Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — Page 5

6. M. WILCOX & SON, “THE TWO STORES” SURREY, IND. - PARR, IND.

Lost The Use of Arm. Heart Trouble. Could Not Eat, Sleep or Walk. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure Cured Entirely. “If it hadn’t been for Dr. Miles’ Remedies I would not be here to write this letter. Two years ago last June I lost the use of my left arm, could not use it and could only move it with the help of my right hand. My heart was so weak I could not sleep nights for smothering spells. I was out of sorts all over and could eat nothing. I grew so weak that I could not walk without stagrering like a drunken man and my home doctor said be could do nothing for me. I was in so much pain I was almost wild. I could not take morphine nor opium as they made me worse. So I got to thinking about Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure and Nervine and the more I thought about it the more I wanted to try them. 1 wrote to the Dr. Miles Medical Co. for ad* vice which I followed to the letter. I can say today that I am glad I did as I am a well woman now; can work and can walk two or three miles and not mind it I can also use my arm again as well as ever. Yon do not know how thankful I am for those grand medicines Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure and Nervine. 1 think Dr. Miles’ Remedies are the best in the world, and if I should get sick again I should take the same course. The remedies also helped my daughter Vida so wonderfully that 1 should have written you before to thank yon, but 1 wanted to be sure that the cure was permanent, which I now know to be the case.”—Mrs. Frank Loomis, Allen, Mich. All druggists sell and guarantee fust bottle Dr. Miles’ Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co. Elkhart, Ind.

.hllMkl. #0 YEARS’ Ifc EXPERIENCE ■ V L J J i L J mji ” I|l 1 j t ■ m■omk ■ ■ m 1 X Trade Marks Designs 1 CorrmoHTa Ac. ■■HUP SckittncHßKrkait JuJOTICB OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned baa been appointed by the Citric of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, Stale of Indiana, administrator of tbe estate of David A. Phegley. late of Jasper County, deceased. Said BlGG&Executor. Sept. a. MW. Morris' English Stable Powder Sold by A. F a Long LOOK HERE. * ' If yon don’t believe you can bny land cheaper of tbe owner than yon can of the agent, jnat call and see for yourself. Any sized farm from 300 acres down to 60 acres, to pick from. Also a residence in Rensselaer, Two farma to rent for cash, can give possession this fall if desired. Tours for a trade, Robert Michal, Box 73. Rensselaer Ind. Revenge Is a kind of wild Justice which the more man’s nature rang to ei more ought law to weed It outran.

Local and Personal. Corn 47c; oats, 34c. Wheat 65 cents; rye, 40 cents. Bead The Democrat for news. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. The White county grand jury has recommended the building of a new sheriff’s residence and jail for that county. Dispatches from Minot, No. Dak., in Tuesday’s papers stated that two feet of snow covered the ground at that place and trains were greatly delayed. There are several former Jasper county people located in that vicinity. The schools of Jordan tp., began Monday with the following corps of teachers: No. 1, Hazel Lampson; No. 2, Jacob Jordan; No. 3, (no school); No. 4, James D. Davis; No. 5, Charles E. Sage; No. 6, Anna M. Bringle; No. 7, Anna Luers; No. 8, Merlie Lamborn; No. 9, Bruce C. Stevens. The thanks of The Democrat force are extended Miss Kate Mauck of Newton tp., also Miss Hattie Phegley of Marion tp., for some fine eating apples; T. M. Hibler of Milroy for some fine moskmelons, and T. A. Crockett of Marion for a mammoth watermelon and some luscious muskmelons.

Deputy Attorney General Harris was in Eentiand Monday looking np tines and forfeited bonds that have not been paid into the State school fond. He will give his attention to the collection of the forfeited bond of Frank Frogg of county seat election fame. Mr. Harris examined the records and found no entry where the forfeited bond had ever been paid.— Eentiand Enterprise. We read of the “second crop of strawberries’’ being marketed in several parts of the state. It is said that growers have become quite successful at this. The trick is in scattering straw over the plants as soon as the first crop is harvested and hnrning it over. This burns the vines off close to the ground. Boon a new set of vines spring np and a crop equal in size and flavor bnt not so prolific as the first is grown. John O’Connor of Eniman, has been working for some time to get better passenger accomodations on the U. & E. 1., and he now informs ns that the railroad officials have agreed to change the time of their trains so as to make close connections with the milk train at Fair Oaks, morning and evening, as soon as the postal authorities will order the necessary change in mail service on the line. To this end Mr. O’Connor is working on a petition to forward to Washington for that purpose. When this change is made Rensselaer people can visit Goodland and Eentiand and return home the same day. Of course it would give only atiout one hour in Eentland to return the same day, but would give several hours at Goodland, besides being much cheaper and more convenient than the present way of going around by Reynolds.

