to Edna Ferris, his fiancee, in whom at this stage of his career he confided everything. “I believe,” he declared, “the old genttemag is just trying me out. If I win this case, he may take me into the firm.” “Fred!” exclaimed the girl delightedly, “wouldn’t that be wonderful I Why you could work alone for years before you could get such a start!” “Yes, I know that. But you want to practice —and you know we must be partners.” ■ “Perhaps he will let me come in the office,” she said. . - Then Erskine was forced to tell the girl Mr. ’Carr’s aversion to women in the profession. “I told him,” he add-

She Found the Young Man With Bandaged Head, Arm and Leg, Stretched on a Cot.

ed, “I thought those ideas went out with the Victorian age. But you can’t budge him.” “Never mind, dear,” she said consolingly, after the manner of women, though her own heart sank within her. “We’ll bide our time. It will come.” Then Fred kissed her, and wondered if there ever was-another such a girl in the world. Edna became §o interested ip the case, she urged hifh to let her help him, and so instead of the ordinary talk of two young people very much in love with each other the evenings were given -up to points of common law and jurisprudence. The young man became more and more impressed with the clear thinking and logical brain of his counselor.One day he confided to Edna: “I can see that Carr is beginning to be a bit anxious and doubtful about this case. He has got on to that evidence Vernon has dug up. and it doesn’t look quite as clear sailing as it did.” “Well it hasn’t come into court .yet,” smiled the girl. “No, but if I should lose this—Edna, I’ve got to win! There’s too inuch at stake! It means everything to me.” A few days after this, Edna received a telephone call to come to the Benvelt hospital. Mr. Erskine had met with a slight accident, and wished to see her. Almost distracted, the girl htiiTied to the hospital. She found the young man with bandaged head, arm, and leg stretched on a cot., He had been struck by an automobile, and ■Was as he expressed “rather run out of commission for the present.” He tried to reassure, Edna by saying it was nothing serious, and he Would be out in two or three days. “Don’t tell anyone, -least of all, Carr,” he implored. “If he thought I couldn’t go on with the case, he’d get wild, and call in someone else." “But,” objected Edna, “he’ll find out.” "Not if you will help me. Just call

him on tlie ’phone,,and tell him I hav6 Suddenly been • called dpt of. town tn business about the case, and that I will wire or write Liih. If he asks who ■ you are- —‘ " i “I'll tell him-I’m a typist who has j been doing some work for you.” “Good!” smiled Erskine. “What a'splendid little'brick you. are !” | Edna did as she had agreed, not for-i getting also to account for.his absence ' , at the hotel by the "out-of-town” story . so-that they could answer any in-■ quirigs, and Erskine’s name, own foresight had been kept out of’thenewspapers. The third day after the accident, Ed-1 na found her patient Hushed with fever, and much worse instead of better, i .She did not allow him to see her alarm, but sought an interview with} the nurse. . ; “He has worried himself into this, fever about some business,” said tile nurse. “I wish you could find out, and suggest; something. There’s got to be' a slight operation on that leg, and we don't dare to-undertake it with him in this nervous condition.” The very word “operation” struck a chill,to the girl’s heart, but the life in the other room was to her so dear, she nerved herstdf to do anything to save it. ■ “I know the case so well,” she said to him as .she sat down by his cot. “Just let me go’on’ with it. I'll mail letters from all kinds of places from you to Mr. Carr. I have friends who will ses to that. Lucky your right bund is all right so you can sign them.' I’ll go on with the-hunt for that witness, and I'll come here, report progress to you, and get your advice. Now don’t worry the least bit. That case is as good as won.” - The next morning Edna hedrd in answer to her telephone inquiry that the patient was much improved. By her request he was moved to a pleasant room and every day she consulted with him as to the work done. After about five days, she found that Mr. Carr was growing restive. There was nothing for it, but •she must face the ogre. She introduced herself as MisS Town, the typist, and presented a parcel of neat papers, which she said Mr. Erskine had sent her in handwriting, requesting her to type and take them- to Mr. Carr. “Strange!” he musbd, “he stays away like this. But the next moment he became so engrossed in the papers, he said no more. ■lt soon, became a common occurrence for the girl to visit the office with a new batch of papers. One morning to her dismay, Mr. Carr asked her to type a letter to Erskine to get back as soon as possible as the case was liable to come up within a week. It seemed to him now so well prepared, he had agreed to the time. “Erskine has done some good work on this,” he chuckled. “Novy it’s up to him to make as good a figure before a jury.” -- Edna feared to tell the young man of the early docketing of the case. The operation ha'd been successful, but he" had not yet been allowed to stand on the injured leg. But her reports of Carr’s* confidence smoothed the way, and he declared he would get there. Two days before the time he limped with a cane into the office. Then he had to explain that he had met with an accident, and had not wanted to worry him so had gone on with the work till he was well enough to appear without bandages. Erskine won the case. As it involved several millions, it made a sensation in the papers, The next day Carr offered him the long-desired partnership. Erskine’s heart gave a great leap, and he put his hand into that of other man, not beibg quite able to speak. Then he pulled himself togetfibr, and said: “I’ve got to tell you—rd be a miserable sneak if I didn’t: I didn’t win that case. The big point, the one that turned the tide for us was. made by Edna Ferris!” Then he told all she had done. Carr, dumfounded, observed that he would like to lay eyes on thift girl. “You have,” answered the young man. “Not that smart little typist?” Erskine nodded. “Well she can come into this office just as soon as she wishes. We need her in our business.”

