Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1919 — Page 7

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1019

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BYNOPBIS. T - CHAPTER I—The story opens In the town of Granville. Ontario, where Miss Hasel Weir is employed as a stenographer In the office of Harrington and Bush. flhe Is engaged to Jack Barrow, a young real estate agent, and the wedding day is set'While walking with him one Sunday they meet Mr. Bush, Hazel’s employer, who for She first time seems to notice her attractiveness. Shortly afterward, at his request, she becomes his private stenographer. After three months Mr. Bush proposes marriage, which Hazel declines, and after a stormy scene in the office Hazel leaves her employment, Mr. Bush warning her he would make her sorry for refusing him. 1 CHAPTER 11-Bush makes an effort, by a gift of flowers, to -compromise Hazel in 'the minds of her friends. She returns them. The next day Bush is thrown from his horse and fatally hurt. He sends for Tlazel, who refuses to see him before he •dies. Three days afterward It is announced that he left a legacy of $5,000 to Hazel, “in reparation for any wrong I may have done her.” Hazel recognizes at once what construction will be put upon the words. Bush had his revenge. should let It bother us. If he’s really ,eo badly hurt, the chances are He’s out of his head. Don’t scowl at that bit ,of paper so, Johnnie-boy.” Barrow laughed and kissed her, and !the subject was dropped forthwith. X,ater they went out for a short walk. In an hour or so Barrow left for home, promising to have the concert tickets lor Thursday night. Hazel took the note out of her belt and read It again when she reached her room. • Why should he want to eee her? She wondered at the man’s persistence. He had insulted her, according to her view of It —doubly Insulted her with threats and an enforced caress. Perhaps he merely •wanted to beg her pardon; she had heard of men doing such things In their last moments. But she could not •conceive of Mr. Andrew Bush being sorry for anything he did. And so she could not grasp the reason for that eleventh-hour summons. But she could see that a repetition of such incidents might put her in a queer light. Other folk might begin to wonder and inquire why Mr. Andrew Bush took such an ■“lnterest” In her—a mere stenographer. Well, she told herself, she did not care—so long as Jack Barrow’s ears were not assailed by talk. • She smiled at that, for she could picture the reception any scandal peddler would get from him. The next day’s papers contained the ‘obituary of Mr. Andrew Bush. He had died shortly after midnight. And despite the fact that she held no grudge, Hazel felt a sense of relief. He was powerless to annoy or persecute her, and she could not escape the conviction that he would have attempted both had he lived. She had now been Idle a matter of days. Nearly three months were yet to elapse before her wedding. It seemed scarcely worth while to look for another position. She had •enough money saved to do everything she wanted to do. It was not so muci) lack of money, the need to earn, a$ the monotony of idleness that irked her. She had acquired the habit of work, and that is a thing not lightly shaken off. But during that day she gathered together the different Granville papers, and went carefully over the “want” columns. Knowing the town as she did, she was enabled to eliminate the unlikely, undesirable places. Thus by evening she was armed with a list of firms and individuals requiring a stenographer. And in the morning she sallied forth. Her quest ended with the first place she sought. The fact of two years’ service With the biggest firm In Granville was ample recommendation; in addition to which the office manager, It developed In their conversation, had known her father in years gone by. So before ten o’clock Miss Hazel Weir was entered on the pay roll of a fur-niture-manufacturing house. It was not a permanent position; one of their girls had been taken ill and was likely to take up her duties again In six weeks or two months. But that suited Hazel all the better. She could put tn the time usefully, and have a breathing spell before her wedding. * Three days went by. Hazel attended the concert with Jack the evening of the day Mr. Andrew Bush received ostentatious burial. At ten the next morning the telephone girl called her. “Someone wants you on the phone, Miss Weir,” she said. Hazel took up the dangling receiver. | “Hello l” "That you, Hazel?” She recognized the voice, half guessing It would be he, since no one but Jack Barrow would be likely to ring her up.

