Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1915 — Page 4

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Classified Column *a**b ro* a»b. Three linac or less, per week of six mum of The Evening Republican and two of The Semi-Weekly Republican, <» cento Additional anace pro rata. FOB, BAL*. FOR - SALE—A cow, 3 years old taut February; with a 2-day-old heifer calf at side.—H. C. Peek, phone 954-F. FOR SALE —40 acres clear to trade as first payment on larger tract. 80 acres, all cultivated, good buildings, ‘four miles from corporation this city/ Terms $1,500 down.—Geo. F. Meyers. FOR SALE—Why pay high rents and improve the other fellow’s farmYou can buy 160 acres in west central Minnesota for $4,000; nice level to gently rolling prairie land, all tillable rich black soil, with clay subsoil, % mile from railroad town. Write for my bargain list. Reasonable terms. —Marion A. Churchill, Dugdale, Minn. FOR SALE —Plums. Whitsell Lewis. Northwest part of town. FOR SALE—Plums.—Mrs. W. H. Barkley, Phone 903-D. FOR SALE—Gravel, bnck sand and pasturing sand. Delivered in the city. Phone 933-L, M. L Adams. FOR SALE —A Ford touring car. J. C. Clark. FOR SALE—About 100,000 feet of white oak and red oak lumber, all cinea and lengths. Inquire of E. M. Baker, in tent on Mrs. York’s land on McCoy avenue. FOR SALE—I4xI7 tent, in Al condition, cheap for cash.—D. M. Worland. FOR SALE—lndian gasoline, the world’s best quality, now retailing at 13 cents. —Schroer’s Garage, Central Garage, Main Garage. ' WANTED. WANTED —3 or 4 furnished rooms Tor light housekeeping. Address 113 r this office. JL ' ■ WANTED—To rent modern house. C. J. Stebbins, Makeever House. WANTED —80 to 125 pound hogs. Watch this space.—A. W. Sawin. WANTED—To borrow $1,500 to $2,000. Secured by first mortgage on farm. Interest 7 per cent. —Geo. F. Meyers. WANTED—SchooI boys to board. Phone 213. WANTED—Auto livery, experienced driver, will appreciate a share of your patronage. New auto.- —Schroer Garagp, Phone No. 78. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FOR SALE—One of the best building lots in Rensselaer, near business Mvtwm, schools, library and churches. Good sewer with perfect drainage for cellar. Ideal location for a fine residence.—Leslie Clark.

FOB SALE—One of the best lots at Dunn’s Pleasure Resort, on the Kankakee river.—Healey & Clark, Rensselaer, Ind. FOR SALE —120 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 —Or trade, two 58 foot lots, with seven room house, good well of water and lots of fruit. Phone 299. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. . 240 acres of first class land, 80 acres of which lies two miles north of Wabash, Wabash county, Indiana, on the North Manchester pike; has good two-story farm house, large barn, windmill, wood and tank house, good cross fences, well ditched. Also 160 acres, one-half mile north and quarter of mile west of this 80; with cottage house, new barn, good well, well cross-fenced and well drained. All deep Hack soil, about 20 acres in timber. Thia land to be sold in 80-acre tracts, or any way to suit buyer. To be sold by order of court from day to day, at the office of Todd A Plummer, Bradley block, Wabash. Terms: One-third (1-3) cash, onethird (1-3) in one year, and one-third (1-3) in two years. See the undersigned or Todd A Plummer for particulars. JOHN C. SUMMERLAND, Commissioner, Wabash, Ind. LOBT. LOST —Diamond ring Thursday morning, probably on Main street — - -- ■ .

