Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 3, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 September 1905 — Page 7

A TALE OF LOVE AND PLAGIARISM

so uiiwottln 10 M thCOH plead forme I hare said to myself I Itv her why should I t.ar" But 1 ne the l ur

IT- that rl - le! w.-.-n n th. barrl i !,;: h. was no- happy

i im. my. Uie wa s of mh 1 cnni. ,

Stolen Love-Letters That Broke One Engagement and Made Another.

HE HEROINE A BALTIMORE SOCIETY BELLE

Her Lover Appropriated Tender Missives of a. Friend to His Ultimate Sorrow -Dis-osvire Brings Happiness to Two.

I is a story of ; the hoarding hoUM that Might. Aylette bis sweetheart IwafMMd to Phllllpps hat hp did not but plagiarized, particularly love Mi; Kntrekin. but

disclosure : and

1 1 more, Md.Tl a lover lost :li his anient.

letters. Waiter Aylt tie's sin' that she v as ruh an.) that he was go

ing tu w in her disgusted, sickened ly the attitude of his friend. which came as a rude awakening from th rJrauu that he himself had been '.i-aming, Fhi 1 1 ipps turned tt to to his room. Then-, wit I the vision of the bright -eyed, fail -haired girl betör-him. he resolved never again to go near her, realizing, as he thought, the Impossibility of ever winning the love of Martha Baker He held to his determination. Two or three times the rirl In .pilred of Ayl. tto why he never brought Mr Philtfppa with him to rail, and sliadmitted to Miss Entrekin that she had been inrerest d in the reserved handsome young fellow. Once she frankly asked Aylette to bring I'hillipps to call, but the message was never

delivered, and Aylette lied ab out It to her. telling her I'hillipps preferred not , to come, and the girl, surprised and hurt, never referred to him n-'ain Phillips became more silent than ever and worked hard r. refusing to join In any of the little pleasures of the others in the hoardinK house. Once one of the girls in the house :easing!v askfil

him .if he was in love, and he lathed and left the room. Ayl. tte, to all appearances wa making no better progress in his efforts to win the love of Miss Entrekin. and he departed for Richmond for a , fortnight's vacation without receMng one sign of encouragement. Beginnisg of Love Letters. I Then, suddenly, there b- pan to come I to Molly Kiitr.'kin. day after day. letl ters overflowing with tenderness, love, anil passion; love letter! such as swept ! the hearts of her grandmothers by , storm flowe ry. Imaginative, beautiful 'ove letters, such as girls rrad and re read in the privacy of their own rooms and grandmothers kiss when they find , them hidden in the bottoms of old i trunks. The letters were from Walter Arietta, ami they reveeJed to Hotly Entrekin a depth of feeling, of power and pas-ion. of foto and tenderness and yearning that she had never suspected existed in the man. She was astonished. Three of the letters, which have been made semi-public by :'..e events that followed, have bcn circulated among

money

tloab I say to myself t s pride. If die l ives j ill these will not keep its apart ' But acai n. I am a coward and I tremble at the thought of asking you 10 share vv it.ii u,c the little that I have. "Again and aain I have sail: I will go and tell lur, and then I have tt. OJOIOd at the vision ami crept ba k to my own room, to sit for hours look ing out across the lights of the city towurds where you were, and weaving on the .loth of my Imaglnat ion the fairest picture the world has ever Known; a picture of you, with your glorious eyeg alight with tho fire of love, and I have dreamed that it was I who fanned that fire Into a flame. "Night after night I have skulked past your home, just to be near wheryou were. f(,r the r hi nee of se. ing you. of getting a gliinp-o as you flash.-. I from carriage to door, of hearing four laugh, ai d praea 1 saw you I have turned homeward thinking: 'She H safe She Is happy W hy should I trouble her in her happi rn s ' "It Is despair to love like this Som day. perhaps to-morrow, I will gather

