Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1919 — Page 3

Real Estate Barga ns

I have a large list of choice properties, consisting of farm lands, city residences and lots. I give but a few of them below:

160 acres, three miles of Rensselaer. Will show up as a large producer. Woven wire fences, fresh paint. An exceptional proposition. 120 acres of good pasture land. New fences, two new ''"wind mills. Will sell or trade at a most attractive price. Two 40-acre tracts. Fair improvements. Make a good home for someone. 40 acres, joins Rensselaer. Will sell; worth the money. Also- five city residences and seventy-five lots. ' 120 acres, five and one-half miles of Rensselaer. Well tiled and fair buildings. Would make a No. 1 investment. 200 acres, five miles of good town. Some tile. 160 in cultivation. Will sell cheap.

Also have a large number of the very best bargains in Jasper and Newton county farms not listed. I can fix you out with special bargains of the very best real estate investments to be found anywhere. Consult me before you buy or sell.

JOHN N. BICKNELL Rensselaer, Indiana ’Phone 643.

FARMS FOR SALE

Buy direct from the owner! We offer a few of the best farms in Jasper county, well improved and in a high state of cultivation, at prices in keeping with the market value and on liberal terms. 165 acres, three miles from Rensselaer, on the Jackson highway. Good corn and oats land, good outlet for drainage and thoroughly tiled. Improved with good woven wire fences, 11 room house, barn 40x70, silo 14x50. Good hog house, and other out-buildings. This farm has the best corn in Jasper county jnow growing upon it; price $225.00 per acre. 120 acres, on stone road, 6 miles from town, good outlet, well tiled, fair fences, improved with 5 room house, fair size barn, windmill, grainary room, double crib, poultry house and other out-buildings. Price $125.00 per acre. Terms. 95 acres, 6 miles from town, on a gravel road, rural route, telephone.

M. E. Graves, John A. Dunlap Morocco, Ind. Rensselaer, Ind. Owners _

TIPPECANOE COUNTY FAIR * i * ‘ ‘ September, 8,9, 10,11 and 12 And the Great Patterson Shows DAY AND NIGHT FAIR IS .how. and ride.! 30 .ixty-foot car.—A train a mile lopg to transport the .how. 2SO .howmen. The bigge.t attraction ever on our fair ground.. Two band, of music. FREE ACTS! A real circu. and animal .how! Elephant., performing Hon., hor.e., dog., etc. The entire .how from the Indiana State Fair. No charge for admitance to the ground, after 6 p. m. - One and one-half fare for round trip ticket, on ail during fair week. Take a vacation! Come! Have a good time while you. live! THE GREATEST DISPLAY OF CATTLE, HOGS, SHEEP, iw™«y“ d rabbits ever seen at a county fair. W. S. CRUM, President. OSCAR YUNDT, Trea»urer.. C. W. TRAVIS, Secretary.

WE ARE IN THE MARKET TOR MORE ' CREAM, EGGS AND POULTRY One trial will convince you that OUR PRICES X&E HIGHEST OUR SERVICE IS BEST Rensselaer Creamery & Produce Co./ z At Washington Street Bridge ‘ '

130 acres. New house, new barn, new silo, woven wire fences. Well tiled. On good dredge ditch. Will sell at the right price. 120 acres of cheap land. Saw mill on this farm. Will sell or trade. 80 acres, within two and one-half miles of Rensselaer. Best of improvements, excellent house, barn, cribs, windmill, large vitrified silo. As good land as there is in Jasper county. 160 acres, a little over two miles from Rensselaer. No better land anywhere. Best of improvements and in tiptop shape. Fine well of water. House, barn, other buildings, silo all the very best. If you are looking for quality land this fartn will suit "you.

