Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — Page 4

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Classified Column BATM BOM Pad—AM. Thraa line. or laaa, par waak of al* aauaa of The Evening Republican and £Tof Tha Semi-Weakly Republican, ii cnnta Additional aoace »ro rata. ro* ui*, FOR SALE—A 6-foot Deering binder, with tongue truck; used one year; in first-class condition, SIOO. —Hamilton & Kpl In<>r FOR SALE—A heavy draft gelding, young draft mare in foal; also 4 general purpose lighter horses; yell on time or trade for cattle. —Fred Phillips. FOR SALE—Boxes and barrels.— Jarrette’s Variety Store. FOR SALE—Rose Comb Rhode Island Red hens; full blood. —F. M. Parker, Phone 217. FOR SALE—A rubber tired top baggy in good cqpdition. Inquire or Mrs. R. P. Benjamin, phone 540. FOR SALE—About 100,000 feet o:' white o4k and red oak lumber, all sixes and lengths. Inquire of E. M. Baker, in tent on Mrs. York’s land on McCoy avenue. FOR SALE —A Bowser gasoline tank, new and second hand bicycles, tiraa and bicycle repairs.—J mes Clark. FOR SALE —Two 1914 Ford roadsters, A-l condition. Frank Hill, *r., Phone 494. FOR SALE—I2O acres good farm land in Barkley township, can be sold in 40 acre tract and 80 acre tract or all together. George A. Williams, over First National Bank. FOR SALE —Indian gasoline, the world’s best quality, now retailing at 18 cents.—Schroer’s Garage, Central Garage, Main Garage. FOR SALE OR TRADE—A gtxx town property, near courthouse, gooc house, lot 75x150, right price if sold at once; also three separate eighties at right price on easy terms; also two tracts of pasture land, one of 820 and other of 80 acres; one stock farm of 820 acres ;also 164 acres 8 miles of Rensselaer, and an 80-acre tract 4 miles of Rensselaer; any of these lands are worth the money and are for sale or trade; also some extra horses, set new harness; 1 set driving harness, one auto to sell or trade. Come and see me.—J. N. Bicknell, Rensselaer, Ind. WATMP. WANTED—Giri to work in kitchen of restaurant—Fate’s College Inn. WANTED —Housekeeper by widower on farm, 2 children. Must be neat and good cook. Inquire of John C. Carmichael. WANTED=SOO stock hogs, 125 pounds down, any site; also 200 sows and pigs.—A. W. Sawin, phone 400. WANTED—CaII phone No. 577 when* you have any old rags, magazines, rubber, copper and brass to seU. Highest price paid and right weight. Rensselaer Junk Buyers, Sam Karnofsky. WANTED—Auto livery, experienced driver, will appreciate a share of your patronage. New auto. —Schroer Garage, Phone No. 78. WANTED—lnformation that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person who stole 3 cases of eggs fro mmy poultry house. —A. E. Wallace, Phone 26. ~ rown>. FOUND—Automobile number and tail light. Inquire here. ro> ManrFOR RENT—FIat over McKay's Ixundry. Inquire of Geo. H. Healey. U>B> - LOST—Small pocketbook containing quite a little change and probably a bilk Finder please return to M. D. Rhoades or this office. LOST—Top hood for Chevrolet auto. Please return to or notify Frank Hill, Phone 918-L LOST—A student’s Bible with small clasp, probably fell from buggy. Finder please leave at Long’s drugstore or this office. —Mrs. Lida FOR EXCHANGE—Good clear city property in Chicago for a farm; also want a good farm near Catholic school You deal direct with the own-

Freaks of Anatomy In Westville Autopsy.

After an illness of less than a half hour, Mrs. Anna Augustine, of Westville, aged 21, died. The death seemed very peculiar and a postmortem examination revealed strange abnormal formations of the internal organs which would have caused the death of an ordinary human less than two minutes. Her left lung, which the physicians had trouble in locating, was no larger than a small lemon. The right lung was about one-quarter normal size and the heart one-half normal size. The liver was many times the normal size, extending to the fourth rib and well up into the shoulder. Mrs. Augustine had always been in good health and in spite of the deformity of her internal organs due to toxaemia, death was entirely normal.

