Walkerton Independent, Volume 47, Number 6, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 7 July 1921 — Page 2

WALKERTON INDEPENDENI Published Every Thursday by THE INDEEENDENT-SEWI CO. “ Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS LAKEVILLE STANDARD THE ST. JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES Clem DeCendrew, Bnaineea Mnaager W. A. Eadley, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear .................................H-M j Six Months ........... * Three Months M [ TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. {nA, as second-class matter. w a^ g= ■ ■ -. ■ {INDIANA! {BREVITIES; T • Wheat has dropped 5 cents a bushel on the Evansville market and the mills are paying $1.20 and 5 cents less at the stations. Many of the pocket farmers say that they will hold their new wheat crop for $1.35 a bushel. Voters of Richmond at a special election defeated the proposed city manager form of government, as provided by the Knapp law passed by the last session of the general assembly, by a majority of 1,231 votes. Governor McCraj has appointed Harry M. Allen of <*eru and reappointed John Paul Ragsdale of Indianapolis as members of the state board of embalmers. Mr. Allen succeeds Theodore Hunt of Richmond. The new Indiana state live stock sanitary board elected Dr. R. C. Julien of Delphi secretary and state veterinarian, and Dr. W. D. Craig of Indianapolis assistant veterinarian. Dan C. Reed of Attica, a member of the board, resigned. The approval of the governor is necessary before the appointment can become effective. Rush county farmers favor the legislative program of the American Farm Bureau Federation, according to reports from the township farmers’ associations in the county, all of which have voted. A questionnaire ■was sent to each association to be answered. so that the farm bureau officers could determine the sentiment among the farmers. Winchester was named as the convention city next year by the Northern Indiana Industrial and Volunteer Firemen’s association, at the sixteenth annual meeting at Portland. The date for the meeting will be designated by the executive committee, which will be called in session in January. George E. Butz of Mishawaka was elected president. Goshen city lost a long fight to compel the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway company to give city car service at Goshen. The company surrendered its local franchise and was operating under the Indiana public service commission. Tracks on one city line are being torn up. Expenses of operation were more than revenue received, it was explained. Following a public hearing of the wage dispute between contractors and the bricklayers’ and carpenters’ unions of Evansville, the arbitration board recently selected to settle the wage controversy agreed that a a 1-1 per cent wage reduction would be fair to both sides. The scale will be effective from April 21. last. It is expected that practically all other building trades of the city will accept the reduction. The arbitration board was composed of one minister and two attorneys. Governor McCray announced that the Indiana reformatory relocation commission has decided that the reformatory relocation law is unworkable. He said the commission has requested the firm, which had bid for the site of the present institution at Jeffersonville, to release the state from going on with the proposed deal whereby the state was tu have sold the site and buildings to the company. The commission requested that, if the company would not release the state entirely, it permit the state to retain the present site and buildings until after another general assembly has met. Five thousand, five hundred and six-ty-four horses disappeared from the streets of Indianapolis during the 19101920 period. According to census figures from Washington, D. C., there were 10.099 bourses in the city in 1910 and 4,535 in 1920. During the same period the number of mules in the city decreased from 763 to 536. In 1910 there were 1,452,887 horses on the farms in Indiana, and in 1920 717,233. Mules in 1910 numbered 82,168 ami in 1920 they totaled 100,358. The state shows a falling off in the number of sheep supported on the farms, in 1910 there were 1,346,967 and in 1920 the numl er was 643,889. Preliminary figures of the bureau of the census at Washington for the year 1919, show that 4,457.400 acres of Indiana land planted in corn yielded 158,602.938 bushels. A wheat acreage of 2.798,657 yielded 45.207,862 bushels, and 1,718,748 acres yielded 52,529.723 bushels of oats. Indiana I was the fourth stale in the produc- | tion of corn. lowa led with 371,362,- , 393 bushels. other states, in the order of their production, were Illinois, { Nebraska. Ind ana, Ohio and Missouri. I Figures on mine, quarry and well op-i erations in Indiana in 1919 show a i large decrease in the number of enterprise-. as compan-d with ten years! Producing rpnsvs hk tpu* l . petroleuni and natural gan wells. The capita! invented was giten a^ । 19s.;>nd the value of the pnxim ts I us SO2 tO/jf 2. The state board of agriculture J elected 1. Newt Brown <<f Frank { lin, s-- rotary of the board foi the remainder of th- ..ear. Mr. Brown ! retu:

