Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1919 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, DEO. 17, 1910

* m esS&Bml sS?3*C3EQB9EKm /®7/ atJ*< xL i :R<!M|SMH "fl i Msgs sfli m rMake the Old Home B Ring With Song! | You know what it means—song right in the home —song with piano accompaniment. “Silver Threads Among the Gold,” or “Just a Song at rat Twilight,” or one of the lilting song hits that they g are singing in New York and Chicago! Music in the Home! Music—song—happiness! And beU- EfS like notes of perfect tone that will delight every member of the 9ft family. Not ordinary piano music, but tuneful, harmonious &K melody- That is an assurance, always, with a IpA Chute & Butler Piano | 1 But it is not only the delight of the music you experience. 8g The Chute & Butler is an addition to the home —one of the M family. It is beautiful, and it is designed and made by real artists. *8 The door-bell rings. Friends have come for the evening. §2 When there isn’t any music in the home, it gets to be so dull 3® sitting around and talking—and the best talk on earth is pretty gg poor compared with songs that send memories racing up and down the streets of your mind, and put real wide-awake thrills in your back —up your spine—away to your finger-ends! <5 That’s the enjoyment that’s waiting for you in the beautiful SS Chute & Butler Piano. Wonderful instrument! Many kinds of © woods, too! And toner Why, it is the sweetest toned piano S you ever heard. ® And should the kiddies want to learn music—the kind that S people have to read and then play—have a high-class instrument for them. Train their musical sense properly. Done make them practice on an old piano. S 3 We’d like to tell you many more things about these Chute & S Butler Pianos and Player-Pianos, but that depends upon you- SS So just drop in to see these instruments —and we 11 let you rSx play them just to prove that it’s as delightful as we say! What is nicer than a nice Piano or Player Piano for Christmas —an ever-casting Gift for the entire family? Other things we might suggest for Xmas —a Phonograph, Records, Player Rolls, Sheet Music, Violins, Ukelelcs, Etc.

FOUR CORNERS

Mrs. Grover Smith’s condition remains about the same. Jerome Nelson says it was a false alarm; he has not sold his farm, but will continue to remain an honest and earnest tiller of the soil. The stores 4»f Wheatfield are put* ting on Christmas attire, but with the H. C. L no doubt the sales will be on the down grade this season. . Tefft lost two of her prominent citizens last week, the Leibies went to a warmer climate. No, they are living yet; just went to Arkansas for the winter. . The Helmick sale was well attended and has no complaint at the prices bid for his property. He leaves this week for Florida to make his future home. Ross Ropp has sold his personal property and moved to the city of Wheatfield. The bright lights of the great city surely have an attraction for Ross. Nice to be a sport, but expensive. , Ed Lakin and W. M. Jeffers ot Tefft are running an endurance race to see who can 'put his flivver in the ditch the greatest number of times for the benefit of the new garage firm of TefftThe first of the year, we are informed, Charles White will move to Hammond and Luther Albin, who purchased the property occupied by White, will take possession of jame, thus adding one more to T ift’s dense population. The light’ plant at Wheatfield is reported sold. The sale was closed Saturday night. The new owner, Harry Gulbranson, will take charge Jan. 1. Ward Hamilton will give the new owner first aid, after which Ward will give the town of

- Automobiles - , December 16, 1919. Dear Sir: The issue which made the Hudson Super-Six the largest selling fine car in the world has r»ever changed. It is not speed, power, acceleration or hill-climbing ability, thougn (Hudson holds all those stock car records, and all are qualities that men seek in the car they own. - But above these is endurance — such endurance as the Hudson proved In winning all records in the double transcontinental run, m capturing the Speedway championship, and in numerous other records no other car has ever equaled. But the greater proof is the way 80,000 Hudsons in the hands of owners are daily confirming the qualities revealed in all those noted testst Not only supreme in performj ance, Hudson also leads in mode. It is the accepted pattern car and Its seven enclosed bodies are models of other makers in these types. There is now as always, a scarcity of Hudsons, compared to the demand To avoid disappointment you should -place your order early. May we call with# a Hudson SuperSix for your inspection? Yours very truly, HUGH KIRK.

