Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1899 — Page 8

“Honest Abe’e” February Specials.

Bat ten days of the month of February has gone by, and “Honest Abe” has already got in three days services for Jasper county at •an expense of $10.60 per day for himself and colleagues as their per deim, a total of $31.50. Last Friday, the first day of* the Ist Feb. special, was spent in considering the employment of a superintendent for the poor farm and allowing a few bills, as follows: H A Alter, tiling gravel road, $30.25, allowed at .. $lO 25 -Jame* Cowden, work for county, $3.25, ’ allowed at 2 75 Frauk Hardy, posting delin. tax notices 5 45 J C Gwtn, ft. Keener tp. gravel roads.. .166 25 .Same, for same . 150 90 J T Snyder, 3 old wolf sculps 30 25 S F Wood, engineer boiler house 32 75 Tom Boyle, lumber for gravel roads.... 170 25 Mr. Portwood. work on gravel roads.... 12 75 £ C English, medical aid. poor contract 525 C E Mills, making stationery con. A b'nd 5 25 Mackey A Barcus. work for county 1 30 T J Joiuer, ft. A laundry for ct. house.. 569 Same, salary as janitor Bee. und Jan.... 90 25 Total amt allowances for the day.s6B9 29 Saturday the poor farm matter was disposed of by employing the present incumbent, A. G. Hardy, “‘at the salary of S6OO per year, payable quarterly, upon his entering into contract to the satisfaction of the Board and in accordance with his proposition, and giving bondin tho sum of $2,000 to the approval of the Board. The payments of said salary to be made upon the filing of proper reports as required by law.” Some new rules relating to the keeping of private stock at the farm by the superintendent were introduced by the Board at the time the bids were filed, and which also require that the superintendent shall personally superintend all work and management of the farm, so far as practicable for him to do so. Following bills were passed upon by the Board: B D Comer, grading Burk’* grade. S9B 25 Same, graveling name, $274.95, ail’d at.. .250 95 Antrim A Dean, md-ie.. Co. Supt’*. 0f.... 7 25 fi. L. Gamble, snrv. eng. K. tp, graval r 9 25 Porter A Handle, mdse court house 37 70 Geo. L. Morgan, posting del. tax notices 9 25 Leslie Clark, county priuting 54 25 W. F. Smith A Co., wood for boiler house 41 50 Mrs. Caddie Martin,delinquent taxes, coat'd. Total 508 40 Feb. 7, Board met for the purpose of auditiug tp. warrants.

CORRESPONDENCE.

DUNNVILLE. * —Roads are excellent. —Miss May Witt is on the sick list. —Mr. J. N. White lost a cow last week. —Mr. T. J. Maloney is filling up his ice house. —Miss Mary Brett is at Foresman on a visiting tour. —Mrs. Hillard took a flying trip to San Pierre last Tuesday. —Mr. Jesse Collins went to Momence last Tuesday, to work. —Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, a fine girl. Jimmie is happy. —Mrs. McCullouck of Richmond, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Coffin. T —Mias Emma Henry, who has been sick, resumed her duties last Monday. —Mr. George Stembel, of Wheatfield, was on our streets last Tuesday. Hughes went to Indianapolis to visit her, sister who is very sick. —Miss Netta Hall, who has been j working at Valparaiso, is visiting her parents at this place. —The revival meeting which has in progress at Wheatfield Center, closed last Sunday evening. —R. R. Smith who has been sick with the grip, is almost well. Recovery began on Ground Hog day. —Mr. Wilson Miser has dismissed his school for a week on the account of sickness among the scholars. —Ground Hog tlay was not celebrated at this place. If Mr. Hog would come around we would celebrate on him. Oied, at her home in Walker township, Miss Millie Jasperson. The disease that proved fatal was scarlet fever. The remains were interred in the Wheatfield cemetery. —The dance at Mr. Stalk’s last Saturday night was a success. The main feature of the evening was the demonstration of the waltzing ability of Mr. Joe Hilliard. ; —The'Oak Grove literary and <iebateing society held their election last Friday night. The of-

ficers elected were the following: President, J. G; Kaupke; vicepresident, Warren White; secretary, Jeftsie White; treasurer, Howard Wynant; editor, Bertram Vandecarr; editoress, Netta Collins; marshal, John Finn.

REMINGTON.

