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The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-20
NOT to EXCEED 3 TERMS
w. E. Cox's Own Deliberate Words Prom
ising to Not Ask For More Than Three
Terms and Saying That He would Stand
BY That Declaration. He Has Had
Four Terms and Is Asking
A Fifth

In letters the editor of the PUBLIC PRESS in 1909 Mr.
b. Cox assurances that he did than three
terms and gave this permission publish the
should heagan undertake to be candidate Now what
the people expect of him? Here is his words, viz
Washington, July g. 1909.
Permit me to say that | am thoroughly in accord
with what you say-that ] would be satisfied with
three terms.
eff you recall on more than one occasion have dis
cussed this with you in your office and expressed these
sentiments to you
The truth of the matter is have always felt since
have been an aspran for Congress- that three terms
would Suffice SO far as concerned. This is what
have said to persons than you in the District
and | have never claimed that wanted to succeed
myself more than three terms. To three or four
men in the past, have said two OF three times, Not
to exceed three terms at the most and on this decara
ton am still willing to stand (Sgnec) Your Friend,
w E. COX.
Then in letter dated two days later Mr. Cox says:
Washington, July TO- 1909.
"YOu have by this time my letCel concurrng in your
former article, which in the future should undertake
to be candidate, you at perfect liberty to publish
My letter to yu records my sentiments in private
versato1s, in the past year to several fellows in the
District
(Signed) Respectfully your friend, w. E. COX.
What do the voters of the Third District think of Mr. Coxs
promises? Surely he has eliminated for he asking for
the fifth term He will have drawn 100000 from the public
treasury when his present term expires and it surely to
him to show that he meant what ne said
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-02-20
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DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTION
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Picked Out for Him

'So," said Mordaunt, my little sister has not only arranged for her own mar riage, but for mine during my absence. l suppose the whole neighborhood has me already affianced to this Miss Priscilla Bayard. That was the occasion of that old gossip's talk.
 In reply Kate launched out into a long eulogium of Priscilla Bayard, and at the end of it Mordaunt caught himself thinking: Well, she might do."
 The next day they all went over to satanstoe, Grandma Littlepage's place on The Neck,' and there Mordaunt met Tom and Priscilla
 Tom he liked immensely. Tom was re- tiring and did not seek to shine in the effulgence of Major Littlepage.
 As for the girl who had been picked out for him by his sister and the rest Of the family, Bordaunt considered her rather forward
 The Bayards were, as a family, what was known in those days as strictly neutral" But Priscilla posed as an out and out patriot and condemned King and Parliament with a warmth that was only equaled by the fervor with which she de- tended everything American, appealing every now and then to Mordaunt With; ''Is it not so, major?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Two Great Estates

'Well" thought the young coxcomb, this is being sufficiently managing. But l must let her see that l am on my guard and must meet management with man. agement.
 If a man of my age remember he was 2D cannot get the best of a girl of 20-I, who have commanded company of Con- tinentals-the devil is in it."
 It was, perhaps, just as well for Maj Mordaunt Littlepage that his father soon shipped him off to investigate the con- ditions existing upon the great properties of Ravensnest and Mooseridge, in the cen tral part of the state.
 The Ravensnest property consisted or about 12,000 acres and the Mooseridge property was of about the same size. Very respectable farms, indeed, even for those days
 Rasensnest was Mordaunt's own prop erty. His father had deed itsto him when the boy became of age. Mooseridge was owned by General Littlepage and his old friend, Major Pollock, as tenants in com mon.
 Together the two estates would have made a fair-szed German principality. But, unlike a German principality, the lands had never paid cent of income to the proprietors.
 Mooseridge was entirely unsettled. and though Ravensnest had il, ,000 acres leased out in farms, the income from the leases and more than the income, had been spent in improving the estate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
The Outlaws End

