People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — Page 7

Originate Proposed Law u. ??’:

A WOMAN'S HISTORY

/ TEN I see her pass in her carriage in \ the park wrapped L’v'tj' in her furs, opuy lent, haugh t y, , cold, invulneraM ble, beautiful, the woman’s history

comes back t,©. pie ever and again, point for point/step for step. Her brow has the same marble smoothness; het shoulders, when she s.ts in the braze of her opera-box, diamonds that would grace a queen shimmering on* their whiteness, are as incomparable as ever. Time and again, her calm, inscrutable eyes meet, juh a fleeting glance, her They quietly, undemonstratively despise each other, these two. But, again, who would know it? *******' But that was ten years ago. The outward circumstances were different then. On a moist, foggy afternoon in January, a young man with a keen, set, determined countenance, and eyes brooding, calculating, summing up. combining as he went along the crowded city streets, was accosted by another man of about the same age, who was hastening, 1 though somewhat more leisurely, in the opposite direction. “Hullo, Hammcind!*’ Hammond half-wheeled round and stopped.

“If you’ve nothing else on hand, come and make that call with me tonight,” said Searle. 7 Hammond of no special eagerness. But Searle was a rather good friend’.of his —the best he had. That was, perhaps, not saying much, for Hammond’s friends, were few. He had come from a rural district to the great city, resolute upon making his way. How he lived he himself best knew for a few years. There were timfes when the struggle was fought at such close quarters that his often remained unpaid. But at the darkest the dogged determination in him never faltered. He used now and then to walk up the fashionable streets at night and loiter a moment, lost in the crowd of street Arabs of small and large growth, at the house of a well-known prince bf finance, over whose front stepsan awning extended to the curb. The noiselessly opening and shutting door at the head of the steps gave glimpses of an interior of light and warmth. To the curb there drove up a long, slowly moving mass of liveried carriages, disgorging their contents on the carpeted .way. Hammond would stand there an instant or two, observant of the scene. “Some day,” a voice within him would say, “I shall open my doors in this fashion, or drive up to this very door as these people do now.” Searle was but insufficiently cognizant of these characteristics of his friend. He liked him, did him a good turn when he could, and unbosomed himself to him as the more prosperous man will occasionaly do to the confidant whose fortunes are not so excellent as his own. Hammond, had he been asked to give his opinion, would have remarked that to be the manager of a bank, on

THE LADY’S FACE WAS VEILED.

ft salary of SIO,OOO a year was ft- beg- • garly sort of thing, unless a man expected to get up higher.' The call the friends made together that evening was on a young girl and her mother. The mother came second. Searle had been infatuated for some time. Now they were engaged. The young lady could scarcely be said to be in society; and she was only in moderate circumstances. But Searle was so happy that he eagerly wished every one of hi,s friends to see Miss Eastiake, and appreciate his good fortune. Did Hammond think her sufficiently, handsome? Searle, with masculine fatuity, asked himself the question several times in - the course of the evening. Hammond’s face was,under sll circumstances non-committal. But, on the other hand, not to acknowledge the beauty.of Adrienne Eastlake was impossible. ' ’ , ‘ Hammond, pleading another appointment, left early. Searle behind half an hour later. »• ‘•What do you think of llarnmond?’ ; he asked, looking down at the girl.as she sat before him'in a low chair, her. head thrown back. ’ . • . “I have only seen jiim once?’ she said evasively. Her manner .’.to the man she waS.gping to marfy .was cool, calm, elusive. But, unconsciously, blinded by his own engrossing passion. Searle invested it with* a reflected fervor. ‘ •. » , “Uh,'Hammond is bound tb strike I—> ■ , t

