Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1918 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1918

SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I—J. Montague Smith, Lawrenceville bank cashier and society man, receives two letters. One warns him that a note which he has O. K.’d with consent of Watrous Dunham, the bank’s president, is worthless. The other is a summons from Dunham. He breaks an appointment with Vera Richlander, daughter of the local millionaire, and meets Dunham alone at night in the bank. CHAPTER ll—Dunham threatens Smith with the police. Smith becomes aggressive. Dunham draws a pistol ana is floored by a blow' that apparently kills him. Smith escapes on an outgoing freight train. CHAPTER IV—Williams, chief engineer, finds the hobo Smith used to money in big chunks and to malting it work. The company is lighting concealed opposition and is nea r ruin. Smith is jokingly suggested as a financial doctor. CHAPTER V— Williams talks business to Smith, who will tell nothing of his past. Smith pushes a stalled auto away from an oncoming train and saves the eolonel’s daughter CoronaCH APTER Vl—While Corona looks on he drives off three bogus mining right claimants from the company's land. CHAPTER Vll—The colonel takes Smith to his home and persuades him, in •plte of Smith’s warning, to undertake the financial salvation of the company.

CHAPTER Vlll—Crawford Stanton, hired by eastern interests to kill off the ditch company, sets his spies to work to find out who Smith is. CHAPTER IX—Smith reorganizes the company and gets a loan from Klnzie, the local banker, CHAPTER X—ln the midst of a "mira-cle-working” campaign Corona asks Smith alarming questions. He reads that Dunham, still living, has doubled the reward for his capture. CHAPTER Xl—Smith gets encouragement in his fight from Corona, but realizes that he must stay away from her. Vera Richlander and her father come to Brewster. CHAPTER Xll—Smith tells Corona of his danger. He hears the Richlanders have gone up to the mines. He hires a new stenographer, Shaw, who is a spy es Stanton’s. CHAPTER XIII—He meets Vera, who lias not gone away with her father. She exacts almost constant attendance from him as the price of her silence. CHAPTER XlV—Stanton and his wife fall to learn about Smith from Vera. Stanton makes some night visits and Is trailed. ■ CHAPTER XV—Smith tells Starbuc* of the time limit on the dam. Starbuck cautions him about Vera and tells him of a plot to kill him or blow up the dam. They catch Shaw listening, but he escapes. CHAPTER XVl—Rumors that the dam Is unsafe cause a stock-selling panic. Smith tells the colonel of his entanglement with Vera and the colonel wants to let her talk if she wants to. She tells Smith that Tucker Jibbey, another suitor, yrho knows Smith, is coming to visit her.

CHAPTER XVIII. The Arrow to the Mark. Smith, concentrating abstractedly, as his habit was, updn thfe work in hand, was still deep in the voucher-auditing when the office door was opened and a small shocked voice said :« “Oh, wooh! how you startled me! I saw the light, and I supposed, of course, it was colonel-daddy. Where is he?” Smith pushed the papers aside and looked up scowling. “He was here a minute ago, with Stillings. Said he’d be back. You’ve come to take him home?” She nodded and came to- sit in a chair at the desk-end, saying: “Don’t let me interrupt you, please. I’ll be quiet.” “I don’t mean to let anything interrupt me until I have finished what I have undertaken to do ; I’m past all that, now.” “I have heard about what you did last night.” “About the newspaper fracas? You don’# approve of anything like that, of course. Neither did I, once. But there is no middle way. You know what the animal tamers tell us about the beasts. I’ve had my taste of blood. There are a good many men in this world who need killing. Crawford Stanton is one of thent, and I’m not sure that Mr. David, Kinzie isn’t another.” “I can’t hear what you say when you talk like that,” she objected, looking past him with the gray eyes veiled. . “Do you want me to lie down and let them put the steam roller over me?” he demanded irritably. “Is that your ideal of the perfect man?” “What, I said, and what I meant, had nothing at all to do with Timanyoni High Line and its fight for life,” she said calmly, recalling the wandering gaze and letting him see her eyes. “I was thinking altogether of one man’s attitude toward his world.” “That was some' time ago,” he put in soberly. “I’ve gone a long way since then, Corona,” “I know you have. Why doesn’t daddy comeback?” “He’ll come "soon enough. You’re not afraid to be here alone with mes are you?*’ “No; but anybody might be afraid of the man you are going to be.” His laugh was as mirthless as the creaking of a rusty hinge. “You needn’t put it in the future tense. I have already broken with whatever traditions there were left to break with. Last night I threatened to kill Allen, and, perhaps, I should

