Walkerton Independent, Volume 46, Number 43, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 24 March 1921 — Page 2

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■*» H * j | INDIANA ::j State News j: Indianapolis.—State officials and assistants are busy preparing digests of acts of the legislature in order that the effect of the new laws on the various departments of the state government may be determined. Many of the new laws carry emergency clauses and are now in effect. B. J. Burris, assistant state superintendent of public Instruction, and a number of assistants sjre preparing a digest of the educational legislation enacted by the general assembly and approved by the governor. In addition to the acts of the 1921 session, the book will contain the school laws passed' by the special session of 1920 and the regular session In 1919. Other state departments and divisions are classifying the laws affecting their work for the benefit of the public. Os special importance are some of the new acts dealing with taxation and the work of the state board of tax commisioners. Indianapolis. — The ruling of A. Mitchell Palmer, former attorney general, limiting the application of the federal prohibition law, will not affect sales in Indiana, in the opinion of Charles J. Orbison, federal prohibition director for Indiana. Mr. Orbison pointed out that the Indiana prohibition law remains stricter than the federal law and therefore takes precedence in controlling liquor traffic in the state. The state law cannot enlarge the permissive provisions of the federal law, he said. Mr. Palmer ruled that the federal government is without authority to prohibit or limit the manufacture or sales of liquors, wines or beer for non-beverage purposes. Washington, D. C —lndiana remained sixth in rank among the coal producing states in 1920, in spite of the fact that it came within a few tons of equaling its record production of 1918, and Increased by almost 50 per cent its 1919 production. The United States geological survey announced ,the estimated coal production by stated for 1920, showing Indiana to have produced 30.420*000 tons In 1920, compared with 20,500,000 tons in 1919 and 30.678.634 In 1918. Pennsylvania ranked first last year, as usual but Illinois jumped from third to second place replacing West Virginia. Ohio stands fourth and Kentucky fifth. Lafayette.—The plan for analysis of characteristics and personality of each student, something new in the educational world, has been inugurated by Dean A. A. Potter of the engineering schools of Purdue university with the distribution of blanks to all the men to be filled in and returned to his office. The study will‘be made by more than 100 members of the faculty and friends of each student, including classmates ami others. At the end of the year results of the study will ho supplied each man and he will be given suggestions how he may improve such characteristics in which he has been found lacking. Lafayette.—lndiana now has 228 herd* of cattle, made up of 127 dairy herds and 1(<1 beef herds which are free from tuberculosis ami are on the accredited herd list, according to a letter received from Dr. E. B. Haskin, an inspector who has charge of this work for the United States Department of Agriculture, by Professor H. W. Gregory, head of the dairy department of Purdue university. Goshen. —More than M«i farmers in Elkhart county have signed a petition protesting against plans of the board of county commissioners to proceed immediately with construction of highways to be paved at estimated cost of $1,000,000. Elkhart county, it is said, has more paved roads than any other county in Indiana. The Lincoln highway is paved across the entire counIndianapolis.—Property of the old quasi-public state board of agriculture. Including the Indiana state fair grounds, has been turned over to the State under the law passed by the general assembly providing for a state board, nt a meeting of the board. Terre Haute.- Plans for a SKUHNKi home for th** Terre Haute order of Eagles have been completed. Th. new prt homo stailds and will bo I’ ■ tYt. n—Relics of Indiana pioneer Ide odeted by ’.o mt-. Million 1. n ■ r<!