It was doleful and tragic night Prudence sat by the fire silent. when she was not ministering to "her man. Duss and the others watched beside the bed of Chafnbearer
 From his pallet the old surveyor called out to Thousandacres and begged his forgiveness for any unintentional harm he might have done him. He de- sired to die in peace and forgive his enemies.
 But Thousandacres, with a fixed and sullen look, growled with a weakening voice. "If there were no Chainbearers there would be no meets and bounds And where there's no meets and bounds there can be no possession.
 If it were not for your written titles I should not be here, breathing my last But send that girl to me who has been reading the Prayer Book beside her dying uncle-and the rest of you get out. But you may stay-Prudence-my wife"
 They left the room and when they returned Prudence sat silent beside the. fireplace. Thousandacres was lying dead and Duss standing over him with tears in her eyes and the Prayer Book in her hand
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Welcnmed Home

But now the war was over and grateful country, having promoted Mor- daunts father, the colonel, to be brigadier general by brevet and sent him home, had promoted Mordaunt to be a major by brevet and said Good day to you
 Arriving at the paternal estate or Lilacsbush, at Kingsbridge, Mordaunt found the whole family assembled there to welcome him. There was grandmoth- CT Littlepage. come over from her es- tate of Satanstoe "on the Neck, in Westchester; father and mother Little- page the majors elder sister, Anneke' married to Mir. Kettletas, gentleman or estate who was engaged in founding an "old Knicl1erbocker family at the south end of Manhattan Island and had made the perilous journey to Kings bridge to meet the young soldier
 And, last but not least, the charm ing younger sister, just turned lS, Katrinke, or Kate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Welcomed by the Family

As the party approached the old house of the patroon a large company came out to meet it. Not only the villagers, but a party who showed by their dress that they were not of the settlers.
 And then Mordaunt saw with surprise tfat the whols Ei..l spage family had arrived at The Nest. There were mother and father Littlepage, sister kettletas end sister wate, Grandmother Littlepage. Aunt Mary Wallace and Priscilla Bayard.
 It appeared that when the news Of Nordaunt's capture by the squatters had been brought to Frank Malone he had at once sent d messenger with the news to General Littepase. It happened that the whole family, with Priss Bayard, W ere on visit to Aunt Mary Wallace at irisl kill where the messenger found them. and they hasteled with all speed to The Nest.
 There is not much more to tell The vcmen of. the Littlepage family were al first astonished and dismayed that Nor daunt should want 10 marry Duss Nal bone But they investigated and found her family all that could be wished as to pedigree.
 Then a distant relative died in Eng land and left Duss d comfortable for tune. The news of it came to The Nest a day so after the return of the party from the Mooseridge clearing.
 Therefore and because of the fact that Duss captured all hearts by her gentle- ness and beauty and worth. the LittAar pages consented. |
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His Wedding Gift

As for Frank Mllbone and Priscilla. that young lady calmly announced cue day that she and Frank were going to be marred-that it had been arranged lcng ago, but they had thought they would not announce the fact until they were ready for the marriage ceremony. Now they were ready. No one ventured to argue with Priss-she always had her own way-always. M
 So she and Frank were married and Mordaunt, as wedding present. appoint ed Frank agent of the estates of Moose ridge and Ravensnest.
 Not long afterward Frank inherited small fortune from an uncle, so he and Priss became little monarchs of the for ests and ruled over many square mile of territory, which, under Franks in- telligent care, became filled with farms and villages; where mills sprang up along the streams as if by magic and the wilderness blossomed like the rose generally
 Duss and Mordaunt went down the river to Lilacsbush and were married in great state at Grandmother Littlepage's grand place of Satanstoe.
 New York city was beginning to boom by this time and the many town lots the Lttlepages owned there eventually made Mordaunt immensely rich.
 Next weeks One-Page Classic will be '"rhe Woman's Kingdom by Dinan Maria Muloch (Mrs. Craik.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
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Copyright, 1914, by Irving King.