The Real Man

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have done it if he hadn’t begged like a dog and dragged his wife and chiK dren into it.” “I know,” -slie acquiesced, and again she was looking past him. “And that isn't all. Yesterday Kinzie set a trap for me and bated it with one of his clerks. For a little while it seemed as if the only way to spring—the trap was for me to go after the clerk and put a bullet through him. It wasn’t necessary, as it turned out, but if it had l>.een —” “Oh, you couldn’t!” she broke in quickly. “I can’t believe that of you!” “You think I couldn’t? Let me tell you of a thing that I have done. Night before last Verda Richlander had a wipe from a young fellow who wants to marry her. He had found out that she was here in Brewster, and the wire was to tell her that he was coming in that night on the delayed ‘Flyer.’ She asked me to meet him and tell him she had gone to bed. He is a miserable little wretch; a sort of sham reprobate; and she has never cared for him, except to keep him dangling around with a lot of others. I told her I wouldn’t meet him, and she knew very well that I couldn’t meet him —and stay out of jail. Are you listening?” “I’m trying to.” “It was the pinch, and I wasn't big enough —in your sense of the word —to meet it. I saw what would happen. If Tucker Jibbey came here, Stanton would pounce upon him at once; and Jibbey, with a drink or two under his belt, would tell all he knew. I fought it all out while I was waiting for the train. It was Jibbey’s effacement, or the end of the world for me, and for Timanyoni High Line.” Dexter Baldwin’s daughter was not of those who shriek and faint at the apparition of horror. But the gray eyes were dilating and her breath wa coming in little gasps when she said: “I can’t believe it! You tire not going to tell me that you met this man as a friend, and then —” “No; it didn’t quite come to.a mur. der in cold blood, though I thought it might. I had Maxwell’s runabout, and I got Jibbey into it. He thought I was going to drive him to the hotel. After

“You Are a Coward,” She Flashed Back.

we got out of town ne grew suspicious, and there was a struggle in the auto I—l had to beat him over the head tc make him keep quiet; I thought for, the moment that I had killed him, ano ( I knew, then, just how far I had gone on the road I’ve been traveling evei since a certain night in the middle ol last May. The proof was in the way I felt; I wasn’t either sorry or horror stricken; I was merely relieved tc think that he wouldn’t trouble me, 01 clutter up the world with his worth less presence any longfer.” “But that wasn’t your real self!’ she expostulated. “What was it, then?” “I don’t know —I only know that il wasn’t you. But tell me: did he die?’ “No.” “What have you done with him?” “Do you- know the old abandoned Wire-Silver mine at Little Butte?” | “I knew it before it was abandoned yes.” “I was out there one Sunday afternoon with Starbuck. The mine is bulk headed and locked, but one of the keys on my ring fitted the lock, and Starbuck and I went in and stumblec around for a while in the dark tunnels. I took Jibbey there and locked him up. He’s there now.” “Alone in that horrible place—anc without food?” “Alone, yes ; but I wept out yesterday and put a basket of food where he could get it.”" .“What are you going to do witt him?” “I am going to leave him there until after I have put Stanton and Kinzie and the other buccaneers safely out ol business.- When that is done, he car go ; and I’ll go, too.” She had risen, and at the summing

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up she turned from him and went aside to the one window to stand for a long minute gazing down into the electric lighted street. When 'she came back her lips were pressed together and she was very pale. “When I was in school, our old psychology professor used to try to tell us about the underman; the brute that lies dormant inside of us and is kept down only by reason and the superman. I never believed it was anything more than a fine-spun theory—until now. But now I know it is true.” He spread his hands. “I can't help it, can I?” “The man that you are now can’t help it; no. But the man, that you could be—-if he would only come hack—” she stepped with a little ury controllable shudder and sat down again, covering her face with her hands. “I’m going to turn Jibbey loose — after I’m through,” he vouchsafed. She took her hands away and blazed up at him suddenly, with her face | aflame.

