Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19, 1917

. . *-K ; * ■ - This Range is Sanitary YOU can keep a JOY ECLIPSE range spick and span by simply washing it off with a damp cloth. The high closet splasher and oven door panel are white enamel, while ajj_ other castings are smooth requiring no blackening. Note that the smoke pipe is behind the high closet. This feature adds greatly “| to the appearance ° f , the booklets giving practical range, makes recipes, and VALUABLE • easier to INFORMATION on the 11 easier tO proper care and operation of clean and tjour range. Call and secure . a copy before they are all economizes On gone. They are Free. Cooking Space. —— : -- V C. W. EGER, Rensselaer, lad.

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RISKY.

At a Certain time every year a clergyman goes to a farm a few miles out to have a day’s shooting. He is a very poor “shot,” but a generous giverfacts well-known to Jack, the attends ant. Last Christmas he was out shooting and a rabbit jumped up about ten yards away. Bang went both barrels, but bunny escaped with a whole skin. “Did I hit him. Jack?” asked the parson in an excited whisper. “Well,” said Jack, thoughtfully, “I couldna say ’zactly as you ’it ’im, but I mus’ say I nivver seed a rabbit wuss scared. Ye’re vastly improved sin’ last year, sir.” The clergyman smiled proudly. “An* if ye keeps on improvin’ and comes again next year, why”—with a shake of his head —“summafll happen to that rabbit!”

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“Unto the Least of These"

By Alice E. Ives

(.Copyright, by W. G. Chapman.) Gusie Felstrom worked all day in the box factory. It was monotonous, wearisome work, and very small pay. • She saw on the avenue, when she went home, other girls, no prettier than she wearing becoming, beautiful clothes. When she went in to buy a pair of cheap cotton gloves she saw women buying long kid ones, and a kind of rebellion surged up in her heart at the existing state of things. But there was the worn-out, overworked mother, and four children, all yonnger than herself. The father’s small, intermittent earnings barely kept a roof over their heads. Had Gussie not been a girl who hought, she might have drifted along, 1 erhaps in the footsteps of her mother, or worse, have become a girl of the streets on the downward road to despair and death. She determined to fit herself for something better, so she went to night school, and then learned typewriting. She began working in an office at $5 a week. This was not much bettej than the box factory wages, and she required better clothes, in order to make a decent appearance, so from a monetary point of view her condition was not much improved. But she felt she had taken a step upward, and the family regarded her advancement in life with considerable pride. As the girl grew older gnd wanted more, and her wages did not correspondingly increase. After she had been a typist for two years she’was earning only $8 a week. » ■ She was now nineteen, and her association with other girls in offices had shown her homes cleaner, brighter, and altogether more livable than her own. She determined to have something better for herself. Two of the younger children were now working, and she resolved to seek a room away from the home roof. Both father and mother endeavored to show her how ungrateful, unfeeling, and utterly inhuman such a course would be to them; but in spite of upbraidings and entreaties Gussie found a room, and installed herself therein. As there had been an unpleasant scene

She Got Her Breakfast Over the Gas in Her Room.

at the parting, she cut loose entirely from the family, not even letting them know where she had gone. Her room, though small, was neat and comfortable, and in a good part of the city. She got her breakfast over the gas in her room, and her other meals at a cheap restaurant. At home, when she came from the office, she was expecjed to wash dishes and help with the housework. Now after office hours she was free to sew, keep her dothes in order, read, rest, or go where she pleased. If there were hours when she missed the companionship of mother and the children, they were more than balanced by the joy of her new freedom. She had more opportunities for going out with her friends, and making new acquaintances. On one of these occasions she met a man who told her he was about to open an office, and he offered her a position as typist with a much better salary than she was getting. Frank Austin, the man in question, was a good talker, well mannered, well dressed, about thirty-five years of age, and to all appearances a gentleman. Gussie accepted his offer, and found her new quarters pleasant and attractive. On the glass door in gilt letters were the words: “Pyro Mining and Investment Company, Frank B. Austin, President” Gussie was kept busy addressing hundreds of letters and circulars all over the country. Besides this she wrote a great many letters at Austin’s dictation. She was working harder than she had been, but she reasoned she was getting better pay. It seemed very wonderful to her to be writing about millions, and enormous returns for money invested, and one day she ventured to say she wished she might own a few of those shares, whereupon

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Austin told her, if she worked well, and kept quiet about the business, not discussing office affairs with outsiders, he would make her a Christmas present of some shares. Gussie was notlso innocent and dull. After a while she began to have'suspicions about the business, so one day as it drew near the holidays, she ventured to suggest that she would rather have her Christmas present in money than a larger amount in shares. “So,” said Austin, “you doubt their value?” Gussie didn’t know what to say, but he read her mind, and jumped to the conclusion it was better to have her friendship than her enmity. “Very well,” he said. “You shall have the money Instead, if you wish. I like your work, and I don’t think you talk about the business, so I’m going to make you a proposition. If you’ll help me still further in ways I shall suggest, I will make you my confidential secretary with a percentage of profits. But it must be ‘confidential,’ you understand. The moment you speak a word outside that ends it.” Gussie promised faithfully, and kept her prom4S<?. Money began to come in to her in such amounts that she started a bank account. T*hen one day Austin did not appear at the office. When she telephoned his hotel, she was told he had left town the night before, and they could not say where he had gone. Worried and anxious people began to call at the office and ask for Mr. Austin. Gussie answered their questions with suavity and tact. The next day officers of the law closed the office and took charge of Gussie as a witness, while newspapers had astounding revelations regarding the enormous swindling operations of Mr. Frank B. Austin,