Wheatfield an uplift In some other lineHypoluxo, Fla., Dec. 5, 1919. F. W/ Fisher. ” Dear Friend —Yours of the Ist just in, and as Charley, is busy pa king peppers and egg plant for the northern market, he has requested me tp write to you. In regard to Aunt Minerva, will say that I am writing Hermle today to sign up for Charles and I for SSO- We have not forgotten 'her loving kindness to Charles’s mother during all of the months and years of her long suffering, nor have we forgotten the tactful care she gave Grandpa Myers when none of us could do anything for him, after his mind became so clouded; and there is no one living in or around Wheatfield who knows her or whd has ever had sickness or death or trouble who does not owe her that which money can never pay, and I hope she will accept the money raised in the spirit in which it is given and not' as charity. It is not charity—but only a slight appreciation of her many past kindnesses. Here is hoping you may, with the help of the good people of Wheatfield and vicinity, be able to raise the whole amount of her loss in the recent bank robbery. Regards to all, MRI AND MRS. CHARLES MYERS. The above letter explains itself. Do you wish to be one to help make good the loss? If you do, leave your name and subscription at the Fendig drug store or hand to F. W. Fisher within the next week. The names, with the amounts subscribed, will be .published. Get your name on the honor roll.

BOX SOCIAL There will be a box social at the Independence school in Barkley township on Tuesday evening, Dee. 23. Everybody Invited. Ladies please bring boxes.—EDNA REED, Teacher. di® Sale bills printed while you wait at The Delnocrat office.

NOTICE OF ADJOURNED TERM OF COURT State of Indiana,) County of Jasper)SS: Notice is therefore hereby given that-a November, 1919, adjourned term of the 'Jasper Circuit Court will be held, commencing on the 2d day of January, 1920, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the purpose of disposing of such business as may be unfinished and undisposed of, and that said adjourned term will continue as a part of the regular term of said court; and that all parties, witnesses and officers of said court shall attend said special term without further notice. Witness my hand and (Seal) the seal of said court this 6th day of December, A. D. 1919. JESSE NICHOLS, Clerk Jasper Circuit Court- • diO-17

THE TWICE-A.WEEK DEMOCRAT

SAYS INDUSTRIAL PEACE AT HAND

Secretary of Labor Wilson Declares Conditions Are Near to Normal EASIER TO SETTLE QUARRELS Labor and Capital Are Getting Together and Strikes and Lockouta Are Decreasing Rapidly—Expects Plenty of Fuel at Once. Washington, Dec. 12.—Strikes and lockouts are rapidly decreasing in number, Secretary of Labor Wilson said in an interview. “With the decision of the exectutlve committee of the United Mine Workers to urge their membership to return to work immediately in accordance with the proposal of President Wilson,” said the secretary, “the national Industrial situation, from the standpoint of increased production, seems to wear a better aspect than at any time since the period *of unrest began more than a year ago with the signing of the armistice. “It eeems likely that within a week or ten days more men will be at their accustomed daily tasks than at any time within many months. Sees Fuel Shortage Overcome. “The returning miners can be counted upon to overcome swiftly the fuel shortage, which, as I said In a telegram to President John L. Lewis of the miners’ organization, had brought the country face to face with perhaps the most difficult Industrial situation that ever arose. With the mines again turning out the normal fuel supply, factories can run full time and production will be largely Increased. This will tend to reduce costs of necessities, as President Wilson has pointed out. “The conciliation division of this department now is being called upon to handle fewer strikes and lockouts than during the summer. “In June 36 cases were handled, in July 43 and in August 53. But in September the number was reduced to October also showed a reduction to 37, while In November the total was but 17. “On December 1, only 27 industrial disputes were pending as unadjusted before the division, while In August the total was 60. They're Getting Together. “Although the division does not get reports on all strikes and lockouts, since it can act legally only when requested by one of the parties concerned, the cases coming to the division are representative of the general situation. Just now they seem to Indicate that employees and employers are finding it easier to settle differences peacefully than through strikes and lockouts. “Thus In November the division was able to adjust but one case, while In August the corresponding number was five cases and In October six. “The records of the division also show that during November the number of women affected directly In strikes, lockouts and controversies in which the difficulties failed to reach the strike stage was 17,439.”

