Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1920.

THE MAN WHO WASNT HIMSELF

By ROBERT AMES BENNET

SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I.—Alighting rrom a train at Denver a well-dressed traveler in familiarly accosted by a man about bls 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 his way to the coast. The couple appear greatly surprised, and learning he is to be In town until midnight, the lady, introducing herself as Mrs. Kirkland, and her husband as Doctor Kirkland, Invites him to explaining the action by his truly remarkable resemblance to a friend of theirs. He accepts. At the Kirkland home he meets a young lady who greets him as her fiance. She is Ellen Kirkland, and plainly 1? greatly hurt by bls assertion that he Is "Richard Clinton. CHAPTER ll.—At dinner "Clinton” learns that his host is a medical specialist and that he is believed to be Will Lowrie, a young man who had been suffering from a nervous breakdown and had gone east for medical treatment. Lowrie bad had in his possession bonds of the Value of >IOO,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 bettig satisfied that Amy Lowrie, Will’s sister, will convince "Clinton” he Is really Lowrie, suffering from loss of memory. CHAPTER lll.—Amy declares at once be Is her brother, and insists on treating him as such, to his great embarrassment. CHAPTER IV.—Doctor Kirkland arranges to send a telegram to the sanitarium where Lowrie Is undergoing treattnent, Inquiring as to his whereabouts. CHAPTER V.—Ellen and Amy try is vain 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 tells the president of the bank he is sure "Clinton” Is Will Lowrie and agrees to find 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 Lowrie’s friends, has disappeared from "Clinton’s” arm. Bemm Is somewhat disconcerted but unconvinced. That evening an answer 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 in love with Amy Lowrie. Her brother has discouraged the Intimacy, and Bemm Chirrs he can prove to Amy that her baßer has made away with the bonds laJKls in danger of prosecution, from j only Bemm can save him. VIII.—That evening Amy 4Kitsvfier “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 ber 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 holise. CHAPTER IX. —"Clinton," about to leave town. Is arrested, and Doctor Kirkland and the ladies visit him at the police gtaUon. The doctor arranges for his reCHAPTER X—At the Kirkland residence, where the party goes, Bemm, still certain "Clinton” is his former acquaintance, Lowrie, makes a proposition to him to return the bonds, promising Immunity from prosecution in return for his Inducing Amy to accept him as her fiance. ••Clinton” throws him out of the house. Doctor Kirkland makes up his mind to have the young man remain In his sanitarium for observation and probable cure. CHAPTER Xl.—Arriving at the sanitarium "Clinton” finds he is practically a prisoner. In hot indignation he denounces the doctor, and Ellen gives him back his ring, declaring their engagement at an •nd. "Clinton” assures Amy he will really go Insane if confined, for any length of ume, and she shows him how he can •scape that night, promising to have an auto across the road to take him to her bouse.

CHAPTER XII. — "Clinton” escapes from the sanitarium, as arranged, meets Amy, and they drive home safely. At the house he endeavors to make Amy see, once for all, that he is really "Richard Clinton,” declaring his affection for her as a lover. The girl realizes that her fondness for him is more than sisterly, and, almost convinced, leaves him and takes refuge with Tillie. CHAPTER XHI.-In the taomlng EHen and Bemm arrive with the announcement of "Clinton’s” escape, Bemm practically accusing Amy of complicity In the matter. Circumstances indicating that the fugitive Is in the house, he proceeds to make a search, but is Interrupted by a message from police headquarters that Lowrie has been seen In City Hall park. । He laughed at the absurdity of the confession. “What? You funny little Toodlums. Who was so anxious last year for me to be the lucky man?” He kissed the blushing forehead of his .blissfully happy fiancee. “I don’t care,” Amy sought to defend herself. “You’ve been jealous of •Charlie. You know you have.” He frowned. “You’ve not encouraged .that fellow? I warned him —” “Don’t worry,” she Interrupted. "Ellen has settled him.” “Ellen?” he queried. “My dear boyI” Interposed Mrs. Kirkland. “You aye still leaving us out’ "Never!” he gaily rejoined. “It’s only that I’ve already got my arms full. If I had a third arm —and an extra hand to grip Doctor’s!” He beamed back at ■ them; but suddenly turned to cast an Inquiring look arqund him, and demand: “But Where’s Momsey?’’ “Why, you’re still muddled,” remarked Amy. “Don’t you remember?” twitched with apprehension. what? They refused to give me any letters! I’ve %not heard a word all these fearful Utapifths! What is it? Has Momsey P" «No, no, dearest,” Ellen reassured him. “She is all right.” ’ i ‘ “Then why Isn’t she here?” “But She has not yet returned from