In the Jail where Gussie was confined Mrs. Travers often came to help any hapless woman prisoner she could. She pitied Gussie, rwhom she believed to be innocent, and asked her about her people. At first the girl evaded her, but finally told how she had not seen them for a long time. Mrs. Travers, whose religion had made her very patient and loving with all humanity, came often to see Gussie, and her talks with the girl had the effect of making her see many things in a new light. One day greatly to her surprise, Mrs. Travefs brought her mother. Gussie stood still in her astonishment, but the mother, with streaming eyes, cried out: “Gussie!” and took the girl in her arms. Gussie’s head, like a very tired child’s, went down on the comforting motherly breast; and Mrs. Travers, knowing that if ever a girl needed a mother, it was just then, left them together.

Everyone believed the little typist innocent, and the time of her -release was only a few days off. Mrs. Travers had secured her another position, and it was all planned that a neat little flat was to be rented for Gussie, her mother and the two children. The father had died almost a year ago, and the brother next to Gussie was working in another city. ,

It was the day before Gussle’s release, nothing had been proved against her, and the good little woman, Mrs. Travers, had come to tell her how she had everything ready. The girl stood up to meet her with a new, strange light in her eyes. Her face was pale, but resolute. “I am not going tomorrow,” she said. “I must tell you. There is only one way. You have shown me the way. I knew that business was crooked. I must tell them so. There are a few hundred dollars in the bank, he said was my percentage. I want to give that up. I shall go to prison instead of home to mother. But It is right, isn’t it?” •' “Yes,” said the little woman. “It is right.” And she took the girl in her arms and kissed her. Then she went out and had a conference with high and mighty powers in the law, and the girl’s confession apd her poor little money she returned, together with Mrs. Travers’ plea freed Gussie. But out of the prison came another girl than she who went In. The light of a new, high ideal shone in her face. Mother and the little home were a haven of rest, and life took on a greater meaning.

A few illustrations of the size of some English estates are as follows: The Duke of Northumberland owned a few years since 191,481 acres; the Duke of Devonshire, 132,998; the Duke of Bedford, 87,515. Those who know nothing of the facts exclaim, “Why don’t the English people break up these big estates and give the people a chance to get land?” If this were done and tinkers, tailors and candlestick makers got to farming and treating their lands just as they liked down would go its fertility, and away forever would go the well-ordered, fertile estates that now make England famous. The English landlords as a rule take a real interest and pride In their tenants and spend money freely in providing pedigreed horses, homed cattle and sheep for the improvement of their flocks, studs and herds. —Philadelphia Ledger.

In the vicinity of the city was fought the famous battle of Freiburg, on the 3d, sth and 10th of August, 1644, in which the French, under the great Conde, Enghein and the almost equally distinguished General Turenne, were defeated by General Mercy, who was compelled in the end to retire. however, resulting in the French conquest of the Rhine valley from Basel to Coblentz. In one of the public squares of Freiburg stands a monument to the memory of Berthold Schwarz, who, according to tradition, invented gunpowder in the city in 1259.

Great English Estates.

Famous Old Freiburg.

Charles G. Spitler, President. Judson J. Hunt, Sec’y-Treasurer. Edward J. Randle, ViceiPresident. Charles H. Mills, Ass’t fiec’y-Trea*. The Trust & Savings Bank Report of the condition of THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK of Rensselaer, Indiana, at the close of business on September 11,1917.

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts... $256,339.4 i Overdrafts 1,058.99 Bonds .............. 6,420,00 Company’s Building ... 11,900.00 Advances to Estates.... 212.94 Due from Banks and Trust Companies .... 59,572.95 Cash on (Hand 13,069.1 7 Cash Items 1,470.80 Interest Paid ....... f 2,208.81 Current Expense ...... 7,497.63 Total Resources ....$359,751,33

State pf Indiana, ) County of Jasper, )SS: . 1, Judson J.. Hunt, Secretary-Treasurer of The Trust & Savings Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true . JUDSON J. HUNT. Subscribed and swoin to before me this 17th day of September, 1917. (SEAL) GERTRUDE HOPKINS, My commission expires April 1, 1921. Notary Public.

