Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 December 1916 — Page 7

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I Phrophecü t$ g & 3JF Bd H. M. EGBERT (Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.) Jim Bennett and Arthur Royce were described as the two boys in the village who least resembled each other. Bennett was selling newspapers when he was seven and planning a monopoly among village magazine subscribers. . Arthur Royce at that age was describ ed as the best pupil In the Sunday I school. Naturally .Tim was the favorite among the townspeople, who admired hustle a good deal more than they admired sanctity. However, Arthur was not sanctimonious. He was just a hard-working, docile sort of chap. At fifteen he was clerking in a store to support his widowed mother, and turning in his three dol'urs a week to eke oat her Civil war pension. At the same age Jim Bennett was expelled from school as incorrigible, and being laughed at and petted by his adoring parents, who were already planning his college career. Thomas Bennett was president of two banks and reputed to be rolling in money. At the same age Mlllicent Patterson was publicly telling Arthur that she preferred Jim anyhow, because he wasn't a milksop, and beside Jim was rich and she meant to marry a wealthy man when she grew up. "I'm going to be wealthy," answered Arthur, setting his teeth, "and you're going to marry me." Milllcent was secretly impressed, but she made short work of Arthur's preSaw That He Was Quite Dead. tensions. "I wouldn't marry you in a million vears " she said. "The iiimi I mW r marry must go to college." Arthur planned to work his way through college, but his mother lived through a long period of invalidism, and that put an end to his ambitious plans. What happened was that Ben nett senior took the boy into his bunk, where, at twenty-two, he w:.s earning ten dollars a week. Soon afterward Bennett senior died, leaving the baufes to Jim, and Jim came home from col lege with the expressed intention of making things hum. Millicent and Arthur were on speaking acquaintance, but the young fellow had never got much further with her. When Jim came home there was not much doubt whom she preferred. She did not take much pains to hide it from Arthur, either. Arthur went to work for Jim, who considerately raised his salary to twelve dollars. lie told him, with a grin, that ho would be able to get married on it, if he lived frugally. By this time Jim Bennett and Millicent Patterson were as good as engaged, in the opinion of the townspeople. Jim Bennett operated a car two cars, for the matter of that, and the two were to be seen together everywhere. People went so far as to say that if they were not engaged they ought to be. They were engaged, but what determined Millicent to have it announced was the behavior of Arthur Royce. He was calling on her by this time, and one evening he seemed somehow different from what he usually was. Millicent said to herself, with a laugh, that he was falling in love with her. But she was not prepared for his sudden proposal, nor for the tragic way in which he took her refusal. "I always told you I'd marry a rich man and a college man, and you are neither, Arthur," said Millicent. "And I told you I would marry you, and I will," answered the boy. "Maybe you will," replied the girl, "but I'm going to marry Mr. Bennett first, anyway." She stretched out a Slim, white hand. "This is my engagement ring," she said. "Isn't it pretty?" Arthur ran from the house. A week later the enimgement was announced. Somehow there lurked the rudiments of a heart in Mlllicent. She was sorry for Arthur, and she said nothing about his proposal to Jim. But that was what was at the back of her request that the announcement should be made. Nobody was greatly

surprised, and everyone said that sho was a lucky girl, and maybe Jim Bennett would steady down a bit with her hand on the checkrein. Theyw were married in the Presbyterian church, and the wedding was the event of the week. There were

