Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Page 3

MID-WINTER SALE!!! BOUND TO, CLEAN OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF CLOTHING, CONSISTING OF SUCH MAKES AS S'- _ '■■ ■. -' •» jjw Stein-Bloch & Co., of Rochester, New York. ajw Kahn Bros., (Qayrock) of Chicago, Illinois. > y M. Wile & Co., Buffalo, New York. % And last but not least J, Capps & Sons, of Jacksonville, Illinois, Woolen mils. " w All of These Makes i.- 1 | 11 f\ I also have a large stock HHttMJi ' ▼ ▼ ImA IU Boys’ and .Children’s reduction for one-half" “ ——— dflyS* * * * the original price. Also |i wF l !; Remember this sale ---h- t reduced aftd the reduc- I | A, /I j lasts for only 30 days. Ll™ tEL “tl iLluMh^li Take advantage now. not delay, if you wish I j T i j LOUIS WILDBERG ■■ll Rensselaer, Ind. Proprietor Ideal Clothing Store. I

THE CUSTOMS OF NORWAY.

Be(Ui Satiriar M(kt aai la a Time For Plearare. One marked characteristic of the peo»la of Norway is their intense and artistic love of flowers. They never heap them in indiscriminate masses, but the poorest peasant woman will gather a few of the wild blossoms which grow at her door and arrange them in a glass at her window with an exquisite taste and feeling which are good to see. The custom obtains with high and low, and flowers are as necessary to a Norwegian dinner table as the food. The religion of the country is Lutheran, but Sunday is not observed with Puritan strictness, for the settlements are small and far apart, so that the hard worked pastor must travel miles from one to another, and even in summer service is only held once weeks. / Sunday begins on Saturday night, so that Sunday evening is a time for pleasure, and wherever a squeaky musical instrument can be found the peasants will dance together in the street. The men dance together as well as with the women, grasping each other’s shoulders and whirling round and round like dizzy human tops. A wedding is a festivity for the people for mites around. It is celebrated at the nearest village church, and the guests row in enormously long 'boats across the fiord, wearing gay colored dresses. The bride and bridegroom bring to the ceremony the silver spoons which were presented to them when they were christened. These are then linked together by a silver chain and are hung up in the new home, to be an heirloom for coming generations.

OZONE FOR SKYSCRAPERS.

How Fresh Air la Supplied la the Modera Toll Buildings. Hundreds of men and women are boxed up fill day long In little cages on every floor of the modern office building. Yet this mass of huddled humanity never suffers from any lack of fresh air. The ventilation is perfect, a fact which often surprises foreign architects. The delivery of fresh air into a skyscraper is as big a busless as the delivery of water or electricity. It is not left to chance. Cold, fresh air is forced Into the building by a blowing engine and passes through large ducts and controlling registers to the different rooms. In winter this air is heated by passing through coils of steam pipes. Often the blower is arranged to deliver both hot and cold air, and the ducts are provided with mixing valves which can be set to combine the two blasts In any required proportion. Thus one can have fresh air of exactly the temperature called for by the weather. ' - . , Bad air & got rid of by wall regis-

ters near toe noor tnrough Which the vitiated air escapes into ducts which lead to a large common outlet above the roof. These ducts may be of sheet iron or they may be of tile built in the wall like chimney flues. Sometimes they are large spaces inclosed in the upper parts of the corridors by false ceilings. In other cases the bad air is taken to the basement and discharged by an exhaust fan into a tall outside shaft used for that purpose only.—New York Press.

Hard to Find.

The bishop of—never mind where*? being a newcomer and being somewhat troubled with a neglected diocese, thought to inspire his clergy to take occasional services during the week by periodically visiting and taking one himself. On one of these occasions, having found quite a good congregation and having been moved to much eloquence in his sermon, he felt a not unnatural desire to know if he had made any impression on the usually unimpressionable yokels. So he put some leading questions to an old clerk who was helping him to unrobe in the vestry. “Well, I hope they’ve been pleased with yer,’’ said the old man patronizingly, “and I am sure we takes it wery kind o’ yer worship to come down and preach to us; but, yer know, a worsser one would have done for the likes of us, if so be,” he added, with becoming humility, “one could be found.”—London Tit-Bits.