80 acres in cultivation, balance pasture, may all be cultivated. Good fences and buildings consisting of 6 room house, good barn, double crib, hog house, windmill, some tile. Price $10,000.00. Terms. 40 acres, 1% miles from Rensselaer, on stone road, good improvements, woven wire fences, all hedge posts, good orchard, adjoining S4OO land. Price $10,000.00. 200 acres, pasture and farm land, % mile from gravel road, fairly well drained, practically level, no sand hills, small house and barn, telephone, rural delivery. Price $75 per acre. 70 acres, Marion township, 40 acres in cultivation, balance pasture; a good hog farm, 6 room house, good new barn, silo, windmill. Price $150.00 per acre. We will make reasonable terms on any of the above farms to suit purchaser. See

WHY HE QUIT “THE ROAD”

Ex-Drummer Voices Regret for the Disappearance of Oldtime Boniface and Clerk. “Oh for the old-fashioned hotel clerk, smiling, accommodating, always friendly, -who never forgot a face, obliging and always making a fellow feel like he was at home,” said Frank Whitsell of Portland, Ore., according to the El Paso Herald. “What a difference between the old professional hotel clerks of 25 years ago, even up to 15 years ago, and the automatic, mechanical clerks who never try to oblige—l might call them automatic grouches —of the present day behind the hotel registers. If you ask one of them a question he or. she, nowadays, intimates that you get your room and meals, just exactly whar you pay for, and not a thing more, please understand that. I was "a commercial traveler for a quarter century up to six years ffgo, and I know. .Why, we old drummers, as they used to call us, felt at home In those old hostelries of the western states, just on account of the clerks. Say, they were God’s noblemen, those old-timers. They Seemed to anticipate a fellow’s wants and would go to all sorts of trouble to accommodate one. The , milk of human kindness flowed in their . hearts. And it made-business, too. I have stopped at an inferior house, . many El time, because I'fiad Tieen treated so well by the clerk. And I can , say, too, the proprietors were much , the same way in those days. Hotels : were made homelike, not a big box with compartments, where you are to j be tucked away at so much per. That • was one of the reasons I quit the road, j the chilly, purely mechanical hotel? of the present day.”

CANNOT BE TAKEN ALIVE

Gorillas Will Fight to the Death, and Are to Be Feared, Even When Mortally Wounded. The most perilous job that any one can undertake in the jungle is- the capture of a full-grown gorilla. It Is said that no gorilla has ever been captured alive after he was full grown. He would be a bold man who would attempt such a feat. Gorillas fear nothing. Even when mortally wounded they show agility, strength and ferocity which is astonishing. A.famous traveler once stated that it would take 150 men to hold down a gorilla with any degree of safe'./. On the other h«nd, all other apes are said to be pathetically easy to capture. The usual method is for a trapper to seat himself where he is certain to be observed by these creatures and pretend to drink from a bottle of crude spirits. When he is sure that he lias been observed, he leaves the bottle and goes away. The moment his back is turned the monkeys rush to appease their curiosity concerning the contents of the bottle. They like the taste of the spirits, and quarrel among themselves for it till the bottle has been emptied. Thev are soon overcome by the intoxicant, and the trapper returns and gathers them in.

Change of Fashion.

Indeed, so completely have fashions and materials changed in a century that the articles included in the following advertisement of goods to be sold qn Fishbourne’s wharf, “back of Mrs. Fishbourne’s dwelling,” have scarcely any meaning for us. Among the numerous articles to be disposed of were: "Tandems, isinghams, nuns, bag and gulixall shirtings, huckabacks, quilted hum-hums, turkettes, grassefts. single allopeens, children’s jumps and bodice, whalebone and Iron busks, men’s Newmarket caps, allibanies, dickmansoy, cushloes, chuchloes, cuttanees, crimson dannador, chained soosees, lemonees, byrampauts, moree, maffermany, saxlinghdm, prunelloe, barragons,” etc. Humhuins was a sort of towel madr of coarse Indian cotton cloth; cuttanee a kin<f of piece goods of silk and cotton, also imported from India; barragon is the barracan of today, a fabric made of camel’s hair, used widely in the Levant for robes and mantles; but for the most part the articles named in the advertisement have long become obsolete.

Length of Arms and Legs.

According to many measurements made at the Anthropological laboratory in London, the right arm in human beings is in a majority of cases longer than the left arm, while, on the contrary, the left leg is longer- than the right leg. Sometimes, however, the relative proportions are exactly reversed but seldom does perfect equality exist between the two sides. The tendency of the right arm to “xceed the left arm in strength is son “times greater In men than in women while equality of strength In the two r rms occurs almost twice as frequently with women as with men.

Time to Reform.

