Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1920 — Page 6

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WHITE MAN

By George Agnew Chamberlain

Author of ■Horn.’’ ** Through Stala*4 ChN,” “John Bocudua.” ate.

Owpyrlffct, lll», Th« Bobb«-M«rrlU Company SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.—Andrea Pellor, handmomo Oauchter of Lord Pellor, impecunious aristocrat, la doomed to marry an lllltarate but wealthy middle-aged diamond nine owner. She disconsolately wanders from her hotel In South Africa and discovers an aviator about to fly from the beach Impulsively, of course Imagining 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 crsal. Andrea finds the natives all bow In worshln to her mysterious companion. She Is given a slave boy, "Bathtub,' and tho White Man sets about building a hut for her. CHAPTER lll.—Andrea Is given a glimpse of the home which Is to be hers, and wonders at Its completeness. White Mm invites her to dinner that evening, and In spite of the fact that be 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. CHAPTER IV.—Andrea Is awakened from sound sleep next morning by loud pounding on her doorway andls told to prepare for a day’s hunt with White Man. Bhe thoroughly enjoys the exciting trip and begins to understand more of he "host’s’” character and the reason for bis apparently ruthless slaughtering of animals. He Is providing for the force of blacks he employs and who look to titan for sustenance. CHAPTER V.—Andrea, worrying over her deplorable lack of change of clothing, la surprised and delighted when a trunk, loaded with everything In the way of clothing dear to the feminine heart, Is dropped at her doorway by stalwart natives and she is told by White Man that they are hers. White Man by a skillful shot saves her from the attack of a sable bull and she Is fast becoming reconciled to her fate after eight days In the craal. CHAPTER Vl.—On another expedition the donkey on which Andrea is mounted runs away with her and she Is for a moment made ridiculous. White Man explains the African method of wife purchase "obolo.”’ Bhe Is horrified. Afterward she listens to the report of natlvs runners that a herd of elephants Is In the district and Is invited to the hunt by White Man. They start down a croco-dile-infested stream for the scene of the hunt Fortunately for Andrea the going was now much slower. It was not that the spoor was harder to follow —in fact, it was much easier, for through the Jungle of stunted sapling no man could pass save where an elephant had plowed a way—but that now every Indication of the game’s progress had to be read, studied and accurately valued. Here began the exercise of that finished science which M’sungo had placed so high, giving due credit to those forerunners who had marked its stages with their life’s blood. The state of a parted vine, or a halfmasticated leaf, bore some message upon the true reading of which hung the delicate balance of success or failure. Slower and slower fell the pace and in measured proportion silence wag b6m and seemed to grow and spread and throb till It hung in the air like some stifling all-permeating mist. Beneath it the heart beat with an Irregular rat-tat-tat and breath came in hurried gasps. In spite of the men before her, Andrea felt alone, adrift on a sea of unseen but hovering perils. She looked over her shoulder. Only Bathtub was in sight behind her, tense, one foot in air, waiting for her to take her next step before he placed his foot. His naked body, exposed to the merciless sun, streamed with sweat. * Andrea’s shoulders ached from holding her arms before her face to ward off the interminably encroaching vines and branches that seemed to oppose the way, but invariably parted at her touch. Her tongue was parched, all her clothing laid hands on her every motion with a clammy grip and her body quivered on the fine edge of exhaustion, but she hung on, her eyes above dark shadows casting agonized glances at M’sungo. If only he would reach for the big gun! If only he would really stop for eveir a fleeting rest. The next moment she found herself crowded into the halting group in front. They stood In the sparse shade of a big tree, their eyes sweeping the ground beneath their feet and rising to meet each other’s gaze with swift Intelligence and swifter understanding. Here was a great reading, the anti-climax of suspense, the pregnant moment of final premonition. The three elephants had come together, they had milled beneath this tree, they were even now indubitably beneath the next they had encountered —for when a feeding elephant walks in a circle for no apparent reason It is because his thoughts are entirely fixed on taking his noonday nap promptly. The tracker stood unbelievably erect, heels off the ground. It was as though by an effort of will he had suspended himself in air, so still was he, so wholly was his bddy consecrated to the act of listening. Suddenly his wide nostrils quivered with a visible .fluttering and distended till their out*

