Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1913 — Page 4

cussiriEß comm bathe TOM c&uaarxxD ABE. Throe lines or less, per week of sU Issues of The Evening RepubUcsn end two of The Semi-Weekly RepubUcsn, » cents. Additional space pro rats. FOR SALE. FOR SALE—My large Percheron stallion, Schley, No. 9668—a fine horsey dark brown color and shows excellent colts. Horse can be seen on Fields farm, five miles northeast of Monticello. A bargain. Joseph Haddock, Monticello, R. R. 4. FOR SALE —Several counters, at the Model Store. Simon Leopold. FOR SALE—Shropshire sheep, 15 young ewes, 1 buck. W. O. Williams, or Phone 504-F. FOR SALE—Good 8-room house, 3% lots, northeast part of to vft£ 3. P. Simons. FOR SALE—Don’t blame your hens if they are not laying now. They are not bred that way. Improve your flock with one of Budd’s Buff Orpington cockerels, $1.50 up. Eggs for hatching in season. R. L. Budd, Oakleigh Farm, R. R. No. 2, Rensselaer, Indiana^ t FOR SALE—Two good young work mares. Phone 504-1 for particulars. E. Roy Williams. FOR SALE—Five-room house and two lots, less than two blocks from court house. Leslie Clark, at Republican office. W. H. DEXTER. W. H. Dexter will pay 34% cents for butterfat this week. FARM LOANS. FARM LOANS—I make farm loans at lowest rates of interest. See me about ten-year loan without commission. John A. Dunlap. WANTED. WANTED—Work of any kind by gmarried man; store work preferred. ©Address “A. B.” Republican office, h » ■ WANTED—To borrow $250 on first mortgage Rensselaer property. See Geo. H. Healey. —- WANTED—Wood choppers. For particulars see J. C. Borntrager, or Phone 24-A. WANTED—Mending of all kinds* or plain sewing, such as children’s clothes; will call for and deliver packages. Mrs. Tom Moore* Phone 103. Wanted —s4.so to $7.50 — 8 hours work, electricity, plumbing, bricklaying, or moving picture operating, learned in short time by practical work. Positions secured. Tools and material free. Write for illustrated catalogue, Coyne Trade Schoole, Chicago, 111. (8020) FOR RENT. FOR RENT—4O acres thoroughly tfled onion land; 12 acres plowed. Rent on shares. Man with experience preferred. House furnished. F. A. Turfler. PARR CREAMERY. Wilson & Gilmore at Parr will pay 34 %c for butterfat this week. LOST. LOST—Tail light off automobile. Finder please return to O. A. Yeoman or leave at Republican office. UPHOLSTERING. Reupholstering and furniture repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed. J. P. Green, Phone 477.

LOCAL MARKETS. New Corn—4l. Wheat—7o. Oats—29. Rye—so. Buckwheat—ss. , '. Eggs—23. Ducks, White—ll. Indian Runners—B. Roosters—s. Geese—9. Chickens—lo. Turkeys—ls. Rabbits—7sc per dozen. t What Wing Says of Alabama. Joseph E. Wing, who is probably the best authority in the United States on soil, has two Illustrations in his latest book on “Alfalfa in America," taken near Demopolls, Ala., referring to the Black Belt. On page 496 he writes: “A strip of limestone, soft, white and easily disintegrating, called Belma Chalk, extends down the eastern edge of Mississippi, across into Alabama. On this rests usually a black soil, varying In depth from a few inches to many feet. Naturally this is among the best land in the world, and has marvelous durability under continuous cropping. JOSEPH PULLIN, Solicitor, Phone 534-1. What have you to sell at thlß time of the year 7 Try a classified ad in The Republican and you can sell it. Remember, that all classified ads go in all issues of The Evening and Semi-Weekly Republican. Get the "Classified Ad” habit and get rid of the things you don't need. You will find that there is some good money in a Judicious use of The Republican's classified column.

