Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — Page 4

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SHARON. The first snow of the season fell . Wednesday. Corn husking in this vicinity is a thing of the past. Wm, Haley was a Remington caller one day last week. H. P. Farmer spent a few moments at the hub Saturday evening. Mr. Herbert Toops left Sunday for Grand Rapids, Mich., where he expects to attend school. Joe Luers and his best girl of Remington, attended the dance at Kellner’s Thusday evening. Miss Anna Mayo, who has been very sick for the past six weeks, is again able to be up ana about. The hat social at Mr. Fisher’s Saturday night proved to be a success and all who attended had a good time. Dr. Henderson, who has been picking corn for R, Dickenson, has returned to his home and family at Monon. J. Daley, G. Heusen, G. Timmons, A. and J. Luers, and H. and C. Murry attended the Kellner dance near Remington, Thursday eve.

INDEPENDENCE.

Miss Cora Wray called on Ida Long Sunday. A light snow Jell here Wednesday morning. Will Wray is working for Rev. Miller of Wheatfield. The box social at Center school was well attended. Joseph Durant is husking corn for Edward Barkley. Leonard Hays called on Chris Morgenegg Sunday. Mrs Wray and son Cecil, spent Tuesday in Rensselaer. Samuel Hopkins and family called on David Long’s Sunday. C. M. Hopkins and wife spent Sunday with relatives near Fair Oaks. Miss May Hays, Relva Lesh and Mary Morgenegg spent Sunday with Bertha and Katie. Miss Vernie Barkley, who is working in Rensselaer, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. Ed Barkley Elias Arnold, wife and daughter Bethel, returned Tuesday from a few days visit with relatives in and around Wabash. William Florence and family are staying with the latter's parents, Frank Hays’ while they are having a new house built.

HcCOYSBURG.

Miss Sadie Cody visited our school here last Friday. Miss Stella Pollock visited friends in this vicinity last week. Corn husking will soon be a thing of the past injhis locality. Jas. McDonald and family spent Thanksgiving at Fred Saltweil’s. J. M. Gwin of near Brook, is visiting with relatives near here this week. L. B. Josserand and Wash Cook are on the jury at Rensselaer this week. Gustave Bernheart and Miss May Loman were buggy riding last Sunday'p. m. Mrs. Randle visited her daughter, Mrs. Bert Josserand, near Seafield, last week. Miss Lulu Rishling who has been working at the hotel, is staying at home this yeek. R. S. Drake, cf about 3'4 miles northeast of here, has his new barn almost completed. Mr. John Besse of Ridge Fann, 111., visited his brother OL near Pleasant Ridge last week. Otto Nimms, who has worked for C. Randle for the past year, is now working for W. R. Willits. Quite a few people from Rensselaer and vicinity attended the box social here Saturday night. The box supper here was well attended and a good entertainment was rendered. The proceeds were sl9 70. Remember the “Mitten Social'' at Osborne tonight, Dec. 7. Everybody invited and a general good time is expected. Wonder what Geo. Anderson went down south for so early last Sunday morning? It is supposed he was trying to find a warmer climate. Over 70 persons ate dinner at Felix Parker’s last Saturday. It was a complete surprise given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Parker's silver wedding. F. J. Schrimmei's of Rensselaer was in this vicinity taking pictures last week. He will take pictures at the school house here next week for J 5 cents per dozen. Boys! We may not live around Chicago Heights but we can prepare the bells for those that do, if they tell us much more of what we can expect for Christmas.

NEWLAND.

Dave Guthrie is very sick with a bad case of tonsilitis. L. B. Hewitt has been confined to his bed for a few days with bowel trouble. Herman Ahlers and Oweny Callahan were iu Rensselaer Saturday on business. John Burn's will give a Blue Rock shooting match at Lewiston, Friday Dec. Mrs. Stevens of Herscher, 111., is visit»n|j her daughter Mrs. H. E. Gifford, this week. The Misses Nellie and Day Jordon and Ida Caster attended institute at Cozy Palace Saturday. Willi m Hickman, who has been conductor of the C. & W. V., has resigned his position and has been succeeded by Albet Strebelow, formerly fireman. Harry Gifford, who has been foreman here for the past t.ine years, has re-

signed and will farm next year. ( It has not been decided who will take his place. Mrs. Wm. Sbellhart has been very sick with heart and stomach trouble this week. Drs. Stewart of Monon and Medaryville, attended her. She is a little better at this writing.

DEMOTTE.