Quaint Remedies.

Among members of the Greek church in Macedonia the following recipes are regarded as highly useful: To pacify one’s enemies write the psalm “Known in Judaea,” dissolve it in water and give your enemy to drink thereof, and he will be pacified. For a startled and frightened man take three dry chestnuts and sow thistle and three glasses of old wine and let him drink thereof early and late. Write also “In the beginning was the word” and let him carry it

First Aid.

“Now,” said the professor, “suppose yon had been called to see a patient with hysterics—some one, for instance, who had Started laughing and found it impossible to stop—what is the first thing yon would do?” “Amputate his funny bone,” promptly replied the new student—Houston Post

The Great Drawback.

“Well, the statements they make against yon aren’t true,” said the politician’s wife. “Why don’t you deny them?”’ “I’m afraid It wlil incite them to dig np some other libelons statements that are true.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Come to The Democrat office for sale bills.

OKLAHOMA LETTER.

Yukon, Ok la., Jan 18, 1904. Editor Democrat: You will think it strange to receive a letter from me, Thomas Knight, but I thought I would write a few lines tp let, you know how we are all liking our new country. We like it very well; it is warm down here and we have had no snow yet. Have had frost enough to whiten the ground, but one can plow right along; people were ploughing here every day and last week we were planting out shade and fruit trees and trimming them and it was so warm the presperation was dropping from our foreheads. We have* had it very dry and the farmers did not get in as much wheat as they intended, but it looks nice what is in. Well, we had a visitor from “Sunny Tennessee,’ 'and he said this country was the nicest he ever stepped into. He was well pleased with this country and then we had a visit from Mr. McManus from near Rensselaer, and be was also well pleased with the country and stayed with us a week and went around and looked at the country and he would have bought a place but he could not sell his place in Dakota. He is going to come baok when he sells his Dakota land. We hid such big rains here early last spring that it floated away our bridge and we had to ford the river to get to town,.but we have got the bridge up now and we can go for our mail all right. We are sev£n*miles from Yukon and fourteen from Oklahoma City. In the city they have been paying 27 Yi and 25 cents for eggs. We can drive back and forth in one day and do our trading. Well, Mr. Babcock, you will find enclosed SI.OO for the good old Democrat. We could hardly live without it and the news from old Indiana. We also read the serial story in it and can hardly wait ’till it comes. Yours truly.

LETTER FROM J. W. DOUTHIT.

The Democrat editor received a long letter from our former townsman, James W. Doutliit, a few pdays»ago, from which we take the following extracts: I notice that about all who left Jasper county at the time we did or after, to the various portions of the west, have been back on a visit except us, and we are the “Bad Bills'’ that have never returned and perhaps never will. My wife says, however, she Is coming back some day on a visit. It seems like that some of them are keeping the oar tracks warm by coming and going. It is a good thing for the railroads. But it teems to me that their pocket books will soon be exhansted. The Chicago fire struck the Leopold family very hard. Death comet with “silent tread to the cottage door add the palace door.” If I should see Rensselaer I would miss the familiar forms of Chllcote, Washburn and Wright. “The fierce spirit of the glass and scythe" has not been idle. It makes me sad to think of Charley Price. He is the first man that I became acquainted with in 1878 when I struck Rensselaer, and be and I became fast friends. He was a candidate tfiat year for re-election to the office of county clerk, and I was a member of the election board and we had an understanding that I waa to signal him as to how the vote was going on the oount. He stood on a chair and looked over the transom window and when

THOMAS KNIGHT.