er rims showed white. A look of sensual and ineffable content spread over his face fs he drew down Into his lungs that breath ot tainted breeze. He smelled the prey; the wind was right. t . Presently Andrea caught the odor and her whole body trembled as from an overmastering physical contact. This smell was unlike all others; the mind gave It color and substance. It crept through the forest like a dark cloud, an ominous warning to all frail creatures to get out of the way. She felt suddenly cold and glanced over her shoulder with a half-formed notion of retreat; then her eyes fell on M’sungo and she forgot all else in an absorption that was above fear. He had become filled with an essence of youth, as though years of life had rushed from past and future to fill to overflowing the cup of this one transcendent moment. His face was tense but alight and his ordinarily grqy eyes had attained to an unfathomable blue that seemed to deny measure to the depth of his emotion. His thin lips were drawn In the crooked line of a fixed smile —a smile that struggled on the verge of an Infinite solemnity. When he moved he gave an indefinite impression of disembodied action as If spirit alone passed on, leaving flesh behind. Like a black monitor the tracker went before him. Andrea was suddenly aware that M’sungo carried the big gun. Its dead weight of eleven pounds lay In his hands lightly as though it also sustained by a spiritual force. She had not seen him take It and there was something ghostly In the mere fact of his possession of it. Her mind was In a turmoil; she knew that upon the taking over of the big gun had hung some vital instruction to herself but in that primal moment of suspense, memory was an agonizing blank and nothing more. She followed blindly In tho cautiously pausing footsteps of the single gunbearer that crept before her, close on the heels of his master. Infinity seemed to come and go before they had advanced twenty paces. She came to the bare trunk of a big tree whose top had been felled by lightning and at that moment M’sungo looked back, a terrible frown on his face. Without taking her eyes from his she leaned against the stump of the tree and put her arms around It. Memory came to her. She remembered what he had told her to do. She hugged the tree In a great relief while her eyes still followed the white map and the two black shadows that he seemed to throw, one before, one behind. Suddenly the tracker paused with an unmistakable finality. His hands went up In an even, swift gesture of warning. „ His body sank gradually lower and lower till it stretched flat and still as a log at the side of the narrow trail. With long-studied, cautious movements the white man passed over him and stood erect, at once steady and quivering, as heat waves quiver steadily In the air arising <■ from parched soil. Not forty paces from where Andrea hugged her protecting trunk and scarcely twenty in advance of M’sungo, the domes of two' trees topped the even mass of the saplings about them. Into the shadows beneath these trees he was peering with an intensity that communicated itself to Andrea. She too stared desperutely as though by an effort she might send light into darkness with her gaze. Presently she was rewarded; three shadows within the shadow slowly took form. Once seen, they advanced in distinction until they stood out to vision as does the Coal Pit on a starry, moonless night. They were three clouds, ominous, dusky, thunderous. Suddenly from one of them came a rumble that rolled ponderously away through the silent world. Andrea, Ignorant of the majesty of the intestinal commotions of the mightiest of beasts, snatched a fleeting impression that somewhere beyond the brazen sky, a storm was brewing. The white man still stood, tense but immovable. Gradually Andrea’s senses

The White Man Still Stood Tense but Immovable.

gathered to the fact that this was no Danse. He was waiting—waiting d»