—Wm. Broadie will build a new residence in the spring. —lke Peck has purceased a half interest in Robinson’s livery barn. —Geo. Fisher of Lake City, lowa, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Fisher. —A republican expansionist made his appearance at the home of Postmaster Peck last week. —Jas. Roy has sold his 160-acre farm 4 miles northeast of town to a man from Iroquois county, 111., consideration SSO per acre. —Hon. Robt. Parker received three deer, a buck and two does, from Hon. D. H. Patton of Woodward, Okla., last week and same have been placed in Fountain Park, Mr. Parker hopes to have a nice herd of deer there in a few years. —Harvey Hartman has quit the butcher business and purchased Major’s grocery. He will take possession of same next week. A new furniture store is to be established in the room vacated by Hartman’s meat market, under the firm name of Fisher & Co. Lyle Fisher, a son of C. F. Fisher, is at the head of the new firm.

VIRGIE.

—Winter is still staying with us. —Petty Bros, are building a blacksmith shop here.

—Everybody in this neighborhood, has been having the grip.

—Miss Fannie Petty is home for a week’s visit with her parents. —John Smith has begun building a new house on his farm near Virgie.

—Wm. Hochbaum has started a grist mill, and will grind every Saturday. —Miss Mae Fox of Rensselaer, is visiting her brother, Mr. John Richmond, and family. —Peter Plummer and family have returned home from a two weeks visit in Goodland.

—Mrs. Walter McCoy has returned home from Englewood, where she has been spending the winter.

KNIMAN.

—We are having very cold weather now. —Miss Nettie-Williams is working for A. McCoy’s family. —Next Sunday preaching services will be held here. All cordially invited. —A grand ball was given at the home of Mrs. Hosselbring last Saturday evening. A good attendance, and all report a good time. —When a young man asks a young lady’s company of a Sunday evening he should be sure whom he is asking. Think twice, and speak once, “Shortie.” —Perry Brown and family of Goodland, are moving into the upper part of Mr. Deniston’s residence, as there is no vacant house here for them to occupy. —Quite a number of sick hereabouts, as follows: Mrs. Lee Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Ballenger, Mrs. David Ross, Mrs. Shraider and Wm. Hanley. All are on the mend, however. - —A surprise party was given at Mr. Deniston’s last Tuesday, about sixty people being present. The evening was spent in great glee, as there was a number of “musicians of various kinds” present. All report a good time.

BLACKFORD.

—Weather very cold. —Grip! grip!! grip!!! —James Frost is on the sick list. —Mrs. Kessler is on the sick list. —Thomas Price is on the sick list. —Nearly everybody on the sick list. —Mre. Henkle is very ill at the present writing. —Chester Qtfter, who has been sick so long, IMh the mend. —Zack Stanley visited Jesse Jenkins Saturday and Monday. —Church at Brushwood Chapel every night, Rev. Shirrell pastor. —Subscribe for The Democrat, the leading paper for truth and honesty. —John Marlatt is moving down to his father’s place, south of the Bumstown school hoqse. —Boman Switzei, who was hurt in a runaway a couple of weeks ago, is some better at the present.

—John Lakin gave an entertainment at the Burfcstown school house last Monday night with his “singing machine.’* —Among the people who have the grip at the present are Henry Ropp and wife, Mrs. Sullenbarger, Elias Arnold and Newton Jenkins.

NORTH BARKLEY.

—Russell Baker has it—the grip. —Lawrence Caster spent Sunday with Mr: Collins. —Frank Parker has dismissed school for another week. —Otis Beedy transacted business in Wheatfield Saturday. —Harvey Pierson of Rensselaer, visited Will Collins Saturday. —Rosco Burke is visiting his mother in Martin Co., this week. —Mr. and Mrs. W. Collins visited O. Callahan and family Sunday. —Charlie Evans, who has been visiting in Boone Co., returned home Saturday. —The thirteen months old child of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hewitt died of scarlet fever. —Lewis Brown went to Momence Tuesday with a load of farming implements. —Four car loads of lumber have arrived at Gifford station to be used for building purposes. L. J. Beedy, who has lived in this vicinity for the last five years, •died At the home of his daughter, near Mantino, 111., aged 72 years.

—Ed Black went to Eniman Sunday to see his best girl, and had the misfortune to go up the wrong stairs and fell through. Better take a guide along the next time, Ed.

NEWTON TOWNSHIP.

