People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Page 2

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J. W. HORTON, @L DENTAL SURGEON. Rensselaer, Ind. All who would preserve their natural teeth should give him a call. Special attention given to filling teeth. Gas or vitalized air for painless extraction. Over Postofflce. H. L. BROWN, D. D. S. (told Fillings, Crotcn and Bridge g’ork. Teeth Witlunit Plates a Spec• Itg. Gas or vitllized air administered for the painless extraction of teeth. Give me a trial. Office over Porter & Yeoman’s.

I. B. WASHBURN E. C. ENGLISH Physicians and Surgeons, RENNSELAEK, IND. Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Dr. English will give special attention to Surgery In all Departments, and general medicine. Office over Ellis & Murray’s Telephone No. 48. JAMES W. DOUTHIT, LAWYER, Rensselaer - Indiana. DALPH W. MARSHALL, Ik .A.TTOIRrfcTIE'^-. Special attention 'givan to settlement of Decedent’s Estates, Collections, Conveyances, Justices’ Cases. Office on Washington St., opposite Court House, Rensselaer, Indiana. «* Ira W. Yeoman. ATTOENET. REMINGTON , IND. Insurance and real estate agent. Any amount of private money to loan on farm security. Interest (5 per cent. Agent for International and Rea Star steamship lines. MORDEGAI F. CfIILCOTE, JL.'I? Rensselaer, Ind. Attends to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office In secondstorv of the Makeever building. WM. B. AUSTIN, LAWYER AND INVESTMENT BROKER, ATTORNEY FOR THE L.,N.A.& C.Ry. and Rensselaer W.L.& P.Co Office over Chicago Bargain Store, RENSSELAER. IND.

Simon P. Thompson. D. J. Thompson. M. L. Spitler. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Lawyers and Real Estate Brokers Have the only complete set of Abstract Books in town. Rensselaer, - ‘ - Indiana. Geo. K. Hollingsworth. Ahthck 11. Hopkins. Hollingsworth & Hopkins. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Rensselaer, ---------- Ind. Office second floor of Leopo! •> Block, corner Washington and Van Ren - ct.-r Greet s. Prrcticein all Hie courts, and j rchuse, sell and lease real estate. Attty' .■ L. N. A. & C. Rw. Co.. B. L.. &S. Assoel: ,id Rensselaer Water, Light & Power Cm; :uy. RENSSELAER * »NK. JEf. O. Harrl», Pre*. JE. T. Harr in, ViceJ. V, Hare Vashier. Money loaned and notes pi eri. Exchange issued and sold on all - , points. Deposits received. Interest r certificates of deposit issued. Wem. ,e : ,an 8 at six per cent interest payahi illy. Collections made and proi, mit,te Alfred McCoy, Pres. T. J. * .Cash. A. R. Hopkins. Assistan t A. MCCOY & CO'S UK RENSSELAER, T' The Oltlettt Bank in Jantte . ntjj. ESTABLISHED 16 Transacts a general hanking hi. buys notes and loans money on long on personal or real estate sc. Pair and liberal treatment is proud-, Interest paid on time deposits. i exchange bought and sold. You- ois solicited. Patrons having val ti.p. mi v deposit them for safe keepo Addison Pahkison. Geo.K.Ho! i. tii. President. Vice Pre-,. Emmet L. Hollingsworth Commercial State RENSSELAER. INDIA* THE ONLY STATE BANK LN Directors: Addison Parklson,.Fat, die. John M. Wasson, Geo. K. Ho and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Vi prepared to transact a general b;., lness. Interest allowed on tir Money loaned and good notes hoc rent rates of Interest. A share of ronage Is solicited. Are open for thedd stand of the Citizens' State W. R. NOWELS, Real Estate. Loan. Insurance, Collegia ~s Farms and City property for salo. Office front room Leopold’s Bazaar. RENSSELAER, .... IND.

E. M. PARCELS, || Barber. j Three Chairs. *'7»S!S j New Meat Market •REVISTON BROS. Rbnssslakb. IjTDIASa. Shop located opposite the public square. Everything fresh and clean. Fresh and salt meats, gar»e. poultry,etc. Please give us a l' call and we will guarantee to give you satinfaction. Remember the place. Highest market price paid for hides and tallow.