the Springs," replied Mrs. Kirkland. “She is down at .the Springs?” “Don't you remember?” “My dear,” said the physician, “you and the girls forget that he knows nothing of what has hapifened to his other personality, nothing whatever." “Other personality?” sharply queried the young man. “What do you mean, Doctor?” “Keep calm, my boy. It is a not unusual occurrence —nothing to worry about a condition easily curable with proper treatment. You may find it difficult to believe, but ever since we met you at the station ” “Met me? I didn’t see you. I ” “la your other personality,” explained the physician. “And took you home to dine with us,” added his wife. “You didn’t remember even me,” reproached Ellen. “Nor me, when doctor brought you home,” chimed in Amy. He stared at Doctor Kirkland in consternation. “Heavens! You all talk as if — Delusions! more delusions, when I was so sure!” “Now, now, my boy? there is nothing serious about your condition,” replied the physician. “It is only that —” “More delusions!” muttered the frightened young man. “It’s all a daze —a dream —ever since I gave that attendant the slip . . . caboose, sleeper, daycoach—a blurred jumble. Yet it seems —yes, I did take the Park Hill car. Then the park; then —but that’s all dark —nothing till I was lying there in the old brick-yard pit, the blood trickling down my face, but my head clear —” “Oh ! you fell! you hurt your head!” cried Ellen. “Let us see! Papa, look at it!” “But It’s nothing, nothing at all, darling,” replied her loVer. “Or rather, it’s everything—the luckiest bump that ever happened. I don’t know, but it must have jarred loose something in my brain. Ever since I came to, my head has been as clear as crystal. The very first moment I recognized the pit as the place in which —” “Bump! shock!” boomed Doctor Kirkland. “Proves my diagnosis; functional lesion, or possibly a blood clot — physical shock— My boy, you’re all right now —nothing to fear. All that is past —your amnesia, dissociation, this secondary personality that has caused you to fall to recognize us all these days.” “But I have not failed to recognize you. I knew you all at once.” “Why, Will,” replied Amy. “Don’t you really remember? You’ve been with us ever since two evenings before last.” At the statement his face became

“Quick! Is It Hallucination? Tell Me."

vivid with renewed alarm and consternation. He thrust the girl from him, to grope desperately Inside his waistcoat. The others stared apprehensively at these signs of frenzy. From his bosom he jerked out a large bulging earth-stained envelope and waved It frantically at Doctor Kirkland. “Look! look!” he panted. "Quick! Is it—hallucination? Tell met” . The physician seized and ripped opeh the envelope. “Hey? what?*’ he exclaimed —“Bonds. . . . The bonds!” “A-a-hl—Then they are real . . . real as you, darling Ellen!” The girl qjet the eager lips that bent down to her upturned face. "Yes, yes, dearest,” she whispered. “Now you’re your real self—all is real!” I The physician’s lips were moving In rapid count of the bonds. His voice became audible: " —seven, eight, nine, ten —ten! ... everyone for ten thousand—” voice boomed joy-

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ouHy: “One hundred thousand! AD there! the full amount! not one lost!” “Thank Heaven!” cried the young man. “That saves me! . . . All those months, those dreary awful months —worry, worry, w’orry; groping? trying to remember. Yet it was there, the memory, down under.- 1 knew it was there. It was that which compelled me to keep trying to escape from them —time after time. Anti when at last I did, It led me in thai half-blind daze all the way home—it led me to the pit." “The pit?”, questioned Mrs. Kirkland. “In the abandoned brickyard beyond City Park. . . . The moment I came to, and looked around. I recognized the place. I went straight to the hole where I had hidden the bonds.” “You hid them out there?” exclaimed Ellen. “Yes. All flashed back into my mind —all about that day when Bemm brought me down from Pueblo —the fear that drove me half insane when he flippantly suggested that we might get away with the bonds by smashing and setting fire to the car and pretending the bonds were burned up in the wreck.”

