Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1902 — Page 3

Science Superior to nature.

As marvels of mechanism, the eye and the ear have long been regarded aa the most wonderful things In the world. But compared with the implements of a present-day laboratory, the sensitiveness of all human organs seems gross enough, says Haider's Magazine. A photographic plate, coupled with a telescope, will reveal the presence of millions of stars whose light does not affect the retlaa in the feast. The microscope toot with Its revelations of Urn world of the infinitely small, tells os how crude after all is this most delicate of the senses. Indeed we may liken it to a piano where only a single octave, toward the middle, sounds. From the ultra violet to the lowest reaches of the spectrum Is a range of some nine octaves of light vibrations, of only one of which, save for our new mechanical senses, we should ever have been conscious. The ear hears little of what Is going on around us. By means of a microphone the tread of a fly sounds like the tramp of cavalry. Our heat sense is very vague; we need a variation of at least one-fifth of a degree on a thermometer to realize any diffference In temperature. Professor Langley's little bolometer will note the difference of a millionth of a degree. It Is two hundred thousand times as sensitive as our skin.

His Absent Mind.

Prof. Mueller surprises a youthful burglar in his residence and escorts him to the police station. After they ln.d gone quite a distance tdie burglar stops, aaying: “Excuse me, professor, but I must leave you here.” Professor (absent-mindedly)—Well, all right; hope I’ll have the pleasure of meeting you soon again.—-Lustige Blaetter.

Sartorial Retort.

Customer—This suit isn’t well made. Tailor—ls it were it wouldn’t fit you.— Jcurnal Amusant. I find Piso's Cure for Consumption the best medicine for croupy children.—Mrs. F. Callahan, 114 Hall street, Parkersburg, W. Va„ April 10, 1901. If the corn husks are thicker than usual, the winter will be colder than usual. Whatever you do, don’t forget Mrs. Austin's. Mr*. Winslow's Soothing Strop for Childraa •MthißSi softsns th« corns, rsdooss tnflammmlioa, ak laps pain. c<u«a wind oolio. So oaata a UotUa. Whatever you do, don't forget Mrs. Austin's.

——ls—?.:. W. L. Douglas shots are the standard of the world. W. L. Doaclaa mads and sold more men's Goodr»or Welt (Hand Raweif Proe*«M shoes In the Qrtt S months of IPOI than any other maanfortnrer. fl nhfl BEWABUwUlhepaldtoanronanho UiUUU cca disprove this statement. -ILso o T u $E L tsatffi,? E * Esgst. u.iM.sto: sssa. »,m«« Bast Impor'.td anl A merlean leathers. Heyl’s Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vlcl Kid, Corona Colt, Hat. Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelets used. Cantina f The senulne have W. L. DOUGLAS' * name and price stamped on bottom. Shots By mail, 25c. extra. Ulus. Catalog free. >. L. DOUGLAS. BftOCKTON, MASS. THE. WLST WATERPROOF CLOTHING IN THE WORLD //.//, / BEARS WD TBADt MAH / Jfc'ij <ii i -oUCfyl LAM // «APf M KACH 0* Yf UJM tauhsuostituto '/MJhtYMV&t ON 3Al£ CVERYWIEIC z&S&SZM?- CAtAwcutirm XfM- —srtowiNfrruLL uncop / V >f ' /#/> SARMENTS AND HATI A J.TOWtB CO.,BOSTON.MA». ♦* CITY MMtTMES can be secured by all residents of the country or smaller cities If our catalogue Is kept for reference. We sell every variety of merchandise of reliable quality at lower pruts Hum any other house. We have been right here In the same business for thirty-one years and have two million customers. XI we save them money, why not you? Have you our latest, up-to-date catalogue, 1,000 pages full of attractive offerings? It not send 15 cents to partially Ky postage or expreasage the book elf Is free. Montgomery Ward 4- Co. 9 CHICAGO r n PER CENT INTEREST I THE lIYDA CANNING CO., «n- ---| gaged In salmon fishing and packing In Alaska, will Issue (50,000 Gold Bonds to enlarge business. Bonds are Ist mortgage lion on plant, each bond (100, running 10 years, at 7 pr ct. Interest. If you wan t a secure in vestment write to _. . 1.. W. WHITING * CO.,

A Benefit to Farmers.

