Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1919 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, NOV JM, 1010.

WHITE MAN

By George Agnew Chamberlain

Author of “Room.” “Through Steinod Glmo." "Joh* Bogarduo.” etc.

SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER L—Andro* Pellor, handsome daurhter of Lord Pellor, Impecunious aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy mtddle-a«d diamond minx owner. She disconsolately wanders f»om her hotel in South Africa and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course Imarlnln* that the trip will be merely a pleasant excursion, and a welcome relief from thoughts of her impending loveless marriage, she begs to be taken for a flight, although she does not know him. He somewhat unwillingly agrees, and they start. CHAPTER ll.—When she realises her unknown aviator is not going back Andrea in desperation tries to choke him with one of her stockings. He thwarts her and they sail on into the very heart of Africa. Landing in an immense craal, Andrea finds the natives all bow In worship to her mysterious companion. She is given a slave boy, "Bathtub," and the White Man sets about building a hut for her. CHAPTER 111. Andrea swallowed a lump in her throat. “I won’t-r-I will not cry," she said aloud. “I shall never cry again. I’m really having a g—good time. I’ve always been bored and I’m certainly not bored now, and only a fool would cry over that.” She settled down to her breakfast in earnest, forgot that she detested eggs fried, ate every scrap of the toast, most of the marmalade, and drank three cups of tea. Then she sat back and let her eyes amuse her. The kraal’s activity had centered about the newest and smartest of the huts. Around it many men were working, some digging trenches, others cutting an extra door in, its side. Presently still others began to arrive in a seemingly endless procession, bearing posts, stripped of thblr bark and cut to uniform length, and great bundles of withes and thatch grass. She watched them work with a wonder at what they were doing that grew vaguer and vaguer until she drowsed and finally dropped sound asleep in her chair. She awoke two hours later to find the white man standing before her, clean shaven, Clear eyed, smelling of soap and looking almost dapper in khaki helmet, shirt, breeches and puttees. "Well, Mr. White Man?” said Andrea.

He smiled a slow smile of relief as though he had been dreading her first words. “Will you now?” he fished. She arose, started to follow him and stopped with a gasp. “Why I” she exclaimed, her eyes fastened on, the hut that had been the scene of labor. It was transformed. Before it now stood a veranda with a thatched roof. Inclosing the veranda, the hut and a tiny garden at its back was a mighty stockade, each post of which was sharpened to a needle point. From the extra door ran a covered way as strongly built as the stockade and which connected the hut with its neighbor—that into which the white man had disappeared. “Will you come?” repeated the man. Andrea followed, him, only to stop again when she reached the veranda. It was carpeted with a long grass mat of vivid colors and on the mat stood chairs and a table. On the table was a hand sewing machine and from corner-to-corner post swung a hammock. She had to stoop very low to enter the hut itself, apd once within had to wait a long time for her sunfilled eyes to accustom themselves to the kindly gloom. The man grew tat patient and struck a match. By Its light Andrea saw a vision of comfort The room was circular and unceiled, so that one could look up and up into the very depths of its tapering peak. From that height dangled a wire and on its end hung a lantern. The man Ut it and showed her how it could be carried to any desired point on the cl rmmference of the room and hooked there. On one side stood a cot already made up; beside it a small camp chair. On the other side was a long hammock chair, and close to it stood a carved tabouret piled high with books. Over a small table hung a foolish little mirror. The walls were wainscoted with a woven mat of golden reeds The place smelled clean, was dean. Andrea had come into the room obsessed by a single idea, and that was to determine the why and wherefore of the covered passage leading to the next hut. She failed to discover its entrance un,til her companion drew her attention to a door, wainscoted like the walls bat crossed by a sturdy bar pivoted at one end, the other sinking Into a deep socket “It occurred to me,” said the man, “that perhaps you would be afraid at night unless you were sure of help. Listen,” He raised the bar, and as he did so the hidden ddor flew open and a gong sounded in the next hut. "The bar cannot be lifted from my side of course,” he added.