it was favorable hit countenance would brighten up and when it waa unfavorable he would turn the other way. After the vote waa counted some unfavorable news came in from an out township and he thought he waa beaten, but soon news from other townships made up and he won. He was brilliant and eloquent, a natural born he had a heart aa broad as the universe. A better ‘ mixer'' never lived. 1 will never forget his speech at the meeting held when Garfield died. He wrote it out and submitted it to me and I suggested a few alterations and additions and I tell you he was eloquent. But let us look to the present and the future and not to the past. I received the briefs in your case against the county and I think you will win in the higher courts as well as in the lower. Politics is beginning to liven up in this county for next year. We have in this city p democratic club that meets once a month and It is making its influence felt. The democratic paper here is a great supporter of Hearst for president and I think the Territory is favorable to him, but we have not yet reached our majority and cannot vote. Some wanted to call the club the Hearst Club, but others objected and called it the Democratic Club. They pouted a while but have now got on the band wagon. I will now tell you something about the weather. There has been no rain or snow here this w inter. There have been a few cold days, but generally it has been warm and pleasant. Well. Frank, I had a call to Lawton a few weeks ago. It is in Comanche county and is the county seat. It was where thegreat Law ton prize was at the opening of the country in 1891, the year wecame here. James R. Wood won the prize w hich was worth fifty thousand dollars and he took his land clear across the section to shut out Miss Mattie Beal, a Kansas girl, who drew second prize, and the papers of the world denounced, him. Well, he took sick and died and tome papers rejoiced at his death, for treating a young lady as he did. After his death people said that he did not win the Lawton prize, but the man would who married the widow. A young widow, holding in her right a claim worth fifty thousand dollars would not have to wait for suitors. It w as not long until this young widow “vowed again t 6 love." and threw off her mourning and drapery and dressed in white and was again a bride. The fellow that won her no doubt thought he was in clover, but she in a few months "wraped the drapery of her couch around her young and beautiful body and laid it down to rest." And she did what few women have the sense to do. She made a just and equitable will. She gave one-half to her son by Mr. Wood and onefourth to her parents and one-fourth to her husband. It is now valued at 165,000. This has all taken place in three years. It shows thevioisltudes of human life. Three years ago Lawton was an unbroken prairie. Today it is a city of seven or eight thousand. It shows how cities can spring up in the West. Returning I came by El Reno. It is a city of 10.000 to 18.000 people. The South-Western Normal is going on. but the building has not been occupied yet. I think that they will not get in it until this spring. They hold school in buildings In the city. There are a / good many students. Well, I must dose. My family are In their usual health. My wife, for her, is as well as could be expected. When it is warm she does not complain, but when it is cold her right lung hurts her some. The babies are well. Little Nora is quite a little lady and Vivian is a stout, healthy child and will soon begin to talk. Read The Democrat for news.

HOW IT WORKS IN BENTON.

Fowler Leader: Ten business houses of Boswell have been interviewed and report that their business for December, 1903, exceeded that of the corresponding month of December, 1902, 10 to 50 per cent. It seems that the going of the saloons did not take all the business with them. Not long ago a merchant of Fowler went home and told his better half his troubles of the day. He had been asked to sign a remonstrance, and he wanted to and all that, but he didn’t because he was afraid it would hurt his business. Betsey Jane told him to look at his ledger in the morning and see if that was not the very reason why he should sign it. And it was. The persons who owed him long past due accounts were those who spent their time and money in the saloons. Another man was talking. His mother’s only brother is serving a life sentence in Michigan City. He was a generous husky boy, who went to California many years ago. He had learned no trade and the only job he could get was to tend bar. He returned in due time flat broke and dissipated. Relatives placed him upon his feet. At the end of a long drunk he killed bis benefactor. Buy your typewriter paper at The Democrat office and save money. The Democrat takes subscriptions for any newspaper or magazine published in the U. S., or Canada, and can save you money on anything yon want.

NURSERY STOCK.

Being salesman for the largest nursery in the state, I am offering all kinds of first-class stock to the public at a very low price. All goods guaranteed healthy and trne to name. Orchards sold on the payment plan. All inquiries cheerfully answered. Address C. L. Parks, Surrey, Ind.

BEST Examination THE BEST Glasses. THE BEST Result*. CHARLES VICK, Optombtrist. Office in C. H. Vick store. Rensselaer, Ind. Morris* English Stable Powder Sold by A. V. Lone

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