Machal Cover of Virgie, was visiting friends in Demotte yesterday. James Wiseman and family of Aix, were visiting in our village Sunday. Mrs. E. Sayers has been quite sick for some time but is much better at this writing. R. Mannan returned Saturday and the Demotte schools are in running order again. . 1. R. Tyler the P. M., has been on the sick list but is able to attend to business at present. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Shreeves, Nov. 21, a girl. Dr. Rice attending. Mother and baby doing nicely. Noah Frame of Tennessee, is in Demotte, shaking hands with old friends and talking of the time of other years. Mr. and Mrs. Al Clark, Mr, and Mrs. Mark Granger, all of Hammond, spent Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Fay Granger of Demotte. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sigler have returned home from Georgetown, S. C., where they were attending the funeral of their daughter, Mrs. Loyd. Dr. Rice was taken sick very suddenly last Saturday and has been removed to his home at Hebron. There is great anxiety manifested in this locality in regard to the doctor’s illness, as he is greatly missed, and it is hoped he will soon recover and return to attend to his patients.

PLEASANT RIDGE.

Mlm Lily Lana- spent Sunday with her parents at Surrey. Miss Laura Wells went to Kninian Saturday for a short visit with relatives. James P. Overton returned Suuday, after a short visit at Delphi and Lafayette. Rex Warner. Thompson Ross and Fermon Thompson were “hunting-” in our locality, Friday. Misses Lola. Turn and Mabie Hesse and Joe and Luther Stone spent the evening at Mr. Potts', Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Besse and daughter Turn, visited at Charles Burbage's, west of Rensselaer, Sunday. Joe Stone, w ho for the past few months has been in Chicago, is spending the week with friends and relatives in this neighborhood. There will be a box social at the Moore school house, Dec. 21. Girls, oorne and bring a box, and boys bring the "dough” “Last winter an infant child of mine had croop in a violent form," says Elder John W. Rogers, a Christian Evangelist, of I illey, Mo. "I gave her a few doses of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and in a short time all danger was past and the child recovered.” This remedy not only cures croup, but when given as soon as the first symptons appear, will prevent the attack. It contains no opium or other harmful substance and may be given as confidently to a baby as to an adult. For sale by Long.

5 PER CENT. MONEY.

Money to burn. We know you hate to smell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on s<oo.oo every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know the language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison.

CONDENSED STORIES.

Witty Sayings of a Celebrated Irish Judge. In a trial for assault before Judge Morris, a celebrated Irish judge who' died recently, an eloquent lawyer addressed the jury at great length to prove that his client had not battered the prosecutor. All during this speech Lord Morris was turning over the pages of a railway guide. At last the barrister sat down, declaring that he would not call any evidence. “Gentlemen of the jury, said the judge, “I have computed that the young gentleman who has made the interesting and beautiful speech that we have all enjoyed was 168 miles away from the scene of this brutal assault when it was committed. He is the only witness for the defense. On the other hand, there is the man who was struck/ the man who saw him struck and the constable who saw him hiding under his bed. It is for you to say whether a broken head or an outburst of eloquence is the better testimony to a matter of fact.” At another time, in a sanitary case, a lawyer once said, “I assume that your lordship is fully acquainted with the statutes and authorities.” “Assume nothing of the sort,” said the judge. “I yield to no man in my utter ignorance of sanitary law.” One of the most characteristic of Lord Morris’ sayings has yet to be related. There was some discussion on theological matters, at a club in Dublin and one of the disputants was ironical over what he called the credulity of educated Catholics. He admired it, he said, as something entirely beyond his own powers. Lord Morris broke in with his great brogue: “Ah, now, ve think yersclf a fine intelligence because ye can only believe this and believe that. I’ll tell ye now, I’ll send out to the public house at the corner and for sixpence I’ll get ye a fellow that doesn't believe the half of it.”

FUNERAL REPRESENTATIVES.

Busy men have no time for attending ordinary funerals; therefore it has now become the fad to send secretaries and office boys to pay the final tribute of respect to friendship. At a recent quiet funeral in this city a clerkly looking young man was stopped at the door by the servant, who demanded his business. “I am come to attend the final obsequies,” was the reply. “Friend of the family?” inquired the lackey. “Not personally, but I represent Messrs. Blank & Thank, who are unable to be here.” He was admitted. Some mutual acquaintances, talking about the funeral a few days later, expressed surprise that neither Blank nor Thank, both intimate friends of the deceased, was present, and were still more surprised to Ibarn that the firm’s office boy did the honors by special appointment.—New York Press.

Origin of a Famous Phrase.