 This story of Cooper's is of the same character as the Leatherstocking Tales, but is not of them. Old Leatherstocking does not appear in the book. One of Cooper's best Indians is to be found in the story, however Sureflint is @ de- cidedly friendly sacage, who leaves noth- ing to be desired.
 Cooper's Indians have often been ob- jected to as being of a breed of red men that never existed. Well, if there were never Indians like Cooper's h. dians, there ought to have been-that's all. Any one who would argue that an Indian like Sureflint never existed would be guilty of telling 5-year-old child that there was no such person as Santa Claus.
 This story. "The Chainbearer" besides being good story of itself, is interest ing al giving a glimpse of a portion of American history which has not received the sttention it deserves-the state of the country immediately after the accom- plishment of independence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Starring for the Wilderness

The war of the revolution left the colo nial gentry poor Those who had stood by the crown had their estates confiscated and those who had stood by the congress had left their lands and little else besides.
 Chainbearer was already up in the will derness organizing a surveying party. It was time the Ravensrest property was paying some dividends.
 The great Yanke invasion of York State had begun and the New England CTS were sweeping across the Hudson to find homes in the fertile valleys of what was. to them then, the West
 When Mordaunt took leave of Priscilla, telling her he was going ''up State,'' to meet Chainbearer. she said: 'Did you ever see Duss Malone, Chainbearer s neice?" ss -fs
 Where in the name of all that is cu- rious did you ever hear of Ursula or Duss Malbone?" he replied, 'old Chain bearer was always speaking to me of his niece-but l did not know that you knew her"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
COejemans

The old geenral was very well, of course. but the young major was the hero of the gathering, and took female adulation as most young men of his age do-as something entirel suitable and fitting.
 Even the old general burned few 1oss-sticks before his handsome, stal- wart soldier son.
 Then there was old Andries Coeje- mans-pronounced Queemans by the New yorkers-who had been eompan- ion of the general in some fights in the French and Indian wars, and had served in the Revolution.
 He was generally known as Chain bearer, his real name being a stumbling block and a snare to anybody. but a full blooded Knickerbocker
 He was of good, though decayed. Dutch family, and had started out to be surveyor. But mathematics foored him, and, though he took contracts, and large ones, too. for making surveys, he employed somebody else to do the "iguring."
 He had served in the war in the regiment of General Littlepage-the same in which Mordaunt had served and had risen to captaincy. He, also, swung censer before the altar. where- on the household idol was enshrined.
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Having made this engagement, Sure flint had allowed himself to be "cap- tured by surprise Rescue would be certain, but would be slow. thought Nor daunt.
 It was the second day after, at day break when Mordaunt drought the chnk of the logs. saw Chainbearer cross the clearing and begin to try to force the lock of the storehouse. But sentinel Of the squatter was on duty, and Chain- bearer was cautred
 Mighty angry now was Thousandacres. He summoned a family council and had the major and Chainbearer brought be- fore him. The Indian seemed forgotten bearer was captured
 chainbearer managed to whisper to Mordaunt that Jaap and Duss were wait ing in the woods on the outskirts of the clearing and that the relief party would soon be at hand. Duss had insisted upon starting for the phase as soon as she heard of Mordaunt's peril
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Dreams Come True

And as for Jaap who had followed his master in the last campaign, he gathered the slaves about him at night when the moon shone bright upon the waters of the Hudson and silvered the Fiaples of the Harlem. and told them such tales of Master Mordy's" prowess that they began to think Washington was a rather commonplace individual after all.
 few days after his return from the wars Mordaunt and Kate, out for a ride, stopped at the inn near Kings bridge to speak to the landlady, Mrs Light, who had kept the place for half . century,
 f 'Ah, my dreams are come true" said the voluble landlady. q dreamed be- fore the general came back and I dreamed before the young major came back. But, major, our clergyman don't pray for the King and Queen any more, no more than if there wasn't any sich people.
 And I must say, major that his maj tsty's officers spent mere freely than the continental gentlemen. I've had 'em both here by riglments. and that's the character must give 'em.''
 You must remember" replied Mor- had more money to spend than our peo- pie. It is easy for the rich to appear generous"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Alas! the Empty Jam Pots