THE BULE OF EVENING CLOTHES

An incident is not (quite closed which arose in London recently over the enfofcement of a hotel rule requiring evening dress at dinner in the main dining-room. Following the immediate occurrence the management of the Savoy sent notes to 600 patrons asking for their opinions on the rule. The replies indL cate an overwhelming sentiment for the regulation as it stands. Of-course the Savoy is the hotel X>f a class. It was a limited referendum, therefore, |to which the agement had recourse. Yet it is-re-tailed that when the same question <j>f an evenihg-dress requirement arose not long ago in New York in a hotel as exclusive as exceedingly high rates can make it, there was a marked difference of opinion among patrons. The American likes good clothes not less than the Briton._lt was ati American woman who remarked that the sense of being well dressed gave her a serenity greater than that imparted by the consolations of religion. But the state of being under bonds of etiquette to associate certain hours and functions with certain fixed forms of dress is regarded sometimes as irksome even In the most aristocratic circles of a democracy. Despite tradition and the vote at the Savoy, there are signs of uneasiness in modern England over the rigidity of the rules of dress. According to William Archer, the even-ing-clothes habit is turning thouands of people from the London theatres to the music halls and is perpetuating an evening-clothes type of play. “To the British drama,” he says, “the white choker is a choker indeed,” while in America, with the influence of dress restrictions removed, the whole field of life is open to the playwright, Plainly the times are ripe for a new Carlyle and a new “Sartor ResartuA”

"GODS SPIES.

The surest way in which parents and teachers can keep children brought up among so many things and facts from losing their birthright of imagination, writes Louisa L. McCrady in the Atlantic, is not by intellectual theorizing upon the nature of children or of a particular child, fitting the child to the theory, but by a reverent belief in the imaginative life as the most real part of a child's thought and that which most nearly touches his idea of religion; and in regulating the daily life of children to remember ‘ithe scribe instructed into the kingdom of heaven who was liked unto a man that is an householder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and .old.” The new things, the discoveries of science, the enlightenment of civilization—the facts, necessary to be taught but to be learned in their relation to larger truth; and in teaching these great facts to children to bear in mind the “old” part of the "treasure” suggested in King Lear’s words to Cordelia, “We’ll take on us the mysteries of things as if we were God’s spies.”

A DOCTOR S DISCOVERY.

What gives promise of being one of the most beneficial discoveries in the history of the world was modestly suggested by Dr. Albert Calmette director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille, France, in the course of an address before the International conference on tuberculosis in Vienna. He reported that he had been able to render all the animals used for experiment at the Institute —cattle, sheep, and guinea-pigs—immune against the most formidable doses of tuberculosis virus. That is to say, the immunization has been complete for the eleven months dunng which they have been under observation. If it be proved that it is permanent, or that it lasts even for a period of only a few years, and that a similar treatment may be applied to human beings, the importance of this little heralded discovery can hardly be over-estimated.—Leslie’s Weekly.

APART FROM MEN.

The effect of mental seclusion in the ministry Is intellectual Be'.f deception, in the opinion of C. C. Hile, In the Atlantic. Living too much apart from men, an anchoret of tfctf study, haunted by watchwords of a "school of thought,” strained by mental over-production, a minister may establish a purely subjective and quite morbid ideal. Obedient to this idea,- bis mode of thinking may grow away from that of nis brother-men, and his life, wounded by the Indifference dt others, may shrink Into itself, to tread henceforth with melancholy persistence the lonely path of an Intellectual lahmatUte.

Prof. Price of New York avert that the soul ia a small shapeless, gelatinous substance, located beneath the first rib. If the professor has a soul like that, we extend to him our profound condolence.

To Patrons of the Public Schools.

At the present time the attention of educators is centered largely on the elementary school, This is apparent to one who studies programs and reads articles in the periodicals dealing with school matters. This situation' has; asisen partly out of an investigation made some years ago which revealed the fact that a large per cent of the pupils in the public schools did not remain to do work in the, Upper grammar grades and the high school It was readily apparent that if anything was to be done for these pupils it would have to be done while they were in school. This called attention to the elementary schpol and caused interested persons to raise the question as to whether the elementary school was doing its duty by th pupils. The inquiry which arose in an effort to answer this question considered the coufsfe of study and the methods by which it was administered. Are the schools offering the proper subjectmatter and are they offering this subject-matter in the right way, were questions which readily suggested themselves to the students of the situation.

