Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — Page 4

11 a a |A* jh jJ sluliiiiiffi IflßSSmou UDIUmil. P- — Ml mt i - .. ...-,, ... For Stele—Two good second hand typewriter* or will rent them. Leslie Clerk, at the Republican office. ; ....... .. Iter Sale—B-months-old driving colt, sonnd. cheap. For information apply to Clyde Corliss, McCoysburg. Ind. Iter Sale- Good millet seed. Inquire «t C. H. Porter or phene ISO. Iter Sato-Seven lota, with residence, plenty at omnli fruit If sold by July let 1700. Box 217. RensseUer, Iter Sato -1, coot 4-yaar-bld horse, enhmlren horse, sound, weight 1S00; alho IP boshels extra good early seed eon.—T. W. Grant far Sale- Five oows, fresh from on week to one month. Frank Folts. For Sato -Four good milch cows, Irosh new. Riley Tnllia, phone 627 E. Iter Sole or Trade l Rumley eeperater. In good repair. Write Ray Ught, Ranh, Benton county, Indiana. Per Sato or Bead flocond hand No. I Ramlngton typewriter. Leslie Clerk, it Republican offloo, Iter Bala Beat and beekeepers’ suppUaa. Call or write tor free catalogue Leslie Clark. Rensselaer, Indiana. Par Bala- Hardwood lumber of nil kinds; also oord wood. Randolph WHght, R. D. No. S, Rensselaer, or m. Ayr phone No. 2d I. FOB BKH. For Beet—Two good typewriters. Leslie Clark, at the Republican office Far Bent Well finished, five-room cottage, good location. F. Thompson. Iter Brat—Six-room bouse in fine neighborhood, good well, cistern, electric lights. All kinds fruit; chicken house and park. Inquire of G L. Thornton, Surrey. Iter Bant- House of tour rooms In uorfhaatt part of teem. Arthur H WAITER. Wanted To sell my barn; large and to good condition. Dr. &. C. English. Wanted To buy a good solid second ate#* I** 1 ** wagon. Borne Grocery. W>at»a I misl and traveling saleo■Mn representing ear sellable goods isara vsriTzsnzh s,r jplllin ud mount bualn... Writ, tet ones tor tmu. Outfit free. TerriSHT unlimited. Big money can be gefia. /Apply quick. Allen Nursery Co.. AUTOMOBILES. Aid mw we have ft Our famous Atodel *T* $960 car tarnished in n 6peMtager body—now price. The only foredoor toaring car In the market selling tor uu less than SIIOO.OO. \ LQBT. Lest—Pocketbook, containing so, three in bills, balpaoe In silver; also aoma receipts. Finder will be rewarded. W. J. Holmes or this office. — FOUND. Feaad—Pair allver-rim nose glasses. Inquire here.

Working Tax-Laws; an Assessment Pussie in Hypothesis.

Pulaski County Democrat An assessment puzzle has been presented to the state board of tax commissioners by a northern county, and th# beard has declined to try to solve Urn pfoblem. The matter has been referred to the attorney for the county concerned. The county assessor put the question hypothetically, thus: “I dWs a tarn of 160 acres. I mortgage it to a trust company for $2,000, giving a mortgage. I lend the $2,000 to my neighbors, and take notes for the loans. I list the notes with the township assessor, and deduct my bona fide Indebtedness, evidenced by my mortm* to the trust company, leaving nothing to tax as far as the notes are Concerned. I then take my mortgage to the county auditor nnd get an exemption of S7OO, allowed by law. The township assessor has listed my land at $2,400 and I subtract the exemption, leaving only $1,700 on which to pay taxes Is that kind of transaction permissable under (he law. or is it merely a means of avoiding payment of taxes T’ The county assessor said the board of review had had a number of cases triieflsr to this. The land owners borrow money from the trust companies and lend the money to their neighbors at an increased percentage, netting a profit on the loans, without* paying taxes on the notes held to represent the loans made to their neighbors, while taking mortgage exemptions on the assessment of their real

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ONLY ONE “BEST.”