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liberataty or was it as one who stands fatally fascinated and paralysed on the threshold of disaster? Her heart was bentng with a deafening throb. She was sure the natives about her could hear the equal tumult in their oWn breasts. Then her eyes, fined to the three black clouds, saw one of the lesser of them move, raise vast blankets of ears and flap them, starting an audible gust of wind. A great trunk wound and unwound, rose lazily to Incredible heights, reached a limb and tore It with a screajn of reading fibers from the parent tree. The beast turned slightly to avoid the avalanche of boughs. Instantly the white man’s arms swept Into motion. He leveled the bid gun ht an upward slant upon the still Immovable central cloud and fired. All the silence In the world was rent asunder by that shot. With a rending crash as of a thousand gatling guns, one, two, twenty elephants swept through the sea of saplings and away. It was as though an angry god had snatched up the forest like a sheet and ripped H apart. In the terrific whirlwind of sound gone mad, the second bark of the rifle was quite lost to the ear. M’sungo turned and automatically seized his supporting gun. His eyes swept the back trail, looking for Andrea. She was gone. “Bathtub I” he roared. The boy ran to him, his face working with every emotion known to the black breast—Joy, triumph, greed, cupidity and fear. The last was predominant and with reason, for M’sungo dropped his gun, shot out botb hands to the black’s throat and lifted him strangling into the air. “Damn you,” he growled, “where’s your missis? Where is she?” The boy’s eyeballs protruded farther and farther from his contorted face. “Here I am,” panted Andrea. M’sungo relaxed his grip; Bathtub dropped to the ground like a nerveless sack but bounced up again, all his emotions except fear once more In full cry across his grinning face. Andrea laid both hands on M’sungo’s arm. “It wasn’t his fault,” she gasped. “I started to do just what you told me, White Man. You know you saw me hugging the tree. But when I heard the Day of Judgment right on top of me I—l Just had to give it a run for Its money!’’ She dropped her head against him and sobbed. He put his arm around her and patted her awkwardly on the back. “There! There!” he said. “Don’t. Please don’t.” Seemingly without his volition his arms drew closer and closer until he suddenly awoke to the fact that he was Just plainly hugging Andrea Pellor. He pushed her roughly from him. "Here,” he said in quite a different voice, “this Isn’t my funeral. Come and cry on the elephant.” "All right,” said Andrea, docilely. “How many were there? I heard a troupe—an army of them.” “You heard Just one,” said M’sungo. Dabbing at her eyes with soiled fists, she followed him to the side of the fallen monarch around which were gathered the natives, a sort of glazed awe on their faces, for the dead bull was a mighty tusker, carrying ivory to the value of eighty women. At M’sungo’s approach their arms went up in a single gesture and from one throat they yelled, “Bai-ye-te 1" Scarcely had the cry of homage died away when a sound came to them through the bush that froze them into listening silence. Their faces expressed unbelief but their knowledge was insistent. It told them that they were hearing a death struggle, the whispering gush of blood from mighty lungs, mightily pierced. With a yell they broke toward that music and suddenly stopped, remembering that It Is always wise with elephant to let the gun go first. Andrea, frightened, stopped sniveling. “What is it?” she asked. “I got two,” said M’sungo apologetically. “That’s the one that kept me waiting between heaven and hell.” “I remember. It was awful. But why did you wait? What did he have to do with it, poor dear?” M’sungo smiled in spite of himself. “He had a great deal to do with it.” he answered. “Until he started tearing the tree to pieces and took a half turn to dodge the damage, he was headed right down our trail, wasn’t he?” Andrea nodded. “Well,” continued M’sungo, kicking the mountain of flesh at his side, “just as long as he was facing us, I couldn’t take the fair mark of this old boy. That’s one of the bits of knowledge that has been paid for with the lives of many men. A startled elephant doesn’t charge; he bolts whichever way lie’s headed.” (TO..BJE CONTINUED.)

There are some 400 Amazon tribes who as yet have not a single Christian missionary among them.