f tad him out, but the 1 rooghl happiness to Iiis

roommate, Ferman I'hillipps II I principals in the remarkable IDd interesting love drama are Molly Kntrekin. one of the belles of this If, her chum. Martha Maker. Walter Aylette, son of a prominent Richmond family high In society and reputed realtor, and Ferman I'hillipps. who although poor, comes from a distinguished line of ancestors. Aylette. it is charged by the other tl rot patties to the case, plagiarized the brilliant love epistles that Ferman PI UHppa wrote In secret to Martha r an 1, by changing them slightly, ramo n rir winning the love of Mise Kntrekin through them and their passionate force. The discovery ami made but a few days before the voiding was to have taken Ohve, and t L-irl with the glamour of the false II dissipated, dismissed Aylette. de darin-.; him an Impostor anl cheat. Ph UHppa and Aylette were friends r. 1 lived In the same boarding house. Why Aylette should have he-en living in Baltimore In obscurity few outside of the friends who wore aware of wildness and dissipation at Richild knew. He was a handsome felv. dark, dashing and romantic. Flillips. on the other hand, was titrld. : the gayetirs that Ayie't,. sought i tinned, or was too bashful to part IpOU In.

PhillippS Meets His Fate. fcylottO was reading law in a dnwrn-t-.vr. office and Phllllpps was striving f r a living in a prominent mercantile : - While all business, -o far as n his closest friends know, he y was a dreamer, and BO aspired t i w rite novels an l plays. He had me in'o Baltimore without resources worked hard. By aacMeSt he was thrown Into contact with Walter Aylette. and the result was a strange 'twining nf fates. Aylette. throuzh I family's prominence, had the entree to many home?, and one eveninc. by Insistence, he persuaded I'hillipps to ceovftay him to the home of Miss tfolly Kntrekin. daughter of a wealthy merchant Aylette did not tell Phll- - but be Invited Mm to go merely

alter Aylette For the. firt tln.e ui her gay. happy. 1 years the h 1 i lousiy 'U i. loe Vet s be was Min, ri-- d lohn.:

I Marth. i Hut she was uneasy.

J I, civ W .is no UljiiilIi-en;(.( of . gax nn r.t Two days af'ei i ii- a i . Aytott by mail there came ftom Uoi

another . fir; wo different tha- Mollyt mo ii'ii ph i;na' It v .- a nice

letter, overllowing with ricing but there was something nilssing. Molly

felt that her surrender, her gift of crsedf to the man who had seetiM-d to despair, was not received in quite tin man Of hhf expetted it. It 0MM4 to her that i!." tuaii was gloating rat her than exalted by his victory. Ail that night hhc was uneasy. She felt that she had made a mistake, ami hhe read and reread the first thne letters before she fell iisi.-tp happy and reassured. The t nought came to her that ON haps she loved the letters and not the mau. but she did not bOllOTO that art OOttM infuse hiicb feeling into written words. Th'- ntal morning Molly i ame AOWM to breakfast late. She MOkod A little wan and pale, a little anxious. Unto the day that Aylette wasto return to li.iit imore; liM lay on which forth'-first time Molly OU 10 .surrender to the kisses of bar

"Why-why" be stammered. ' Mow. you tell i t away " she ated. "Tell DM 1 teil jou. Vou vo av d tm from hat man and DOW I U

Mlp you. You are and afraid to toll her s 'Fleas' don't pleas the agonized I'hillipps "1 will, too 'she said

you evirythiiip and I rusted you. and now you ve got to trust me. Who is she?" K'-ally, Hin I'nir. kin. I ran t tell you. I scaro ly know her. and it would

don't,

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Her I V told

DANIEL IN BELSHAZZAR Sundiy School Lesson lor Oct 1. 1905 ''ei I Prtpired fir This Pipsr.