LOST—At or near Fountain Park, a purse containing about $100; my name inside purse. Please notify me or the American Express office, Rensselaer.—John Harmon. FOB MEM?. FOR RENT—Furnished roams, one block south of postoffice on Front street. —Mrs. John H. Frey. FOR RENT—Rooms for high school boys or girls, one block of school house.—Tom Cox, Phone 556. FOR RENT—WiII rent my new 9room house and will rent of the renter one or two rooms for storage of my theatrical trunks.—Earle Reynolds. rouiD. FOUND—Ladies’ mesh bag containing small sum of money; Inquire at this office. FOUND—Bunch of key*. Inquire at this office. Rev. L. E. Conner, of Cleveland, Ohio, will preach at the Church of God Sunday morning and evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Mustard and son, Freddie, left today for a week’s vacation at Warsaw and Winona. The ladies of the M. E. church will hold their 10c social in the church parlors Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 17th. An Easy, Pleasant Laxative. One or two Dr. King’s New Life Pills with a tumbler of water at night No bad, nauseating taste, no belching gas. Go right to bed. Wake up in the morning, enjoy a free, easy bowel movement, and feel fine all day. Dr. King’s New Life Pills are sold by all druggists, 36 in an original paring**, for 25c. Get a bottle today —enjoy this easy, pleasant laxative. 2 Mrs. Roy Over and children, of Chicago, who have been the guests of Mrs. Ralph Sprague, went to Monon today for a visit. Mrs. W. R. Nawels went to Battle Ground today to attend a reunion of an old collegiate institute which Mrs. Nowels attended fifty years ago. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Soffel, who have been visiting his brother, W. M. Coffel, went to,Delphi today and from their will return to their home in Colburn. A Cough Reemdy that Relieves. It’s prepared from the healing Pine Balsam, Tar and Honey—all mixed in a pleasant, soothing cough syrup called Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar Honey. Thousands have benefited by its use—no need of your enduring that annoying cough or risking a dangerous cold. Go to your dealer, ask for a 25c original bottle Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey, start using at once and get rid of your cough and cold. 2 Mr. and Mrs. George A. Williams and Miss Davidson, who have been visiting at East Liberty, Ohio, returned this morning by auto. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holden, who went there last week for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Williams, returned home with them.

CASTOR IA Bor Infants and Children. Ils KM Yn Han Ahraji Bwpt Bevs Um TV RKNBSKLAXR MARKETSOats—3sc. Corn —75c. Wheat from 90c to sl. Rye—Boc. Butterfat—24c. Spring Chickens —15c. Roosters —6c. Turkeys—lo-12c. Ducks —10-12 c. Hens—llc. Eggs—l7c.

SPECIAL ’IO LAFAYETTE FAIR. The Monon will run a special to Lafayette on Aug. 26th, on account of the Tippecanoe county fair. The following schedule has been arranged: Leave Rensselaer 7:45 am Leave Pleasant Ridge 7:56 am Leave McCoysburg 8:04 am Leave Lee 8:11 am Leave Monon 8:25 am Arrive Lafayette 9:29 am Returning, the special will leave Lafayette at 9:15 p. m., stopping at all stations, egular rates will prevail.

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DEEDED LAND TO LORD IN HEAVEN

ODDEST CONVEYANCE KNOWN FOUND IN MISSOURI RECORDS. RELIEVED FROM PAYING TAXES 120 Acres of Land Transferred to Celestial Father and Son 65 Years Ago. Macon, Mo.—ln an old record at Huntsville, this state, is perhaps the oddest land conveyance ever made In Missouri. It Is a deed from Johnson Wright and his wife, Eliza Jane Wright, to God. Somebody published a copy of the deed in a local newspaper the other day and a great many people commented upon the devoutness of the old couple giving their land to the Lord. M. C. Tracy of Macon used to live at Huntsville. He states that when the tax collector cabled upon Mr. Wright the latter told the official that the land had been deeded to the Lord, as would duly appear upon the records, and that he was thus relieved from the obligation to pay taxes. The collector went back to the county seat and found the deed recorded just as Mr. Wright said it was. Then the sheriff took the account for taxes and went out to Mr. Wright’s farm. He proceeded to levy on some horses in the barn, according to Mr. Tracy. "What are you doing with those horses?” asked the old gentleman. "Taking them to pay that tax bill,” replied the sheriff. "I don’t owe any taxes —this land is deeded to the Lord.” "But the horses ain’t,” said the sheriff. The sheriff started out on the road with the horses, and the old gentleman followed him and told the officer he guessed he would settle the Lord’s bill for taxes. Here is the way the curious old document reads: "This Indenture made and entered into this sixth day of June, A. D., 1850, between Johnson Wright and Eliza Jane, his wife, of the county of Randolph and the state of Missouri of the first part, and the government, the chief administrator, king of righteousness, the son, the fountain of life, to the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus, mediator of the new convenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel, because he died for us —being in the county of Randolph, and state of Missouri, towit: The following tract of land —the southwest qr. of the N. W. qr., also the north half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-eight, township fifty-six, range fifteen, containing one hundred and twenty acres of land, to have and to hold and Its appurtenances thereunto, and everything wherein there Is breath of life. The first party, their heirs and assigns, do warrant and defend the title of said land, unto the second party, which is the Sun of Life, free and clear from all other claims by or through us or any other persons. "In testimony whereunto, we, Johnson Wright and Eliza Wright, have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written. "JOHNSON WRIGHT. (Seal.) "ELIZA WRIGHT.” (Seal.) RIVAL OF BURBANK. Expects to Soon Put a Soft-Chewing, Maple-Flavored Gum on Market Benzolna, Mich. —Hen Stratton, the Luther Burbank of Benzie County, Is conducting a series of Interesting experiments with his chewing gum tree. Last fall lightning struck three trees in Hen’s woods, and when he looked over the damage he had an idea. One of his young maples was split in two, the big spruce next to it was splintered, and the slippery elm a few feet away was hewed from top to bottom. Hen pulled the three trees together, bound them tight for twenty feet and let them grow that way. He thinks tha sap of the sugar maple will flow through the spruce gum and turn out the finest kind of mapleflavored gum. He added the slippery elm to make It softer chewing. Egg In Contribution Plate. Fremont, Neb. When Rev. J. George Betzle, pastor of the First Baptist church, entered the church on a mission he was surprised to see a hen flutter out from under the pulpit. In his chase after the startled biddy Mr. Betzle found an egg in the contribution plate. The hen entered the church through an open window and evidently wanted to contribute her mite to the cause by laying an egg.

