Walkerton Independent, Volume 48, Number 36, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 8 February 1923 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday by THE LNDKTZNDENT-NEMS CO. Publishers nt the WAT-KKRTON INDEPT N DRNT NOUTH LIBEKTY NEWS LAKE Vim STAND ARD THE ST, JOSEPH CO. WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudre*. Business Manager Charles M. Finch. Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear ......... Six Months. .90 Three M0nth5......................... .60 TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton. Ind., as second-class matter. Hoosier News Briefly Told Greenfield. —James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, will be honored in his own home town, the city council having approved a petition tq rename Mechanic street as Riley avenue. . Winchester —The Red Men of Randolph county will hold a big pow-wow in Windsor February 2, when the adoption degree will be given by Ridgeville degree staff. Logansport.—After a lengthy argnment on the voting of proxies, the Farmers’ and Merchants' Mutual In- ‘ surance company of Kokomo, made up of patrons in Tipton, Howard and Cass counties, re-elected all officers. Goshen. —Missing since August. 1913, Clayton Rhodes of Goshen has been declared dead by Judge J. S. Drake in the Circuit court and an administrator has '.been appointed to dispose of his estate. Anderson. —At the annual business meeting of the Laurel Motors corporation Linfield Hyers was elected president ; R. M. Roof, vice president; W. H. Forse, secretary, and Charles E. Hayes, treasurer-general manager. Wabash. —As a result of the activities of sheep-killing dogs during 1922 Wabash county is out $6,782, which amount was paid to farmers whose sheep were slain. In Noble township alone sheep valued at $2,181 were killed by dogs. Winchester.—Hubert Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Bailey, has accepted a position as manager of the classified advertising department of a - newspaper at Raleigh, N. C. Mr. Bailey was formerly employed on the Richmond Palladium. Greensburg.—The Rebekah circle installed the following officers: Miss Luna Hickman, president; Mrs J. P. Short, vice president; Mrs. Jessie Skeen, secretary; Miss Clara Martin, treasurer, and Mrs. Earl Woodward, pianist. Eaton.—The annual “get together” meeting of the Farmers’ institute of Union township was held at Union school building January 26. A basket dinner was served. The farmers’ meeting for Washington townsidp was held January 26 and 27. Fort Wayne.—ln a campaign against tax dodgers, Clayton A. Lindemuth, assessor of Allen county, in which Fort Wayne is located, has during the last three weeks found unlisted property of the value of $15,000 and which he has now placed on the tax duplicate. Plymouth.—One-fifth as many divorces were granted in Marshall county last year as marriage licenses issued, according to County Clerk Bennett. A total of 191 marriages took place in the 12 months and 40 divorce decrees were granted in the same period. The principal ground was cruelty. Logansport.—Cases venued from other counties to Cass county in the past year will net the county $1,711.70, according to the report of Charles' Brown, county clerk. White county owes $562.50 for four cases; Miami. 11,559.20 for nine cases; Howard, $1,674.70 for three cases, and Carroll, $37 for one case. Winchester. —The Randolph county meeting of Red Men was held in Union City. M. S. Taylor, chief of records of Little Turtle tribe of Greenville, 0., ; and many of his tribe attended. The great sachem of Ohio also attended • the pow-wow. FcTowlng the work i given by the Mohawk degree staff of Winchester, a banquet was served. j Indianapolis.—Charges that mem- ! bers of the Indiana National Guard, stationed at Portland, Ind., were unduly active in the Ku Klux Klan were found to be “entirely unfounded” by Harry B. Smith, adjutant general of Indiana, who conducted an investigation at the request of Governor McCray. Edinburg.—Harold Patterson, seven- j year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur i Patterson, was struck and seriously injured by an automobile driven by Miss Oma Stevens. The lad, on his way home from school, walked back- | ward into the street without seeing the car. Witnesses absolved Miss Stevens from all blame, as she was . driving slowly. Rochester.—Guy Onstott faces a I prison term of 90 days and a fine of $275 for violation of the liquor laws . as the result of the verdict by a jury I in Starke Circuit court at Knox Id tile case in which he took an appeal from j the Rochester Police court, where he had also been found guilty, fined and I sentenced. A motion for a new trial j was filed. New Albany.—A joint district convention of the Junior Order of Arnerf- ! can Mechanics and Daughters of America and the women’s auxiliary of the order was held hero. Supper was served to visiting delegates at the Daughters of America hall, after which addresses were delivered by state officers. The district embraces the counties of Floyd, Clark, Harrison, Crawford, Scott and Jackson. Columbia City.