Perhaps another fact turned interest in the direction of the elementary school. Although the high schools were not reaching the major portion of the school population they were absorbing a relatively large portion of the school revenues. The finest buildings, the finest equipment and the highestpriced teachers were being given the high schools. It was easy to ask: “Should not the order be reversed? If the major portion of the pupils get in the elementary school all the education they ever receive at the hands of the public, should not the major portion of the revenues he applied to the elementary school? Should not its buildings, its laboratories, its 'teachers be the best provided by the public?” An affirmative answer seems the only one thinkable in a democracy, where the rule should always be: The greatest good to the greatest number. This question becomes more interesting and more vital when applied to home conditions. Rensselaer does not belong to the class of cities where there is such a marked falling off of pupils before the high school is reached. Generally this elimination begins in the fifth year. The present enrollment in Rensselaer would indicate that there is little or no elimination before the high school is reached. The fifth grade enrollment is 36; sixth grade, 37; seventh grade, 39; eighth grade, 40; ninth grade, 23; tenth grade, 36; eleventh grade, 23; twelveth grade, 14. It should be stated that these figures do not include non-resident pupils, of whom there are many in the high school and a few in the grades. But in any inquiry into elimination these would have to omitted from the reckoning. It is thus apparent that instead of decreasing from the fifth grade on, as is the case in many cities, the enrollment increases. It would be interesting to know why this is, but that is not the point which is being considered in this article. It is interesting to note, however, that resident pupils do drop out very rapidly after the high school is reached. By adding the number of pupils in the last your years of the elementary school there are found to be 152. By adding those in the four years of the high school It is found that there are 96. That is, almost 40 per cent of the pupils found in the last four years of the elementary school are not found in the high school. It would be interesting to know what has become of them and why they are not taking advantage of the superior opportunities afforded by the high school.

It is evident that they are not attracted by these superior advantages. But it is not the purpose of this article to inquire into the cause of this situatiorf. It is rather to se forth the fact tha there are many more residen pupils in the last four years of the elementary school than in the four years of the high school and compare the treatment the two groups receive at our hands under existing ideas of school administration.

Upon comparison we And that we provide the smaller group with better quarters in which to do their work. This is quite noticeably the case since the completion of our new high school building. We also provide the smaller group with more abundant and more expensive equipment. This Is particularly the case with respect to laboratories and laboratory supplies. And we provide the smaller group more expensive teachers. Including among those to be instructed the non-resident pupils we And that there are just about as many pupils in the high school group as in the elementary group. For the instruction of the high school group we employ seven teachers, paying them about $5,400.00. For the Instruction of the elementary group we employ Ave teachers, paying them about $3,200.00. Tho non-resident pupils In the high school pay about SI,OOO in tuition. This reduces the cost to $4,400. As a result of this situation the city is paying out a little more than S4B a year for the instruction of each of the resident pupils in the high school, while for each of the pupils in the elementary grojip it is paying out but a little

over $22 a year. If the non-resident pupils ip the high school paid what their instruction is costing the city the cost per pupil in the high school would he reduced to $35 per year. The city, however, would still be paying $lB a year, more for the instruction of a pupil in the high school than for the instruction of a pupil in the elementary school. At present it is actually paying at least $25 a year more for the instruction of a pupil in the_ high school than it is paying for the instruction of a pupil in the grammar grades. It is quite proper to ask why this" should be so. Why should we spend S4B a year on Mary Brown, who is in the high school, and only $22 on Frank Brown, her brother, who hapens to be in the elementary school? It is also important to consider that high grade instruction is as badly needed in the grammar grades as in the high school. Any one acquainted with children knows that the years from eleven to fifteen the years when they are passing through the grammar grades, are as critical for the developement ahd future life of the children as any other years of their lives. They are even more critical. Formative influences are very effectual at this period of their lives. It easily follows that at this period they should have the very best of teachers. It also follows that at this period the size of the group assigned to rfny one teacher should be at least as small as that assigned to any teacher anywhere else in the system. For individual attention is needed at least as much at this period as anywhere else. At present, in the Rensselaer schools, there is in the high school one teacher for 21 pupils, while in the grammar grades there is one teacher for 30 .pupils. The grade teacher thus has about a third more pupils to care for than the high school teacher. This is a situation worth thinking about. It is to be hoped that no one will jump to the conclusion that less money should be spent on the high school. More money could be spent on the high school with advantage, and a creditable high school could not be maintained fdT less. The point to this article is that we should spend more money on the grades. The old high school building, now occupied by the 6th, 7th and Bth grades, should be made more attractive. There should be a piano for this building. There should be good pictures for the walls. There should be a first class man teacher added to the corps of teachers. Other improvements could be suggested. But these will suffice for the present. It must not be inferred that any one in particular is to blame for the situation described in this paper. It is the outgrowth of a policy which has been practically universal. But it is now time to begin to consider ways and means how the situation can he improved. WM. F. CLARKE, Supt. of City Schools.