The sailor, returning a trifle fuddled from a peace celebration, found his hitherto respected and respectable ship newly camouflaged In the most modern cubist style. Running his eye over the whole mess of conflicting squares, triangles, lines, circles and sundry other nameless blobs of paint which graced the sides of his “borne,** and blinking stupidly at the hideous screaming color scheme, he slowly raised his hand while the tears .coursed down his cheeks and murmured, wearily: “Never again I”

ART DEVELOPED AS NEEDED

Makers of Cabinets Fitted Themselves to Demands of Increasingly En- ‘ lightened Cabinet niakiqg, us all arts, began ; with the human needs of people. War ' and the necessity for hastily moving ’ from place to place during the semicivilized periods gave place to the making of homes and the effort to furnish them comfortably—one of .the strongest impulses in nature and the surest sign of civilization. The old chests in which they kept their belongings were at last allowed to remain stationary and were used, as seats. The name of these chests in England was “cabins,”, and the maker of them was called a “Cabinet maker.” soon as might be, the cabinet maker provided the old chests with backs and they became settees, while others were raised on legs and became cabinets, or, being' provided with doors and drawers, became cupboards or “chests of drawers-” Tables and beds were also devised, together with wainscoting for entire walls, and people really began to live. The workmen who made these things were capable of designing and executing an entire- department with Its furniture. Great skill was required, and notables and royalty prided themselves on having some artist-artisan to do their bidding. In the establishment Of these meh'dllfer’enf“ffegrees ofskill were recognized, and the system of apprenticeship obtained. A youth entering one of these studio workshops, having passed all the grades, became a “master.” To attain this degree was to be worthy of the respect of the world.

ART WORKS IN ANY LENGTH

Method of Getting Things Done Quickly Is Not by Any Means an Idea to Be Called .New. Hurry is not characteristic of the present century alone; our ancestors were not always immune from the habit. The Dutch artist Vanderstraaten was a master In scheming out short cuts and saving time. Vanderstraaten had little difficulty, It Is said. In painting in a day 30 landscapes the size of an ordinary sheet of drawing paper. He would surround himself with pots of paint, each of which had Its particular purpose—one for the clouds, one for the grass, one for the shadows. When he was ready to begin painting he called hfs assistant, “Boy, a cloud!” and the lad speedily brought the desired pot. Vanderstraaten, with a thick brush, quickly transferred the clouds to the canvas. With the finishing strokes he called, “There are the clouds; bring the grass!” And so it went, without a moment’s waste of time, until the 30 landscapes were finished. On occasions Vanderstraaten would paint in the manner described a landscape upon a long piece of canvas. In filling the orders of customers he would cut the strip into pieces of various lengths. A purchaser could buy two, three or four feet of landscape, according to his fancy or according to of the space he wished to decorate.

Pugilism in 1725.

Jack Broughton, the father of pugilism, fought his first fight over 193 years ago; to be exact, It was on July 9, 1725. He was engaged in many rough-and-tumble fights with other lads, but at that time he knew nothing of boxing, which was just being introduced by James, Figg. While attending a fair Broughton was attracted by a boxing booth kept by Figg and was much incensed by the foul tactics used by a big man in boxing a much smaller one. He remonstrated with the big bruiser and an altercation ensued which had reached the stage of fisticuffs when Figg interfered and Invited the two men to the stage to settle their differences. Young Broughton, after ten desperate rounds, completely triumphed over his older, bigger and more experienced opponent. That was Broughton’s introduction to the ring. After Figg’s death-he became champion and by formulating a code of rules to govern the game he became entitled to rank as the founder of modern pugilism.

Stones of Remarkable Power.

Lovers of the occult interested in a story told by Lady Blunt in her remarkable volume of reminiscences. Her husband was sick unto death in Constantinople, and the • Turkish government loaned her . two small stones which had been in its possession since the Conquest, telling her to apply them where the pain was most severe. Lady Blunt used them as directed with the result that the sick man speedily recovered, although four doctors had previously decided on an immediate operation. “These wonderful stones,” adds Lady Blunt, “are found at rare intervals in the veins bf a donkey’s neck; perhaps only one stone in a million donkeys.”

Anger's Poison.