Rensselaer People Give Credit Where Credit Is me. - <■- People of Rensselaer who suffer with sick kidneys and bad backs want a kidney remedy that can be depended upon. The best is Doan’s Kidney Pills, a medicine for tbe kidneys only, mads from pure roots and herbs, and one that is backed by willing testimony o : Rensselaer people. Here’s a case: Mrs. F. W. Rutherford, College Ave., Rensselaer, Ind., says: “I have no reason to alter my high opinion of Doan’s Kidney Pills which I publicly expressed in the fall of 1907. I have even greater confidence In this remedy than I did then, for I found it to be lust as represented. I was badly in need of something that would relieve my suffering. My back ached most of the time and I felt languid and devoid of ambition. I had dizzy spells and headaches and there were many other symptoms of kidney trouble present When I read that Doan’s Kidney Pills were a good reinedy for x such complaints, I procured a box at Fendig’s Drug Store and they brought prompt relief. I am seldom without a supply of Doan’s Kidney Pills in the house and I find that a few doses now and then keep my kidneys in good working order. Other members of my family have taken Doan’s Kidney Tills and in each case the results have been of the best" For sale by all dealers. Price &0 cents. Foster-Mllburn ,» Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's —and take no other.

Downey Family Have Close Call; Parsonage Struck by Lightning.

Kankakee Valley Review During the terrific thunder and lightning storm Sunday afternoon the M. E. church parsonage was. struck by lightning and Rev. Downey and family had a close call. The building was struck twice, the second bolt following close after the first. Mrs. Downey was rendered unconscious for several minutes. The first bolt struck a tree near the house and done some damage to a window which Mrs. Downey had just closed upstairs on account of the heavy rain which prevailed throughout the storm. The second stroke of lightning struck the chimney, wrecking it to the floor, tearing the floor and joists to splinters and separating the northeast corner of thq buiUUng over a foot wide from the foundation to the roof. It also damaged the stoves In the house. The fluid burned a space in the carpet on the floor the entire width of the room, and places on the stove had been partially melted. Mr. Downey said when the shock came he was sitting in a chair just in front of the stove, holding two of his children on his knee. The stove door was blown open and a stream of fire seemed to rush out of the doorway. When he recovered from the shock and saw that none of the children were injured, he thought of Mrs. Downey and rushed up stairs and found her lying on the floor, just recovering from the shock. The family certainly had a miraculous escape, from the fact that they were in the building at the time. The lightning did more or less damage in all parts of the house.

PARR.

Harvey Myres Is shocking for Wm. Porter. J. L. Babcock was appointed head rooter for the ball game July 4 th. Billy Roudybush is home for a few days Earl Gilbert is contemplating putting in a barber shop in Parr. Miss Ocie Wood is slowly improving from her operation Sunday. Chas expects to demonstrate the airship he has invented the Fourth. Everybody is busy with the harvest. Even the would-be sports are indulging in it Estle Myres has resigned his job in the restaurant and is working at the Thompson ranch. Jimmie Hopkins is busy packing his grip, preparing for his departure for the northwest. George Marion is bidding friends good bye. The west for me, says George. Elmer Wilcox was in Parr Tuesday inspecting the' rifle range. He pronounced everything first class. Parr is preparing for a big crowd on the Fourth. Everybody come and enjoy the best day of your life. The band is progressing wonderfully and will furnish some good music on the Fourth. Buck McCurtain is not buying junk during these hot days. He says he will resume his work when it gets colder. James Hurley will begin work for the Monon railroad July Ist. He will take charge of a section south of Rensselaer.

No matter what you want to sell or what you want to buy, try a classified ad Is Thu Republican. ▲ Claastfiud Adv. will fifed It.