—The party at Mr. and Mrs. Marion Freeland’s was well attended and everyone reports a grand time. The evening was spent in playing games and in conversation till the hour of midnight. Guests present were: A J Freeland and wife Lee Mauck A Gwin and wife Bert Yeoman E W Duvall and wife Lillie Parks JB Martin dale and wife Charley Grant J W Duvall and wife Guss Yeoman Allie Moreland Kate Mauck Dave Halstead Lawrence Sayler Leslie Miller O Yeoman Kate Keeney Eva Freeland John Mauck John Smith Ada Sayler Irene Duvall Edd Grant John De Young Pearl Smith Grace Grant John Williams Josie Miller Callie Miller Earnest Moreland Garland Grant Frank Yeoman Bruce Hardy Guss Grant Grace Yeoman John Zard - George Keeney Rube Yeoman Allen Miller Werley Miller Bruce Pumphrey Merl Freeland

DEATH’S HARYEST.

Resin F. Goddard is no more. He died last Sunday at 2:30 a. m. After a residence of 47 years in this county he was gathered to his fathers, at the green old age of four score, two and onehalf years. His last sickness was of short duration—almost seven days to the hour. “Uncle Reese” was familiar to nearly everybody, both old and young, in this county, in fact he was one of the few remaining of those sturdy pioneers who have lived through the various stages from hamlet to city of Rensselaer, and was a type of the old-time gentleman from “Old Kaintuok,” always affable, yet a man who attended strictly to his own affairs. His generosity probably more than any one thing prevented him from accumulating much of this world’s goods.

Resin F. Goddard was born in Flemming county, Ky., June 13, 1816. From the place of his birth he came to Crawfordsville, Ind. When the Mexican War broke ont young Resin was one of the first to offer nis services. He entered the First Regiment, Ind. Vols., and served with that regiment throughout the war, and was present at the surrender of the City of Mexico. From Crawfordsville he moved to Lafayette, and from there to Rensselaer in tbe spring of 1852. Although a married man, he bad no children. His wife died many years ago. The funeral took place from hiß late residence, last Monday afternoon, where a large number of his old friends and associates met to pay their last respects to the dead. r -. Alfred Dart died at the home of his son-in-law, Levi Clouse, last Saturday, Feb. 4, at the age of 87 years, He had lived in this county about 18 years. He was buried in Weston cemetery. Edward C. Hall, aged 45 years, died last Sunday morning at tbe residence of John Cockley, in this city. His death leaves three little ones orphans with all that term implies. He was buried ia Weston cemetery.

Anna Alioe Gay Perkins, aged 41 years and 9 months, wife of Ancel T. Perkins, died last Wednesday at the Perkins residence on Cnllen street, a long and painful illness proceeded death. A husband and son survive her. The funeral was held from the First Baptist chnrch yesterday at 2:30 o’clock.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. When in Rensselaer put your team np at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts The boys mentioned by ns last week as having been arrested for jumping on moving trains, were fined $1 and costs, and are laying ont their fines. Another Portwood was arrested Saturday and he, too, languisheth in prison. Robert May marketed one of the finest bunches of cattle, here Tuesday that ever left this part of the country, the 37 head weighed 55,650 pounds, an average of 1,504 pounds, and brought $2,982.40 or an average of $75:20 per head. Who can beat it. —Remington Press. A phenomena not often witnessed in this is very noticeable since the intense cold of the last few days. In many instances large cracks appear in the earth, streets and crossings, the result of the intense cold. This is common in wet lands during severe droughts, bat requires uncommon cold weather to produce them in winter. A 4-column folio bearing the title of The People’s Pilot has made its appearance at Indianapolis with F. D. Craig and John Medert editors. The sheet takes up the populistic theme and name of the late People’s Pilot of Rensselaer, and claims to be a re-estab-lishment of' that paper. Its mission seems to be to keep the mid-dle-of-the-road populists right in the middle of the road, and we presume Bros. Craig and Medert have received an appropriation from the republican state committee to nourish their infant and keep it alive to fulfill it mission.

A LITTLE STORY.