1 | S’ be Mystery of \ Hartley House S „ ~, „ IRWIN MYERS t l i Coj»yri<ht by George H. Doran Co. 1 I ;

; ft— ■■ ■ ' -■ • —o ; ISOBELI ' Synopsis. — Dr. John Michelson, , just beginning his career, becomes > resident physician and companion > j of Homer Sidney at Hartley house. • Mr. Sidney is an American, a semlInvalid, old and rich and very- de- , sirous to live. Mrs. Sidney is a > Spanish woman, dignified and reti- > | cent. Jed, the butler, acts like a ’ privileged member of the family. Hartley house is a fine old isolated : country place, with a murder story, a “haunted pool," and many watchdogs, and an atmosphere of myst tery. The “haunted pool" is where Richard Dobson, son of a former owner of Hartley house, had killed his brother, Arthur Dobson. Jed ‘ begins operations by locking the j i doctor In his room the very first night. - —Q CHAPTER 11. —2— That evening T had dinner with Mrs. “ Sidney and her daughter Isobel. I had been in the house twenty-four hours and did not know there was a daughter until dinner brought the three of as together. Mrs. Sidney was Spanish. She was a Iqvely woman, gracious and charming, but I thought there was a great deal of steel hidden in her dis-position. She did not seem to ask that life be soft or to expect to find it so. She had a Roman dignity of self respect which did not, I could be sure, permit moaning. It would not have taxed anyone’s perceptions to recognize In Mrs. j Sidney a human being living an extraordinary life. The fact was so apparent that it seemed a part of her personality. It must he remembered that I had come to Hartley house prepared for abnormalities. There was first, the i man with the wonderful will to live ; which had interested Dr. Brownell. । There was the alien beauty of the house, the strange servant Jed. the haunted pool—insignificant as it was, to a rational being—the lovely woman who was so apparently a tragic figure. ' There was the fact of my being locked in my room the first night. There j were the forbidding defences of the I place—walls, dogs and keepers. I may । be excused for taking a fanciful view i of my new surroundings. Then there was Miss Sidney—lsobel. She came into the dining room an unexpected if not astonishing phenomenon to me, who did not know that there was a daughter in the family. Mrs. Sidney presented me. “How do you do?" said Miss Sidney, Hid she seemed to find it tiresome that 1 stranger had taken a place at the table. Jed served us, and the dinner was excellent. Although the ladies had only a glass of sherry each, I was offered a variety of liquors. My habit Is abstemious except upon rare occa- i Bions, but I was so embarrassed by Miss Sidney's boredom that I took two glasses of champagne, and they made me a more tolerable dinner companion. It was some champagne stimulated remark on feminism which caused Miss Sidney to stare at-me as if I were an ' animal which, being smooth skinned, suddenly had grown a coat of fur. She stared for an instant and then laughed. She was quite frank. She had been bored; she had become interested. I could see that she distressed her mother. Mrs. Sidney, any one could know, held to conventions as the salvation of life; Miss Sidney did not. Isobel Sidney was a very attractive girl. I guessed her age to be twentythree. I also guessed that candor and honesty were outstanding points in her disposition. Iler youth ami her beauty were magnetic, and I must confess that my romanticism was touched instantly. I had seen just enough of Mr. Sidney to understand how this- girl could be the daughter of Mrs. Sidney. By the time dinner was over we had found a pleasant agreement in ideas f and taste. I was in an ecstacy, full of the sensation which comes to a diffident man. unaccustomed to women, when he dares to think for the first Ml w I She Seemed to Find It Tiresome That ’ Table time that h** I !>< n Interest n" to a >