| “Yes’ after you are safe; after there is no longer any risk in it for you! That is worse than if you had killed him —worse for you. I mean. Oh, can’t you see? It’s the very depth of cowardly infamy!” He smiled sourly. “You think I'm a coward? They’ve been calling me everything else but that in the past few days.” j “You are a coward!” she flashed back. “You have proved it. Yotf daren’t go out to Little Butte tonight and get that man and bring him to Brewster while there is yet time for him to do whatever it is that you are afraid he will do!” * | Was it the quintessence of feminine subtlety, or only honest rage and indignation, that told her how to aim the arrow? God, who alone knows the secret workings of the woman heart and brain, can tell. But the arrow sped true and found its mark. Smith got up stiffly out of the big swing chair and stood glooming down at her. “You think I did it for myself?— just to save my own worthless hide? I’ll show you; show you all the things that you say are now impossible. Did you bring the gray roadster?” I She nodded briefly. “Your father is coming back; I hear the elevator bell. I am going to take the car, and I don’t want to meet him. Will you say what is needful?” | She nodded again, and he went out quickly. It was only a few steps down | the corridor to the elevator landing, and the stair circled the caged elevator shaft to the ground floor. Smith halted in the darkened corner of the stair- ■ way long enough to make sure that the colonel, with Stillings and a woman in an automobile coat and veil —a woman who figured for him in the passing glance as Corona's mother — got off at the office floor. Yhen he ran down to the street level, cranked the gray roadster and sprang in to send the car rocketing westward. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

NATIVE GERMAN TRUE CITIZEN

Barnhart Paulis was in on the last day of the year and renewed his faith in the Reporter. He is 89 years old, and was born in Bavaria, German Empire, in 1828. He came to America when he was 25 years old. He had served three years in the army and having enough he hired a substitute to finish his time and concluded the country could do without him. He brought his best girl with him, and as it was too expensive to marry in the old country and involved too much red tape, the wedding was postponed until they reached Cincinnati. Here in the Roger’s Evangelical church on Elm street and by the Rev. Rogers they were united in marriage. He went to work in a bakery at the munificient sum off sl3 per- month. The union hadn’t been organized and his time began at 9:00 o'clock in the evening and lasted until 2:30 the next afternoon. •He abandoned this wiheja he was offered a job at S2O per month in another factory. in 185 7 he moved to Newton county and has lived in Iroquois township for 60 years. While he lived on a farm, yet he did other work ■'■among other things he made barrels, selling them for molasses and a few for meat. Aaron Lyons about that time began building his house on the farm north of town and needed shingles*, He “rived” them from the oak blocks while Barney and jlacob Hershman shaved them. Ail this work was done by hand. Mr. Paulis belongs to that class of Germans who came to America to live and found -homes and today they are among our best citizens. - Brook Reporter.

NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT Notice is hereby given that< sealed bids will be received until January 12, at 2 o’clock p. m. of said day, for, the remodeling of the I. O. O. F. building at Parr. Plans and specifications may be seen at L. L. McCurtain’s home in Pari*, i. The committee reserves the right to reject any and all bids. G. H. HAMMERTON, . CHAS. D. LAKIN, ERNEST COMER, ' ' CLYDE GUNYON, l. l. Mccurtain, j 2-5-9-12 r Building Committee.

THE TWICE-A-WEEK DEMOCRAT

Seed Horn Again The County Corn show last week served to emphasize the seriousness lof the seed corn situation. Out of all the corn on exhibition, Fred L. Kern, the judge, reported > that almost every ten-ear sample was dead and had mouldy ears. When one remembers that these samples represented the best seed corn stocks ' that the county affords, we wonder | where the seed is coming from to plant this season’s crop. What are we going to do about it? The hope for seed for the 1918 crop lies in the use of a large amount of old corn. In many cases this will be found to be of only fair quality and not of the best type, but this year, if it will grow, it will be necessary for farmers to overlook some '< of these points which have • been considered most important in the past. The amount of old <;orn is limited. It is very desirable, therefore, tot locate every bushel of old corn suitable for seed-