. fc ’|l | The Mystery of B artley House | hi By CLIFFORD S. F J,YMOND 1 ' — ..... ~ l K 1 i Illustrated by IRWIN MYERS 1 Co . br c h n c

CHAPTER XVl—Continued. —l6— “But this scheme of life had this In It that brought disaster to his sons—a laxness of any discipline related to their spiritual and mental development. When we were corrected or punished it was for conduct which affected his comfort or dignity, never for a thing which affected the development of our character. “We had abundant money to spend. It was a part of our father’s egotism that w’e should be young swells, and we were early in disorderly ways. Richard had a genius for cruelty. A normal boy Is likely to be thoughtless, but Richard was Inventive in his cruelties. It was brutal. He liked to tear things to pieces slowly, a fly If It was all he could catch—a grasshopper, a field mouse. I had a faithful little dog which Richard staked out In the ground and killed by vivisection. I saw the little animal when it was breathing its last with Its bow-els exposed and Its lungs laid bare. “Richard destroyed birds’ nests for pleasure. He liked to cut a leg off a hen and see It stagger about vainly trying to walk. He maimed dogs. He tortured cattle and horses. He killed a fine carriage horse by driving It to death purposely to see how long It would live under the treatment be gave It. “I doubt that I was a more lovable child, but nt least I did not have the attribute of cruelty. I was not only younger but I was weaker physically. I was sensitive to a degree which made me an extraordinary victim to Richard when he cared to express his fiendishness to or upon me. “We were getting into late childhood —I should say that I was about fourteen —when Richard began to use his inventiveness in cruelty upon me directly. As soon as he had a taste of the delight which came from tormenting me I had no further peace. “I remember with a still agonized vividness my experience in finding a snake in my bed. He had put it there. He used his superior strength to torture me physically. He dominated me spiritually. He made life a hell, such a hell as life can be made only for a child by mistreatment, when reality has not starkly asserted Itself, when proportions are not established and when illusions can be kindly or hideous. “Richard and I grew- up In this fashion. I in terror of him and his malevolence. When I was fifteen mother died. She had been nn unassertive mother. Circumstances and conditions were beyond her strength of mind or body, but she had been a friend, and I missed her cruelly. It was really a terrible loss at a time when I much needed a friend. “As we grew- older Richard's diabolical habits became only shrewder, not less assertive. He contrived the most Ingenious schemes for my torment. He humiliated me whenever possible before other boys and, better for his purpose, before girls. “My father put us out to school together. and this suited Richard's purpose admirably. How I hated this thing that bort* my name and my blood! It became an indomitable hate. It exists to this day. No human being ever was so hated by another as my brother Richard was by me—and Isis to this moment and will be hate< while a breath remains in my body. “When I was eighteen my father died, and Richard and I inherited the estate under a trusteeship to continue until I was twenty-one. Richard was then twenty. Tn another year he at tnined his majority. He was profligate and wild, a hwavy drinker, a coarse, cruel boor, n licentious young ruffian who had suffered twice in actions brought by weak and unfortunate girls. “It Irritated him beyond expression that he had to wait the slow process of my coming of nge before he could come Into his share of the property. His constant demeanor toward me was violent. Several times I tried to establish the reasonable relations which ought, in convention, to exist between brothers. It was quite hopeless, am! my hate for this boor came to be an Insane passion. It remains ns a passion now. "I may not be able to ’■atisfy anyone that this was the Inevitable consequence of the treatment given me, but I could If I were to elaborate the details—or merely state them. However, my purpose is not so much to Indict my brother as io record my own triumph—to assist the commission of a crime which has been of intense satis faction to me. a crime In which I have maintained my culpability with joy and from which Richard has suffered I and is suffering. “He Is a broken old man. lio is In a penitentiary." Here followed a section of the manuscrlpt from which, as I recognized : the page Dravada had taken was missI Ing. Then it continued: “I became a little more assertive of my rights and dignity, with the result ; that our quarrels wore more violent. T tried to fit myself physically to meet Richard, but ho was very sturdy, ami his profligate habits had not yet undermlned his health. When I resisted Mm physically ho had the better of me ' Throe times he knocked me unconrclour. Once T was ill in hod a week as the result of a heating be gave me. “Frequently he threatened that he would kill me. Ho said Ibis often and j ness and d'tormin.itlon. Later that ! aven to 1 > t'< n b' him. I had rejulned er