Then he led her out through the veranda into her private garden and pointed to a quite new and tiny hut. “Tour bath and washroom,” he said. “You must have no water in the hut you live in. not only because its floor Is of mud but principally on account of the mosquitoes.” “Live?” said Andrea. “My dear White Man, you are mad. Pm not going to live here, no matter how horribly I’m tempted by all this thoughtfulness of yours and—care.” He looked questioningly at her face. “Will you dine with me,” he ventured, “at half past five? It’s the best hour on account of daylight and only two meals a day. Will you? After that. we’ll talk it out” Andrea nodded and dismissed him with, “Till half after five, then.” Things had moved so fast through the day that she had had no time to mark more than their general course. Now she settled down to a deliberate survey. She went back in her mind to Aunty Gwen, to her brothers and to the public at large as represented by the colony dance. She imagined their consternation at her disappearance, visualized the efforts that even at this moment were being made to trace her and’ the full force of their Inevitable futility. The searchers would have nothing to go on. There was only one chance as far as she knew and that was a slim one. In the general excitement the native whom the white man had left behind might chatter his way Into sufficient prominence to get himself called as a witness. But she set small hope on such a solution, for the last few hours had taught her that the author of ail her troubles was more than White Man to those under him —he was master. Then her thoughts turned to the man she was to have married. Of course, and whatever happened from now on, that —deal—was off. She puckered her brow, puzzled that such a conclusion brought no great shock with it. Last of all, she thought of herself. What was the meaning of this day to Andrea Pellor, to that girl whom she had curiously watched, studied and dreamed over during very nearly a quarter of a century? Unconsciously she faced the problem from the standpoint Into which she had been bred alone —measured It by the cold rule of convention and society usage.

Tm done for,” said Aftdrea to herself. "Yesterday I was a pearl of great price in the marriage market, and now everything in the way of cash that offers will come from the music halls I Your last day, Pellor,” she added aloud, giving a deep significance to the use of the old family name alone. Her Ups curled and her eyes hardened rebelllously as she added a final murmur, “But it's been a hummer 1” “Scoff ready, Missis.” She jumped erect with ft startled cry. "Plenty hungry, eh?” said Bahtub with fils usual grin of pride at his powers of deduction. “Tell your master that I shall come Ift ten minutes," she said, watched him go and closed the door after him. Then she turned and hurried to the

“Tell Your Master That I Shall Coms In Ten Minutes."

little mirror on the wall. She flushed with anger as she looked at herself. The excitement coupled with the heat had made her forget her inappropriate garb. She rehung the looking glass and looked around for implements of toilet On the little table lay a comb and a single military brush, looking lonely without its mate. There were also a tin of powder, the common sprinkler variety that men use, a fresh bottle of dental lotion and a sealed box, proclaiming itself in loud type the container of the only perfect toothbrush. “Not so bad,” reflected Andrea, and went to work to make the best of what was already one of God’s choicest creations. But when she had finished the wonderful result only angered her. The incongruity of sitting down thus garbed to' an open-air camp dinner at half past five in the afternoon and face to face with a man in appropriate kbaki, outraged her very acctt-