’Lisbeth was standing behind the back door evidently, and immediately appeared. “This young city swell wants some dry crackers to keep him alive. Myrbumatiz is so bad tonight I couldn’t think of climbing ’way down off here just for a pound of orackers. ” The loafers guffawed at this, and Alec wanted to get away as soon as he possibly could. He felt himself in a very nest of enemies. Everybody and everything seemed to have changed since morning. The morning seemed ages ago, so long he conld hardly remember it. He felt as if he were in an entirely new and disagreeable world. ’Lisbeth walked directly toward him, and in her bearing he felt a little bit of sympathy amid all the hardness. But it embarrassed him, and he on ly felt the more like running away. “Will yon have these round ones,” she asked, taking a cover off a large barrel, “or would yon like these soft soda crackers?’’ indicating a box, toward which she immediately walked, followed by Alec, who was vaguely comforted by the soft tone of her voice. “Makin a mash on ’Lisbeth!” whispered one of the meanest looking of the loafers. Alec did not look around at all, but the girl gave the offender a quick, threatening look, which she distributed aronnd to the rest of the company as well, and no laughter followed the sally. There was a dead silence while ’Lisbeth went on in a light, easy tone, “I like these soda crackers ever so much the beet, and they cost only a cent a pound more. ’ ’

“Give me a pound of those,” said Alec gloomily, and the girl proceeded to weigh them out. “I heard you ask for some cheese,” she went on as she busied herself. with the crackers. “We haven’t any cheese, but we have some gooseberry jam mother made herself, and I could give you 5 cents’ worth in one of these little wooden dishes. Would you like 5 cents’ worth?” “If you please, I would,” responded Alec, touched by the girl’s thoughtfulness and kindly interest. The jam was put up and paid for with the crackers. “There is nothing else?” asked the girl, with shopkeeper’s courtesy and a smile. The boy thanked her and was gone amid a profound silence from the loafers. He was lighter hearted now, and the world seemed natural again. One human being had beau kind to him. He had a profound feeling of gratitude, ana stopped short to look back and wonder how he could ever repay her. He felt as if he must thank her in more than the formal words he had used in the store. Fairly away from the store and the hateful crowd of loafers, he began to think what he should do for the night. He sat down on a stone in the light of a window and ate his crackers and jam,

The Jam was put up and paid for with the orackers.

and as he sat eating, and a more and more cheerful feeling abont life came over him, he remembered that there was a barn back of the tavern, whose side door he had seen standing invitingly open, revealing a mow of old hay beyond. He would go and sleep on the hay. An hour later he was fast asleep in the barn.

CHAPTER IX. HE MAKES JOE RIOOINS GIVE HIM A JOB. His waking on the morrow was very different from the first waking in Ashton. The birds were singing just as leudly and noUily, hat Alee did not seem to hear them. The gray morning light streamed through the cracks of the bam, and the cows and horses could be heard munching their bay or now and then bringing their feet down heavily to shake off some insect intruder. Alec lay half burled in the bay, looking up into the dark, dusty, oobweb woven roof, trying to put the dull, lonely ache ong of his head long enough to think what he must do, could do. The town was against him, now that he had tEfed and failed. He knew that clearly from the atmosphere into which he bad stepped at the store the previous everting. Mr. Higgins seemed at first to be his friend, but he, too, bad grown oold and gruff, lisbeth seemed kind, but she was only a girL What could a girl do?He would have set out on bis northward tramp immediately, but there seemed now no more before him than there was bsbtsd. His skill at mowing he did not wish to put to the test again, and besides this morning be felt so stiff and bis back and limbs ached so persist-

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, DECEMBEB 17, 1896.

IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS.

By SHERWIN CODY.

TOPWiGm. iB%. by author.

ently that it seemed as if he could not even climb down from his bed on the hay. He was hungry, too, for berries for dinner and crackers and jam for supper were small food for a healthy, active young man. Never before in all his life bad he faced a prospect so utterly dreary and barren. He wonld go to Mr. Higgins and frankly lay his case before him, asking the man to help him to some sort of work, it mattered not what, so that he kept from starving. Perhaps in a case like that ’Lisbeth’s friendliness might count for something, and he should not be sorry to have it. Already he thanked her in his heart. Certainly she had seemed to sympathize with him a little, and that thought was the one ray of light in his despondency, and he immediately nursed and cherished it until it seemed almost to make as bright a day within his heart as there was without, into which he soon emerged. He brushed off the hay from his clothes, washed at the pump, and combed his hair with his pocket oomb, using the horse trough for a mirror. Then fearfully he crept around to the front door of the store. It stood wide open and showed a long strip of floor that had just been swept clean. But no sound oame from within. No doubt the proprietor and his family were at breakfast.