While new corn is in a serious condition, yet there are many who have early seed and by care- ' ful testing can get from this a large amount of good seed. If, with labor and time, 20 to 00 ears can be secured from 100 saved, this is better than discarding the whole lot and taking up something that is new and untried. The U. S. department of agriculture and Purdue will take Immediate steps to locate, seed in other counties and other states. ’'There is no question but that this county must import seed to supplement the local supply. Place your wants with the “Corn Committee’’ of the Better Farming association and they will see that you are supplied. Only early action will save the situation next spring. Cost of Producing Wheat It cost the farmers of Jasper county 94 cents to produce a bushel of wheat last season, according to the reports which were made to the U. S. department of agriculture by a number of farmers. These farmers were asked to fill out a cost sheet including thirtysix items of expense in connection with crop production the past season. The average total labor . cost in this county is given at $45.33 per acre as compared with $11.53 for the average of the states of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. The total averag ■ cost in the county was given at $19.86 per acre as compared with $28.82 (Tout the district, The yield per acre of the men reporting' from the county was twenty, as compared with twenty-four from the district. The higher yield in the district did not keep pace with the higher cost and the average cost of producing a bushel of wheat in* the three states is given at $1.20 as compared with the 94 cents in this county. Hog Feeding Demonstration Started I. F. Meader of Union township started his tankage feeding trials last week. He has twenty-five fall pigs which weighed at that' time 1,200 pounds, They are being fed corn, skimmed milk and tankage, trie latter in a self-feeder. All feeds are being weighed and accounted for. Mr. Meader will report tne progress of this trial from time to time, 1 His purpose is to show the eTect of protein supplements upon the cost of pork production. Interest in Spring Wheat

An assured price for breadstuff | has created an interest in spring wheat as a crop for,this county. i’nravorable weather conditions, shortage of labor and fertilizers last fall prevented many farmers from sowing as much winter grain as they g e-■ sired. Jasper county was asked to sow . 14,000 acres of wheat and the acreage now in is about 10,400. | Results with spring wheat in the past have indicated that it may not be expected to yield as well as the winter grain. With present prices, j however, it is possible ,that it will, be more profitable than oats on much of the land this spring. There are three distinct types of i spring wheat commonly grown. ! Marquis wheat has been introduced from Canada within the last few years. It is beardless and is characterized by early maturity, stiff straw and plump kernels. It is preferred by millers to all, other varieties. It is especially recommended on black loam soils. - Velvet Chaff is a bearded type ripening somewhat later than the Marquis. It is a high yielder but is not in favor on account of its poor .milking qualities. Bluestem is a later maturing

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

Department of Farm Welfare Conducted by County Agent Stewart Learning,

smooth variety with hard grain and excellent milking qualities. Young Corn Grower Reports As a part of their work, the boys in the Corn club were required to I write short stories of tjieir season’s expediences. These stories were graded by County Superintendent Sterrett, who awarded first, prize to Charles Stevens of Gillam township. The essay follows: How I Raised My Acre of Corn This spring the Superintendent came to school with names of the different clubs, and wanted all the boys and girls to join one of the clubs. 1 thought the matter over and decided to go in. the Corn club. The next step 1 got a plot olf ground nearly two acres. It had oats grown on it last year. The soil was a light loam. I put eight loads of barn-yard manure on the acre just before plowing. I plowed the ground the 12th day of May about eight inches deep. I harrowed the ground twice before- planting it. It was planted the 25th day of Maj’. I planted the corn in hills. The distance between rows was 3 feet, 8 inches. The distance in rows was 3 feet, 6 inches. 1 put 125 lbs. of commercial fertilizer on the acre. When the corn had been planted about five days 1 drug the ground. This loosened the ground so the corn would come through better. I had a very good stand, nearly every hill came. When the corn was coming through the ground I blind plowed it. 1 plowed the corn three times after this, about three inches deep till the last time, which was done with a gopher between one and two inches. The first three times plowing was done with a Dutch Uncle, the fourth with a twobladed gopher. When the corn was too big to plow and the ground began to get hard I hoed it. This was the last I did to the ground. About the15th iof August I saw the first tassel. The corn was not damaged in anylway so no treatment, was used. On the 7th d'ay of November the county agent, Mr. Learning, came up arid measured the plot and husked the corn. When we got the corn husked we weighed it. There was 6,228 lbs. We took 72 pounds to the bushel, which made 86% bushels to the acre. . Expenses. < Plowing (self ami ream) 3%h.5i.00 Planting (self and team) 1 hr .30 Preparing seed bed, 2% hrs. . . .75 Cultivating, 9 hrs 2.70 Hoeing, 10 hrs I .00 (Husking (3c -per bu.) '86% Im. 2.60 Commercial fertilizer 1.50 Seed corn 30 Total ~..510.15 Rent (at $5.00) 5.00 -Grand total $15.15 Farmers’ Chibs The Newton Farmers' club will hold its regular meeting Tuesday evening, January 15. A good program will be given and a large crowd is welcome.

