Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1920 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1920.

THE MAN WHO WASN'T HIMSELF

By ROBERT AMES BENNET

J SYNOPSIS. ' CHAPTER I.—Alighting rrom a train at Denver a well-dressed traveler la familiarly accosted by a man about his own age. The traveler Ignores the advance. A few minutes later he is greeted as ‘•Will” by an elderly lady and gentleman, Who stop their auto to speak. He imagines it a case of mistaken identity and announces ’himself as “Richard Clinton," on bls way to the coast. The couple ap(>ear greatly surprised, and learning he s to be in town until midpight, the lady. Introducing herself as Mrs. Kirkland, and ber husband as' Doctor Kirkland, invites him to dinner, explaining the action by tils truly remarkable resemblance to a friend of theirs. He accepts. At the Kirkland home he meets a young lady who greets him as her dance. She is Ellen Kirkland, and plainly is greatly hurt by his assertion that he is “Richard Clmton. CHAPTER 11. —At dinner “Clinton" learns that his host is a medical specialist and that he is believed to be Will Kwrie, a young man who had been sufferp from a nervous breakdown and had gone east for medical treatment. Lowrie Bad had in his possession bonds of the (Value of SIOO,OOO, belonging to the bank Where he was employed, which have disappeared and of which he has no recollection. With Dr. Kirkland “Clinton” goes to the Lowrie home, the doctor being satisfied that Amy Lowrie, Will’s sister, will convince “Clinton” he is really Dowrie, suffering from loss of memory. CHAPTER lll.—Amy declares at once be is her brother, and insists on treating him as such, to bis great embarrassment. CHAPTER IV.—Doctor Kirkland arranges to send a telegram to the sanitarium where Lowrie is undergoing treatment, inquiring as to bis whereabouts. CHAPTER V.—Ellen and Amy try In train to convince “Clinton” he is Will Lowrie, brother of one and the fiance of the other. He visits the. bank with Doctor Kirkland and cashes a draft. Bemm telle the president of the bank he is sure “Clinton” is Will Lowrie and agrees to (Ind out the whereabouts of the missing bonds. CHAPTER Vl.—With Bemm “Clinton” {Visits the athletic club and there Bemm (discovers that a birthmark, familiar to ,Xx>wrle’s friends, has disappeared from • “Gllpton’a” arm. Bemm Is somewhat dlslr’»?Vted but unconvinced. That evening > r(jnwer to Doctor Kirkland's telegram arrives, with the information that the superintendent of the sanitarium Is away, and the matter is left thus. CHAPTER Vll.—Bemm is very much tn love with Amy Lowrie. Her brother has discouraged the Intimacy, and Bemm thinks he can prove to Amy that her brother has made away with the bonds and is in danger of prosecution, from Which only Bemm can save him.

CHAPTER Vlll.—That evening Amy visits her “brother” in his room, in sisterly playfulness insisting he brush her hair. She tells him part of Bemm’s conversation and he is indignant To convince her he is not her brother he shows her his arm, from which the birthmark Is gone. Amy, believing at last, hastens from the room In maidenly shame, and “Clinton” at once leaves the house. “Indeed, yes. Every one knows that,” remarked Mrs. Kirkland. “It shows whenever you play tennis.” “Not when I play,” contradicted Clinton. "Mr. Bemm will tell you there Is not the slightest trace of a mark on my arm.” “No mark on your arm?” asked Ellen. She looked from him to her father in bewilderment. "You said you had no remembrance bf when the mark was removed,” Stated the police official. “That is a deliberate misstatement,” Clinton angrily retorted. “What I said

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Iwas that there never had been any mark on my arm to be removed.” The physician fixed him with an intent gaze. ‘‘Recall the cases of which you read in my office yesterday. In yiew of those other instances of double personality, can you be positive (with regard to this mark?—can you be positive of your identity?” I The young man’s eyes darkened jwlth the shadow ,of doubt; but only for a moment He frowned and answered: “I can, sir. I am positive. &here never was any mark on my arm. | am Richard Clinton. You have all {deluded yourselves and each other Into believing I am this Will Lowrie.” t “How about your attempt to eetape?” cut in the official.