search me out. wherever I might be with my friends, and to humiliate me, if possible, before them. “One night I had been at a tavern tn the village with some boys of my acquaintance when Richard, being drunk and very violent, found me, and there was a scene In which lie made loud threats that he Intended to kill me. “One of my friends persuaded me to go home. At Hartley house we ■ walked the distance from the house j to the village in those days, I set i out alone, but Richard, breaking away | from the young men who would have , detained him, pursued me. He caught , up with me, and we abused each other as we walked, being overheard by several persons along the way. "When we came to a pool by the river near the house, he became insanely violent, cried that he was sick of swing me on earth and would rid ' himself of the sight of ine. He attacked me with a heavy stick he carried, succeeded In breaking down my guard and knocked me unconscious. ‘ Our cries, while be was attacking, were heard by a farmer living across ' the road. Richard wa« insanely 1 drunk. He Intended to kill me and ' thought he had done so. He left the spot, disturbed, probably, by the thought of physical consequences but, I am sure, not by any spiritual mis- ’ givings. ‘ “I do not know how long I remained unconscious or when I awoke. It may have been ten. forty or sixty mln- ’ utes. It may have been an hour or 1 two. When it was, consciousness brought an aching head and a dawning determination. “Life with Richard at Hartley house { bud become Impossible. I could no ‘ longer control him, 1 could no longer ' endure him. “A chance of escajie and of revenge was possible. I was. in Richard’s understanding, dead. He bad tried to ' kill me. He might be made to think 1 he had. I had considerable money • with me. Richard, of course, had not touched it. Each of us had been given. that morning, five hundred dollars 1 by trustees. That had been the occa--1 slon of Richard’s murderous debauch. , It Is strange—or is it? —that I never ' think of him us. or ever called him, Dick. “I arranged the spot as well as I could in the details to suggest that my drunken and brutal brother had not only killed me but had disposed of my body In the river. When I had ? *■ \ S’ He Became Insanely Violent ’ done this, relying for success on his uncertain memory of the act which i already had terrified him, I left Hart- ! ley house—all its painful memories I and brutal experiences, the unhappiness I had experienced there, the mls- ■ enable childhood, the wretched boyhood and the young manhood, come 1 j to this furtive, malevolent end. And । I there resolved that If I got safely 1 away and if my design worked out 1 successfully, I should return to the selfsame spot some time to live a jovial life where life had been so drear. ‘ "My plans were not perfect; my resources and my intelligence for this sudden meeting of the world were slender; but my success was beyond • i expectation. “First 1 hud the satisfaction of knowing that my brother was taken for my murder. Circumstances were . all against him, and he was convinced In his own heart that he had not only killed me ns be so often had wished 1 to do, but that he had disposed of my j body. 1 ' “In arranging the spot to Indicate a murder I had thrown my hat. which was broken and bloody, down the hank. It hud caught on a projecting rock. I had taken a ring off my linger . ami had thrown that into the pool. I also had thrown in my coat. It had blood on the collar ami shoulders. AH ' tills seemed to me Io afford inconclus- , ; Ive evidence, but there were obvious difficulties in finding a body which , might Increase Richard's troubles. “I waited in New York, carefully concealed, many months, reading of the progress of my murder trial in the m’wspapers. It gained some celebrity. Tlie prosecuting zeal was tremendous, and public Interest, I gathered, acute. My ring was dredged up nnd was regarded as important evidence. The dredge also brought up some bones which, as 1 read In the ptipers, wen* regarde<l as fish-nibbled remains of “Much legalistic argument ensued. I b •came a case of Importance, Involving princlj les of evidence. The superficial facts were all against Richard. . , His confession faced him. The evi-