Aleo tiptoed into the vacant store and sat down on the old bench. There on one side were cans of fruit, meat and other groceries piled on the shelves one above the other, and packages of starch, oatmeal, washing powder, bars of soap, boxes of figs, and what not it wonld be hard to say. In a fly specked glass case on the counter was a variety of brightly colored candies, and at one end some tobacco and a few cigars. Beneath the counter were kegs of various kinds of nails, horseshoes piled on the floor or hnng on a long rack, and small farming implements. At the end nearest the door were rakes, scythes and shovels of various kinds for various uses. There were shoeboxes, perhaps half filled with rough boots. And in the middle of the floor, which was not too clean in spite of the center being freshly swept, were barrels of crackers, sugar, salt, flour and meal. And then behind him were shelves piled high with calicoes, thread, jeans, jackets and overalls, brightly colored suspenders, handkerchiefs, and a variety of small articles for ladies’ use. In the rear of the room were barrels of molasses, vinegar, kerosene and linseed oil, all lying on their sides in rests black with filth and smoke. There were also barrels upright in which might be oats, corn and cottonseed meal; perhaps abo barrels of salt pork and corned beef, and small barrels for fish and a can of oysters. A sudden hopeful thought came to Alec as he looked from one to another of these articles. Mr; Higginß was alone, with only 'Lisbeth to help him. He was stiff and rheumatic, and ’Lisbeth evidently had more than she conld do in caring for the tavern and in housekeeping. Why should not Alec become a clerk in the store? He would offer hhnself, proposing so work for board and lodging until Mr. Higgins thought him worth more.

Hardly had he decided to do this, with a sort of rash of hope and expectancy, when Mr. Higgins lumbered in, but as soon as he saw Alec he stopped short, and Alec quickly rose and turned to face him. “Well, sonny, what can I do for you?*’ asked the old fellow in rather a more kindly tone than he had spoken in the day before. “I wanted to see.if yon would let me help you in the store here for my board. You seem to need somebody, and I could make myself useful. I haven’t any money, and I am unable to get farm work, and I would do anything to earn my living until I ooold have a chance to look round a trifle. You seem to have nobody here but your daughter, and you have more than you oan do yourself. I am young and spry, and I could learn quickly, if you would let me, I am sure. If you would just give me a trial for a few days, you could tell by that time what I am able to do. ’ ’ Alec spoke earnestly and eagerly as be went on and advanoed nearer and nearer the oounter, till he fairly leaned over it, and Mr. Higgins shrank back against the shelves with hie hands in his pockets, for a moment taken aback by the fierce onset. But as soon as Alec paused he recovered himself. He looked at the boy sharply for a moment and seemed satisfied. “Yon ain’t no city chap up here for a lark, be you?” he asked sudden^f. “No,” replied Alec simply, but in a way that apparently satisfied Mr. Biggins. Then the man looked slowly about the store, and at last remarked, as if it were the conclusion of his thought: "Mebbe I do need somebody to help me. I’m getting sort of old and rheumatic. I ain’t as sfo AS I once was. And your viotuals wouldn’t put me out o* pocket so very much, a-seeing’s we’ve got to cook anyway and I get things at wholesala ” Theat with a merry twinkle he looked at Alec sharply and said: "Es yon’re going to work for your board, I s’poee you want to begin with breakfast. Well, es yon step inside there, I cal’olate ‘Lisbeth will sort o J fix you up.”

Then he lumbered off toward the postoffice department, which was at the end of the counter nearest the door. Alec watched him a moment, and then timidly made his way into the dining room. ’Lisbeth was sitting alone at the end of the table finishing her breakfast, for she had been waiting on the others. “Good morniDg,” 6aid Alec tentatively. She nodded a welcome, with a smile. “I’m going to work for your father for my board, and be said yon would give me some breakfast, ” be went on after a moment’s pause for her to speak, of which she did not take advantage. ’Lisbeth immediately roee from her place, and motioning him to another said: “If you’ll sit down, I’ll get ydn some breakfast right off.” With which she hurried into the kitchen.