।‘ to which he submits if he have any I morals, and when It comes and when he submits, the gates are closed upon fanciful, romantic adventures. If he has been fortunate, he is content. He sits at the west window, and his pros- । pect is the sunset. He no longer asks । the great question of youth: "Could I I make that girl like me?” To me, after that first dinner with , Mrs. Sidney and her daughter, the । ecstacy was a romantic folly. Isobel I । had captured me, my sense, my ra- I tionallty, my Judgment, my mind, fancy i I and emotions. Beauty and youth alone ■ I are enough to do this for an Imaglna- । tive young man, and when attractive । aspects of character are back of beauty | and youth, and when the young man I looks forward to a probability of that conquering circumstance, propinquity, he may he excused if his feet lightly touch the floor. 1 was captured and knew It after that first dinner—knew it, and both loved and dreaded It. I was about to make a fool of myself and be at once a happy find a miserable fool. । In the exalted state of egoistic emo- ' tlons which I have outlined. I w» nt to Mr. Sidney’s room after (.inner and sat with him for two hours. I beg in to appreciate how charmingly his life was decorated. A really rare subtlety of art was used to bring a warm color I into this indomitable but feeble man's j winter of life. I did not fully nppredate until later what thought and care lay behind the unstudied comforts add ' sensations Hartley house offered. Mr. Sidney was white halnd and I very gracious. His manner was a । warm cordiality. It was not precise. ‘ It was robust, but it was benignant. Later I saw how his presence p* , rvaded I the place. We had a cheerful talk. What he i said suggested to me that my world could not have been more than a hundred years old at the most, and that his Included the period of inorganic evolution in which the period of or- ; ganlc evolution is but a' pin prick. I Youth is startled by such conceptions iof life, but 1 had an interesting eveai Ing. B*>fore I said good night. Jed came lin with two bottles of wine. He stood 1 and looked at me unpleasantly. I I arose to go, and Mr Sidney said : “I think we shall like each other. | I At least, 1 hope you will be comfortable, even happy. Ami don't be <Us- । tressed about the wine. I don’t drink j It any more. Jed drinks it, and 1 enjoy seeing him do It.” • • • • • • • • A whippoorwill was retterant in the woods at night, and its call came from dark recesses odorous and mysteriously veiled. Having said good night to Mr. Sidney. I had gone to my room with a book from the library. The night was fresh, sweet-smelling find I cool. 1 had rend for several hours when I heard the cut bolt in my door ! thrown against the piece of metal which had been left in the socket. I There was no transom above the ! door, and evidently the threshold kept light from appearing beneath it. I had been reading as 1 said, for three hours at least, and whoever tried to bolt me in had good reason to think I was assleen. I knew who the person was. It was ; Jed. Knowing I was not locked in. I was undisturbed and continued reading. Shortly afterward I heard a woman's voice in expostulation far down the hall. It arose abruptly to a sharp cry, and I had to lay aside my book and expose the fact that my door was not locked, a thing 1 had not wanted to do until the secret of Its being locked could bo discovered by revealing that it was not. I hurried out and down the hall. Jed had a woman by the wrist. Both of them saw me coming. She released herself from his relaxing grip by a quick jerk and ran. He stood until I ; came up. "What is the matter?" I asked. “What makes you think anything is 1 the matter?” he asked. "iJon't take me for a fool,” I said. ■ "That was Mrs. Sidney who screamed. ' You were holding her. It seems to ' me it needs an explanation.” "Who are you that you need an ex- । planation?” said Jed. "You are drunk again.” “I know I am. If that's satisfactory ' to my employer, why should it bother I you ?” “I doubt that It is satisfactory to ' your employer that you should be mak- 1 ing his wife scream at midnight. Look > here: you're a servant in this house. 1 What have you to say for yourself? I'm I going to have an explanation of this.” Jed find been surly and angry, but > now he grinned. 1 "All right," he said, “but if you want I to be d<'< ent about it. ask Mrs. Sidney 1 first whether she wants your help and t your asking. That's my advice, young i fellow. And while we're asking, how I did you get out of your room? You’re 1 lot supjM»ed to be out. We don’t wa^t 1 people in this house running around 1 the hall< at this time of night.” “I opened the door and came out. t Why shouldn't I come out. I heard a 1 scream and came.” t He looki I at me as if he were doubt- s ing himself. I think he was uncertain ‘ whether h- had thrown the bolt or not. It trail pired later that I was right, r Whim I went back to my room, 1 was i stranger in so strange a house. It was s