French Woman Farmers.

- Among the war recompenses that will be handed down with greatest pride from generation to generation jn French families are the diplomas, now framed and hanging on the walls of many a farmhouse attesting how the peasant woman and farmers’ wives, widows and daughter's*overcame war difficulties. The actual cash returns will equal a record year In time of peace, though, excepting oats and potatoes, the yield was below the average. This country of Brie, which is generally second only to the Beauce In ■wheat production and first of all for oats, stands at the head of both, yet this Crop was sown almost entirely by women, girls and boys too young or men too old to shoulder the rifle. German prisoners of war, volunteers from the camps of interned-civilian Austrians and Germans, a few territorials on a good many Parisian schoolboys and, last, but not least, the American self-binder, helped with the harvest; but with the exception of the self-binder, the help was available only in scattered spots.

That's Different.

“What’s the matter with me, doctor?” -■ “You have a stitch in the back.” “Dear me, that Is. so prosaic. I can’t, tell my , stylish, friends that. They would laugh at me.” “This is one of the fashionable new icitches.” —Louisville Courier-Journal.

THE TWO PASSENGERS

By NAPOLEON S. ZARICK.

Out of the door .of a popular gambling hall fled 20 hatless, coatless figures, and after them came a host of officers of the Iqw, namely, sharpeyed detectives and.shrewd policemen. It was a famous Ril’d. The gamblers had been caught in the act, the gambling devices, -sue of them valuable, wen- all confiscated, and the men. except- one. were seized after, a long run. The one who* escaped was Bob Crane, the owner of the hall. In vain all searched, trying to win the large reward offered for his capture. But he had disappeared, as if Off the face of the earth. But there was one person in the' city where the raid occurred who could have told the searchers where Bob Crane was. and that- one person was Nellie Hayes. Nellie was a tall girl, with soft brown hair and large, blue eyes. One afternoon after Bob had left the gambling hall to get a light lunch before going back to his evening work, he had decided to take a walk through one of the parks. While in this park he saw a horse madly running down the long, smooth" drive. His heart gave a thump as he saw a girl dashing before the oncoming horse. Bob made a desperate attempt to rescue the girl and succeeded in pulling her away from the danger. This girl was Nellie Hayes, and later, when Bob first met her on the street, nearly a year before the raid; he stopped short to look at her. He then deliberately turned and followed her at a respectful distance to her home on one of the fashionable streets of the town. Time passed rapidly and before, long he had made friends with her father, and in an amazingly short time the upper’ class knew him as the sweetheart of pretty Nellie Hayes. She knew nothing about him, but just took him on trust. thinking him to‘be an honest, upright man. Now, when he dodged under the arm of a bluecoated pursuer, and swung another one out of the way with a blow of his big fist, he ran, more from force of habit than anything else, straight In at the half-open door of the Hayes home. Nellie was standing in the hall as he rushed in. “Bob!” she cried, showing a little excitement in her voice, as she came toward him with her arms outstretched and her eves pitying him. “Oh, what’s the matter, dear?” “Don’t, Nellie.” he said huskily, as he looked embarrassed into her eyes, “you mustn’t touch me now. I don’t know what I’m here for anyway, unless it’s to tell you the truth. You hgve put too much confidence in me. Don’t look at me that way. I’m not fit for you to touch, nor to look at, nor to think of, Nellie, darling.” He choked back a sob ffefore he continued: “I’m a bad man, and the police are looking everywhere for me this minute, but I had to come and tell you first that it’s all true —what you’ll see in the papers today—that Bob Crane is a ‘gambler and a sharper, and that his business is to cheat men out of their hard-earned wages. I’m this same Bob Crane,” he Confessed to the only girl that he had ever ioved. “I’ve been trying to get into something else for your sake lately, dear, but I couldn’t seem to and old ways are hard to break. So good-by, Nellie, you’d best fol-get about me.” “Bob,” she hesitated; then she came and laid her hands on his shoulders to gaze into his eyes. “Bob, dear, if I’ll get you out of the country and keep them from finding you, will you promise to be a good man as long as you live?” He caught his breath. ‘‘Promise,” she urged, as she grasped him by the arm. “I promise,” he said solemnly, and then added, “but it’s leaving my heart behind me, Nellie, dear.” She did not answer, but crossed the hall aqd took a small envelope from a table drawer, then came and stood before him again. “Now, listen. From now on, Bob, you’re Mr. John Edwards and you’re going back to your old home in Ireland. Your rooms and passage were taken last Friday for today’s boat. You see, Mr. Edwards, who bought this ticket, is ill, and the doctor said it would kill him to go. His wife brought the ticket here last night and asked me to take it back to the steamship office this morning. So, Mr. John Edwards, I will hire a carriage for y'ou and tonight you’ll be safe on your way to the distant land.” She drew away a little as she handed him the envelope; she knew very well what would happen. He looked up in surprise as he opened it. His heart beat faster. “Why, Nellie, there are two tickets here. What does it mean?” • “Mrs. Edwards was going, too, Bob,” she replied. “But what’ll I do With them,” he Inquired as he glanced at her affectionately with a dawning comprehension. “Nellie,* oh, Nellie! You don’t mean you—you—” “Of course I am,” she said. “Did you think I’d let you go alone?” A few months later Bob and Nellie landed in the distant country and Bob Crane, the reformed gambler, married Nellie Hayes, the girl who had always been true to him. ~ ■> Today Bob is manager of Mr. Hayes’ foreign office, and is planning to return to America when he has repaid all of the money that he won in the gambling hall.. (CoDyrlght.l9l6, by the McClure Newep*per Syndicate.)