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rate judgment as to what was fitting. Suddenly she remembered her cloak. She rushed to the door and called to Bathtub. He came bn the run, received her orders and a moment later fetched the all-concealing garment, still warm from Its sun bath. Andrea put it on, her bare shoulders shrinking from its hot touch. Beneath the acacia gleamed the white table set for two. Near it sat the man, nursing patience with a cigarette as Is the way of the waiting male. He arose as Andrea drew near and threw his cigarette away. He was clothed In the full dress of the tropics—white mess jacket, black tie, white waistcoat, black trousers, silk hose and pumps. Clean shaven, hair well brushed, he had dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s of etiquette and stood for six feet of the best brand of unconscious gentleihan. Andrea, stopped several paces away and gazed at him. Her eyes filled suddenly with tears and her heart swelled in the quick answer of the generous to the thoughtful. She drew near and said in a voice that trembled slightly, "You are considerate In all —little things.” « She raised both hands to her throat, unhooked her cloak and let it slip from her shoulders. For an Instant his eyes were those of a man of her own world. They swept over her as though they took the measure of her loveliness for the first time. They traveled with a flashing gaze from her soft hair to her flushed cheeks, down over her bare neck and into the faery meshes of her filmy frock, and there they stopped with a jerk as though even In that moment he remembered that very short skirts and a truncated silk stocking might leave a serious gap in the all-too-frail defenses of modern modesty. Then he came back in one swift upward sweep and met her own gaze, squarely, steadily. She drew a deep breath. Something sustaining had come into the white man’s gray-blue eyes, something you could lean upon He was suddenly not of her old world. "I am afraid the soup Is a little cold,” he said' as he stepped around to draw her chair for her. The dinner was good beyond the cachet of mere gross appetite, and it was served with a rapidity and smoothness that would have done credit to the oldest of the Pellor butlers. "Your servants are well trained,” said Andrea. “Each has little to do,” said the mast. “He must do It well. That, Incidentally, is the secret of getting satisfactory work out of an African.” "Is It?” said Andrea absently. "I’ve always heard they were a shiftless lot and that a white man could do the work of ten niggers." (TO BE CONTINUED)

SCENIC WONDERS ARE ON WAY

Plans Made to Light the Lincoln Highway for 3,900 Miles. New York, Nov. 24.—An illuminated Lincoln highway paved throughout its length of nearly 3,900 miles from New York to San Francisco, equipped with artistic filling stations, each one contributing in its architecture some sculptured phase of American history, recreation parks, libraries and hotels, is the project of a Toledo organization. It has laid the lighting plan of the project before the Henry L. Doherty interests of this city, says the Evening Sun. Long links of the Dixie highway in the sbuth are now being lighted, or placed in preparation for lighting. The idea of automobile travel by night has apparently taken hold all across the nation and, it 18 pointed out, vast improvements will be made in the Lincoln highway during the coming winter and spring. The work of paving or surfacing the highway has been left to the several states traversed, but every automobile club from New York to San Francisco has come out emphatically for paving at any cosit. It I? claimed that transcontinental travel, unusually heavy on the Lincoln highway last summer, will be doubled during the summer and fall of 1920. In many states, notably In lowa, Nebraska and Nevada, great improvements are now under way looking to a shortening of the distance. In Colorado, which is off the main Lincoln highway, the state highway commission is pushing a “cutoff” up what is known as Paudre canon, the northern gateway to Rocky Mountain National and Estes parks. This highway is being constructed by convicts and will reduce the distance between Chicago and Salt Lake 90 miles. The road goes through a veritable gorge and crosses the loftiest point of the Rocky Mountains, known as the Continental Divide, at an altitude of 12,000 feet, passing moving glaciers, crossing great maralnes, penetrating deep and gloomy forests alive with game animals and birds, and lifting over gigantic craigs at a grade not exceeding 2%%. Eastern tourists who traveled the completed section of the Paudre road last summer may imagine the wondrous beauty which electric lights will add to the canrifin settings in the Inky blackness of night and to the cas-

FARMS FOR SALE

No. 5. 160 acres—This farm lies In spendld neighborhood, seven miles out on good road. It is all good soli and In corn, wheat and oats except six acres In timber pasture. The timber la hickory and burr oak. The farm la fenced and cross-fenced with hog wire fence. There la a five-room house, large new barn, new double cribs 50 feet long, good well, windmill and tanks. Can sell on easy terms Price |IBO. No. 7. 116 acres—This farm lies joining railroad town with pike roads, elevator, stores and good brick high school. There is a good two-story, eight-room house, fair barn, silo, garage and workshop combined, with cement floor, and a number of outbuildings, a good well, windmill and fine orchard. The farm has 76 acres in black land in cultivation and 40 acres in pasture which has some timber. There is a good outlet for drainage and the farm is a good stock and grain farm with high school privileges. Price 8125. ' No. 0. 156 acres—Thia farm lies on the Jackson highway, two miles from station. It to in good neighborhood and has school across the road and five churches within live miles of the farm. It to all black land in cultivation except 15 acres. It is fenced with cattle wire and cross-fenced. There to three acres of bluegrass pasture at barn fenced hog tight There is a 12-Inch tile starts on this farm for outlet for drainage. There is a good five-room bungalow, good small barn, well house, good well and new garden fence with cedar posts. Price |125. Owner might take clear property or small farm as part payment Will sell on terms of 84,000 down and long time on remainder.