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up my COUragC and dare all by telllne you. I am tretnblinp and quaking now at the thought of what you would think If you read this. I cannot help it; I must write. I dare not whisper my love to you. It wrre profanation to speik tif It to others. "Good night, beloved. I have dared to say it even to myself " Kits Molly Relents. When Mollie Entrekin ant that letter she sat down in the middle of the flOOf and read it. Then she aajd; "W il -f all things." Then tbt r ad It again. Then she said: "I never Irani of such a thing. " Thoa aho reread it, aod, eli -llg her arm trOttl I her km es. sat ou the floor and Kl II "I don't know why he wr tc n'e s-trh

o totter," shoald to herself, "ifthefcoi note

man is in love with me why don't he tell me so? bm't dare to come rear me. don't he.' I've noticed that he's, beesl hanginn around lure two or thre-

krer. she was readlag thn parr idly while waiting for her roffce and orange when suddi nly her ryo fOU upon a little "want ad." that ma1e her garp. "I knew It: I knew it." shssaid. half aloud, "(in. the wretches" "Knew what? What wrnches. sis?' asked Bobbii "Never mind Bobbie, btit I want reo to go on an important errand righ away " "All right; but say. sis. do I get BOOM Of that eaadv Ni k sent im inst nicht . '

I"- pre. -UIJ.pt Uoi; (( to her." I o you love her "Yes you muat 1 letters."

' fo you love h ters show ? ' "More "I wouldn't gl

wouldn't tell a girl when he loves her

W ho is Ohof "Your friend. Miss Haker." "What! Martha Baker? Oh. this Is too good. iCoalsOOOl as good as if it had leen me. and I'm half sorry it wasn't. Vou com- right over to Martha's house right now and tell her you love her. If you don't come with me now I'll send for her to come here. You've pot to propose i b r right away, and I'm going to stand by and see you do. And let me congratulate you now for she has read those letters." I'hillipps finally l.eced off. but prom

ised tO call that Bichl on Miss Baker.

and be pledged his word to Molly En

trekin that he would pmj ose before the end of the month. And Molly, as soon as she had refused to s-e Aylette when he called, rushed off to tell Martha, and thoy talked all afternoon and eried a little bit. as girls do. I'hillipps really propesed inside of two weeks and was accepted. And Molly showed the le -.rs to every girl in their crowd, as she t I i t be storv. and one of

them copied two of them so the secret "f the plagiarised letters became known to all Baltimore. It is said that Ay lette is now working

iV' w iork T Philadelphia anA

Molly's engac OM01 to Nick is expect-; ray day. mm h to the delight of "Bobbie," who apt reciatOO candy. LEATHER MADE FROM PLANT A Vegetable Product cf Japan That Is in Demand for This Country. The department of agriculture i.Uylnig to iutroduce into cultivation m

una country a plant uauve to Japau, Which lu.uishes a ort of vegetable l toot K. I. 1 . . .

i i a pieuy suruu lailea the ' xniUumata," and iu inner bark, aller going ihrougU a process of maceration, i.sj converted into a subi Lance as tough as French kid, so translucent that one can almost see through it, and as pliable and soft as calfskin. In Japan pipe cases and tobacco pom h es are manutactur, d from tne material, as well as a kind of wall paper whic h is already becoming fashionable in Aimru-a. Such wall papers of vegetable leather are turned ' ut in beautiful designs for wail aud telling Ueeoiariun. being stamped and modeu d by hand in most artistic patt rns. U would lieem that we have a good & ji u learn from the Japanese about payer making. Already we import large quantities of another kjnd of pajr o lataod lroin the same plant, for use as legal documents, tiiplomas. i t os and bonds. There are at least e.ght other plants from which the subjects of the mikado obtain paper stuff, slide we d p nd ior sm n material

-.Darnel .17 JO &p m-

a!l of 11 Bat I w:mt you to '-.Min wood pulp and ras of cotton anl

Ake a note riht away. It is important Kvery'hirg depends on It." Su-picion Aroused Ly nn Ad. Excitedly Molly 1 ft the ttihle. and going into the library vratched off a

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"taho her um f)ff his hands the evening

It was thnt evening Fermar. Philllpps ' htl fat in the shape ,,f pr. tty Martha Itakir. Molly :ntrrkin's chum, w ho f the truth were known-had been ttaaoBoood hy atoll vhen she knew Aylet Id s ad w as IneviUble. Molly s plan failed, instead of help 1 ' ' i ' i Ay!.;",. Martha ap r- d to enjoy herself alking to the rout c ' artment managnr. ami Molly a I I irohj to be rratdous to the man WB at that time. ?he .!is!)ked. hut to ",: Btoanoi of the family friendship he was Obliged to be graciotu. Ayl-tte Confesses 8-rdid Love. I V F f. ...Hi A.

otmnies or tmth girls are wri

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min to 1 her friends

during I known.

