Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1911 — Page 3

7 additional today’s Locals. You can get Gold Medal Flour at the Depot Grocery. ' Fresh corn meal and graham now in, at the Home Grocery. Gall the Depot Grocery for Gold Medal Flour, the kind that has stood the test of years. The Monon will run another 75 cent excursion next Sunday. Possibly this will be the last of the season. Ladies desiring millinery and dressmaking, also ladies* tailoring, call on Mrs; H. A. Cripps, over Trust and Savings Bank. - » Mrs. W. S. Richards expects to leave this faternoon for Kansas City, Mo., to see her brother, W. B. Peterson, whose health is poor and who expects shortly to seek another climate. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding or protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. F. M. Gordan, Of St. Louis, who has been taking treatment at the Mt. Clemens, Mich., springs, stopped off here today to .see his aunt, Mrs. Lyman Zea, and other relatives. He is sn inspector for the Metropolitan Life Insurance "Co.

George W. Marshall,. who recently sold his farm'near Fair Oaks, was in Alabama last week and contracted for 130 acres of land near Bay Minette. He left for there today, being accompanied by John Reed, who is also looking for an investment. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pipiples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock’s Blood Bitters is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear-skinned. Granville Aldrich has sold his resi dence at the north edge of town to Lee Mauck, who will move from his farm west of Surrey. Mr. Aldrich will move to Moffit county, Colo., where he will probably invest in a small farm. His removal is being made on account of the poor health of himself and his son George. a Ed Miller, who has been working at the C. (E. Prior Fancy Produce Market, - and George D. Zea, who has been deliveryman for several years at Roth Bros.’ meat market, will move shortly to Dr. F. A. Turfler’s farm near Gifford. Both are energetic men and will be gfeat hustlers on the farm, while their places will be difficult to fill acceptably. . B. J. Moore has been having a lot of bad weather to contend with in the construction of the Jacks stone road in White county, near Leb. : Last week he got in but two days and this week r started out badly. The poad is two, miles long and the stone is being blasted alongside the road and crushed right there, thus making very short hauls.

Harry Murray, who went to Hanrilton, N. Dak., with his father, last spring, and who has been at Longmont, Colo., for several months, arrived here Saturday night and will again take up his residence here. Mrs. Murray remained in Longmont to look after a little business and will join her husband here shortly. Harry reports the former Rensselaer people who are in Longmont, as getting along nicely. Mrs. George Henson and little daughter Defaun arrived several days ago from Jamestown, N. Dak., to which place they removed last spring. Mrs. Heuson did not like Nofth Dakota and states tfcat she will not return there another year. Mr. Heuson will come in a few weeks and they expect to live in town during the winter. Mrs. ijleuson says that from 110 acres of wheat they got but 60 bushels for their share. They had a good crop of •oats, however, and also a fair crop of millet and hay, but no corn. George also had out 150 acres of flax, which he was cutting at the time she left for home. C. H. Cannon, of Chandler, Okla., where they raise cotton and ship their feed, is a Rensselaer visitor. He is a brother-in-law of George Morgan, his wife who died several years ago, having been a sister of Mrs. Morgan. Mr, Cannon lived at Kewanna during the civil war and his four brothers were in the union army. He ran the postoffice during their absence. At the close of the war he was so thin that his physician* insisted that he must go west, and he located in Kansas. When the rush for Oklahoma was made he went tjiere, going in on the first legal train that admitted people who were going to make the rush for homesteads. But he found some two thousand people in ahead of the train. Himself and son ar4 now engaged in the fuel, seed and feed business. There was only about half a crop of cotton this year, owing to the drouth. If you haven't the time to exercise regularly. Doan’s Regulets will prevent constipation. They induce a miM. easy, healthful action of the v->letooto without griping. Ask your druggist for them. 25 cents.

A CURIOUS DREAM.

Warning That Came to a Granddaugfo* tar of Sir Walter Scott U Ab instance tn which a dream was aaatal In preventing an impending catastrophe la recorded of a daughter of Mrs. Rutherford at Ederton, the granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott This lady dreamed more than once that her mother had been murdered by a black servant She was so much upset by this that she returned home, and, to her great astonishment and not a little to her dismay, she met on entering the house the very black servant she had met in her dream. He had been engaged In her absence. She prevailed upon a gentleman to watch in an adjoining room during the following night 4

About 8 o’clock In the morning the gentleman heard footsteps on the stairs, came out and met the servant carrying some coals. Being questioned as to where he was going, he answered confusedly that he was going to mend the mistress’ fire, which at 8 o’clock in the morning in tie middle of summer was evidently impossible. On further Investigation a strong knife was found hidden in the coals. The lady escaped, but the man was subsequently hanged for murder, and before his execution be confessed that he Intended to assassinate Mrs. Rutherford.—London Standard.