No. 11. 40 acres—This farm lies on main road, 80 rods from the Jackson highway and half-mile from station, school, church and store. It is on R. F. D. and telephone line. It is level black soil and well tiled into large ditch that runs along one side of farm. There is a new four-room bungalow and good small barn and well. Price 8135. No. 17. 79 acres—This farm is all good grain land in cultivation except three acres in pasture that has some timber. 40 acres is fenced hog-tight The farm Ues In well Improved neighborhood on public road, near pike. It has lots of tile and good outlet for drainage. There to a good two-story four-room house, good new barn, good well and is well tiled. 40 acres fenced with woven wire. Price 8125. No. 19. 200 acres—This is a good farm and Ues well on good road near two pikes. It has lots of tile and a good outlet for drainage. The soil is mostly black corn land. It to all cultivated except about 80 acres in pasture, which is part timber. There is a good eight-room cement block house with cellar, large barn, good well, windmill and tanks. Owner wiU sell on favorable terms and might consider clear property or smaUer farm. Price 8125. No. 22. 100 acres—This farm lies 6% miles from this city, in Marlon township, on good road. It to all in cultivation except a few acres of nice timber. It is good grain land and weU tiled with large tile through the farm. There to a five-room house, fair barn and other buildings. There to a good weU, some fruit and thirty large walnut trees. This to a good farm and can be bought at the low price of 8135. Can make terms if desired. No. 25. 120 acres—This farm Ues In good locality, one mile from main pike, near school, and three miles from good town with elevator and' high school; 90 acres of this farm 1s deep black corn soil and has good drainage, 80 acres Is in timber of which 20 acres Is fenced for hogs. There 1s a good eight-room house, horse barn, cow barn, silo, cribs, gralnary, windmill and fruit Can sell at the low price of 875. Terms 82,500 down and suitable time on remainder. No. 31. 80 acres—This farm Iles eight miles from this city in west Jordan tp. It Ues on main road near pike and in good neighborhood; 70 acres of this farm to good land and in grain or grass and to good grain land. There is 10 acres of Ugh ter soil. There to a five-room house, fair barn and several outbuildings, well, lots of fruit and nice shade. There to 160 rods of hog fence. Owner wiU sell this farm for the low price of 885. Terms 83,000 down and long time on,remainder. No. 82. 160 acres —This to a good farm and a nice home. There Is a six-room house, good barn, double cribs, hog house, chicken house and good weU. Buildings new and all painted; 160 acres is well tiled and nice level blaek lam

GEORGE F. MEYERS

cadlng stream at the roadside. Crossing the Shellburne pass, southwest of Salt Lake city, Utah, the Lincoln, highway enters the Nevada desert, snow white with alkali In many directions, and where even the sage brush has a struggle for existence in the largest drought stricken area in America. The highway runs through the great copper fields of Ely, Nev., thence across Alpine pass, a treeless, waterless waste, into Austin, where the ghosts of many former silver bonanzas loom out of the desert. With this stretch lighted, equipped with parks, filling stations, re-

In grain. It Is all black land except 20 acres in timber pasture. It has lots of woven wire fenoe with cedar posts. Owner will seU on favorable terms or will take clear property or smaller farm as part payment. Price 8125. No. 33. 40 acres —This to as unimproved piece of land. It to fenced and used as pasture; 26 acres in blaek prairie land in grass, and 15 acres is in timber. ;it lies on public road, in good neighborhood and mile from pike. Prloe 850. Owner will sell on terms of 8500 down and long time on remainder. Might take livestock as first payment. No. 34. 100 acres—This farm Ues on main road and to all deep black prairie land except three acres of young timber In one earner. It Ues joining large ditch that gives good outlet for drainage. The house on this farm was burned. There to an old barn, gralnary, silo and good well. Owner will sell on tenns of 83,000 down and long time 6u remainder. Price BHO.

