Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — Page 3

ABBTHOMAL TODAY’S LOCALS. William Warren returned to Tefft this morning, after having been here for several days. He is a brother of Harrison Warren and was called here after the death. Differences between the bus drivers resulted in Agent Beam issuing an order yesterday that they no longer back up at the depot platform but at the street crossing at the end of the platform. Born, Monday, Oct 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Addle Warren, of Newton township, a daughter. Oct 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. Andy Myres, of near Kniman, a ddn.*'Oct 4, to the widow of James Cdmpbell, of Laura, a daughter. J. D. Allman returned yesterday from Huntington, where he attended the funeral Monday of his uncle, Doctor F. Allman, who died at the age of 82 years. He was a plasterer by trade, “Doctor” being his given name and not a professional title. He had lived in Huntington for 62 years. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Wishard came down from Chicago this morning for a visit with his mother, Mrs. Jennie Wishard and other relatives. They will go from here to Noblesville to visit his brother and then go to New York for a study period of three weeks before starting for Calcutta, India, where they willjae stationed in Y. M. C. A. work for the next six years. Mrs. C. O. Sands and four children came from Tefft this morning for a short visit with C. M. Sands and family. Her husband is a Methodist minister who has just been sent by the conference—from Patricksburg to Oolitic. While he is moving Mrs. Sands has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Rockwell, at Wheatfield. Ladies desiring millinery and dressmaking, also ladies* tailoring, call on Mrs. H. A. Cripps, over Trust and Savings Bank. Jeff Smith had expected to go west to visit his sons this fall, but he has given that up on account of so much work at home. He reports that Everell had a very good crop near Burk, S. Dak., this year. He rented his own farm near that town and lived this /ear on a rented farm. Frost seriously damaged the corn on his farm and on that of his uncle, but on the farm he rented his crop escaped the frost. Col. A. Solliday and wife, of Watertown, Wis., were guests over night at the Makeever House. They are en route by auto to Florida to spend the winter. This is not their first trip through Rensselaer, as they went through here last fall when on their way south. Colonel Solliday is a veteran of the Civil and SpanishAmerican wars and for some twenty years was a colonel in the Wisconsin national guard. * <T ,- t 'Music lovers: Don’t fail to attend the Salisbury family concert at the Presbyterian church next Thursday evening, Oct. 5. Tickets now on sale at Jessen’s. Thd tile roofing for the ndw depot arrived this morning and the workmen were telegraphed for. The brick platform is about half completed and the heating plant is installed. The laying of the tile flooring was suspended until some other finishing work was completed. The water is yet to be connected up and the toilets and wash basins installed. The progress is rapid now and the depot may be ready to occupy within two weeks. • - - , .- ■ Frank King has his Elm street property almost completed and expects to move into it about the first of November. For several months himself and family have been living in the former August Rosenbaum property on Cullen street, which he had contracted to buy from the present owners, some brewers who secured it from Mr. Rosenbaum. They were slow about closing up the deal and Frank went ahead and enlarged the Rosenbaum property. Several weeks ago. Joe Larsh began negotiations for it and has a deal about closed up. He will occupy it as soon as Mr.. King moves out Theodore Haas does not look much like an invalid and he is not much of one now, although a few years ago he though he was going to shoot the chutes by that route. This morning he ate a three pound catfish for breakfast and felt as happy as a school boy after he did it. But anything that looks like fish suits Thee Haus and there have been few more consistent fishermen in Rensselaer than he. Photographer Joe Sharp was one of the regulars for a number of years and “Baldy” Powers still puts In considerable time en the banks of the river. Jack Warner does pot fish as much as he formerly did and Thee has to keep up the record for the old times. And he is just as good an eater as he is a fisher, and this morning he rubbed his vest with pride and smacked his lips in a fashion that made a little coterie of listeners long for a mess of catfish. ~ A Classified Adv. will rant It