“Escape? Bah! I’ve told you three times already it was to get away from the—the embarrassment of my false position.” “False, Will?” Inquired Mrs. Kirkland. “Then you realize —” “That you are all deluded —crazy — or else In a conspiracy to ,have me jailed, perhaps tried and sent to the penitentiary, while the real criminal—” “Criminal I” shrieked Amy. “But it isn’t true! it isn’t lit isn’t! You didn’t take the bonds I” “You admit it, then. You admit I'm not your brother.” “No, no! you are! you must be! Doctor says— ’’ “Hush, hush, my dear,” interposed Mrs. Kirkland. “You are overwrought. Let the doctor explain all about it.” She drew the reluctant girl from Clinton, who promptly edged around opposite Ellen and placed himself between Doctor Kirkland and the police official. Bemm, who had kept rather in the background, now came forward with a show of friendly interest. “As a friend of the —that is, of Mr. Lowrie,” he remarked, “may I be per-, mltted to suggest that this idea of his about a conspiracy rather supports Doctor Kirkland’s theory of irresponsibility.” Clinton set his jaw and stood silent, evidently resolved to say no more. Doctor Kirkland smiled approval. “That is better, my boy. Keep cooL Over-excitement is good for no one. May I see the warrant?” The official produced the warrant. The physician glanced through it with an experienced eye. “H’m—embezzlement of the bonds—Will Lowrie, alias Bichard Clinton.” “Pardon me,” remarked Bemm somewhat diffidently.' “I wish to say I happen to know that the —er —party representing the bank in this matter is inclined to accept my theory that our friend disposed of —that Is to say, misplaced the bonds while mentally irresponsible.” “Tijen why have they acted so outrageously to him?” demanded Amy. “Had he not attempted to leave town, y’ know —” “That is the worst of itl" exclaimed Mrs. Kirkland. “The publicity! The scandal!”

“Madam,” reassured the official, “there has been no publicity so far; and there need be none if Mr. Lowrie can account for the bonds. We here are the only ones who know of his arrest, except the plain-clothes man who caught him at the depot He won’t leak.” “One moment officer, if you please,” interrupted Doctor Kirkland. He fixed his keen gaze on Clinton. “If released from custody would you leave town?” Clinton looked at Amy, and suddenly his anger vanished. He even smiled as he answered: “Those who dance must pay the piper. I could have telegraphed for my proofs; I could have told you all about my life. But I was too stubborn to do either. Bemm and this official refuse to believe my full statement about myself and my business. Therefore I now refuse to telegraph or say anything more, except that I no longer have any wish to go away. I wish to stay, even though it be In jail, until you have disproved this ridiculous charge and I am free He looked at Amy, smiled and strolled over to gaze at a photograph in" the far corner of the room. Amy glided after him, to stand by his side and fondle his hand in silent sympathy. Ellen looked longingly at the couple, but lingered to hear what her father was saying to the official. “This charge of conspiracy clearly Indicates his delusional predisposition. You have my word, sir, that he was and Is mentally Irresponsible for his actions, in the full legal senses term.” . The official looked his concern. “Sor-‘ but in the case of a war-' rant—” waUEBi 2Very trpe,” agreed the physician. “He must be kepi in custody, unless admitted to bail. That does not prevent you from 'deputizing me and placing him in my custody. What he requires is sanitarium treatment Confinement in jail would probably shatter his mind beyond all hope of recovery. The sanitarium,, on the, contrary, may restore him to his old self and enable him to remember how he lost the bonds.” Bemm smiled suavely at the police official. “Ah. In that case I venture to request you to accede to Doctor Kirkland’s suggestion. I feel sure you may safely Intrust Mr. Lowrie in his custody. Consider me as the doctor’s second In the matter—er —what Is the term? —his guarantor, if I am considered to have any standing.” “H’m," muttered the official. "It’s a queer case.* Well, I guess I’ll take the responsibility of deputizing Doctor Kirkland and entrusting the prisoner

