Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — Page 8

The Boy in Nature.

The book for every farmer’s boy to read is the open book of Nature. There was none ever written that contains one-half of the information, none other half So fascinating, none so perfect and pure. Nature teaches us to dwell as much as possible upon the beautiful and good, and to ignore at all times the evil and the false. Let us take a single tree for an object lesson and see what it will teach us. Vegetable and animal lives in no way differ in principle; there is a perfect analogy between the two. All plants possess real life—they cat, drink, feel, sleep, breathe and secrete —in short perform all the functions of supply, repair, development and reproduction. The intelligence they manifest in searching for food is simply wonderful, while the actions of climbing plants in search of supports are equally strange. All these wonderful peculiarities of plants are but little seen or appreciateil. Not one man in ten ever saw the true roots of a tree, or knows that they are put forth in spring simultaneously with the leaves and are shed with them in autumn. To make the farm attractive, show the child its attractions; how plants know when there has been a storehouse of food placed within their reach, and will immediately turn their attention to it. Show how each and every plant takes from the earth and atmosphere different elementary substances, and how they are stored up for our use. Show the child the plant’s adaptation to the necessities of other living organisms in the localities where they are indigenous; how that in every locality the animal and plant support and sustain each other. How interesting it is to watch the plant industries as they are carried on side by side, each doing its own work wisely and well and without exciting in the least the envy of its neighbor, and without contention or strife. We see the Maple collecting saccharine juices, the Pine, rosin; the Poppy, opium; the Oak, tannin; and so on through the list. In our gardens the Aconite collects a deadly poison which it stores up in its tubers, and by its side the Potato gathers in starch for the sustenance of man. The plant’s adaptation to the soil and climate in which it is to grow, is one of the most beautiful and useful studies for the old as well as the youno'.

C. L. Allen.

He’d Choose to be a Baby.

The following story was told at the recent encampment of the, Grand Army at Mexico, Mo. A group around one of the numerous rump-tires were relating incidents of bravery and cowardice shown in battle, and this is one of them “It was at the battle of Gettysburg,” said the speaker, “when the bullets were falling like hail, and the shells were shrieking and bursting over our heads in a way to make the bravest heart tremble, a private dropped out of the ranks and skulked back to the rear. He was well under way, when, unfortunately for him, he was met by General Slocum coming to the front. “ ‘What are you doing here? Get back to your post,’ the General shouted. “'Phe poor fellow stopped still and trembled like a leaf, but made no reply. “ ‘Get back to your post, you miserable coward; aren’t you ashamed ot yourself to be skulking back here when you should be in the front with your brave onurades?’ “Still the man made no reply, but commenced to cry iike a year-old infant. “ ‘You-iniamous, sneaking coward,’ shouted the infuriated general, ‘get back to your post; I'll rule you down like a dog. \\ hy. you are nothing but a baby.’ “ *l-1-I’ll t-t-t-tell you what, g-g-gcn-era!,' said the blubbering fellow, ‘l’d g-g-g-give anything just n-n-now if I was a b-b-baby, and i-i-if I had my ch-ch-choice I'd r-r-rather be a female b-b-b-baby.’ ”

A Story by a Bricklayer.

“Do we ever stop to think about the people who •are compelled topass under us? ’ said a bricklayer; “yes, we do, and often, too. People don't seem to understand how careful we are not to drop bricks or pieces when working over sidewalks. I’ve been working on the Rialto., and the folks going to and from the Rock Island station have persisted in walking under the scaffolding, though Mr. Griffith has kept ‘Danger—Keep Out!’ signs up all the time. Guess I’ll have to tell you the story of the man who came along under me one day just as I let a brick fall. It is a story of such presence of mind as you don’t often find in this world, I tell you, and as to the other world I don’t know nothing about it. What I mean is that it was the kind of presence of mind you read about and rarely or never see. Well, I let a brick fall and it went asailing down. I called out as loud as 1 could: ‘Look out below!’ Then I got a look. On the ground below was a man, and the brick was going so straight for him that if he had stepped back a few feet it would have hit him sure. I 'knew the man would jump one way or the other-people always do when suddenly alarmed—and Jn the way he jumped his safety depended. As the thought flashed through my mind that people usually jump backward on such occasions, I felt as if that man’s life could not have been insured then for 99 cents annual premium on the dollar. But he didn’t jump at all. He threw his eyes up, .sighted the brick, and walked along as calmly a* if them was no dagger »eur. The brisk struck within eight feet of him, and made a hole in a board big enough to give one an idea of the effect it would have had upon a man's bead. This may seem like a little thing to yon, but it struck me M being ono of the neatest jexhibitioMof of micfJ J rwlwnl vV'—Cniarw