The .Kniman Farmers’ club meeting will be held at the Kniman school, Thursday evening, January | 17. An interesting program has been arranged. The West Carpenter Farmers’ club have changed their meeting night, from now on, to the third Friday evening. The next meeting will be Friday evening, * January 18. Mr. Welch reports the following program: Song, ‘‘Old Glory” Wm. Ott Accompanied by violin. Reading, “How Father Snores”... . “ Barrington Jones Debate—Resolved: “That the tenant should feed his share of crops on the^'farm, while thfe ‘landlord’ sells his on the .market’’ Wm. Ott and H. Jones Reading, “Our Boy Has Gone to War,’' accompanied by the song. “Just Before the Battle Mother.” “Incubated Chickens vs. Hon Hatched Chickens,” Mr. Snyder of Rensselaer. Every one is invited. Remember, January 18. Trip to Purdue for Boys The County Better Farming association and the board of education has arranged for a personally con-j ducted trip to the Purdue Short. .Course, January 14 to 18, for the boys of the county. A special course has been arranged for the boys this ' year and it is of very high value. ! All boys who make the trip will J be given credit for their school work during the week. County Superintenident Sterrett and the county agent will be in charge of the party which | I will take the Monon train arriving |in Lafayette at 12:25 p. m. The ex- ' penses of the trip from Jasper coun|ty will run in the neighborhood of ten dollars. Any boys who care to take the trip are invited to take the train ■ mentioned at their nearest station. Aweek at the Short Course will Ido much'to create an inspiration toward better farming.

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THE PEOPLE ARE SAVING

Deposits in Savings Banks Have Materially Increased. It has been pointed out as evidence of how strongly the duty of saving had been impressed upon the English people by the warsavings campaign in that country, that in the year 1916, although purchasing billions of dollars' ot war bonds, the small savings-bank depositors in England increased their deposits in savings banks over $600,000,000,/this in (face of the fact that the English have been noted as a spending rather than as a saving people. It seems that a similar process has taken place in America. Two great Liberty Loans were floated in the year just closed, and nearly $6,000,000,000 of Liberty Loan Bonds were purchased by the people. Yet instead of being depleted the savings banks deposits of the country have been increased. The president of one O'! the large New York savings banks is quoted as saying, on December 20, 1917: “One of the most remarkable things about the Liberty Loan campaigns is the small effect they have had on the satvings banks accounts, which show- an increase. This we lay to the appeals made to the. American people to purchase the bonds out of their earnifigs, paying for them from week to week or from month to month. The people appear to be doing as they have, been urged, purchasing the bonds from current savings.’’

HOME-MADE HELL.

Yes, my son, there is a hell—in fact several of them; most of them are home-made with the makers trade-mark stamped thereon so we know they are genuine. The drunkard bpilds his own hell and inhabits it himself. If ills hell does not. suit him he usually blames his wife, the neighbors, the devil, and some of his other relatives, and then goes home and tries to make a new hell. This is hell for everybody! The man with the ingrowing grouch who goes home and picks a row with his wife and family is building his home-made hell! The wife who nags her husband—the common scold—the old henpecking mother-in-law —-the young man who knows more than his daddy, and tells him so, too, all are building their home-made helis. The thief, the libertine, the gambler, the forger and the little girl on the great white way, with her broadway smile, all of themi, my son are slowly but surely building their home-made hells! Heaven is in the heart, my boy, and hell is all our own making-—the old home-made brand that came in with Adam and Eve (ho same hell that Cain raised with Abel.—Wm. H. Dixon.

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111 IUB Why not insure your cars when we can carry your insurance for Fire, Lightning, Wind Storm, Theft and Collision for about $1 per SIOO. I also have several farms for sale or will trade on town property. If you need anything in insurance or real estate, see me. Walter Lynge” Phone 455 Rensselaer, - Indiana 1

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