Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — Page 7

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BYNOPBIB. CHAPTER I—The story opens tn the town of Granville, Ontario, where Miss Kaael Weir is employed as a stenographer in the office of Harrington and Bush. She is engaged to Jack Barrow a young real •state agent, and the wedding day Is set. While walking with him one Sunday they toeet Mr. Bush, Hasel's employer, who for 'th* 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 Hasel declines, and after a stormy scene In the office Hazel leaves her employment. Mr. Bush warning her ho would make hsr sorry for refusing him. CHAPTER IT—Bush makes an effort, by • gift of flowers, to compromise Hasel In the minds of. her friends. She returns them. The next day Bush la thrown from his horse and fatally hurt. Ho sends for 'Hasel, who refuses to see him before ho dies. Three days afterward ft nounced that he left a legacy of 16,000 to Hasel. "In reparation for any wrong I may have done her." Hasel recognises at enco what construction will bo put upon the words. Bush had his revenge. CHAPTER lll—Jack Barrow, In a fit of jealous rage, demands from Hasel an explanation of Bush's action. Hasel's pride Is hurt, and she refuses. Ths engagement is broken and Hasel determines to leave Granville. Bhe sees an advertisement for a school teacher at Cariboo Meadows British Columbia, and secures the situation. ? CHAPTER IV—Cariboo Meadows lain a wild part of British Columbia and Hagel, shortly after her arrival, loses het* way while walking in the woods. She wanders until night, when, attracted by the light of a campfire, she turns to It, hoping to find somebody who will guide her home. At the fire she recognises a character known to Cariboo Meadows as ’•‘Roaring Bill Wagstaff," who had seen ter at her boarding house there. He promises ffo take her home in the morning, but she Is compelled to spend the night in the woods. ‘ CHAPTER V—They start next day. Hazel supposes, for Cariboo Meadows, put Wagstaff finally admits he is taking her to his cabin in the He Is respectful and considerate and Hasel, though protesting Indignantly, is helpless and has to accompany him. I CHAPTER VI-At the cabin Wagstaff provides Hazel with clothing which had been left by tourists. There they pass the winter. Wagstaff tells her he loves her. but in her Indignation at her "abduction” sift refuses to listen to him. CHAPTER VH—With the coming of 'Spring Hazel Insists that Wagstaff take ner out of the mountains. He endeavors to persuade her to marry him and stay, but on her persistent refusal, he accompanies her to Bella Cools, from where she can proceed to Vancouver, i CHAPTER VTII—On parting. gives Hazel a package which she ers later contains 81.200 and a map which will enable her to And her way tothe cabin IF she desires to go back. At Vancouver Hazel plans to return to 9™?: vllle. but on the train realizes that she loves Wagstaff, and decides to go to him. She leaves the train at the first stop. . CHAPTER IX-With the aid of rfffl’" map she finds her way back, and the pair ."tmv*r to a Hudson Bay . fc . po fl an ?L_?r? married After some months they decide to go farther Into the mountains to a •pot where Bill is confident there is gold.

CHAPTER X. En Route. Long since Hazel had become aware that whatsoever her husband set about ijolng he did swiftly and with inflexible purpose. There was no malingering or doubtful hesitation. Once his Ini nd was made up, he acted. Thus, upon the third day from the land staking, they bore away eastward from the Clearing, across a trackless area, traveling by the sun and Bill’s knowledge of the country. • “Some day there’ll be trails blazed through here by a paternal government,” he laughed over his shoulder, “for the benefit of the public. But we don’t need ’em, thank goodness.” The- buckskin pony Hazel had bought for the trip in with Limping George ambled sedately under a pack Containing bedding, clothes and a light Shelter tent. The black horse, Nigger, be of the cocked ear and the rolling bye, carried in a pair of kyaks six Weeks’ supply of food. Bill led the tvay, seconded by Hazel on easy-galted bilk. Behind her trailed the pagk norses like dogs well broken to heel, patient under their heavy burdens. Off In the east the sun was barely clear Of the towering Rockies, and the Woods were still cool and shadowy, run of aromatic odors from plant and [tree. There was no monotony in the passing days. Rivers barred their way. These they forded or swam, or ferried a makeshift raft of logs, as seemed most fit. Haps and mishaps alike they accepted with an equable spirit andthe true philosophy of the trail —to take things as they come. When rain deluged them, there wfls always shelter to be found and fire to warm them.