—The following directors were chosen at the sixth annual meeting of the First Whitley County National Farm Loan association: Kdward Cornelius, president; If. E. Baker, vice president; Monroe Snyder, Alfred CoopcrhUr and James A. 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“YOU POOR THING!" SYNOPSIS.—GeneraI factotum in the house of her sister Xna, wife of Herbert Deacon, in the small town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a dull, cramped existence, with which she is constantly at enmity, though apparently satisfied with her lot. Bobby Larkin, recently graduated high-school youth, is secretly enamored of Deacon’s elder daughter, Diana. The family Is excited over the news of an approaching visit from Deacon's brother Ninian, whom he had not seen for many years. Unexpectedly. Ninian arrives. Thus he becomes acquainted with Lulu first and understands her position in the house. To Lulu, Ninian is a much-traveled man of the world, and even the slight Interest which he takes in her is appreciated, because it is something new in her life. At an outing ' which the family takes. Ninian and Lulu become confidential. He expresses his disapproval of her treatment as a sort of dependent in the Deacon home. Diana and Bobby, in the course of “soft nothings," discuss the possibility of eloping and "surprising the whole school.” Lulu has awakened* to pleasant possibilities concerning Ninian’s intentions toward herself Ninian takes the family for a “good time” in the adjacent city. At supper, after the theater, as part of a joke Lulu repeats the 1 words of the civil marriage ceremony, with Ninian. Herbert remembers that a civil wedding is binding in the state, and inasmuch as be is a magistrate. Ninian and Lulu are legally married. They go honeymooning. V—Continued. —9— Mrs. Bett sat on the porch restored and pleasant when the family returned. DI and Bobby had walked : home with Jenny. “Look here,” said Dwight Herbert. ’ “who is It sits home and Ims ice ' cream put in her lap like a queen?" ’ “Vanllly or chocolate?” Mrs. Bett demanded. _ “Chocolate, mamma!” Ina cried, with the breeze In her voice. “Vanllly sets better," Mrs. Bett said. They sat with her on the fporch while she ate. Ina rocked on a creaking board. Dwight swung a leg over ■ the railing. Monona sat pulling her skirt over her feet, and humming all on one note. There was no moon, but the warm dusk ’ad a quality of transparency as if it were lit in nil I its particles. i The gate opened, and some one came up the walk. Tliey looked, and It was Lulu. “Well, if it ain’t Miss Lulu Bett !” I Dwight cried Involuntarily, and Ina cried out somethin.’. “How did you know?’’ Lulu asked. “Know! Know what?” “That It ain’t Lulu Deacon. Hello, mamma.” She passed t4ie others and kissed her mother. “Say.” said Mrs. Bett placidly. “And I just ate up the last spoonful o’ cream.” “Ain’t Lulu Deacon!” Ina’s voice rose and swelled richly. “What you talking?” "Didn't he write to you?” Lulu asked. “Not a word.’’ Dwight answered this. “AU we’ve had we bad from you —the last from Savannah. Georgia.” “Savannah. Georgia.” said Lulu, and laughed. They could see that she was dressed well, in dark red cloth, with a little tilting hat and a drooping veil. She did not seem in any wise upset, nor, save for that nervous laughter, did she show her excitement. "Weil, hut he’s here with you. Isn't he?” Dwight demanded. “Isn't lie ' here? Where is ’ e?” "Must be 'most to Oregon by tills ' time,” Lulu said. “Oregon!” “You see.” said Lulu, "he had another wife.” “Why, lie haJ not!” exclaimed Dwight absurdly. “Yes. He hasn’t seen her for fifteen years and he thinks she’s dead. But he isn't sure.” “Nonsense,” said Dwight. “Why, of course she's dead if he thinks so.” “I had* to be sure,” said Lulu. At first dumb before this, Ina now cried out: “Monona! Go upstairs to bed at once.” “It’s only quarter to,” said Monona, 1 witli assurance. "Do as mamma tells you.” “But—" "Monona !” She went, kissing them all good-

night and taking her time about it. Everything was suspended while she kissed them and departed, walking slowly backward. "Married?” said Mrs. Bett with tardy apprehension. "Lulie, was your husband married?” “Yes.” Lulu said, “my husband was married, mother.” “Mercy,” said Ina. “Think of anything like that in our family.’ “Well, go on—go on!” Dwight cried. “Tell us about it.” Lulu spoke in a monotone, with hetold manner of hesitation: “We were going to Oregon. First down to New Orleans and then out to California and up the coast.” On this she paused and sighed. "Well, then at Savannah. Georgia, he said he thought I better know, first. So lie told me.” “Yes—well, what did he say?” Dwight demanded irritably. "Cora Waters.” sal ’ Lulu. "Cora Wajers. She ina~ried him down in San Diego, eighteen years ago. She .vent to South America with him.”

