Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — Page 8

ANIMALS IN JAPANESE ART.

Many Notable Picture* Turned Out by Th.* Progressive People. I In portraits of people taken reading or writing a letter (a favorite pose) * crane almost invariably appears—cranes being trained by the Japanese to play the part of carrier pigeons. Of course, says Our Animal Friends, a far more bulky correspondence can be intrusted to them, and one of the most charming sights the country offers is the arrival or departure of such feathered postmen. The white swallows of children’s portraits are to be accounted for by a time-honored native custom. At the doors of thetemples always sit old crones with cages containing these birds, and it is the children's delight to spend their pocket money in buying swallows, which they immediately set free. Hokusai, greatest of all Japanese artists, is famed for his animal jokes. One of his finest pictures represents a swallow surprised by a mole emerging from the ground at its feet. In the outstretched wings-and attitude of the bird, so well expressing surprise and alarm, there is irresistible drollery. But Hokusai was also a master of pathos, and some of his little sparrows shivering in the snow bring tears to the eyes. Soscn, another master of the last century, is celebrated) for his inimitable monkeys. The monkey is indeed a favorite subject with both ancient and modern Japanese artists. In alt conceivable attitudes he constantly figures in embroideries,carvings and paintings. In ivory carvings he often covers eyes, earsand mouth with his paws, and a little “net-suki,” or umbrella handle, may thus serveto remind one that evil should net be looked upon, listened to,orspoken. Thetiger,in popularity as a subject, ranks next to the monkey, and these artists excel in depicting his lithe power. A wonderful medallion of tigers ornamenting the entrance of one of the Nikko temples is so carved that the grain and knots of the wood give the effectof stripesand thick velvety fur. At Nikko may also be seen the carved likeness of a white cat which has attained almost world-wide fame. Marvelously lifelike it certainly is, and the natives declare that when a storm is approachingit winks.

THE WALKING LEAF FERN.

Wonderful Plant That Grow* in Vicinity ot Louiavll.e. The walkingleaf fern is well named from the fact that it not only roots from the apex of its leaves and really takes one or more steps, but, to use an expressive slang phrase, it literally “walks all over” the rock or tree trunk upon which you may chance to find it. I remember once trying to describe the walking leaf fern to a blind man. After telling him how its leaves were entire, and, beginning a little broad at the*base, tapered down to a very fine point at the apex, where it rooted and sent up another entire plant, I said: It will do this until it has walked two or three—” “Oh yes.” he int< rrupted, “two or three yards!” “Oh, no,” I said, feeling ratherdiftappointed that he expected so much, “two or three—” “Oh, yes. 1 know,” he said, in a very conciliatory tone, “two or three feet!” “Hardly,” I said, in a most crestfallen way. “Only until it has taken two or three steps.” “Well,” he said, in a very disappointed tone, as if he wondered why I thought it was so interesting, if that was all it could do. “it just takes two or three steps then!” Anel while I had to acknowledge to the blind man that this was all. I am more than sure thjtt to you who can see, it will seem very wonderful that it should root and grow in this way. There are surely not many plants that do it. and I feel certain that this is t he only fern. It is also an evergreen fern, and one we can find in gnat abundance in all limestone countries, and very abundantly around Louisville. especially about the Jacob park knobs. It lends itself laautifullv to home cultivation, and I ofttn wonder why it is not used more by ourartists. With the rocks upon which it grows, it would make a charming water color or black and white study,and it would surely lend itself very gracefully to china decorations, and would be a very unusual study.—Louisville CourierJournal.

He Stood.

“I stand corrected,” wiid the schoolboy who didn’t care to sit down after the teacher had chastised him.—Chicago Daily News.

Prevention.

An ounce of prevention it better than a 2<>o-pbund physician.—Chicago Daily News.

Josper ttn nigs.

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NORTH BARKLEY. John Brady is clerking for)Wes Odle this week. MMMsMMMIMM Dennis Casto went to Monon on business Monday. Frank Parker of Oil City, was a Newland visitor Sunday. Mrs. Al Blake visited her parents at Medaryville Saturday. T. M. Callahan and wife were Pleasant Grove visitors Sunday. Harry Gifford and wife visited Frank Nelson of Thayer, over Sunday. George Lambert’s little girl, who was bitten by a dog, is getting along nicely. Thurman Smith and wife, and Mrs. J. H. McNeese were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. a . „ Mr. 1. V. McCormick of Gibson City, 111., is visiting W. N. Jordan and family for a few weeks. Had two pretty heavy frosts Thursday and Friday nights of last week. Killed a great deal of corn. We understand Laßue Bros, of Rensselaer are going to start a branch store at Gifford, in the new Kimble building. A grand opening ball will be given in the Kimble building at Gifford. Saturday evening, June 22. The C. &W. V. Ry. will run an excursion train for it, and a big time is anticipated.