Hen Cares for Little Pigs.

Lancaster, Pa.—Because a hen, the property of Earl Peck of Sandersbury, is not allowed to set on eggs she has undertaken to mother two little pigs ths farmer brought home a few days ■go. It’S a cute sight to see the hen ■trotting around with her adopted ease. : :

HUSBAND THIRTEEN WAS CARELESS PICK.

Often He Threatened to Kill Her Be* tore Breakfast, But She'll Welcome No. 14. Bvansvllle, Ind.—Mrs. Polly Anne Strodes, who has seen 74 summers and, of course, quite as many winters, admits she must have been “very careless** when she selected Harrison Strodes, now in his 82d year, to be her thirteenth husband. She ought to hare remembered that thirteen Is considered to be an unlucky number, but she didn’t However, there Is a remedy. She now threatens to divorce Harrison Strodes as quickly as she ever disposed of a husband in her life and will marry a man who is her ideal. Mrs. Strodes having shifted her ideal fourteen times knows whereof she utters. *T have had some of the most desirable husbands in Indiana and I am competent to judge a good one when I see him,” she said. "AB except Harrison; I was very careless In selecting him- There Is no set method of winning men, but I believe that flattery is almost invariably effective. They all like it, and their hearts beat warmly at the least bit of it.” Mrs. Strodes* principal complaint was that she was forced to sign a bond for SSO in the city court when her husband was arraigned charged with making an effort to be Mrs. Strodes’ sole widower. This bond was signed, she explained, while her husband stood over her and threatened her with Instant death and the countless incidental discomforts which attended 1L “He was like a madman,” she declared, "and when he left me he left the state, I believe, forever. No woman should allow a husband to beat her as Harrison did me. The man didn’t realize his own strength.” When Mrs. Strodes was asked If she intended to take any action In the matter she said she would, but, anyway, Harrison Strodes would never again enter her home on the old basis. "I have an ideal,” said Mrs. Strodes, "and I will bless the day when I can rest my head upon his shoulder and say, *At peace, darling.’ Strong men turned away at this juncture, but Mrs. Strode was talking about a favorite subject, and continued in her endeavor to make it plain to her listeners that she was perfectly competent to draw a matrimonial prize, even if she had drawn one blank in her thirteen ventures at Cupid’s wheel of fortune. Mrs. Strodes charged that her husband had not taken a bath since she married him, and that he dally hurled a stone and buck-saw at her head and threatened to kill her. And yet she declares she will bless the day when she can get another husband.

NEW FISH-EATING CHAMPION. Some Day, Perhaps, the Captain Will Tackle a Whale. Robey, Ind.—Fish fans have a new champ! Capt. Joseph Smith of South Chicago now wears the belt, let out to the last notch. Captain Smith bragged that he could eat some sish —twenty perch was his record. Captain Gorman of the Chicago stockyards thought he* could masticate some marine food himself. The champs came to the mat in Robey. Gorman was game for twenty-three Annies, but after that it was a corner for him. Smith slipped away his twenty-fifth perch, and waddled off with the championship.

TABLE TAKES ROOT IN YARD. Buds and Shoots Now Adorn Its Four Legs. Reading, Pa.—S. S. Wlsser had a unique experience with a willow wood table which he placed In his yard several weeks ago. Wlsser discovered a few days ago that the table had sprouted and had begun to bud and shoot. When he tried to remove the piece of furniture he found that the four legs had taken root In the soil and the table Is now a part of the vegetation of the yard. Should he now wish to remove the table he win have to dig.