Garden Farm Notes The good potato bug dies young. Oats makes a most nutritious green food. It pays to do right when you am plowing corn. Oats, peas and barley are sometimes soWn together. Com should not be planted until ths ground is warm and dry. Leave no long nails sticking up .out of fallen rails or posts in the pasture Com planted In mellow soil will f germinate and make a strong, healthy growth. Deep cultivation cuts off the side roots of the com, and destroys a part of the crop. Nearly every careful fanner has that variety of com best suited for his sol) and climate. Two ounces of corrosive sublimate to 16 gallons of water makes a solution that kills potato scab. No use to treat potatoes for scab 11 they are to be planted In ground In which scabby potatoes grew last year. Plant the first row or two of space along the fence In the cornfields atU Joining the pasture lands to potatoe? Use slaked lime for the striped squash or cucumber bug. An early vine makes a trap to catch the fli;st ones. Com that yields well in one locality will often make an entire failure In Another locality where conditions are different. The keynote of suocess In com i growing Is frequent shallow cultiva. jtlons rather than occasional deep cultivations. For corn, cabbage and tomatoes, ■plow down clover sod or clover and grass sod. Harrow and roll until fine land very mellow. Land plaster is an excellent absorbent to use In the gutters and Its use increases the value of the manure to a large extent. Sweet clover Is rapidly growing iplp popularity. Is is one of the beet crops that can be raised and it Is adapted to a wide variety of soils. Itch! Itch! Itch! Scratch! Scratch! Scratch! The more you scratch, the worse the itch. Try Doan’s Ointment. For eczema, any skin itching. 50c a box. Let the people of Rensselaer and Jasper eounty know what you have to sell; use The Republican Classified Column. ,

