Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1900 — Page 7

MOST NOVEL OF ALL DUELS.

Kentucky Preacher Chose Potatoes aa Weapon and Vanquished Enemy Ono way of combating an evil practice Is to make It look ridiculous. It was by this means that dueling was ■topped In a certain district In Kentucky. A traveling preacher named Bowman—a strong, muscular fellow—liras conducting services In Kentucky, iAt one of his meetings a well-know* desperate character created a disturbance, and, being publicly rebuked by Bowman, sent him a challenge to fight. Bowman, as the challenged party, had the choice of weapons. He selected a half-bushel of Irish potatoes, as big ' as his fist, for each man, and stipulated that his opponent must stand fifteen paces dlst&it, and that only one potato at a time should-be taken from the measure. . The desperado was, furious at belnj! thus freshly insulted, and made an Indignant protest, but Bowman insisted upon his rights as the challenged man, and threatened to denounce the desperado as a coward if he failed to come to time. As there was no way out of the fix hut to fight the desperado consented. The encounter took place on the outskirts of the town, and almost everybody in the place was on hand to see the fun. The seconds arranged the two men In position, by the Side of each being a half-bushel measure filled with large, hard Irish potatoes. Bowman threw the first tuber, it struck his opponent and flew into pieces. ,A yell of delight went np from the crowd, Ithich flurried the desperado, «nd his potato flew wide of the mark. {Bowman watched his chance, and every time his opponent stooped for a potato another hit him in the short ribs, knocking the wind completely out of him, and doubling him up on the grass. The people were almost crazy with laughter, but Bowman looked as solemn as if he had Just been preaching • funeral sermon. The desperado was taken home and put to bed, and stayed there for more than a week before recovered from the effects of the Irish potato dueL—Boston Herald.

Exhibits at Paris.

There is a large exhibit from this country at the Paris exposition which will prove very interesting to all, but no more •o than the news that the famous American remedy, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, will cure dyspepsia, indigestion and constipation. To all sufferers a trial is reo ommended.

Tooth of the Serpent.

Auntie—Whom do you love best? Dolly—Mamma. Auntie—Who next? Dolly—You. Auntie—Who next? Dolly—Baby. Father (from the background)—And when does daddy come In? Dolly—About 2 In the morning.—The Sketch.

What Do the Children Drink?

Don’t give them tea or coffee. Have you tried the new food drink called GRAIN-O? It is delicious and nourishing, and takes the place of coffee. The more Grain-O you give the children the more health you distribute through their systems. Grain-O is made of pure grains, and when properly prepared tastes like the choice grades of coffee, but costa about % u much. AU grocera seU it 15c •nd 25c.

Nerve.

In the very vortex of the bargain rush a man was struggling. “Mercy!” he shrieked. But the women bore him down and trampled him under foot. “The nerve of him,” sneered they, ofte to another, “to wear a Bhirt waist and then ask Bpeclal consideration by reasons of his sex!” —Detroit Journal.

Might Have Been Worse.

Mrs. Popley (excitedly)—Run! Run! Run for the doctor, John; baby has ■wallowed that quarter you gave him to play with. Mr. Fopley—O, never mind. It was only a plugged quarter, anyway.—Philadelphia Record.

Nothing to Say.

Magistrate—You are charged with talking back to an officer, sir; have you anything to say? Prisoner —Not a wurd, yer honor— Ot’ve sed too mooch alreddy.—-Ohio State Journal.

To Serve as Ammunition.

“We have awfully hard biscuit at our boarding-house.” “Do you eat them?” “No; I carry mine upstairs to throw at mice In the night” A well-prepared mind hopes In adversity and fears in prosperity.—Horaca

BackAche ? If yon have Backache yon have Kidney Disease, If yon neglect Backache it will develop into something worse Bright’s Disease or Diabetes, There is no use rubbing and doctoring your back. Cura the kidneys. There is only one kidney medicine but it cures Backache every time—* Dodd's Kidney Pills.