that I recognized her. I might adtl to her perplexities by speaking to her, but I might obtain an insight into matters which would enable me to act discreetly and usefully. If I remained Ignorant of motives prevailing in the house, I might at any time blunder ! into a serious mistake. It seemed best to speak to Mrs. Sidney. I could see when 1 spoke to her, she had been greatly disturbed, but she was Ro । / n. “It Wf tothing serious or Important, doctor,” e said. “I’ll not say that It was pie nt or that I liked It, but it had no jnlficance. Jedi is a faithful I and Inv ible servant. He has a vice ■ for whf’, he is not responsible. He । was a perfectly sober man whim he , came tJus, and If he Isn't now, it is ' our own* fault. My husband corrupted him without intending to do so. My husband, when he was well and strong, loved to drink wine. He drank it in great quantities and without any disturbance of his sobriety or good nature. It mellowed and at the time intensified life for him. He cannot use it now, on account of his health, but he enjoys seeing the use of It, and 'lri 3 t■ < v / She Had I ten Greatly Disturbed, but l^be Was Roman. Jed hr -en made the victim of Mr. ’ Sidney \ns enjoyment. Jed is not al* of Ids position ■ when he fs . ~r sober, but he never Is dangerous, nnt even when, like last night, he is exceedingly annoying." I admired the lady’s H*soluti<»n and fortitude, but I did not think she was telling the truth - not all of it. "That was the first time anything of the kind ever occurred.” she said. "I am sorry it disturbed you. 1 met Jed in the hall. He was not sober, and he had a preposterous request to make. When he has spent such an evening with Mr. Sidney, he resents being a servant in the family. He wants to be accepted as a member of the family." “I have had something to do with that,” I suggested. “No dount it has Inflamed his eg<*tism to have you enter the family. The situation with him is difficult. His pride was hurting him last night. He had lost all sense of proportion. He was like a child. He remons'trated with me: he was too important as Mr. Sidney's crony to be merely our servant ’. It was only a drunken mood, but he forgot himself and grasped me by the wrist. I had been trying to control him and restore his common sense. Then 1 became indignant, and yon heard my voice. I am afraid it was shrill, but I was not alarmed. I was merely indignant." “Yon speak of Jed. Mrs. Sidney." I said, “as if he were merely an annoying alcoholic, tolerated when-he is annoying, because of his general usefulness but that dees not explain why he tries to lock me in my room while he is sober and before these disturbances begin. That shows design and intent to have a free hand when he makes the disturbance. I do not like being f locked in my room.” “It Is outrageous," said the lady ner- t vously. “I did not know that it was ( done. I shall see that It is not re- k peated.” i “1 am riot so sure you can," I said, t "and 1 wish you would not try. I have s prott'cted myself against it, and I'd < rather Jed did not give mt* any more I thought than he thinks is necessary •’ now.” » “I am sure, doctor.” said Mrs. Sid- • noy, “that you will understand Jed and r the situation better when you have < been hen* longer. It may be annoying i to you now, but we all hen* live for the pleasure ami comfort of Mr. Sid- ■ ney, who is worthy of all we can do ; for him. lit* did everything he could < for us while he was active, and if < thoughts would benefit us, he would bt* working for us now,” Mrs. Sidney was determined to pro- | toot the secret of the situation, and I j f had no right to croes examine her. The ! < next time I went to town I bought my- ( self a forty-five caliber pistol. Although I was prepared for recur- I । rent disturbances, then* were none, x Within a w<*ek I had found my way into a pleasant routine. Jed s» einod I | st pped his bounds. lie was not apparently contrite, but he was cautious.