HOW TO TREAT CONVULSIONS

Hot Bath the First Thing to Be Administered to Child Who Suffers* From That Complaint ■ • - —' ' ■ When a baby has convulsions, it generail jVmeans one of two things; either it is suffering from toxaemia/; or poisoning, which is usually the result of errors in the diet, or else there is some serious trouble with the nervous system. If feeding is at die bottom of the troubl . iindwut and correct it, and the attacks will cease. When there is organic trouble present, the ease is more serhjus, The attack may be stopped, but it is likely to recur if rhe underlying cause persists. Such are the convulsions caused by meningitis, or acute Hitlamniatioh of "the brain coverings, and by hydrocephalus, or water pressing on the brain. It is unnecessary Jo describe the symptoms, for the most inexperienced person knows when a baby is having a convulsion. In older people a tendency to convulsions indicates an unstable nervous system, and that is probably true of infants who have convulsions in consequeii'Ce of dietary errors that would leave stronger children unaffected. Children who have convulsions in their first year often suffer from night terrors, tics, and other signs <>f nervous instability later in life. Sometimes convulsions are the first signs of an epilepsy that is to appear.in after years. The first thing to do when a baby falls into a convulsion is to get it into a warm bath as quickly as possible. triiut is done to relieve blood tension and equalize #the circulation, and to this end it is well to give cold applications to the head at the same time. ■ • Do not hesitate to give the hot bath. Sometimes inexperienced people who dread to make a mistake insist on waiting until the doctor comes. But the hot bath for a baby in convulsions can never be a mistake. The doctor should be called without delay, because in severe cases the bath must be followed by sedative and relieving treatment that he only will know how to employ. There is one important “don’t” to remember —don’t put anything into the child’s mouth —either food, medicine or stimulant —while you are waiting for the doctor. — Youth’s Companion.

TEN FOLD AND TIN FOILS

Little Maiden Put Her Own Interpretation on Words She Supposed She , Had Heard. Little Anne, who is just old enough to be proud of her*ability to read small words and spell out large ones, accompanied her mother to the neighborhood “movie” one evening recently. During the progress of the picture the little girl heroine hands over her hardearned savings to the did man who has befriended bier and who needs just a little money to put them both in the way to a comfortable living. The old man takes the money and says: "I will be able to return this ten fold.” After the lines disappeared from the screen little Anne said : • “Mother, what are they going to do with the tin foil I” —Indianapolis News.