TRY TO DODGE DEATH

MANY SCHEMES TRIED TO ESCAPE THE DESTROYER. fear of Dissolution Leads Many Men to Strange Freaks and Unusual Ways of Livingr—Sometimes Hurries Them Into Their Graves. A man who, while poor, Is not more ■fruid to die than most people, often develops a hauntiug terror of death after he lrns made a big fortune and ■pends an unhappy life and huge sums «f money in trying to avoid the coming fate, frequently Wiurrylug himself into a premature grave through sheer worry stud fear. This passion has turned the grains of a good many wealthy people stud made monomaniacs of them. They lesort to the most childish expedients to keep death from their doors. You remember Kipling’s character who had his chair slung-on ropes from ■ beam that the world might spin under him Instead of carrying him along to grow older. There was an actual case very like this a few years ago, when ilolm Islip, an Englishman, who made a huge fortune out Of silver In Mexico, drove himself mad through worrying it bout his death. After exhausting all the safeguards London could offer, he bought a small rocky island called Brycliil, on the west Irish coast, taking with him one faithful servitor. Here, in feverish haste, he had four stone pillurs raised and a 6mall one-storied cabin, with three rooms, rather like a houseboat, slung on chairs from iron girders that crossed the pillars and swung clear of the ground. Once inside this he shut himself up, with some books and a pet Jackdaw for company, and never left his swinging house until his death. The attendant, who lived in a small house close by, used to row to the mainland—a mile and a half—when the weather permitted for provisions. The master spent his time reading and looking out over the Atlantic from the cabin windows. Ilis brain hail given way, of course, and he imagined his life stood still while the earth revolved under him. He had no relatives to insist on his entering a private asylum, and he died three years later in the cabin, worried out of life by the fear of death. His hair was snow-white, though he was only 43. Another wealthy man, Jean Inglesant, though he had made a fortune by shrewd speculation, also gave way to the dread of death. He conceived the idea that all movement and effort wasted the tissues of the body, and this notion sunk so deexily into his mind that he went to bed in a quiet country house and hardly moved hand or foot for years; if he even stirred a finger he did it with dread, believing it used up bis vitality and shortened his life by so much time. He spoke as little as possible, sometimes not opening his lips for days, and was fed by attendants with Ispoons. All his food consisted of “slops,” to save him the fatal exertion of chewing, and lrts one amusement was being read to by the hour together, for he would not hold a book or turn the pages. Even the reading he did away with toward the close of bis life, believing that listening shortened his existence. One of the queerest cases was that of a Mrs. Holmes, a very wealthy widow, who had a terrible fear of germs and bacilli of all kinds. She had studied the subject deeply and it affected her reason, to all appearance. The dread of death seized her, and she was convinced she would die by some wasting disease inspired by microbes. Knowing that cold is fatal to the average germ, ■he had two rooms adjoining each other fitted as refrigerators and kppt constantly at a temperature of about 30 degrees or just below freezing point One would suppose this to be more trying than any quantity of microbes, but the owner was happy In Iter consciousness of freedom from germ diseases. Winter and summer the rooms were kept at the same point, and the adjoining rooms and hall were also kept cool that no curreut of warm air might bring bacilli In. This lady lived clad In furs throughout the hottest days that blazed outside, and her attendants and servants were obliged to constantly disinfect themselves before entering her presence. They lived In a perpetual atfitosphere of carbolic acid, arid their mistress had to pay very high wages to Jnduce any servants to stay with her.— London Answer.

Where People Live in Trees.

The delta of the Orinoco Itlver in South America is for a considerable part of the year deep In water. Yet this tract is inhabited by the Wnrau tribe, who And It their only mode of escape from the terrible bites of the mosquito. The Waraus, therefore, make their habitations In the Ita Palm, which loves moisture uud grows abundantly In this delta, connecting several of the trees together with cross-beams and laying planks upon them for the flooring. The natives of the Philippine Islands and Borneo sleep In trees. The ape men of India, the Veddas of Ceylon, and the Bukones of the Andaman Islands also'llve In trees. Some years ago, Dr. Moffat, the great missionary, while In South Africa, saw one tree In which there were no fewer than tweuty colonial huts of a Kattlr tribe. A powerful chief hud deprived them of nil their cattle and weapons. By degrees the lions became so numerous and daring that the slight Kaffir huts were an Insufficient protection during the night, and the half-starved people perforce took to the trees.

Gardening in Africa,

The main trouble In a British West [African diet Is a lack of fresh green jfood. Bo wrote the late Mary 11. KlngsBar. the Afrlcap explorer, la Climate,

and she proceeded to mention some of the difficulties in the way pf supplying that deficiency. Gardening In West Africa is nervous work. I have worked in gardens there, and know that even lifting a kale-pot Is not there, as it Is here, a trifling act—because under the kale-pots you have there a chance of finding divers things that, If in spirits on a shelf of the British Museum reptile gallery, would give pleasure, but there, close, to oue’a ankles and not bottled and corked down, are merely exciting and unpleasant. Still, if the snakes go in the other direction, one has the satisfaction of having fresh vegetables. There are plenty of worse things than snakes connected with West African gardening. In some places there are elephants, in others hippopotami. Specimens of either in a garden for a night are incompatible with success, forajseason, at least. Then, if you hire a man to sit up all night in the garden and ring a hand-bell to keep such intruders 6ff, he keeps you awake also. If you take away the bell and set him up In business with a fire to scare game off, a leopard usually comes and takes him away, which distresses you very much. Gardening in West Africa Is not to be undertaken light-heartedly by persons of a nervous or Irritable disposition.