HcCOYSBURQ.

Mrs. Wm, Arnott went to Rensselaer last Saturday. Frank Hellengreen received a bicycle on Wednesday of last week. __ Wm. Eldridge and sons, Jim and Robert, were in Rensselaer Saturday. Mrs. Lutz, who was hurt in a ruaway sometime ago, is slowly recovering. W. K. Foster called on Miss Roe Dennis Thursday evening of last week. Miss Mahon of Valparaiso, is making a visit with her friend, Miss Pearl Burson. Will Foster helped Reed McCoy clean the store on Wednesday of last week. Willie Whittaker spent Saturday night and Sunday with his mother, Mrs. John Scott. R. K. Hoy sold his team of driving ponies to a liveryman of Rensselaer last week. Lemuel Hammerton of Rensselaer, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Olin Stewast. It is said that a man should be permitted to get drunk on the 4th of July, Christmas, and the 17th day of March. See? Quite a number of people from this place and surrounding country attended the Children’s day exercises at Milroy church last Sunday evening. The Commencement exercises were attended by a full house Saturday night. Good order prevailed throughout and the orations were well rendered. The Osborne choir furnished the music. It is about time for the loud but melodious music of shotguns and cow-bells in this vicinity, as we have not had anything of the Jcitid since in February. Boys, a hint to the wise is sufficient, so just keep the eld instruments in tune. ■ Walter Jones was in this vicinity the first of the week, re-surveying the Gifford railroad. He will possibly tack it up on the telephone poles before next winter. He said it had slipped off the right-of-way in some places, We wonder how he came to know that?

PARR.

(From Another Correspondent.] Weather hot as we want it. The Russel sawmill has about three weeks work yet. Buck McCurtain has built a new porch in front of his residence. The Parr and Surrey ball teams will cross bats Saturday at Parr. I. Kight of Hedgewisch, 111., is visiting Joe Conway, for a few days. Mrs. Anna Clark, daughter of Mr. George Haste, is very sick at Mr. Haste’s. Miss Maud Rutherford of Chicago, visited Mrs. T. F. Brusnahan last week. Mr. Mike Fay, who was married recently, paid Pan a short visit Sunday eve. The Pan ball team will play any team south of Chicago and north of Indianapolis. David Elder is building a barn for Daniel Wolfe, on his farm south of Kniman. The contract for the church was not let Tuesday night. All bids were rejected. Vestus Chupp has been dangerously sick for sometime, but is better at this writing. J. L. Babcock is repairing his residence on Main street and M. O. Gant will occupy same. We expect to celebrate the 4th in the good old w<y again this year, so everybody is invi'ed. Mrs. John McClanahan and children of Rensselaer, visited relatives here a few days this week. Mrs. John Garrott returuded the last of the w-ek from a week’s visit with relatives at Hamtnond. 8. A. Brusnahan is building an addition and cellar to his residence. 8. A. bi lieves in improvement. Chas. Rowen has the rock on the ground for a foundation to his new residence, on his farm north of town. Fred Stephenson and Alpha McCurtain have just returned from school with their smiling and enlightened countenances. Sunday school attendance was slim Sunday on account of so many from here attending the Childien's day exercises at Rosebud. Children's day will be observed June 13 at Parr. Everybody is cordially in-

vited. It will be held in the grove in front of the schoolhouse. Mrs. Harriet McCarthy, who has been with her husband in Mexico, has returned and is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Reed, west of town.

“ A JOB ON DE WORKS.”