But It Hia Big Meaning, Especially for Young Married Folks. “Hester!” exclaimed Aunt Susan, ceasing her rocking and knitting, and sitting upright, “do you know what your husband will do when you are dead?” “What do you mean ?” was the startled reply. “He will marry the sweetest-tem-pered girl he can find.” “Oh, auntie!” Hester began. “Don’t interrupt me until I have finished,” said Aunt Susan, leaning back and taking her knitting. “She may not be as good a housekeeper as ybu are—in fact, I think not; but she will be good-natured.” “Why, auntie—” “That isn’t all,” composedly continued Aunt Susan. “To-day your husband was half-way across the kitchen floor bringing you a couple of fresh-cut cucumbers from the garden, and all you did was to look on and say: ‘There, Will, just see your footmarks on my clean floor; I won’t have my floors dirtied.’ Some men would have thrown the cucumbers out of the window. To-day you screwed up your face when he kissed you, because his m ustache was damp, and said: ‘I never want you to kiss me again.’ When he empties anything, you tell him not to spill it. From morning until night your sharp voice is heard complaining and fault-finding. And last winter, when you were ill, you scolded him for allowing the taps in the kitchen to freeze, and took no notice when he said: T was so anxious about you that I did not think of the taps.’ ” “But, auntie—” “Hearken, child. The strongest and most intelligent of men all care more for a woman’s tenderness than Tor anything else in the world; and without this the cleverest and most perfect housekeeper is sure to lose her husband’s affections in time. There may be a few more men like Will—at gentle, as loving, as chivalrous, as for{[etful for self, and so satisfied with oving that their affections will die a long, struggling death; but in moat cases it takes but a few years of fretfulness and fault-finding to turn a husband’s love into irritated indifference.” “But, auntie—•” “Yes; well, you are not dead yet, and the sweet-natured woman has not been found; so you have time to become so serene and sweet that your husband can never imagine that there is a better-tempered woman in existence.”—London Tit-Bits.

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HE WAS NAMED HAROLD.

VM Mother, However, Wm Shock* at 22ig Hlclbuum* “Whereas the boy?” inquired Mr. Spadina, cheerily, and it occurred'to him that it vu about time for bis seven-year-old son to bid him good night “The boy,” replied 'Mrs. Spadina, severely, “is in bed.” “Not sick?” “No, be is not sick,” mid Mrs, Spadina, in a tone that implied something even worse. “I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to tell you all about it, but have not had a chance until now. It means just this—that we must move away from this neighborhood. It’a no place to bring np a boy, and I just won’t stand it. We must get a house in some part of the city where Harold will have nice children to play with.” “But what’s the matter?” asked the husband, with concern. “What has happened?” “Well, I’m telling you just as fast as I can. This afternoon Harold had jost got home from school when the doorbell rang. I was in the hall and answered the door myself, for I saw a boy there. On opening the door the boy said to me: Tlease, can Mike come out and play ball?’ I told him that we had no Mike here, and said that he had called at the wrong house. ‘No,’ he said, ‘I mean Mike, you know —your boy, Mike. I guess you call him Harold,’ be said.

“Now, what do you think of that? Well, you may be sure I told that boy what I thought of him, and he began to whimper and said that Harold had licked him—that’s just what he said —Harold had licked him yesterday for not calling him Mike, and everybody called him Mike at school. And it’s worse than that, for they call him Mike Spad—not Harold Spadina, but Mike Spad.” “Well, upon my word!” exclaimed Mr. Spadina. “I marched ont into the diningroom, where Harold was eating some bread and butter,” continued Mrs. Spadina, “and I went for him, and do you know that child sat up in his chair and said that he’d rather be called Mike than Harold, and that since his chuma had started 4 to call him Mike Spad the other gang’s afraid of him. Well, I just sent him off to bed at five o’clock, and be’6 there yet. Mike Spad!” she added, with intense feeling on each repulsive word. “The little scamp!” exclaimed Mr. Spadina. “We have been talking of getting a better house in 6ome other part of toe city for a long time,” said Mrs. Spadina, “and I’m sick and fired of this place. We can’t send him over to that school any longer, with bis rowdy names and its gangs and its fighting. Harold has clearly been fighting, for the boy said as much.” The father was looking silently at the ceiling and puffing at his evening cigar. He generally thought matters over before giving his decision, and; Mrs. Spadina cautiously went up- j stairs, where she found the formidable Mike Spad sound asleep and with the clothing kicked off him. And Mr. Spadina blew a whiff from his cigar and said: “At school they used to call me Bump.” And presently he smiled, and, knocking the ash off bis cigar, he chuckled: “There’s good stuff in Mike. I wonder how big the boy was that he walloped?” I And the important point is that of j the son, the mother and the father,' one was as true to human nature as j either of the others.—Toronto Satar- i day Night.

WHAT HE NEEDED.