Sang in Many Countries.

The air of “God Save th® King” and “Heil Dir im Sieger Kranz” also figured in the national or patriotic songs of many other countries. In the United States it was adopted by Samuel S. Smith for his famous song, beginning “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” This was first sung in Boston in 1832, and has often been called the national anthem of, the republic, although that honor is now more generally accorded to “The Star Spangled Banner.” In Bavaria the same air is used to “Heil I unserm Konig, Heil!” In Switzerland it becomes “Rufst du, mein Vaterland.” It is sung with other words in Denmark, Norway and a number of the German states, including, besides Prussia and Bavaria, the kingdoms of Saxony and Wuerttemberg, and in Brunswick, Weimar and Hanover.

Mangrove Forests in Bahamas.

Mangrove trees are to me the most fascinating of all the vegetable growths of our strange planet. When young, as we thus first came upon them, at the opening of the creek, there is something tender and idylic about them, with the fresh, childlike, laureline leaves and dangling rods of emerald that were really the suckers of their banianlike roots; but, as we proceeded inland they grew into an absence and bizarre maturity, like nightmares striding but in every direction, with prancing, skeleton feet planted in noisome, festering swamps, and stretching out horned, clawing hands that seemed to take root as one looked and threw out other roots of, horror like a dream.-—Ricffard Le GalIlenne, in Harper’s Magazine.

Mistletoe.

In .ancient times garlands and bouquets of the mistletoe were hung in taverns and doorways to Ward off evil, •and by many worn as an amulet attracting good influences. This aversion doub,tl«s sprang from a Christian prejudice against a plant deemed sacred by the pagans, a legend of the. monks holding that the mistletoe bough was cursed and never again permitted to grow as an independent growth, sihee it had been the tree from which was fashioned the cross of the crucifixion. In the West of England mistletoe is not allowed to enter,,into church decorations. '

WHERE WE GET OUR DUST

In Houses It Is Largely Fluff Worn Off of Fabrics, Investigator Dis-‘ covers. Analysis at the . Rensselaer Polytechnic. institute, at Troy, N. Y.. of dust collected by a vacuum cleaner shows that most household dust is fluff from fabrics. What it was formed of is reported to Science by R. R. Rees. There was human hair and other hair probably derived from soft hats. There were wool and cotton fibers ffom clothing, sand from the mud tracked in on shoes find the gradual pulverizing of the floor; wings from dead flies and paper from book leaves; lime, probably from the piaster of the walls; iron from the nails of shoes, carbon from coal smoke, salt from perspiration. . One grain of the dust was shaken with sterile Water and 318,0QQ bacteria were found in it. Many colon bacilli were separated. These came from coughing, sneezing and possibly expectoration, and were held by the dust. The little rolls of dusj that accumulate under beds and in the corners of ill-kept rooms tire composed largely of fluff worn off clothes,.blankets and carpets. The Popular Science Monthly ha’d a bit of this dust placed under a microscope with reflected light and photographed. On this it comments that we speak correctly of clothes being “worn,” and that we might also speak of “wearing” sheets and other bedclothes, because the fibers are worn away in much the same manner as a carpenter wears away the surface of. wood when he sandpapers, it. Drafts and other currents of air waft these fibers to and fro until they collect in small clusters of fluff. The bits attract others and soon the aerial flotsam is collected into little rolls of dust. '

MARRIAGE AND ITS MEANING

Happiness Only an Incident, Its Real Purpose Is Protection of Family Idea. “The individualist believes that happiness is the purpose of marriage,” writes Margaret Deland. “The purpose of marriage is the protection of the family idea. Happiness and marriage may go together; God send they do! But if the incident of happiness is lost, dqty remains; the obligation of contract remains; marriage remains—it remains, even though for profoundly righteous reasons the principals have seen fit to separate by the width of the world. “Marriage is civilization’s method of remaining civilized. It is deep with the elemental human pulses pf life for generations which are to come; it is solemn with its opportunities of spiritual insight through suffering; it is dreadful with its sense of responsibility for the ideal of permanence, which makes us men and women and not beasts; an ideal which we are to hand on, like a torch, from heart to heart, from soul to soul 1

Smart Scientist.