If the files assailed too fiercely, a smudge brought easement of that ill. Each day was something more than a mere toll of so many miles traversed. The unexpected, for which both were eager-eyed, lurked on the shoulder of each mountain, in the hollow of every cool canyon, or met them boldly in the open, naked and unafraid. Bearing up to where the Nachaco debouches from Fraser lake, with a Hudson’s bay fur post and an Indian mission on its eastern fringe, they came upon a blazed line in the scrub timber. Roaring Bill pulled Up, and squinted away down the narrow lane fresh with ax marks. “Well,” said he, “I wonder what’s coming off now? .That looks like a survey line of some sort. It isn’t a trail —too wide. Let’s follow it a while. ‘Til bet a nickel,” he asserted next, “that’s a railroad survey.” . Half an hour of easy Jogging set the seal of truth on his assertion. They came upon a man squinting through a brass instrument set on threq legs, directing, with alternate wavlngs of his outspread hahds, certain actjvl-

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ties of other men ahead of him. “Well, Til be—” he bit off the sentence. and stared a moment tn frank astonishment at Hazel. Then he took off his hat and bowed. “Good morning,” he greeted politely. "Sure,” Bill grinned. “We have mornings like this around here all the time. What all are you fellows doing in the wilderness, anyway? Railroad?" "Cross-section work for the G. T. P.,” the surveyor replied. “Huh,” Bill grunted. “Is It a dead cinch, or Is it something that may possibly come to pass In the misty future?" “As near a cinch as anything ever 18,” the surveyor answered. “Construction has begun—at both ends. I thought the few white folks tn this country kept tab on anything as Important as a new railroad.” “We’ve heard a lot, but none of ’em has transpired yet; not In my time, anyway," Bill replied dryly. “However, the world keeps on moving. I’ve heard more or less talk of this, but I didn’t know it had got past the talking stage. What’s their Pacific terminal?" “Prince Rupert—new town on a peninsula north of the mouth, of the Skeena,” said the surveyor. “It’s a rush job all the way through, I believe. Three years to spike up the last ra.lL And that’s going some for a transcontinental road. Both the Dominion and B. O. governments have guaranteed the company’s bonds away jm Into millions.” “Be a great thing for this country—say, where does It cross the Rockies? —what’s the general route?" - Bill asked abruptly. "Goes over the range through Yellowhead pass. From here it follows the Nachaco to Fort George, then up the Fraser by Tete Juan Cache, through the pass, then down the Athabasca till It switches over to strike Edmonton.” “tJh-huh,” Bill nodded. “One of the modern labors of Hercules. Well, we’ve got to peg. So long." . “Our camp’s about five miles ahead. Better stop In and noon,” the surveyor invited, “if It’s on your road.” “Thanks. Maybe we will," Bill returned.

The surveyor lifted his hat, with a swift glance of admiration at Hazel, and they passed with a mutual “so long.** “What do you think of that, old girl?? Bill observed presently. “A real, honest-to-goodness railroad going

The Surveyor Lifted His Hat With a Swift Glance of Unconcealed Admiration at Hazel.

by within a hundred miles of ouP shack. Three years. It’ll be there before we know it. We’ll have neighbors to burn.” ' “A hundred miles I" Hazel laughed. “Is that your idea of a neighborly distance?” “What’s a hundred miles?” he defended. “Two days’ ride, that’s all. And the kind of people that come to. settle in a country like this don’t stick in sight of the cars. They’re like me—need lots of elbow room. There’ll be hardy souls looking for a location up where we are before very long.