Every political ward heeler will welcome such laws as that passed by the late legislature fixing a minimum wage rate of 20 cents per hour on “public work.” Such laws enable the heeler to get in his oar. Promises of jobs “on de works” are used by him in securing votes for his boss. It creates and fosters an army of hangers-on and would be pap-suckers, who, as a general thing, are no earthly account to any community nor any one except the politician who has patronage to bestow. Such laws are not a benefit to the honest working man, as every intelligent reader knows and the placing of these measures upon our statute books only creates more ringsters and gives political favorites jobs at the expense of the true laborer, who must work the harder to bear the added burden of expense created by the increased pay to the fellow who has the “pull.” It creates undesirable rivalry among men for the soft jobs, and a consequent dissatisfaction and discontent among the less favored one who must sell his labor in the open market at onefourth or one-fifth less than he receives who has the pull. A whole sermon might with impunity be preached on the visciousness of such measures; to the intelligent. far-seeing man this is unnecessary. He can readily see what such law’s lead to and knows that nothing good can come from them. It was to be expected however, that the Apologist would give quasi endorsment of this measure by publishing a “testimonial” from “F. of L. M.,” who is such a friend of the laboring man that he was ashamed to sign his name to the article. The Apologist has ever endorsed every scheme or measure that drew money from the public treasury without rendering any equivalent and we expect it to blubber over with effusions of congratulation to the legislature that that enacted “so beneficient a measure.” We do not know who wrote the effusion in the Apologist, eulogizing this law but we will venture the assertion that it was written by some person who has not done a stroke of labor in twenty years except to hang about the court house and, when not holding office, watch for crumbs from the politicians’ table; that the only fat upon his ribs to-day has been put there by the sweat and toil of taxpayers; that if he ever earned a dollar that didn’t come from the city or county treasury it was so long ago that he has forgotten about it.

Didn’t Marry For Money. The Boston man, who lately married a sickly rkh young woman, is happy now, for he got Dr. King's New Life Pills, which restored her to perfect health. Infallible for Jaundice, Biliousness, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all Liver and Stomach troubles. Gentle but effective. Only 25c at Long’s drug store.

JOHNNY SANDS. A man whose name was Johnny Sands Was married to Betsy Gray; And. tho' she brought him gold and lands, She proved a terrible way. For. oh! xhe was a scolding wife. Full of caprice and whim. He said that he was tired of life. She said she was of him. Said he. “My love. I’ll drown myself— The river runs below—” Said she. "Pray do. you silly elf; I've wished it long ago.” "But for fear that I may courage lack And try to save my life, Pray, tie my hands behind my back,” "1 will," replied his wife. Then down the brink his loving bride Did rush, with all her force, To push him in. He stepped aside, And she fell in, of course. Then splashing, dashing, like a fish, "Oh, save me, Johnny Sands!” "I can't my love, though much I wish. For you have tied my hands.”

GRAND OPENING BALL AT—KIMBLE’S NEW HALL, GIFFORD, IND., Saturday, June 22. Come, everybody, and have a good time. Good music will be in attendance and the best of order will be maintained. The Chicago & Wabash Valley R. R., will run an excursion train so every one will have an opportunity to attend the grandest dance ever held in this part of the country, even those from a distance, at a small cost. Be sure and meet us there. Admission 50c a couple. T. M. Callhan, Mgr.

ATTENTION! Jay W. Williams has the only exclusive Furniture and Carpet Store in Jas= per County where will be found the largest and most complete stock of 8 Ms. BllHlg WIS It MB of every description and at the lowest prices. Iron Beds from $2.75 to $15.00. We are agents for the New Home Sewing Machines. Don’t pay $35.00 when you can buy one for $15.00, warrented ten years. Don't forget the place, Opposite the Public Square. Rensselaer, Ind.

LUCIFER MATCHES.

Invented by a German Convict In a Prison Celt According to a German paper, the inventor of lucifer matches was a political prisoner, who perfected his idea in 1833 within the walls of a state prison. Kammerer was a native of Ludwigsburg, and when sentenced to six months’ imprisonment at Hohenasberg; he was fortunate enough to attract the notice and to gain the favor of an old officer in charge of the prison, who, finding he was studying chemistry, allowed him to arrange a small laboratory in his cell. Kammerer had been engaged in researches with a view of improving the defective steeping system, according to which splinters of wood, with sulphur at the ends, were dipped into a chemical fluid in order to produce a flame. If the fluid was fresh, the result was satisfactory; but, as it lost its virtues after a time, there was.no general disposition to discontinue the old-fashioned system of using flint and steel. After many failures, Kammerer began to experiment with phosphorus, and had almost completed his term of imprisonment when he discovered the right mixture and kindled a match by rubbing it against the walls of his cell. On coming out of prison, he commenced the manufacture of matches. Unfortunately, the absence of a patent law prevented his right from beingsecured, and on Austrian and other chemists analyzing the composition, imitations speedily made - their appearance. In 1835 the German states prohibited the use of these matches, considering them dangerous. When they were made in England, and sent to the continent, these regulations were withdrawn, but too late to be of any benefit to the inventor, who died in the madhouse of his native town in 1857.—Golden Days.

BLOOD DID NOT TELL.