It was Judge Thomas M. Cooley of Michigan, instead of Grover Cleveland, who first gave utterance to the famous phrase, “A public office is a public trust.” Governor Durbin of Indiana is to blame for dispelling the illusion. In a speech recently he attributed the authorship of the saying to Judge .Cooley, and upon being called upon to give his authority he sent to Clerk Hopkins of the supreme court, who had no difficulty in finding the words in a copy of Cooley’s “Principles of Constitutional Law,” published in 1880, several years before the words were made famous by President Cleveland. There is, however, no claim that President Cleveland believed he was coining a phrase when he employed the words. He simply expressed an established truth.— Detroit Free Press.

Women Who Smoke.

A venerable woman calmly puffing away at an old clay pipe was one of the sights, now much less frequent than formerly, in the Carthage (Kan.) courthouse the other day. She had come in from some of the backwoods corners of Jasper county, where there are others of her kind. “From Tennessee? Why, sartinly,” she replied to the local interviewer’s query, “and from South Ca’liny to Tennessee when a little girl. You see, us girls learned to smoke the tobacco we raised, and the boys they chawed it, and there wasn’t no objections from the old folks. When we come out to Missouri, along afore the war, our pipes come too. Yes; I reckon I ain’t the only old lady in Jasper county what smokes a pipe.”

Aluminium Nails.

After many unsuccessful experiments and trials an alloy of aluminium has been made with which nails, staples and taeks can be made to compete with copper. Among other advantapes claimed for the new material is that it is not affected by the weather and will not deteriorate, as in laving roofs, lining tanks, etc. As the alloy is noncorrosive and nonpoisonous the new nails ought to find favor among makers of refrigerators and other articles used for food storage. When the difference in point of number and weight is taken into consideration, it is seen that aluminium nails are about 4 cents a pound cheaper than copper nails. It is not intended to put them in competition with ordinary steel nails.—Hardware.

Russia Suspicious of Visitors.

It would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a foreigner to enter Russia these days without a passport, says a St. Petersburg correspondent. The system is getting more and more rigid instead of being relaxed. After making a good deal of official fuss on your entering the country—carefully scrutinizing the passport, copying it and taking it from you from time to time—they make the same fuss on your leaving. They keep harassing you during your stay vitn questions as to when you intend leaving. They give you tho idea that your presence among them is a matter of much concern to them and that it will be a great relief to them when you are gone.

Unlucky Names.

Juliet’s “What in a name?” might be asked regarding the vessels of the British navy which have borne the names of reptiles. It is said that four Vipers have been wrecked, the last of the name but recently, and a Cobra, still more lately, has broken in two and gone to the bottom with officers and men. Also four Serpents, three Lizards, two Snakes, one Alligator, one Crocodile,one Rattlesnake,one Basilisk and two Dragons, which are not reptiles, have at various times met with disaster. British tars, it is said, have a superstitious feeling of dislike against sailing in vessels bearing such names. Lucky or unlucky, the names are needlessly disagreeable.

ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

Information From an Authority on Cleaning Old Engravings. ” The cleaning of old engravings requires special care, and it is sometimes prudent, if they are rare masterpieces, not to confine this operation to strange hands. We give a process of cleaning the result of which is excellent and which we have seen adopted by one of the most celebrated collectors of engravings in Paris. The, engraving must be soaked for twelve hours in a flat bottomed basin containing a solution of a half ounce of carbonate of potassium in a half gallon of water; it is then taken out, shaken and placed between two boards heavily weighted down, being first carefully spread between two sheets of blotting paper. It then undergoes a fresh washing by having a small jet of pure water played upon it for some hours, when it is dipped for one hour in salt water (half ounce to half gallon of water) and exposed to the air for half a day. It is then washed again in clear water and dried between two leaves of blotting paper under heavy pressure. These successive operations are somewhat long, it is true, but Nevertheless far preferable io the proceedings of the so called restorers of engravings, who frequently use chloride water, which rapidly destroys the paper. Engravings so cleaned are certainly very white when they come from the hands of the cleaner, but little brown spots are soon to be perceived on the surface of the paper—spots which it is impossible to make disappear. It is on this account that paper whitened with chloride is never employed for printing good engravings or editions de luxe of books.—Art Amateur.