HOW HE WAS EXECUTED

By OSCAR COX

We may dress up a man in uniform, toot a born, a rattle, a dram, in his ear and be will shoot down his fellow beings with great zest But try to make kim kill even one of them in cold blood, then you will see what a difficult matter it is. There was once a 1 kingdom not as big as Monaco, and that is small enough in all conscience. Little Sonneshon was but five miles in circumference. Yet it was a perfect kingdom, for King Shandigrab was a real royal personage, five feet high, five feet around the girth and wore a crown that weighed pretty nearly as much as himself. He had a cabinet, masters of the robes and hounds and courtiers galore. There were 5,000 commoners, with a number of horses, mules, cats and other animals. The general of the army of forty men (mostly effectives) was a terrible fellow, with fierce mustachios as pointed as his sword. But the army and the general were both for show, for the kingdom was under the protection of its neighbor, the emperor of Hollibag. who had been paying it a stated sum ever since the principal part of the territory had been lopped off many centuries before for the benefit of the empire. Besides, the little Sonneshons were the most peaceful people in the world. So tender hearted were they that once when a musquito flew over there from what is now New Jersey they refrained from killing it. so that it planted all the pools with mosquitoes. " Nevertheless there was once a murder committed in the kingdom by a man named Hans Gotterman. But that was an exceptional case, for he killed his wife, who was a nagger. Perhaps for this extraordinary incitement to murder he might have gone scot free had he not been lazy and generally worthless. So he was convicted and sentenced to have his head ehopped off. But iri'e arose a difficulty. There was a royal executioner, but, like the general of the army, he was for show. He Wore tights, a mask and all that, constantly carrying an ax on his shoulder. But the ax was wooden and its bearer so tender hearted that'when he had fried chicken for breakfast his wife was obliged to cut off its bead. At a meeting of the cabinet the matter of Hans Gotterman was discussed, and it was agreed that the royal executioner wouldn’t do for the job at all. So it was decided to send a request to the emperor of Hollibag for the loan of his headsman. Unfortunately there had been a revolution in the empire, and the royal executioner was so busy cutting off the heads of rebels fbat he could not be spared. At another meeting of the cabinet it was decided to offer a hundred pieces of gold to whomsoever would execute the murderer. The offer was posted everywhere throughout the kingdom, and the king and his cabinet waited for some one to step forward, accept it and put an end to Gotterman. But no one was willing to kill a man at the price, and as no other expedient was suggested Gotterman still lived. One day a mosquito bit him and impregnated him .with bacteria that caused a terrible fever. The court waited expectantly, thinking the man would die. but be disappointed them by getting well, and since it cost considerable to keep him the cabinet decided to let him out on his promise to return when an executioner could be found to behead him. He rather objected to this, but his keeper stopped his food and thus forced compliance. Every few days he would pretend he had beard that an executioner had arrived and go back to the jail, demanding food ad interim. Thus be got to be an insufferable bore. No one could be found to kill him, he wouldn’t die. One day it was reported to the king that fifty coal miners had been burled in a mine. These were citizens the state could not afford to lose. The cabinet ordered a hundred men collected at great expense to dig the miners out. They dug a month, when one day, hearing a voice, they made their way with pick and shovel toward the sound. After several days' hard work they broke into a compartment and there found Gotterman. He said he had gone into the mine for work, but when asked how be had lived so long without food pointed to fifty empty dinner palls. He had gone Into the place where the entombed men had placed their tinkers. None of the laborers whs ever got out alive. Gotterman alone survived the catastrophe. The king was much Incensed when he heard the story of Gotterman’s rescue and renewed his efforts among the neighboring states for the loan of an executioner, but without success. Then came a written offer from the murderer to cut his own head off for the promised reward. The cabinet could not accept It, because there was a law of the kingdom against suicide. One day when the cabinet was In council a member presented an offer from a woman who was known to be a frightful shrew to marry Gotterman if she were paid as a dowry the hundred pieces of gold for his execution. Tbe cabinet decided to accept the offer. As soon as Gotterman heard that he must marry tbe shrew all bis courage left him. He had got rid of one nagger and dreaded to be tied up with another. A law was passed compelling him to marry the woman, and she talked him to death within a month. V

THE ARTIST'S IDOL

She Didn’t Know Anything About Me* sio: She Only Loved IL The incident happened upon of the great mean liners during an autumn trip when a famous violinist wan among the passengers. At first be firmly refused to play, but was finally persuaded, and upon the appointed evening the salon was crowded with eager passengers. It was a moat enthusiastic audience, Intelligent sympathetic and appreciative. yet as the evening wore on people began to notice that the violinist's glance went always in one direction, and after a time others followed IL They saw a plain little woman, plainly dressed, with no marks of wealth dr, culture. But she was looking at the master with shining eyes, her face Wet with tears, unmindful of everything except the magic of his violin. When tbe program was ended, pushing bis way through the people who would have detained him, the musician went straight to tbe little shabby figure. “Madame, I congratulate you—you are ze great artist!” be cried. She looked up at him almost in alarm. “I—oh—l cannot play a note,” she stammered. “I don’t know anything about music. I only—love it” Tbe violinist shook bls big shaggy bead impatiently. “Is it not what I say? You have ze artist soul—ze artist to listen. What good to play to ze deaf—like ze rest?’ with a disparaging gesture toward the crowded room. “It Is to ze ond wiz ze heart to listen zat we masters play.” —Youth’s Companion.

