Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — Page 2

POISON OF THE RATTLER.

>•1 Nratlr M D**c«r««i m It la PoaaUtlr IwMMt «• B*. "There la a good* deal more fright •bout the bite of a rattleannke than there la actual danger.” aald a well known physician recently. “I do not mean to say that the bite of a rattler la not a very serious thing, but I do mean to say that this particular aort of snake la really not so ready or apt to 'get in his bite' os some others. “In the first place, there is the now generally credited fact that the rattler Is the most honest of snakes. He doesn’t ‘pick a fight.’ He doesn’t lay In wait for any one. He won’t run •way, of course, for he is a plucky reptile, but he will curl up and give you a fair warning from those rattles of his before he attempts to strike. I remember once in the west finding a rattler just ahead of my horse’s fore feet. I had no weapon of any sort, so I rode on, passing within a few Inches of the reptile. The snake was curled and ready for my horse In case the animal side stepped, but as we did nothing of that sort we were allowed to pass In peace. "Again, the truth is that the poison of the rattler does not get into the wound inflicted by the fangs in the average human being. For the average human being nowadays js clothed, and the holes in the fangs through which the poison comes are rather far up toward the roof of the mouth. Consequently very often the point of the fangs may enter the skin, while the poison dribbles out harmlessly enough upon the trousers or the boot It is then that the ‘victim’ gets scared, fills up on whisky—a bad thing in bona fide cases of rattlesnake bite—and believes himself marvelously cured when he wakes up next day."—Philadelphia Press.

APHORISMS.

Bet a beggar on horseback and he will ride a-gallop.—Button. The bearing ear Is always found close to the speaking tongue.—Emerson. To be conscious that you are ignorant la a great step to knowledge.—Disraeli. Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to bear.—Selden.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line—by deeds, not years.—R. B. Sheridan.

Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing that money cannot buy.—Walton. When a man assumes a public trust be should consider himself as public property.—Thomas JefTerson. Everybody likes and respects self made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.—O. W. Holmes,

Little Henry’s Questions.

Little Henry was reading ancient history stories. ‘‘Pa,’* said he suddenly, “can I ask you a Question?” “I guess you can, Henry. Yon seem to have a fair command of English.” “Well, may I, then?” little Henry continued. “Yes,” said pa. “Fire ahead.” “That’s funny,” said little Henry. “1 was Just thinking of such things. Now’, did the old Homans light their houses with Roman candles?” “I shouldn’t wonder,” said pa, chuckling. “Nero, at least, indulged in a good deal of fireworks. Anything else?” “Yes,” replied little Henry. “Did the people of Athens do all their cooking with Greek Are?” Then pa got mad and said he couldn’t be bothered with any more silly Questions.—Household Ledger.

Laying the “Ghost.”

The Earl of Onslow tells a very effective story. His beautiful old place, Clandon, suddenly became possessed of a “ghost,” and the servants of the place were almost terrified out of their wlta by the noises they heard and the sights they saw or Imagined. The reputation of the mansion became noised abroad, and at last Ix»rd Onslow took u short cut to end the mystery. He assembled his servants and gave it oat to them that lie was determined to bave no more of this sort of thing. For the future all members of his family would sleep with loaded revolvers by their side, and at the first suggestion of a noise they would send a bullet in its direction to investigate the cause. Clandon nowadays is quite commonplace in Its immunity from the uncanny.—London Globe.

An Irish Compliment.

When Earl Spencer was lord lieutenant of Ireland the people of Dublin called the beautiful countess, one of the loveliest women of her time, “Spenser’s Faerie Queene.”

But when their excellencies were about to return to England Irish gallantry was shown in a characteristic way. At the furewell banquet in their honor an Irish gentleman got up and said, witb much fervor and many bows:

“We all hope soon to see you back again, yon and the work of art by your side.”

Knew Paris.

Bobson—l see that a Parisian countess is obliged to earn her living at the wash tub. Too bad, isn’t it?

Deacon Blngle (who knows something about Paris)—Well,'i don’t know. Those Parisian washerwomen seemed to be a decidedly jolly lot.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Heartless Female!

Young Wife—What do you do when ■your husband gets cross and wants to scold? Wife (with experience)—l read him one or two of the letters he used to write to me before we were married.— Baltimore American.