Biologists have proved, by laboratory tests, that anger is a poison in the blood; that a person who loses his temper Is actually selfpoisoned. Take a. few drops of blood from a man in a violent rage, they tell us; drop them on the tongue of a gui.iea pig, and It will probably make the little beast sick, set we hear people brag, “I gave him a good going over,” 7 “I got good, and mad/as- if one bragged of deliberately contracting a dangerous case of blood poisoning.

MISS RUTH WOOD WINS GIRLS’ TENNIS TOURNAMENT.

Miss Ruth Wood won the city' tennis title in the girls’ tournament’ today by defeating Miss Hoile, of Chicago, in the final. Miss Hoile won her way to the right to meet Miss Wood by eliminating Miss Ruth Cantrell, also of Chicago. Miss’ Hoile and Miss Cantrell are students.! at the Monnett Home. The tourna-l ment was exceptionally interesting! throughout. Dr. Gwin, who has charge of the’ tournaments, states that in the junior class a prize of a racquet I presser will be given to the winner’ and a set of tennis balls to the one winning second place. ! In the senior tournament the drawing for the third round will be made Saturday, and- it is expected that the last of the games will be finished early next week.

The nearest we can get to a satisfactory reason for the cost of living situation is that everything is going up because everything else is.— Rochester Times-Union.

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This is the “Sax on” model Stein - Block which we are showing in all colors for the co n s e r v a t i v e dresser. DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP.

Our statesmen, speaking of high prices, chide us for demanding the best regardless of price. This habit of ours doesn’t apply to statesmen. —Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Hard words lower no prices.— Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. From now on we may expect an increasing transfer of wealth from profiteers to their lawyers.—Greenville (S. C.) Piedmont. Things have gone far enough to convince us that we do not like reconstruction periods especially well. —‘Columbus Ohio State Journal. >So long as people pay sl4 for a $7 pair of shoes, one great obstacle in the way of lowering the price remains to foe overcome. —Indianapolis Star. We don’t know when we have seen the administration so delighted over anything as it is over its newly discovered cost of living problem.—Kansas City Star.

Have You Seed Wheat Cleaned Do not sow cheat, rye, mustard and other seeds with you wheat. Ha"a Your Seed Wheat Thrortr Cleaned Prices 5 cents per bushel. AT POTTER & SAWYER’S Rensselaer Seed Merchants

PUBLIC SALE of HOUSEHOLD GOODS on SATURDAY, AUG. 30 3 P. M. Fred Phillips, And. ’ #. ’ I will sell at public auction at the public square in Rensselaer, Saturday at 3 P m., the following household goods: Five rugs, dishes, large stand lamp, book case, Hoosier kitchen cabinet, almost full set of aluminum ware, pair of curtains and other articles. ISABEL CAIN

Charles Sego and son, of Carpenter township, were in Rensselaer today. They attended the Finnan Thompson sale near Parr. We have memories of a lot of cost-of-living investigations that went into cold storage and never got out again.—Minneapolis Tribune. Miss Gladys McGlynn went to Rensselaer Monday where she will visit relatives this week and attend the county teachers’ institute next week.—Remington Press. Mrs. Carl Duvall, of Detroit, Mich., left Wednesday, taking the train at Remington for Logansport for a visit with friends and continuing to her home from that city. The official investigation will probably disclose that the high cost of living is caused by the high wages necessitated by the high cost of living.—Nashville Southern Lumberman. The Craig airplane, which made flights in this city recently, was destroyed last Sunday at Delphi by a wind storm. The big plane was swept from its moorings and was turned over five times. All that remained of it was the engine and propeller. The loss is estimated at $3,500. No insurance was carried by the owner. » ■ The soldiers who became disgusted at the French for gouging have returned home and become reconciled to their erstwhile brother-in-arms. About three touches by American profiteers make a French gouger look like a shrinking violet. —Houston Post. PLACE FERTILIZER ORDERS NOW. Farmers desiring to use commercial fertilizers this fall should place their orders at once with the Farmers’ Grain company. Please give this matter your immediate attention so we may be able to care for your wants in this line.—H. H. Potter, Manager Farmers’ Grain company.

MONDAY IS Labor Day A LEGAL HOLIDAY We will BE CLOSED First National Bank