CLOSING OUT PUBLIC SALE

As I have sold mty ranch, I will close out at public auction all my livestock at the ranen, 6 % miles northwest of Reynolds and 4 3-4 miles northeast of Seafield, commencing at 11 a. m. sharp, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1920, the following described property; 225 Headi of Cattle—4o head or coming 2-year-old steers, mostly White Faces and good quality; 20 head of 2-year-old steers; 20 head of coming yearling calves. These are a nice quality and most of them fat enough for the butcher; 12 head of weanling calves, steers and heifers; 25 head of cows, fresh by day. of sale; 75 head /oft cows and heifers, fresh soon. The above cows and heifers are an extra good bunch of large ones, mostly Short-

(horns, a few Hereford*, Holstein* and Jer*ey*. All are in good flesh; 2 2-year-old Shorthorn bulla; 1 black poll yearling hull, 100 Heed of Hog*—Bo brood sow*, all good big abw* and vaccinated; 1 large O. I. C. boar, vaccinated; 80 bead of dhoata, wt 50 to 100 pound* each. Any stock purchased at this sale will be held and fed at our expense and at owner’s risk until the first of the week. Hog Feeders, House*. Etc.—l •elf feeders for hogs; 7 hog houses; 1 oom elevator; 1 Pate ensilage cutter, almost new; 1 hog fountain. 1 good dosed Dodge an to, only been used 1 year. Terms—A eredit of 12 months will be given on all sums over $lO, approved notes to bear 6 % Interest If paid at maturity, but if not so paid 8 % interest will be charged from sale date; 1% off for casn when entitled to credit. CHARLES VANVOORST. FRANK VAUGHN. Andrew Nagle and E. L. Wright, Aucts. J. H. Smith, Fred Dahling and Ed Spencer, Clerks. Hot lunch by Ladles of the Reynolds M. E. church. For truck 'hauling, light or heavy, 2 trucks, see Eli J. Blume. j 24-28

BIG PUBLIC SALE As I am going to move and have more stock than I need, I will sell at public auction at my residence, 6Vi miles west and 3 miles north of Rensselaer, 2% miles west and 1 mile south of Surrey, 3 miles east and 2 * miles north of Mt. Ayr, known as the John Flynn farm, commencing at 10 a. m., on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1920, 5 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 colt 3 years old, well broke; 1 bay mare 10 years old, in foal; 2 black mares coming 4 years old, wt. 2570, half sisters and sound; 1 spring colt. 23 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 7 'heifers coming 3 years old, to be fresh In February and March, good ones; 1 rda cow 6 years old, to be fresh in February; 1 brtodle cow 5 years old, fresh by date of sale; 1 red Icow coming 5 years old, 9 fresh by middle of February; 1 red cow 6 years old, fresh by Mch. 1; 1 black cow coming 4 years old, fresh in February; 1 Holstein cow 4 years old, calf by side, pure-bred; 1 red Shorthorn cow 5 years old. a good one; 1 Jersey cow 6 years old, fresh in April; 1 Jersey cow 7 years old, fresh in February; 3 steers, 2 coming 3 years old and 1 coming 2 years old; 1 White Face yearling; 1 coming 3-year-old heifer, pasture bred; 2 coming yearling heifers. 8 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 1 red Duroc sow, to farrow middle of March; 1 spotted Poland China sow, to farrow last of March; 3 shotes, wt. 100 pounds eaeh; 3 Big Type Poland China sows, bred. 4 Head of Merino * Sheep—To lamb April 1. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of 1 new John Deere binder, 7-ft., cut about 30 acres; 1 narrowtire wagon; 1 John Deere sulky plow; 16-in.; 1 Smith & Emerson manure spreader; 1 Avery riding cultivator; 1 walking plow; 1 Janesville riding cultivator; 1 C. B. & O. corn planter, with 80 rods of wire and fertilizer attachment; 1 John Deere corn planter, with 80 rods of wire and fertilizer attachment; 1 J. I. Case corn planter with 80 rods of wire; 1 Keystone disc, 8-ft.; 1 Deering disc, 8-ft.; 1 6-ft. Deering binder; 1 sulky plow; 1 John Deere sulky plow; 1 cultivator; 1 low-wheel wagon; 1 self-watering hog tank; 1 stump puller, with 80 feet of cable; 1 gasoline tank;** 2 wooden barrels; 1 Deering hay rake, 12-ft.; 1’ stack of good timothy hay; 1 stack of wheat straw, to be fed on place; will probably have some corn also; 1 Hot Blast Florence heating stove; 1 wood stove, and other articles too numerous to mention. Terms —A credit of 11 months will be given on all sums over $lO, approved notes to draw 6% interest if paid at maturity, bu.t if not so paid 8 % interest will be charged froimi sale date; 2% off for cash when entitled to credit. CASS M. COX. W. A. McCurtain, Auct. E. P. Lane, Clerk. Lunch on grounds. j 24-27-31-4