The benefits that will undoubtedly result to farmers from the recent incorporation of th9T International Harvester Company which took over the business of the five leading harvester manufacturers have probably not been considered by a large portion of the farming community. The economical necessity of a consolidation of the Interests of manufacturers and those of their farmer customers must be apparent to any one who understands the present situation. The Increased and increasing cost of material, manufacturing and selling—the latter In consequence of extreme and bitter competition between manufacturers and their several selling agents—has made the business unprofitable. The two alternatives left for the manufacturers were either the increasing of the prices of machines or the reduction of the cost of manufacture and sales. The latter cauld only be accomplished by concentrating the business In one company. As can readily be seen, the forming of the new company was not a stock jobbing operation but a centering of mutual interests. There is no watered stock; the capitalization is conservative and represented by actual and tangible assets. There Is no stock offered to the public. It having all been subscribed and paid for by the manufacturers and their associates. The management of the International Harvester Company Is in the hands of well-known, experienced men. The officers are: President, Cyrus H. McCormick; Chairman Executive Committee, Charles Deering; Chairman Finance Committee, George W. Perkins; Vice Presidents, Harold F. McCormick, James Deering, Wm. H. Jones and John J. Glesaner; Secretary and Treasurer, Richard F. Howe. The members of the Board of Directors are aa follows: Cyrus Bentley, 'William Deering, Charles Deering, James DeerIqg, Eldridge M. Fowler, E. H. Gary, John J. Glessner, Richard F. Howe, Abram M. Hyatt, William H. Jones, Cyrus H. McCormick, Harold F. McCormick, George W. Perkins, Norman B. Ream, Leslie N\ Ward, Paul D. Cravatb. The International Harvester Company owns five of the largest harvester plants In existence. The Champion, Deering, McCormick, Milwaukee and Plano—plants that have been producing nearly or quite 90 per cent of the harvesting machines of the world. It also owns timber and coal lands, blast furnaces and a steel plant; it has a new factory in the process of construction in Canada. It is believed that the cost of producing grain, grass and corn harvesting machines will be so reduced that the present low prices can be continued, and that consequently the results cannot be otherwise than beneficial to the farmer. To maintain the present prices of these machines means to continue and increase the development of the agriculture of the world, for no one cause has contributed or can contribute more to this development than the cheapness of machines for harvesting grains.

Cripple, but an Optimist.

A one-legged newsboy had been hopping about on his crutch selling afternoon “extras,” and when there was a lull in the business, owing to a falling off In the crowds passing through City Hall Park, he sat down on the steps of the municipal capitol for a brief rest, says the New York Times. “How did you lose your leg?" I asked. “Cable car,” he said, with the street urchin’s characteristic economy of words. “Too bad!” I remarked. “Oh, but it might ’a’ been worse, sir/’ the boy replied. “The company paid the doctor and gave mother SBOO. That paid all our debts and loft us SSOO In bank, an’ It’s there ’cept S4O we had to take out when.mother was sick. An’ I sell more papers than most as the boys just ’cause I’ve a crutch. There’s one of my customers now.”

It Troubled Him.

“Let me congratulate you, old fellow; I see you are in print at last.” “Yes, but I'm not so sure about the congratulations.” “Why not?” "Well, I was in deadly earnest when I wrote that article, and I thought there was a great deal iu it, but ” "Well?” “The editor has run it in his depart inent of humor.”—Chicago Post.

Trifles.

She—Really, I don’t feel like walking. My feet have bothered me a good deal lately. He—You miißt be exceedingly nervous. She—Nervous? He—Yes, otherwise you wouldn’t let such little things bother you.—Philadelphia Press.

A Faithful Friend.

Lenox, Mo.. Sept. Ist.—Mr. W. H. Brown, of this place, has reason to be thankful that he has at least one friend by whose good advice he has been spared much pain and trouble. He says: "1 have had,backnche for over twelve months. Sometimes I could hardly get up when I was down, the pain In my back wag go great. “I tried many thlnga but could not get anytklog to help me or give me relief till a good friend of mine advised me to try Dodd’s Kidney Pills. “After I had used two boxes the pain In my back had all left me and I was as well as ever I was. "I am very thankful to Dodd’s Kidney Pills for what they have done for me, and 1 will never forget my frleud for having suggested this remedy."

Tit for Tat.

are charged with having fired this store because you were discharged. What have you to say? Prisoner—Nothin’, yer aimer; but they fired me first. Whatever you do, don’t forget Mrs. Austin's. Sir Walter Raleigh was no great eater; tiut suet pudding suited him exactly. riT( Permeeentljr Cared. So rue or unownMidn rl I O ant d«y'« uur Dr. Kano's ((root Sons So•toror. gourt forjrkKKM SO trlol bottloond tnotloo. DR. It S. HUM. Ud .SSI AnbSt^rhltauMpMn.l'o. WNUstm yooiU don'thiwtUis. Austin's.