The scientist had given a very scientific lecture, and at the end he said, beaming down on his audience condescendingly 2 “Now, if there is any scientific question that any of my friends would like to ask, I beg them not to hesitate. I shall be only too happy to answer any inquiry in my power.” An old lady in spectacles that gave her a severe, stern look, rose and said: “Why do wet tea leaves kill cockroaches?” The scientist did not know that wet tea leaves did anything of the kind, much less the cause of the phenomenon; but, never at a loss, he replied: “Because, madam, when a cockroach comes across a wet tea leaf, he says: ‘Hello, here’s a blanket,’ and wraps himself up in It, catches cold, and dies.” —Tit Bits.

On With the Feud.

For six years a bitter feud had existed between the Browns and Robinsons, next-door neighbors. The trouble had originated through the depredations of Brown’s cat and had grown so fixed an affair that neither party ever dreamt of “making up.” One day, however, Brown sent his servant with a peace-making note for Mr. Robinson, which read: “Mr. Brown sends his compliments to Mr. Robinson, and begs to state that his old cat died this morning.” Robipson’s reply -was bitter: “Mr. Robinson is sorry to hear of Mr. Brown’s trouble, but he had not heard that Mrs. Brown was ill,”

Speaking of Appetites.

A huge eating competition had been held by some brawny sons of toil in a country town in Yorkshire, and one of the competitors had succeeded in disposing of a leg of mqtton, a plentiful supply of vegetables, and a plum pudding, the whole washed down with copious drafts of ale. He was unanimously declared the winner, and Was being triumphantly escorted hbme when he turned to his admirers, and said : ‘ “Ah say, lads, don’t thee say nowt of this to my ole woman, or she won’t gie me no dinner-!”—Toronto Globe.

Departed Warmth.

“What have you there?” “A package of old love letters.” ‘.‘Going to burn them ?” “Yes, When I wrote these missives they were so fervent I had an idea they might be ignited by spontaneous combustion, but I guess I’ll have to use a match after all.”

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SALE For Sale— Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per .bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale— -Wood slabs, $1 per load; six loads $5. Phone 919-H, Rensselaer, Ind.—ARTHUR MAYHEW. ts Fertilizer— l sell . the best fertilizer made. Yours for*-better crops. —THOMAS E. REED, Remington, Ind. Phone 7 9-J. f 6 Butter Wrappers Vegetable parchment, butter wrappers in any quantity desired, either plain or printed, at The Democrat office. For Sale— Two extra, good Poland China male pigs and three gilts. These are of large type.— JASON P. BICKEL, Remington, Ind. Phone 181. fl For Sale— Remington typewriter No. 7, with tabulating attachment. Machine in splendid order and looks and is practically as good as new; cost $l2O, will sell at a bargain.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale or Rent —The former John Bill property on Park avenue (formerly River street), consisting of good 8-room house with bath, electric lights, well, cistern/ barn, chicken yard, etc. Lot 75x300 feet.—F. E. BABCOCK. ■ For Sale— Bo-acre farm with a new 5-room cottage, also new barn; 10 acres in rye, 2 wells on place; half mile of school; 5 miles of Wheatfield, R. F. D. at door. If bought before Feb. 20 will take $2,400 cash.—J. W. HAMMERTON, R. D. 1, Tefft, Ind. For Sale— One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone, is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale— so,ooo to 75,000 feet of oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white oak posts on ground at 7c each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 642, Rensselaer. ts

FOR RENT For • Rent— Farm land west of college ground.—S. J. ASH. R-4. f-3 For Rent— 6-room house, newly painted and papered. Call 918-C. J3X For Rent— loo-acre farm. Enquire of E. P. HONAN, Rensselaer, Indiana. j3l For Rent — A dandy suite of office rooms over The Democrat office.—F. E. BABCOCK. ts For Rent—-Five-room house on River street, only two blocks from postoffice.—MAßY JANE HOPKINS. . For Rent— Stock farm to party with two or three good teams and farm equipment. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. • For Rent— The five-room flat over The Deomcrat office, city water, bath, electric lights, etc. To small family only.—F. E. BABCOCK. Phone 311 or 315. MISCELLANEOUS Carpet and Rug Weaving—At* residence, 1 block north of cement tile factory, phone 267.—T. W. BISSENDEN. f-15 Storage— l have two rooms for storage of light household or other goods in The Democrat building. Terms reasonable.—F. E. JABCOCK. Phone 311 or 315. Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedlch make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. Farm Loans —We can procurd you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.— CHAS. J., DEAN & SON. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I On! fhnl Wlthout Delay - _ Mr I IHr w,thout Commission I 11VI I lib Without Charges fog Wl Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON DATES OF LYCEUM COURSE Hagerman, lecturer, February 8« Rob Roys, quartet, March 5,