luck some day; Let mh UA ybii aioni him.” An I Searle discoursed for boom to vhich Adrienne listened, tanifui .lr. “Egad! h he eried, with a suddeh laugh, “if he had only a start, withe little capital—say SIO,OOO. Something like the chance one or two fellows I know would have if they were aware of a certain inside fact I could communicate to them!” Searle was rather a wea& man, and a somewhat indiscreet one. When Adrienne, with a new -show of interest, asked what was . the inside fact, he was not proof against the flattery of her freshly bestowed attention. “Simply the fact that our bank ” Then he stopped short. “Look here,” he laughed uneasily, “I ought not to be telling you this! It only shows what confidence I have in you—how I worship you! Heaven! I believe better than any girl was worshiped before.” She laid her clfeek against ‘his shoulder. Her caresses at all times had been few. This one fired his blood. “Tell me ” He had still presence of mind to ask: .7. “But why do you want to know’?” "Simply a feminine curiosity! If yod don’t tell me, I shall know you don’t love me.” And Searle told her. ***** * * The following morning, a slight, girlish figure, with a certain majesty, too, despite its girlishness, was admitted to the small office where Hammond was eagerly scanning some papers. { The lady’s face was veiled. When She asked if she might see him alone on important business, Hammond, with a faintly puzzled brow, led the way to a still smaller inner room. Then she removed her viel. “Miss Eastlake!” “Yes; you are surnrised, of course. Yet a man such as I take you to be should be surprised at nothing. As a preamble to what I came here to say, however, I am going to tell you that, if you do not know me. I know you, far better than you think possible. Don’t misunderstand me.”

The girl had seated herself. She spoke in a quiet, collected, level voice:“1 am not in love with you. But, from the things Oscar Searle has let drop inadvertently about you from time to time I have formed a certain idea of your personality. And that personality interested me because it coincided with my own, with my own temper, with my mode of thought As soon as I heard you speak last night —I hid seen you before and studied your face, for Mr. Searle pointed you out to me on more than one occasion —I saw that I had not been mistaken in this view I had conceived of the manner of man you were. Well, this being so, I have come to make a bargain. I think it quite to your advantage. I shall’state it as briefly as possible. Few words are needed.”

She paused and her mag nifieent eyes were fixed upon him with a piercing Ijeeness in place . of their customary nonchalance. Hammond had listened with growing attentiveness.

“Go on,” he said. ‘ I can give you information—inside information—concerning the shares in a large bank, which if you have the daring financial spirit I take you to have, will make your fortune or launch you on the way to permanent and colossal success.” “Ah!—Searle?” “Exactly, Searle. He tohl me—being infatuated with me, and* thinking a woman could make use of no such disclosure. He ought not to have trusted to that, of course. But Mr. Searle is a fool.' You thought I loved him!” She was shrugging her shoulders. *‘l consented to marry him because his position was, at least, not poverty —genteel poverty—the worst of all. , But I want to be rich, I want to be powerful. I want to see the world at my feet. “Possibly, I think probably, you are the man who could do these things. Therefore, my bargain. < I communicate Mr. Searle’s information—which he was a fool to give me—on consideration that you marry me.'”

The two faced each other a moment. . Hdmmond’s brain was working with lightning rapidity. “Of course, Searle may be suspected.'He will lose his position. This will brand him—ruin his. chances for-' ever.” ~ 5 Again Adrienne Eastlake shrugged her shoulders. “I arh sorry—l would not willingly harm him. But ,in the struggle for life the weak go to the wall. It is the law.” Half an hour longer this man and this woman Wdre closeted. When Haiumoud walked with his visitor to the door, the information had beep given, the bargain struck. •Before ■ him, „ Hamihond’s insatiate inner eye saw stretching th‘e feverish vision of success, no Ipngef afar’off and dimly,uncertaiit, biit nearyclose, within the grasp of ,fiis-hat»d. ’ * . * * * *'■'* * .

Searle to-day. is a poor man. For ten years be,en an unsuccessful ofre. ■ Thaji the affairs of men .wliicli,,takep tftfits flood, led Hammcmd and ”-pis .beautiful wife on to f'or.tun.e, has jefp.h?m stranded. He lost his positioq bafy odor. The same unweleo.nrb 'repitf-e' has bling’ aoout his naiqe»gvo since. But Hamaiaons b.ullge'jfincE;“bears the market." And. Adrienne has attained her ends; onioys the •fullest- fruition of her amVision.."