dence T had arranged damned him.' Our relationship In hate and his threats against me arose against him. ! He thought he had killed me. He knew he had. There were many witnesses against him. “The only thing helping him was the lack of a clearly identified body. But there were vestiges of something which. In the circumstances, were accepted as parts of the corpus delicti. I think the prosecution and the Jury, । convinced that I was dead and my remains sw’ept away, were anxious to meet technically the requirements of : law. | “The itory of our lives together, as 1 rend '4 in the testimony of witnesses who kn^ imore of its terrors than I thought •».’ Sue knew, was terrific. It would ha 1| damned any aggressor In the oplni<9 of any body of men. Everyone wl" knew anything of the case. Richard jiilmself Included, was convinced tlJk I had been murdered. The doubt with remained merely served to get Richard a life sentence Instead of the g&llcws. Popular psychology condemned him. The lack of essential evidence was ignored. “I waited until I knew what bls fate was, and then, rejoicing, 'I left the country. I had no prospects and few plans, but my Inclination was to go to South America, and I followed lt - a "My hatred never censed. It grew as n passion, at first a disturbing one, later a satisfactory one. I wanted this man to suffer. Nothing that he can suffer will properly pay him —at least ; It will not pay my score. ! “Some day, I know, for I have the determination, I shall return to Hartley house as its owner, although es- ' teemed an alien, with a false name, a false life and a great joy. What is a family that 1 should not enjoy my per- ' feet revenge upon this brute who made fifteen years aud more of my life, ', in Its most impressionable form, an undesirable thing when it was must desired? "I shall go back to Hartley house, and If life and health be spared me. 1 I shall make it nnd life in it Jovial, land If strength be spared my will, the knowledge that my brother Richard is suffering for the murder of a dead ■ live man shill be the cosy north wind in the cave* below which burn my - cheerful tires. “This is my crime, and if it cau*'S no one dear to me later to suffer. I 1 want it kno4n. Some day I shall go , 1 . back as a aian wholly unknow n to people who knew the Dobsons. I shall be what 1 Homer Sidney. I shall buy the olTplace. I shall know that Richard Dobson is suffering a most equitable but illegal punishment in a penitentiary close to the place where I shall live In the circumstances which a great deal of money will enable me to set up. “That is my natural revenge upon a fiend who happened to come of the same parents as I. Hute is a wonderful friend." CHAPTER XVII. Jed came Into the room again as 1 finished reading, and put another log on the fire. Then he sat down in a rocking chair by the fire. •‘They met that night, you know," ; he said after he had rocked a while. “They?” I said. “Arthur and Richard Dobson," said Jed. “Mr. Sidney and his brother, who Is over there in the penlten- ; tlary.” "They met what night?" I asked. Jed was patient. “They met the night last fall,” he explained, “when you found Mr. Sid- ' ney leaving the house, the night 1 i found you outside, the night we pretended 1 was isick, the night he came ! in here and had us call-the penitentiary > to say a convict had escaped. That i night, he met Ibis brother. His brother was the convict.” Jed was rocking and talking to the ■ fire. I “Mr. Sidney—Arthur Dobson—” he said, “went out to see the pool on : every anniversary of his murder. He ■ found the strength out of some reservoir of will. The reaction was almost disastrous. I imagine he might have lived another year or two if he had । 1 not had the experience he had this . fall. I “I knew It was a great hate that ••as keeping Mr. Sidney alive,” he •■ontinned. “Such a hate as he had I । ( don't know- that I understand it . , now. It was so unprofitable. Or was I It? I do not know. It had a great vine in his life. I think the hate he I cherished warmed ami colored his life “He went to the pool every year । the night of his murder. He did not . know that 1 wrent with him. It was । such an abnormal abuse of his strength. I was afraid for him.” “Your prospects depended upon him,” I suggested. lie allowed a moment to pass in I sftemr. It was as if he permitted venI tilation before we again entered the room of common thought ami corn- ; munlon. He <Ud not look pained or । hurt in any fashion. There was no display about it. He just rot rained for a moment from talking. It was as F if he were opening the windows for ■ ’hat moment. When the air was , cleared of the odors of m.y testy remark. he went on ns if I had said . nothing. The did rascal was very difti' Ult to deal with. “The night I' am reminding von of j he met Richard Dobson nt the pool > ami recognized him. The poor old fool, f Dick, had walked out of the penitentiary. He had every opportunity to do so. The warden would have let him out If he had asked Io go. He was helpless ouislde. He did not have .i a place to get a rag or a crust. But -j he wanted to escape