A Medicine Chest For 25c. In this chest you have an excellent remedy for toothache, bruises, sprains stiff necks, backache, neuralgia, rheumatism and for most emergencies. One 25c bottle of Sloan’s Liniment does it all—this because these ailments are symptoms, not diseases, and are caused by congestion and inflammation. If you doubt, ask those who use Sloan’s Liniment, or better still, buy a 25c bottle and prove it All druggists. 3

Officers Convinced Holt Bomb Fired Minnehaha.

The steamer Minnehaha, which caught on fire Wednesday, is now in port at Halifax and it is believed for sure that a bomb placed on the ship by Erich Muenter, alias Frank Holt, was responsible for the blaze which occurred immediately after an explosion, which shook the ship from stem to stern and two men were thorwn 10 feet in the air. The flames were fould for two days and nights by the crew. The crew gained toe upper hand Thursday morning but they encountered a storm which held the Ship away from anchorage for several hours.

Cured of Indigestion. Mrs. Sadie P. Clawson, Indiana Pa., was bothered with indigestion. “My stomach pained me night and day,” she writes. “I would feel bloated and have headache and belching after eating. I also suffered from constipation. My daughter had used Chamberlain’s Tablets and they did her so much good that she gave me a few doses of them and insisted upon my trying them. They helped me as nothing else his done.” For sale by all dealers. C

Man Near Williamsport Had Ear Bitten Off.

Williamsport Republican-Review: Last Monday while Paul Biser was working with a team of horses, one of the team, which is a little irritable, reached out as Paul passed their heads, caught him by the left ear and bit out the posterior free part of the ear just as smoothly as if it had been cut with a knife, the rim, however, was not bitten clean at the lower part next to the lobe, but this was tom off, making an ugly, ragged edge. He came to town at once and had the ragged edges trimmed up and the wound closed with ten stitches.

Boom For Henry Ford.

Henry Ford will be invited to attend the assembly of northern Illinois republicans at Aurora Aug. 7, when a boom will be launched for him for the republican vice presidential nomination.

Fast U. S. Destroyer Launched.

The United States torpedo boat destroyer Conyngham was launched at the Cramps chip yards in Philadelphia yesterday. The vessel will make a speed of about 29% knots an hour.

A charter has been issued 'by the secretary of state of North Carolina for the John Paul Jones association. The object is to preserve and maintain “Grove House” at Halifax, N. C. r where John Paul once resided. Nightwatch Critser was asked to hold the owner of a car here last night for running into a buggy between Goodland and Remington. The buggy belonged to Jimmy Wright. The owner of the car was found at the hotel, but it was proved that the man driving the horse was to blame for the accident which caused no damage. The car was from Champaign, 111. _____ The navy department yesterday took over the wireless station at Sayville, L. 1., which was the only remaining privately owned and operated method of communication between the United States and Germany. Frank L. Bridges, adjutant-general, has received a message from Governor Ralston ordering the adjutantgeneral to hold up a former order mustering out Co. H, of the First regiment, Indiana national guard. CASTOR IA for In&ats and OhfMro*. Th tlid Ym Haw Alwap Bwgrt