Do you read The Democrat? Funeral cards always in stock at this office. Printer Wanted: The Democrat wants to employ at once a good, all-around printer, one capable of setting ads and turning out first-class job work. To such a man a permanent job at good wages is open. Man with family preferred. No boozers need plyAttorney J. E. Westfall of Remington, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Sutton of Hutchinson, Kan., were in the city Monday, the former on court business and the latter on sight-seeing bent. Mr. Sutton is a former resident of this county, being of the family of Sutton’s residing in Jordan tp. He has been in Kansas for several years and has the appearance of having met with his share of prosperity in the sun-flower state. Mr. Westfall, we understand, is thinking some of accompanying Mr. and Mrs. Sutton back to Hutchinson and locating there in the practice of law. Old Settlers meeting Saturday was not very largely attended, though perhaps some better than last year. The proper thing to do to make “old settlers” a drawing card is to provide some good, clean amusements and free attractions each year, to relieve the monotony and dryness of the meeting proper which is usually of little interest to the younger people. It is not necessary to let in a horde of gamblers ana fakirs or to provide “in the altogether” shows to get the people to tarn oat. But hire a good band or two, have a balloon ascension or some similar attractions and work the thing up with a determination to give entertainment to ail, The bneiness men can well afford to subscribe a few hundred dollars each year for this purpose, as it will return to them three fold in the trade of the crowds of people that are brought to the town.

BIRTH ANNOUCBMENTS. Sept. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Price of Parr, a daughter. Sept. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. John Webber, in the east part of town, a son. This babe died Tuesday morning. Sept. 15, to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dayton, at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodworth, on River street, a daughter. THE PUBLIC SALE SEASON. The auction season for farm sales is nearly at hand, and we wish to impress upon our readers, that The Democrat is, as usual, prepared to print sale bills on short notice and in the very best style of the art. We use cardboard for all sale bills, give full count and guarantee correctness. A free notice is given in The Democrat when we print the bills, and as this paper enters a large majority of the farmers’ homes in Jasper county, such notice is really of more value than the bills Our prices are always right. Mail orders given prompt attention. If you are going to have a sale it will pay you to have your ' bills printed by The Democrat.