"Surely. Doesn’t It sound like me?” “Have you Been the morning papers?” "No. What—” “Look ’em over. Particularly the Gazette.” The harsh rattle of a Receiver slammed back on Its hook without even a “good-by” from him struck her Uke a slap In the face. She h|ung up slowly, and went back to her work. Never since their first meeting, and they had not been exempt from lovers* quarrels, had Jack Barrow ever spoken to her like that. Even through the telephone the resentful note In hlsj voice grated on her and mystified her. She was chained to her work —which, despite her agitation, she managed to wade, through without, any radical er-

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noon. The tweive-to-one intermission gave her opportunity to hurry up the street and buy a Gazette. Then, Instead, of going home to her luncheon, she entered the nearest restaurant. She wanted a chance tP read, more than food. She did not unfold the paper until she was seated. A column heading on the front page caught her eye. The caption read: “Andrew Bush Reaves Money to Stenographer.” And under It the subhead: “Wealthy Manufacturer Makes Peculiar Bequest to Miss Hazel Weir.” The story ran a full column, and had to do with his interment. There was a great deal of matter anent the principal beneficiaries. But that which formed the basis of the heading was a codicil appended to the will a few hours before his death, in which he did “give bequeath to Hazel Weir, until lately in my employ, the sum of five thousand dollars in reparation for any wrong I may have done her.” Hazel stared at the sheet, and her face burned. She could understand now why Jack Barrow had hung up his receiver with a slam. She could picture him reading that article and gritting his teeth. Her hands clenched till the knuckles stood white under the smooth skin, and then quite abruptly she got up and left the restaurant even while a waiter hurried to take her order. If she had been a man, and versed In profanity, she could have cursed Andrew Bush till his soul shuddered on its journey through infinite space. Being a woman, she wished only a quiet place to cry, (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

John E. Allen et ux o Charles H. Mills, December 26, Its 12, 13, 14, 15, bl 30, Rensselaer, Weston’s second add, SSOO. Emmet L. Hollingsworth et ux to Mamie Belle Williams, December 14, w% nw ne 19-32-5, 20 acres, Kankakee, sl. Alje Bierma et ux to George W. Ingrish, December 30, s% se 5-31-7, nw ne, si£ ne 8-31-7, Keener, $lO. George W. Ingrish et ux to Alje Bierma et ux, December 30, same lands, $lO. Mary F. Coffin to John C. Ladd, August 26, 1914, It 7, Dunn’s Kankakee Pleasure Resort, Fisrrt add, $75. Mary Bresnahan et baron to William B. Blankenbaker, December 2, e% out lots 27, 28, 29, 30, Parr, S4OO. Anthony T. Keiper et ux to Alton L. Padgitt et ux, January 4, w pt in pt se sw, e pt sw sw 29-29-6, 17 acres, Marion, $3,400.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been, appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administratrix of the estate of Ernest Town, late of DeMotte, Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. MILLIE TOWN, Admisistratrix. Dec. 30, 1918. J-4-11-18

MONEY TO LOAN on LIVE STOCK and CROPS WALLACE & BAUGH Lifaptti, Indiana F. B. Ham is no longer our agent, and for the time being we will have no agent in Rensselaer. Any one wishing to borrow money write or phone us. j

Saving Grace

By IMES MACDONALD

(Copyright, IMS. by MoClurs Newspaper Syndicate.)

Young Mrs. Dudley deliberately pawed at her husband’s newspaper and after a little struggle managed to thrust It to one side and deposit her charming person on his knee. “I seem to need a great deal more kissing than I really get,” she Insisted. Whereupon the delinquent Mr. Thomas Dudley strove to do his duty, although his short adventure in the realms of matrimony had already so experienced him In the ways of women as represented by his fascinating bride that he knew this was only the preamble to something else which doubtlessly occupied the fair head of his ardent wife. “Do you remember Grace Morgan, Tommie?” she asked eventually. “Hum,” mused Tommie Judicially. “The prim-faced girl with the brown eyes whom you used to ring in occasionally when I wanted you to myself,?” “That’s the girl!” laughed Louise Dudley. “But she really isn’t prim, Tommie. She just seems that way. She has lots of fun in her when you actually know her, but she’s lived In a dead little sanctimonious town and never had a chance to let herself go. And now what do you think she’s going to do?” Tommy solemnly gave it up. “She’s going to China to be a missionary !” announced Louise tragically. Tommy grinned at the fervor of his

