Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1917 — Page 7

GOLD

By STEWART EDWARD WHITE

SYNOPSIS Talbot Ward’s challenge to Frank Muaroe 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. They reach Gatun, and. after passing through several villages where Ward always diplomatically handles the natives, thev arrive in Panama. Ward puts it up to each man to get *220 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 tn the Golden City, he accumulated several thousand dollars. The party dig their first gold. They are not much encouraged when told that the value of their first pan is 12 cents. Don Gaspar, a Spaniard, and his manservant 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 *ls a week in gold and a drink of whisky twice a day Bagsby promises to lead the party to a rich unexplored mlntag country. A band of Indians come into the camp to trade. They are thankful for blankets Letter the Indians attempt an ambuscade, but are routed bv 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 end Buck Barry are murdered after the element gets control of the city. Danny Randall organizes a vigilance eommlttee. 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. Arriving at San Francisco with little to show for their stay in the gold country, the party hunts up Talbot Ward. They meet VTard. He is one of the magnates of the city. While they have been hunting gold Ward, by clever real estate speculation, has grown rich. Ward thrills the gold seekers by declaring that each will receive his share of the money ho Has made.

CHAPTER XXXII. The Vision. WITHIN ten hours men were at work rebuilding. Within ten days the burned ar.ea was all rebuilt. It took us just about the former period of time to determine that we would be unable to save anything from the wreck and about the latter period for the general public to find it out. Talbot made desperate efforts for a foothold and in succession interviewed all the big men. They were sorry, but they were firm. Each had been bard hit by the fire; each had.-himself to cover; each was forced by circumstances to grasp every advantage. Again they were sorry. “Yes, they are!’’ cried Talbot. “They just reach out and grab what ought to be my profits, - Well, it’s the game. I’d do the same myself.” By that night we knew that Talbot had lost every piece of property he owned —or thought he owned. The-de-struction of the Ward block swept away every cent of income, with the exception of the dividends from the Wharf company stock. These latter could not begin to meet the obligations of interest and agreed payments on the other property. The state of affairs became commonly known in about ten days simply because in those rapid times obligations were never made nor money lent for longer periods than one month. At the end of each thirty days they had to be renewed. Naturally Talbot could not renew them. We knew all that long in advance, and we faced the situation with some humor. “Well, boys,’’ said Talbot, “here we are. About a year ago, as I remember it. our assets wqre a bundle of newspapers and less than SIOO. Haven’t even got a newspaper now, but I reckon among us we could just about scrape up the $100.” “I’ve got nearer $2,700 in my belt,” I pointed out. An embarrassed silence fell for a moment, then Talbot spoke up, picking his words very carefully. “We’ve talked that over. Frank." said he, “and we’ve come to the conclusion that you must keep that and go hornet justr as you planned to do. You’re the only man of us who has managed to keep what he has made. Johnny falls overboard and leaves his in the bottom of the Sacramento; Yank gets himself, busted in a road agent row; I -I—well. I blo’w soap bubbles. You’ve kept at it stdady and strong and reliable, and you deserve your good luck. You shouldn’t lose the fruits of your labor because we, each in our manner, have been assorted fools.” - I listened to this speech with growing indignation, and at its eonejusion I rose up full of what I considered righteous anger. My temper is very slow, to rouse, but when once it was* it takes possession of. me. ♦ ~ ' “Look here, you fellows,” very red in the face, they ten me, “you '-*- ’ » ■ ■