PRESENCE OF MIND

May Make Heroes of Physical Cowards In Time of Danger. NOT A MATTER OF COURAGE It Is ths Sudden Impulse That Moves One te Do tho Right Thing In an Unaxpoctad Emargoney—A Soldier and | a Shall and a Man and a Murder. There is a distinction to be drawn between presence of mind and courage. Persons who naturally are timid and nervous will in circumstances of great danger and excitement perform •eta of heroism that would be beyond their powers on ordinary occasions. >We speak of these as instances of presence of mind. But if you ask Jtbexn they would tell you that an involuntary Impulse rather than any premeditated course of action guided their will on the occasion. Had they time for reflection when all the threatening danger to themselves had become clear to their minds their natural timidity of character would have asserted itself and deprived them of action. ! It la absence of fear that prompts the eoldier under a heavy fire from the enemy’s guns to go to tbe assistance of a wounded comrade and bring him to a place of safety, and nothing in human nature can compare with such self sacrifice. But in times of tendden emergency it is not always the bravest who act with promptitude. The following story is an Instance of this: | One of our transports was returning from the Philippines with invalided men, and one morning at sea a group of officers on the deck discussed the ■abject of firing shells. A soldier was told by tbe colonel to bring an empty shell with a fuse. The colonel took the shell in his hands and. striking a 'match, lighted the fuse. As this.slowly burned and the colonel proceeded with his address to the other officers another soldier passed the group, and the moment be caught sight of the shell he rushed forward, exclaiming, “Look out. sir; the shell Is a live one!"

Then he did what never seemed to have come into the minds of any In the group of officers. He seized the shell out of the hands of the colonel and threw It into the sea. For this service lie was promoted. The soldier who had been told to bring an empty shell had gone to the wrong magazine. Those who talked with the man touching this Incident say that he repudiated any idea of having done a brave thing. “I don’t know,” he said, “what made me seize the shell out of the colonel's hand, but it came suddenly Into my mind, and I did it.” It is this wave of unconscious thought which constitutes true presence of mind. This will come to people of nervous and even cowardly natures. There is of authentic record the case of a man known to be utterly deficient of courage who saved himself from a very awkward situation by an exhibition of real presence of mind. He was an Englishman and lived in a town in the midlands, where he was an organist Lato one evening he was returning home through some of the back streets, which at that hour were more or less empty of people. As he went along, however, he noticed some distance ahead of him a man and a woman walking side by side, the man’s arm being around the woman’s neck. Just under a street lamp the couple stopfad for a moment when the organist heard a piercing scream and saw the woman slowly falling from the man’s arms. Almost before she bad reached the ground the man darted away down a side street and disappeared. When the organist came up to the Woman he found, to his horror, that she was lying in a pool of blood. His Hist impulse was to run away and get dear of the terrible scene, but his better feelings prevailed, and he knelt down beside the poor woman to see if he could do anything for her. When be raised her head he found she was quite dead, with her throat cut from ear to ear. Beside her on the pavement lay a blood stained razor. The organist was overwhelmed with horror. Before he could collect himself a group of people had gathered, and presently be heard expressions such as “He did it." “I tell you I saw him.” "There Is the razor.” "The fiend! Where are the police?” "Hand him over!” It was certainly a very awkward position, as the rough character of the people might tempt them to take the law Into their own hands and use him very badly. The arrival of a policeman seemed to steady bis nerves toe a moment, and then came a wave of inspiration that might truly be called presence of mind. He seized the dead woman’s wrist and, pulling out his watch, went through the form of feeling her poise. Then he put his hand over her heart and. turning to the policeman, said as calmly as he could: "I am sorry to say that I can be of no further service here. The poor woman la quite dead. There Is no action In the heart or the pulse.” In an Instant the murmurs of the crowd changed, and be beard “He’s the doctor” on all sides. This was his opportunity, and, slowly rising and affecting to bo in no hurry, he passed through the crowd, who made way for him. But when he got clear of the street and came to the first turning he took to his hpels and ran for all be ;Was worth. The cowardly spirit got the better of him In the end. fib heard the next day that the murderer had gone straight to the police station safi given himself up. —New York