KICKS ON TAX ASSESSMENT

John D., Sr., Protests Against New York’s $5,000,000 Claim. New York, Dec. 12.—John D. Rockefeller, Sr., has protetsted against his New York tax assessment of $5,000,000. This is the second time Mr. Rockefeller has objected to paying his personal assessment and in the present instance he claims that he has been making a gift to the city of taxes on $3,000,000 for some years. Under the administration of Mayor Mitchel, Mr. Rockefeller’s personal assessment was raised to $10,000,000. At that time he swore that his assessable holdings in the city did not exceed $2,000,000, but agreed to pay an assessment on $5,000,000. The Rockefeller attorneys Informed the tax board that Mr. Rockefeller no longer cares to make a gift to the city of taxes on $3,000,000 of property which he does not possess.

CRUSHED TO DEATH IN CRASH

Two Killed When Cedar Rapids Building Falls—Four Injured. Cedar Rapids, la., Dec. 12.—Two men were killed and one woman and three, men were severely injured here when the Witwer building, a threestory stiucture, collapsed. Edgar Pannel, forty-three years old, and George Blstllne, fifty years old, were crushed to death. Those Injured were Miss Elva Stick, W. W. Chattarton Harry Kitts and C. J. Johnson.

SAYS KAISER “NEAR MADMAN”

German Newspaper So Characterizes Former German Emperor. Berlin, Dec. 12.—Commenting on a four-volume compilation of documentary prewar history, Vorwaerts says: “Whoever reads the former emperor’s marginal remarks will have no doubt that Germany before the war was’ ruled by next to a madman.” The newspaper characterizes the books as “four stones on the tomb of the German monarchy.”

WHITE MAN

By George Agnew Chamberlain

Awdber of “Home.” “Throuab Stained Claaa.” “Jahn Boyardua.” ate.

SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I.—Andree, Pallor, handsome daughter of Lord Pellor, Impecunious aristocrat, is doomed to marry an illiterate but wealthy middle-aged diamond mine owner. She disconsolately wanders from her hotel in South Africa and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach. Impulsively, of course imagining 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 Ilk—Andrea is given a glimpse of the home which is to be hers, and wonders at its completeness. White Man invites her to dinner that evening, and in spite of the fact that he has refused to take her back to civilisation Andrea accepts his invitation, but he continues deaf to her pleading that he restore her to her friends. “But I wish cold Water," said Androa. “Cold water plenty no good for white Missis,” reaffirmed Bathtub and withdrew, carefully closing the door behind him. Andrea enjoyed the bath and learned in ten minutes the soundness of the tropical rule that it had taken some old-timer ten years to evolve: The hotter the day the hotter the water. Feeling refreshed, almost cool, she started back to her room, but stopped on the veranda, her eyes held by sundry things on the table, a man’s soft shirt, freshly ironed, a roll of khaki cloth, scissors, a thimble and one of those pepper-pot tins of assorted needles. She stared at them long and helplessly, her lower lip trembling; then she went in, put on her things except her frock and covered Its lack with her cloak. Shedid her hair last of all, by way of change, and Just as she finished heard Bathtub’s call to breakfast. Neither white man nor black was in evidence, but even so the day passed swiftly, so many were the new features >of the kraal’s changing scene. She chose a book at random; had her ham-moCk-chalr dragged into the shade of the dining tree and stretched out to her first lesson in lazy content. Gradually she grew drowsy with the heat, but not so sleepy that she failed to hear from away off the far-carrying report, six times repeated, of a highpowered rifle. Bathtub, squatted near by, looked up with a beatific smile. “Master,” he stated. It was two hours later when the Incident was repeated in every detail save that the shots came from still farther away; and about three hours After, once more the thing happened. Bathtub rolled his eyes and hugged himself in gormandizing anticipation as he breathed the word, “Master I” Andrea was vaguely interested until the sequel to those eighteen shots began to arrive and then she was stunned with horror. Amid the shouts of men and the shrill ulululoolng of the women they began to come in, beast after beast, each trussed to a pole and borne by six, sometimes “eight, naked and straining blacks. First to arrive were five sable antelope, beautiful even In death, the proud sweep of their glorious horns inverted, thick tongues dragging In the dust. The bearers did not stop within the kraal, but passed through it, chanting wildly as though they were engaged in a perverted Bacchanalian pageant of blood. Women and children streamed after them, and even Bathtub looked longingly-in the/direction they had gone. Scarcely had the hullabaloo of their passing died into the distance when a new contingent arrived. “M’sungo, M’sungo,” the one word she knew, cropped out from their Jabber with the steady recurrence of a haunting fugue. What they bore were six wlldebeestO, male and buffoons of the plains, still pitifully grotesque, their horse-Hke tails trailing like discouraged funeral plumes. “Oh, White Man,” gasped Andrea, covering her eyes, “oh, M’sungo!" . And then it came again, four loads this time,} but every one as big as a horse. Bight men strained under each carcass of eland, largest and gentlest of all the hundred varieties of antelope that swarm over the length and breadth of Africa. Andrea arose, but her knees trembled so that she quickly sat down in one of the wicker chairs, clutching its arms with hands gone white as though all the blood in her body had hidden In shame. Then came the white man, ’ followed by gunbearers, water-boy and trackers. His face and his bare arms were streaked with sweat and dust. His shirt and trousers dune to him in