PUBLIC SALE Having sold my farm and will leave the state, I will sell at public auction at my residence, 11 miles northeast of Rensselaer, 3% miles southwest of Gifford, near the Independence school house, on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1920, the following personal property: 7 Head of Horses—l black horse. 7 years old, a good worker; 1 grey mare coming 4 years old, a good general purpose mare; 1 black mare, smooth mouith, a good brood mare; 1 black mare, smooth (mouth, good worker; 1 bay mare, smooth' mouth; 1 brown or dark bay mare, smooth mouth; 1 grey gelding, smooth mouth. All of these aged horses are in good flesh and serviceably sound and will do lots of work. 14 Head of Cattle —1 roan Shorthorn cow, will be fresh soon; 1 Holstein cow, giving good flow of milk; 1 Polled Durham cow, with young calf by side; 1 Polled Angus cow, giving good flow of milk; 1 Hereford cow, giving good flow of milk; 1 Shorthorn cow, will be fresh in spring; 1 White Face cow,

POSTPONED PUBLIC SALE FARMS, STOCK AND IMPLEMENT SALE . ——----- — i ■ '■ —■ The undersigned, intending to move to the eastern part of the state, will offer their farm and personal property at public ■ale at residence, 1 mile south of Parr, 8% miles northwest of Rensselaer, commencing at 11 a. m., on FRIDAY, JAN. 30, 20’ HARSH BERGER & SON FARM, 200 ACRES Farm consists of 200 acres, all in cultivation except 35 acres in pasture and timber. There is 8 acres of wheat and 20 acres of rye now out on farm, and 40 acres of newly seeded timothy meadow. Land is fairly well drained; has 2 sets of improvements—-8-room Übuse, good as new, with basement, barn 30x36 with shed and crib on end 20x30, one double crib, chicken house, wash house with good cistern and engine room, 14x20; smokehouse, good well. Other set of improvements consists of good 6-room house, with basement and pantry, barn 30x62 with crib and shed 14x20, chicken house, hog shed, crib, wash-house 14x14, 2 good wells, two orchards and some small fruit. Farm lies 1 mile south of Parr on good gravel road. Farm will be sold first. Prospective purchasers can see farm at any time before sale by calling at premises. Livestock Consisting of 9 Head of Cattle —l black cow, 6 years old, with calf by side; 1 black cow, pasture bred; 1 brindle cow, 4 years old, pasture bred; 1 2-year-old heifer; 4 spring calves, heifers. 8 Head of Hog*. —7 brood sows, will farrow in March ;1 male hog, wt. about 200 pounds. 2 bred Ewes. Implements and Wagons 1 wagon, with triple box; 1 set dump boards; 1 hay rake; 1 fanning mill; 1 iron kettle; 1 spring wagon; 1 7-foot disc; 1 force pump; 1 double shovel plow; 1 potato plow; some hay in barn; 400 white oak posts; some household and kitchen furniture, and numerous other articles. Simon Chupp 129AcreFarm All in cultivation except 12 acres timber; 27 acres of wheat, 13 acres rye on place; farm fairly well drained; has good 10room house with lighting plant, house good as new and has lights in every room and basement; horse barn, shed and crib, cow barn, grainary, cement block silo; 2 chicken houses, and other outbuildings, good well. . Personal Property 1 Registered Jack 7 years old, an extra good one; 2 yearling colts 13 Head of Cattle Consisting of 1 black cow, fresh soon; 1 black cow, fresh in May; 1 dry cow; 6 2-year-old heifers; 1 coming 2-year-old steer; 2 coming yearling steers; 2 coming yearling heifers. Implements 1 8-ft. Osborn binder; 1 2-row P. & O. cultivator; 2 riding cultivators; 1 hay rake; 1 sulky plow; 1 3-section harrow; 1 mud boat; 1 cane press; 1 sorghum pan; 1 small cider press; 1 upright steam engine (3-horse); 1 set double driving harness; 2 stands bees; 1 140-egg Belle City incubator; some household and kitchen furniture; house plants; canned fruit; some stove-wood and numerous other articles. TERMS—A credit of 10 months will be given on all sums over 810, approved notes to bear 6 percent interest if paid at maturity, but if not so paid 8 percent interest will be charged from date of sale; 2 percent off for cash when entitled to credit. Terms on land will be made known on day of sale. Land can be seen at any time before sale date by calling at the former places. First named farm will be sold first thing. Simon Chupp & Son. E. E. Harshberger & Son. W. A. McCURTAIN, Auctioneer. A , E. P. LANE, Clerk. Hot lunch on Grounds.

