Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1917 — Page 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1917

Then I’ll Come Back to You

By LARRY EVANS

Author of "Once to Every Man" Copyright, 1915, by the H. K. Fly Company

SYNOPSIS Caleb Hunter and his sister Sarah wel•ctne to their home Stephen O’Mara, a homeless and friendless boy, starting from the wilderness to see the city. Stephen O'Mara catches a glimpse of Barbara Allison. The girl is rich. The O'Mara boy falls in love with her. She io ten. he fourteen. O’Mara daily becomes more convinced that some one is trying to stir dp trouble among his meh. . Wfckersham and Allison have a conference. They agree that Harrigan, their tool, has messed things trying to stir up trouble among the men. naran says uiat the regeneration or Garry is on- of tha things tr.at has made her life most happy. Sarah plans a meeting between Stephen and Barbara. Womanlike, ehe is convinced that, despite her engagement to Wickersham, Barbara cares for ©'Mara. O’Mara arranges a meeting between Garry and Miriam. Garry no longer is a drunkard. O’Mara has worked wonders with him. O’Mara returns to find the reconciliation of Garry and Miriam. Barbara is present, and her comments puzzle Stephen. Wlckersham and Allison begin to realize that O’Mara cannot be defeated. Sarah’s plan to unite Barbara and O'Mara seems to be working smoothly. Stephen gives Harrigan a beating. Wick•rshaon secs the fight. O’Mara thsn challenges W’ckersham to fight. Wickersham refuses. Barbara disappears. Steve rescues her. She sends Wickersham his ring and Wickersham orders Harrigan to kill his rival. Harrigan kills Big Louie and wounds Steve. CHAPTER XXIII. In Real Life Too. HERE was no longer any ob- { jection raised by Miss Sarah, gwoMwj and Barbara spent every hour of tier days with him. It grew warmer with aging spring, and almost immediately he was able to sit with her and watch the stream of logs coming in over the line from Thirty Mile and beyond. Miriam and Garry were married in that week which followed directly Steve’s first days of convalescence. Steve and Barbara were at the window together, Steve outwardly still a little pale and haggard, but for the rest his old serene self again. He managed not to smile at her small and serious face. “It certainly has" not strengthened my vanity a little bit, either,” said he, “to learn how smoothly things can move along without me.” Day by day the girl was finding her way deeper into that innermost heart of him which he had never shared with other woman or man. Hour by hour she was learning to know him better, and yet his whimsical gravity still could deceive her—she was sometimes thoughts behind his thoughts. Hard upon his reply her eyes flashed with indignation. “Pooh!” she scoffed. “Pooh! Most any old clock will run after somebody’s wound it up!” It was a trick of speech that she had learned from him, but his employment of parallel, lazily amiable for the most part, had never been so hotly partisan as was hers at that moment. And suddenly self conscious, suddenly confused and warmly disconcerted at the quality of his gaze, she had to hide her head. But she hid it upon a shoulder most conveniently at hand. Spring gave way to early summer, and now Steve was able to be on his feet again, so absurdly uncertain of balance at first, however, that she ridiculed him unmercifully one moment, only to rush to him in a panic of solicitude the next. There came long walks and longer trips in the saddle; came hours of silence that were the more wonderful; for want of words—hours in which, in a hushed voice, she gave him shyly of her plans. But always. too. the interruptions grew more and more frequent and insistent. Fat Joe and McLean and even Hardwick Elliott made more and more pressing demands upon his time, until finally he insisted that be could no longer play shamelessly the invalid. He must look in upon the works up river if only for the moral effect which it would have upon the men. She assented grudging ly. It would be. but a day or two. and then —then he would come back to her. The next morning, at the moment when Barbara and Steve were mounting their horses, for she wanted to ride with hip. a little way, Dexter Allison chose to disclose something which had been but lately in the process of preparation. He joined them at the edge of the lawn before the white columned house on the hill. “Easing back into harness, I understand,” he began, hot quite comfortably, however, for he was aware of a gleam of disapproval in his. daughter’s eyes at this interruption. “Well, there’s no great rush, but it’s wise no doubt to see that things don’t , lag.” He hesitated and shifted heavily to the other foot “We’ll want to-start through to the border by fall, I suppose.” “We’ll be ready.” Steve had to laugh at his lack of ease. “No doubt—no doubt” Again Dexter hesitated momentarily. And then