SIMPLE FISHER FOLK

THE NEWFOUNDLANDERS ARE EA9> ILY IMPOSED UPON. A Pathetic and Tragic Incident That Illustrates the Attitude of the “Upper” Classes—The Hardy Courage ot the Outportera. “St. John's, N. F., lives by Its fisheries; nothing worth while is produced there, but, according to the unsophisticated stranger, there is a noisy and vituperative wrangling over the wealth that comes down from the coasts,’’ Bays a writer in the World’s Work. “There are Borne few factories, to be sure, but they are too ingeniously managed by half. For instance, a certain brand of tobacco, made at St. John’s and' 1 exclusively consumed by fishermen, is sold in the French island of St. Pierre for half what it costs the Newfoundland ‘bay noddle,’ and the manufacturers pay $15,000 yearly to the proprietor of a rival concern to induce him to keep his plant shut down. At St. John’s, too, is the aristocracy of the colony—merchants, middlemen, lawyers, physicians, officeholders, tricky and abusive politicians and colonial knights (the visitor may observe on a signboard above a little corner store; ‘Sir Thomas Morburn, Grocer. Cheap Teas’). There is neither sympathy nor mercy for the fisherman here, though there is a most enthusiastic reception for what he takes from the sea. He is regarded as legitimate prey, Is most marvelously lied to before election and abused, ridiculed and reviled afterward. But through It all he preserves a humble faith in ‘all those set in authority over him.’ "A doctor of the outports—the incident is related because, though it may appear an extraordinary case, it yet aptly indicates what has for years been the attitude of the ‘upper* classes toward the fishermen, without whom Newfoundland would lie waste and deserted, the shame of the fair earth—a doctor of the outports was once called to a little white cottage where three children lay sick of diphtheria. He was the family physician—that is to say, the fisherman paid him so much by the year for medical attendance. But the injection of antitoxin Is a ‘surgical operation’ and therefore not provided for by the annual fee. “ ‘This,’ said the doctor, ‘will cost you $2 an injection, John.’ “ ‘Oh, iss, zur!’ was the ready reply. ‘l’ll pay you, zur. Go on, zur.’ “ ‘But you know my rule, John—no pay, no work. I can’t break it for you, you know, or I’d have to break it for half the coast’ “ ‘Oh, aye! ’Tis all right. I wants un cured. I’ll pay you when I sells me fish.’ “ ‘But you know my rule, John—cash down.’ “The fisherman had but $4, no more. Nor could he obtain any more, though the doctor gave him ample time. lam sure that he loved his children dearly, but, unfortunately, he had no more than $4, and there was no other doctor for fifty miles up and down the coast " ‘Four dollars,’ said the doctor, ‘two children. Which ones shall it be, John?* “Which ones? Why, of course, after all, the doctor had himself to make the choice. John couldn’t So the doctor chose the ‘handiest’ ones. The other one died. “ ‘Well,’ said John, unresentfully, the day after the funeral, ‘I s’pose a doctor have a right t’ be paid for what he does. But,’ much puzzled, 4 *tis kind o’ queer!* “The Newfoundland outporters are hardy, courageous, boldly adventurous, simple lived, God fearing, warm hearted—a physically splendid race of- men. Cowards and weaklings have for four hundred years been the unfit of the place; they occur, of course, in the best regulated families, but do not long survive, for exposure kills off the weaklings, and in the midst of many dangers the cowards lose their lives. Children learn to sail a punt at six or seven years old, and art every age they are encouraged to play at the highly dangerous game (called copying) of prancing about on floating ice. The skill acquired in leaping from one sinking block to another would make the trumpeted river driver look like a blundering child. As men, they know their punts as intimately as a cowboy knows his horse, and they will say of their boats in a gale, ‘I thought she’d not live through it t’day,’ with the same unconcern that a cowboy might say of his horse, ‘He nearly throwed me that time.’ The race is truly hardy and courageous. It was John Butt, with a broken collar bone and a split forehead to show for it, who survived two wild, snowy nights and a day on a twenty foot ice pan, over which for many hours broke great seas, heavy with Jagged fragments of ice, and it was a reckless Green bay skipper who let the wind blow the masts out of his schooner rather than reef her, because be bad been told that bis crew thought him ‘nervous’—a mad sort of courage, to be sure, but proof positive for all time that he'was no coward.”

Already There.

She—l heard you complimenting her upon her girlish appearance. What did she say? He-She said, “Ah, but I’m sure I shall look much older when I’m forty.” She—Huh! She means she’ll look much older when she admits she is forty.—Philadelphia Press.

His Title.

"How did he get his title of colonel?” “He got It to distinguish him from his wife’s first husband, who was a captain, and his wife’s second husband, who was a major."—Exchange. An eTil speaker only wants an opportunity to become an evil doer.— Quin tills ix

Du Chaillu's Vain Hunt.

Paul Du Cbaillu was the most gallant of bachelors and always openly confessed that he was quite unable to resist the wiles of the fair sex, so much so that he had never been able to choose between them. On one occasion when he was “the lion” at a reception given by some intimate friends in New York the hostess in presenting him to one of her guests sakl: “Let me present you to Mrs. . You must know her, Paul, because she has Just written a boo£.” “A took, madam!” he exclaimed. “Then, indeed, am I most delighted to meet her. I once made a book myself. But what is the title of your book?” “The name of it is ‘What One Woman Thinks,’ ” was the smiling response. "Ah, indeed, and most interesting! ‘What One Woman Thinks!’ ” repeated the great explorer. And then, with a simulated excitement, he added hastily: “But where can I procure a -copy of it? I must have it at once—lmmediately. All my life I have been trying in vain to find out what women think, and if before I die I shall succeed in finding out Just what one woman thinks I shall then indeed die content”—New York Times.