“He did that? Charlie did that?” cried Amy. "But he is a detective!” "Yes, I found that out afterwards, Toodluins. I suppose he was trying to test my Integrity. I can’t believe worse of him. But I was then in a bad way, and what he suggested completely unbalanced me. I was certain he meant to steal the bonds from me. I must have been half insane. To save them from him, I rented a safe deposit box and pretended to him that I had put them In It; but instead I want out past City Park and wandered about until I found the hiding place In the clay pit.” "So that was it,” remarked Amy. He did not reply. He was engrossed In gazing into Ellen’s tender gray eyes. The fond parents beamed upon the blissful couple. Amy sighed and stole out of the room, unheeded by the others. Ellen snuggled closer to her lover. “You fell into the pit,” she rec: ’led the mishap. “Your poor dear head!” “Only a little cut,” he reassured her. “I wiped the blood off my face, and hurried home with the bonds to see Momsey and Amy before rushing down to the bank. I did not wish to see you until I could tell you I had restored the bonds. There was no one in the front of the house; so I went direct to the bathroom. I my head and started In to my room—Who Is the man visiting here?” “Visiting here?” repeated Mrs. Kirkland. “What made you think that? There has been no man staying here except yourself, Will.” “No one!” he cried. “You say no one? Then I’m not cured! —it was an hallucination!” “Here, here, keep quiet I This won’t do,” ordered Doctor Kirkland. “What was it? Explain.” The young man sought to repress his shuddering. “I—when I—when I opened the passage door there was a—a something across at the mirror—lt—it—” “Pooh!” ridiculed the physician. “Your own reflection." “Then why—why was it’s back to me?” »*lt’s back?” quavered Ellen. “Oh, Will!" “Pooh! pooh! Nothing to it, my boy,” insisted the physician. “Merely a freak of vision. Think no more about it Amy—What! Where is Amy?” i - “Indeed, where —?” murmured Mrs. Kirkland, gazing about the room. “She has gone out . . . Perhaps she has gone to call Tillie. Would it not be well to telephone the good news that Will is safe home?” “Yes, yes, to be sure—police, bank, sanitarium —all!” shouted her husband, and he rushed out to the telephone. “They’ll come here, dearest,” whispered Ellen. “You ehall qot leave me!” “How could I?” he rapturously replied. Mrs. Kirkland sank Into a chair to dab her tearful eyes and smile upon the lovers. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

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IIBIK B Walker Township, Jasper Co, Ind. Polled Herefords and Poland China Hogs Hereford herd headed by Transmitter 750173, by King Jewel 20th, out of Bullion 4th dam. Young Stock for sale at all times. Ml. MH J MS TEFFT, IND, R-1.

A RAINBOW MOTHER’S VIEWS

To the Editor of the News: Sir —I greatly appreciate the able presentation of the issues of this campaign by the News, and especially the discussion of the paramount Issue —the league of nations. As the mother of one ot the "Rainbow boys” who fought through the great war, and as a first voter, I desire to express some of my views through your columns. I was reared a Republican and educated in the atmosphere of the great moral questions that were espoused by the Republican party in its' early history. But 1 can not vote the Republican ticket in campaign, for its platform and candidate oppose the greatest moral and humanitarian issue ever presented in any campaign. The league of nations is the expression in definite form of the lofty sentiment that sustained us during the war. Every true American was for it until the bampaign of hate and misrepresentation started in the United States senate. Every criticism offered can be answered against the present position of the Republican party by the words of the ablest men in that party, spoken when they were moved by patriotism and not under the stress of a partisan campaign. When our boys enlisted, when they qailed to Europe, while they fought and while we worked and prayed for them, patriotic speakers, ministers of the gospel and the press all assured us that our soldiers were fighting, not only to win the war, but to end all war or make the nearest possible approach to that desirable end. We have lost much of the glory and honor won by our brave solders We can only hope to regain our lost preetiage and tarnished nonor by promptly entering the existing league. Talk of a separate peace with Germany, or of some other indefinite/ association of nations is dishonorable and is trifling with the American people on a great moral question. Those who indulge in such talk are either deceived or are seeking to deceive the people. Fortyone nations are already In the existing league, and, though hindered by foolish and unreasonable criticism and by Amierica’s failure In the hour of her greatest achievement and most glorious opportunity, the existing league is in successful operation and 'has already justified its existence by preventing two wars. Both Senators Harding and Watson voted for the resolution for a separate peace with Germany. This meant the abandonment of our allies and a bld for the pro-German vote in this country. Senator Wattxm even argues that we have never been at war with Germany. This is an insult to every soldier, and, as the mother of a soldier, I resent the Insult.