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You’ll see." They passed other crews of men, surveyors with transits, chainmen, stake drivers, ax gungs widening the path through the timber. Most of them looked at Hasel In frank surprise, aiid stared long after sne passed by. And when an open bottom beside g noisy little creek showed the scattered tents of the survey camp, Hasel said: “T.et’s not stop. Bill." He looked back over his shoulder with a comprehending smile. “Getting shy? Mnke you uncomfortable to have alt these boys look nt you, little person?” he bantered. "All right, we won’t atop. But all these fellows probably haven’t seen a white woman for months. You can’t blame them for admiring. You do look good to other men besides me, you know.’ So they rode through the camp with bnt a nod to the aproned cook, who thrust out bls head, and a gray-haired man with glasses, who humped over a drafting board under an awning. Their noon fire they built at a spring five miles beyond. At length they fared Into Hazlgton, which is the hub of a vast area over which men pursue gold and furs. Some hundred odd souls were gathered there, where the stern-wheel steamers that ply the turgid Skeena reach the head of navigation. A landrecording office and a mining recorder Hazleton boasted as proof of it* civic importance. The mining recorder, who combined in hlmaelf many capacities besides his governmental function, undertook to put through Bill’s land flgal. He knew Bill Wagstaff. “Wise man,” he nodded, over the description. “If some more uh these boys that have blazed trails through this country would do the same thing, they’d be better off. A chunk of laud anywhere In this country is a good bet now. We’ll have rails here from the coast in a year. Better freeze onto a couple uh lots here in Hazleton, while they’re low. Be plumb to the skies In ten years. Natural place for a city, Bll?. It’s astonlshln’ how the settlers is cornin’.” There was ocular evidence of this last, for they had followed in a road well rutted from loaded wagons. But Bill Invested In no real estate, notwithstanding the positive assurance that Hazleton was on the ragged edge of a boom. - “Maybe, maybe,” he admitted. “But I*ve got other fish to fry. That one piece up by Pine river will do me for a while.” Here where folk talked only of gold and pelts and railroads and settlement and the coming boom that would make them all rich. Bill Wagstaff added two more ponies to his pack train. These he loaded down with food, staples only, flour, sugar, beans, salt, tea and coffee, and a sack of dried fruit Also he bestowed upon Nigger a further burden of six dozen steel traps. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

SEVERAL MORE INDIANA LAWS

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.general roads fund, and need for improvement of other highways in township. H. B. 359 —Tuthill. To provide for memorial forest reserves and also the state to accept and maintain 40 acres near Michigan City given by N. P. Kruger for park purposes. H. B. .366 —Jlnnett To reimburse national guardsmen in the sum of |13.31 for eadh man, who paid the state for uniform when the guard was federalized and to cancel the debts of the officers of the state for their uniforms. S. B. 256 —English. To admit children of soldiers and sailors of the world war to the Indiana soldiers and sailors’ orphans’ home at Knightstown. . , H. B. 381 —Symons. Authorizing secretary of state to destroy motor vehicle license applications two years old and to make void unredeemed vouchers against roads fund after two years. ■S. B. 330 —Smith. For the relief of James T. Ford, Pulaski county, ' relating to claims 'by the state on real estate. H. B. 446 —Butler. Amending the laws providing for the free supply of diphtheria anti-toxin so as to include tetanus anti-toxin. H. B. 72 —-Hoffman? To aimend the fishing, law so as to permit the use of lights and bobbers in fishing for the larger fish. H. B. 35 —Barker of Boone. #o repeal the laws creating the state department of statistics and geology H. B. 131 —Noll. To provide for public sales of goods held six months by warehouses, transfer companies, etc.,- when no storage payments have been made by ownera. H. B. 167 —McKinley. Amending 1911 law in regard to workmen in dangerous occupations by providing building inspectors to see that buildings are constructed in compliance with the former act. • S B. 316— ‘Hogston. Authorizing a public utility to supply free service or service at special rates, um til such time as Its franchise would have expired, had it not been surrendered and an indeterminate permit taken. - S. B. 33 —Signs. Creating a livestock sanitary board, which shall appoint a state veterinarian, and abolishing the veterinarian examining and stallion entoll'ment boards and giving the livestock sanitary board tiieir duties. S. B. 70 —Brandt. Providing that the clerk of circuit court ot Lake county shall receive SI,OOO additional salary Tor attendance In criminal court. H. B. 201—-Kessler. To increase basis of payment for teachers in the public schools of Indiana, by addition of 1% cents to the multiplier of the grade made by the teacher in his license examination. H. B 190— Axby. To give widows and orphans of the world war the iprivileges now enjoyed by wld-