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to his custody- There’s no precedent for It; but considering the circumstances and the fact that the doctor has often helped out the department with expert advice. I’ll risk it.” The physician bowed In acknowledgment and walked over to Clinton. “My boy,” he said, “we cannot compel you to give over your fancied idea of a conspiracy against you. However, our friend here has agreed to set you at liberty on my recognizance. All I ask of you is your word as a gentleman that you will remain In Denver until cleared of this charge.” Clinton turned and Impulsively held out his hand. “Doctor, I beg your pardon' for my suspicion. It was the only way I could account for the persistency of everybody in identifying me with Mr. Lowrie. I see that I must have been mistaken. I give you my word that I will not leave town until 1 am cleared of this false and ridiculous charge.” “We shall stay with Amy until her — your mother returns," rather hastily remarked Mrs. Kirkland. She covered the betrayal of the doubt that troubled her with a smile, gracious and cordial: “And now you and Amy must come home to lunch with us." “And Charlie, too,” added Ellen. “He was so thoughtful, phoning to us.” “Will is my best friend,” said Bemm, looking at Amy. She gave him a grateful glance. He started for the door. “Count on me. I’d like to go with you, but I shall hunt up Will’s suitcase and take it home for him on my way." (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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NOTICE. To the electors and citizens of Barkley Township, Jasper county, Indiana. Commissioners Court, Jasper County, Indiana, August Term, 1920. In the matter of creating an additional election precinct In Barkley Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Notice Is hereby given to the electors and citizens of Barkley Township, Jasper County, Indiana, that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, at Its August Term, 1920, created and established three election precincts in said township, which shall be known and designated as the South, West and East Election Precincts, the boundaries of which are described as follows: The south election precinct shall consist of all that portion of said township, which is south of the following described line, to-wlt: Beginning at the west line of said township at the southwest corner of section 29, township 30 north, range 6 west, and running thence east to the east Une of said Barkley Township, the west election precinct shall consist of all that portion of said township north of the above described line and west of the half-section line running - north and south through the centers of section 2, 11, 14 and 23, township 30 north, range 6 west, and the east election precinct shall consist of all that portion of said Barkley township, which lies north of the south election precinct as hereinabove described and east of the half-section line running north and south through the centers of said sections 2. 11, 14 and 23 In township 30 north, range 6 SV€S t. The' place of holding elections in the south election precinct shall be at the Center School House, the place of holding elections In the west election precinct shall be at the Independence School House and the place of holding elections in the east election precinct shall be at the Newland School House. 8 SCHUYLER C. ROBINSON, Auditor, Jasper County.

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Important News Events of the World Summarized

Washington President Wilson at Washington In a proclamation “suggested and requested" that December 21 be celebrated throughout the United States as the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Bock. • • • The gross national debt was reduced a total of $76,404,453 during July, according to the Washington treasury statement. • • • Collection of charges for unloading and loading live stock in addition to the rates on live stock to find from Chicago stock yards was found by the interstate commerce commission at Washington to be unlawful. * * * president Wilson at Washington In a telegram to John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America stated that if mine laborers now on strike in Illinois and Indiana would return to work he would invite the Joint scale committee of the miners and operators to meet to work out any inequalities in the present wage scale for the central competitive fields * * • The greatest single advance of transportation rates In the history of government regulation was granted to the railroads of the United States in a unanimous order of the interstate commerce commission at Washington. The award will increase the annual revenue of the railroads by about a billion and one-half. • • * Increase of more than a million bales in the prospective production of cotton over the Indicated yield a month ago was forecast by the department of agriculture at Washington. • • • President Wilson at Washington has decided to retire from the sheep business. The White House flock of 48 prize sheep, which has kept the lawns cut for three summers, Is to be sold. A sharp drop in wool consumptionamounting to approximately 17,000,000 pounds In June, as compared with the average consumption for the preceding months of this year, was announced at Washington. Domestic

News was received at Little Rock, Ark., that William Crutcher, aged forty, a farmer, threw his four little children into a bayou, drowning them, and then drowned himself. • ♦ • Greetings on the sixth anniversary of Great Britain’s entry into the World’s war were calbled to Field Marshal Earl Haig by Franklin d’Olier, national commander of the American Legion qt New York. • * * All the personal property of Chicago and Cook county listed by the board of assesors for taking purposes this year is worth $914,552,308, according to figures completed by the assess ors. • • • Existence of anthrax among stock on several plantations In Miller county, Arkansas, has been discovered by government veterinarians at Texarkana, Ark. Several clothing manufacturers in New • York reported a reduction In their working forces because "of lack of orders and general trade.” Indictments charging violation of the Sherman and Lever acts were returned by a federal grand jury at Chicago against 41 of the leaders in the “rebel” yardmen’s strike that paralyzed railroad transportation throughout the country last winter.