Ralph Fendig is piling up in his extensive store room the largest and most complete stock of Dress Goods, Clothing, Jerseys, Shawts, etc., ever opened out in Rensselaer, which he offers at astonishingly low figures. II e cordially invites the public to call.

fl 7 ***• fields are but thoee who write i / L i ;ft Stihson de Co .Portland, Maine, will rec«.iv~ f *•* •S I X 5 free, full information about work whirl, • 2 they can do, and live at home,ti.at will pay Cl U XJXJ them from £■ to $25 per day. Some haw p.;’ nvei SD! in a day. Either ex, young or old. Capita. : ’..ruie-d. You arc started free. Those whaatart at once arc absolutely sure of snug little fortunes. All is Dew. ADMIHISTRAWSISALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY! NOTICE is herri.;; given that the undersign'Administrator of the Estate »£ Nannie E. Spitler, will, on October 2,188 G, at Rensselaer, Indiana, offer at Public Sale the Persona] Property of said decedent. A credit of nine months will be given on all sums of over Five Dollars, on purchaser giving note with sufficient security, with interest after rmiMaity. EZRA L. CLARK, Sept. 10, ’B6. Administrator. —♦ < TV H. 11. GRAHAM. ATTOItNEY-AT-LAW, Rxesdei.atk, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept. 10,‘86. - Ex-Sheriff John W. Powell has leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stable and respectfully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage.

The Inter-Stale Bn dust a; al Exposition of Chicago. Is now open lor its Fourteenth Consecutive Annual Exhibition. Like every other good thing in the growing West, it is larger, better and more important in its main features than any which have preceded it. The display of processes of manufacture. including two exhibits of silk looms in operation, and many other things of attractive novelty in mechanism, has never been surpassed. The Art Halls are filled with choice examples fresh from the studios of one hundred and twenty-live prominent American artists. Almost every painting is a*gem, and all were selected by the celebrated artist, Mr. Wm H. Beard of New York. The Natural History Department includes the entire collection ot the “Chicago Academy of Sciences” and those collections include some of the most remarkable specimens in the world. The specimen of the elephas primigenius or “hairy elephant,” just added and mounted, was discovered in Spokane Co., Washington Territory, and has no rival in any of the great museums of Europe unkss it may be one in St. Petersburg produced many years ago in Siberia. The Departments of furniture, household decoration, personal ornaments and Textile fabrics are complete and filled with all the novelties known to the several industries they represent. It has never been the purpose of this organization to simply amuse the public or to enrich its stockholders, but rather to educate and inform those who desire to keep abreast of the progress of the world in all the great lines of human activity. In 188.5 the average daily paid at<tendance for forty days was 8,463. This year it promises to be even larger and the exhibition will certainly well pay all who visit it. All transportation lines make reduced rates.

Social Amusements. - The Pas«en o gw Department of the Monon Route have just issued a handsome book of over one hundred pages with the above title, containing a choice cok lection of par or games, trieks. cha rades, tableaux, parlor theatricals, figures and calls for da cing et<*., especially arranged and adapted Lr home amusement. Write to Win. S Baldwin. General Passenger Agent Monon Route, Chicago, 111., enclos ng three cents in postage stamps, and a copy will be sent you b” ’eturn ma’l, Summer Resorts of thf North wst —Tourist, tickets at lowest excursion rates via the Monon Route, are now on sale at the Company’s offices and at all principal points in the South, to Chicago, Milwaukee, Ashland, Waukesha, Madison, Oconomowoc Lake Gogebic, S irit Lake, Lake Minnetonka, S r . Pm!. Minneapolis, and other deliglu’ul resorts in >he cool N< rthwesc. Tourists are given choice o' routes ei tier via Louisville or Ciucinna’i. ami are abie t > make the trip uetwi«n these cities and Chi cago <>p solid fast express trains in Pullman’, Fine t Buffet Sleeping Cars. Full iaforni’ithio regarding tb.s favorite route tor summer travel will be promptly furnished on application to any agent of the Gompam , or rhe follow ng roniesentativesof the Php*> senger Department: A. B. Robertson* Southern Passenger Agent, Atlanta. Ga.;fl A-Hathaway. District Passenger Agent, No. 227 Fourth Avenue, Louisville. Ky.; I. D BaJdwiu Distrkr Pji<Ag«*nuer Agent, No. 26 Snutb Pl nois v-treet, Indianapolis. Ind.: T D CumptwlL Ticket 4gent No. 129 « •* ,«-•*’ Cii •’’tF.H'i Oho. ••• ’ •»*•». (it iiUM 1 ♦ a -.- **• •*■