To Remove the Odor of Mutton. This recipe is an original and tested one from an old cook, who made use of it for her own personal 'benefit. The peculiar odor which 'permeates the flesh of lambs and 'sheep, the latter especially, is very 'offensive to most people, and many ; who would otherwise enjoy the meat . cannot eat it on account of this unpleasant attribute. Now,I the remedy is simple and inexpensive, for all that is necessary is to take the juice of one lemon and beat with it sufficient butter to make a gravy 'and pour this over the meat when , broiling or when putting it in to I bake; it applies to frying also. Another method which she gave, ' and which may possibly be known to others, is to pour the gravy of the meat when it is done over some fresh gathered mint leaves, allowing it to remain long enough for the mint to thoroughly flavor it; then pour it back over the meat. This is known as mint gravy. Cleaning House by Machinery. , A friend in Quincy, 111., gives a glowing account of the new apparatus which cleans house by means of compressed air without disturbing furniture, rugs or bric-a-brac. A van stations itself outside the house, and the operator runs his hose into the rooms, and with an odd little device resembling a carpet sweeper inverted he cleans everything in sight and some things which are not in sight. The machine gathers the dirt into a receptacle of its own. Walls and draperies are cleansed, upholstery, all sorts of things, without clearing the rooms. Only a few cities have been visited thus far by this twentieth century wonder worker, but the big red van promises to be a familiar figure on the landscape another spring. It hails from St. Louis.— Good Housekeeping. The Preparation of Tea. The chairman of the government committee of tea experts declares that few Americans understand how to make ten or how to obtain the maximum benefit from it. It should be taken between meals and without much food, when it becomes a harmless yet powerful tonic. England discovered the secret long ago and hence the universal custom of the 5 o’clock tea, midway between the luncheon and dinner hour. The preparation of the tea is more important than the quality, for the best tea badly drawn is worthless. First, the water must be fresh; second, it must be thoroughly boiled for ten minutes; third, the tea must never be allowed to boil and must never draw over ten minutes. Milk ■■ a Food. I The high place milk once held on the dietary list seems to bo undermined. We know now that it is too heavy for the stomach when other food is taken; that unless it is sipped it forms a mass which is not easy to be digested; that when taken ‘on an empty stomach bread or crackers should be broken into it to s.void the formation of curdlike matter, but with the addition of , limewater it may be used with imi punity. Brought to the scalding point it is most nourishing .

Postmaster Palmer of So. Glen Falls, N. Y., describes a condition which thous—k ands of men and women \ find identical with theirs. y. Read what he SkMw says, and note *h e similarity of your own case. Write to him, cm losing stamped addressed envelL. D. Palmer. °P e , for and get a personal corroboration of what is here given. He says regarding Dr. Miles* Heart Cure: "I suffered agonizing pain in the left breast and between my shoulders from heart trouble. My heart would palpitate. flutter, then skip beats, until I could no longer lie in bed. Night after night I walked the floor, for to lie down would have meant sudden death. My condition seemed almost hopeless when I began taking Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure, but it helped me from the first Later I took Dr. Miles’ Nervine with the Heart Cure and the effect was astonishing. I earnestly implore similar sufferers to give these remedies a trial.” Sold by all Druggists on guarantee. Dr. Mlles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.

A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Discovery of a Bride at the Outset of Housekeeping. A bride who began housekeeping in a New Y’ork city apartment a few weeks ago had considerable trouble with roaches. They got into everything. The bride was in distraction. But when her husband got home from his office one night he found the bride beaming with joy“I have fixed it,” she cried, hardly waiting for the man to take off his coat. “I have done just the brightest thing! I have got rid of them, or, at least, some of them.” “Them? Who?” demanded the husband. “Why, the roaches, of course,” replied the bride, leading the way to the kitchen. There in the center of a table was a big heap of dead roaches. They were mixed in with a brown powder. “You got some kind of roach poison, I see,” commented the husband. “It works all right, does it?” “Splendidly. Why, I just put a little heap of itr there and it killed all of those right away. But it took me a long time to catch them.” “Catch them ?” “Of course. You see, you put some of this powder on a table. Then you catch the bugs and put them into it. It kills most of them right away, but some try to run away and then you have to hold them right in it.” “I see,” said the husband, and he walked away without another word. But, then, he had been married only a very few weeks.—New York Sun.

Spiteful Girl.

He—What a splendid complexion Miss Peachbloom has I Does she get it from her father or her mother? She—From her father. He’s in the cosmetic business, you know. In Retreat. Down from the upper air floated the strains of music, yet Neptune was visibly annoyed. “What’s gnawing at thy vitals, sire?” asked the mermaid. “I wish in the name of Orpheus,” said the sea king, “that boating parties could sing something else beside ‘A Life on the Ocean Wave!’ ” And forthwith he crawled into a cave and pulled the cave in after him.—New York Marine Journal. A Question of Need. “What have you done with all the money I gave you for campaign purposes?” asked Senator Sorghum. “I have put it where it was needed,” answered the agent. “That’s what I thought,” was the disconsolate answer. “Before I can rely on getting it all placed I suppose I’ve got to wait until vou get more than you need.”—Washington Star.