Roy M. Shayne and his fiancee, Ruth Eleanor Wood, were exonerated from all blame In connection with the death of Samnel T. A. Loftis, wealthy diamond merchant, by ft LlXt. Omer Locklear, noted “stunt” aviator, and Lieut. Milton Elliot, his killed when their plane crashed from a distance of 1,000 feet at Los Angeles. •"**'— Hol on the Iran of Iwo auto banbits, Deputy Sheriff Nat Maltin of Tama, la., accidentally shot himself, dying within a few minutes. • • ♦ Lige Daniels, negro, said to have confessed to the murder of Mrs. Hall, was hanged by a mob In the courthouse square at Center, Tex. • • • The Detroit & Ironton railroad, Henry Ford’s new Une, asked the interstate commerce commission at Washington for a “certificate of public convenience” to build an extension of the Une in Wayne comity, Michigan. • • • Hailstones seven inches in circumference, according to C, E. Peterson, United States weather forecaster, feU in • a storm which swept Wichita, Kan., and vicinity, doing damage estimated at between SIOO,OOO and s2oo< 000.

Capt R. W. Schroeder, holder of the world’s altitude record, was Injured when the fast racing plane which he was testing crashed into an automobile at Wilbur Wright flying field, Dayton, O. • • • William Bross Lloyd and his 19 fellow advocates of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" were found guilty of sedition by a Jury In Judge Oscar Hebei's court at Chicago. All were sentenced to Imprisonment. ( • • • Six armed men, unmasked, entered the Commercial Savings bank at Moline, 111., backed two tellers Into a vault and all others Into the cashier's office, swept $20,000 Into sacks and inude their escape. • • • Eight hundred cases of bonded whisky, valued at $200,000, were stolen from the warehouse of Benjamin Segal, 907 South State street, Chicago. • • • John Jozwlak, aged slxty-five, a fanner of Sigel, Wls., died as a result of being gored by a bull. Jozwlak had entered the barn to feed the bull when the animal charged him. •* • - Politics Governor Cox accepted an invitation from Judge D. M. Latham of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce to speak before that organization early in October. • • • Senator Harding's front-porch campaign for the presidency opened at Marlon, 0., with an address to a delegation from Mansfield. O. * • • Personal

Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin filed suit at Los Angeles, Cal., for a divorce from Charles ChapliQ, moving picture comedian. Mrs. Harris charges extreme cruelty and bodily Injury. She also asks that her husband be restrained from disposing of his Interest in motion picture films valued at $750,000. • • • Thomas L. Kennan, the oldest practicing attorney In Wlconsln, died at Milwaukee. Mr. Kennan, who was ninety-three, was also one of the state’s veteran Masons. • • • Percy Sholto Douglas, ninth marquis of Queensberry, Is dead at Johannesburg, South Africa. • • * Foreign x The suspense under which Warsaw has labored for three days was heightened by the news that the negotiations at Baranovitlch between the Polish and soviet Russian armistice commissions had been without result. The report that the Russian soviet government insisted that peace conversations begin at once caused a sensation in political circles. Announcement was made that General Romer's party was authorized only to confer with the bolshevlkl on the question of an armistice. • •. • A wireless dispatch from Berlin says the Russians have now advanced within 62 miles of Warsaw an the east and about forty miles east of Lemberg. The dispatch adds there is panic in Warsaw and all wealthy residents are fleeing. • • • A Berne dispatch says electric trains are now passing through the St. Gothard tunnel. The St. Gothard railway is to be entirely electrified, a further section, Erstfield to Goeschenen, just having been completed. • • * Turkish national forces opened a bitter offensive against the Greeks along a slxty-mile battle front in Asia Minor. The battle lines extend along the Bagdad railroad westward to Slmav, says a Constantinople dispatch. • • * The mobilization at a moment’s notice of two army divisions has been arranged for by the army council at London in view of the Polish situation. The disposal of surplus army stores has been temporarily halted. • • *

Refugees arriving at Allensteln, East Prussia, declare that the bob shevllfl are shooting all landownen and property holders, and others suspected of having money. The wearing qf a white collar, they assert, is sufficient evidence for a death warrant. Th^sochlisf Congress in session at Geneva, Switzerland, voted to remove its headquarters from Brussels tc London. A. (Jrajev (Poland) dispatch says the"* Russian fourth army in two cob umns Is advancing from Blelsk and Bialystok g a NggoyUgckj carrying wlti) it heftvy"artillery for “a bombardment of Waysaw. Offlap jit the Russian bolshevik army have dFdeffiWhTch direct them to continue along the East Prussian frontier until they are directly north of Warsaw, thus cutting off the Danzig corridor (Poland’s outlet to the sea). • * • I The nationalist Turkish forces are 'fleeing into the mountains in Anatolia, according to advices received by the state department at Washington from the American legation at Athens. A Panama dispatch says Dr. D. Pers ras, candidate of the liberal conservative party, was elected president of the Republic of Panama. * « « Polish forces, comprised of 40 officers and 2,000 men, crossed the East Prussian frontier, according to dl>< patches published Jn London..