GRAND CANYON.

An Ideal Place In Which to Realize the Insignificance of Man. There is one place in this country where a man can step back not by hundreds but by thousands of years, back to the time when the continent was In the making. This place is the Grand Canyon of Arizona. There the visitor sees a panorama in a million colors as the mists gather about the rugged peaks and the sunlight glistens on the metallic deposits of the cliffs. A whole chaotic world discloses itself. Rock forms of uncanny beauty stand out on those unrivaled cliffs, and far down runs the river channeL Stand on some ledge and realize the insignificance of man when compared with the handicraft of nature, watch a party of travelers threading their way down some winding trail that clings to the great wall and see them grow smaller and smaller until they become mere specks In the great rift, then some idea is gained of this wonderful place. Yet the canyon is so symmetrical and so unlike anything else that it is with difficulty that one can acquire any notion of its immensity. Niagara poured in would hardly have the dignity of a mountain stream. —New York Sun.

Humors of “Hamlet"

William Davldge related in his “Footlight Flashes" that during his strolling days In England, when companies were small, he had on the same evening done duty for Polonlus, the ghost; Ostric and the first gravedigger, and Edwin Booth remembered Thomas Ward dying In sight of the audience as the player king and being dragged from the mimic stage by the heels to enter immediately at another wing as Polonlus, crying “Lights, lights, lights!" Hamlet in a one night town, shearing (.he loved Ophelia better than forty thousand brothers, has watched her through an open grave packing her trunk in the place beneath, while the ghost, her husband, waited to strap it up. There are more things in Hamlet's existence behind the scenes than are dreamed of In the philosophy of all his commentators and all his critics.—EYom the Green Book.

Corn and Water.

To those engaged in the handling of grain the natural shrinkage of shelled corn while In storage and in transit is a matter of prime importance and often a source of dispute because of shortage reported at time of receipt at warehouse and a further loss at date of final sale. In order to determine the amount of shrinkage or .loss of weight occurring in corn the department of agriculture has conducted an experiment with 500 bushels of shelled com. At the time of storage the moisture content was 18.8 per cent and at close of the test 14.7 per cent, or a loss of 4.1 per cent The weight per bushel bad decreased from 54.7 pounds to 50 pounds, and the total loss of weight was 1,970 pounds, or slightly more than 7 per cent

Sir Roger de Coverley.

Sir Roger de Coverley was the name of a member of the imaginary club of twelve under whose direction Addison’s Spectator was professedly published. He was an old school, bluff, good hearted English gentleman. The dance named after him Is an English dance corresponding somewhat to the Virginia reel.

Her Ono Idea.

“His wife Is a woman of one idea.* “That aoT' “Yes; whenever he starts to do anything she has the idea that he’s doing it wrong.”—Detroit Free Press.

A Good Reason.

Positive Wife—John, why do you talk in your sleep? Have you any idea? Negative Husband—So as not to forget how, I suppose. It's the only chance I get.—Exchange.

Good Reason.

“You mean to say you lived to one bouse for three yearn and cultivated an pleasant acquaintances? Why?" 1 waa cultivating my vsjton.** . Hl" Dans to bo tens. Nothing cap Med a Ma—Geerae Herbert. _

Cities and Race Vitality.

The Napoleon wan ao drained the dower of French manhood that even today the physical stature of the aver* age Frenchman to nearly half an inch below what it waa at the beginning of Napoleon’s reign. The country in America, today la constantly paying a similar tribute to the city in the sacrifice of its beat blood, Ito beat brain, the finest physical and mental fiber in the world. This great stream of superb country manhood which to ever flowing cityward to rapidly deteriorated by the softening, emasculating Influences of the city until the superior virility, stamina and sturdy qualities entirely disappear in two or three generations of city life. Our city civilisation to always in a process of decay and would In a few generations become emasculated and effeminate were it not for the pure crystal stream of country youth flowing steadily into and purifying the muddy, devitalized stream of city life. It would soon become so foul and degenerate as to threaten the physical and moral health of the dwellers.— Success Magazine.

Morse and the Telegraph Operator.