To -the general world she repre-. sents triumph incarnate, secure.. The few who know see her drive by, ' as I do, with wonder and .a question its to the possible final end of an-’ earthly tyiumph/. -• ’ •• ■ *

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Sam Dead ruff of Morocco was in town last Wednesday. The highest price is paid foi corn at the Nowels elevators. Best galv. barb wire 2|c lb. at J. M. Hufty’s, Mt. Ayr, fnd.

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Catholic Notes.

The young men of the St. Aloysios Society approached holy communion last Sunday, and after high mass elected ofI ticers for the ensuing year. The I following young men were elected: President, Joseph Born- | trager; secretary, Francis Meyer; - treasurer, Thomas Eiglesbach ' and librarian, Joseph Luers. The object of the society is the 1 promotion of. good morals and I the diffusion of general knowlI edge, particularly in the interest of history, Christian etiquette and literature. Next Sunday the young ladies, of St. Rose Society will receive hob’ communion at the early mass and after high mass have their meeting/ for the annual [ election of officers. All are exI pected to be present. St. Vatentine. Valentine was a priest in Rome, who. with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs lip the persecution under Claudius 11. He was apprehended and sent by the emperor to the prei feet of Rome, who. on finding all jhis promises Io make him reI nounce his faith ineffectual, com- ' manded him to be beaten with [clubs, and afterwards to be be-

beaded, which was executed on the 14th of February, about the /ear 270. To abolish the heathen’s lewd superstitious custom of boys drawing thq name of g ; rls in honor of their goddess. Februta Juno, on the 15th of this month the clergy substituted names of saints in billets given on this day, but. although this gave the custom a religious aspect, still they did not succeed in extirpating this pagan practice. Up to the 15th century this custom prevailed in England, Scotland and many parts of France. On the eve of St.. Valentine’s day a number of young folks—maids and bachelors— would assemble, and inscribe upon little billets the names on'an equal number of maids and bachelors of their acouaintance, throw the whole into a receptacle of seme sort and then draw them lottery-wise-care, of course, being taken that each should draw’ one of the opposite sex. The one thus drawn became ones Valentine. The imaginary engagements, as may readily be supposed, often led to real ones; because one necessary consequence of them was, that after a whole year a bachelor re-

mained bound to the service of his Valentine, somewhat after the fashion of a medieval knight of romance to his lady love. At one period, it was customary for both sexes to make each other presents, but later on the obli gation seems to have been re stricted to young men. This practice has ceased since the 15th century to possess the sym bolic meaning it then had and had become a considerable nuisance. The approach of the day is now heralded by the appearance in the booksellers’ shop windows of vast numbers of missives calculated for use on this occasion, each generally consisting of a single sheet of paper, on the first of which is seen some ridiculous, colored caricature of rhe male or female figure, with a few burlesque verses below. More rarely, the print is of a sentimental kind, such as a view of Hymen’s altar, with a pair undergoing initiation into wedded happiness. Maid-servants and young fellows interchange such epistles with each other on the 14th of February, no doubt conceiving that the joke is amazingly good, whilst in many cases it brings gnef to the heart and unfriendly dispositions among associates.

Ctlltfe Nates. The Rev. Mathew Zumbuelte former pastor of of St. Augustine's church, paid a visit to his many friends in Rensselaer and Collegeville last Tuesday. •'Father M. Zumbuelte ingratiated himself with the Catholics of his place by the erection of St Augustine’s church and he is always cordially welcomed by his numerous friends. He .is at present in charge of a congregation at Hanover Center near Cedar Lake.

Will flossier of the Model and Ike Leopold of Wolcott, are in Chicago this week. Mrs. Emory’s “Seven Financial Conspiracies” should be read by every person in the United States. It gives a history of the legislation that has built ihe money power of America. Sent post paid to any address for 10 cents or three copies for 25 cents. Address this office. S. F. Wood, engineer at the electric light plant, was called to Pulaski county Sunday by the sickness of his wife at the home of her father, who died a few days ago. He returned Mon day, his wife being some better. Creviston’s market is a desir able place to order that Sunday roast.

Lakey, the bread baker.