there came to the surface that proneness to' accept men for what they were in a mttn’s world which had long before convinced Caleb Hunter of Allison’s inherent bigness. “Elliott resigned the presidency of the East Coast Compaq last night” The statement was brief to actual crispness. "I merely tell yon this so that you can begin to lay f tentative plans accordingly, because in view at ’the immediate need of filling that vacancy I feel sure that there will be too manv demands upon your time here at the Morrison office for you to plan on much field work for yourself in the future.” . ' ’. - ' J • To Barbara at the beginning the speech seemed merely another : of her father’s rather involved, entirely labored attempts at the facetious. But when she saw the blood steal Up and stain Stephen O'Mara s face she realized that it was the very sort of suggestion from which on her lips be

“I am so happy,” she whispered.

had turned roughly away. Coming from the lips of her father, Steve accepted gravely, with a matching briefness that could not hide a surge of triumph. She rode with him that day until he told her that it was time for her to turn back. With Ragtime standing quiet, she laid her face against his and' complained that he had promised her she should never be allowed to go more than arm’s length away from him once she was his. 4 “This is the last time.” he told her in a voice vibrant and low. “This is the last time—for you and me.” He.held her closer for a moment “You will be ready when I come back?” She bobbed her head. “Ready—and waiting,” she said. The next night, in the cabin up river, after Miriam had left them alone to what she termed their complacent silence, Garry Devereau and Steve sat a long while before the former raised a face alight with his rare mirth. “Well, here we are,” chuckled Garry —“I, poor, but honest, already in the toils of matrimony, and you. a plutocrat in sudden danger of a government investigation, I’m told, and hovering on the brink!” “Here we are!” echoed Steve. And that was as close as either of them came to outspoken emotion. With a lightness somewhat self conscious. Garry had alluded to the property which Caleb Hunter had turned over to Steve. There was a trace of like humor in the latter’s reply. “I certainly am oppressed with the cares of sudden wealth,” said he. ♦ ♦ * • * • • Only her father and Miss Sarah and Caleb were present when they were married. And then, and not alone because she knew he wished It, but because it was the dearest wish of her own heart, they turned their faces toward the cabin on the balsam knoU. He dismounted and lifted her to the ground, for suddenly she wanted to go the rest of the way on foot. She let her weight lie against him, the top of her head scarce higher than his chin, and sighed a little. “Tired?” he asked with that gentleness he saved for her alone. The bright head shook. “Happy?” he asked again as gently. She swung around and clung to him then. “I’m so happy!” she whispered. “Do you suppose that any one will ever be as happy again?” There was ineffable content in bet question. Whimsically her own phrase rose to his lips. “Maybe,” he said, “maybe some time —in books!” She lifted her face then. He had the dusky glory of her eyes. “Maybe,” she echoed, her voice tremulous—“some time —but this time in real life too.” ' THE END.

A Toronto newspaper says that a company making Portland cement at Durham, Ontario, is now turning out as a by-product from the feldspar twelve to sixteen tons of potash daily. Feldspar rock is added to the limestone as a raw material for cement, and a process has been evolved for collecting the liberated potash. Both muriates and caustic products are prpduced. and while the market standard of the former is fixed at SO per cent to the trade, the company asserts that it is possible to produce an article which is almost pure.

TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

TO ORGANIZE FARM BUREAUS

One of the greatest needs of the present war, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, is the effective organization Of agricultural forces. The department advocates the formation of county farm, bureaus as an effective means of securing, needed local organization. The county farm bureau, says the department, helps to unify the efforts of existing farmers’ organizations and to strengthen their work. The bureau is likened to a y.ral chamber of agriculture, corin many of its functions to a city • chamber of commerce. The farm bureau grew out of a similar need for effective agricultural organization to meet rural problems, and it has been described ... organized self-help. It started as ah out-growth of the work done by county agricultural agents, but it has become the local federating agency through which groups of rural people may find expression. The farm-bureau plan, as seen ' v the department, provides for a —esentative membership, *vith mittees and a county council, lie membership should be general . ver the county, and at feast fourfifths Of it should be made up of active farmers. Those who are interested in either the formation or developmennt of a farm bureau should write to the agricultural extension director at" the state agricultural college and secure advice how to proceed.

