Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1903 — Page 5

Save a Dollar 1% >“•■* ■•wW.' l 'l®r "tV? ■ *'*•* ■•* * - >• ** ' -4’f7’*fs 4 ... Every Week AT G. M. WILCOX & SON'S TWO STORES. list of articles and prices we show below are fair examples of our general line. We make the greatest efforts and fairest proposition, for our customers, of any firm iq Jasper county. We carry a line of High Grade goods which are usually found only ir. City stores. Our prices are made as low as is consistent with good quality and we take great pride in the fact that our customers are satisfied in every manner, j We want to enlarge our patronage and are making special offers in every department. You can’t afford to overlook them.

19 lbs Flue Gran. Sugar for 9100 SO lbs Fine Soft White Sugar for., t.OO Extra Faucy Lemons 12 for 25 Choice B. Bacon, lean, for 15 Select Star Hams, fancy 18 New York Full Cream Cheese 16 Fancy Mixed Cakes, per lb 10 Select crisp 5-X Crackers 7 ECONOMY coffee, the best 15 Fancy White Corn Meal, 10 1b5.... 21 Best Grade 175 test Kerosene. 12 Quart Mason Fruit Cans *8 Half Gul. Mason Fruit Cans 68 SCans Pure Cone. Lye 25 .Fancy Carol. Head Rice. 10 Fancy Japan Head Rice 08 Purest Cider Vinegar 20 Large Granite Wash Pans 30 Fine White Jars * Crocks, ga1.... 08 Purest Boiled Linseed Oil 50 Wisdom Washing Powder,6 for... 25 Lenox Laundry Soap, 7 for 25

We have the largest and most extensive'line of School Books, Tablets, Pencils. Slates, Pens, Rulers, Boxes and Erasers ever put under any" roof in fasper County, and will give a valuable prize to the pupil selling the most of such supplies for us between now and school time. We want teachers to encourage pupils to buy of us at our Cut Prices. Call and look the line over and get our Special Offer. Don’t overlook this as it is an entirely new plan. t

ww V , 3* Mon ham and traveling salesmen everywhere to 11/ Q n foil We PAY CASH VI jr% I I I f-*fl ■ best prices, best btock, and PREPAY FREIGHT. ■ ■ II MM. WVwt Largest nurseries in the world—43so acres. Capital Stock $1,000,000. Millions of trees and vines, Apple, Peach, Plum, Pear, Cherry, Grape, etc, the Invfest, finest stock and beat aorta ever offend by any nursery. Our men succeed when oihenfaiL Writs to-day for terms, etc. STARK BRO’S W. dO. CO., Ly irfaM, H*. BUNCOS: Atlantic, la, Fayetteville, Ark, Dansvflle, M. T, Portland, N. T, Huntsville* Ala.

Life Renewed. Left Side Badly Affected: Liable to Paralytic Stroke. •* V-. • . V,. Dr. Miles* Nervine Gave Me New Life. This is to Certify that 1 have need profiles’ Remedies quite extensively, especially the Restorative Nervite, which has done wonders for me. Sin yean ago I had nerrative Nervine. I kept taking it soc six months and have taken an occasional.dose during the last two years. I am practically a new man and feel that 1 have bsyn gives a new lease of life. 1 aaed to have very bad attacks of stomach trouble but since using the Nervine I can eat moat anything I want with impunity. 1 was examined & Omaha by a noted German doctor three yearn ago. He told me 1 was liable to a paralytic stroke any moment; that my whole left side Was badly effected. That was jast before Ibegan taking Dr. Mika* Restorative Nervine. My Joikfertwo years wl a kalf hjSHgca «tfenteti ten miies a year an canesof myworiffn general. Thanks to Dr. Miles’ Restorative M ervme 1 here been gaining in flesh despite this hard wbrk until now 1 weigh * hundred mod ai«ty-six pounds, nearly twenty po inds more than In ml my £&S trouble. I '—Rev. M.D. Mrervfmidinw Elder. Free Method* Ckmtb, CaWflkl* All druggists sell and'guartitocc Am bot i on Nervous and Heart Diseases." Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind. DH’t Fif|it Hi Urn Laator Ytrt Where yon can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Plaster; also the cel*, brated alabastacent Wall Piaster. I solicit ■ share of your tnwle «i my old stand. Respectfully. Hiram Day/ J Subscribe for Thk Democrat.