columns about it in the papers. Arthur read them in his kail bedroom. His grip lay, packed, on vhe bed. He had resolved to run away, anywhere;, without notice, out wnen ne nao nmsiied reading them he suddenly sat up and squared his shoulders. 'Til stay," he said. "And IV I get her. Somehow In heaven if not on earth." Which expression, though far-fetched, might be pardonable in a young fellow of twenty-three. .Tim Bennett had made things hum when lie returned from college, as he had said he would, and he kept up the process after his return from the honeymoon. During the next two I ..Tsio.M-T TJti T nti r rvft- irwl Ii t a rfa milflo UMia , "V ' ,1 "T - - est nouse m nie town, uuu jilu wua lvi them a succession ot entertainments! and pleasures. Arthur Hoyce was now getting twenty dollars a week. Bennett never saw him and seemed to have forgotten him. But Millicent bowed. There is something about a re jected lover that makes a woman feel tenderly toward hin.. two years passen anu -teninjLL utr came a financial leader in the place. A few who watched knew that his af fairs were unstable. Arthur was among these. And for Millicent's sake he dreaded the crash that must come. But Bennett plunged more wildly, until the banks were tottering upon the verge -f the precipice, while Bennett juggled with his millions and refused to look facts in the face. He treated his wife badly, too, ev eryone knew. There were reports of his infatuation for several women successively. Arthur saw Millicent rarely, but he noticed the progressive look of unhappiness upon her face. Bennett "began to notice Royce again. He promoted him to twenty-live, chiefly because another bank, an old, con servative institution, wanted to get hold of him. Arthur would gladly have left, but he had an instinct against leaving his present bank when it was in difficulties. One clay the truth came out. Arthur had been sent to Bennett's house on an important errand. lie found Bennett out, but as he was about to leave Mini cent came in. "What did he send you for?" she cried hysterically. "The manager sent me, Mrs. Ben nett. It was about a private matter." "A banking matter?" "Tes." She burst into tears. "I thought he sent you to taunt me," she cried. "He has told me I ought to have married you. 0, 1 am so wretched." She cried on his shoulcTer. During that interval the young man learned many things of Bennett's infidelity, of his dishonor. He had made her life a misery from the day they were mar ried. Presently she grew calm. "I should not have spoken in this way," she said. "But sometimes I think of the old days do vou ever remember them. Ar thur?" Remember them? When they lay upon his mind forever? Somehow he managed to tear him self away. His last memory of Millicent was of a pale-faced woman who watched him at the door pathetically, as if nothing in life was worth living for. Faster and faster Bennett's banks careened toward disaster. The coming crash was clear to everybody now. Bennett himself went about with an anxious face and glum expression. It was at first a matter of months, then one of weeks then people just waited. Arthur Royce waited. He was thinking all the time of Millicent and wondering what she would do. One afternoon Bennett sent for Arthur to come to his house. Arthur had not been there since that last interview with Millicent. He did not like the task ; but he went, because it was part of his duty. "Mr. Bennett is in his library, sir," said the butler. "He said you were to i-j J Ii-, 1 11, X UL II UV.11 1 UU V.UlLlV.f Arthur went in. He saw Bennett seated at his desk. Bennett did not look up, and when Arthur approached he saw that he was quite dead, with a bullet hole through his head. Upon the desk was a letter addressed to him. Arthur opened it. "Take her. She loves you," was all that it contained. Arthur never quite remembered the details of the following hour his hasty summons of a doctor, the terrified servants; lastly Millicent, whom he had vainly tried to keep out of the room, standing before her husband's body. And she wrung her han.ds, and all she could say was : "I meant to leave him tomorrow." It was six months before Arthur saw Millieeut Bennett again. She had been traveling. When she came back she went to her old home. She announced that she was going to open a school. All the heartlessness seemed to have died when Bennett died. But Arthur had other plans for ner. "Do you remember, dear," he said to her one day, "how 1 used to tell you you would marry me, and your own prophecy? Yours has come true. Now make mine true. I am going to take over the managership of the Fifth Xational next month, and dearest, 1 have loved you so long." And Arthur thus came Into his own. The Union. 4T see where an illuminated keyhole has been Invented." "That will be great for a man who j comes home lit up,"

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EV YORK. Is it any wonder that the information clerks In the railroad stations talk in their sleep? The questions they are compelled to answer

at times would indicate that the public SUi THAT THAW ML-. AKK1VE OH time ? KAifr HAVE AMY ABOUT ITleave for that city. A woman asked if

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ing Chicago on time. Upon being informed that it usually kept to schedule, she said: "I can't have any guesswork about this. I want a definite answer. I can't afford to miss connections in Chicago." Aske.d if it were customary

for the expresses to make up lost time, so, but sometimes failed. "Well, it's a was the caller's parting shot. "I'm going up to Vermont," said

take?" There are three roads into Vermont, and the clerk inquired, "What

place in Vermont, madam?" "Say, have

or to answer them?" was her retort. Yet it is claimed there are no information clerks in any of the Sanatoriums.