Parks, the drayman, is always prompt and obliging, and re is* liable in charges, with all or le;s intrusted to him. Farmers are already beginn'ng to purchase machinery for the coming season’s work, W. J. Renicher and J. W. Clear who live about 71 miles northeast of Rensselaer are now in North Dakota .looking at the •ountr.v with a view of locating the re if the prospect is favorable. Creviston Brothers mal e their narket a desirable and satisfactory place to trade by keeping mly the b( st meats and selling or the'lowest prices/ Lincoln’s birthday occurred on Tuesday t ie 12th. and though a national holiday few people seemed aware of the fact. Wm. Washburn was on the sick list all the first days of the wepk. Was out again Thursday. Thursday was St. Valentine’s day.

Enact Law Through the Referendum

Mr. Jas. McEwen, editor of the Sentinel, will issue his paper again next week, haviag recovered sufficiently from his recent fall to do so. This month closes forty years of newspaper work for this veteran, eighteen of which have been spent in this location. May he see many more years in health and happiness. An Eastern Star initiating delegation -was called to Rpming ton Wednesday evening to organize a chapter there. . .The county commissioners have let the contract for a new bridge at Burk’s crossing on the Iroquois for $2,150, .to John Hack of Lowell. Mrs. A. Purcupile and Mrs. J. ■M Hopkins attended the funeral of Mrs. Ellen Howe, which occurred at Fowler lust Tuesday. ’■'•JpP.n’.t forget the baby show and New England supper given by the M. E. ladies on the evening of Washington’s birthday at the court house. .. .Lakey sells 28 loaves for SI.OO. Born to Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Borner, Union township, February 10th, a daughter.

Frank Iliff and Charley Starr gave an exhibition trial of speed with their horses upon the main street here last Saturday. J. Mitchell, three miles south '*n range line, will make an aucion of all his stock, farm mahinery, household effects, etc., on or before the first Tuesday in March. Date and itemized list in next week's Pilot.

J. E. Spitler has sold to John Huggins of Montpelier his news and book stand, the transfer having already taken place. L. Strong will retire from the management of the Rensselaer creamery on* the first of March. Chas. Morlan, an expert butter maker, will be the new superintenden t. Born, a boy. to Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Platt, Feb. 11. Lakey uses only the best flour and sells 27 loaves for SI.OO. A girl, a new one, found homo with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Babcock on the Bth. Mrs. M. L. Spitler has joined her husband, the representative, at Indianapolis. Rev. Lattimore, state evangelist, will clo-m the series of meetings at the Presbyterian church this week. Tho attendance has been good despite the severe weather, and a number of accessions have resulted.

Mt. Ayr is being supplied with Lakey’s superb bread in preferance to all others; it suits them. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Yeoman of Newton' township have a new daughter since last Monday. B. K. Zimmerman was at Wheatfield Monday. Albert Hopkins contemplates a trip to the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras, which takes place Feb. 25-26.

Vance Collins has purchased the interest of Mr. Bhead in the firm of Warner & Shead, dealers in implements and groceries, and the business will be continued under the name of Warner & Collins. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark en- f tertained the Endeavorers and members of the Christian church at their homo last night. Next Friday will be Washing* tin’s lirthday. It will be wise to watch your 3 cherry trees next Friday, as the hopeful emulator with a hatchet nay be abroad. Mrs., B. Forsythe is visiting fiends in lowa. The birth-of a daughter is reported to have occurred last ; Sunday .at the home of B. D. h Comet in Union Township.

She Was Surprised.

There was a pretty surprise I party at the home of W. L. Wishard last Thursday evening, given in honor of Miss Alice | Irwin, the popular school teacher. The merry plotters met at Riley Nowel’s, and made the descent en masse from there. | About twenty were present and | a ch arming time was experienced.

A Lady Evangelist.

Wheatfield, Feb. 14.—Ev- | erybody is availing themselves of the good sleighing. Several of Wheatfield's y-> mg | people were at Dew Drop Sundry evening to hear the lady evangelist preach. i A number of wrecks were j caused on the I. I. & I. by the recent bad weather. 1 The sick are convalescent, J

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