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owe and orphan* of soldiers of former wars. H. B. 171 —Cann. To amend acts relating to spread of hog cholera to provide specific equipment for places disposing of dead animals. H. B. 168—Johnson. To provide for the appointment by the governor of a cbm mission to study child welfare and social legislation. Americanization and other subjects. H. B. 108 —Dean. Providing for the licensing of automobiles according to horsepower and motor trucks, according to capacity. |H B. 205 —Symons. To permit the establishment of free kindergartens by boards of school trustees or school commissioners and permitting a tax levy not to exceed |2 on 8100 for such purposes. H. B. 45—Davis. To prohibit the display of signs resembling railway crossing signs at other places than railway crossings. H. B. 23 —Wood. To amend rural loan and savings association law, by fixing the amounts of guaranty stock that rfhall be provided in cities of different copulation. H. B. 274 —Hoffman. Providing that soldiers 70 years old and widows of soldiers 60 years old may have tax exemption of 81.000H. B. 275 —Wimmer. To reimburse Putnam county for expenses due ,to escaped prisoners from Indiana state farm at PutnamvlUe. H. B. 296 —Deem. ’ Making it unlawful for any person to exhibit or display any red or black flag or flag of any other color bearing insignia representing sentiments of persons opposed to the government. H B. To provide that’ auditor of state may sell swamp lands to pay assessment benefits. ‘ _ H. B 317 —Kessler. To authorize county superintendents to give returning soldiers who were teachers success grades, to enable them to go on up in the teaching profession to the point where they would have been if they had nQt gone to war. • H. B. 327—Willis of Lagrange. To compel autolsts to look and listen when approaching a railroad grade crossing and to prohibit them from passing school hacks on highways, when school children are entering or leaving hack.

EFFECTIVE WITHOUT SIGNATURE S. B. 263—James. To legalize warrants heretofore Issued by township trustees for money lent, materials furnished and services performed; authorizing payment of face of tueh warrants with interest at legal rate from issue, provided suits pending shall not be affected. Township advisory boards are to examine witnesses and pass on facts as to warrants. S. B. 159— 'McCray. Providing that in Marlon county two chief probation officers of the juvenile court shall receive a yearly salary of 11,500, Instead of |lB a week, and that other Juvenile (probation officers in all counties may be appointed at the rate of one for each 50,000 population and be paid |l,100 a year. H. B; 93—Lowe. To enable cemetery associations having capital stock to retire such stock and create a voluntary association. H. B 268 —Southard. Amending the law to increase the daily ration allowance of sheriffs for "boarding prisoners from 40 cents to 60 cents a day, and to increase mileage allowance. S B. 227 —Douglass. Granting owners of thrashing machines a lien on grain thratfhed or hulled. H. B. 152 —Kingsbury. To provide for voluntary admission to state insane hospitals, In cases or Incipient insanity. H B . 68 —Davis. To provide for free* tuition at Indiana university of two students from each county, to be chosen on a basis of scholarship during entire high school state board of education a state teachers’ training boasd with power to designate normal school Instruction courses. , H B 236 —Flfleld. Changing legal per cent of interest on drainage bonds from 5 to 6 per cent. H B. 216 —Hamilton. Making It a felony to remove from a courtty or to dispose of personal property under condition of sale, without the consent of the owner. H. B. 209 —'Harris. To give city and county treasurers certain fees which the attorney-gdneral some time ago held they were not „enH B 253 —Kessler. To permit township trustees to transfer 13,000 from township fund of Washington township, Miami county, and 11,000 from the commission fund to the special school fund. H. B. 266—Harris. Amending the park laws to eliminate terv-year limitation period for assessing tax levies under law of March 6, 1911. H. B. 221 —Craig. To authorize boards of trustees of towns of 1,000 or more to accept and maintain auditoriums of value in excess of

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The Deal Scheduled for Last November, which was Postponed on account of the Influenza Epidemic, is now Ke-instated—-Good during the Month of March. OVER ONE 'MILLION JAIW OF VAPORUB PRODUCED EACH WEEK It 1s with pride thr.t we announce to the drug trade that the shortage of Vick’s Vapoßub, which has lasted since last October, Is now overcome. Since January Ist, we have been running our laboratory twen-ty-three and a half hours out of every twenty-four. Last week we shipped the last of our back orders, and retail druggists, therefore, are no longer requested to order in small quantities only. NOVEMBER DEAL RE-INSTATED This deal, which we had expected to put on last November and which had to be postponed on account of the shortage of Vepoßub, Is re-in-stated for the month of March. This allows a discount of 10 per cent on shipments from jobbers* stock of quantities of from 1 to 4 gross. 5 per cent of this discount is allowed by the jobber and 5 per cent by us. We advise the retail druggists to place their orders Immediately, so that the jobbers will be able to get prompt shipments to them. THANKS OF THIC PUBLIC DUE THE DRUG TRADE DURING THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC The thanks of the American public are certainly dub the entire drug trade—retail, wholesale and manufacturing—for what they accomplished during the recent Influenza epidemic. The war caused a shortage of physicians—nurses were almost impossible to obtain —the demand on the drug trade was unexpected and overwhelming, and to this demand they responded nobly. Retail druggists kept open day and