As a result of recent sharp frosts jam will cost more. This, at any rate, was the opinion expressed by one of the agents of the country fruit growers.
 we have just had telegram from Wisbech,' he said, instructing us to re- fuse all quotations for the present.
 This is the time of year when the big jam manufacturers make their contracts with the growers and merchants-so many tons of strawberries and raspberries and raspberries and gooseberries and cur rents to he delivered during the coming season. iome have already been made But the havoc done seems to indicate that there will be shortage of many kinds of fruit during the coming summer.
 What has made this years frosts so destructive is the fact that the season iSl early one--perhaps fortnight earlieS than usual. Of late years, too, growers have been striving to get their produce ready for the market earlier so as to catch some of the high prices which have hitherto gone to places where the sun shines more strongly and at an earlier period of the year . Ss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Bound by a Promise

Chainbearer called Mordaunt and Duss to the side of his bed.
 T shall live until morning." said the old man; "and before I die I would say a word to you two. I would repeat what I have said before-that it is not fitting that my niece marry into the family of Littlepage.
 T see that nature is stronger tAAa reason and that Duss is forgetting tho very things she urged upon me when we talked of Major Littlepage-- the impropriety of marriage between her and him. How is that Duss, my girl?"
 70, uncle,' faltered Duss, when we talked of Major Littlepage I had not seen him."
 And since you have seen him? l sec how it is. Promise me- Duss, here on my deathbed, that you will never marry Mordaunt without the consent of the General and Mrs. Litt1epage, of old Mime. Littlepage and of the two sis ters of the major-promse.'
 q promise," faltered Duss.
 Ursula" cried Mordaunt. do you refect?" Am I nothing In your eyes?"
 Chainbearer turned to Mordount and asked him to make a similar promise. But the young man would not bind himself in any way. He would have Duss, whether or no.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02

that the young square" had arrived. MT Newcomer, picking him out by his resemblance to his father, approached hiiI wlth an air at once servile and pa tronizing. How he managed to com- bine these two opposite qualities in his talk and manner is a mystery-but he did it.
 Mordaunt wanted to kick him, but refrained. Their acquaintance being so short he hardly felt like taking such liberty-as yet.
 The raising" was a new sight to Mordaunt and great sport. Chainbearer came through the crowd to greet his employer and then joined the men who wore heaving up the great frames of timber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
J. KENMORE COOPER

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abdomen by that shot which had been nred at the beginning of the fray so near the house.
 Mordaunt felt with a snudder that Sure n1nt had kept his word of revenge. Upon another pallet, not far from that on which cnainbearer lay, they placed Thousand- acres
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Able to Make Terms

Chainberer became the center of the scene. Against him, as a man who had surveyed new lands, the chief anger of Thousandaeres and his sons seemed di- rected
 Tobias, huge, loutish surly son of Thousandacres, demanded the punishment of death upon him. Zephana, milder son, who had often visited the settlement of Ravensnest, counseled milder treat ment.
 Poor Zephaniah$ He admitted that he had seen and fallen in love with Duss Malone: had even proposed to her-and had been rejected.
 Ihousandacres considered. Here was an idea, He shrank from taking human hfe-unless it was necessary in his busi- ness. To marry Zephaniah to Duss would be way out.
 lie had the young patroon and the surveyor in his power. They must sign papers holding him seatheless for what he had done.
 Hephaniah married to Duss the patroon would give them the clearing upon which he had squatted-no doubt Hex was in q position to make terms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Unbending Pride


 He hastened to say that there was nothing between himself and Miss Bay ard-whereat Duss seemed relieved-on account of her brother, of course.
 This Frank Malone turned out to be a young man of just about Mordaunt' S own age, strong, clear eyed, ambitious and well educated. He it was whom Cha1nbearer had engaged to conduct the new survey of the Littlepage lands and of Mooseridge.
 Mordaunt fingered on at the nest, becoming every day more and more in- fatuated with Duss. Finally he made her a formal proposition of marriage and was refused
 Old Chainbearer came to tell him why. His niece. said the old man. was a Malone of Rhode Island, an equal in family with anyone. But she was poor and Mordaunt's family would never consent to such a match.
 As for himself. he would never see his niece enter a family which she could not enter as an equal. He had seen how matters were going with the young people and had extracted prom ise from Duss that she would refuse tho hand of Mordaunt.
 Mordaunt tried to argue, but the proud old man was abdurate. So was Duss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
nuSs MalhAne