A Daring Eskimo Lover.

A young Eskimo had secretly courted the daughter of an enemy. The huts of the lovers were not far removed, but one night the terrific cold ripped a great crevasse In the ice, and the young man’s house was left isolated. A gorge 100 feet deep and twenty feet wide separated it from the igloo, or hut, containing his sweetheart, but there was a narrow bridge of ice left across the crevasse, and this, the young man found, would bear his weight. Eskimos sleep in bags. The lover decided that he would that night cross the ice bridge, steal the maiden he loved, bear her to his hut and then break down the bridge so that he and she together might enjoy their honeymoon unmolested. He planned very successfully. He crept in the dead of night into his enemy’s hut, he snatched up the maiden in her sack without awaking any one, he bore her over the ice bridge safely, and then he opened the sack to embrace his bride; but, beholding its contents, he gave a loud cry. It was not the maiden, but her father, that he had stolen.

Hairdressing In Japan.

Hairdressing is an elaborate study In Japan, where the style of the coiffure generally indicates the position and age of the lady. Thus girls of eight or nine wear their hair in a bow at the back bound round with red crape, the front left bare except for two locks dangling at the side, and the marriageable damsels comb their tresses high in front and arrange them either in the shape of a butterfly or a half opened fan. A widow looking out for a second spouse twists her locks round a long shell hairpin placed horizontally across the back of the head, while she who vows to remain faithful to the dear departed cuts her hair short and combs it plainly back without any parting.

Carlyle and His Home.

When the great writer Carlyle was engaged to Miss Welsh the latter induced her mother to consent that Carlyle should live with both of them and share the advantage of an established house and income. But Carlyle answered Miss Welsh’s proposal by saying that two households could not live as if they were one and that he would never have any right enjoyment of his wife’s company till she was “all his own,” adding that the moment be was maßter of a house the first use be would make of it would be to slam the door against nauseous intruders.

The Word “Ragging.”

The word “ragging” is more common in England than in this country, even if the custom is not. An English paper asserts that “rag” is not a slang word, but is a real old verb, also to be found in use among Icelanders, meaning to banter or irritate. In Lincolnshire and doubtless other counties to provoke a boy is called “getting his rag out.” "Bullyrag” is an elaboration of the elementary term, and here also the meaning is clear. A ragamuffin originally meant a kind of demon.

Evidences of Friendship.

She—Yes, you men have what you call friends, but your friendship is so superficial, so calculating, so watery— He—Oh! But don’t you remember David and Jonathan, Damon and Pythias, Goethe and Schiller—- “ Yes; but you never brush each other’s hair, nor show each other your new hats, nor discuss what is best for baby's throat, nor how to make up an old frock, uor anything.”

Easy to Make Talk.

Mrs. Closefist—Ob, do give me a new bonnet, my dearl It will set all my friends talking. Mr. Closefist—lf you’re after notoriety why don’t you get the old one made over? That will make your friends talk twice as much.—Judge.

Chicken Foot Luck.

“Do you think that there is luck in a rabbit’s foot?” “Not as much as dar is in a chicken’s foot,” answered Mr. Erostus Pinkley, “provided de res’ er de animal is attached.”— Washington Star.

Man’s Fearful Mechanism.

Every time a man eats lie has to masticate, insalivate, ehymify, chylify and sanguify. No wonder his system is out of order so often. —St. Louis Post-Dis-patch.

Brave Man.

Ethel—Do you really think the lieutenant will propose to Beth? Edith —Oh, yea He has several medals for bravery, you know.—Puck.

PLUCKING SHEEP.