Immediately after the successful completion of the first transatlantic cable and the consequent celebrations, in which, of course, Cyrus W. Field bore a prominent part, Professor Morse had occasion to send a telegram from a small town in Ohio to his home in New York. He wrote out his message and presented it to the operator, who rapidly checked it off with his pencil and curtly demanded a dollar. “But,” said the venerable inventor, “I never pay for messages,” and. seeing an inquiring look in the operator’s eyes, added. "I am. in fact, the father of the telegraph." “Then,” said the operator, firmly convinced that he was being Imposed upon, “why don’t you sign your own name, Cyrus W. Field?” Professor Morse when telling the story used to say that he was too humiliated to answer.

Armchair Etiquette.

The question of an armchair was once a matter of high state in the fortunes of Prussia. This was in the year 1606, when the Elector Frederick on visiting at The Hague that Prince of Orange whom his father and he had beeri instrumental in raising to the dignity of king as William 111 of England was informed that during the interview the king would be seated on an armchair of state, while he (the elector) would be accommodated with an ordinary settle or stool. In great dudgeon (as Mr. Brayley Hodgetts recalls in “The House of Hobenzollem”) the elector rejoined that if he was not worthy of an armchair his troops had at least been thought good enough to assist the Prince of Orange to mount the royal throne of England. Finally a compromise was effected, and the two sovereigns conversed with one another standing.

The Same Custom.

A magazine editor at the Authors’ club, in New York, was talking about H. G. Wells. "Wells is now the foremost English novelist,** he said. “Strange that a man so talented should misjudge us as he does. When he was over here he found fault with everything. One day at lunch, getting tired of his attacks on the tyranny of our trusts and our bosses, I said: “Well, at least, Mr. Wells, you must admit the grandeur of the magnificent statue of Liberty that rears its proud head over our harbor?* •“Oh, yes,’ said Mr. Wells, ‘you have the same custom as we—you rear your finest statues to the dead.’”

An Essay on Women.

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A good deal of forbearance ought to be shown her and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, foe she may bring about innumerable evils without knowing it Capable of an kinds of devotion and of all kinds of treason, “monster Incomprehensible," raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.—AmleL,

A Novel Revenge.

Cook—Yes; my mistress Is a prima donna and a horrible creature. She treats nje like the dirt 'beneath her feet, but I revenge myself by opening the drawing room window when she is not at home and, by bowling with all my might so that the neighbors may think her voice la cracked.—FUegende Blatter.

A Trade Secret.

“What did your firm dismiss Grigg for?” asked the first traveler. “He gave away a trade secret,” replied the other. “You don’t say so?" “Yes. He told a customer that out chief was an old scoundrel, and the chief overheard him.”

All In.

Friend—l was just In the art gallery admiring your “Napoleon After Waterloo.” The fidelity of expression on Bonaparte’s face Is positively wonder fuL Where did you get It? Mr. Dob ber—From life. I got my wife to pose for me the morning after she gave her first reception.—Puck.

Greatness.

Greatness lies not In being strong, but in the right use of strength, and strength to not used rightly when it servos only to carry a man above his fellows for hl* solitary glory. Poorer when employed to relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor

I QUAINT MARRIAGE NOTICE. William Cullen Bryant Broke the News j Gently to His Mother. . . The following letter from William Cullen Bryant to his mother, quoted by Professor Chubb in “Stories of Authors.” indicates that the author of “Thanatopsis” could enjoy his UtAe joke on occasion: “Dear Mother—l hasten to tend you the melancholy Intelligence M what has lately happened to me. Early on the evening of the eleventh day of the present month I was at a neighboring house in this village. Several people of both sexes were assembled in one of the apartments, and three or four others, with myself, were in another. ’At last came in a little elderly gentleman, pale, thin, with a solemn countenance, pleuritic voice, hooked nose and ihollow eyes. It was not long before (we were summoned to attend In the 'apartment where he and the rest of ' the company were gathered. We went in and took our seats. The little elderly gentleman with the hook nose 'prayed, and we all stood up. When he had finished most of us sat down. The gentleman with the hooked nose then muttered certain cabalistic expressions, which I was too much (frightened to remember, but I recollect that at the conclusion I was given to understand that I was married to a young lady of the. name of Frances Fairchild, whom I perceived standing by my side and whom I hope in the course of a few months to have the pleasure of Introducing to you as your daughter-in-law, which Is a matter of some interest to the poor girl, who has neither father nor mother in the world.”

SHIELDED THE LADY.