MULE STOPS RUNAWAY AUTO. Bring* It to Halt With One Mighty Kick In It* “Slat*.” Collinsville. Tenn.—lt took a Missouri mule to stop a runaway automobile belonging to Professor W. G. Wesley, which started up mysteriously and ran two blocks to where a mule was hitched to a hind wheel of a country wagon. Seeing the car making for It, the mule turned and kicked the car squarely in the hood, and resulted in damaging the engine so badly that ft stopped. Parrot Get* Speech Back. New York.—There was rejoicing among the kids in the vicinity of Hans Larsen’s home, 495 Broadway, Bayonne, N. J, for Julius, Larsen’s parrot, which he brought from th* West Indies, has recovered his speech, after being absolutely dumb for four months. Larsen accidentally upset Julius* cage last winter, and it rolled down the fireescape. The shock so upset Julius that he became as sflent as a dam. The cage was again upset yesterday while Larson was feeding Julius, and he took another tumble. Aa Larson picked the cage up Julius screeched, “Cut that rough stuff out!" Julius was stffl chattering gayly late last sight, utakfisg up for -

TELLS GOOD POINTS OF UILITY BIRD

Eradicate the Scrub and Cross Breeds on Farm, Advises W. H. Pfeifer. “Chicken! Yellow legged chicken! With a flavor that tickles the palate and makes the mouth water for more. Chicken that produces lots of delicate flavored and wholesome eggs for the business man’s breakfast and the workingman’s dinner pail, is the kind of chicken that the great mass of humanity is chiefly interested in,’’ was the statement of William H. Pfeifer of Allenton, Mo., in his address on "Chicken as the Public Sees It,” at the Missouri State Poultry Show. Continuing he said: "I think you will agree with me that it is the util-ity-bred, standard-bred hen that comes nearest to filling the bill or requirements, so let us give her more attention in the future. "It is with a feeling of deep appreciation for the wonderful achievements of the little hen and the excellent work being done at the Missouri State Experiment Station for helping her to still greater accomplishments that I come before you as a humble poultryman who is willing to share with those who care to listen such information as he has learned in the school of experience. , "The birds at this exhibition are Judged solely by their outward appearance, and outward appearances --are frequently deceiving. The handbook by which they are judged is called the Standard of Perfection, but it applies only to the outward perfection, while the inward perfectionfl, the truly useful perfection, is completely ignored in th ft awarding of the ribbons. The birds that an exhibitor sends to a show like this nearly always represent the very cream of his flock, but that by no means signifies that some of the lesser lights that he has left at home are excelled in the one vital thing to successful breeding, and thit is utility. The time was —and that not long ago, and in some instances it is still practiced — that the culls of a flock of standardbreds were called utility birds and disposed of as such. While some of them might have been worthy of the name by far the greater part were just simply the undesirables of the flock, nothing more. Now when we stop to consider that by far the greater number of the people who entered the poultry business bought this so-called utility stock, can you still wonder why so many of them failed? “The time is now at hand for utility poultry to take its rightful place in poultry culture, for the primary worth of all poultry lies in its utilitarian value. Certainly the culls of a fancier’s flock should not be sold for utility birds, for their sole value lies in their carcass and that rule is far below par. Take the dressed carcass of a plump, well-developed Plymouth Rock, place it beside that of a cull, and you will have the indisputable evidence staring you in the face. “It is not my desire to detract from the glory that an exhibition bird is entitled to nor to belittle the man who produces such, but it is a well known fact amoung students of poultry culture that -Only a few, a very few of the birds that a fancier produces, are of a high exhibition type, and. therefore they are very valuable, the result being that there is only an occasional sale for such stock. The second choice birds are held to be sold as breeders and the market is so overrun with this class of the fancy that the demand Is practically nil, compared with the number of breeders who are waiting for prospective buyers. Only the established breeder with a wide reputation can dispose of this class of stock at a profit., “On the other hand the utility breeder can cull his flock at a far earlier date and dispose of his surplus at a reasonable profit, for he has an everready market and a constantly growing demand for his product at prices above market quotations, tl is the plump carcass and wholesome table eggs that attract the greatest attention from he public. No only that, but the utility breeder is is not always outclassed in the show-room, for it is easier to produce exhibition birds from a well-bred and uniform flock of utility birds than from an exhibition flock. In our own lives it is perfectly plain to us that it is not the upper crust, nor the dregs of society, but the great .middle class that causes the wheels of civilization and progress to grind. Not only does the rule apply to humanity, but it applies to stock and to poultry. “Therefore it will pay all poultrymen well to remember that to eradicate the scrub and cross-breeds that are found upon the farms of this country and to replace them with pure-bred poultry we must Interest the fanner in the highly useful standard-bred. This cannot be done with high-priced specimens of extraordinary beauty, nor with an almost worthless lot of cast-off culls, but it can be done with uniform and useful stock, for such stock is utility stock, and none other. “The fancier is of course a necessity in upholding the pleasing beauty of the thoroughbred, but the utility breeder deserves the greatest credit for the advancement being made' in poultry culture, for he is giving to the world a highly useful article.”