The issue is now clear. Senator Harding has wabbled from Johnson to Wickersham, but he Is now back with the Irreconcilable enemies of the great covenant of peace. In his speech Sept. 20 to a company of old soldiers he denounced the league as a "stupendous fraud.” In his speech of acceptance he said he would hasten to sign a resolution for a separate peace with Germany.Friends of the league can find no hope here. Governor Cox has at all times said he favors going into the league, but is willing to accept any reservations that do not change the essentials of the great covenant of peace. Senator Watson stands with Senator Harding and the ,enemies of the league. Mr. Taggart ie for the league, and his sound business judgment and lofty patriotism commend Mm. ' - Governor Cox has a good record for law enforcement on the liquor question, as well as all others. He has said that 'the liquor question is as dead ak the slavery question. Senator Harding has not said so much nor has he even Informed us whether he still own® the brewery stock he is known to have once owned. . We know where Governor Cox stands on all questions. Senator Harding has shifted his position so often that I can have no faith in any statement he make®. Republicans say he is dignified and a great American. Vacillation and evasion are not characteristics of either greatness or true Americanism. I see more dignity and more elements of a real president in a man who has carried his state in three out of four contests against great odds, has proved that he is a progressive statesman and a great executive, and frankly states hds position so that all may understand, than I do in a man who draws his inspiration from the most reactionary crowd tn American politics and hesitates to state his views so all may- know where he stands. This is a campaign based on Issues. The league is the controlling question with me. I could not look my boy in the face again if I failed to work and vote for the principles for which he fought and all but sacrificed his life. My daughter is still in France helping to heal the wounds of the awful war and bring better condition® to the French women. My son came home, but the sons of some of my neighbors -sleep in Flanders field. Thedr sacrifice should not be thrown away. It can only be preserved and made to mean the most to posterity by America’s prompt entrance into the existing league. My vote shall be cast for Cox and Roosevelt as the only effective way of helping to achieve this desirable end. ‘ Partisanship should not stand in the way of duty: With many it will not in the presence of this great m/oral issue, which has in it more of the teachings ot Christ than any other question ever presented to the voters of America. A RAINBOW MOTHER. —lndianapolis News (HW-)-

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This son of Illinois is one of the most prolific and successful of American writers. Aided by a fertile imagination, his own career and experiences have furnished plots in abundance. Educated for the law, he has been plainsman, prospector, miner, country editor, city reporter and novelist, and has also taken a dip into commercial waters. Many kinds of life are depicted in his books, but he doubtless shows to best advantage in stories of the West. You are sure to like his “Comrades of Peril,” a true western narrative which soon will be reproduced serially in these columns.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of tho circuit court of Jasper county, state of Indiana, administrator of the estate of John Moosmiller, late of said county, deceased. Said estate Is supposed to be solvent JOSEPH MOOSMILLER. Date, September 11, 1920. Attest: JESSE NICHOLS, Clerk of Jasper Circuit Court.

FARMS FOR SALE Call or send for list of 50 farms for sale, ten of which are described below:

No. 3. —40 acres. This farm la all clean, level black land, In cultivation, and Is tiled and has good outlet. There is a five-room bungalow, fair barn and good well; buildings are nearly new. It lies on main road, one-fourth mile from the Jackson highway, station with store, school, church and elevator. Can sell ou terms. Price 3135 per acre. No. 4—60 acres. This farm lies on pike road, 40 rods from school and has telephone and R. F. D. It is all in cultivation and well tiled and is all good grain land. There is a six-room house, good barn and other buildings. A good well and nice bearing orchard. It Is fenced and cross-fenced with woven wire. Price >l3O per acre. No. 10. —160 acres. This farm lies In our best grain belt and is all good grain land and all In cultivation except six acres in timber, hog lot. It Is well tilled and fenced and crossfenced, with woven wire. There is a six-room house, large new barn, large double crib, garage and outside cellar, good well, wind mill with water piped to cement tank In barn lot. Can make good terms on this farm. A bargain at 3170 per acre. No. 13.—160 acres. This farm Ues on the Jackson Highway and in splendid neighborhood. It Is ajl In cultivation, all good grain land and has good drainage. There Is a sixroom house, good barn, double cribs, windmill and good well. Can be bought on favorable terms at the low price of 3125 per acre. No. 18. —160 acres- This farm lies on the Jackson Highway near school and two miles from station, church and elevator. There are four other churches within three and one-half miles of this farm. The farm is mostly black, level land all tillable except 10 acres In timber. There Is a 10-lnch tile In the farm for outlet There Is a good five-room house, roomy barn, garden, fenced with cedar posts and woven wire, just put in. It Is fenced and cross-fenced with bajrb w’-e and three acres, fenced for begs. TherA is a good, new well and some fruit. If too large owner would sell 120 acres With buildings. Can sell on favorable terms. Price 385 per acre. No. 85. —860 acres. This farm lie* on main road on R. F.D. and one mile from stone road and 1% miles from the Jackson Highway and 2 miles from station with stores, grain market and three churches. The farm Is level dark productive soil except 10 acres of ridge, 120 acres is woodland pasture and 280- acres Is in cultivation. There Is lots Of tile with good outlet Into dredge ditch 20 rods from the farm. It