LUCINDA’S EXPERIENCE

"Isn’t it funny," said Lucinda, ‘how folks get caught onto each other in the street? Why, 1 suppose four hundred such things must happen every day, and they might happen to anybody in the most unexpected way. «- “Why, only this morning I saw two young Wtemen walking along together, talking and chattering and very much engaged over what they were talking about and never giving a thought to anything happening and then the first thing you know one of them was brought up. as my brother Claude would say, all standing. . ‘‘This girl had on a shoulder cape that was trimmed-all around its edge with half circle loops of silk cord., and as the two girls walked along talking, tbe wind got under this cape and blew it out and one of those loops somehow caught on a button of the coat of a man who was passing them coming from the opposite, direction.

' "Really it didn't seem that there was one chance in a million that it would happen so; but that’s what did happen, and it stopped the girl right away, or she stopped the minute she began to feel the tug. Of course it stopped the man too, and then he and she went to work to get the loop off the button. “You might think that this would be a simple, easy thing to do. but it wasn’t. Astonishing how things can get twisted up sometimes; and it seemed as if that silk loop must have got twisted around that button at least fourteen times. “And now the girl that had got caught and the man stood there and tried to untwist it. The other girl when she saw what had happened walked on a few steps and waited, and I thought that was a wise thing for her to do, because if she had waited she could not have done any good, and standing there by her friend she would have made three of them halted there together and so have helped to attract a crowd. “So the girt and the man stood there and struggled with the loop and the button. First she tried'and failed—l guess she was a little nervous over it, as I should think anybody would have been—and then they both worked over it at the same time, but that didn’t do; and then she let go and the man took hold, and he looked to see first just how the loop was caught around, and then he untwisted it in a jiffy and set himself and the girl free. Then he lifted his hat and went on his way and the girl hurried on and rejoined her waiting companion. “Quite an experience, that, wasn’t it? But such things are happening all the time;-1 saw another Just like It, only different, just yesterday afternoon.

“There was a man and his wife walkln along together in something of a hurry, the man carrying a suit case— I guess they were going 'to catch a train—and coming from the other direction along the same sidewalk was a little girl about ten or twelve years old with her hair In a braid hanging down her back. And how in the world this could have happened I don’t know, but as this man and this little girl were passing she swished her braid around —-she just happened to, you know—and it caught on a button of bis coat and stopped him. “His wife hadn’t seen this, didn’t know anything about It, and she kept right along, but she missed him In • minute, and when she looked around after him there he was standing back there on the sidewalk with that little girl beside him. He had set his suit case down on the walk, and now he was bending over and apparently very much Interested in something, and when she had got back to where be was she saw that what he was trying to do was to get that little girl’s braid clear of one of the buttons of bis coat. “He got it clear finally, and then the little girl shook her braid and looked up at him and laughed, and he looked down on her and smiled, and then he picked up his suit case and hurried ou. “Now, really, wasn’t it curious that tbe little girl's braid should get caught so, when you’d had hard work to fasten it around that button so that It would stay If you had tried to? But don’t people get caught in all sorts of odd ways? Catch their umbrellas In people's hats and clothes? Don’t women get their veils caught on other women’s hats and hat pins? Don't people get caught to each other In all sorts of ways? “I tell you. girls, you never can tell what’s going to happen.”—New York Sun.

Preserving the Proportions.

A little Scotch boy’s grandmother was packing his lunch for him to take to school one morning. -Looking up Into the old lady’s face, the boy asked: ( -“Grandmother, does yer specs magnify?” “A little, my child,” she answered. “Aweel, then,” said the boy, ”1 wad just like it If ye wad tak’ them off when ye're packin’ my loonch.”

Japan Increases in Area.

As a result of Its war with Russia the area of Jaapan’s territory was raised from 180.000 square miles to ItS.OOO square miles, and hor population Increased by 10.000,090.

FARMS FOR SALE.