Father Knickerbocker's N EW YORK.Manhattan island was of trinkets. It will cost $211.115.015 Knickerbocker was granted this spending York's history, nor in that of any other municipality, has such a tremendous outlay been required. Yet the total represents economy, bespeaks efiiciency, as city experts know it nowadays. The budget makers say it represents cost paring to a degree almost unsafe. Not a cent less would be sufficient for the health, safety, comfort and happiness of Pa Knickerbocker's five and a half million children, they assert. And only 314 square miles are comprised within the city limits. It Is

It is a sailing chart for Father Knickerbocker. It: is a curb on his naturally

luxurious habits. Within it is set forth Iiis firemen and to his army of civil To the cent it is designated how the

So much for protection, the budget says, so much for sanitation, so much for

recreation, so much for physical comforts, so much for the enjoyments that

come to the mind. It would be less, the wild oats that Pa Knickerbocker This condemnation is contained in

the budget. It is stipulated that $G9,744,568.95 shall be paid on account of

the debt that the old Dutch daddy 596.38. Hiawatha Still the King m MINNEAPOLIS. Long live the king ! iVl haha Falls, still is czar of his supremacy in the park elk herd has

does on one side and the assemblage of bachelor bulls on the other Hiawatha looked up and braced himself to take his part. Out in advance of his brethren charged a powerful bull, pretender to the throne, younger and more agile, but several pounds lighter than the patriarch. Straight toward Hiawatha came the challenger. Straight at the challeuger charged the king, with lowered head. Halfway between the two groups the warriors met with a clang ot antlers that echoed through the gorge. For 30 minutes, with horns locked, they battled back and forth. Each was trying for the energetic twist of head and neck that would -throw his rival to the ground. Had either been successful in this it would have tried to gore its adversary to death. Then the skill bom of many previous battles came to the old master's aid. With ft sudden lunge he pushed the challenger back 50 feet. Three times he nearly succeeded in felling him with clever twists of horns and head. Three times the challenger saved himself in the nick of time. After the last escape the youngster, aware that he was beaten, scampered headlong down the gorge. Bugling defiance and scorn at the worsted rival, Hiawatha returned to the herd. The other bulls, true to elk nature, timidly joined him, deserting their late champion. Hiawatha is secure upon his throne at least until the fall of 1917. Nothing Doing at Chicago's Municipal Woodpile CHICAGO There has been no grand fall opening at the municipal lodging house on North Union avenue this year. The city's pile of uncut railroad ties is daily growing. higher. For the first time since the municipal "flop" was opened the building was empty at the

first real touch of winter weather. The lodging house owners are the hardest hit by the good times. Many of them complain that, while usually at this time of the year their places are filled to capacity and they have to turn men away, at present, despite the cold snap, less than half of their beds are occupied. W. J. Anderson, assistant superintendent at the municipal lodging house,

who had made an investigation of lodging-house conditions at the instigation of Dr. W. K. Murray of the healtL department, reported that prosperity is the reason why hundreds of men were not knocking at the doors of the building for admittance. In the municipal lodging house there are 500 beds, but the structure Is darkened and there is no sign of life about the place. Usually at this time of the year the place is filled. As many as 3,r00 men have been cared for In two additional houses, which in other years the city had to rent. At the municipal woodpile no wood has been cut in many weeks.