HY-LO Laundry Soap, 10 f0r...... 25 Select Table Balt, 5 lbs for 04 Cattle Salt in bbls 89 —Heavy Pint Tin Cups, 3 for 05 Heavy White Can Rubbers 08 Porcelain Mason Can lids 02 The Famous Royal Flour 1.15 Our Best—Gold Medal US Choice Red Salmon.... 13 Pure Mixed Spices, per lb 32 Pur# Spices-all Kinds 32 Select Crawford Peaches 10 Large Calif. Prunes 08 Choice Leader Coffee 10 All Brands Breakfast Foods 13 Pounds Purest Baking Powder... IS 21 qt Granite Dish Pans 75 10 qt Granite Water Pails 63 12 qt Heavy Tin Pails 28 10 qt Heavy Galv. Pails ,25 12 qt Fibre Ware Pails , 85

AT PRIVATE SALE. 1 Oil beater, 1 Fine Oak Bedroom Suit. 2 Iron Bcdeteads, 3 Mattir&ecp and Springs, 1 Oak Dn set r, 1 Oak Secretary, 4 Stands, 2 Rocking Chairs, 1 Sofa, 1 Churn. Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, Lamps 1 Sewing Machine, All our boose plants, 1 200 etrg Columbia Incubator, 1-50 egg Gem Incubator, 4 Brooders, 100 cbick size, I E. Flat Cornet. 1 Breech-loading Shotgun, 1 Set Single Harness, 1 Garden Plow, 1 Bone Cutter, 1 Ice-cream Freezer, 100 Feet Rubber Hose, 1 2 Seated Carrage, 1 Pair Goats, with Harness and Cart, ,«• Call at residence and examine goods. D. A. Stoner. 1 5 PER CENT LOANS. We can positively make you a loan on better terms than you can procure elsewhejre No “red tape.” Commission lowest. No extras. Funds unlimited. See ’us before borrowing t r renewing an old loan and we will save you money. IRWIN & IRWIN. I. O. O. F. Building. Puts An End to it AIL A grievoua wall chimes come* as a result of unbearable pain from over taxed organs. Dizziness, Backache, Liver complaint and Constipation. But thank* to Dr. King’s New Life Pills they put an end to it all. They are gentle but thorough. Try there. Only 85c. Guaranteed by A. F. Long’s Drug Stote. Do yon read The Democrat? EXCURSION NATES. Low rate Hoinefeekers’ tickets on sale Ist and Sd Tuesday of each month. $81.60 fortberound trip to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Colo..Jure Ist t. Sept. 80th.liual limit Oct. flat. '-** VV. H. BEAU. Agent.

Ts rv>_ _ l ; ■ , • Local and Personal. '•idoro 46c; oats, 310. -J-Wheat 65 oents; rye/ 40 cents. Rensselaer was well represented at Fountain Park again last Sunday. Excursion to Chicago Sunday, August 30; SI.OO for the round trip. Typhoid fever is reported as epidemic about Goodland and Remington. Another dollar excursion to Chicago, Sunday, August 30. Train schedule same as usual. " “ * New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices; Goshen, 1; Medaryville, 1. The Wabash Bridge Co., of Wabash, has gone under, with liabilities of $200,000 and assets of SIOO,OOO. Tiring the children to see th'e great play “East Lynne” at Rensselaer on Monday, Aug. 24, They will enjoy it, and carry away with them a lesson that will last them a lifetime. A dispatch from Lafayette says that seventeen indictments for the illegal sale of liquor at the carnival in that city last week have been sworn oat and arrests for gambling were very numerous. The Rensselaer Gan Clnb will give a big shoot at Riveside Park, Sept. 16th and 17th. Good prises are hung up and a iaige number of amateur shootists as well as several professionals are expected to be in attendance. Watch for the Sample Sale, the third week in August, held by the ladies of the Christian church. General merchandise —everything from a bar of soap to a plow. The sale will be in the new Castle Hall, first fluoi, and held on August 20, 21 and 22.