William Penn in his Charter of Rights, provided that for every five acres of forest cleared one acre should be'left in woods. Foresters today maintain that on an average one-fifth of every form should be in timber.

VAUDEVILLE STUNTS IN MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENTS

Talented Nomads Find Willing Patrons In Circuits That Know No Greedy Trusts. Julian, Cal.—Little mountain settlements in this region have their vaudeville circuits and they are as important to the people and afford them as much pleasure as Keith’s or the Orpheum afford pleasure seeker of the large cities. The players are generally Mexicans. They travel by wagon or burro, coming up from Lower California, swinging across the mining region and turning south again into the. pen Insula. A handbill pinned to the door of the postoffice or store is the only program. It announces, in Spanish, that a company of artists, unsurpassed for excellence, will be honored to entertain the people at greatly reduced prices —is cents for children and 25 cents for adults, whereas in large cities, like Ensenada, the company wouldn’t attempt to do the same thing for less than a dollar admission. Sometimes the performance is acrobatic; sometimes it is a concert with accordion and guitar, to be followed with a dance: again it may be an oldfashioned Punch and Judy show, or a roaring comedy, the actors speaking their lines in Spanish, which, by the way, makes no difference to the border folks, all of whom understand that tongue. In addition to the handbill, a crier goes through the vicinity, announcing from house to house the merits of the performers and urging everybody not to miss this last and only chance to see and hear so rare a collection of stars, who, meanwhile, are preparing their evening meal beside the road and making their beds under a tree. The play is staged wherever shelter can be found —in schoolhouse or some large barn, or more likely in the dance hall, for nearly every settlement has such a place. The settings are easily procured. A plank across the tops of two barrels may serve either as a terrible abyss or a shaded sylvan walk. The following morning the all-star troupe'rolls out of its separate and individual blankets, cooks breakfast in the open, jumps astride burros or tumbles into a wagon and makes for the next night stand.

TRAMP’S MEAL BRINGS $10,000 TO DONOR.

Woman Leaves to Claim Handsome Legacy Left Her By Man She Befriended. Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. James Maner, living near Gilmore, on the Marietta car line, is planning a trip to Miami, Fla., to inspect a legacy valued at $lO,000, left her by a tramp. This does not lend itself readily to the fancy, but this time fancy will have to brace up and take it like a man. Truth may be more of a stranger and all that, but the legacy is there, and traveling expenses for Mrs. Maner to go down and view it —$50 in the hand, with a lot of legal assurance. “Eight years ago,” she said, "a man came limping into our front yard. He looked like a tramp, and then again he didn’t look like a tramp—l mean his clothing was ragged and worn, and he was limping from an injury to his foot, and yet he didn’t have the manners of a tramp, if you could call them manners. “The man was penniless, he said, and in trouble. I felt sorry for him. I took him in and gave him some dinner, and then 10 cents to pay his way to Atlanta on the trolley line. He seemed very appreciative, and insisted on taking my name and address down in a little book.” It seems that the tramp did not lose the little book. And after eight years back came the bread from off the waters, only it was multiplied to a fold entirely out of step with scriptural precedent. Mrs. Maner paid no attention to the first information that the legacy had been left her. It required an urgent appeal from a Miami lawyer and the proffer of traveling expenses to make her realize that an estate consisting of several houses and some land had really come her way at the expense of a dime, a good dinner —and a bit of the milk of human kindness.

FUNNY STORY RESTORES VOICE

Former Speechless Man Found Repeating It In Sleep. Trenton, N. J.—Laughter provoked by a funny story has resulted in restoration of the voice of Charles Kateza of Allentown, who had been speechless for two years. About four years ago' Kateza lost his sight and hearing temporarily in an acddent In an iron foundry. These functions were restored by medical treatment, but when he recovered he was without power of speech. He was undergoing treatment in Mercy hospital here. A fellow patient told him a funny story and Kateza indulged in unusually hearty and prolonged laughter. During the night be dreamed of the yarn, and his nurse found him repeating the story in his sleep. Since then Kateza’* speech has been normal, and he hospital physicians believe it to be permanently restored. Nine times out of a possible ten it osts the man who is elected to office a lot of money to convince his opponent that he < was the people’s choice.