“There must have been something in his mind about this night and this ; place. Arthur Dobson found his brothjer standing by the pool. I was 50 feet away, hidden by the bushes. I could see the two old men in the moonlight, and when Arthur Dobson began to speak. I could hear distinctly. ” ’Well, Richard,’ ” said Mr. Sidney, ‘we are here again.’ “Richard Dobson quavered In a weak, senile tone, almost a falsetto: j ‘Who are you?’ “‘l’m your brother Arthur,’ said Mr. Sidney. ‘What are you doing here?’ "Richard Dobson must have felt I that he was confronted by a ghost. He made a shrill little sound, as an old woman might. I was palsied. The situation was tremendous. I didn't know what would happen, and I didn’t know what to do. Mr. Sidney was calm as an oyster. “ 'I am your brother Arthur, Richard,’ he said, ‘and I am not dead. I haven't been dead. You didn’t kill me. 1 have been living in the old ' place comfortably while you have been in prison. No one would believe you If you told that. You are old nnd half crazy. If you were out of prison, you would die of starva- | tion and exposure in 24 hours. I am not a ghost. Richard; I am your llv- ; Ing brother.’ (TO BE CONTINUED.) LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS — Study of Statistics Will Enable Almost Any One to Justify His Pet Belief. Cold, hard statistics prove that the greatest number of premier awards for gallantry were won on Monday. No other day showing anything like the ■ same record, though the muchmnllgned Friday stands out noticeably. Which fact gives some color to the ■ superstitions many people have about certain days of the .veek being lucky, while others are unlucky. Tuesday seems to be the bad day of the week; calamities are far more common on that day than on any other day. Railway disasters, tires, street accidents the record in each case is held easily by Tuesday. And It Is I the day most favored, too, by those ' who desire to put an end to their exist- ; ence. Saturday also has a bad reputation; ; Its specfilty Is murders; and fully half the petty crime that is dealt with in the police courts occurs on that day. But probably that is because Saturday also holds the record for drunkenness. There Is nothing very distinctive about Thursday beyond the fact that It Is the day upon which the birthrate Is highest; and Sunday Is noticeabb* only for Its low death-rate. Wednesday Is, above all the rest, the day <»f weddings. This applies to nil classes, and nearly as many marriages are celebrated on that day alone ns upon any three of the others. —Montreal Herald. Don’t Neglect Your Play. Tb«*re are men in the world who i feel that the whole works would stop If they took time enough to play a little. That’s all bosh. The man who can play well Is usually the fellow who can put the work across. Some have the play spirit so well In hand that they make sport of their work. It is real pleasure to them. They get both recreation nnd profit from their efforts. It’s no wonder they stay young in their work. I And don’t forget that If you would succeed you must enrry ydur load. It’s a mistake to get out from under responsibility. It's meeting responsibility that makes progress possible. Shirkers are not in demand. They may put things over occasionally, but they do it at the expense of personal discount. You can’t afford to do it. Carry your load like a man.—Grit. An Acre. The word acre is derived from the old Anglo-Saxon word aecer, and Is identical with the Latin word ager, meaning a cultivated field. The English acre consists of 4.841) square yards, or 43.560 square feet. If your field is a rectangle, that is, having four sides and each angle a right angle or “square corner,” its area is obtained by multiplying the length by the breadth. If your measurements are in rods, the result will be square rods; if in yards, square yards; and if in feet, square feet. A field 132 feet by 165 feet of rectangular shap<* contains 21.780 square feet. It is therefore, half an acre. But a rec- । tangular field might be different j length nnd width, and yet contain an acre. For example. If It is 330 feet long and 66 feet wide It will contain 21,780 square feet, or half an acre. Not a Fixed Opinion. T.awyer (examining prospective juror In criminal case) —Mr. Juror, have j you any fixed opinion as tn the guilt or Innocence of the accused? Juror (emphatically) — Naw, I ain't get no doubt but the guy’s guilty, but they ain’t nobody fix<*d me. Why Holland Grows Willows Holland is covered with willowtrees, and the great dikes of the I country are made stronger by the ; network formed by the roots. —Brooklyn Eagle. Some Never Unmask. Unfortunately our blessings In d;sguise are painf'illy slow in unmnsk- , ing.—Boston Transcript. Philosophy. If I live another couple of year- I ought to fin able to hold out for the । rest of my life. —Christiania Tyrihan*

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