AN OLD TIME EXPLOSION.

Its Curious Phases Told by a Seventsenth Century Scribe. ■ An old chronicler tells a curious story of an explosion which occurred in London Jan. 4. 1649. A ship chandler, it seems, “about 7 of the clock at night, being busy in his shop, about barreling up of gunpowder, It took fire and in the twinkling of an eye blew up not only that, but all tbe houses thereabout to the number of fifty or sixty. The number of persons destroyed by this blow could never be known, for the next house but one was the Rose tavern, a bouse never (at that time of night) but full of company. And in three or four days, after digging, they continually found heads, arms, legs, etc.” The most interesting part of the account comes further on: “In the digging they found the mistress of tbe house of the Rose tavern sitting in her bar and one of tbe drawers standing by the bar’s side, with a pot in bls hand, only stifled by dust and smoke, their bodies being preserved whole by means of great Umbers falling across one upon another. “There wak also found upon the upper leads of Barking church a young child lying in a cradle as newly laid in bed, neither child nor cradle having the least sign of fire or otber hurt. It was never known whose child It was, so that one of the parish kept It for a memorial, for in the year 1666 I saw the child, grown to be then a proper maiden.” . .

The Green Plover.

Every “man on the land” knows the lapwing, or green plover, though he may not know that this bird is one of the very best friends of the farmer and literally worth its weight in gold several times. It takes its proper name, lapwing, from the regular, slow flapping of the long, rounded wings. Because of its peculiar cry it is popularly known in England as the peewit and in Scotland as pees weep. \ The Hermans call it kiebitz. The French say that it can count “eighteen” (eighteen in French is dixbuit, which-is pronounced deexeweet). The peewit is found tn every country in Europe and Asia. In Great Britain it was once very common, being chiefly found in marshes, moors and meadows.\but its numbers are gradually decreasing because its eggs are collected and sold as “plovers’ eggs,” for which there Is a large demand during the proper season.—Smallholder.

The Hawaiian Language.

The language of Hawaii is very simple. To one who bears It for the first time comes the conviction that tbe aborigines expressed their sentiments in primitive vowel sounds, to which some consonants have been added. Each vowel is sounded as in Latin, and the words are easily pronounced by one who Is patient and wishes to speak distinctly. The pronunciation will be all the better if the speaker will draw out, almost drawl, the vowel sounds, for which reason tbe language Is well suited to the doleful Hawaiian wait Say Hoo-noo-luu-luu and let the word sing itself.— Rosary Magazine.

Glass Windows.

The first glass window in England was put up tn an abbey about tbe year 680. Glass windows, however, did not become general for mug hundred yean, and as late as 1579 the glass casements at Alnwick castle. the Duke of Northumberland’s seat, were regularly taken down when the family was away from home.

One Thing Sure.

“My wife went to town today to get a good plain cook.” “Did she get one?" “I don’t know whether she’s a good one yet, but she’s plain, all right”— Baltimore American. We judge ourselves by wbatwp feel capable of doing, while htbere judge us by what we have already dousk— T-oncfellow.

Shooting Stars.

Astrougmers tlfat about 150.000.000.000 Of reecto this earth in the form of meteorites or dust every year, Of coufoe shooting stars W*riWlfy 'a|» not stars at all; they are little cosmic particles, often weighing much less than one ounce and composed mostly of iron and carbon. Most of them travel around the sun In the same fashion that comets do. following very flattened elliptical trajectories. Sometimes it happens that the trajectory of Some of these bodies cross the trajectory of our own earth- If the little meteorite and th* earth get to that point at the same time they natural!/ collide. These planetoids are not luminous in tbithselves. So long dd they fly through ether (which is utter nothingness) there is no friction; therefore no heat and no light. But as soon as they enter the atmosphere with which our globe is surrounded their speed is so great that the friction against the air immediately lights and volatilises them.— New York World.

Train Your Breathing.

“If one learns to breathek properly when young be finds the benefit of it in middle and old age,” said a physician. “Yon will notice, that when a middle aged man gets int 6 a train be holds his Breath and then grunts loudly as he sits down. This is a stupid practice. It throws a terrific strain on the heart and may even burst a blood vessel in the lungs or the brain. Many of those) sudden deaths we hear of are due ,tp| bolding the breath while* making a vio-' lent effort Only* the trained athlete is usually free from this fault Athlete or not, every one should practice easy and regular breathing. If it cannot be managed with closed mouth then the mouth should be opened when performing such operations as lifting a weight, running upstairs, stepping into a railway carriage, and the like. You may add years to your life by this little precaution.—London Globe.