CHAPTER X. HE SELLS A SPOOL OF THREAD AND MAKES FRIENDS WITH THE CHILDREN. After bis breakfast was finished Aleo went into the store and began to look about in the light of his position as clerk, and dimly realized that he knew not where to find any particular thing whatever, nor what price to set upon it when he did find it. As soon as he came in Joe Higgins immediately lumbered off, leaving him to mind the store. At first he occupied himself in looking slyly into tempting cubby holes and oorners, and gingerly picking up one thing and another, speculating oftentimes upon its possible use. But he soon abandoned this prying of cariosity, and stood silently behind the counter waiting for bis customer. About 8 o’clock he arrived, a small boy of 6, who came into the store in such a way that he seemed to have tumbled into the middle of the floor without Aleo knowing exactly how. On reflection Alec concluded that he must have stumbled over the doorstep. But when he had recovered himself, the little fellow stood staring stupidly at Alec, as much as to say, “How in the world did you oome here?” Then suddenly he beat a hasty retreat, find a moment later a dozen little faces might have been seen at the door, peering curionsly in to see the strange white fellow behind the counter whom everybody bad beard of the day before. Fifteen minutes later a woman appeared at the door. She was the mother of the little boy. He had gone home and told her that the white city swell was standing behind the oounter at the store and Joe Higgins was nowhere to be seen. So the woman, after scolding her son for not getting the spool of thread she had sent him for, went herself to see what it all meant. After pausing a moment at the door she went in and stood supporting herself by a hand on either hip, for she was decidedly well favored—the boys said she was fat.

“Joe Higgins ain’t about?” she inquired, looking toward Alec, but not approaching him. “Mr. Higgins is out,” replied the "young man. “Is there anything I can do for yon?” “I wanted a spool of Burt’s 86,” she answered without moving, and looking at Alec as if she very much doubted his understanding anything about the matter whatever. By thia time the children, little barefooted girls in short dresses and boys with broad brimmed straw hats which had quite lost their shapes from various drenchings, bad gathered about the woman and were staring with dnmb, vacant faces. “Thread, did you say?” asked Alec, oatching at the word spool, for he did not know what “Burt’s 80” meant. “Burt’s 36,” she replied glumly, and Aleo went to a little case of small drawers which seemed to contain thread. After searching for some time in several of them he found a spool of thread with 86 on it, but it was black, and the woman said it was ot a no count cheap make, anyway, that Joe Higgins kep* just to make money off of; she wanted “Burt’s.”

At last he found what was wanted, but he didn’t know what the prioe was and spent some time looking over the ■pool for a mark. The children saw what he was searching for, and when he turned to the woman and asked lightly if she knew the price of it the children cried out in chorus, “Five cents,” for they had been aching to tell him. He handed the spool to the woman and took the 5 cents she held in hsr hand. But as she didn’t move he stood politely waiting far her. At last eke held the spool out to him, saying: “I a’pose you’re not too busy to wrap this up, are you?” Thp ohildren tittered, Aleo blushed, and the woman walked away. At 9 the stage driver came lumbering np to the door and threw oat the mailbag for the mail. to be changed. Mr. Higgins immediately came lumbering into the store and started directly for his place behind the little barrier of glass covered boxes, crying out to Aleo as if he had always done it: “Come, hustle that mailbag in here. We ain’t got over five hours to change that mail—in fact, we ain’t got five minutes if Michael oatehee the 10:20 train.” Alec brought the mailbag and held it open while the postmaster chtmsily and slowly unfastened and fastened again the iMgkets of mail and then tossed them imo the open bag. At the last moment ’Lisbeth came hurrying la, and with a few deft movements put everything to rights, locked the mailbag and herself banded it over the counter to the waiting Michael, who caught it, threw it on to the stage and in a moment was driving madly away to aatbb the train. By this time half a dozen men were standing about the store, many of whom were among the loafers of the evening before. They Btared at Aleo, and Aleo lowered bis eyes, for be knew what they were thinking about, and he wpa thinking of the same thing. Mr. Higgins was supremely unconscious of everything and seemed indeed to have forgotten that be hacj put jests at Aleo thejolght