How Yankee Incredulity Relieved Nerve Tension. “Here, I see, is a page or two of my emotions when I groped in the solemn gloom of the Catacombs at Koine,” tays a writer in Lippincott’s Magazine. “A long line of us was following the gtimmer of a wax taper carried by the monk who was guiding us through the damp passages, stopping now and then to wave his fat hand at coffins and mummies and acres of bones. At last we came to a curiously shaped jar attached to a stope coffin. The monk declared that this bottle contained the blood of a martyr murdered many years ago. Everybody gazed at it in awe-struck silence, quite overcome at being permitted to stand before so holy a relic. Suddenly a long-legged Connecticut Yankee

strode out of the gloom. Thrusting a doubting finger down the wide mouth of the bottle, he scraped around carefully and then held his finger up to the light of the taper. Seeing no martyr’s blood on his skinny finger, he snuffed increduously and turned away in wrathful disappointment. Away fil'd my soulful emotions. Every time I caught a glimpse of that practical skeptic afterwards I had to stuff my handkerchief in my mouth and fall back into the dark to giggle.”

INDIAN IN DRUG STORE.

Sufprise* Proprietor by Asking for a Bot tie ot Bair Dye. An Indian walked into an avenue drug store and whispered something into the proprietor’s ear. Thedrug- | gist looked at the red man a moment, i then went to the other end of the store, opened a glass case, took out a bottle, wrapped it up and gave it to the Indian,- who paid for it and j then solemnly walked out. The med--1 icine man then walked over fo‘a group of friends who had been intently watching the proceedings and said: | “1 have been in the drug business for over 40 years, but that was the first sale I ever made to an Indian, and I must acknowledge that I was very much surprised when he asked men to wrap him up a bottle of hair dye.” —Washington Star.

European Militarism.

For military and naval purposes the nations of Europe spend annually $750,000,000. They keep under arms continually more than 3,000,000 men, with six times as many ready to fly to arms when the word “mobilize” is spoken. It is estimated that thecommunity loses at least S2OO a year for each man who is kept under arms, and is, therefore, unproductive.

The Lazy Man

The man who is lazy never has time to do anything. Chicago Daily Newa

Poor Housekeeping Germs.

If a woman is a poor manager, her husband's home is wrecked, and her daughters inherit a poorly managed homfe until they get married and leave, and then the chances are that they will run one like it. Moreshould be said about this poor housekeeping germ. It should be fought against with as much energy as any other germ now labeled and in the showcase.—Atchison Globe.

Wear and Tear of Money.

Gold coin loses one per ceht. of its weight in 50 years, silver t|ie same amount in ten years. 1

The Transgressor.

i ’ The weigh of the transgressor is i invariably light.—Chicago Daily News. A whole armlnßil of old nnn»r« ( for a nickel at The Democrat office.

Notice of Appointment. TVotice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Robert B. Goodrick. deceased. Said estate is supposed to be insolvent. , William B. Austin. June 13, 1901. WE wish to inform our patrons and the general public that we have succeeded in getting a first class upholsterer and repair man and we are now in a position to do all kinds of new and repair work in that line, also that we are prepared to do all kinds of painting and decorating. pictnre framing and pasteling. We are here to stay and bound to give satisfaction. Try nnuuci 1 v 1,8 y° u ® ee UUnNILLI that we cnn P l eaße vou. Work called BROS for and delivered. Phone 203 A RENSSFLAER U INDIANA V?

Have You Seen?

The New Machinery at the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. It is the best and latest improved in the United States. No more pockets in open front shirts. Our New drop board Shirt-Ironer matches every button hole perfectly and holds the neck band in perfect position while ironing. Do you realize you are working against your own city when you send to out of town Laundries and indirectly working against your own interests? We CLAIM THAT WITH OCR present Equipment and Management our work is Equal to any Laundry in America. Our Motto: Perfect Satisfaction or no charges. We make a specialty of Lace Curtains. Send us your rag carpets, 5c a yard. Rates given on family washings. Office at G. W. Goff’s. Phone 66. Prompt work. Quick Delivery.

Honey to Loan.

Private funds to loan on farms, also city property, for 5 years or longer at a low rate of interest, with privilege of making partial payments. Also money to loan on personal, second mortgage and chattel security. No delay, call or write. A complete set of abstract books.

JAMES H. CHAPMAN.

Advertised Letters. Mr. Bdward Lntan, Prof. Ju. N. Clemen*. Mr. Daniel William*, Mr. S. Leach (3) * F. B. Meyer. P. M.