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hot ham Kai wav Stations w ' mm - - - - w 1 who travel go clear off their "burner." At the Grand Central station the other day a man approached the information bureau and inquired, "What time does the train I came in go back?" Had the clerk replied as he felt, he might have said as soon as the water coolers were refilled or the engineer had rested. But instead he remarked that more than 200 trains arrive daily, and asked, "Where did you come from?" "Springfield, Mass.," said the man, and then he was informed when the next train would she could rely on a certain train reach the clerk said that they tried to do mighty queer way to run a railroad," a woman; "what is the best train to they got you here to ask questions Spending Money for 1917 bought from the Indians for $24 worth for the city's unkeen in 1S17. Father 1S17. Father Never in New money the other day. a wonderful document, the city budget. what he is to pay to his policemen, to servants. entire $211,000,000 is to be expended. the budget makers tell, were it not for sowed in his youth. the debt service item, the largest in rolled up. This total debt is $1,475,572,in Minnehaha Falls Park Hiawatha, patriarch bull elk of Minneherd. The annual autumnal battle for been fought between Hiawatha a,nd the pretender, strongest of the younger bulls in the herd, and Hiawatha pro claimed victor. Such is the rule of elkdom. To the strongest goes the scepter. For a year the biggest and most powerful bull rules the herd. During the sum mer the other bulls foregather alone. With the first frosty days of fall comes the annual battle for the throne. When the parkkeeper turned the two herds together the king and his

STRAW FOR FERTILITY

Practice of Burning Piles After Threshing Is Wasteful. Soils in Many Sections Would Be Greatly Benefited by Addition of Fertilizing Constituents Present in Stalks. From the time the prairies were first cultivated up to a year or so ago it was the general custom to burn the piles of straw which dotted the fields after the fall threshing. In fact, it is wasteful one. T- So It is an established fact that or ganic matter is essential for soil fer tility. No one disputes the fact that our prairie soils are already rich in this essential, but in many sections the soils would be greatly benefited by the addition of the fertilizing constituents which are present in the straw. Hopkins of Illinois gives the value of oat straw for manurial purposes at $3.30 per ton. Wheat straw is valued at .$2.58 per ton. The same relative comparison gives the value of fresh farm manure at $2.22 and barnyard manure at $2.34 per ton. Anyone who destroys a ton of wheat or oat straw, therefore, destroys more fertilizing elements than are contained in the average farmyard manure. The best method of handling straw is to feed it to stock and return the manure to the land. Thus it serves a double purpose fodder and manure. When fed to horses or cattle on a maintenance ration or those doing comparatively little work, oat straw is considered by Hoard's Dairyman to be from one-half to two-thirds the value of good clover and timothy hay. The manure from one ton of wheat straw is worth $1.52, and that from a ton of oat straw Is worth $2.34. Thus the wastefulness of burning straw is evident. When sufficient live stock is not kept, however, to use all of the straw in this way, the straw can be returned directly to the land. It may he spread and plowed under or used as a top dresslng on grain or pasture. QUALITY IS MOST ESSENTIAL Greatest Profit Can Be Expected Only From Live Stock of the Very Highest Grade. (By B. A. TROWBRIDGE.) Quality becomes more essential to profit in live stock farming each sea son. When labor, land, and feed were cheap it was possible to realize a prof it on live stock of an inferior grade, but with the present high cost of these production factors and a constant dis crimination on the market against the scrub " it has become evident that j-he greatest profit can be expected only from live stock of cood ciualitv. It mav be nossible for the feeder or dealer to make a profit on Inferior live stock if he is able to buv it sufficiently I Chean and Sell OUickly. but Usually someone has not realized the greatest possible profit when a "scrub" goes to market. If it is not the feeder, it is the man who produced the animal. ALIGHTING BOARD FOR BEES Writer in Gleaninas of Bee Culture Describes Devices He Uses Successfully on Hives. A short time ago someone described n floor-hoard which nrovided an en trance under the hive, and thus entirely ' eliminated the porch. The only notice taken of it was by one beekeeper, who said that an entrance under the hive could not be watched against clogging up, etc. I will describe the board I invented some years ago and still use, says a writer in Gleanings of Bee Cul ture. The main floor of the hive is com posed of boards of the right length Floor-Board Under Hive. nailed across battens on edge, say thres Inches "by one. The front board is only three inches wide, and between this and the next is a space of four inches, after which the boarding to tne back is solid. Of course the "well" thus made is protected at the sides by pieces of the same thickness nailed on to the battens. The front board has a V-shaped piece cut out from the underside to half its width, the point of the V to the front. The alighting board slides close under this floor on ledges nailed to the battens. DON'T RAISE CROP OF WEEDS Expensive Plants to Have in Garden or Anywhere Else Use Plant Food and Moisture. Weeds are expensive things to have in gardens or anywhere else; they rob garden crops of food and moisture, manv of them are natural food for all i kinds of insects, which when they have devoured the choice parts of weeds attack adjacent garden crops. I