A Tactful Head Waiter Balked an Offensive Hotel Guest. To illustrate an incident that oc- ; curved in a hotel uptown the other night, where, if you are not known, you have to produce some sort of patent of absolute respectability, construct a rectangle, lettering the imaginary diagonal corners A, B, C and D: A represents a solitary male person 'dining. B represents a comely person !of the opposite sex seated at another table with a party. 0 represents a head waiter and D a group of the unemployed waiters. Let the line AB represent an admiring look that travels continuously. BA represents a look of annoyance. CA and CB are comprehending glances directed by the head waiter. 1 The point C moves toward D, making a triangle. After a whispered direction a figure which may be termed O, because it represents a particularly rotund waiter, moves from the point D until it reaches a point on the line AB. C moves back to position. A finds that his ogle stops at O, which he cannot see through, and calls Oto take an order. Thereupon C motions toward D, when another waiter, traveling on the line DA, effects, a junction with A and goes off at a tangent. A cranes his neck, stretching to one side or the other, but it cannot get tpast O. The result is that A finally sees what Is up, finishes his coffee in sheepish disgust and leaves the room. —New York Sun.

Astrology With Risks.

Formerly they had rough and ready modes of testing claims to supernatural powers. “Dost thou know where thou wilt pass Christmas?*’ asked Henry VII. of an astrologer. He could not tell. Whereupon the king’s grace, which did love a merry jest, made answer, ["Then I am wiser than thou, for I {know that thou .wilt spend Christmas jin prison.” John Galeazzo, duke of Milan, is said ,to have made even merrier at the expense of an astrologer who foretold him that he would die early. “And how long do you expect to live?’ he inquired of the prophet , “My lord, my star promises me a long life.” “Never trust to your star, man; you are to be banged today,” and the duke took care that his own prediction should be fulfilled.

Killing One Fly.

! Every fly begins as an egg deposited In some kind of organic filth. It hatches into a tiny maggot within a few hours, begins to feed and grow, completes its growth and comes out as a perfect fly in possibly ten days. It then requires at least fourteen days to mature its first batch of eggs, and it may live to mature and deposit at least six layings, of from 120 to 150 eggs each. This means that in killing one fly we may be preventing the hatching of nearly a thousand others.—Youth’s Companion.

Two Kinds of Curiosity.

Philanthropic Visitor (to 'jailbird)— My friend, may I ask what It was .that brought you here? Jailbird—Ths 'very same thing that brought you here {—the desire to poke my nose Into other people’s business, only I used generally to go to by Way of the basement window.—Exchange.

Mean.

Miss Mngiey—l always try to retire before midnight. 1 don't like to mtos ■my beauty sleep. Miss Pepprey—You ■really should try harder. You certainly don’t get enough of it

Two Sides.

’ Willis—Why don’t you go to church? Gillis—Too f«r. Why don't you go? Will!*—We lire next door to one, an# I 'hate to get all dressed up just to. go that IhUe way r- [ By the wort om knows libt ONcto •an-La FWhtdtne. I

UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE.

Essentially ths Same Today as Who* Established by Napoleon. In the United States there are many universities which are free from stats control, but in France there is only one university, and It to an absolute instrument of the state. It to true that there are schools of higher learning. which were founded in 1870 at unlverritiee, but five yearn afterward the title was withdrawn, and they art now called “instituts.” They are fivt in number and are located in Parte, Lille, Lyons, Toulouse and Angers. But the University of France te an entirely different organization. It it the official school. It te centralized in Parte and has under It a vast multitude of establishments, faculties, college and primary schools, distributed over the whole surface of the country. Directly or indirectly they all depend on the government The university was established by Napoleon, and- in spite of certain modifications which it has undergone during years It is the same today in its essential elements as the day he founded it Just as be established the entire civil administration, with its prefects, subprefects, judges, ministers of finance, so he Created In 1804 this vast educational organization, with Its countless professors, who* con* trol the entire Intellectual training of France.—America.

RAILWAYS AND DOGS.

Alike In One Respect In Sardinia, Tha* Both Are Perils. Sardinia is an island of many perils. One of them, we gather from the experience of Mr. Crawford Flitch, the author of “Mediterranean Moods,” is the railways. “The engine.” he says, “is continually making frantic dashes for the scenery. On the line to Tortoll I made four journeys and had three accidents. On one occasion, after a car had been wrecked, the various employees gathered round the wreckage and spent the remainder of a sultry afternoon In bitterly disputing the proper apportionment of blame for the accident As it was impossible to proceed that evening I spent the night at the railway station and enjoyed a comfort that 1 found nowhere else in the island.” Another peril is the dogs, who do not hesitate to attack a stranger, even when he is walking peaceably upon the highroad. “The breed is particularly ferocious, and it te said that the peasants have a way of stimulating their ferocity by tying a bladder filled with blood to the neck of a dummy man and encouraging the animal to spring at the neck and tear open the bladder.”