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heart’s desire. “If she must spread enlightenment among the heathen,” said he, “why doesn’t she get married and raise some little heathen of her own ?” „ “There Isn’t a single man in her town she’d look at,” said Louise scornfully. “And I think the poor child Is just determined to amount to something in the world and this seemed to her to be her only chance to do so.” “Well,” said Dudley, “that’s hard luck. If I weren’t otherwise married now, I might look into her case, but as it Is, I’m sure I don’t see what I can do about it.” At this bold speech Mrs. Dudley sank two sets of clutching fingers into his thick blond hair and shook his head savagely. “You’re not the only man on earth, Tommy Dudley,” she said, “and when she coines I want you to behave and help your wife save Grace Morgan from throwing away her life.” “When she comes?” asked the bewildered husband. “Yes, when she comes,” mimicked the disrespectful one. “She’s going to spend a week with us on her way to China.” "My word I” exclaimed Tom Dudley. “You’ve already chosen the victim, I suppose.” “I’ve—l’ve sort of had Kirk Lovejoy In my mind,” she said wisely. “But Kirk’s my friend, Lou I” protested Tom. But bjs valiant effort to save his friend was in vain, for on the evening of the third day, as they say In the Scriptures, the pretty Mrs. Dudley cornered Kirk Lovejoy in her hall npon his arrival and lectured film sternly.

“When you meet her, Kirk, I want you to sweep her right off her feet. Now don’t pretend 1 I know Just exactly how you are with girls. You make love to them all, shamelessly, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t turn your talent Into a good cause for once in your heartless life.” “But I don’t want to marry her—l never even saw her!” he objected. “You don’t have to marry her,” she said. “Make love to her, that’s all. Arouse her natural woman’s interest in yon because you are a man—and maybe, if I can keep her here long enough she’ll meet a man worthy of her,” she finished caustically. And Kirk LoveJoy got the point that had Jabbed at his vanity. So It happened that two minutes later he was looking down Into a pair of uninterested £ray eyes and snuggling a languid hand in his strong, firm

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grip. "And this,” he said meaningly, glancing at Tom Dudley, “Is what the Chinese get for being heathen 1" Grace Morgan Joined In the laugh that followed, but Kirk did not release ter hand. He stepped close to her and spoke so tensely that her uninterested look changed to one of surprise and then of confusion. “They can’t have youl” he murmured. “I am a heathen myself, and misslonarying begins at home.” However, all during dinner, Kirk's spirits seemed entirely unimpaired by the horrible fact of her early departure for heathen lands, but he lost no single opportunity with both eyes and speech to Impress himself on the mind and heart of Grace Morgan. She pretended not to notice, but from time to time he caught her watching him covertly. The Impetuous young man was something new In her Inexperience, and she found herself responding to his high spirits with a gayety hitherto undiscovered In her makeup. After dinner Kirk lounged out into the kitchen whence came the rattle of dishes and the sound of quick footsteps crossing the bare floor. He still carried the personal element with him, and as soon as she could manage it, without Its being too apparent, Louise slipped out and abandoned Grace Morgan to her fate. “I was afraid I’d never get you alone,” said Kirk, watching Grace Morgan as she deftly wiped a plate. She turned to glance at him over her shoulder. It was getting exciting, he was so sudden and direct. “You haven't known me two hours yet,” she reminded him. “It doesn’t take more than two minutes when It’s the right girl,”' he teased her. * “Perhaps I’d better kiss you while I’ve got the chance.” Whereupon, to Grace's unprepared amazement, she found herself close gripped in his arms, and as with back-flung head she stared up Into his eyes she felt the strength of him. She was overwhelmed with the realization that It wus useless to resist, so with a little hopeless sigh she closed her eyes, and as his lips found hers, the china cup slipped from her released grasp and shattered to the floor.

A few moments later Louise returned to, the kitchen and found Grace Morgan alone On her knees In the middle of the floor staring with unseeing at the fragments of the broken cup on the floor in front of her. Her hand was pressed tight over her mouth and her face was flaming with such a color as Louise had never known she possessed, i “He—he kissed me!” she faltered In explanation. “Naturally," said Louise practically, “anyone could see that he was crazy about you from the moment he set eyes on you—but he needn’t break up all my wedding china in the operation —” “He didn’t! I broke It.” Grace rushed to Kirk’s rescue. “You—you see when It—happened, I was so—so surprised I dropped the cup.” And then sot some unaccountable reason Louise knelt down and hugged her. An hour later, when the four of them were gathered on the front porch, Tom Dudley put In his oar, when he observed that his friend was trying to camouflage a hand-holding contest with Grace Morgan in the shadow of the vines. “There’s a bungalow for sale Just down the street,” he suggested innocently, “let’s ail go and look at it.” And that’s how the ingenious Mrs. Dudley, with a well-trained husband, capably assisted by one Kirk Lovejoy, succeeded in saving Grace.