No. 89. 40 acres—This farm has no buildings but Ues on pike in sight -of the court house and is all in grain and well tiled, and is as good grain land as any in the county. Price 8185. bto. 89%. 160 acres—This farm lies half-mile from the Jackson highway, station, church and school. It to Ln good neighborhood, and 140 acres is black soil in cultivation and 20 acres is in pasture, which has some timber. It has good outlet for drainage and 1s a nice hoige. There is nearly new nine-room house cellar, good barn and lots of other buildings, two good wells, windmill, tanks, and lots of fruit. Price 8115. Owner to a widow and wants to sell and would consider part In good dear property or sell on good terms. No. 40. 40 acres—This little farm Ues in good neighborhood od main road six miles from this city. It to all good grain land In cultivation, except grove around the buildings. It is well tiled and 40 rods from school. There to a good four-room house, outbuildings and splendid deep well. Price 8185. No. 48. 40 acres—This farm Ues on pike road in good neighborhood. There to a large tile passes through the farm for outlet for drainage. There to six acres In timber and six acres in pasture and twenty-eight acres In grain. The buildings are good and consist of a six-room house with fine | shade, a barn 82x60x20 and good; well and some fruit Price 8126. No. 56. 60 acres—This farm Ues in good neighborhood and aU good grain land and in cultivation. It is well fenced and has lots of tile. There to a five-room small barn and some other outbuildings, good well and young orchard, large silo. There Is timber for a frame for a good barn on the farm that goes with the farm. Price 810,000. No. 58. 60 acres—This farm Ues near this city, on pike road, R. F. D. and telephone Une and near school. It to tiled and In cultivation except small grove. There 1s a five-room house, fair barn and outbuildings. Price 8175. No. 62. 820 acres—This farm Ues on the well-known Francesville prairie and Is a black prairie soil farm, all In cultivation and well tiled. It Ues on stone road, R. F. D. and telephone Une. There is a good seven-room house, cellar, nice shade, good well and fruit. The outbuildings consist of large horse barn, cattle barn, large double cribs with gralnary above for 5,000 bushels of small grain, equipped with elevator, garage and stock scales. Price 8225. No. 64. 360 acres—This Is an exceptionally good farm, In splendid condition, and has always been occupied by the owner, who still lives on It. It is all heavy loam soil and all In cultivation except about 10 acres of timber. It to well tiled and Ues on main rock road, halfmile from school and church and on R. F. D. and telephone Une. The buildings are located on a nice knoll, overlooking the entire farm. There 1s a seven-room house with basement, nice lawn, good well and windmill at the house and water piped to cement stock tank at barn. The outbuildings consist of a large bank barn with large silo attached, double cribs, gralnary, stock sheds, stock scales and a modern circular brooding house for hogs. There to lots of woven-wire fencing. Price 8200. No. 66. 80 acres—This farm to all In cultivation, well tiled and all good grain land with clay subsoil. It Ues In good neighborhood in Barkley township. There to a good eight-room house, good barn and several other outbuildings, good well and fruit. Price 8200. No. 67. 65 acres—This is a splendid farm near Mt. Ayr. It to all cultivated except four acres in timber. It to clay subsoil and tiled.

creation grounds and other conveniences, the desert will not be as forbidding In the future; ana those who have made the cross* country trip say that the Nevada desert has a vague. Impalpable fascination to the* eastern motorist. If the main highway Is taken through Paudre canon Instead of across southern Wyoming, as at present, and there Is every Indication that it will be, most of the traffic cross country will pass through Rocky Mountain National park, and at a saving of time and power, as the Wyoming route Is laid over steep grades in many sec-