166 acre* one jnile from court house, on stone road, R. R., telephone in house. This farm is all black soil in cultivation.. . tile croseen this farm laterals, giving it good draiagUFTberq is a large 11room house, large barn, double cribe, and other outbuildings; all in good condition. There Is a good well, windmill, and large bearing orchard. This la a (pood farm and a desirable home and will be sold at right prices. 89 acres, ail cultivated, good house and barn, chicken house, good well, good outlet tor drainage, on pike road, R. R., telephone and near school. Will sell on easy terms or will take trade as first payment 191 acres, all good land, 16 acres timber, remainder cultivated, and in meadow, There is a four-room house, outbuildings, new fencing, large and some tile drainage. Mortgage $4,800, which has some time to run. Owner will sell on easy terms or trade his equity. 609 seres, three miles from good business town, near gravel road, 400 acres in cultivation andmeadow, 200 acres pasture. There is a large eightroom house, large bank barn, double cribs, windmill and good well. There la a large dredge ditch just built that passes within a few rods of this farm that gives it a fine outlet for drainage. This is a fine grain and stock farm. Price right Will take up to $16,000 In good trade. 26 acres at a bargain, on easy terms. On main road near large ditch; has four-room house. . 160 acres, in Polk county, Ark., near Oklahoma line, and five miles from railroad. This land lies well and Is productive soil. Will trade clear and pay difference. 80 acres at a bargain, on easy terms, five miles out 21 acres, fine black soil, five blocks from court house, cement walks and good well. Sell at a bargain. 160 acres In the wheat best of Kansas. Will trade clear for property or land here and pay difference.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, that it will meet in the council chamber in said city on the 10th day of July A. D. 1911, for the purpose of receiving sealed bids for the construction of the improvement of Monnett Alley through Block 3 in the original plat of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, said improvement extending from Vam Rensselaer Street to Front Street. Said improvement to consist of a brick roadway with cement curb or cement roadway, all in accordance with plans and specifications now on file in the office of the clerk of said city. Bids will be received by said council for- the construction of said improvement for each of said kinds of roadway material and on the day named will designate the kind of improvement The successful bidder will be required to enter into a contract with said city and give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of said work, including guaranty for five years. All bids must be accompanied by certified check in the sum of SIOO.OO, as evidence of good faith that successful bidder will enter into contract and give bond for the faithful performance of work as above provided.

D-June 28-July 5.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, that it will meet in the council chamber in said city oh the 10th day of July A. D. 1911, for the purpose of receiving sealed bids for the construction of the improvement of Leopold Alley through Block 4 in the original plat of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, said improvement extending from Van Rensselaer Street to Front Street. Said improvement to consist of a brick roadway with cement curb or cement roadway, all in accordance with plans and specifications . npw on file in the ofllce of the clerk of said city. Bids will be received by said council for the construction of Bald improvement for each of said kinds of roadway material and on the day named will designate the kind of improvement The successful bidder will be required to enter into a contract with said city and give bond conditioned for the faithful performance of said work, Including guaranty for five years. All bids must be accompanied by certified check in the sum of SIOO.OO, as evidence of good faith that successful bidder will enter into contract and give bond for the faithful performance of work as above provided. CHAS. MORLAN, City Clerk. D-June 28-July 5. Want to rant your property? Use our eUaaUM column.

G. F. MEYERS.

CHAS. MORLAN,

City Clerk.