"O yes. she was at school with me. Poor Ursula, or, as she is more often called, Duss-is of good family, but poor enough
 ''She was at our boarding school more like a~dependent than a pupil But proud, o, very proud, with all. We are great friends. Dear friends
 Capt Coejemans calls Duss his niece. But her mother was only half-sister to the captain--they had different fathers.
 Then, blushng and seemingly disturbed that she had shown such an intimate ac- quaintance with the Malone genealogy, Priscilla plucked a rose and walked away, smelling the flower.
 Certainly a peculiar young woman" thought Mordaunt, and then began to speculate as to what Duss Malone would be like
 Many a night during the war, under the silent stars in trench of bivouac, had Chainbearer discoursed to Mordaunt concerning his niece oi her pei factions of character and beauty of form and feature.
 And now he would see this paragon for she was with her uncle at the little settlement of Rayensnest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
One Engagement Announced

'Yes, I know that, sir replied the landlady, "but the Littlepages are rich and always have been-and liberal, too. there will be light hearts and smiling faces among the Bayards now the wars are over and young Major Littlepage has come back"
 What in the world said Morcaunt as he and his sister rode on, can my return have to do with the happiness of the Bayards? I know they are a rich and ancient family living up the river a piece But why should they be inter- ested in Major lAttlepage?
 Well, brother" replied Kate rather pertly, ''the fact is that l am engaged to Tom Bayard. That Is. l am not really engaged until you give your consent. l told him he must wait for final answer until your return. So if you have no %bjectons. and suppose you have none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-02
Back to Ravensnest

Never mind" said Chainbearer. your pl omise is enough, my darling Duss-if you be true what matters it whether Mordaunt is headstrong or not?'
 All night they watched beside the bed of the dying man, and just as daylight was breaking his spirit passed.
 They buried Thousandacres in a little grove of trees the edge of the clear ing and his widow was allowed to de- part and join her sons, who were turk ing down the stream waiting to get an opportunity to steal into the clearing and remove their property.
 In the stream was a large broad boat. By agreement with the widow of Thou sandacres, Mordaunt loaded this boat with all the movable property of the ThoCsancacres family and left 1t at designated place down the river. where it was found by the sons.
 The squatter'a family disappeared from the state and were heard Of no more.
 The ody of Chainbearer they carried in mournful procession back to Ravens nest, there to receive proper burial.
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'
 World Turned Upside Down. Maj. Nor daunt Littlepage, making his way home- ward, stopped at little tavern within a days journey of his fathers estate at Kingsbridge, N. Y, and paid $12OO for supper for himself and his black servant and slave, Jaap.
 And this was no feast such as the brother of Vitellius served up to the new Emperor, with 5000 dishes including the spawn of humphreys from the Car pathian sea and the brains of pheaants mot at all. The piece de resistance was friend pork swimming in it's own grease.
 Nor was Mordaunt although barely N, an extravagant youth. He had paid in deprecated continental script-which the landlord scoffed at as he took and which explains the price.
 All during the long war for indepen- dence Mordaunt had been oscillating be- tween camps and battlefields and Mas sau college-whlch institution of learn ing even then was celebrated through out the colonies and seemed to have an inkling of it's future greatness.
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At the Wrong Time

Looking around, Thousandacres d,s- covered that Mordaunt was missing. Here boys, on the trail,'' he cried. and three sons with rifles rushed out
 Mordaunt seeing that he was unno- tleed, had slipped away and gone to the edge of the clearing. where he had round Duss- Then the silly fellow. in- stead of going farther, had begun to renew his suit-taking the agitated girl at a disadvantage.
 Duss had just said that if Nordaunt could get the consent of his father and mother his sister and grandmother, she would become Mrs. Littlepage--when in came the boys shouting. ''here they are-both of them."
 That was a dickens of a time for love making, and little sympathy need be wasted upon Duss and Mordaunt. as they were taken back to the great liv- ing room of Thousandacres' house, where the family council was still in session.
 Abruptly, brutally. threateningly Thousandacres put his proposition be fore Chainbearer. Filled with wrath Chainbearer sprang to his feet and de- nornced Thousandacres.