will be fresh by day of sale; 1 black cow 4 years old, giving milk; 1 black cow, will be fresh by diay of sale; 1 rea cow, will be fresh in February; 1 Hereford bull, coming 2 years old; 1 Hereford bull calf; 1 coming 2-year-old steer; 2 coming yearling heifers. 45 Head of Hogs—7 grfi.de brood sows, farrowed 71 pigs last spring and. 65 this fall; 38 feeding shotes. •Farm Implements—l truck wagon, in good order; 1 walking breaking plow; 1 McCormick mowing machine; 1 Gale sure-drop corn planter with 100 rods of wire and fertilizer attachment that has never been unpacked; 1 Hoosier endgate seeder, with grass seed attachment, also seeder cart —seeder is as good as new; 1 Superior five-hoe disc grain drill; 1 Champion potato digger; 1 Champion potato planter; 1 potato cutter; 2 2-section harrows; 1 hay rack; 1 set of diuimp boards, with attachment for hauling 1% yards; 1 disc cultivator; 1 Oliver riding cultivator; 1 walking cultivator; 1 set of work harness; 1 coimibination vice and anvil; 1 50-gal. gas or oil tank. 12 Tons Hay—s or 6 tons of mixed hay, has a slight mixture of clover; 6 tons of straight timothy. Said hay was put' up right and is in the barn. Some nice Yellow Dent seed corn. Also some household articles, including ,a good airtight heater, folding bed, gasoline stove, davenport and other articles. Terms—A credit of 10 months will be given on all sums over $lO, approved notes to bear 6% interest if paid at maturity; but if not so paid 8 % interest will' be charged from date of sale; 2% off for cash when entitled to credit. JOHN M. DADE. W. A. McCurtain, Auct. H. D. Thomipson, Clerk. 1 Lunch by Aix Ladies’ Aid. / 321-24-28-31 J

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Sale bills printed Whil6 you wait at The Democrat office. General Auctioneer I am experienced In the Auction business, having conducted some of the largest sales in the county with success. I am a Judge ot values and will make an honest effort to get the high dollar. Write or wire for terms and dates at my expense. J. R. Brandenburg Phone 106-H FrancesvUle, Ind.

Keep Smiling and Bidding for Harvey Williams Auctioneer . Remington, Indiana List your Sale early as I sell nearly every day in the Sale Season. Large Sale Tent furnished to customers. Write or phone at my expense. ,