HAVE LIVE STOCK INSURANCE

Movement First Appeared Along tht Atlantic Seaboard and Is Rapidly Moving Westward. (By J. 0. RANKIN, Missouri College of Agriculture.) Mutual live stock insurance was the first form, of agricultural co-operation to develop in this country and in some oth-ars. It appeared along the Atlantic seaboard, but has moved steadily westward until it is found in practically every part of the country. The mere fact that it is so prevalent is prettyS rrrtrxrl yyri flirt f- if- 1 1" r"irtlnl Imf I f is not nearly so urgently needed in thi country yet as It Is In Europe, whero. '1 1. 1 1 . 4. " it uas reuciieu it tu 7 uiuui nmitrr development that has ninny lessons for us. Many a man in Europe would bo left destitute or at least emba rassed for life by the loss of a horse or cow not covered by insurance. Many a man who prefers to buy one good cow would buy two poorer ones for fear that one good one would die and he would lose all he had if he could not protect himself by live stock Insurance. In England he may insure not only the cow but practically every thing else on the farm from the laborer in the field to the bees In the hive. Conditions in this country are every year becoming more and more like those across the water which demand such a great development of live stock insurance. Free farm land ;ls no longer of very good quality, and soon the government will have none at all. Competition will be keener and keener, and the struggle will no longer be to amass a farm-made fortune, but only to make a living and keep what we already have, at least for most of us. Under such circumstances live stock insurance, now a desirable thing. will become absolutely necessary and each man will have to decide whether to join a mutual company or patronize a commercial company. SHIPMENT OF EGGS IN CASES Parcel-Post Device Shown in illus tration Successfully Used by Missouri Station. The Missouri noultrv oxnerimcnt station has shipped hundreds of dozens of eggs in the parcel-post pack age shown herewith, and the eggs have always reached customers in fine shape. Excelsior is tightly packed in layers and indentations are made in Missouri Egg Case. which the eggs fit. The eggs are placed on tne Dl& euüs ln one layer 01 excei sior while the otner layer fifcs over tne eSs and llolds tnem rigidly in Place. These packages nave handles I 3 .1 - C t. ...11 1 a maue ul neavy caiuuuaiu. The top is nailed down securely at hotn ends. Tney can be used tor n ong time. ATTENTION TO LATE CHICKS Wet Mash, With Grain Feeding, Morn ing and Nights, Will Give Most Excellent Results. Late chicks should be given special attention at this time and forced for rapid growth. Wet mash, such as G(lua Parts of cornmeal, bran and mid I .11! -T L - 1.1 Sl dlings, mixed to a crumbly consistency with milk and fed twice per day, with a grain feed morning and night, will give good results. Chicks that haven't learned to roost as yet will soon be sniffling and sneezing if allowed to sleep on damp ground. Provide perches close to the ground and place near roosting quarters and with a little teaching at first they will soon learn the trick. SWEET CLOVER IS VALUABLE One of Greatest Soil Impr' trs and Stock Feeders Produces Much Seed for Market. "Sweet clover, once regarded as a weed, is worth $1,000,000,000 to South Dakota, because it is one of the greatest soil improvers and stock feeders," asserts J. G. Hutton, associate agronomist at the state college. He says: "Sweet clover helps to maintain the nitrogen supply in the soil; it makes good hay, and it produces a large arnount 0f valuable seed, for which there is a rea(y market. There is no danger whatever of Its becoming a field weed, which has been demon strated by experiments where it is followed by a cultivated crop. KEEP ALL ANIMALS WORKING Stock Should Be Something That Will Produce Meat, Milk or Eggs in Return for Feed. (By R. M. GREEN.) In these days of efficiency and economy it is highly important that every man should do everything possible to reduce the total number of horses it is necessary to keep and Increase the ways of finding profitable employment for them. Of course live stock is very necessary if the soil fertility is to be kept up, but aside from work animals the stock should be something that will produce meat, milk or eggs In return for the feed It uses.