answer me a few questions. Are we or are we not partners? Are we or are we not friends? Do you or do you not consider me a lbw lived, white livered, mangy, good for nothing yellow pup? Why, confound your pusillanimous» souls, what do you mean by talking to me in that fashion? For just about 2 cents I'd bust your fool necks for you —every one of you!" I glared vindictively at them. "Do you suppose I’d make any such proposition to any of you—to ask you to sneak off like a whipped cur. leaving me to take the"— "Hold op, Frank," interposed Talbot soothingly. “I didn’t mean’’— “Didn't you ?" 1 ;Tied. “Well, what, did you mean? Weren’t you trying to make me out a "quitter?" I had succeeded in working loose my heavy gold belt, and 1 dashed it on the table in front of them. “There! Now, you send for some gold scales right now and you divide that up! Right here! Hang it all, boys,” I ended, with what to a cynical bystander would have seemed rather a funny slump into the pathetic, "I thought we were all real friends. You've hurt niy feelings.” It was very young and very ridiculous and perhaps—l can say it from the vantage of fifty years—just a little touching. At any rate, when I had finished my comrades were looking in all directions, and Talbot cleared his throat a number of times before he replied. “Why, Frank,” he said gently at last, “of course we'll take at —we never dreamed—of course—it was stupid of us, I’ll admit. Naturally I see just how'you feel,” “ft comes to about S7OQ apiece, don’t it?” drawled Yank. The commonplace remark saved the situation from bathos, as I am now certain shrewd old Yank knew it would. “What are you going to do with your shares, boys?” asked Talbot after awhile. “Going back home or mining? Speak up, Yank.” Yank spat accurately out the open window. “I’ve been figgering,” he replied. “And, when you come right down to it, what's the use of going back? Ain't it just an idee we got that it’s the proper thing to do? What’s the matter with this country anyway—barring mining?” “Barring-mining?” achoed Talbot. “The deuce with mining!” said Yank. “It's all right for a vacation, but it ain’t noways a white man's stiddy work. Well, we had our vacation.” “Then you’re not going back to the mines?” v “Not anyl” stated Yank emphatically, “Nor home?” “No.” “What then ?” “I'm going to take up a farm up thar. whar the Pine boys is settled, and I’m going to enjoy life reasonable. -Thar’s good soil, and thar’s water; thar’s pleasant prospects and lots of game and fish. What more does a man want? And what makes me sick is that it’s been thar all the time and it’s only just this minute I’ve come to see it.” “Mines for you, Johnny, or home?” asked Talbot. “Me, home?" .cried Johnny. “Why”— he checked himself and added more quietly: “No; I'm not going home. There's nothing there for me but a good time, when you come right down to it. And mines? It strikes me that fresh gold is easy, to get, but almighty hard to keep.” “Y’ou never said a truer word than that, Johnny,” I put in. “Besides which I quit mining some time ago. as you remember,” went on Johnny, ‘ due. to an artistic aversion to hard work," he added.

“Any plans? ’ asked Talbot. “I think I’ll just drift up to Sonoma and talk things over with Danny Randall,” replied Johnny vaguely. “He had some sort of an idea, of extending this express service next year.” “And you?” Talbot turned to me. “I,” said I firmly, “am going to turn over my share in a business partnership with you, and in the meantime I expect to get a job driving team with John McGlynn for enough to pay the board bill while you rustle. And that goes,” I added warningly. “Thank you/Frank,” replied Talbot, and I thought I saw his bright eye dim. He held silent for a moment. “Do you know,” he said suddenly, “I believe we’re on the right track. It isn’t the gold. That is a bait, a glittering bait, that attracts the world to these shores. It’s the country. The gold brings them, and out of the hordes that come some, like us, will stick. And after the gold is dug and scattered and all but forgotten we will find that we have fallen heirs to an empire.” THE END.

The Girl’s Suggestion.

An old gentleman walked up to the pretty girl attendant at the counter of a daily newspaper office a few days ago and said: “Miss, I would like to get copies of your paper for a week back,” “You had better get a porous plaster,” she abstractedly replied. “You get them just across the street.”—New York Globe.

Behind the Scenes.

“I see where a prominent politician and his wife went to a polling place together and voted.” “Now, that’s the way for married people to act!” “Apparently so. But nobody knows what acrimonious debate as to the merits of respective candidates may have occurred before they left home.”

Ready Response.

“I’m seein’ America first,” said the tramp at the door. “Could you assist me in me travels, mum?" “Certainly,” Answered the kindly housewife. “My husband‘ is 'an automobile enthusiast and has dozens ofroad*maps. »You are quite welcome to w of them."

MUCH IN LITTLE

Hawaii is making bricks from lava, Ayou, a Cayuse Indian, dead at one hundred anil twenty in Pendleton, Ore. Valuable deposits of lignite hate been discovered iti Sicily. India has become one of the world’s greatest consumers of aluminum. Cuba has the largest orange grove in the world, covering 2,000 ayres. Paper covers to protect automobiles in storage have been invented. —Ac thin paste of wood ashes and lemon juice will renew tarnished brass. The destruction of birds costs this country $1,000,000,000 a year, it is estimated. More than 145 words a minute have been sent in high-speed wireless tests in EnglandA portable vacuum cleaner of English invention can be used as a seat, table, cabinet, music stool or pedestal. A meteorite weighing about 20 tons is reported to have fallen recently at Bezerros, in the state of Pernambuco, prazil. If cotton and linen are steeped in any saline solution, such lis alum, ammonia, chloride or borax, they will become fireproof. New apparatus for filling automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply when the overintlation danger point is reached. Chinese ship fresh eggs long distances in good condition by coating them with a paste made of sea salt, vegetable ashes and water. Russian engineers soon will begin experiments tluft will cover three years to ascertain if sugar beets can be raised profitably in Siberia.

