Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — Page 2

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Iren Sktrta With a “Duck.” Shirts cannot be Ironed properly with k common flatiron. It is better to purchase what Is called a “duck.” Thl* is a small iron with a blunt point, the underside of which instead of being amooth is scored off in little diamonds, much the same as a rubber tennis shoe. The irons should be very clean. It is better to rub them with sifted ashes or bath brick dust to remove any possible rust, taking care to clean the aides as well. Then wash and beat on a clean stove. Have a piece of cloth on the Ironing board to try the irorf*on, aB well as a cloth with a small piece of wax to rub the iron occasionally and a bowl of water with a small piece of clean soft rag to wipe off the shirt. Iron the neckband first, shaping it nicely to fit the neck; then iron the cufTs. Stretch and pull them out so that no shrunken lining or stitching will cause them to pucker. Then, laying them on the board, smooth out with the damp cloth, after which begin to iron with a quick, steady stroke, bearing on with all the strength you possess. Do not rest the iron on the shirt a minute or the starch will be apt to stick to it and make a streak. If this should happen, wash off with the clean cloth, and If it does not disappear scratch with a finger nail. Savory Cream Soopa. Cream soups are by most authorities considered the best to serve for luncheons. Cream of oyster or cream of clam soup is always acceptable. They are prepared in the same manner. Steam twenty-five clams and as soon as they open remove them from the shells and strain them from the liquor. Chop the clams, pound them in a mortar anfi rub as much of them as possible through a puree sieve. Put three cupfuls of milk in a double boiler, cook two tablespoonfuls of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour together, but do not let them brown; then add to the cooked butter and flour a little of the milk from the boiler to make a smooth paste. Put the paste into the milk in the double boiler and stir the mixture until it is a little thickened. When ready to serve, add two cupfuls of clam liquor and the pulp, which has passed through the sieve. Let it get hot, but do not let It boil or it will curdle. Season with salt and pepper If necessary. At the moment of serving add a cupful of cream and beat the whole well with an egg beater. This recipe makes n quart and a half of soup. A Metallic Clothespin. Is the ancient and honorable wooden clothespin of our forefathers to be relegated to the rear for a new article of commerce? While tills question is agitating the world of housewives and

A TIGHT GRIP.

■washerwomen It is well to direct our attention to the Invention of a worthy citizen of the state of Utah. At first blush this clothespin suggests a wire puzzle such as we have worried our brains over repeatedly. It is constructed of two pieces of wire, which, being hinged at the center, catch the clothes firmly between the lower jaws and securely hold them in place on the line while undergoing the drying process. Kitchen Conveniences. A' little iron contrivance that screws to the kitchen table pares, cores and slices an apple while a person with a knife could think about it. With a more clumsy looking machine peas are shelled and “looked over.” A little bent and fluted instrument draws the butter from the lump, into an individual shell shape in a twinkling. A handy dish of papier mache has a division in the middle through which is cut a clutch handle. This is to accompany the scrubber with soap, sand soap and other needfuls. A screwdriver holds the head of the screw while it turns it to its place. For beating eggs, whipping cream and making mayonnaise dressing there is no end to inventions. \ A Bathroom Convenience. A sanitary toothbrush holder is among the new bathroom conveniences to be picked up for a trifle. It is of nickel and consists of two little shelves to be fastened to the wall, each shelf perforated with openings large enough to suspend the family toothbrushes through and far enough apart to prevent the bristles from touching. They are capacious enough for a dozen brushes. To Remember When Papering. When papering a small room remember that large patterns and dark colon will make It appear smaller, while a plain or striped paper if a light hue will give an impression of increased Mse and airiness.

ANIMAL SURGERY.

Wild Beaats Are Wise Is Me die las and Easily Heal Themselves. Most people have seen a sick cat eat grass or an uneasy dog seek out some weed and devour it greedily to make his complaining stomach feel better. Some few may have read John Wesley’s directions on the art of keeping wellwhlcb have not, however, found their way into his book of discipline for the soul—and have noticed with surprised interest his claim that many medicines in use among the common people and the physicians of his time were discovered by watching the animals that sought out these things to heal their diseases. “If they heal animals, they will also heal men,” is his invincible argument. Others may have dipped deep into Indian history and folklore and learned that many of the herbs used by the American tribes, and especially the cures for rheumatism, dysentery, fever and snake bites, were learned direct from the animals by noting the rheumatic old bear grub for fern roots or bathe In the hot mud of a sulphur spring and by watching with eager eyes what plants the wild creatures ate, when bitten by rattlers or wasted by the fever. The most elemental kind of surgery is that which amputates a leg when it Is broken—not always or often, but only when the wound festers from decay or fly bite and so endangers the •whole body. Probably the best illustration of this is found in the coon, who has a score of traits that place him very high among intelligent animals. When u coon's foot is shattered by a bullet he will cut it off promptly and wash the stump in running water, partly to reduce the inflammation and partly, no doubt, to make it perfectly clean. As it heals he uses his tongue on the wound freely, as a dog does, to cleanse it perhaps and by the soft massage of his tongue to reduce the swelling and allay the pain.—Outlook.