“Well. he never let us know of it, If she did,” said Dwight. "No. She married him just before lie went. Then in South America, after two years, she ran away again. That's all he knows.” "That’s a pretty story,” said Dwight contemptuously. “He says If she’d been alive, she’d been after him for a divorce. And she nem>r has been, so he thinks she must be dead. The (rouble is,” Lulu said again, "he wasn’t sure. And I had to be sure.” "Well, but mercy,” said Ina, j “couldn't he find out now?" “It might take a long time." said Lulu simply, “and I didn't want to stay and not know." “Well, then, w!>y didn’t he say so here?” Ina’s Indighation mounted. “He would have. But yon know how sudden everything was. He said he thought about telling us right there In the restaurant, but of course tiiat'd | been hard —wouldn’t It? And then he felt so sure she was dead.” “Why did he tell you at all. then?” demanded Ina, whose processes were simple. “Yes. Well! Why indeed?” Dwight' Herbert brought out these words with a curious emphasis. “I thought that. Just at first," Lulu said, "but only Just nt first. Os course X if lit d ■’l®U ' ~ ~ 1— — — "Well, If It Ain’t Miss Ljulu Bett!” Dwight Cried, Involuntarily. that wouldn’t have be«>n right. And then, you see, he gave me my choice.” "Gave you your choice?" Dwight echoetL “Yes. About going on and taking j the chances. He gave me my choice when he told me, there in Savannah, Georgia.” "What made him conclude, by then, that you ought to be told?” Dwight asked. “Why, he'd got to thinking about I it.” slu* answered. A silence fell. Lulu sat looking out toward the street. "The only thing,” she said, "as long as it happened. 1 kind of wish he hadn't told me till we got out to Oregon.” “Lulu!” said Ina. Ina began to cry. "You poor tiling!" she said. Her tears were a signal to Mrs. Bett, who had been striving to understand all. Now she too wept, tossing up her bands and rocking her body. • Her saucer and spoon clattered on her knee. “He felt bad, too,” Lulu said. “He!” said Dwight. “He must have.” “It’s you,” Ina sobbed. “It’s you. My sister!” “Well” said Lulu, “but I never thought of It making you both feel bail, or 1 wouldn’t have come home. I knew.” she added, “it'd make Dwight feel bad. I mean, it was his brother —” “Thank goodness,” Ina broke in, “nobody need know about It.” Lulu regarded her, without change. "Oh, yes.” she raid in her tnonotofie. "People will have to know.” "I do not see the necessity.” Dwight’s voice was on edge. Then

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# That and Not Water Is Found to Be the Predominating Element in Them. What do you think is the predominating element of Hie great clouds which float high above our heads in the sky? Water? No; dust, the little motes that we may see dancing in any sunbeam. Without dust there can be ‘ no clouds, and without clouds rain can- ! not fall. Most of England’s rain comes from i the hot seas on tlie coast of America. Here water rises into the air in the form of steam, whose tiny particles adhere to the little dust-specks, or motes of which the atmosphere is full. If jt was not for the motes the steam would simply fall back again at evening time when the temperature | dropped. But as it is, each mote at- ‘ tracts a certain number of vapor par-

too said “do not,” always with’ 1 1 Dwight betokening the finalities. “Why, what would they think?” Lulu asked, troubled. “What difference does it make what they think?” “Why,” said Lulu slowly, “I shouldn’t like —you see they might—why, Dwight, I think we'll have to tell them.” "You do I You think the disgrace of bigamy in this family Is something t lie whole town will have to know about ?” Lulu looked at him with parted lips. "Say," she said, “I never thought about It being that.” Dwight laughed. "What do you think it was? And whose disgrace is it. pray?” Ninian’s,” said Lulu. "Ninian’s! Well, he’s gone. But you're here. And I’m here. Folks’ll feel sorry for you. But the disgrace—that’d reflect on me. See?” "But if we don’t tell, what’ll they think