A consular report from Port Limon, Costa Rica, gives Interesting details concerning the trade of that region In balsa or corkwood (Ochroma), said to be the lightest of all known woods. It has long been used in tropical America for making canoes and a special type of raft, also known as balsa. It Is very poroua and a good insulator against heat apd cold, and the report above mentioned states that It would be valuable for airplane construction. The young trees are soft and very sensitive to Injury from vines. The trees are deciduous, the male tree being known as burillo and the female as balsa real. The shipment of balsa wood has apparently not assumed large proportions, owing to the difficulty of transporting it from Its native forests to the railway.

What |s sweeter than a murmur of leaves, unless It be the musical gurgle of water that runs secretly and cuts under the roots of the trees, and makes little bubbling pools that laugh to see the drops stumble over the roots and plump down Into its bosom? But what if one sits between both kinds of music, leaves above and water below? What if birds ore among the leaves, sending out random calls, far-piercing and sweet, . . . and if you have been there half an hour without moving, and if you will still keep* motionless, .you -may see what they who only walk through the forests neve? see.— Henry Ward Beecher.

Dry Goods Man Has Last Laugh.

ui jr - Early one Monday morning a smartly dressed woman entered the big dry goods store. “I am sending back those coats yon let mevhave on approval on Saturday,” she told the manager, blandly. “1 find that none of them really fit me. Then, tflth a gracious smile, she sailed out of the place. But she didn’t smile so blandly that night when she received a little parcel and a letter, which read: “Madam: We are returning the pair of gloves and the hymn book .which yon Inadvertently left in the pocket of one of our coats which didn’t

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Forest Music.

News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers

U.S. —Teutonic War News A Copenhagen special says a Fran-co-American squadron has passed the Skaw (nenr Skagerak) en route for Baltic waters. • • • An order has been Issued to the American soldiers at Coblenz that an officer or soldier who speaks to a German woman does so at the risk of court-martial. • • • German war mnterial to he formally turned over to the Americana by January 1 continues to arrive at Coblenz and at places in that vicinity. Among the arms surrendered are 100,000 rifles, 20.000 of which were captured from the allies. • * • In a warehouse in Coblenz-Lutzel, across the Moselle river from Coblenz, Americans have found 80,000 pounds of shoe leather and machinery for repairing shoes. * * • European War News Italian troops hnve been concentrated at Innsbruck to advance on Munl&h, capital of Bavaria, and enter southern Germany en masse in case of bolshevik disturbances, according to a message from Home by way of Switzerland.

• • • One hundred thousand Italian prisoners died of ill treatment, starvation and cold in Austria-Hungary, It wub revealed at Home by a committee making an official inquiry. * * • A Geneva dispatch says between 30,000 and 40,000 Polish infantrymen, well supported by artillery and envalry, are marching on Berlin, the Polish : News agency at Lausonne learns from ! Posen. Polish cavalry hnve entered j Frankfort-on-the-Oder nnd Posen, the report states. One dispatch says that Ignace Paderewski, the famous pianist, is leading his countrymen In street fighting in Posen. Polish Infantry hnve occupied the railway centers of Onesen, Beuthen and Browberg, capturing much railway stock and booty. * * • Japanese reservist troops on the Slberinn front will be recalled, the Tokyo war office announced. * * • Vilna has been captured by bolshevist forces, according to a Copenhagen dispatch to the London Mail, quoting Petrograd reports. • • • France does not desire any annexations ns a result of the war, but reserves to herself the right of discussion concerning the boundaries of Al-sace-Lorralne, according to a statement made in Paris by Stephen Pichon, minister of foreign affairs. • • • An appeal was made In Pnris chamber of deputies to have demobilization hastened, as there are only 4,000 nonmobllized doctors to care for the 35,000,000 civilian population, the death rate among whom has doubled olvlng to the Influenza. It was said that the army’s health was excellent nnd that It has 16,000 physicians with the colors. • • • A Pnris special says armistice conditions relative to the delivery of railroad rolling stock are being carried out satisfactorily by the Germans. In a single day 3,500 cars and 200 locomotives were turned over to the allies. I* * * Foreign^—'

Testimony at the court-martial of Gallagher, a bookkeeper at Dublin, disclosed that he organized a plot In Wicklow and Wexford to blow up the railway bridges, capture the police barracks and post offices, and overthrow the British military. Decision Is reserved. • * * Bolshevik troops have entered Riga and Vilna, aided by Germans, the London Dally Express learns from lta Geneva correspondent. The news is corroborated by Stockholm dispatches. • • • President Wilson wound up his visit to England at a brilliant private dinner in Buckingham palace. The president and his party departed for France via Dover at nine o’clock Tuesday morning. * <t • Striking miners in the Dusseldorf district have fought a pitched battle with the soldiers protecting the mine, according to advices received at Amsterdam. The encounter resulted In several persons being killed. • • * In addressing the chamber of deputies at Paris, Premier Clemenceau made it plain that it was his intention to support Great Britain in the peace negotiations on the question of the freedom of the seas, and he declared that his attitude in this matter was approved by President Wilson. • • * • Sinn Felners at Cork, after the announcement of the election results, blew up the monument erected by public subscription to the Cork soldiers who had fought in the South African I l 'war.