THE END OF NIAGARA.

In Twenty-live Centnriea the Great Falla Will Have Disappeared. In 2,560 years hence the discharge of the Niagara will have become intermittent, ceasing at low stages of the lake, and finally the Niagara river, on the rising edge of the basin, will have its waters turned back and southward, and no water will flow over the Niagara escarpment of that day. Through this agency alone Niagara falls will cease to exist long before the escarpment has been worn away to the river level at Grand island, but as it is even now lessening the volume of water poured over the falls the erosive power of the stream is diminishing, and we must therefore increase the period necessary for the retreat of the Canadian falls to the south end of Goat island and the stealing of the waters of the American falls. Assuming the continuity of the forces named, we might outline the probable future life and death of the falls thus: With progressive loss in water volume the Canadian falls will reach the south end of Goat island in from 1,000 to 1,500 years, the death of the American falls. The flow of the wnters will now have become intermittent, and at first only at periods of mean and high water in Lake Erie, eventually at high water alone, will there be any discharge over the escarpment. This will continue for a period of from 1,500 to 2,000 years. The entire flow to the north will cease, and the river will flow back into Lake Erie, leaving the escarpment dry at a point not very far south of Goat island and with a height of about 100 feet. This will be 3,500 years hence the death of Niagara falls.—John M. Clarke, PJb. D., LL. D., in Harper’s Weekly.

An Effective Touch.

A western senator tells a story of a Judge who had oecnsiou to fine a lawyer In that state SIOO for contempt of court. After court had adjourned the lawyer approached the judge and said, “Your honor, I want to ask a great favor of you.” “What Is it?” inquired the judge. “I have a pressing obligation to meet. That hundred you took for that fine was the money I had to meet it with. I wish you would lend me SIOO for a few days.” “Hi, Mr. Crier,” shouted the judge, “convene eourj again!” Court was reconvened, and then the judge remitted the fine.

Incompatibility.

A man and his wife called at a lawyer’s office to talk about a divorce. “Judge,” the wife said, “I had only 75 cents to live on last month.” Whereupon the husband replied aggrily: “That’s a falsehood; she had $90.” Then the wife said, “Judge, that’s as near as we ever agree.” And the judge said they might as well get a divorce if that was the best they could do.—Atchison Globe,

Experienced.

“now is the new girl going to do?” asked Mr. Ferguson. “She hasn’t had much experience," said his wife, “but I think she will be all right when she gets broken in.” Then came a loud sound of falling crockery from the kitchen. “She seems to be making a good start, anyhow,” observed Mr. Ferguson encouragingly.—Chicago Tribune.

Encouragement.

Pupil (after repeated attempts)—Oh, Pm sure I never shall be able to! Professor—Oh, yes, you will. I was Just as big a donkey myself at first.— Punch. To accept good advice is but to Increase one’s own ability.—Goethe.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

f— Protmot Wilson on Antrlcului. President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton university holds pronounced views on the subject of Americanism, by which be means the characteristics which are peculiar to people of the United States. In a lecture before the Outlook club of Montclair, N. J., recently President Wilson said:, “It is bard to analyze the national character, for when we conceive of the American we think of terms suitable to that part of the country in which we

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON.

ourselves live. We are to be congratulated on our national sentiment, for we have very little sectional miasma. In spite of this we do not try to be conventional, and that is what makes us what we are. Nobody but Americans can understand what American character is, and yet can we really understand It ourselves?

“It took us one century to settle and colonize this country, the next century was spent in getting rid of the Dutch and French, the third in establishing the nation and settling the difficulties between the north and south, and we now have things an a national basis which does not seem at present to be threatened by any catastrophe. It is true that we have anarchy and socialism to deal with, but this is no evil peculiar to us, for all nations have to deal with them. We are still in the flush of manhood, and we have a future ahead of us.

“We should keep high ideals, whether new or old. If we don’t we will decline. We ought not to put men at the bead of the nation’s affairs whose honor can in any way be questioned.”

He May One Day Role Spain. Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, is fifty-five years of age and the father of one son and three daughters. Don Carlos has many friends in England and is delighted to show them over bis wonderful private armory at the Palazzo Loredan, Venice. It is a fine collection. One of his English visitors, a splendid all round athlete, with a full appreciation of his own powers, Don Carlos took on a swimming expedition at 1 Lido. They had a good lengthy exercise in the water, and the Englishman was beginning to feel fatigued and cold past bearing. But the wiry Spaniard called, "Now let us swim in earnest,” and struck out as if about to swim the whole Adriatic. He readily turned home, with an apology, when the Briton confessed himself beaten. The “Indian Member.** Congressman Charles Curtis of Kansas, father of a great deal of Indian legislation, had a unique career when a lad. Starting out In life, the “Indian member of the house,” as Mr. Curtis is frequently referred to, began as a race horse jockey, then a hack driver, studied law, became county attorney and finally landed in congress, where he has served for seven consecutive terms. Gate* Will Sit Closer. Though John W. Gates has for a long time been one of the high players in the Wall street game, he has continued to reside in Chicago. It is reported that the western speculator is going to soon take up his residence in New York so as to be closer to the game.