There is a good five-room boose, fair barn, allo, well and windmill. Price 8150. No. 68. 160 acres—This farm la level black land, all cultivated, eacept two acres in groves. It la well tiled and Ues on stone roed 1% miles from station with stores, elevator, churches and high school. There is a six-roam house, good barn, cribs and good weU. Prine 8121. Terms, 85,000 down. No. 69. 76 acres—This to a good farm and all good grain land In cultivation. It joins town with high school, elevator and stores. There is a good eight-room house, barn, cribs, garage and other buildings, sUo, good well and orchard. Price 8140. No. 74. 98 acres—This farm Ues on pike road, 2% miles from two towns with elevators, churches and high school. It is all in cultivation except 15 acres, in pasture and timber. There is a largo ditch along the road that given direct outlet for drainage. There is a nice new five-room bungalow, fair barn, silo and other buildings. Price 8125. Owner will trade for clear property in value from 82,000 tsn8 ( 000 as first payment and give long time on the remainder. Possession can be given as soon an trade is completed. No. 75- 320 acres—This farm to all in cultivation except five acres, and 300 acres is good black land and well tiled. It Ues on main road, % mile from pike and 1% miles from good town with elevator, high school and church. There is a six-room house, fair barn, cribs and good well. Prise 8150. Owner will accept good clear trade not to exceed 816,000. No. 76. . 640 acres—This farm Ues one mile from good town and is on pike road. It Ues at the head of a dredge ditch that gives fine outlet for drainage. It to well tiled, having large main tile through the farm. It Ip level black land in cultivation, except 80 acres which is part rolling and part in timber and is used for pastureThere are two sets of improvements of a six-room house, fair barn, cribs and well at each place; lit acres is fenced with new woven wire. Price 8150. Owner of this farm will accept good clear trade in small farm or good property not to exceed 840,600. No. 77. 160 acres—This farm Ues near good town, on pike road, and is all level black land tn cultivation. It is well tiled. There is a good six-room house, good barn, double cribs and silo, ana is fenced with cedar posts and woven wire. Price 8150. Owner wiU sell on terms of 85,600 down and long time on remainder, or he will accept up to 810,000 in good dear property or smaller farm. No. 79- 80 acres—This to a good grain farm and Ues on pike road, six miles from this city, it to tiled and has large new Dank barn, good well and windmill, but no house. Will sell on terms of 85,000 down and long time on remainder. Price 8150. No. 80. 80 acres—This farm Ues six miles out and on puke road, all good grain land and well tiled and in cultivation except a nice grove. There are two sets of Improvements. One consists of good six-room house, good barn, windmill and outbuildings. The other set of buildings consists of a four-room house, fair barn and good well. Price 8200. No. 81. 73 acres—This farm Ues on main road, near station and elevator. It is all in cultivar tlon except three acres in young timber. It has direct outlet into dredge ditch for drainage. There to a good six-room house, good barn ana several other buildings. Price 8100. No. 82. 40 acres—This farm lies on main road, one mile from station and to all level land and to all in cultivation except three acres in timber. There is a good four-room house, fair barn, garage, good well and nice bearing orchard. Price 8135. Owner will sell on terms of 81,500 down and good time on remainder. Possession can be given any time. Owner would accept clear property not to exceed 82,000. No. 83. 160 acres—This farm Ues four miles from this city and is all in cultivation except five acres young timber near the buildings. It is tiled and has good outlet. It to good grain land. There to a good set of buildings, consisting of a good seven-room house, good barn, double cribs and other outbuildings, windmill and tanks. Price 8225. There to a loan on this farm of 823,000, dun In seven years, at 5%%. Owner will trade his equity for clear property or smaller farm.

tions, and water is not plentiful. The State of Nevada, through ita highway commission, is now straightening out portions of the highway and proposes to add a surfacing that will guarantee smooth going Instead of miles of ruts ahd powdered alkali, which la now the rule, and water may be had along the line almost anywhere on the desert by drilling wells.

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