CLUBS AND SPADES.

Officer Doolan—l’ve nivir done annythin’ since I’ve betto in Ameriky but carry a club! Michael Casey—Begob 1 An’ in the ould country yiz nivir did annythin’ but handle a shpade!

Cooky Drawer

Having hit upon such an excellent place for keeping drop cooking (or any others) I thought perhaps someone else might welcome the idea. It is a shallow box, three inches deep, three feet long, and as wide as the pantry shelf. I made it from a smooth wooden grocery box and painted it inside and out with white enamel paint. The cookies can be laid flat on sheets of waxed pager in the bottom. As the drawee is entirely concealed by the shelf paper it would be a good idea where it is thought necessary to conceal cookies from the small members of the. household. —Aunt Jo.

Ragout of Mutton With Rice

Put into a stew pan a" tablespoonful of oleomargarine and when melted add a tablespoonful flour and let slowly brown; add an onion cut into small pieces, a diced carrot, two cupfuls hot water, teaspoonful salt, fourth teaspoonful pepper, a bit of bay leaf, six whole cloves and a sprig of parsley. Cook slowly for two hours. Just before serving, add half a can of peas. This is fine cooked in a casserole. Serve with hot boiled rice.

Peach Cream Cake

Bake a yellow sponge Cake mixture, and when cold place it on a lace paper doily. Heap sliced peaches in the center and circle the edge with whipped cream put through a star tube if possible. If a star tube is not obtainable, shape with a teaspoon. • Pass a pitcher of plain, thick cream with the cake.

Studies in Sacrifice

“Do you think women. ought to take an active part in politics?” “Yes,”, replied ‘ Senator Sorghum. “But I’m afraid that a girl who sacrifices her life to politics is going to have Something like the customary experience of a girl who marries a man to reform him.”

It’s Alive, All Right

Patience—l see it is said that about 1,100 kinds of insects make their home in the oak tree. . ** Patriee—Do you suppose that is what*keeps the oak alive so long?— Hankers Statesman.

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HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

GOODLAND (From the Herald) William Mustard left Wednesday for Vernon to spend a few days-on his old stamping ground. Mrs. Adea Wilson and Mrs. Letitia Tedford were visitors in Chicago the latter part of last week. Mrs. Max Harner has been quite ill with an attack of appendicitis. Her mother, Mrs. Katherine Schlater, has been a bronchitis patient. Sheriff A. J., Spinney shakes the cares of his high official duties from his shoulders on Saturday night and spends Sunday with, home folks. John Mustard resigned his position as nightwatch and Wednesday night was his last. The new nightwatch is Nate Vice, who started on his new duties Thursday night. G. W. Gilman headed a party consisting .of Ray Mead, Thomas Schlater, Mark Crandall, F. Rothrock, John Medlock, Ed Robinson and Garret Mead for the Chicago automobile show on Thursday morning. The Farmers’ institute that was to have been held in Brook on February 3 has been postponed to February 22 on account of the revival services which will be in progress at that time. Mrs. M. S. Foley fell on the walk, in front of Mrs. Hardy’s residence last- Thursday evening and received a broken knee. • She was taken into the Poultre home and then on home. Friday morning she was taken to the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Washburn visited with friends in Chicago the latter part of ’last week. Mrs. Washburn returned home Sunday evening, but Mr. Washburn boarded the “Hoosier” in Chicago for Indianapolis where, he was- a business caller.