A London dispatch says two hundred and seventy sailors were drowned yj the result of the loss of the BrttlAi. steam yacht lolalre off Stornoway, Scotland. The yacht had 800 saflesW) on board. They were on New holiday leave. • • e Bolshevik troops captured Ufa, Itnl” of the White guards, according twj an official Russian wireless message tegLondon. Sterlltaraek also fell Mwi their hands. The Lithuanian ment has left Vilna for Kovno. • * • British forces have been landed Riga, according to advices received atiCopenhagen. Shortly after the land" ing there was an outbreak In which: several persons were killed andt wounded. . • • • Pillaging on a large scale Is betaft carried on by mobs in Frankfort, Ger- 1 many, and the authorities are power-1 less to prevent It, according to a die-* patch from Amsterdam. Troopa int the city refused to fire on the rioters.l • * • Disturbances at Constantinople contlnue and great fires have broken out in the Parmakkapol quarter of Pera, across the Golden Horn from the city proper, and In the suburb of Kadi Keul, according to advices from* Athens. j •• • ' A Paris dispatch says General Goo-' rood, who commanded the French, armies in the Champagne sector In thw* final days of thq,wur, has been awarded the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. • • • A Basie dispatch says burglars recently entered the former homo of Goethe and carried off a quantity of mementos of the poet. • • • aspiring by a German officer on an allied automobile carrying an American flag was the cause of street fighting In Posen, says a dispatch to London. The Germans were defeated. About 140 persons were killed. •• - * Washington By next summer the United State** navy will have been divided Into two fleets of equal strength, one on the Atlantic und one oh the Pacific coast* Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced when he reappeared besom the house nuvul affairs committee at Washington. • • • Many railroad telegraphers who received little or no wage advance under the recent order of Director General McAdoo have their pay raised by the amended order Issued by the director general at Washington. • • * A Washington dispatch says owe billion rubles ($500,000,000 face value) in bank notes printed In this country and sent to Itusslu aboard an American transport Is held at Vladivostok awaiting u decision by the Japanese, British, French and United States gov* ernments us to its disposition. • • • Secretury of the Nnvy Daniels bw fore the house naval committee at Washington declared the United States, having pledged Its support tw small nations, should build a navy second to none in the world If an International tribunal with power to enforce its rulings failed to become a reality. He was speuking In behalf stf the $600,OtX),000 navul building program. * • •

Domestic Announcement wns made at York by the Aero Club of America that Lieut. Commander P. N. L. Bellinger* a veteran naval nvlntor, made a none stop flight of 651 miles at Pensacola, carrying five passengers. * • • A new minimum wage scale of 08 % day, a flat increase of $1 a day for proxlmately 28,000 employees throughout the country, was announced by th* Ford Motor company at Detroit, Mich. ** • , The Cunard liner Carmanla arrtvad at New York from Liverpool with 10# passengers. She discharged 8,000 Canadian soldiers at Halifax befov* proceeding to this port. * • • An American food delegate la an route to Austria and Is due to arrive in a few days, a dispatch from Vienna reported. American foodstuffs are already being sent from France t* Austria. -•• • . The homes of Justice Robert von Moschzlsker of the state supremn court, Judge Frank, L. Gorman of the municipal court and Acting Superintendent of Police Mills, located ftn widely separated sections of Philadelphia, were damaged by bombs. * * • . • .A Toronto special states that with a*five-engined Handiey-Paige alrplana of about 2,000 horsepower, Lieut. OoL C. R. Colllshaw of Nanino, B. Cl* would attempt a flight early In April across the Atlantic. , • • • Twelve men were killed and twelve injured when an acetylene gas exploded in the cellar of the Lebanon (N. J.) post office, causing the collapse of the building. • * • In a thick mist which enveloped sea and blotted out the shore the United States transport Pacific, having on board 2,481 Amerl-* can troops, 1,671 of them ill ands wounded, went aground about a mll» off the New York shore on a sand barmidway between Point of Woods audit Fire island. »

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