then?” Said Dwight: "They’ll think what they always think when a wife leaves her husband. They’ll think you couldn’t get along. That’s all.” “I should hate that,” said Lulu. "Well, I should hate the other, let me tell you.” . “Dwight, Dwight,” raid Ina. "Let’s go in tlie house. I’m afraid they’ll hear —” As they rose, Mrs. Bett plucked at her returned daughter’s sleeve. "Lulie.” she said, "was his other wife—was she there?” "No, no, mother. She wasn’t there.” Mrs. Betts’ lips moved, repeating the words. “Then that ain't so bad,” she said. "I was afraid maybe she turned you out.” "No,” Lulu said, “It wasn’t that bad, mother.” Mrs. Bett brightened. In little matters, she quarreled and resented, but i the large Issues left her blank. । Through some indeterminate sense , of the importance due this crisis, the j Deacons entered their parlor. Dwight lighted that high, central burner and | faced about, saying: "In fact, I simply will not have It, Lulu! You expect, I take It, to make your home with us in the future, on the old terms.” "Well—” "I mean, did Ninian give you any money ?" "No. He didn't give me any money—only enough to get home on. And I kept my suit—why!" she flung her bead back, “I wouln't have taken any ' money I” "That means,” said Dwight, “that you will have to continue to live here™-on the old terms, and of course I'm quite willing that you should. Let > me tell you. however, that this Is on I condition—on condition that tills disgraceful business is kept to ourselves," She made no attempt to combat i him now. She bmked back at him, quivering, and in a great surprise, but she said nothing. "Truly, Lulu,” said Ina, “wouldn't that be best? They’ll talk anyway. But tills way they’ll only talk about you. nnd the other way it'd be about al! of us,” I uhi said only: "But the other way would lie tlie truth.” Dwight's eyes narrowed: "My dear Lulu.” he said, “are you sure of | that?” "Sure?" "Yes. Did he give you any proofs?” "Proofs?” "Letters—documents of any sort? Any sort of assurance that he was speaking tlie truth?” “Why, no." said Lulu. "Proofs — no. He told me.” “He told you?" "Why tiiat was hard enough to have to do. It was terrible for him jto have to do. What proofs—” She i stopped, puzzled. "Didn’t It occur to you,” said Dwight, “that he might have told you that tiecause he din't want to have to go on with it?” As she met his look some power seemed to go 'rom Lulu. She sat down, looked weakly at them, and with in her closed lips her jaw was slightly fallen. She said nothing. And seeing on her skirt a spot of dust site began to rub at .hr.t. “Wliy, Dwight!” Ina cried, and moved to her sister's side. “I may as well tell you.” he said, “that I myself ’ ave no idea that Ninian told you the truth. lie was always imagining tilings—you saw ttiat. I know him pretty well —have been more or less in touch with him the whole time. In short, I haven't the least idea he was ever married before.” Lulu continued to rub at her skirt. "I never thought of that.” she said. “Look here,” Dwight went on persuasively, “hadn’t you and he had some little tiff when he told you?” “No—no! Why, not once. Why, we weren’t a hit like you and Ina.” She spoke' simply and from her heart and without guile. “Evidently not,” Dwight said dryly. “If everything is over between you, why should you?” (TO BE CONTINUED.)

g tides, and retains them. In this way great clouds are formed which are carried eastward over the seas by the wind. So long as there is no great fall in the temperature they will continue to be clouds; for water-vapor is lighter than air and will not sink in it; but should the temperature be reduced rap idly, the particles of vapor begin at once to condense into drops of water far heavier than air. The motes can no longer sustain their burden anJ rain begins to fall. Clergymen Live Long. Statistics show that more than 40 per cent of the clergy live to be septuagenarians. Out of a population of 1.700(W.0tH the world contains only 559.900,0U< white inhabitants.

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