A Heartless Father,

“I need some help with my household duties,” announced a Malden woman when her busband came hopte the other night. “What’s the matter wi(h our daughter?” the husband wanted to know. “Our daughter? The idea! Why, Jim, you know she's awfully delicate, and she would die if she had to do any household work. She has her school, and”— “And what? Her teacher’s report shows that she isn't doing a bit of school work.” “But she is the star member of her basketball team, and you know she is eager to take the prize at the gymnasium contest. But that’s just like a man—wanting a delicate girl to engage in rough, hard labor. Be ashamed of yourself, Jim Jenkins! You have no feeling.’*—Boston Traveler.

Modern “Dew Ponds.”

The ancient “dew ponds” of England have their modern counterparts on the rock of Gibraltar, where drinking water is obtained by the condensation of the abundant flew in especially prepared basins. The primitive process consists tn making a hollow in the ground and filling the bottom with dry straw, over which is placed a lay-, er of clay. On a clear night the,clay cools very rapidly, and the dew is condensed Into water in the basin. The pond is by putting a layer of asphalt or portland cement under the straw. At Gibrattar the present practice is to use wood Instead of straw and sheet iron instead of clay.

Electric Centipedes.

Least attractive among the Insects which give light are the so called "electric centipedes.” black crawlers with many legs which have been likened to serpents’ skeletons in miniature. They move in a snakelike fashion, forward or backward, leaving behind them a bright track of phosphoric light However, they are most accustomed to appear in the daytime, when the illumination they afford is not visible.— London Times.

Made the Cannon Balls Fit.

The first battle of the war of 1812 was fought at Sacketts Harbor, JulyU, 1812, and consisted of an attack made upon the village. The inhabitants had but one gun of sufficient size and strength to inflict damage, a thirty-two pounder, for which they had no shot. This difficulty was overcome by the patriotism of the housewives, who tore np carpets from the floors and with strips wound the small bails to fit the cannon.

The Retort Caustic.

Artist’s Friend (patronizingly)— I think those thistles in your foreground are superbly realistic, old cbapl 'Pon my word, they actually seem to be nodding in the breeze, don’t you know!" Ungrateful Artist—Yes. I have bad one or two people tell me they would almost deceive an ass!”

The Greatest Social Force.

The middle classes are the preponderant social force of today m republics as welt as tn monarchies, in Europe as In America. Everything Is everywhere subordinated to the necessity of satisfying them as speedily and as thoroughly as possible.—Ferrero tn Paris Figaro. *

Two of a Kind.

Polite Neighbor - Everybody says your tinebiind ts such a wide awake man. Mrs. .lobbies. Mrs. Jobbles (With a sight—Yes. and the baby takes after blmi / There is no utter failure In trying to do what is good

ROSES AND THORNS.

An Old Eastern Legend and Its Appt! { oation to Human Life. Thia world we’re living tn Is mighty hard to beat You get a thorn with every roee. But ain’t the roses sweet? There is an eastern legend that when Dte ' beneficent Creator prepared the earth for man, causing it to bring fbrth herbs and trees pleasant to the eye and good for food, each bearing its Seed within itself for propagating tth kind, the roses bad no thome and the lilies, violets and other blossoming plants were free from thistles, brambles and noxious weeds. But the,sone and daughters of men in their greedy eagerness to gather the flowers, each one selfishly striving to secure a larger share than his fellow. Seemed likely to despoil the earth of its beauty and leave not even enough blossoms to perfect their seed and perpetuate their species. So the kindly All Father provided the roses with thorns for self protection-and sent a host of defenders of the more tender blossoms by causing thistles and briers to spring up around them like wardens of a castle or the bodyguard of a queen. And this is the reason for. the thorns and briers—nature’s protection against human greed. The legend has a wider application. The roses typify the pleasures of life and the thorns its pains. A life of ease and pleasure was not only useless. but satiating. It would demoral■Bßgbim who indulged in it. Satiety the rose of its beauty and the of its fragrance; hencC kind nature makes true pleasure the reward of virtuous effort and punishes overindulgence with penalizing suffering, to the end that greed may be restrained and self control developed with its attendant virtues of temperance, kindliness, Industry and thrift—John B. Stoll in South Bend Times.

FOES TO SUCCESS.