The first came the day

lette i MUtht d Rl'. hmon l. My Hear Mis., Fnirekin I love you 1 have said it: the words tha' have trembled on my lips sinc that first evening that I saw yon when my 1 heart fell down and worshiped you. From afar I have worshiped you ever j since, daring not come near, eowsnl

that I am. for fear the secret WOtttd hotel from me. that he words that I dare net speak should speak the.n selves; that my whole b'nrt would ery nut to you: 'I love you ' 'I am writing these words t.mt I nerr wd! dare say to you and fhif perhaps yon never will see. Would that

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u eew wear I Pi nar wu n'n i a in ,i-- i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i y; cnd- ffn,n bock to their roonas in j I .lartd send them to you, I. who

Finally she got up and said: "Anyhow. Ml write him a Ok Ietterth.it will cure him." At.d she wrote it was a kind, slsttrly letter, nnd the burden of was: "impossible; I don't lov. you." But there was no doubt that the letter had started Molly Kntn kin to thinking She lead It oerand over. It partly Impressed, partly puzled her. It wasn't a bit like Aylette. 'I ii r :ay s :.r- i ;!. r- canie another atoTljtahlag missive. That t;me Molly riad seriously Again the tone of the letter pa .led her. and she wondered if he had not received her rejection before writing, and thought it strange that he did rot mention it. Men in love are lOOB fools." sani Molly, and. taking the iwo letters. sh went over to see her dearest . hum Mai ' la, and consult Wtl h hot alMuit It Martha read the letters, and th :t she said: "Molly. If a man ever wrote to me that way I'd km bun -' in spiteof myself. ' "I'm afraid I'm beglBBlliii to like

him." Faid Molly. 1 Mabe I misjudged him before.'' Then she wrote him a kladt r. sw lor r. ply. tolling him that she hardly knew her ow n Bean atai hi BOOM SO hot the moment lie returned from BJehhMMd, Th fo',1. iv. ii,.; . a v there cun.e another loiter, tender, r. niort exalted, higher in tone than the Dthe r. biea'hing the de- j spalr t)f an OBloTOd lover xalted by the purity of his love And Molly was cenquered. "I never ' old like the man " she said to Marths. "I sm afraid I hist the beauty of his t haracter throuth my blindness. I'm not sure I love him row. but I'm glad these letters have opened my eyeg and j shown mo the depth if ills love Any girl can learn to love a man who loves her that way." Engiped flr.t Not nappy. So that i itht Molly Kntrekin. In her own boudoir, sat :iwn and wrote her first love letter, sr.d bet ame engaged to .

"lt H.I.V KNTKKKI.N Phllllpps, surprise d. read ther.otean; unmindful of Hobble, rushed for a car. I Twenty minutes later he was ushered j Into the morning room at the Entrekin I residence. "Mr I'hillipps," began Molly, nrrv-

; ousiy. dm you put this advertisement in the paper?" She handc I him the- morning paper.

i in which appe ared an ad : I .OST A Bt'NDI.K K l.KTTKKS. lTHK- ; j eronai. of no valua x. it to owner A reward of $2S wJII be paitl if returned to Fftrosn PkHltpfS, N. Charles otTWOt 1 did." said Phillipps. rather un ItOOdllyi aftt r he had read the ad. slowly. "Are these the letters?" aahod Molly. prodtOCfag the three she had received from Ay It tte. End of the Mystery. ' Why. Miss Knt ri kin. ' said i'hillipps excitedly,' where did you get UOOMf They are copies of mine, or part of them 1 was sure the were stolen from a drawer in my room. How did you got them?" "They we re mailed io me by your roommate. Mr. Ayle tte " she answered, steadily. "1 notice that in the first i my nnm.e v.-a.; ;ii tin- top. above the line. 1 thought it strange at the time. ' Aylette send my loit.rs to you?" tske-i the astonished PMUlgfa. "Whj aaoaitd ! io that?" "lie wantI to make me love him. He ne.irly silei e-iied Oh. Mr 11 : ' ; I tin; so sshamtd and so glad. Vou have sa.. me from the wretch." ' Please don't." he urged, tenderly, as she statt i Jo cry. "PfcMai don't. 1 nn: so s rr i hat I have helped i hi -trouble." "I'm not; I'm glad." sail Molly, stop plug her tears and flashing lrfonrr r "I'll tell that man- " Then she breike off suddenly and turned npon the yoimi man "Fernisn Phllllpps." she demanded, "to whom did ): write those luve letters?"