The McOoysburg hardware for just any thing—even to window glass—a full line. For 20 cents you can buy enough Acme Food to cure one entire family of dyspepsia. A new stock of wedding and at home invitations just received by The Democrat this week. Reno, Americas Greatest Magician, will be at the opera house Friday, Dec. 20. Are you going? Acme Food makes the weak strong. Ask yonr druggist for it. It will fill yon with life and energy. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 60oats 42; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 32; oats 21; rye 42. Foley’s Honey and Tar positively cures all throat and lung diseases Retuse substitutes. Sold by A. F. Long

BOX SOCIAL.

A box social will be given at the Blue Grass school house, 5 miles west of Rensselaer, Saturday evening, Dec. 7. A short programme will be given. Everybody is cordially invited to attend. Rosalie Lane, Teacher. When you feel that life is hardly worth the candle take a dose of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Taolets. They will cleanse your stomach, tone up your liver and regulate your bowels making you feel like a new man. For sale by Long.

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A kidnev or bladder trouble can always be cured by using Foley s Kidney Cure in time. Sold by A. F. Long.

Real Estate Transfers.

James F. Antrim to Winfred McColiy, Noy. pt .It 6. bl 1, Thompson’s add. Rensselaer. SL,S<)O. Martha A. Fredline to Louis Ruth. Oct., 26, pt sw nw 84-20-5, Hanging Grove, sl. Thomas Driver et ux to Harry E. Gifford, Noy. 29, e H sw 10-30-6. Barkley. $2,000. A'ice Osborne to W. H- Eger. Oct. 28. It 6, bl 42, Weston's add., Rensselaer, SI,BOO. Charles Fraatz Jr., to Ida P. Faris, Nov. 29, und Hi w H 16-32-7. Keener. $1,175. Jane Nichols to George Wissner, Nov. 30. It 9, bl 10. Graham's add Wheatfield. S7OO. John W. Reed to Martin Cain, Nov. 23, pt It 4 Remington. $l5O. John C. Kaupke to I 'onradF. Meyer. Nov 27, nw nw, n'i sw nw, 24-32-5, Kankakee, $!,- 800. Christopher Cool to Arthur Parcels. Nov. 25, e'/i ne 84-29-5, Hanging Grove, *IOO. Charles W. Morris et al to Benjamin A Welsh et al. Nov. 29. pt e sw 23-28-7. Jordan, $1,050, Perpetual B. L. & S. association to Charles H. Peck. Nov. 27. pt bl 2. original plat Remington, $1.200. Robert Parker to Hattie Fisber, Oct. 26. It 3 b! 5. Remington, $750. Hattie A. Burton to Robert Parker Nov. 30. It 4 bl 17. Remington, *1,509. Margaret Ransford to James W. Dickey, Dec. 3, it 3. bl 14, Leopo’d's add, Rensselaer, $1,500. William A. Rinehait to Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Dec. 8. sw re 25-30-5, Gillam, $1,500 James H. Ba’ligh to Paul Veigua. Nov. 2.>, n' J ne 5-31-7. Keener. $5,600. Geo-ge H. Hollingsworth, commissioner to W. B. Amtin, Nov. 27. nt* nw. 2J-31 5. Walker, s6su. < 1 mmitsioner’s deed.

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One of the Bad Kind. “Do you believe in good dreams and bad dreams?” asked the superstitious man. • “Well, I don’t know so much about good dreams, but I have had nightmares,” answered the prosaic individual.—Chicago Post. For Hot Cakea. A rich sirup that can be made at home is the best substitute obtainable for pure maple sirup and is excellent to serve with waffles or griddlecakes for Sunday night tea. A pint and a half of boiling water is added to five pounds of C sugar. The sugar and water should be put in a porcelain or graniteware saucepan and stirred until the sugar is well melted before it is put over a hotter part of the range and boiled for ten minutes. If to this proportion is added a pint bottle of pure maple sirup, or, better still, of maple sugar melted in a little hot water, the flavor is enhanced and the whiteness of the sirup only slightly lessened. This sirup should be kept in glass jars or an earthen jug. Ah, Thera, Papal “It’s time, Charles, that we thought of getting Hilda married; she is eighteen.” “Oh, let her wait till the right sort of man comes along.” “What nonsense! I never waited for the right sort of man.” A Promise Kept. “Blanche’s papa paid a round million for her count,” said Miss “She always said she wouldn’t marry a cheap man,” said Miss Kittish.—Detroit Free Press. That Settled It. Brinkerhoff—l thought you intended to become a piano virtuoso. Beecroft—l did, but my barber says that I will be prematurely bald. —Brooklyn Eagle.