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BIG FIRN LOSS LAID TO DOGS

AGRICULTURAL DEPT BAYB IF MENACE WERE REMOVED FARMERS WOULD REGAIN THIS GUM. CAUSE OF DECREASE II HOCKS Raisers Do Not Like to Risk the Heavy Looses; Drastic Remedies Are Suggested. Washington.—The department of agriculture, in a statement, indicates that the sheep-killing dog is a greater menace now than ever before, and that If he could be destroyed ft would mean at least J 144,267,000 in the pockets of farmers of this country. It Is suggested by an expert of the department that the Increase would be nearer $500,000. “The number of sheep in 86 farm states, which do not Include any in the western division, could be Increased by 150 per cent, it is estimated, without displacing other live stock,” asserts the office of information of the department of agriculture. Some authorities believe that the increase could be even as much as 500 per cent without serious interference with the number of other animals. An increase of 150 per cent in these 86 states would mean in money $144,267,000. In a new publication of the department, Farmers’ Bulletin 652, the responsibility for this loss to the country is laid upon the sheep-killing dog. Sheep-killing dogs, it is said, are the principal cause of the marked decrease in the number of sheep on American farms. Favorable though the market conditions were, they were not a sufficient incentive to induce farmers to risk the heavy losses from stray dogs. If the dog question could be satisfactorily disposed of, there seems to be no reason why the number of sheep in the country could not be increased to the extent already Indicated. In Great Britain there is one sheep or lamb for each 2.5 acres of the total area. In the 36 farm states in this country there is one sheep or lamb for each 81.8 acres. The British farmer handles his land on an intensive basis and feeds his sheep on foragecrop pasture. Such pastures not only increase the fertility of the land but also free the sheep from many internal parasites contracted through grazing upon permanent pastures. In particular the use of the most prevalent and disastrous scourges of young stock, and will enable the farmer to market by the end of June or the first of July, when market prices are usually the highest, the lambs that were born In the late winter or early spring. Handled under such conditions and on high-priced farm land, the importance of a small flock of sheep cannot be overlooked. In addition to pointing out these facts, the bulletin discusses the possible means of preventing in the future the loss from dogs. At the present time the various state laws on this subject differ widely, some states using the money obtained from dog licenses to reimburse sheep owners, while others permit the sheepmen to recover damages from the dog owners, and two offer them no recourse whatsoever. Dogs, however, are very seldom caught in the act of killing sheep. It is always difficult to determine their owners, and where the damages are paid by the state directly from the dog-tax funds the money very frequently is far from sufficient to meet all the claims. A remedy that is suggested for this situation is a uniform state dog law embodying the principle of a tax upon dogs sufficiently heavy to discourage those who are not willing to take care of their pets from keeping them. Under this plan all dogs over six months of age must be licensed each year, the tax paid at the time of licensing and a metal tax bearing the license number attached to the dog's collar. Any dog found without this tag unattended and off its owner's premises, under this plan, may be killed. When found unattended on a form where sheep are kept the dog may be killed whether It has the tag or not, and under any circumstances a dog caught chasing or killing sheep may be killed. AR dogs which can be proved to be sheep killers, under the suggested plan, must be killed whether caught in the act or not, and a reward of 115 should be offered for anyone Identifying a sheep-killing dog. The money received from dog taxes should be devoted to reimbursing sheep owners for their loss of stock, and the county should In turn recover this money whenever possible from the dog's owners. A special license should be Issued for kennels where large numbers at dogs are maintained under such conditions that they cannot possibly do any harm to neighboring flocks.

There’s nothing beats the old fashioned tintype if you want a truthful picture of yourself. ' 4 A wise woman refuses to ask her husband to accompany her to church if ho talks In his sleep.

Th* Daring Divers of Thursday Island Diving for shell, and Incidentally for th* little treasure of pearl—it has been estimated that one shell in a thousand contains a pearl—is carried on in deeper water off Thursday Island than anywhere else. Other productive beds lie comparatively shallow —the Persian Gulf, the Sulu Seas, the Gulf of Mar naar. The greatest depth at which a diver in helmet and dress can perform any sort of useful labor is held to be one hundred and eighty-two feet At that depth a Spanish diver raised #,OOO pounds in stiver bars from a wreck off FinlSterre. At one hundred and fifty feet an English diver saved 60,000 from a wreck off Leuconna Reef of the Chinese coast The maximum depth to which the sponge-fishers of the Mediterranean successfully descend is one hundred and fifty feet. In the Torres Strait with the depletion of the beds, the divers have moved from the shallow water of from four to six fathoms to depths of one hundred and twenty feet where the operation is a distressful and perilous one. A paternal law prohibits diving beyond a specified depth of safety; but as the courts have held that a diver must be actually seen at that depth, if anybody is to be held amenable, and as the reefs are remote from any practical scheme of supervision, It is a law of small consequence after all, and the perilously deep diving goes on, no doubt much as before, with its occasional issue of sudden death. Subjected to a hazardous degree of atmospheric pressure—at one hundred feet It is sixty pounds to the square inch —the divers are attacked by various characteristic disturbances, pains In the muscles and joints for example (“the bends”), and deafness, spells of fainting, and paralysis, otherwise known as “diver’s palsy.” The effects appear when the diver ascends too rapidly from deep water and the pressure Is removed. It is then that the cases of sudden death occur —the diver found dead in his helmet or expiring on the deck when the helmet is removed. It is a short life (they say) and a bitter one, fit only for the yellow and brown men —the Japanese and Papuans and Manlla-ment and island boys; the Japanese, especially, who are tough fellows, sullenly reckless of their days, and thinking of life only In terms of hard labor and brief periods of violent pleasure. —Norman Duncan, in Harper’s Magazine.