FACTS ABOUT FARMS ....

Interesting Statistics Issued by the Census Bureau

In the general and sectional Introductions of the various volumes of the census of 1900, now being issued from the press, there is much matter of keen interest for those who have a little time to prowl and forage in such formidable looking vol-: limes. The first volume of the report on agriculture has recently been published. It abounds in facts of great interest to persons engaged in agriculture, and cities that are dependent upon it. There are 5,789,057 farms in the United States. The number of acres comprised in them is 841,201,546. In 1850 the number of acres in farms was less than 300,000,000. The improved farm acreage or crop producing area has increased so much faster than the national population that 42,915,891 acres of improved land are now available for surplus production. At the same time the yield per acre, owing to improved methods, has greatly increased. The farm and farm property of the United States are worth at a low valuation $20,000,000,000. The annual value of the farm products is $5,000,000,000. The size of the average American farm is 146.6 acres. The average value of a farm is $3,574. The average value per acre is $24.39. The value of farms increased 25.6 per cent in the last decade. In the north central division of the country the increase was 35,3 per cent. Tlie center of the number of farms of the United States is 110 miles east by south of St. Louis, in Wayne County, Illinois. The population center is six miles southeast of Columbus, Ind. The center of value of farm property is thirty-nine miles west-northwest of Springfield, 111. * The center of investment in manufactures is fifty-nine miles south-southwest of Cleveland, Ohio. The center of corn production is fifty-four miles southwest of Springfield, 111. The center of wheat production is seventy males west of Des Moines, lowa. The center of production of cotton is thirty-four miles north by west of Jackson, Miss. The center of the number of farms has moved westward faster than the center of population. The greatest westward movement has been that of wheat, whose center of production has in fifty years moved thirteen degrees-from northeastern Ohio to western lowa.

"Suddentiy attackted” by serious illness on the first morning of school. —Chicago Record-Herald.

FORTS DESTROY SHIPS.

Army Geta Best of the Navy in Mimic EnKagement. Admiral Higginson’s warships made an attack on Forts Wright, Michie and Terry Monday night, but after a mimic battle lasting nearly an hour the big shore batteries had disabled every ship engaged. Every battery in the forts was worked with effect. Just before midnight four vessels tried to storm Price's Neck signal station, near Narragansett, and their gun fire against that point was followed by ninety-six shots from Fort Adams. The attack on the forts guarding the entrance to Long Island sound began soon after dark. At 10:20 Rear Rdmiral Higginson’s fleet was reported as passing the lighthouse cf New London. At the same moment came a message stating that the battleships had opened on Fort Miehie at Gull Island with their heavy guns. The forts had not then returned the fire. At Jp. m. the Point Judith signal station reported that Rear Admiral Higginson was sending marines ashore to capture that point. Fort Wright opened fire at 10:20 on a battleship believed to be the Indiana cad steaming rapidly toward Fort Terry on the Long Island sound side. Afterward the guns of Fort Terry were heard, apparently trained on the battleship. A message was received from the signal station at Fort Mansfield announcing that the whole fleet was coming toward Fishers island. Tlie ships were discovered by the searchlights and the tire of thre“ forts concentrated on them. 'Hie ships withdrew after an engagement lasting about ten minutes. The batteries of Fort Wright were one sheet of flame for ten minutes and hundreds of mortars were thrown into the air at angles that constructively dropped terrible explosive shells upon the decks of the Col. Davis, the district artillery commander, viewed tlie engagement from Mount l*rospeet and sent telephone reports to Gen. MucArthur telling of the battle. In an engagement with tlie fleet a 12inch breech-loading rifle in tlie fort went off prematurely, killing one private and seriously injuring two others. The man who was killed was literally blown to pieces, and one of his arms struck another private in the chest with such force aa to Inflict severe injuries.

Five Men Killed In Wreck.

Five men are reported killed in a freight wreck on the Rock Island Railway ut Randolph, Mo. I Dr. Sellim, a professor at the Vienna University, who is exploring Palestine In behalf of the imperial academy of science*, believes that he has discovered the wails and gateway of the nncient temple of Solomon in the neighborhood of Junohah, in Samaria. At the cpnferenee of the traffic official* of the fines reaching the wheat belt of the Northwest held at St. Paul the 11111 roads announced the new rates on train. These rates in territory east of a line from Fargo to Yimkton vary from 1 to 8 cents a hundred.

APPLY TORCH TO MINE.