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Where You Sava Money By buying our SPECIAL CASH OFFERS ig in securing your merchandise at about one-half their usual coat. Yon can easily use $5.00 worth of other goods, (and the prices on them are lower than anywhere else) just to get Granulated Sugar at 4o per pound. We would not ask you to buy any other goods if it were not for the fact that so many unscrupalons persons (mostly other dealers) know that sugar is dirt cheap at 4c and if we offer that alone these parties would come in and buy all we possess. We ask yon to bay other goods so you can ascertain for yourself how low our prices are and to prevent the unscrupulous ones from taking advantage of offers meant for our customers only. Even if you don’t need any sugar it will pay you to come to our stores to bay other goods, as we can assure you that no other firm will sell to you at lower prices. The sample orders shown below do not mean that you must buy the articles named. We list them so you can see how easily you can use $5 00 worth of other goods. Buy anything you need just so your order amounts to $5.00.

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We want you to buy of us this year, no matter how far you live from our stores. You have never had an offer like this from any other hnn. We mean to have over 500 trial orders on this sale. We show below a few of our prices, also sample orders of ss*°° worth of other goods.

Samp!* Order No. 1 1 Sack GOLD MEDAL Flour tl 29 2 can* Lewi* Lye.. 20 4 pound* 5X Butter Crackers 29 3 pounds Fancy Japan Rice 29 5 pound* Select Navy Beans 29 3 pounds Rival Rolled 0at5....... 09 1 sack Liberty Buckwheat flour 10 1 sack Liberty White Corn Meal 21 5 pound* Fancy Cali Prunes 29 100 pound* Cru*l)ed Oyster Shells 68 1 package Yeast Cream 02 10 yards Fast Color Calico 60 1 pair Ladle*'Black Hose 19 7 cake* Lenox Soap 29 3 pounds Best Lump Starch 19 SSOO

Cash Buyers Always Secure the Greatest Discounts ot Any Firm. DO YOU? Why don’t you try to pay cash sos your goods just for one month. It will keep you out of debt —also save you lots of dollars.

Fairbanks Gold Dust 4-lb pkg 2IC Armour’s t Round Bologna lOC

FAVORITE AGES OF WOMEN.

They Appear to Rose Between Sixteen and Twenty-four Years. It may seem strange that women liave preferences for particular ages. An inspection of the census, however, leaves no room for doubt that certain years are preferred aud certain other years disliked by the members of the gentler sex.

Of children fourteen years and under the number of boys is nearly 400,000 greater than the number of girls; at tifteen the boys are still 6,000 ahead of the girls; at sixteen the girls are 6,000 the more numerous, and each year thereafter until the twenty-fourth there is an excess of women over men. The favorite ages within these limits are eighteen and twenty. There are 24,000 more misses of eighteen than there are boys of that age, and the young ladies twenty years old exceed their masculine companions by 54,000. At twenty-four aud twenty-five the numbers of the two sexes are nearly equal. Then the women begin to grow less with great rapidity. The most unpopular ages are thirty and forty. At the former age there is a difference of 78,000 between the two sexes; at the latter 83,000. One peculiar circumstance la that there are more women twenty years old than there are girls of thirteen or fourteen or any age up to twenty. This fact conclusively demonstrates that twenty la a very healthful age. But If the younger ages are unhealthy, where did the Increased number who am twenty years old come from? No women are born thft qkl.

100 lbs Crushed Oys Shell 68c 8 lb can Sweet Pumpkin lOC

Bonanza Lye, 10c can for 7C 18-lb box 5X Crackers SI.OO

Only an unusually elastic theory can account for these peculiarities with becoming gallantry to the lovelier sex.— J. S. Gilham in Ladies’ Home Journal.

The Orlarinal Vera lon Oates From the Time of Oliver Cromwell. The lively straius of “Yankee Doodle” are beard at every patriotic celebration, says a writer in Collier’s Weekly, yet perhaps few of those whose pulses stir at the sound of the familiar notes are aware that it dates from the time of Oliver Cromwell and crossed the seas with the Puritans. •’Nankee Doodle” was one of the nicknames bestowed by the Cavaliers on the hated Roundhead, and a verse written upon Cromwell’s entry into Oxford, riding on a small horse witb a plume twisted Into a sort of knot called a “macaroni,” runs as follows: Nankee Doodle came to town Upon a little pony. With a feather In his hat Upon a macaroni. The transition from Nankee to Yankee—which came from Yengee, the Indian word for English— was very easy, and the Royalists used it as a jeer at all New Englanders. When the Colonials in Boston,'* preparing for the coming war, smuggled muskets into the country, concealing them in toads of manure, the Tories sang to the old tone of “Lucy Fisher:” Yankee Doodle came to town For to buy a firelock; We will tar and feather him. And so we will John Hancock. When the British forces marched to tike battles of Concord and Lexington