Bnnw *3 J Xmh MMk Mu OSa Hr 888 for Infants and Children. “Cagtoria is so well adapted to children that I Castorla cures Colic, Constipation, I recommend it as superior to any prescription I Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Eructation, known to me.” H. A. Abcheb, M. D., I KiUs^ i 0 0^ n8 ’ give 3 sleep ’ &ad P romotes di ' Itl So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y. | Without injurious medication. The CsNTAua Company, 182 Fulton Street, N. Y. Ml, ■ LUU The undersigned nave now a COMPLETE STOCK of MI Shingles, Including Yellow Pine and Poplar, from the South, which we propose to sell to our patrons AT BOTTOM PRICES. Our facilities’ our stock from first hands enables us to offer SPECIAL BARGAINS! As an inducement for patronage. And to all who will come and see us we promise Square Dealing and Best Prices! Come, see us, and save money. Respectfully iCOLBURN & CO. Rensselaer, Indiana, March 19, 1886. NEWTAIE NEW!!

I would respectfully announce to the people of Jasper County that I have made arrangements to sell E *f f JI HiLOf h EMPIRE BIKEEF.S And will keep extras on hand at all times for the machines.- [ am also prepared to do REPAiRiXG, in’the best and most workmanlike madner, and at the lowest possible rates. WAGONS AND BUG!EEG repaired, and all other work usually done in that line. NEW WAGONS AND BUGGIES * Made to order, and of the best material and workmanship. tST’Shop on Front Street, South of Citizens’ B;ink,_.W3 T. I T . „ R - H - YEOMAN? Rensselaer, Ind, May 21, 1886 Ne Warner dl Soxs, I DLV j cj- >• iN Bardwars, Tinware L-vuth Side Washington Street. - - xndxak I - 'j

A aptain’s Fortunate Discovery. Capt. Cokm e, schr. Weymouth, plying between Atlantic City and N. ¥.. had been troubled with a cough so was unable to sleep, and wae incu.j'd :o ..'y Dr King’s New Discovery for Consump.ion. It not only gave hita instant relief, but allayed the ex rerne soreness in his breast His children were similarly affected and a siuem dose had the same hap y effect. Dr. King’s New Discovery is now the standard remedy in the Coleman household and on board the schooner. Free Tria! Bottles of this Standard Remedy at F. B. Mover’s Drug Store. 4

THE IVEW M|i|K|E|E|v|E|BMH|O|U|S|E|,||) RENSSELAER, IND. JU*’. OPENED. New and finely furnished.— Cool and pleasant rooms. Table furnished with the best the market affords. Good Sample Rooms on first floor. Free Bus to and from Depot. PHILIP BLUE,Proprietor. Rensselaer. May 11.1883 ts. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate aui Collßcting Agent. •Vill practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s Citj Irug Store, Goodland, Indiana. la£?AR ROUSE, J. H. LEAR, Proprietor, Opposite Court House, blonticeUc, Ind Has recently been new furnished through out. The rooms arelarge and airy.tho loea tion central- making it the most conve Men and desirable house in town. Try it l’lO> jriZJEZB CmECTI MARKET! ■ Rensselaer, Ind., J. Ku. RBEIGtt BEEF, Pork, Vea. Mutton, age, Bologna, etc., sold in quantL ties to suit purchasers at the lowest prices. None but the best stock slaughtered. Everydody is invited to call. The Highest Price Paid for Gooi t Cattle.

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