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Mr. David O. rhdrehlld, one of the government aurn ultural explorers, who has mad a special study of this tubject, says that it is not pleasant io think that th" brtlllust white a to paper vhiia a lady uses may have in a part of iho filthy t-artaent of some llgypnan fellah, saved by a ragpicker lrom a gutt r. yet it is a fact tnat li..aii da of lous of Kgyptian rags arc httchod every year to the L'nited i at cs to supply our paper mills. At .Mannheim on the Kh.no the American impor.ers have ragpicking houses. wb rc ratrs are c dlected from all over li.irope (the dis.as infected Levant not excepted', and wh re women and hildren work with wet sponges tied over their aoOBthe, sorting the filthy taragto tot ahlpatoat to Mew ITorfc. our best papers are made of th -e rags Paper made from the inner bark of I '.ants, like the "mltsumata." are a oration of the orient They are softer. alihJer, taasghor and lighter than our papers. If wet ihev lose their atromglh like tissue pajaar, but on dry.

ing legain it. in'.v are usually Mysorbeul and for this reason were high

ly va'ueil for surgical purposes Wonders to Be Seen at Home. Within v.r.. r.tent years the American people in general have been lenrn im; as th n r did before the wonden Of their own country. Thoy went abroad for scenery and to viae plaosa

of histori.al intcn their own la d u rivaled atom b re IMtSttOO that is p that only a f I a . .'or now atlrn annually. Th V 0t ni .e well kitpor.dotts Yopemi ras rising ahrVP sea level to heigh miles. America a of nature, grand!) velo isly boautlfol Trial to Al "Mer marri.r.-. no.ntment .o her ft

t.ntnlndful that od ppoctartoa tinrellci of o civi ttorte. Ptojooi i Btd hardly iny thousands tie park ha. : No tht stuIn.posing Bttf from tho nearly three i h miracles ive or mar QoarhaB Sut Her. a groat dlaaprl4 "

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cry Verses 01, 30 OOLDKH TEXT "The far of the Ixrd is . t.i theai taa4 isovli Pi . ig TIME B. C. t I'rof. DsOChet ij.uch a In June orearller. It sai Io IBs I i-u-d of IU txi.te. Comiyar Verl sc iT w ill. LiaHiel 10. PLACg liHijj.-n on the Eupr.rutes. BCltll'TL'KE M2FKRKN Jsa. a.i-6 talii of guidatA: ot Cyroa Iaa II; it; B:t-0j 11-17, 1. 2. S-U tall of me overLars si iij.b.uii Jor. so aoil II lopfoosol UM tt.alrULliuu uf JU.Oi). OComment and Suggestive Thought. IN i HODUCTORY. We aic- Low drawing near to the close uf the 19 yam (Uating from the beginning of iUe tapuvitifcs Ii C. coC-4) for which period loreaeJah had lurclolU that the exiltf aiioaid continue (Jar, tS'.Xi). 'The exile -raduaJly at quired laudi ani houses, ihty lived in .separate cotuiuuu- . . and were apparently allowed to maintain to some actaat tin social customs and BTajaaliatlftni of their native land (Ezck. :1; 14 : 1." Ottley. Natt vc- ciualities soon brought the Jews io the fiont in whatever land they wer tr.row n.' Prof. E. T. Harper. Jere- : ih'O i rophecita atill pervaded ths BsoroJ ittitnephora. taakiel'a vohoa vaa heard through the cation. The glorious visions and gwophoc asof the later chapters of Isaiah were stirring the hearts