Hugbo R. Brown of 522 'Pence st., Indianapolis, dropped dend at the depot in Monon Tuesday night. He was on his way from Denver, Colo , to his home and had to be taken from train No. 3 into the depot to wait for No. 35 when he dropped dead. The new improvement on Cedar street has transformed that thoroughfare from a quagmire into one of the prettiest streets in the city. By the way, the improvements on both Cedar and Busan streets are the best yet made in excluding the brick streets abouf the public square. Sylvia May Hurley, aged about 25 years, died at her home near Blackford Wednesday after an extended illness from consumption. The funeral was held at 9:30 a. m., yesterday, from the residence; interment made in Sand Ridge cemetery. Deceased was a daughter of the late W, B. Hurley of Barkley tp. The city commissioners will meet at the court house ou 9 a. m., Sept. 4, to asssess the cost of the construction of Makemself sewer Property owners effected by the construction of said sewer may oppear before the commissioners and be heard regarding tbeir assessed benefits. The commissions will probably be in session for several days. “Farm er” Hopkins was fined $5 and costs, sl6 10 in all, by Squire Troxell Wednesday morning for intoxication the day previous. Mr. Hopkins is said to have caused a little disturbance by pulling a pocket knife on Lorenz Hildebrand, and resisted arrest when the officers went after him. He was placed in jail outil morning, when he was fined as above stated.

Here is ft Starke County suake story: While Superintendent R. L. Blair end men were cutting grass near North Judson the other day, says a dispatch from that filace, they were attacked by a urge blue racer which after some difficulty they succeeded in killing. The snake measured 14 feet and 5 inches. The dispatch is wholly silent as to what particular kind of liquor the haymakers had been drinking. The viewers for the Iroquois Ditch have settled tbe shape, depth and grade of its rock channel through tbe City of Rensselaer. The bottom width will be discussed before the City Council on next Monday evening, at tbe Court House A narrow bottom will avoid bars and sewer weeds, also secure a constant flow of w ter, so as to le worth more for seenre quicker deep drainage at sewerage. The present rock snr face in the channel will make sufficient outlet-for surface drainage through the improvement. A wide bottom for the rodk-cut will flood time. ' •• •

When you have a legal notice to publish, instruct your attorney to have same pnbHsbed in The Democrat, and save money. In the case of George W. Tanner vs Tbos. Cain for an accounting of their Fair Oaks 4th of July business, set for trial last Monday, Mr. Tanner dismissed the case. Fountain Park Assembly closed its session Sunday with another big attendance, in fact the largest of the session. Although it paid a large smn for speakers and entertainers, the season wns a financial sncoesß. It is said that the association will now be incorporated with a capital of $50,000, and that extensive improvements will be made on the grounds next year. ■U H. Hopkins went to Indianapolis yesterday to file articles of incorporation of The American Building and Loan Association of Rensselaer. Mr, Hopkins will be at the head of the institution, we understand, with J. M. Wasson, Dr, Berkley, Bert Hopkins, Will Donnelly. U. M. Baughman, and Geo. A. Williams among the incorporators. The capital stock will be $50,000. Reece Robey of near Newland deposited on our table Thursday three ears of that same kind of early maturing corn recently mentioned in The Democrat as having been planted by Geo. Daniels of Barkley tp, that is almost out of the way of frost now. This particular corn was planted May 2. Mr. Robey tajs that he it traduced this corn in Jasper county, and this year he will have several bushels of it.

CHICAGO EXCURSION, SUNDAY, AUGUST 30.