IS MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY

The rule that exempts a man from draft on account of his religious creed is no good, says the edit :r of the Waverly Independent. A religion which prevents a man from serving his country, when his country, the United States of America, is assailed and when his country needs him, will not go far toward saving souls that ask protection tinder the Star-Splangled Banner.; A creed that forbids a man ♦o defend the institutions of the United States may be alright for angels, but it is too good for the r. S. A., so long as humanity is human. The U. S- A. whose protection and blessings we enjoy is good enough to live for, and it is good enough to fight for if neces-

Chiles tillable soil is held by 7 per cent, of the- population. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR SCHOOL HOUSE Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received by me at my office in the town of Parr, Jasper county, Indiana, until 2 o’clock p. m. SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1917. for the building, erection and completion of a two-story brick school house building, with basement, in district No. 6, Union township, Jasper county, Indiana, according to plans and specifications on file in my office; At the same time and place sealed bids will be received for the heating and ventilation of the said building according to plans and specifications on file in my office. At the same time and place sealed bids will be received for the water supply system according to plans and specifications on file in my office. A certified check for the sum of S3OO. payable to George ,H. Hammerton. trustee, must accompany each bid on heating and ventilating. A certified check for the sum of $25, payable to George H. Hammerton, trustee, must accompany each bid on water supply system. The checks deposited with each of the above bids to become the property of the said trustee as liquidated damages by the bidder to whom contract is awarded should the said bidder fail to enter into contract. and give bond according to law within five (5) days after being notified that his bid has been accepted. Plans may be obtained from the trustee or the architect, Samuel Young, Monticello, Indiana, upon a deposit of $5 to the party from whom plans are obtained, which sum will be refunded if plans are returned in good condition to the partly from whom obtained on or before the day of letting contract The right is reserved to reject any or all bids. . Dated, Julv 13, 1917. Signed, GEORGE H. HAMMERTON, Trustee Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana.

PIONEER Meat Market ELGEIdSBACH & SON, Props. ■ ' , ■■■■ ■ . • ■ Beef, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bologna AT LOWEST PRICES The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides and Tallow

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Mrs. Smith hired a Chinese servant, says the Los Angeles Times, and tried to teach him how to receive calling cards. She let herself out the front door, and when the new servant answered her ring she gave him her card. The next day two ladies came to visit Mrs. Smith. When they presented their cards, the alert Chinaman hastily compared them with Mrs. Smith’s card, and remarked as he closed the door: “Tickets no good; you can’t come in.” 4.A million immigrants a year were pouring into South America before the war. They came from Italy, Spain, Germany, England, Holland, Scandinavia, Portugal, China, Japan and India; but there is no immigration movement from North America. NOTICE OF STEEL BRIDGE LETTING*—No. 3076 Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, September 4, 1917, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive/sealed proposals for the construction of steel bridge in Carpenter township oh north and south road % mile south of the northeast corner of section 9. tbwnship 27 north, range 6 west, in Jasper county, Indiana. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office; all bids to be on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH Pr HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana, a-18-25. NOTICE OF RE-ESTIMATE OF COST OF STONE ROAD IMPROVEMENT Notice is hereby given to voters of Barkley township. Jasper county, Indiana'/ that the engineers and viewers in cause No. 3009- ir\. commissioners’ court of Jasper county’ Indiana, being a petition for stone road improvement in Barklev township, Jasper county. Indiana. by B. W. Ellsworth and others have filed their re-esimate of the cost of the proposed improvement with the Board of . Commissioners of said county, in which they re-esti-