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Sampl* Order No. 2 1 Sack GOLD MEDAL Flour (1 29 2 pounds Economy Coffee 3 j % pound Best UC Japan tea 29 2 can* Best Tomatoes 20 5 gallons Best Eocene Kerosene 90 2 pounds Best Lump Starch 10 3 pairs Men’s Heavy Socks 25 6 cakes Puritan Soap 25 4 pounds 5X Butter Crackers.... 25 1 gallon Cider Vinegar 20 2V4 pounds Select Caro. Bice 25 1 package Duke’s Mixture ..... 09 3 cuts Star Tobacco 25 1 can Champion Lye 10 pound Mixed Candy 05 1 pound Hasting Baking Powder 15 2 cans Fancy Huckleberries...... 20 55.00

50c Heavy Leather Mittens 38c Fancy Crawford Peaches lOC

YANKEE DOODLE.

Greatest Cash Offer Ever Made byanyfirm Hundreds saved money by our cash sales last year.

Sampl* Order No. 3 ——————J— ■■ 1 Sack GOLD MEDAL Flour $1 25 1 sack Liberty Buckwheat Flour 40 1 pair Sels Ladies’Shoes.......... 165 1 package Yeast Cream 02 1 package Elastic Starch 10 1 package Cow Brand Soda 10 5 pounds Rival Rolled Oats 18 2 gallons Perfection Coal 0i1.... 30 2 pounds Economy Coffee 30 3 pairs Men’s Heavy Socks 25 3 cans Best Tomatoes 25 2 cans Lye Hominy.. 20 $5.00

SI.OO Ball Band Felt Boots 49C 1-gal pure Sugar Syp In Bulk 30C

25c Heavy Lined Gloves I9C Pure Bnckwhe’t Flour 40C

their approach was heralded by “Tsod Save the King,” but when the “Yankee farmers" saw the foe In full retreat the strains of "Yankee Doodle” accompanied their flight, and from that hour, wherever the stars and stripes have floated, the once despised tune has been beard.

Galileo’s Wit.

Galileo's wit, according to a biography, got him into trouble when he put Into the mouth of Simplicio, the foolish opponent of the Copernican theory in his “Dialogues,” an argument that Pope Urban VIII. had himself devised and insisted on Galileo incorporating in the work. Galileo made Simplicio quote it as an argument he had from a “very eminent and learned personage." The enemies of Galileo persuaded Urban that he had been “made game of,” and this was the offense of which Galileo was guilty. It was not for upholding the theory that the sun stands still and the earth moves that Galileo was tried by the Inquisition. Urban himself had supported the Copernican doctrines both as cardinal and as pope.

A Contiguous Smoke.

In the Philippines the use of tobacco is universal. The native child acquires the tobacco habit as soon as it is able to walk. In the northern provinces especially it is no uncommon sight to see a child five or six years old puffing vigorously at a big cigar. The women smoke folly as much as the men and commonly smoke cigars where the men use cigarettes. In the northern parts of Luson Immense cigars often a couple of feet long and aa thick as the wrist are

Sampl* Ordar No. 4 1 Sack GOLD MEDAL Flour $1 25 2 pounds Fancy Dried Peaches... 20 3 pounds Seedless Raisins 30 1 pound Best Baking Powder.... 15 1 package Sweet Chocolate 10 7 cakes White Laundry Soap 25 1 Men's Heavy Work 5hirt........ 50 1 pair Men's Best Overalls 75 1 sack Table Salt T 05 1 sack White Corn Meal 21 1 peck Fanoy Onions 15 2 pounds Economy Coffee 30 1 pail Best Sugftr Syrup .... 32 5 pounds Rival Rolled Oats 18 1 Fire Proof 2 Chimney 15 1 can Lewis Lye 10 1 package Yeast Foam 08 1 box DP Toothpicks 02 $5.00

Ball Band Rubber Boots $3-25 12 Boxes Best Matches lOC

Fancy Large Red Onions pk »5 C Purest Cider Vinegar, a gal 20C

used. Such a cigar Is suspended from a rafter of the house by a string and smoked during the day by all the members of the family as desired.

Critic—Marvelous drama of yours, sir. There’s a scene in that play that Shakespeare himself could not have written. Author—lndeed! You are too flatting. Critic—l was referring to that railway smash in the third act—London Tit-Bits.

“He’s the kind of a man who courts danger, I understand.” “Well, I should say so. Why, he does not hesitate to open a flirtation with any young widow he meets.”—Chicago Post.

Energy will do anything that can be dope In this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a man without it.—Goethe. 5 PER CENT LOANS. We can positively make yon a loan on better terms than you can procure elsewhere. No “red tape.” Commission lowest. No extras. Funds unlimited. See us before borrowing or renewing an old loan and we will save yon money. IRWIN & IRWIN. I. O. O. F. Building. The moat reliable preparation for kidney troubles on the market is Foley’s Kidney Core. For sale by A. V. Long, druggist.