Young lu Bed Troubles, But Hot Sock as Hit Friend Had Qutaaei. The young man who sat with both 1 feet on the table gazing at a bookcase full of leather-covered volumes did i not seem exactly happy, in spite of the' leisurely comfort of his attitude. “What’s the matter?” inquired the friend who had been trying to engage 1 him in conversation. Got the blues?” “Not precisely.” “I’ll tell you what von want to do. You want to come with me to the theater to-night.” “What for?” “Why, for recreation. Yon want to get your mind off your business ” “No. You’ve diagnosed the case wrong. I don’t get through more than tiro pages of one of those books before some piano-organ comes along and begins playing a tune that I’ve got to whistle in concert with it, whether I want toor uot. By the time I’ve taken a fresh start and gotten half way through another paragraph, some man comes along with a hammer and begins to play the‘Anvil Chorus’ on a long iron stringer over by that new building. And before my intellect has groped along a few sentences fnrther somebody drops in and tells me a funny story. That’s all a mistake abouta man's wanting to get his mind off his business. What I need is something that will assist me in spiking my mind right down to business, so that every little thing that comes along won’t be sufficient to jar it loose.”—Washington Star.

HIS START IN LIFE.

As Inventor Who W<s Not Daunted by gmall nbstsfl The late G. W. U. Yost, inventor qf the typewriter, used to tell nii friends that his business success was due to hk always bearing down hard on line point until he made it felt, illustrating the remark by gradually increasing the pressure of one thumb • on any available and tender portionje of his friend’s thigh, until the friend acknowledged the force and application of the pointWhen a young man on his way to Washington, Mr. Yost arrived in Chicago with no funds to carry him farther. Accordingly, he-set out in quest of work, and calling first at a large iron foundry asked to he directed to the foreman. When the foreman had been pointed out, tbe young man approached him and saia: ‘ifiir, I have come to work for you, and want ydu to tell me what I’m to do first.” “We’ve all the hands we need,” said the foreman, gruffly, turning away. “But you don’t quite understand me,” exclaimed the young inventor. “I said that I have come to Work for you. Now, I want you to tell me what I’m to do first.” The foreman turned with a surprised expression. “See here, young man,” he skid, sharply, “I tell you we have all the hands we need. Now, go along.” “Why, my dear sir,” said Mr. Yost, with the blandest smile and greatest geniality of voice, “that isn’t at all the question we are to discuss. What I said is that I have come to work for you. Now, I want you tell me what I’m to do first.”

The young man’s manner was so engaging that the foreman could not feel himself offended, and, after a moment, pointing to three Irishmen piling pig iron, hesaid, ironically: “Do what those three men are doing”’ Nothing daunted, the young mqn obeyed his instructions literally, and in an hour piled as much pig iron as did the three other men. “Now boss those men and make them work like that,” observed die foreman. Mr. Yost was rapidly promoted, and soon earned enough to enable him to complete his journey. “But I had a harder time to get that foreman to let me go,” he said, in telling the story, “than I had in getting him to tell me what to do first.”— London Tit-Bits.

BREATHE THROUGH THE NOSE.

The Knjoriom Elects of Breathing Through the Month. The hygienic mother of the present day sees to it that her children keep their mouths closed when asleep ana at aIL other times when not necessary for the purposes of eating, drinking or talking. The evils of breathing through the mouth cannot be too strongly dwelt upon. In the first place the invisible dust which constantly floats in the air is drawn in directly to the lungs, injuring thereby the delicate membranes of the entire breathing apparatus. Catarrhal trouble frequently results simply from this careless habit of breathing, not to mention more se- v rious disorders which are quite liable to ensue. Another evil resulting from this practice is the unbecoming and foolish expression given to the face by habitually going about with the lips apart When a child is allowed to sleep in this manner, the habit becomes an extremely difficult one to break during the waking hours as well. The entire personal appearance may be greatly disfigured by carelessness in this particular. By breathing through the nose the air ia both warmed and purified before it reaches the lungs. The nostrils act as a sort of sieve, allowing only pure air to pass beyond their domains. A sudden blast of icy air taken through the mouth and reaching directly the lungs is often provocative of cold and even pneumonia. Teachers of physical culture insist that their pupils shall keep the mouth closed during the physical exercise. Every ahtlete will vouch for it that he keeps his wind longer by breathing through the nose. Just so soon as ha begins to breath through the open mouth he loses ground. His mouth becomes dry and parched and a sharp pain in hi* chest soon force* him to desist the exercise. „ “Breathe through the nose,” maxim which cannot be too often or too emphatically repeated.—N. Y. World.

Long Line of Descent

At the coming of age recently of Mr. Robert Hamilton Kemp, eldest son and heir of Sir Kenneth Kemp, the fact transpired that the dining estate in Norfolk, England, has de- ; scended 20 generations—in 15 instances from father to son, in three from brother to brother, and in two i from cousin to cousin —for $ period