Ddn’t Be a Victim of Timidity, Shyness Or Self Consciousness. Timidity, shyness and self consciousfiess belong tq th* same family. We usually find all where we find any one, and they are all enemies ofpeace of mind, happiness and achievement No one has ever done a great thing while hie mind was centered' upon himself. We must lose ourselves before we can find ourselves. Self anal/sis is valuable only to learn our strength; it la fatal if it makes us dwell upon our weaknesses. Timid, shy people are morbidly self conscious. They think too much about themselves. Their thoughts are turned inward; they are always analyzing, dissecting themselves, wondering bow they appear and what people think of them. If these people could only forget themselves and think of others they would be surprised to see what freedom, ease and grace they would gain, what success In life they would achieve. Thousands of yqung people are held back from undertaking what they long to do and are kept from trying to make real their great life dreams because they are afraid to jostle with the world. They shrink from exposing their sore spots and sensitive points which smart from the lightest touch. Their supersenslbvenesg "makes cowards of them.—O. S. Marden in’Success Magazine.

A Congregation of One.

In his younger days tbeßev.Sir Cameron Lees, D. D.. was a Highland mlssioner in a scattered territory. and passing rich on £4O a year. On one occasion on the Sabbath day the windows of heaven opened and there was a deluge on a small scale. The young minister of course was at his post, but only one member of the congregation had the courage to thru- up, an old farmer. Cameron Lees suggested that in view of the terrible weather they should adjourn to bls study and bold their devotions there. . ' "No. no." said the old highlander. "It is written. ’Where two or three are*’ gathered together in my name there am I also.’ You are one and I’m obe. so there’s the two. and we’ll have the service as usual." And there was a service for a congregation of one.— London Globe.

Worrying Happiness.

The bishops of Manchester, speaking at a meeting at Church House, Westminster, said the secret of happiness was to have a sufficient multitude of worries. The man who had only one worry, • blind that would not be pulled up straight by tbe servant or a coal scuttle the bottom of which was always coming out. found bis way to the lunatic asylum, but the mao who bad no time to dwell upon bls worries because be bad to go from one to another and back again and round and round like a squirrel io a cage could bo a perfectly happy man.—London Mali. -

Elastic.

"An* one other thing I want you to remember when you build tbe bouse is to put one of tbe finest,elastic steps on It tbat money can build.* “An elastic step, madam F' “Yes; I was readin* how Miss Blublud bad a tine elastic step, an’ I want one just like it or better.”—Houston Post. •<*’

Becoming.

“isn’t my new dress becoming to me?" asked tbe delighted wife. “Yes." replied the head of the establishment. “and 1 suppose the bill for it win soon be coming to me.* Idfo is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

m *fi j a i ■■ ■ Jk jk ■■■■■ ■ I I all 111 mmm ■■ N SAIA y For Sale—4-room house and 2 lots; well located, 4 blocks from court house; improved street and sidewalk; >7OO. Phone No. 121 or address P. O. Box No. 55. For Sate— Spring chickens for fries. Phone 448, For Sale—Or will trade for cow, a gentle family horse. Inquire of Mrs, L. G. Monnett, R. D. Nd. 3. For Sale—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—Bridge and ether good oak lumber. Inquire of Wm. Halstead, R. D. No. 3, Box 40, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale—Deering corn busker. In good repair. Will sell for cash or on time or trade for live stock. W. I* Wood, Parr, Ind. For Sale—Hardwood lumber of all kinds; also cord wood. Randblph Wright, R. p. No. 3, Rensselaer, or Mt Ayr phone No. 20 I. FOB BENT. For Bent—Modern convenient house, centrally located. Inquire at Trust and Savings Bank or of Milt Roth. For Best—Six-room flat over McKay laundry; a first class apartment that can be ranted reasonably. Inquire of Geo. H. Healey or H. R. Knrrte.

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— l Want to rent a weildrained farm of 160 or 320 acres, for a term of 3 years, the landlord to loan of go my security for >1,500 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 F. Meyers. LOST. Lest— A silver watch, between East Walnut street and Hemphill’s feed barn, Saturday, Sept. 23. Return to The Republican office and receive reward. FOUND. Found—Ladies’ black kid glove and baby’s bootee. here. Found—Baby’s shoe on Franklin street Call at Republican office. rum 111 .If I li'nnffiiiihiiii ■..■■li B oWI W TAKEN UP. •

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The Roeeeveltian Way of Raising Pigs in Newton Township. Editor Republican. We had an increase in porkers today; an old mother pig gave birth to eighteen Httle porkers, nivtaen of which are living. We think this breaks the record; if net* wo would like to hear from others. Get tickets at Jessens for the Salisbury Family Concert Presbyter - iau church next Thursday night.