Train schedule, Fare. Monticello 8:03 a. m $1.16 Medaryville 7:40 *’ 1.35 Francesville 7:65 “ 1.36 Monou 8:30 “ 1.00 Lee 8:30 - 1.00 McCoysburg 8:35 * v 1.00 Pleasant Ridge ... 8:40 " 1.00 Rensselaer 8:18 1.00 Surrey 8:57 ’• .90 Parr o:i2 *• .90 Fair Oaks 9:99 “ .85 Rose Lawn 9: JO " .75 Thayer 9:85 ” .76 Shelby 0:38 “ .75 Lowell 9.-43 ” .75 Ar. Chicago 11:30 ”

Raising a False Issue.

A story well known to lawyers of tbe last generation la about the “umbrella case.” A man was charged with stealing an umbrella, and a number of witnesses went Into the box to testify to the offense. The counsel for the defendant noted that each witness carried an umbrella (the time of year was [ midsummer, which explains the necessity for these Impedimenta). As a matter of fact the prisoner had no defense to make. The barrister, thrown on his wits, exclaimed: "Gentlemen of the Jury, did you not notice that each of the witnesses carried an umbrella into the box? Why is this, gentlemen? It is done in order to infect your minds with the idea of an umbrella, to prejudice the prisoner in your eyes, to raise ‘a false issue,’ and I appeal to you to signify your detestation of this concerted action by bringing in a verdict of not guilty.” The judge, who imagined that little attention would be paid to such a plea, took little time and less pains to sum up the case. The Jury nevertheless brought in a verdict in accordance with the resourceful barrister’s wishes.—London News.

Ibsen’s Grnffness.

In ISOI Georg Brandes happened to be with some friends at Sandviken, near Christiania, when they heard that Ibsen was staying at the local hotel. They decided to invite him to dinner, but he declined when he was told that there would be nine persons at the banquet. “I never dine with so large a party,” he said. Finally he was persuaded to say “Yes,” but in the meantime the number of persons whose request to be present Brandes could not possibly refuse had grown to twentytwo. Ibsen was furious when he discovered this, but Brandes managed to get him to the dining room, where, however, the poet looked so forbidding that champagne had to be served immediately after the soup to give courage to the guests. Ibsen acted like a bear all the evening. When one of the guests, an actress, remarked that she liked his roles better than any others he answered gruffly: “I do not write any roles. I represent characters, and I never work for any actor or actress.”

The Volcano.

The London Globe contains a number of Amusing answers to a recent examination for office boys in a government office. Some of the descriptions of a volcano are graphic: “A volcano is a hill, and smoke raises from tbe top.” “A Volcano is a Mountain with solphur and a collection of Iron and led. Soon after a few years they get hot | and bursts tbe mountain Does a lot of Damage to the country.” “A volcano is a mountain which his a large amount of lather and this sometimes overflows and burns villages down.” The most flattering answer run* as follows: “The boundaries of England are united states america and Europe." “Latitude and Longitude," said another student, “are terms used to describe certain spots on tl»e sea.” .

Morris- English Stable l iniment Mm lumw, Oat*. Hratwa, Scratch** Slta. B~r. Sold by A. F. Lon*.

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.

We’ve read ot the atrocities from Turk’s op-| press! ve hand. And of the tribulations in Siberia’s dreaded land. And of ioqnisitdrial scenes in ages long since i past. When all the Christian world would hold- ft* breath and stand aghast. ; But o’er a torture worse than these we daily rapt and rave— It soon will drive us into the asylum or the grave; She causes us in agony of soul to„praoce the floor. That beautiful, condemnable piano girl next door. She’ll pound at "Rastus on Parade,” and at “Sweet Marie,” And howl of something that occurred beneath a bamboo tree. She’ll shriek of bow her golden hair was hanging down her back. Then hit poor old ”0, Promise Me” a harsh, discordant whack; Then without provocation jump on helpless “Daisy Dell,” The light will flicker as she yawps. “O. Kiss, but Never Tels. Then say she doesn’t want to play in onr yard any more. That young and pretty murderer of harmony m next door, She often makes a nervy shy at ’ Louisiana Lou,” ADd gambols on the fabled bank where once the wild thyme grew. Imylores Bill Bailv to come home in an impaasioned lay. Then wanders where the silvery Colorado wends its way. Then all coons look alike to her she tell us o’er and o’er. And spills a lot of song about the good- by at