A Famous Paris Sign.

Paris is a city of curious signboards, one of the most remarkable ones representing a tobacconist’s sign at 55 Rue du Chateau-d’Eau, which has been here ever since 1870. It is riddled with boles made by the bullets of the Prussians, and the-occupant of the shop states that so fair as he is . aware it is the only public relic of the Franco-Prussian war in evidence in the streets of Paris today. “My sign,” be added, "brings me plenty of customers. You have no idea, monsieur, of the number of English and American tourists who pass this way and drop Into my place for a cigar or a box of matches merely in order to have a word with me about my bullet riddled enseigne. I wouldn't part with it for anything.”—Wide I World Magazine. -

Getting the Exact Spot.

An emergency call from a policeman t for a tape measure kept two women waiting in the dressmaker's parlor for five minutes. There were other tape measures there which the dressmaker might have used, but she was too busy pondering the circumstance that had suddenly converted her into an ally of the police department. Presently the policeman returned the tape. “What did you want It for?” she asked. “To help find the right place to shoot a horse with a broken leg,” he said. “The vital spot is just three inches above that little swirl in his forehead where a dozen crowns seem to meet I am not very good at guessing, so we thought it safest to find the exact spot with a tape measure.”—New York Sun.

Music of the Drum.

All musical authorities have agreed that when used to a proper way the drum is thoroughly musical. The common snare or side drum Is freely used In musical composition. A large number of drummers performing simultaneously out of doors produce good music. In this connection Berlioz, the composer, pointed out that a sound that was Insignificant when heard singly, such as the clink of one or two muskets at shoulder arms or the thud as the butt comes to the ground at ground arms, becomes brilliant and attractive if performed by a thousand men together.

Crumpled Them.

We observe that the man's fingers are all twisted and bent Into the most uncouth shapes. “Poor fellow!”..we say to our friend. “Evidently bo Is a victim of rheum* tism." “No," our friend explains. “ITe Is deaf and dumb and has been trying to talk Scotch dialect on hla fingera”— Ufa •

Would Have to Move.

“John, the janitor’s son whipped Jimmy today." - “Well, that's no great calamity- *D pane Jimmy had whipped the janitarto ! hsßl"—Ptttabutt Poet

Classified Column| FOB SAUL For Sale—Spring chickens for fries. Phone 448. . For Sale—Or will trade for cow, * gentle family horse. Inquire of Mrs. L. G. Monnett, R. D. No. 3. For Salo—Pure bred Duroc Jerseys. If you want a good spring gilt or boar, call, write or phone Victor Yeoman, phone 521 G, R. F. D. No. 2, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale—Almost new 10-horse-power Fairbanks-Morse gasoline engine, at a bargain. Roth Bros. For Sale—Good sized base burner. Inquire at Willis Garage. For Sale—Bridge and other good oak lumber. Inquire of Wm. Halstead, R. D. No. 3, Box 40, Rensselaer, Indiana. 1 '■ For Sale—Deering corn husker, in good repair. Will sell for cash or on time or trade for live stock. W. L. Wood, Parr, Ind. For Sale—Hardwood lumber of alt kinds; also cord wood. Randolph Wright, R. D. No. 3, Rensselaer, or Mt Ayr phone No. 20 L

FOB RENT. For Rent —Six-room flat over McKay laundry; a first class apartment that can be rented reasonably. Inquire of Geo. H. Healey or H. R. Karrie. ' WANTED. ' ■> ‘ ■ - . Wanted—Property Consisting of an acre up to 10 acres near Rensselaer; improved preferred. Inquire at thia office. No agents, want to deal direct with owner. Wanted —I want to rent a welldrained farm of 160 or 320 acres, for a term of 3 years, the landlord to loan or go my security for 31,500 to be used to purchase stock and implements to run the farm. Will pay a rental of three-fifths of grain and hay delivered to the elevator or railroad. Address Box 7, Mt Ayr, Ind. Wanted—Companion and nurse for elderly invalid lady. G. F. Meyers. Wanted—Timothy hay. George R Meyers.

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