mate the cost of the proposed Improvement at the sum of $11,841.99, instead of the sum of $10,547.63, and that the Board of Commissioners have approved the re-estimate of the cost of the proposed Improvement. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, a 11-18 Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS OF SALE OF HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT Notice" is 'hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of, Jasper county, Indiana, will, at the commissioners’ court room in the court house in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on September 4, 1917, at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of said day receive sealed proposals for the construction of a highway improvement known as the G. I. Thomas et al stone road in Car-, penter township, , Jasper county, Indiana, cause No. 302,6. Report, profile, plans and specifications for said improvement are on file in the auditor’s office of said county. Each bid must be accompanied by bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bid as provided by law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. (Seal) JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, all-18-25 Auditor Jasper County, Ind. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will on Tuesday, September 4, 1917, receive sealed proposals for > furnishing- groceries, dry goods and meat for the use of county poor asylum. 'All bids to be on file by 2 o’clock p. m. of said date and to be accompanied by affidavit as required by law, The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids, i By order of the 'Board'?- of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOS EPH P. HAMMOND, al 1-18 Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS OF SALE OF HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT Notice is ■ hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will, at the commissioners’ court room in the court house ip the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on September 4, 1917 at the hour of 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a highway improvement known as the Jacob A. May et al stone road in Carpenter township, Jasper county, Indiana, cause No. 3035. < Report, profile, plans and specifications for said improvement are on file in the auditor’s office of said county. Each bid must be accompanied by bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bid, as provided by law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. (Seal) JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, a 11-18-25 Auditor Jasper .County, Ind. NOTICE OF RE-ESTIMATE OF COST OF STONE ROAD IMPROVEMENT Notice is hereby given to voters of Barkley township, Jasper county, Indiana, that the engineer and viewers in cause No, 3011 in commissioners’ court of Jasper county, Indiana, being a petition for stone road improvement in Barkley township, Jasper county, Indiana, by John H. Rusk and others, have fijed their "re-estimate of the cost

of the proposed improvement, with the Board of Commissioners of said county, in which they re-estimate the cost of the proposed improvement at the sum of $9,987.50 instead of $8,850.10, and that the Board of Commissioners have approved the re-estimate of the cost of the proposed Improvement. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, all-18 Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. NOTICE OF SALE OF SCHOOL HOUSC BONDS Notice is hereby given, that on Saturday, Sept. 1, 1917, at the hour of 3 o’clock p. m. at the? office of the undersigned at the town of Parr, Indiana, tlie undersigned, trustee of th* school township of Union. Jasper county, Indiana, will offer for sale to the highest bidder therefor, $14,000 of the bonds of said school township of Union. Said bonds will be issued in 28 equal series, each consisting of one bond of SSOO, with interest at 5 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. Said bonds will be dated August 20, 1917. Bond No. 1 will bo due July 20, 1918, and one bond will become due each six months thereafter until all are due. Notice is further given that at said time and place, the undersigned trustee of Union civil township, will offer for sale to the highest and best bidder therefor SB,OOO of the bonds of said Union civil township? Said bonds will be issued in 16 equal series, each consisting of one bond of SSOO, with interest at 5 per cent per annum, payable semi-annuallv. Said bonds will be dated August 20. 1917. Bond No. 1 will be due July 20, 1918, and one bond Will become due each six months thereafter until all .are due.? All of said bonds will be issued and sold in compliance with the special order of the advisory board of Union township duly entered and signed upon their record, for the purpose <>f providing money for the erection of a school building in the village, of Fair Oaks, to replace buildings heretofore condemned by the. Iridlana state board of health as unsanitary. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. GEORGE H. HAMMERTON, Trustee of Union Township. Jasper County, . Indiana. all-18-25 . PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at my office till the hour of 2 o’clock p. m., Saturday, September 1, 1917, for the following school routes: One school hack driver for south route out of Parr. One school hack driver for northwest route out of Parr. One school hack driver for northwest route out of Parr, who will also fire the furnace of the Parr school house. One school ha<Jt driver for the east route out of Fair Oaks, and one for ihe north route out of Fair Oaks. One school hack driver for hauling the pupils of Center school district to Virgie school. . ” Plan of above routes on file m my office. . The right is reserved to reject any and all bid(t None of the above contracts to be sublet. _ GEO. H. HAMJIERTON. Township Trustee. Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Dated August 8, 1917.

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