the door; About her love across the sea She’ll often rip and tear— Her nearest neighbors all suspect her music drove him there. On Sunday when in pious mood she'll play "Sweet By-and-By," Ar,d caution worldiy men of sin to turn before they die. She'll shake the "Rock of Ages.” from circumference to core. And scream to toiling sailors to keep pulling for the shore. We often wish her safe at home up iu that better land, A harp of gold of smothered tone grasped in her shapely hand, There would her music-stricken soul foreever be at rest. And one less wave of care would roll across our troubled breast. —Denver Post.

PIT BROW WOMEN.

Bard Lot of Female Workers About English Coa| Mines. Fit brow women are among the most remarkable women workers in the world. They work as hard as men and dress almost like them. Five thousand of these women find employment in Lancashire, England, in tbe coal mines. Their work lies on the pit brow at the surface and not down below. Oiice women were employed in the coal seams, but in 1842, In tbe face of great opposition from colliery owners, an act was passed prohibiting women and children from being employed below .tiffl surface in coal mines. At present the duties of the pit brow women consist in dealing with the coal as it comes up tbe shaft to the pit head. When the cargo reaches the top they hanl out the wagons, which contain several hundredweight of coal each, and run them on the rails to a sort of tipping machine, which shoots the coal down below to the screen of the riddling machine. Among the other duties of the women is the leveling of the <oal on the wagons which receive it as it drops from the screen. They start work at C o’clock in the morning and finish at 4 in the afternoon. They receive 2 shillings or less a day, and men that do the same work get 4 shillings. Their costume consists of trousers and clogs and often enough a cape which has at-one time been worn by a brother. When going to and from work the girls and women wear petticoats, which they roll up around the waist while engaged on the pit brow. Tbe hair is closely covered wltb a handkerchief, on top of which is a soft bonnet.

A Valley of Death ln Bolivia.

There is a valley in Bolivia, South America, which might well be called the Valley of the Shadow of Death. It has been Inhabited for an indefinite period of years by tbe Kanaa Indians, who are kindred to the various South American tribes and number now only a few hundred souls. That they were once a very powerful tribe is Indicated by tbe condition of the land which they as a tribe still inhabit. One cannot travel any distance through their land without coming upon tbe old and forsaken burial grounds of the Kanaa dead. These places cannot be called graveyards, for the bodies are not buried, but rather placed upon elevated platforms, wrapped in the garments of death and bound to the crossbeams that they may not be displaced. In one of these burial grounds there will be probably fifty high skeleton platforms and ou each will lie from three to five of the Kanaa dead. The air in that part of Bolivia is very pure and preservative, for It is one of the highest plateaus of tbe continent, although Kanaa valley is just a little below the plateau’s height A traveler passing through that laud at night and by moonlight would be awestricken at the gloomy vision those graveyards present. *

Misunderstood.

“Sir, yon look like an optimist. You have a happy countenance. Lend me a dollar.” _______ “My friend. do you know why T look happy? It’s because I haven’t any wealth to bother me.”—Exchange. A critic in noticing a disclosure on "The Sayings and Doings of Great Men” remarks, “It is sad to observe how much they said and how little they did.”

RUSSIA’S ARGUS EYE.