FARMS FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE 22 acres, improved, near good town, $l,lOO. 21 acres, four blocks from court house, $4,200. 90 acres, six-room house, barn, on dredge ditch, $45; terms, $1,500 down. 160 acres, good improvements, well tilled and a bargain at S9O. $1,500 down. Only four miles out 97 acres, near station, on dredge ditch, black land, good buildings, only $55. SI,OOO down. 99 acres, all cultivated, good land, five-room house; barn, orchard, near station and school Only $55. Terms, •%500 down. '' 75 acres, all black land, all cultivated, pike road, near school and station, seven-room house, outbuildings, windmill, tanks and fruit $75. Terms, S6OO down. Take live stock. 225 acres, Washington county, improved, price $35. Will trade clear for land or property here and pay difference or assume. 16(1 acres, Barkley township, good improvements, well located, at a bargain. Terms $1,500 down. 120 acres, seven miles out Good house, fair barn, all tillable land. Only $65. Terms easy. 160 acres, six-room house, good barn, near school and station. 145 acres black land in cultivation. Only $45. Terms, SI,OOO down. 550 acres, good buildings, dredge ditch, near school and station, 500 acres black prairie land. Only S4O. 320 acres, 300 acres black prairie land, no buildings, at the low price of $37.50. 83 acres, good soil, near three stations on main road. A great bargain at S3O. Terms, S6OO down. Will trade for live stock. Onion land, as good as the best, from 20 to 160 acres, at $35 to $45. 120 acres, three miles out. Large house and barn, $l2O. 160 acres, in Polk county, Ark. Will trade clean and pay difference. An eight-room, two-flat building on improved street in Hammond Ind. Will trade for farm or prop erty here. GEORGE F. MEYERS. WALKER TOWNSHIP. Frederick Karch called at Rensselaer Monday on business. The advisory board met at Trustee Karch’s Saturday on business. Henry Karch is attending Indiana University, at Bloomington, this term, and will take a full year’s w6rk. Miss Anna Garlach visited Mrs. Otto Nickerson Sunday. " John Karch returned home last Friday from Illinois, where he spent two weeks visiting friends and relatives. John Garlach butchered Monday. The smallest hog he killed weighed 280 pounds, and the largest about 450. Hugh Mize returned from Tennessee Saturday with a bride. They are visiting West Mize and family at present. A crowd of the boys went to Mr. Mize’s Monday evening to remind Hugh that he owed the treats. He let them make some noise first and then Invited them in and introduced them to his wife and passed the cigars. Their friends join in wishing/them a long and prosperout married life. Everett Collins, Walter Davis and Alvin Karch are on the sick list. A joint institute will be held at Walker Center Saturday. The townships represented will he Kankakee, Wheatfleld and Walker. Everyone invited, patrons especially. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hurly are the proud parents of a baby girl. Mrs. Sam Mize Is visiting her parents In Illinois. She has been there since the burning of their home on January 4th. Guy Myers and John Stockwell are working on . the bam which Henry Myers is building. Walter Anderson, who has been spending the past week In this vicinity, returned to Chicago. To feel strong, have good appetite and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy life; use Burdock Blood Bitters, the family system tonic. Price, SI.OO. A marked Improvement of discipline at the national home for disabled volunteer sodiers at Danville, 111., was reported to congress Monday by Maj. W. H. Gordon, the inspector general The report says the experiment of segregating the drunkards in separate barracks has been successfully tried at this branch, and the practice is recommended to other homes. CASTOR IA Mr Infante and Children. Tin XU Yh Hm Always BeagM A lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia and constipation—weakens the whole system. Doan's Regulets (25c per box) act mildly on the liver and bowels. At all drug store*. We have taken the agency for Remington typewriter supplies and If you want the best typewriter ribron made call at The Republican office or phone your wants. Ribbons for m makes of machines. Use our Classified Column.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS Dr.IL M. WASHBURN. physician aib simonov. Hakes a specialty of diseases 6t the Eyes. Over noth Brothers. 7. 7. Irwin 8. O. Irwin • IRWIN & IRWIN LAW, BIS AT. ESTATE, ZVSUBAVOB. 6 per cent farm loans. Office In Odd Fellows’ Block. E. P. HONAN ATTOBNET A* LAW. ' Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance ; and Real Estate. Will practice In all the courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch, Bensselaer, Indiana. H. L. BROWN BBNTXST. Crown and Bridge Work and Teeth Without Plates a Specialty. AU the latest methods In Dentistry. Qaa administered for painless extraction. Office over Larah’a Drug Store. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYEB. (Successor to Frank Foltz.) Practice In all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. ' ' Collection department Notary in the office. Benaselaar, Indiana. Dr. *. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SVBGBOV. Office opposite Trust and Savings Bank. —■ - • Phones: 177—2 rings for office; 3 rings for residence. Bencselaer, Indiana. y Dr. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC FHTBICZAV. Rooms 1 and 2, Hurray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office—2 rings on 300, real dence—3 rings on 300. Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. Dr. E. N. LOT Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell. HOMEOPATHIST. Office—Frame building on Cullen street east of court house. OPPIOE PHOVE 89. Residence College Avenue, Phone 169. y Benaselaar, Indiana. F. H. HEMPHILL, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON. Special attention to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office in Williams block. Opposite Court House. Telephone, Office and residence, 442. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OPFZCBBS. Mayor G. F. Meyera Marshal George Mustard Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer ,R. D. Thompson Attorney Moses Leopold Civil Engineer ..W. F. Osborne Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Councilman. Ist Ward George W. Hopkins 2nd Ward . ; D. E. Grow 3rd Ward Harry Krealer At Large C. J. Dean, A G. Catt judicial] Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Rensselaer, Indiana. Prosecuting Attorney.. .Fred Longwel) i Brook, Indiana. Terms of Court—Second Monday In February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clera Judson H. Perkins Sheriff W. I. Hoover Auditor J. P. Hammond Treasurer A A Fall Recorder Geo. W. Scott Surveyor Devere Yeoman Coroner W. J. Wright Supt Public Schools.... Ernest Lamaoa County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer E. N. Loy COMMISSIONED. Ist District Wm. H. Herahmaa 2nd District,... Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd District .Chas. A Welch Commissioners' Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOABD OP EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folger Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer OH lam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wortlsy Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John 5br1rer.................. Kankakee H. W. Wood, Jr .Marlon George L. Parka Mllroy E. P. Lane ..Newton Isaac Klght Union Albert S. Keene Wheatfleld Fred Kerch Walker Erneat Lamson, Co. Supt.... Rensselaer Geo. A Williams Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel wimsta<iis Truant Officer. C. B. Steward, Renaselaar

OUoago to Horthwtok Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and the South, rtV* ana Frsnoh Uoh Spring's. UniUAXB TXMX TABU In Effeot November >4, 1111. ~ „ SOUTH BOUND. " No. Sl—Faat Hail 4:40 a. m N°- f-ouievllle Hall .... 11:09 a. m. No. S7—lndpla. Ex. 11:11 a. m. No- 5? 1 < L* , ? > Llmlt,Kl •• *OO p. m. No. SS—Milk Accom. . 1 ..., S:SO p. m. No. I —Louisville Ex. '.... H:ot p. m. „ . T NORTH BOtIND. v 6*- Mall ... 4:Ct a. m. St rfr ,Ji» t £ lusseuii NO. SO—Hoosler Limited S:Q| p. m. Train No. SI makes connection* at Hojrrawi asas at 4 10. connects with No. SO at Honon, arriving at Rensselaer at «:SS p. m. r Train*, Noe. SO and SS, the "Hooeler Limited.” rua only between Chicago and IndlanapoUa, the C. H. 4k D. Servfce for Cincinnati having been discontinued W. H. BEAM. Agent. Our Classified Column will find you a purchaser for mose anything, you have for sale. Try It