great dark blots of moisture. He nodded to Andrea as he made straight for his hut Suddenly her strength camd back to her. She sprang up and rushed to

She Sprang Up and Rushed to Cut Him Off.

cut him off. "You are a murderer," she gasped as she faced him. The man stopped in his tracks and stared at her. Gradually he took in her meaning. “You think I do it for —for fun?" he exclaimed. “Murderer," she repeated tensely. The man glanced at his hut and turned his back on it with a sigh. “Come with me,” he said. “I shall never go anywhere with you,” replied Andrea. The man faced her quickly. "You will come with me or be carried. Take your choice.” Their eyes met and held tn one of those struggles that measure not so much the contending characters as the strength of the opposing purposes. The mtn’s purpose won out. Andrea dropped her eyes and followed him. He passed swiftly through the kraal and along a well-known path that led to the fringe- of the forest. Under an enormous malbta tree the butchers were at work, four to each carcass, skinning, cutting, hacking with practiced hands. The'meat was being piled In heaps, and at each heap was stationed a black captain. Under his direction a host of helpers were cutting the flesh into minute portions. Beyond the limits of the tree’s farflung branches squatted a black army —men with assegais in their hands; women and children with queer conical baskets Iff their laps. Physically these people were, without exception, a Joy to the eye, but beyond them, grouped together under another tree and hopelessly staring, was a small band that brought sudden tears to Andrea's eyes. Never before had she seen human bones and skin without flesh, live eyes staring from the skeleton emblem of death.

At last the division of the sanguinary spoil was completed. The wellfed army lined up, each and every man accompanied by woman or child as beast for the small burden. These men were also provided with individual brass checks, which they cast into the baskets at the feet of the captain upon receipt of their portion of meat. At the end, to Andrea’s amazement, the tally was exact except that it left thd starving group out of the count. Through it all the white man had stood grimly by, uttering not a word and leaving her to the assistance nf .her own Intelligence. She to understand; the possessors of the brass checks had worked for them. \But her eyes lingered pitifully on the starving. Rh*> turned to the man with a gesture of pleading—pleading for pardon for herself, the silent suffering. “What about these?” she asked. “They will receive a ration of millet" he answered. “Tomorrow the men will crawl to the forests, twice a week they will get meat checks. In a month they and their families will be fat and sleek. We refuse no one who wishes to work.” He turned to lead the way back to the kraal and, once there, promptly disappeared into his hut. Half an hour later Andrea was nervously moving about her room, wondering whether to put on her frock or not, when Bathtub arrived with a message. Did she wish to dine alone or with M’sungo? “Tell your master," she answered, “that I will dine with him with pleasure.” During the meal, the white man talked, giving her listlessly certain explanatory Information. "Eight months ago," he said, “I struck this country. It was desolation. In spite of the big river, which Is quite near by, the whole district was in famine. I passed through ripped kraal* after ruined kraal, and In some of them dead bodies lay about, too dried out in life even to roL The game swarmed as it does only in dry seasons, and thrived." Andrea held both hands out toward him as though to stop him. “Don’t-—,” । she cried, "don’t think I haven’t unj derstood I” . I “Upon my word,” remarked the man dryly, “you’re getting sincere!” I She sank back in her chair with a