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

News Items From AR Over Indiana. GOVERNOR SIGNS TWO BILLS Approves Teachers* Pay Measure and the Two-Platoon System In Fire Departments of Cities Exceedceeding 15,000 Population. Indianapolis, Aug. 6.—Governor Goodrich signed the teachers’ salary bill and the measure compelling the establishment of the two-platoon system in Are departments of cities exceeding 15,000 population. Five other measures passed by the special session of the legislature were rejected. The rejected measures Included the amendments to the county unit road law and the amendment to the state highway commission law whereby contractors could collect 100 per cent of the estimated value of completed new work. Under the constitution Wednesday was the last day for executive action on bills passed by the special session. The teachers' bill provide# for an Increase of approximately 80 per cent, in salaries and establishes SBOO as the minimum that can be paid to any teacher in Indiana. This measure was strenuously opposed by Township trustees and farmers. Senator Oliver Kline of Huntington, chairman of the education committee in the upper house, fought the measure on the floor. He declared that trustees had already made their contracts for the coming school year and that they would not have sufficient funds to pay additional salaries. Aside from lack of revenue to pay salaries there was opposition to the measure because the minimum will tend to lengthen the terms of school in rural communities. This was one of the arguments urged against the bill before its passage. Senator Kline held that rural children should not be kept in school as long as city children because part of their education consists in learning how to wort on the farm. The governor said that he signed two-platoon bill with the understanding that the firemen will not oppose and amendment by the 1021 legislature extending the time for the act to take effect until July 1* 1921. Under the provisions of the act all cities of more than 15,000 population are compelled to institute two platoons in their fire departments. Of-' Helals of several cities told the governor that they will not have enough revenue to establish the new system by the first of the year, but that it could be accomplished by July, 1021, as they will be able to make a levy this year In anticipation of the new expense.

County Fund In Defunct Bank.

Richmond, Aug. 6.—The amount due the treasury of Wayne county on August 1 from the Fanners’ Banking company of Milton, now in the hands of a receiver, amounted to $17,551.58, oa the checking accounts of the county maintained there. The county also holds two certificates of deposit of $5,000 each, It was learned. The checking account of the county funds at thia bank amounted to $31,886.20 on May 81. The legal apportionment of the county's funds, which the Milton bank could 4iold, was only $6,000. This large sum Is partially accounted for by heavy collections of spring taxes in Washington township, amounting to about $12,000. It was said that it was the Intention to check out the state’s share of the county funds on deposit in the Milton bank, late in May, but that this was deferred when Cashier Oscar M. Klrlln, who committed suicide on July 1, requested that this money be kept there until after the harvest season. Following Kinlin's suicide the bank was thrown into the hands of a receiver.

TENNESSEE SAYS HANDS OFF

Harding and Cox Asksd to Remove Political Pressure. Nashville,, Tenn., Aug. 6/—Thfe Tennessee ConstltjiHonal league, with a board o? directors cojjgjstlnk of three Democrats and three Republicans, sent requests To Governor Cox and Senator Harming that political pressure on the Tennessee legislature be removed. The letter to Governor Cox was written by form ®£ ber of The court of civil appeals, and tha£ To Senator Harding by Judge G v N. Tillman, who, Tn polled the highest vote ever given a Republican candidate for gdTerno? ofTerinessee. '

OIL BLAST KILLS FIREMEN

Members of Cincinnati Department Caught in Explosions. “Cincinnati, Aug. 6. —Several members of Cincinnati Are department , were killed and another probably fatally burned In a fire and series of explosions at the plant of the Refiners’ Oil company. One unidentified body was received at the morgue. Lieut. Fred Hotel is among the known dead. a A cigarette stub thrown into the oil yard is believed to-have started th^ la • re - /ith.

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