of the f.iiibltil with hope and faith and .';raio v i ow oiiie to the Providern tial movements which made the return possible. A new king, and a new policy, now took po ion of the empire that held the Jews captive. Cyrus, the Persian, conquered Babylon. Tho nominal king of liahylou at this time was Nabonidus. He was a most scholarly man rather than ruler. Interested in his country's institutions, and making most valuable records on clay cylinders. There is. says Mr. Pinches, "every probability that Bolahasaar, the son of Nabonidus. was the real ruler." We has learned about Belshazzar from these talltts and inscriptions lately discovered in the rti.r.s of Babylon. Cyrus, the conque ror of Bahrte, the klngof Klam, Media and Persia, appears on the horizon at this lime, advaucing toward Babylon, in his victorious career, with his wide-extended troops, whose numbers "like the waters of a rivercould not be knejwn. He entered Babylon without fighting, which agrees with both Herodotus and Daniel. BohrtlOliar'a Gr at Feast. Belshacrar was a youth flushed w ith the excitemnt of ffurl uncontrolled power. K'.en wbi.e ( i us w as approaching w ith his victorious army, the young man, secure in the unrivaled strength of his ciiy defenses, made a great feast to a thousand of the nobles, probably in E sagila. the magnificent temple of Belus, within the walls of Babylon. It was a wonder of the world. The walls were rh-h with Images of the Chaldeans "painted In vermilion and exceeding In dyed attire." on goodly horses, like those m th fri;z of the Acropolis. i'rom Farrar. V. IT. "Let thy gifts be to thyself:" Keep them, do what you will with them. Daaiel will speak God's truth without fear or favor, and the rich pr. s. nts the k :. . a:, have .i.tluetic w hatev r. Vs. IS-::. ' The m. st hih (aid gave Nebm hadaeaaar:" The true God is shown to le overall and above all. "And thou . . . hast not humbled thino heart:" etc. You have not sinned through ignorance, but h.ive gone on la o wicked course in spite of. in defiance jl, God's lessons of warning. V. 23. "But hast lifted up thyself:" Exalted thyself as if thou couldst defy . diaobey w ith laapeaity the Lord of Htu a. V. This is the writing:" The words are of the Aramaic (OOllod ("haldee in A. V.) lai.guajse. with letters like . the Hehtew. This language was iamiliar in Babylon at that time. V. M. "Mene" (ropoatOd for the saKe of emphasis); "God hath numbered thy hll -'."in and finished it:" God hat! put a detlnite limit to the lumber of years the kingdom should last, and that number was now complete.

... Tekel: thou art weighed in

tho balances:" as to his moral (haracter and actions, and been found wanting, of light weight like a counterfeit coin, or one that did not come up to the standard required. (Jod had ti sted him, aid he had fueled. V. 28. "Feres" (the singular of the word L'phaisin." in V. BO, the prefix "I mi anitig and. It is the same as if "Ft i. was written twice, like "Mene."

for at i basis i. V. -23. "Clothed Daniel with scarlet:" The royal purple ' Third ruler in the kingd m:" Hither, one of three; or, more probably, next under Bel?ha;::ar, who was the second, being under his father. Nabonidus, the king over all. Thus the Persian or.querors found Daiiol. the Jew. not in obscure retlreii t.i. but occupying the position of an utie siat.sman. and in a position to help his exiled countrymen. V. P.O. "In that night was Belsha;-7ar . . . slain:" Swift and sudd, u came the foretoM doom. Illustrative Points. "Fools make a mock of sin," and only fools Wise men do not play with snatches in a powder-mill. Wise men do not hold a merry-making while their hOOOOla blazing. Wise me n do not sleep undefended amid deadly foes. W ise men do mit neglect and increase a dangerous di- loa. Thon Is a handwriting of warning a' I of doom on the wall for every dmer. I' mav be Invisible for a time, like t hat Mad r writing which Is invisible till hl to 'be fire, or touched with Is. but It is written where hie ye vlai: borne time sec It