Mistaken Ideas

“I don’t know whether I will sit with you fellows or not,” said Dubbs to the group in the smoker. “The minister Is dining at our house tonight, and I will not be in the proper mood if I asosciate with you fellows.” “There’s where you are wrong,” said Smudger, shifting his cigar to the other corner of his mouth. “The minister won’t want any hifalutln’ talk from you. He gets all of that he requires, and besides he can furnish it for himself. Go right ahead and be your usual breezy and open-faced self, and the minister will pass the time much more pleasantly. “Don’t make the mistake that Billings made. Billings got word that some of his wife’s relatives were coming from the country and he said to his son: ‘My boy, you and I must change our mode of life. These country bumpkins are in the habit of going to bed at nine o’clock and they won’t know a thing but crops and chickens and cows. We’ll have to bone up on the poultry journals so you can talk to the girl aout milking and feeding chickens, and I’ll have to talk to ths old man about the weevil and how to cure It? “That’s where he was wrong. He didn’t know much about farmers. He didn’t realize that they had a phone In that farmhouse connected with the city, that they had two mails a day, and that the girl was a civic reformer. “The consequence was that the girl who wanted to talk civics and how to cure the evils of the city and who was cognizant of every crooked deal that had been put over by the administration for the last two years, thought the boy a regular boor; and the old man, who knew the battingeverage of every player in the league, thought the city man the worst mossback he had ever seen. “So, If you don’t want to get off on the wrong foot, refrain from springing solemn talk on the minister. He’d see through you right away." ' “I rise to report,” said the young man of the party, “that the aforementioned remarks are correct. The girl of the present day, town or country, will not listen to tennis talk, style or poetry or the dulcet guitar. She Is interested in clubs and reforms. The slums are the thing. “If you start anything about balls or bridge she will look at you as If you were Old Man Methuselah." “I am convinced," said Dubbs, settling himself In the smoker with hb cronies. “I will steep myself in lowbrow talk for the sake of being agreeable to the minister."

Comforting

A certain youngster was one day suffering greatly by reason of an aching tooth. His mother was endeavoring so calm him against a visit to the dentist. “You'D have it out, won’t you. dear r Ad mother pleaded. -It won’t hurt ..ncfi and then the ache will be all But the ""happy child continued to howl with pain. His brother, a year older, was likewise distressed and added his pleadings to those of the mother. -Do have It out, dear," repeated the mother. -Yes, Dick, have It out," added the brother. -It will be one less to dean you know." _ . _

SACRED STICKS GIVE WAR RESULT

Blocks, Also, Help Son of Nippon to Forecast Crushing of Germany. U.' 8. WILL BE THE MEDIATOR Japan, Naturally, Will Gain by Her Little Argument with * China. - New York.—The spirits of Nippon descended to wmsper into the ears of Don-Show Kodama, master of the mysteries of divination by the Songl blocks, the jelchlku, or sacred bamboo sticks, and the ancient Japanese numbers. They said that before the end of March a great naval battle will be fought In the North Sea, the German navy will be overwhelmed and crushed <nd negotiations for peace will be started with the United States as mediator. Through an Interpreter the prophecy was translated: “I see two great powers situated as lightning is to thunder coming Into contact.” The seer gnawed his fingers until the blood showed through the skin to make the next point. “They are the English and the 'Germans. The German ffeet has come forward to fight, but It is like the teeth and food. The English navy Is the teeth, the German the food that is to be crushed. It is a difficult crush, however —just like the bone of a chicken caught between teeth. But the bone Is finally crushed and swallowed (indicating that the English navy will crush the Germans and sink all of the ships). The bone will give damage to the teeth In crushing, but not serious. After this the United States will get very busy and negotiations for peace wiil be started. America will bring all together and have supreme power in the world.” The prophet called attention to the predictions he made in December that Russia would be invaded by the Kaiser’s armies and badly defeated; that President Wilson would be confronted with three serious problems, and that submarine methods of warfare would be used. Don-Show Kodama points out that several days ago the Russian forces suffered a serious reverse in East Prussia, where many thousands were taken prisoners by the Germans. The seer predicted also that submarines in the Mediterranean would sink a number of French vessels. So far he Is somewhat off on the location, but recent dispatches said that the Kaiser was shipping submarines by rail to be used in the Mediterranean. The three American problems he claims to’ have predicted are the fight over the ship-purchase bill, the Mexican question and the situation In the Orient As to the latter question the Japanese seer predicts that it will be settled by a “military movement” Japan, he explained, will send troops to China after the prolonged negotiations fall to settle the differences. China, not wishing a war, will give in to the Japanese requests and Tsing-tao will belong to Nippon.