George F. Meyers RENSSELAER, INDIANA

PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell at public auction at his residence In th* part of Remington, 1 blocks south of Fanners’ elevator, commencing at 12:30 p. m., on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1920, the following described property: 3 Head of Horses—l 7-year-old good work horse, 1 12-yoar-old general purpose mare; 1 6-year-old spotted horse, will make a good saddle and general purpose horse, wt. 1150. 8 Head of Cattle—l fresh Shorthorn cow with calf by side, a good milch cow; 1 Holstein cow, giving good flow of milk; 1 Jersey cow and 1 spotted cow, both giving milk; 1 3-year-old heifer; 1 Jersey heifer, both with calf; 1 yearling steer. 25 Head of Hogs—2 Brood sows, due to farrow by day of sale; 19 shoats, average wt. about 75 pounds; 4 Poland China male nogs, wt. about 100 pounds. 4 Head of Sheep. 1 good Ford Touring Car. Farming Topis—l 8-ft. Deering binder; 1 14-inch Oliver gang plow; 1 sulky plow; 1 Standard mowing machine; 1 Gale corn planter, with, fertilizer attachment and 120 rods wire; 1 triple-bed wagon box; 3 sets work harness; 1 blacksmith’s forge; 1 Prest-o-llte tank; 1 Stewart speedometer complete for Ford car, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—A credit of 11 months will be given on all sums over $lO at 5% Interest If paid when due. If not paid when due 8% will ba charged from date of sale; 2% oft for cash when titled to credit. PETE BAIER. Harvey Williams. Auct. Ellis Jones, Clerk. e 25-29

Hl «■ I am experienced In the Auctlop business, having conducted some of the largest sales In the county with success. I am a judge of 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 108-H, Francesville, or 941-Q, Rensselaer P. O. McCoys burg, R-1

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Is fenced with barbed wire with, two miles of woven wire. The improvements are a comfortable she room bouse with cellar, summer kitchen, well house, fair old bans and a large new barn for horses, cows, grain and large mow, all on solid stone and cement foundation chicken . house, hog house, large bearing orchard, two wells and two windmills. Owner of this farm has poor health and offers this place at the low price of 375 per acre. Ha would consider clear rental property not to exceed one-half of the price of the farm. Wants 35,000 in cash in a trade or sale and give time on remainder. No use to offer anything in trade unless the property is in good condition, clear of debt and not too far away. No. 44.—90 acres. This farm Hee on the Francesville prairie, 4% mUea from Francesville and on pike road, in good enlghborhood. It is all good level land, all in cultivation and all good strong grain land. It is well tiled into good outlet. There is a five-room house, fair barn and several other outbuildings, good well and bearing orchard. Price 3185 per acre. This is a choice tract of land and a bargain and can be bought on terms. No. 47.-97 acres. This farm Has on gravel road three miles from good small town with high school and two churches and elevator. It has largo ditch that runs on the line that gives a good outlet for drainage.. There is a new five-room bungalow, fair barn, silo and other buildings. The farm is ail in cultivation except 10 acres of timber pasture. Price 3125 per acre. Owner win trade for property, preferably in Chicago on the South side or in the Calumet region in Indiana. No. 48.—160 acres. This farm Hen on public road one mile from the Jackson Highway on R. F. D. and Is all In cultivation and all good black grain land except 20 acres of sandy soil, but productive. It bonders on a dredge ditch that gives good outlet for drainage. There is a flvAroom house, fair barn and other outbuildings, good welL This farm is well located and a good grain farm. Owner is a non-resi-dent and will sell this farm at the low price of 385 per acre. Terms, one-third down and remainder It years if desired. NO. 50.-76 acres, on stone root joining station with elevator, stores, churches and» high school. It Is all in cultivation and good productive son. There is a good eight-room, house, fair barn, silo, crib, garage, and other outbuildings. Two good wells and orchard. Price $l4O.

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