Strikers Set Fire to Large Colliery in West Virginia. The great mines of the Pocahontas Collieries Company at Bramweil, W. Ya., were set on fire. Tuesday morning strikers applied the torch to various [tortions of the mine near the west entrance, which is on the Virginia side, and the mine was soon burning furiously. The guards r.nd strikers fired volley after volley at each other. The Governor of Virginia was asked to send troops to Pocahontas at once. Richard Roberts, mine driller, ami John Devitt, machinist, employed by the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at its Fort colliery, were attacked by four men while on their way to work. Roberts was struck on the back with an iron bar and a miner’s needle was run through the fleshy part of Devitt’s legs, 'lhe injured men called for assistance, when their assailants fled. The C. D. Bliss mine of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Company at Nanticoke was put in oi>eration Tuesday. A large quantity of coal is said to Lave been run through the breaker. The company officials say they have a large Lumber of miners cutting coal. The strikers deny this. They say the coal being run through the breaker is stock coal which lias bet>n accumulating in the mine for some time. John Ilarvilla. aged 34 years, a nonunionist employed as coal hauler at the Beaver Meadow colliery of Ooxe Brothers & 00., llazelton, Pa., was shot in the right eye while attempting to drive away unknown persons who had bombarded his bouse with shines. -» Company C of the Twelfth regiment eaeorted the non-union men in the Panther Creek Valley to work Tuesday without meeting interference. The officials of the company assert that almost 300 men reported for duty. This is contradicted by the strike lenders, who say their rnuks are as *olid os they were the first day of the strike.

Told in a Few Lines.

A Viking ship, forty feet long, has been unearthed on the island of Karnioe. Otto Wolf was arrested at Jersey City, charged with a murder committed in Vienna, Austria. In n wreck of n double header freight on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad at Warsaw, N, Y., Engineer Hert Huge, Fireman W. 1,, ('lurk ru'd Engineer Wesley B. Bowerby were fatally injured. The first conviction iu Michigan for ticket scalping wo* secured n few days ago by the Per* Marquette road against brokers who were dealing in Sunday excursion tickets of that road. C. A. Seward and W .O. Jinld. traveling men, have started a paper to raise funds among the traveling men of Kansas to assist in apiiealing Jessie Morrison’s cam 1 to the Supreme Court. Government surveyors are to erect monuments to mark the line between Colorado and New Mexico. The first survey wos made fifty years ago, and to- dag there is a vagueness about the lino.

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Tried Hard.

At a r«*ent trial at Auburn, Pennsylvania, one of the witnesses was a green countryman, unused to tbe ways of the law, but quick, as It proved, to understand Its principles. After a severe cross examination, says a Western paper, the counsel for the government paused, and then, putting on a look of severity, exclaimed: “Mr. Wilkins, has not an effort been made to Induce you to tell a different story ?” “A different story from what I told, sir?” “That Is what I mean.” “Yes, sir; several persons have tried to get me to tell a different story, from what 1 have told, but they couldn’t” “Now, sir, upon your oath, I wish to know who those persons are.” “Well, I guess you’ve tried ’bout as hard as any of them.”

Time Is the Test.

There Is a heap of difference between relief and cure. Any one with an aching back may find relief in numerous remedies, but do these remedies cure? The aches and paln3 of kidney ills, the weary, wornout condition, nervous attacks, too frequent urination, retention of the urtne and many other indications of kidney and bladder disorders can be cured. Will the cure last? There Is a ringing answer In the test of time and you have It here in the folio wing statement: Mr. Geo. Foot, a retired farmer, residing at No. 415 Addison street, Elgin, 111., says: “I Just as emphatically endorse Doan's Kidney Pills to-day as I did in the fall of 1807 when I began taking this remedy, and followed up the treatment until It cured me of backache and other Irregularities due to either weakened or •ver-cxclted kidneys. I am only too pleased to endorse a preparation wfcleli hi Just ns represented.” A free trial of Doan’s Kidney Pills sent on a indication. Address FosterMllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price 50 cents per box % ■

Outdoor Sports.

Once upon a time an automobllist rcn down a goiter. "Hoot, uion!” said the latter, with asperity. . “Whit, and let people know I’m coming?" swoored the former disdainfully.— l*uck. Haifa C|latHt£nrw Is a constitutional cure. Price 76 oenta, Whatever you do, don't forget Mrs. Austin's. It Is not generally known that the body »f Ered Archer, the famous English Jockey, is buried within 200 yards of the winning post for the Cambridgeshire. Whatever you do, don't forget Mrs. Austin's.

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