Drnfoooinnol Pardo I rOTuuSlOtlul b3IQS — IHL «. C. KN6LISB phtsxcxah era sombox Nlfibt end day calla given prompt atSSSmaT' ** “ DR. F. A. TURFLER. osnorsmo mkysxcxab Rooms 1 and 2, Murray Building; Rensselaer, Indiana. : Plumes. Office—2 rings on SOS, mpt* fienee—S rings on See. * ;/■ Successfully treats both acute sad chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a •peclmty. DB. B. I. LOT | Succeeeorsto Dr. W. W. HartaslL ’ HOMEOPATHIST Office —Frame building on Cullen street east ot court house. “ OPPXOE PHOVE da Residence Avenue, Phone 111. Bin eenerr F. H. HEMPHILL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Mesial attention te diseases of women aad low gzadss of fever. Office in Williams biotic. Opposite Court House. Telephone, office and residence, 442. DB. 1. M. WASHBURN. FHYBXOXABT AMD SOMBOX Makes a specialty of Diseases of tbs Eyes. >*■;. Over Both Brothers. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS LAW, LOANS Am BEAM ESTATE Loans on terms and city property, personal security, and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire Insurance Office over Chicago Bargain Store. BmiMlMr, Twdlatin | 3. p. Xrwln U. C. Xrwln IRWIN A IRWIN LAW, BEAD ESTATE AV9 OTirZ AECB. I per oent farm loans. Office In Odd Fellows’ Block. FRANK FOLTZ Lawyer Practices In AH Courts Telephone No. 19 E. P. HONAN ‘ ATTOBEBY A* LAW Law, Leans, Abstracts, Insuraaqs and Real Estate Will practice in all the courts. All business 'attended to with promptness end dispatch. === H. L. BROWN 9BWTXBT Crown and Bridge Work end Teeth_ Without Plates a Specialty. All the latest methods In Dentistry. Gas administered for painless extraction. Office over Larsh’s Drug Store. L O. O. F. Building. Phone lIS. JOHJT A. DTTSXAP, Lawyer. Practice in all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. .- Collection department. Notary in the office Renssetaer, Indiana

GLASSES FITTED BY Dr. A. G. CATT OPTOMBTBJBT Beneeelaer, Indian*. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. 232.

Chicago to Vorthwist Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and the South, Mas* vlllo and Fnaoh Uok Springs. BEISSXUUa tUU vi«T.u In Effect December >6, 1»10. south Boras. No. 81— Fast Mall 4:48 a. m. No. 6—Louisville Mall .... 11:98 a. m. No. 37 —In dp Is. Ex. 11:30 Am. No. 33— Indpls. Mall 1:88 p. m. No. 39— Milk Acoom 6:88 p.tt. No. 3— Louisville Ex .a... 11:98 p.m. HOSTS BOOHS. No. 4—Mall 4:63 a.m. No. 43—Milk Accom 7:36 am. No. 32—Fast Mall 19:08 am. No. 38—Indpls-Chge. Ex. .. 2:38 p.m. No. 6— Main and Ex 3:16 p.m. No. 30—Cln. to Chgo. Mall. 8:83 P. to. No. 8 and 38 arc now trains running between Chicago and Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Train No. 31 makes connection at lip* non for Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 6:16 a m. No. 14, leaving Lafayette at 4:30 p. m.. connects with No. M n Monon, arriving at Rensselaer at 9:93 D- «n-

EXCURSION To MICHIGAN CITY Sunday, July 2 Train starts at Hammond at 6:55, arrives at Rensselaer at 8:25; arrives at Michigan City at 11:00. Returning train leaves Michigan City at 7 o’clock and should reach Rensselaer at about 10 o’clock. Bills show the attractions. Special trips on Lake Michigan in the "Theodore Roosevelt” or “United States”! boats, 25 cents for the round trip. 1 The following schedule and rates will prevail: Station AJd. Fare Lv. Shelby v ... 7:61 $1.26 Lv. Thayer 7:54 1.25 Lv. Roselawn 8:00 .1.25 Lv. Fair Oaks 8:09 1.25 Lv. Parr 8:14 1.16 Lv. Surrey 8:19 1.10 Lv. Rensselaer 8:25 1.00 Lv. Pleasant Ridge 8:32 1.00, Lv. McCoysburg 8:38 .90 Lv. Lee 8:44 J 65 Lv. Monon 8:53 .75 Lv. Franceaville 9:18 .65 Lv. Medaryville 9:88 .#3 Ar. Michigan (Sty about. .11:00