SCRAPS

Legs of mutton are selling In Paris at a dollar a pound. More than 8,000 British soldiers have been supplied wish artificial limbs. For years the United States government has sought to protect the Indian race from liquor. According to an estimate, made February 1 of this year the great war had, up to that time, cost the world $71,740,000,000. Prisoners at the Maryland penitentiary have bought $2,150 worth of Liberty loan bonds with savings from their small wage allowances. In 1916 the United States exported drugs, phemicals and dyes amounting to $124,000,000, approximately $97,000,000 in excess of the previous year’s exports. Booker T. Washington, the great leader of the negro race, put his ban on the liquor traffic. He said: “Strong drink is one of the worst evils that beset the negro.” Mortality among lambs in Scotland is greater than for fifty years past; lambs are being fed with whisky and hot milk, and many titled landowners are acting as shepherds. Upword of 120,000 women in England and Wales are working in agriculture. It is officially estimated one-third of the labor usually employed on the land has been taken for war work. Baltimore, Maryland, has a new police officer called the anti-noise policeman. The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises was founded in 1905 by Mrs. Isaac 11. Rice; since that time, public opinion has been in favor of compulsory noise elimination, although all cities have not been so progressive as Baltimore. The Somme battlefield is described as “a veritable junkman’s 'paradise.’’ Mountains of wine bottles are piled high along the roads and in the billets formerly occupied by German officers. These bottles are worth 25 to 30 cents each. Old

John Eger, President. James H. Chapman, Cashier. Delos Thompson, Vice-President. J. W. Tilton, Asst. Cashier. STATE BANK OF RENSSELAEB Report of the condition of THE STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER, a State bank at Rensselaer, in the State of Indiana, at the close of its business on September 11, 1917. x

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts. . $242,097.01 Overdrafts .......... 1,581.02 U. S. Bonds .......... 100.00 Other Bonds and Securities ..... 4 ii,900.00 Banking House . 8,000.00 Due from Banks and Trust Companies.... 76,929.14 Cash on Hand ....... 12,719.42 Cash Items - 149.73 Current Expenses .... 1-898.57 Interest Paid ’. 1,030.51 Total Resources $365,405.40

State of Indiana, ) County of Jasper, )SS: I j w. Tilton, Assistant-Cashier of The State Bank of Rensselaer, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. J. W. TILTON, Assistant Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this i7th day of September, 1917. (SEAL) MAUDE E. SPITLER, My commission, expires December 13. 1919. Notary Public.

Loaning Power of a Bank

..Look at the published statement of The State Bank of Rensselaer It has a capital of $30,000.00, surplus of $30,000.00, undivided profits and earnings of $5,695.77 and deposits of $284,601.61; thus it has the total sum of $350,297.38 available to loan to farmers, merchants and others, excepting a comparatively small amount of SB.000.00 which is'invested in its bank building. You will also observe that it has $89,798.29 in cash, which it desires to loan and will do so on favorable terms and upon any kind of bankable security, either real estate, personal or collateral. The State Bank pays 4 per cent, interest on savings and time deposits. .... ..

LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 25,000.00 Surplus 35,000.00 Undivided Profits ..... 1,105.97 Interest, Discount and Other Earnings ..... 14,294.54 Demand Deposits ~. . 236,663.06 Time Deposits 41,647.59 Savings Deposits 5,013.77 Reserve for Taxes .... 1,026.40 Total Liabilities ...$359,751.33

iron, steel and lead are being permitted to rust, with no attempt to salvage it, because the advancing allies can not spare the time and men. Thousands of miles of barbed wire are intact, not even rusted. Those who have made careful study of the nutritive properties of various grains and foods, agree that white corn is the most satisfactory. It is also the cheapest. Figures quoted by the Literary Digest, show that one pound of cornmeal, hominy, or grits is equal in food value to one pound of rice, one and onehalf pounds of cheese, two and three-quarter pounds of round steak, two dozen eggstone half peck of potatoes, six pints of milk. “The South knows and appreciates thQa value of white corn for table use; why not the North, the East, and the West?” A train of barges driven by motor traction recently reached the Regent’s canal with loads of coal from the Midlands in England. These were the first motor barges to navigate the English canals for any distance, and the beginning of a development which the Board of Trade is watching with interest. In their journey of 150 miles from Cannock Chase to St. George’* wharf, King’s Cross, the motor barges navigated seven different canals, and managed all the locks with ease, leaving the 7 horses on the towpath panting after them In vain. The motive power is a small motor driven by a mixture of pargffin and petrol. This is fixed to the stern, and can be transferred from one barge to another in a few minutes.

Every farmer who owns his farm ought to have printed stationery with his name and the name of hia postofflce properly given. The prln*' ed heading might also give the names of whatever crops he special' lzes in or his specialties in stock. Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and a standing with any person or firm to whom you write and Insures the proper reading Of your name and address. ■!

LIABILITIES Capital Stock —Paid in.s 30.090.00 Surplus 30,000.00 Undivided Profits .... 4.188.3 G Exchange, Discounts and Interest 4,436.49 Demand Deposits .... 255,244.91 Time Deposits ........i’ 24,056.07 Savings Deposits ..... 5,300.63 Certified Checks ...... 172.00 Reserved for Taxes.... 3,006.94 Total Liabilities ...,$365,405.40

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