Science AND Invention

The new German dictionary of the carbon compounds names 74,147 of these substances, and the end is yet far off. Elephants have only eight teeth—two below and two above on each side. All an elephant's bafiy teeth fall out when the animal is about fourteen years old, and a new set grows. Experiments by Prof. Loeb show that chemically pure salt is fatal to fish, though present in the same proportions as in sea water. It is agreed that it is useful to animals, but the mixture of It with other salts renders it non toxic, as proved by his further experiments. “Nature” notes a remarkable fact in connection with the West Indian hurricane of September, 1808. It appears that before the hurricane one of the, tamest and commonest birds on the lsl-. and of St. Vincent was a small humming bird, but none of these birds have, been seen since September, 1898. According to Mons. Sigriste, of the French Academy of Sciences, the only thoroughly scientific shutter for instam taueous photography consists of a slit moving rapidly across the sensitive plate. But to obtain good results the space between the plate and the shutter should not exceed one-tenth of a millimetre, and the edges of the slit must be sharp and carefully beveled to exclude reflection. The blue coral is known as one of the most isolated of living animals. It has been described as the only species of Its genus and the only member of its family, “with no close living relations and no known ancestors.” Recently, however, Prof. J. W. Gregory has discovered In the British Museum what he believes to be ail ancestor of the lonely blue coral In a fossil coral of the Cretaceous period, called Polytremacis. By distilling fresh herring and oily pine wood in an Iron retort, and then condensing the products iu a Liebig condenser, William C. Day reports, iu the American Chemical Journal, that he has produced an artificial asphalt closely resembling the natural product This experiment Is regarded as confirmatory of the opinion that asphalt and petroleum are the products of a natural dis-tillation-by which the remains of early forms of animal and vegetable life have been transformed In the heated crust of the earth. Bret Ilarte’s “outcast in gray,” the coyote, is described by Prof. C. F. Holder as a species of wolf which is virtually a wild dog. Domestic dogs, he says, although they will kill the male coyote, will often refuse to injure the female. Prof. Holder defends the coyote against those who would exterminate him, on the ground that he is the only effective enemy of the Jackrabbit and the ground squirrel, which cause so much damage In California. A coyote In a camp after chickens yelps so fast that he creates the impres-’ slon that a whole pack is abroad. Naturalists have generally accepted the opinion that ants are not able to perceive any sounds that are audible to human ears. Prof. Weld, of the lowa State University, controverts this opinion. He describes in Science careful experiments made by him with four species of American ants,, from which lie deduces the conclusion that these species, at least, are able to perceive sounds, but whether they do It by means of organs of beariug, or through the sense of touch being excited by atmospheric vibrations, be is unable to say with certainty. He Inclines to the opinion that they do really hear, as some Individuals showed a perception of the direction of the sound, such as tbnt of a shrill whistle, aud others, which were not disturbed when violently shaken In their glass prisons, seemed to be "driven nearly frantic by shrill sounds.”

Spain's Underground River.

The Gundlana, a Spanish river, after flowing for thirty miles overhead, vanishes underground, and for the next thirty miles pursues Its course as an underground river, only appearing at' Intervals In the shape of lakelets, the ogos or eyes of the Uuaillaua ns they are called. This Is the largest underground river which has been fully traced.

BLOCK A SETTLEMENT.

Independent Mine Operators. Sax Hall* road* Must First Yield. A committee of the independent anthracite mine operators on Tuesday visited the presidents of the coal roads and protested against being coerced into granting higher wages and other concessions to their men, which they declare means their undoing, unless the coal carrying railroads give them better rates. AU the coal roads Tuesday followed the example of the Reading and offered 10 per cent higher wages and powder at $1.70 a keg to their men, if they would return to work, but the independent operators would not follow their lead. President Mitchell said “The tie-up is practically complete, and there will be no resumption of work without there first being a committee appointed from every colliery in the coal fields.” At United Mine Workers’ headquarters this statement is given out: “What we want is: “1. A better enforcement of existing mine laws. “2. To obtain that which is fully our own, i. e., the value of labor actually performed and hitherto taken from us. “3. To obtain the right to purchase our implements of labor at a fair market value and escape from the compulsory rule which forces us to pay the operators more than twice what the same material can be purchased for at retail in the open market. “4. To allow a readjustment of the wage scale that Will nearly conform to the normal conditions of the anthracite trade and establish as nearly us practicable a uniform price for each class of work in and around the mines.” The strikers sny until these conces-] ■lons are granted and the union recognized they will not return to work. At Lattimer the miners adopted new tactics. When ordered to halt by the deputies they held their hands above their heads to show they were unarmed, and swept the guards aside. At Jeddo the miners were met by Sheriff Harvey, who gave each man a cigar, marched with, them through the mining villages, and then advised them to go home. This; they did. As a result of the demonstration, however, the Oneida colliery, employing 3,000 men, shut down. Although the labor leaders positively •aid they did niit fear a break in the ranks of the anthracite coal strikers, they were nevertheless pleased to learn that the 10 per cent advance granted by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company in the Schuylkill valley was totally ignored by the striking mine workers. It was predicted that many of the strikers would return to work under the belief that the 10 per cent increase would be the limit of the operators’ concessions, but the unanimity of the men in deciding to stand, out for a further advance caused many remarks of surprise. The strike situation iu the Lehigh valley showed a change in favor of the men. Several hundred men quit work at the fialvin Pardee mines, and at Oneida and Cranberry the coal companies lost additional men. Organizer James informed President Mitchell that he anticipated a complete suspension of operations in the valley.