During the Influenza epidemic, Vick’s Vapoßub was used as an external application In connection with - the physician’s treatment, and thousands of people, njß unable to obtain a dpctor, relied on Vick's almost > exclusively. e .. .. Literally millions of families all over the country, from California to Maine, and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, have found Vick’s Vapoßub the Ideal home remedy for croup and cold troubles. _ J A

>20,000 as donations from citizens or associations and to levy a tax of not more than 2 mills on the dollar for maintenance. H. B. 240—8waln. To amend the laws governing the state board of optometry so as to exclude oculists therefrom. H. B. 319 —Bordon. Providing for the construction of roads to county Infirmaries on petition of 300 voters. H. B. 219 —Laughlin. Repealing sections 1 and 2 of an act relating to loans made to married women. H. B. 232— Mlltenberger. To amend present laws so as to provide that school boards in cities and towns, when elected by city council, must have no more than two of the three members from any one political party.

REFUSED TO RECEIVE H. B. 362 —Hamilton. To provide that city clerks in fourth class cities shall act as clerks of the city court. _ , | B. 217 —Kimmel. To increase pay of county road superintendents and allow them 7 r cents a mile for travel on business in their own automobiles. , , S. B. 153— Hepler. Authorizing county to issue bonds to pay expenses where It joins with city in the maintenance of market house in a public hall under tihe same roof. S. H 221 —Bairtum. Providing a specific statute for burglary or attempted burglary with explosives and fixing penalty of twenty-five to forty years. A measure recommended by the Indiana Bankers association. 8. B. 104 —McKinley. Authorizing common council to appropriate public money to assist Incorporated associations for the protection of public health. S. B. 94—Elsner and Decker. Making Wells county the twentyeighth judicial circuit and Blackford the sixty-ninth. H B. 112 —Tuthlll. Concerning appellate procedure and repealing act of 1917 concerning civil pro—Delaplane. Authoring township trustees to provide fire apparatus. H. B. 456 —Lowe. Providing that the board of trustees of the state soldiers’ home may make it a condition for admission to receive all sums of pensions in excess of 120 for widows and 'unmarried soldiers, and in excess of $25 for married soldiers. vetoed 8. B. 128— Duffey. Authorizing county commissioners to designate important public highways for the erection bf guide posts at-crossings for the benefit of travelers.

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night and slept where they dropped behind the prescription counter. Wholesale druggists called their salesmen off the road to help fill orders—hundreds wired us to ship Vick's Vapoßub by the qulcknrt route, regardless of expense. TREMENDOUS JOB TO INCREASE OUR PRODUCTION In this emergency we have tried to do our part. We scoured the country for ' raw materials—our Traffic Manager spent his days riding freight cars in—we shipped raw materials In carload lots by express and pleaded with manufacturers to increase their deliveries to us. . But It was a slow process. Some of our raw materials are produced only in Japan—supplies In thia country were low and shipments required three months *to come from the Far. East. Then we had to recruit and train skilled labor. We brought our salesmen into the factory and trained them as foremen. We Invented new machinery, and managed to install It on Christmas day, so as not to interfere with our dally production. 148 JARS OF VAPORUB EVERF MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT By January Ist we bad everything ready to put on our night shift, and since then our laboratory has been running day and night. To feed our automatic machines, which drop out one hundred and forty-three jars of Vapoßub a minute or one million and eighty thousand weekly, has required a force of 500 people. Out Case Department, created for the benefit of these workers, served 7,000 meals during the month of January alone. 18 MILLION J ARB OF VAPORUB DISTRIBUTED SINCE OCTOBER An idea of the work we have accomplished this Fall may be given by our production figures—l3,o2B,976 jars of Vapoßub manufactured and distributed since last October —one Jar for every two families in the entire United States.

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