look of reproacn, out ne cuu not notice IL “I’m telling you," he continued, “I came to hunt and recover —” Ho paused. Andrea could not keep her eyes from glancing toward the airplane. It wao as though she had followed his hidden thought He flushed slightly, changed his sentence and finished, “And for another purpose. But almost on the day of arrival I made a discovery in the forest Out of It has grown an Industry that employs hundreds of natives and never refuses a new recruit I am working absolutely without title and should you return to civilization, my ruin would be quite within your jrasp." “And that is why I must stay," said Andrea. “No," said the man reading her face. Ts I could drop you back tomorrow :here on the beach where I found you, [ would do it” She felt a definite surge of >ut of all proportion to the occasion. ‘Thank you,” she whispered, and then lushed at a sudden wonder as to the ‘xuet nature of a feeling of gladness >ver the fact that she was not called ipon then and there to decide whether n her heart she wished to go or stay. “But I can’t,” continued the man. ‘I can't leave my people or my work tor two weeks;’ I dare m t trust you :o a native escort” He drew away rom the table that he might cross his cnees, took a cigar and lit it. “You've eaten nothing,” said Andrea. 'Tm too tired to eat Just now," ho tnswered. Presently she arose. “I'm tired, too, A’hite Man,” she lied. “May I leave ’OU?” He gave her an almost grateful {lance, arose and lifted one side of :he net for her to pass. She went to jer room to read, but an hour later, vhen she glanced out, surprised to tee the lights burning under the tree, '.he white man was still there, hands iropped upon his knees, head fallen forward, sound asleep In his chair. Andrea clasped and unclasped her hands nervously. “Oh, why doesn’t ho jo to bed?” she said to herself. “Ho can’t get any comfort out of that sort of thing." Finally she stole out and found Bathtub. "Wake your master," she commanded. “Tell him to go to bed." The darkey grinned up at her sleepily until he grasped her request, then his face took on a look of mixed fear and mischief. "Bathtub wake M’sungo one time plenty long ago and never forgeL Missis try it" She looked at the lax figure, bonetired, plunged miles deep in slumber,, but even from those depths exuding a sense of compelling latent power, and hesitated. Getting up her courage she coughed twice quite loudly, but ineffectually, and then, feeling almost relieved that nothing happened, stole away on tiptoe. CTO BE CONTINUED)

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NOTICE OF HEARING AND DOCK* ETING DITCH PETITION. State of Indiana,) County of Jasper)Bß: In the Jasper Circuit Court, to February term, 1921).' In the Matter of the Petition of Joseph Nagel et al, for a Drain. Cause No. 155. To Emory S. Mills; Francis J. Donnelly; James R. Parkison; Richard B. Wetherlll; Mary C. Wether--111; Juliette Moore; Andrew K- Yeoman; Jane K. Parkison; Boan W. Ellsworth; Earl A. Barkley; William Snedeker; the Civil Township of Barkley, Grant Davisson, Trustee; Mary Jane Moody; Nathan Eldridge; Doris Mills; Granville Moody; Nellie Long; Jane Hall; Mary Dunn; Clifford Lewis; Granville Moody, Junior; Mrs. Nathan Eldridge; Laura Leach; Jesse Eldridge; Emmet Eldridge; Thomas Eldridge and Clara Eldridge: You and each of you are hereby notified that the petitioners In the above entitled cause have filed their petition In the office of the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, praying for the location and construction ot a public tile drain upon and along the following described line and route, to-wit: Commene- ' Ing at a point near the northwest corner of the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 2, township 29 north, range 6 west, in Barkley township, Jasper county, fhdlana, and from thence in a southeasterly direction about 400 feet; thence southerly about 800 feet; thence easterly about 850 feet; thence southerly about 1300 feet; thence In a general southeasterly direction about 5,750 feet; thence in a general southwesterly direction about 6,250 feet; thence south about 1,250 feet, to a point near the southwest corner of section 14, said township and range, where the proposed drain will have a good and sufficient outlet in th* Plnkamink River. You are further notified that yea are named in said petition as Being the owner of lands which will ba benefited by the location and construction of the proposed drain. You are further notified that salt petition is now pending, and will come up for hearing and docketing in the Jasper Circuit Court, at the Court House in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, on Monday, the 9th day of February, 1920, the same being the first judicial day of the February term, 1920, of said court. JOSEPH NAGEL, Et Al., Petitioners. Attest: JESSE NICHOLS, Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. A. Halleck, Rensselaer, Indiana, attorney petitioners, d 17-2 4

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