that made Hartley hour*, * plaee m> comfortable and gvnl«l, at the Hame time a place so threatened. The threat could not be Ignored: It was there, 'rhe story of the ghost at the haunted j>ool could have nothing to do with it. The threat had tangible aspects. Mrs. Sldl ney’s worry, unspoken but graven in her resolutely Roman face, was one . evidence. The extraordinary behavior :of Jed was another. The atmosphere 1 of the place was one of mystery. During the pleasant, peaceful, odor- : ous summer montlts, vhen our life was i one of undisturbed routine, I never ch- | caped the sense of dread. 1 hoped the | Intangible would take shape; surely something intangible that would be em* bodied, hung over the house. I may not be able to make this certainty appear so vividly to you as it did to me. It permeated; it was in th* atmosphere; it hung over the woods} jit filled the house. It came with the , odors of blossoms; ft was expressed In the summer winds; It was threatened 1 in the lightning which flashed over the ; river. I could not reconcile this effect 1 to such a cause as that feeble ghost story of the pool. I could not dread that ghost or feel its presence. It was a benevolent ghost needed for decoration. I ticked the people of the house, the servants, and found that for them it ! was largely a superstition. They all had been brought from the city, and only a few. such as Jed, a gardener, the housekeeper and the cook had been long enough in the house really to be associated with it. Jed was the only one that willingly would be in the vicinity of the ihm>l at night. The others* might laugh at the suggestion of terror, but they would not willingly test their superiority to superstition. If they had been really frightened, they could not have been kept In service. They were not. The place was large, comfortably inhabited and genial. There was a touch of dread at one spot. They avoided the spot, and It was negligible so long as they did avoid It. In the small town of Hartley there I was more of the legend than there was at Hartley house. To the people who lived at a distance and came tn contact with the place only on occasions, it had an mien, exotic air. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney lad come from South America, from Montevideo, where they had lived many years. The circumstances of their selection ami purchase of the place Mere normal, bur the villagers spiced a gnut deal of gossip with notions of the alienism, wealth, aloofm ss and odd habits, concerning which gossip ran from our servants to the Hartley householders. I have mentioned that my first morning at Hartley honxe a gardener asked me to see one of his children, which had a bad cough. The num had a good deal of sickness In his family in the next few months, and I was of considerable service. “1 shall not hesitate to kill you." 'V ~ -J he ro.<ji.xiEiJ.> SAVAGES WORE BODY ARMOR Gilbert Islanders Used That Form of Protection, but It Was Limited to Leaders. Only one tribo in the South Pacific Islands cut rose to the height of Inventlng armor to be u-> d in their warfare. Rut even this *r t. the <Jilt»ert islanders tinned out only a few suits, oving to the work e - tailed in the manufacture. Francis Dickie says, in the Scientific American, ’h it the suits were limited in number, and that every village was the proud possessor of one. At the et;tl teak of a conflict between villages, not all the inhabitants went to war, but the most doughty warrior was dressed in the village armor ami sent against the champion of the rival place. Ihe brown-colored fabric covering the body and legs, whi h formed the Hilberts' armor, was made out of coir string taken from the husk of the i coconut, so closely woven as to make I a pr-'ei dun stronger than board, and having greater lightness to recommend it. A further breastplate, invulnerable to any native v eapon, was made from the dried skin of the si ingaree. or ray fish, which dried as hard as metal. In the last few years peace has settled over the Gilberts . nd the armor has eeased to be manufactured. The few suits in existence nave all been seized by collectors of rare articles. _ JL Diamond Thieves Easily Detected. Diamond shilling in the South As frican mines is becoming precarious business. The blacks still swallow them or hide them li wounds, but these methods no longer suffice. Coolidge X-ray tubes are so mounted in a frame as to illuminate the whole body of the stripped native standing before them. The entire body of the hundreds of minors can thus be brought into view in ’he fluoroscope tn a few seconds, and any damoml present. even if behind thick bones. Is quickly detected. The glow of the diamond under the X-rays, as well as Its dense opaqueness, aids in detection, it is said. Shakespeare as Poacher. 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DIDN’T LAST LONG ENOUGH Possibly the “Woman in the Sky” Didn't Use a Really Good Kind cf Feather. Two little tots were still trying out Christmas sleds although It was a week or more after the holiday and the short hill down which they were coasting was entirely devoid of snow In spots. They would slide along for a few feet until they came to a bare spot, drag their sleds over the barren place to the next patch of snow and repeat. “W here does the snow come from?" the smaller of the two children, a boy of about four, suddenly asked. "My mother says it is some woman way up in the sky shaking her pillows until the feathers fall out.” was the naive reply of his companion. "Well,” exclaimed the boy, after a thoughtful pause, "I wish her feathers | wouldn’t melt.” Persuasive. The head of a big Chicago business house was extolling the salesmanship of a certain man in his employ. "1 gather from what you say.” observed a friend, “that this man is indeed persuasive in his methods.” “Persuasive!” repeated the head of the house. “Why. my friend, that chap could sell the Cuban government a snowplow!” We do not choose our duties. We do or shirk them. Money talks —and it's usually In & hurry to say good-by.