NOT ENOUGH BRITISH OFFICERS

Army Finds It Difficult to Obtain Men Fitted to Command In Field. LONDON.—The difficulty of obtaining officers of the right sort for the British Army is discussed at length by Edgar WaDace, in Navy and Army, a British service pubDcatlon. "A shortage of officers (and the right kind of officers)," says he, -would have been more serious than a shortage of men. Men, at a pinch, could have been obtained by the operation of the ballot act, but you cannot obtain officers at a moment’s notice. In this respect we are ever so much more favorably placed than our enemy, whose shortage In this direction is notorious. "The difficulty which the authorities have had has been to secure an adequate supply of right kind of officers. It is known that, despite the fact of their being drawn from the most democratic section of the public, the men of the British Army are very jealous for the character of their officers. 1 have some experience of army life, and I have only known about two rankers who were popular with their men. "Outside of the Highland Brigade even Gen. Hector Macdonald was not greatly beloved by Tommy. This difficulty has been overcame by the patriotism, and he does not necessarily require tremendous Intelligence from his officer, but he does demand, before he gives him his confidence and his complete allegiance, a certain social standing and certain qualities of culture. “Of the 50,000 officers who have joined the army since Die beginning of the war, probably 20,000 have never served In that capacity but the greater number have been drawn from the class which has always supplied the services with their leading."

An English officer say Germans are apparently suicidally brave. "People at home," he adds, "do not seem to realise this. Neither do they realise properly that only such pluck, bravery and doggedness as you get in a Britisher fighting against odds prevented them getting to Calais. Ton cannot Imagine the tremendous efforts made by the Germans, and I cannot teD you how near It was ‘touch and ga *

PROFESSIONAL CH I - ' ——— DR. E, C ENGLISH Phyildu «i( SnfMi Opposite Trust and Savings Bank. Phones: ITT—I rings Sm •«e; * ‘wATneriLw”™**™ C. E. JOHNSON, M. B. Oflee 1b Jessen Building. Iffice Hours—9 to 11 a. m. 1 to t and 7 to 8 p. m. Specialty: Surgery Phon* THDR. I. M. WASHBURN Phyildii uA SarßHi Phone 48. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN Law, 1 Real Eatate, luiraace 5 par cent farm loann Office in Odd renown* Block. H. L. BROWN Dentist Crown and Bridge Work and TeeU without Platea a Specialty. AU th" etest methods in Dentistry. Gas ad nlnistered for painless extraction. Office over Larch’s Brag Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. JOHN A. DUNLAP Lawyer (Successor to Frank Foltz.) Practice in aU court* Estates settled. Farm Loans. * Co lection department. ’ Notary in the office. Sonsselaor, fizdiane JOE JEFFRIES Chiropractor Successor to J. C. Shupert Office Over Rowles & Parker’s Phone 576 Lady Attendant E. N. LOY Successor to Dr. W. W. Hartsell. Homeopathist Mice— Frame building on GuUen street, east of court house, ornaa rxon os. .teeiaence College Avenue, Phone Its Bensselaer, Indiana. DR. F. A. TURFLER | Oateopathlc Pkysida ** Rooms 1 and >. Murray Building, Rensselaer, Indiana. Phones, Office —t rings on ttt, rest tence —S rings op lo*. Successfully treats both acuta and hronlc diseases. Spinal curvatures a specialty. GEORGE A. ~ WILLI AMS Lawyer Special attention given to preparation of wills, settlement of estates, making and examination of abstract of title, and farm loam. Office over First National Bank. F. H. HEMPHILL ~~ Physician and Sutton iseoial attention do diseases *f wesson and low grades es fever. Office over Fendig’s Drag Store. Telephone, office and residence. 441.

RENSSELAER MARKETS.

Corn —70c. New Oats—32c. Wheat —90c. No. 2 Wheat—93c. Rye—7sc. Butterfat—27c. Chickens —11c. Springs—l7c. Roosters—6c. Turkeys—loc. Ducks—loc. Eggs—ls %c.

Mrs. iM. V. Martin went to Knox yesterday to visit friends until Tuesday. \ The price of wheat has declined and we are giving you the benefit of Ram e. Monogram Flour $1.75; White Star Flour $1.65. Your money baNU, if you want it.—Bowles & Parker. •

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