Your Cash Purchases Will Always save you the trouble and worry of debt. Any honest farmer knows how hard it is to be compelled to pay from $30.00 to $75.00 ont of his oats or corn crop to pay for a season’s grocery bill As long as yon pay cash yon know that you will have all your crop left in the fall. Yon oan save money in this manner as this BIG OFFER will readily show you. Granulated Sugar is worth 6c per pound at any store. Bnt we now offer you the same sugar at 4c a pound —Just think of it —Yon save 2c per pound—or in other words you save 25x2c or 50c on a purchase of SI.OO, We ask that you buy a few other goods (any kind yon want) along with the sugar so that you oan become acquainted with our very low prices and we will then feel sore that yon will become a steady customer. We never make catch offers of any kind as there is always something deceiving in them. When you see any of our offers you may know it is a bargain. We earnestly ask you to try this one. We show some sample orders below that amount to $5:00 and include almost every article any family will need.

Fancy Large Can Mustard lOC Coal Oil that makes light—gal 18c

Impossible Shakespeare.

A Daring Man.

One Dollar Buys as ITuch as two

Sampl* Order No. 5 1 Sack GOLD MEDAL Flour $1 25 2 gallons Eocene Coal Oil 36 1 four-tie Carpet Broom 25 5 pounds Fanoy Cali Prunes 25 2 cakes Ivory Soap 10 3 cakes Puritan Soap 15 2 pohnds Best Bulk Starch 'lO 3 Fancy Naval Oranges » 10 4 pounds 5X Butter Cracker 25 5 pounds HP Navy Beans 25 2 package None Such Miuce Meat 20 3 pounds Ring Cut Bvap Apples.. 27 114-qt Heavy Water Pall 28 3 Spools Thread 15 H pound Best UC Japan Tea 25 M pound Best Black Pepper 10 1 pkgage Parlor Matches 10 1 pkg Sun Rising Stove Polish... 10 1 pkg Wisdom Washing Powder €5 2 pkg Best Corn Starch... 10 1 pkg Cow Brand Soda 10 4 pounds Rival Rolled Oats 14 1 can Sauerkraut 10 $5.00

Yeast Foam or Cream 2C Best Roasted Coffee 15c

Pure white Corn Meal 2IC Cleanest Lamp Starch —lb 5C

Commissioners’ Allowances.

The following are the allowances made l>y j the Board of Commissioners of Jasper couu- ■ ty at the February term: . G B Marshal, public printing: sßs) SO Chaa Morlan, janitor court house 45 00 Same, laundry for court house 70 Jas W McEwen, public printing 2 00 Same, same... 64 00 Same, same 2 00 American Arithmometer Co, adding machine for c h 375 CO Fred Waymlre, commissioners' court.. 3 SO Abraham Halleok, same 3 SO Chaa T Denham, same 3 SO Philip DeHnger, bridge repairs. 1904... 240 00 8 B Jenkins, fireman oh 35 00 Jesse Nichols. Marlon tp, gravel r rep 33 00 S L Luce, burial old soldier’s wife 50 00 LH Hamilton, per diem c05upt........ 104 00 Chaa Cain, labor at poor farm 8 50 Bruner A Merry, rent of phones 1904.. 12 00 John F Major, clerk, postage clerk'a oifi 500 Coen A Brady, coal for court house.... 183 51 Geo B Murray, exp, poor f (contract) 32 65 EL Clark, postage auditors office 5 00 I J Porter, exp boiler house.. 3 00 ELCHark.exp Nisiusditch..« 00 M B Price, ditch stork ...-. 63 00 Bamcl postage surveyor’s office ....... 100 DM Ferguson, posting del tax notices 750 Harvey M Grant, same. 4 00 Burt-Terry Wilson Co, supplies tp ass 225 Same, recorder 14 50 Same, treasurer 42 70 Same, clerk 2 00 Leslie Clark, supplies auditor. 20 00 Same, recorder 11 50 Same, truant officer 12 50 Same, treasurer 44 00 Same, surveyor .* 19 00 Same, elerk *. is oo Same, county superintendent 150 00 Serna publishing diteh notice <25 Charles Robinson, expense poor farm #OO John. Makeover, wood poor farm 37 50 Charles Robinson, labor at poor farm 700 Wm Brown, same 22 00 James B, Lxathkrmax, Auditor.

Boy your typewriter paper The Uemoorat office and eave money. t Sold by A. F, Long

Extra Select Prunes, lb 5C Choicest Uncolored Japan tea 50C