STOCK AND IMPLEMENT SALES

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better strain than the Sultan strain in the United States; papers furnished, 25 Head <>f Hogs— Consisting of 1 brood sow, and 24 head of shotes. Fanning Implements, — ‘•Consisting of 1 corn planter with fertilizer attachment and 120 rods of wire; 1 gang plow, 12-inch; 1 sulky plow, 16-inch; 1 3-section harrow; 1 lowdown oats seeder; 1 hay ladder; 2 sets of work harness, and some collars; 1 Blue-Bell cream separa-

tor, and numerous other articles. j Terms— A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO with 6 per cent interest from date; if not paid at maturity 8 per 'cent interest from date: 2 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. NICK SCHMITTER. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on ground. BIG PUBLIC STOCK SALE I will sell at public sale at my residence 4 miles directly north of Rensselaer, on the W. P. Baker farm, commencing at 10 a. m., on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1917., 41 Head of Cattle — Consisting of 15 head coming 2-year-old sheers, 8 head coming yearling steers, 1 White Face cow, 6 years old. in calf to pure bred White Face bull; 1 White Face cow, 7 years old, bred to the same bull; 1 White Face cow, 5 years old, bred to same bull; 1 light red cow, 4 years old, bred to same bull; 1 red Polled cow, 3 years old, calf by side; 1 red cow, 3 years old, be fresh in March; 1 red cow, 3 years old, be fresh in April; 1 red cow, 2 years old, be fresh in March; 1 coming 2-year-old cow, be fresh by day of sale; 1 2-year-old heifer, be fresh in May; 1 roan heifer, coming 2 years old, be fresh in June; 1 2-year-old black heifer, be fresh in April; 1 2-year-old black heifer, be fresh in May; 1 2-year-old White Face heifer, be fresh in May; 1 coming 2-year-old red heifer, be fresh in June; these heifers are all bred to good Shorthorn bull; 3 coming yearling heifers; 1 coming 2-year-old Shorthorn bull, a good one. Terms—lo months credit will be given on sums over' $lO without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due 8 per cent interest from date; $lO and under cash; 4 per Cent off for cash where entitled to credit. No property to be removed until terms are complied with. SAM LOWERY. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. , C. G. Spitler, Clerk. BIG PUBLIC SALE As I am no.t going to farm so extensively and have more stock than I need, I will sell at public auction at my residence on the H. O. Harris farm, 1 mile south and 1% miles east of Mt. Ayr, and 6 miles west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a. m., on ’ WEDNESDAY. FEB.’ 28, 1917, 7 Horses and Mules— -Consisting of 1 span 3-year-old mules, wt. 2400, sound and exitea good ones, well

broke; 1 span mules, 12 years old, wt. 2400, good workersl brown gelding, 12 years old, wt. 1350, and sound; 1 bay gelding, 5 years old, wt. 14 00; 1 coming yearling colt. 22 Head Cattle— -Consisting of * milk cows, giving good flow of milk and bred to Shorthorn bull; 1 coming 3-year-old steer;-4 coming 2-year-old steers; 8 coming yearling calves. . •/ 14 Head of Hogs— Consisting es 2 Duroc brood sows, bred to a purebred Duroc male hog, will farrow abofft April 20; 12 shotes, weight about 80 pounds each, good ones. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 1 16-inch sulky plow; 1 Sattley corn planter with 100 rods of wire and fertilizer attachment; 1- 7-foot dise; 1 riding cultivator with gopher attachment; i 12-foot flexible harrow; 1 Blue-Bell cream separator, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—A credit of" 10 mpnths will be given on sums over $lO with 5 per cent interest from date; if not paid at maturity 8 per cent interest from date. 5 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. J. W. PHARES. Col. W. A. McCurtain, Auctioneer. James H. Chapman, Clerk. iHot lunch on the grounds. Col. W. A. McCurtain’s Sale Dates Phone Rensselaer, 020-R. Terms —1 per cent. February 7, Levi Miller. General sale. ’ “ February 8, Earl Haniford. General sale. February 12, Frank Clark, near Medaryville. General sale. February 13, Frank Garriott, near Fair Oaks. General sale. February 14, John R. Lewis. Hampshire hog sale. February 15, Clyde Gunyon. General sale. *■ February 16, Lee Myers, general - sale. February 19, John Stockwell. General sale. February 20, Lee Mauck. General .sale. February 21, Mr. Graber. February 26, Dan Wblfe.' General sale. - ■ ; 4*" February 27, West Williams and M. Robart. General sale. February 28, John Phares. Gen- ; . eral sale. ' . ■ March 1, Peter Walstra, at old headquarters of Otis ranch.- General sale. «