ROBERTS MADE ARMY CHIEF.

Hero of South Africa Gets a Promotion on His Birthday. Lord Roberts is now commander-in-chief of the British army. The announce* ment, long expected, was officially mads on the birthday of the hero of Kandahar, The formal announcement-is hailed by the Unionist party as a pledge that ths army reorganization will be carried out In the most effective manner. Gen. Bui* ler should succeed Ix>ril Roberts in South Africa. He will be the senior officer there when the field marshal leases and there are several others who rank before Kitchener. Lord Roberts commenced his military

LORD ROBERTS.

services as a lieutenant of a mountain battery of native artillerymen at Peahn* war, rndia. His assignment to South Africa was a notice to the world that Britain meant once and for all to crush out the aspirations of the Dutch republics for separate and independent statehood. Lord Roberts la a remarkable personality. In the first place, he is, like the great Wellington, of Irish parentage, though born in India —the son of Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts —and never fails to awaken the enthusiasm of the ions of Erin. He never knows when he is defeated.

News of Minor Note.

Lymph taken from the lymphatic glands of goats Is now being tried in cases of apoplexy. Road improvement has begun In the Philippines, with money collected from wiatoms at Manila. Over $1,000,000 worth of diamonds are stolen every year from the South African diamond mines. Census returns: Sacramento, Cal., 29,252, Increase 10.08 per cent; Pueblo, Colo., 28,ir>7, Increase 14.00 per cent. Illinois sentiment against trusts will cause the Diamond Match Company to remove Us offices to New York within six weeks. BL A. Darii, Chicago, one of the legatees in the famoua Daria will esse and one of the heirs to millions, died of brain fever. W. A. Clark, the mine owner of Montana, baa purchased a one-half Interest In the Los Angeles Terminal Railway, which will be extended to Salt Lake City,

A Fin Du Siecle Idyl.

Winkers—Yes, I!m married. Some years ago I started out to select a bicycle; wanted the best, of course, and Mary, whom I had never seen, started out about the same time to select a typewriter. We met and married. Friend—Did you meet at a store? Winkers—No, we met in a lunatic asylum.—New York Weekly.

BEST FOR THE BOWELS.

No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARffiTS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASGARETB Gandy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. 0. 0. stamped on it Beware of imitations.

His Opinion.

Whlfflctree—Did you pay a quarter tew hear that feller lecture on “The Bunko Games uv New York?” Railfence—Yep! Whlffietree—What do yew think uv It? Railfence—l think I’ve been bnnkoed out uv another quarter.—Puck.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your Grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink It without injury as well as the adnlt. All who try it like it. GRAIN-0 has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Bold by all grocers.

The Tendency.

Briggs—The immensely wealthy people seem to be getting more numerous all the time. Griggs—l know It. It won’t be long now before ordinary millionaires will be snubbed.—Life.

Lane’s Family Medicine

Move* the bowels each day. In ord«r to be healthy this la necessary. Acts gently ou the liver and kidneys. Cure* tick headache. Price 25 and 50c.

Crematories.

Italy lends in the number of crematories, having twenty-four. America has twenty-two, Germany four, . England three, and France two. Besides New Scales of ail varieties, the Chicago Scale Co. have a number of Second-hand Wagon or Stock Scales in perfect order, which they will sell low for Cash. Send for their "Bargain List.” Uses of borax are extending year by year. The meat purchasers of the country are the largest consumers, absorbing 6,000,000 pounds'and over annually.

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money If It fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature is on each box. 26c. The expense of New York last year for local purposes, exclusive of bond Issues, amounted to $19.56 per capita of an estimated population of 3,500,000. I do not believe Fiso’s Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. —John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. The aging of timber, which formerly required long storage, is now completed by electricity In a few hours.

Carter’s Ink ls the

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Hall’s Catarrh Cnre.

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