Shearing; Proceae Wot Deed la Ska* long oa Pmro Bred^AalmaU. The pure bred sheep In Shetland sjw not shorn, but plucked. The proemtakes place generally in June, when? the fleece is “ripe” and the silky wooß can be pulled off without pain. This is called “rootng" and is much* less damaging to the young fiber thane clipping with Bhears. The wool when, thus handled retains its peculiar softness, so that any one of experience can* tell whether the material of a knitted, article has been plucked or shorn, Jtripens first upon the neck and shoulders, so that sheep half pulled resemble* in some sort n poodle that is clippedWe must suppose that harsher handling prevailed at one time, for we readthat in 1016 the Scottish privy council spoke of the custom as still kept up “to some remote and uncivil places,” and James I. wrote to tell them that it hadbeen put down in Ireland under penalty of a fine. Upon this they passed an I *- act on March 17, 1016, deploring the ~ destruction of sheep thus caused and 1 imposing similar fines an those who should persist In the practice.. ,

The Tropic Home.

White men’s homes in India, tha* West Indies, west Africa and other parts of the tropics to which civilization has penetrated are usually reason 1 the principle of having as much airt" and as little furniture as possible*. Carpets, rugs, cushions, bangings and portieres are banished. Tables and’ chairs are made of light wickerwork, bamboo or cane. The floors are polished with cocoanut husks until they become as slippery as a good dancing; floor. Indeed, they are used for thatpurpose nearly every evening in any; settlement where there is society. Ai ball in the tropics requires no preparation. After diuner it is only necessary: to move the light furniture to one corner of the spacious room, send somebody to the piano and start dancing. The ballroom is practically In the open air, for wooden “jalousies” form most of the wall space and are opened like Venetian blinds to let in the coot, night breezes.

The American Farmer.

When the American farmer rises early in the morning it is to look over broad and fertile acres that are his own. When he goes forth it is to fields that no human being can lawfully step upon without bis consent. When her gathers and garners the harvest he stores what in a vast majority of cases no greedy and rapacious landlord can take from him. It is all his. The proceeds of it are to clothe and feed him and his family and educate his children, to be the support of his old age and the heritage of his posterity. Looked at from every point of view, it is doubtful if there is another human being under the heavens who has more cause for carrying a light heart and a contented mind, for regarding the past with satisfaction and the future witl* hope, than the American farmer.—Kansas City Journal.

The “Just Alike.”

Few people perhaps notice that all omnibus wheels are painted yellow, says the London Chronicle, so that any wheel may be worn with any bus color. Every circus ring in tbe world is of precisely the same diameter, whatever the size of the auditorium, so that tberider knows the angle at which Bee must lean in San Francisco is the angle of safety in St. Petersburg. Eventhe ladder is “standardized.” Every hodman in England knows what hehas to step when toiling up the builder’s ladder, though he may not know it is seven inches. The sailor who runs* up the ratlines has twelve inches as astep, and that makes a run possible,and the firemen’s ladder is crossed with exact equivalence to the ratlines-

Death From Electric Shock.

The ultimate cause of death, when** due primarily to electric shock, is generally considered to be stoppage of the action of the heart or of the respiratory organs. That the latter may be* affected is shown by the fact that victims of electric shock are sometimes brought to by practice of some of thewell known methods of artificial respiration. The cessation of the heart's* action may be due to stimulation of thenerves which control the beating of theheart These, when stimulated to excess, may cause the heart to stop altogether.—Archibald Wilson in Cassler’s*Magazlne.

The Consulting Caddie.

There is one personage who of latw years has rather disappeared from thegolfing world, but used to be greatly in > evidence In It—the advisory caddie. Many of the caddies of the old Scotch school used to treat their masters (so or lied) much in the manner that a good old nurse treats a baby when she is beginning to teach It bow to walk. Id. those days tiiere was not a strokeplayed without the most careful consultation with these sapient mentors. — Westminster Gazette. '

Placing the Blame.

Caller—So the doctor brought you as little sister the other night, eh ? • Tommy—Yeh; I guess it was the doctor done it. Anyway I heard him tellin’ pa some time ago ’at if pa didn’tpay bis old bill he’d make trouble fuxr him.—Philadelphia Inquirer.

Plain Reasons.

Harry—Blanche says she has insuperable reasons for remaining single. Horace—Yes, I know wbat they are. Harry—Then she has told you? Horace—No, but I have seen her.— Boston Transcript 'A woman’s idea of anticipation in te pack her trunk two weeks before sbet expects to start on a trip.—Atchiaow Globe. J