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before. Aleo felt his power.. He was backed np now, and Joe Higgins for his own selfish interests most take his side. It oould not be otherwise. So, in a moment, he glanced, smiling, at the men, and without a word or even look of disparagement they walked out of the store. During the forenoon there were few visitors at the store, except curious children who looked in to stare at the new clerk. But Aleo did not mind them, and soon after the mail was fairly off ’Lisbeth oame in where Aleo had been left alone and hastily showed him where to find the principal articles and what were the prioes of each. He bad a ready memory and a quick sense of locality and form, and in two hours had digested an enormous amount of statistical information. Had it not been for ’Lisbeth’s kindly thoughtfulness in giving him this lesson, he wondered what in the world he should have done, for Mr. Higgins seemed to assume that be knew it all to start with, or that telling him things was a nuisanoe, not to be gone into except when a customer was in actual need. After tea Mr. Higgins liked to go into the store, and, stretching himself at full length upon the unoccupied portion of the oounter, lie talking to the men who ohanoed to drop in aftqr their day’s work. So Aleo sat down in the little sitting room just back of the tavern parlor, and while ’Lisbeth and Mrs. Higgins cleared away the dishes and washed them he entertained the children. They were shy of him at first, but they had a great respect for his personality. When he went into the sitting room, at ’Lisbeth’s suggestion, to read the morning paper, the children all followed him with a certain dignified reserve, and taking tbeir places on upright chairs pretended to be reading, too, though they were constantly casting inquiring glances at Alec. There were three of them—James, who was 14 and quite a lad and took care of the garden for his mother when not in school; Bessie, who was 10, a romping, affeotionate child, and Baby Flo, who was 0 years old. She dearly loved to lounge on somebody’s knee. For five minutes she retained her reserved position in the upright chair, reading a book which she .held upside down. But at the end of that time she grew weary of this and sidling shyly np to Aleo rested her chubby arms on his crossed knees. He said nothing, nor did he even look at her, but he put his arm about her as he went on reading, and thus encouraged she was soon riding cm his foot. When Bessie saw what a good time Flo was having, she came and wanted to be taken np in Alec’s lap, and Jim stood a little way off, prepared to make some wise remarks on gardening. So Aleo was soon obliged to abandon bis paper and give his strict attention to the children. A little later ’Lisbeth came in and sitting down not far from Aleo began talking with him in a friendly way about how he liked the country, and where he had lived and what he was planning to do. The unpleasantness of his entry into the village was apparently quite forgotten. He seemed suddenly

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to have found a home and affection, *ven if of a hnmble kind, and for the first time since he had left the city he felt content The worry and the work and doubtful straggle had wearied him out, but now he was getting a genuine rest. He had a little vantage ground on which he could stand for a time dnd the enemy—that most malignant of enemies, fate. Bnt soon Aleo found that he was plunged immediately into another drama than his own, in the thought of which he quite lost sight for the time of his own troubles. There was a sound of stumbling feet in the passage, a hurried rap at the little docs, and a somewhat stooped but fine looking man of 80 or more made his entrance. When he saw Alec, he hesitated asd seemed disconcerted, bnt recognizing him in a moment as the young man who had come into the store he gave a quick glance at ’Lisbeth, who immedlatley introduced him to Aleo as George Marston, the blacksmith. He bad a.clear, open face, bine eyes, and a patient, npt altogether happy expression. He had evidently come to see ’Lisbeth, but he talked pleasantly and kindly to Alec instead. He was educated and well read, and had very interesting and common sense notions about most subjects of human thought and endeavor. From time to time he gave bnDgry glances at ’Lisbeth, and she eat upright in her chair and scarcely gave him a casual look. In two hours he took his leave, and Alec fell to thinking of him. This was no doubt ’Lisbeth’s lover. But clearly she gave him no encouragement, not because she did not like him, bnt because for some reason she judged it not wise. Perhaps she felt too rnuoh the responsibility of her father’s family. Aleo looked at her and pitied her. She noticed his pitying glance, and turned her head quickly away as if to hide some tear, bnt in a moment he was gone to bed, and afterward ’Lisbeth gave no sign of having guessed his knowledge of her heart. »

CHAPTER XI. HE GOES TO CHURCH. When Aleo awoke the next morning and foftad the sun shining warmly in at his window and realized that it must be near 8 o’clock, though he had not yet been called, he remembered that it was Sunday. There came a rap at his door and he heard Jim’s voice, and a moment later Jim entered, carrying on one arm what seemed like a pile of fresh linen. “ ’Lisbeth sent these np to you, if you’d be kind enough to accept them,” said Jim awkwardly, standing on one ' foot and trying with might and main to deliver oorrectly the polite message ’Lisb -ch had Bent. “She thought p’raps your i Sunday clothes hadn’t come yet, and she a: ed father to send these np to you, if y . d like to wear them to meeting.” 'Toll your sister she’s a regular V p. It was awfully good of her, awf good. Tell her she’s the queen of I or whatever you think she’d 1: '’ he ended, suddenly wondering if c vere approved in this New Eng-I-v '-imily. (TO BE CONTINUED.)