Tlx Keen Watch Tkat Is LxercSsaxK Oyer All Postal Hotter. In the Russian post’office a watdftit eye is kept on all newspapers and Magazines, and any matter officially considered objectionable is ruthlessly “blacked out.” A similar surveillance ia--extended to private correspondenceThe task thus undertaken is a giganticone, but the Russian official system has*proved itself equal to the undertaking. - In every post office of importancetjmre are officials constituting the? “blict? cabinet,” whose duty it & tor examine the letters received. According.' to the system followed in the llosiow post office, all the letters are handed* over to the “black cabinet/' Them one’ official sorts out ail those which are*addressed to suspected families, another all those addressed in suspected handwritings, while a third arranges the* remainder in little heaps and then draww at random several' letters from e»tk heap. All the letters selected hr these various ways are then opened and examined. In this ingenious way the Russian* government strives to keep a eontlnaal V check on the free intercourse of its subjects, and it is not surprising that “underground” means of communication « have been developed.

The Judgment of Years.

A significant bit of wisdom, to her pondered over by the very youngs whose griefs and disappointments seernc so tragic, was that uttered by Mrau Dolly Madison when she was <mner~ eighty years old and near her death. Her life had been fortunate and beuntiful not only because circumstances: had proved kind to her, but from the* brightness and buoyancy of her temvperameut. She hurbo.-ed no bitterness over pasC experiences, but life had taught her theunimportance of most trials which loom so gigantic in approaching. Not long before her death one of hernieces went to her for sympathy in*, some slight trouble. “My dear,” she said, “do not troubleabout it. There is nothing in. this world really worth caring for. Yes,”' she repeated, looking intently out •£ awindow, “I who have lived so long repeat to you that there is nothing ins this world below really worth earing, for!”

Battons.

The Elizabethan era gave vogue to the button aud tbe buttonhole, two inventions which may fairly bo regarded, as important, since they did much to revolutionize dress. The original button was wholly a product of needlework, which was soou improved by the use of a wooden mold. The brass button is said to Lave l>eeu introduced by a Birmingham merchant in IGB9. It took 200 years to improve on the method of sewing the cloth upon the covered button. Their uu ingenious Danehit upon the idea of luuking the button in two parts and clamping them together, with the bloth between. Button* are now made of almost from seaweed and cattle hoofs to mother of pearl and vegetable ivory. Excellent buttons are made from which, treated chemically, become a* hard as ivory.—Boston Transcript.

His Businesslike War.

Young Mr. Bizz (briskly, to fair proprietor of the photograph gallery)—Fredropped in, Miss Frame, without much* preparation, in the style 1 visually dowhen I make up my mind I want anything. Can you take me Just as I am? Miss Frame—Certainly, Mr. Bizz. What style do you wish—cabinet or™ carte? Mr. Bizz—What style? Great Caesar!.’ Did you think I’d come with theseclothes on to have my photograph taken? I'm asking you to marry me. Miss* Frame.”

His Tide of Fortune.

“ ‘There Is a tide In the affairs of men,’ ” said the man who habitually* quotes Shakespeare, " ‘which, taken at* its flood, leads on to fortune.’ ” “Yes,” replied the man who had married an heiress. "I remember the tide* that led to my fortune well.” “What tide was that?’ “It was eventide, and we were sifting in the garden.”—San Francis*** Wasp.

Conspicuous.

“You have been conspicuous in thehalls of legislation, have you not?” sai<£ the young Woman who asks all sorts of* questions. “Yes, miss,” answered Senator Sorghum blandly; “I think I have participated in some of the richest hauls that: legislation ever made.”—Washington* Star.

Jesting at Scars.

Upgardson—l was sorry to hear that Sklmmerhorn has had the smallpox.. Did it disfigure him much? Atom—Disfigure him? No; it improved him. It changed his expression.—Chicago Tribune.

Plain Lying.

"Professor, I know a man who says* be can tell by the Impression on mind when his wife wants him to come home to dinner. Is it telepathy?” “Not at all, miss. I should call that: mendacity.”—Exchange.

An Ingenue.

Hiss Boston—Ah, yes; your reiser are charming. And hare you never written a novel? Miss New York-No; for if I did my mother would never let me read it.— Life. . ‘ Some people who jump at conclusions lose tight of the hurdles.—Philadelphia Record. The reward of one duty done Is th*power to fulfill another.— Eliot.