JOHN W. GATES.

His son already Uvea in New York and has cared for his father’s interests in the latter’s absence. The elder Gates thinks that things are coming to pass which make it desirable for him to be always on the spot himself. He says: “My business interests certainly demand my presence in New York more and more, and too much of my time is spent in traveling back and forth. However,” he adds, “if I do leave Chicago It will be with much regret”

PHOSPHORESCENCE.

Animal tai VcgctsU* Light Rank Among Nntart'i Mysteries. Animal phosphorescence la one of the most surprising and least understood of nature’s phenomena. The pale, bluish white light of the glowworm has been found by naturalists to be dependent upon the motion of the insect’s body or legs. From this it would seem that the phosphorescence depends upon some nervous action, regulated at pleasure by the Insect, for, it has the power of obscuring it entirely. If the glowworm be crushed and the face or hands rubbed with it, luminous streaks like those produced by phosphorus will appear. They shine more brightly in oxygen gas and in nitrous acid. The power of emitting luminous rays belongs to several varieties of fly and three. species of beetle of the genus elater. One of the most brilliant of these Is the great lantern fly of South America, which gives enough light to enable a person to read by the rays from a single insect. Numerous classes of these flies are found in Surinam, where they illuminate the darkness in a most remarkable manner. In some of the bogs of Ireland lives a worm which gives out a bright green light, a fitting color for the Emerald Isle. There are many other kinds of insects which become luminous in the dark. Yet there are many curious instances of phosphorescence in dead animals and vegetable matter, the lobster among crustaceans, the whiting among fishes and decayed wood being striking examples. Their emission of light seems to depend, however, not upon putrefaction, for as this progresses their luminosity diminishes, but upon certain unknown atmospheric conditions. This phosphorescence of decayed matter has been regarded as somewhat different from the slow combustion of phosphorus, but upon examination all the chemical conditions are found to be the same. The strange phosphorescent quality of some plants and flowers Is not exactly the same as that possessed by animal matter, but it is as little understood. It seems to be an absorption of light and a subsequent liberation of it. If. a nasturtium is plucked during sunshine and carried into a dark room, the eye, after it has reposed for a few moments, will discover the flower by the light emitted from its leaves. The phosphorescence of the sea is due to a living animal, which gives nut its light under nervous excitement, as when It is stirred by the motion of a passing vessel.

A Million or More of Deaf Mutes.

Recent estimation places the number of deaf mutes in the world at more than 1,000,000. This great number of human beings, living a life which a normal person cannot conceive, is destined to increase because of the tendency of these people to marry persons laboring under the same disability. Examination of the records of 4,500 marriages of deaf persons shows 9 per cent of the children to be deaf, while only one-tenth of 1 per cent of the offspring of an equal, number of marriages of normal persons are likely to be afflicted with deafness. Deaf parents whose relatives are not deaf run no greater chances of having deaf children than persons ■who can hear, but in the case of normal persons in whose families there are members who are deaf the danger of deaf children is, according to Professor E. A. Fay, who has studied the question, just as great as among deaf people.— New York Press. •

Hens Is Carious Animals.

A boy who was required to write an essay on hens produced the following: “Hens is curious animals. They don’t have no nose nor no teeth nor no ears. They swallow their whittles whole and chew it up in their crops inside of ’em. The outside of hens Is generally put into pillers and Into feather dusters. The Inside of a hen is sometimes filled with marbles and shirt buttons and sich. A hen is very much smaller than a good many other animals, but they’ll dig up more tomato plants than anything that ain’t a hen. Hens is very useful to lay eggs for plum puddings. Hens have got wings and can fly w-hen they get frightened. I cut off a hen’s head with a hatchet, and it frightened her to death.”

Sleep.

Up to the fifteenth year most young people require ten hours’ sleep and till the twentieth year nine hours. After that age every one finds out how much he or she requires, though, as a general rule, at least six to eight hours are necessary. Eight hours’ sleep will prevent more nervous derangements in women than any medicine can cure. During growth there must be ample sleep if the brain is to develop to its fullest extent, and the more nervous, excitable or precocious a child is the longer sleep it should get if its intellectual progress is not to come to a premature standstill or its life cut short at an early age.

Her Dilemma.

Ethel—l can’t decide which of them to accept. Kate —Why, that ought to be easy. Ethel—l know; but, you see, Jack always gives me roses, and Reggie always gives me violets, and the florist tells me they cost exactly the same price.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.

Her Attractiveness.

Mr. Nervey— Roxley, I adore yon. Will you not be my wife? Miss Roxley (haughtily)—The idea of your proposing to a girl in my station! You should know better. Mr. Nervey—l do know better, but no richer.—Philadelphia Press. We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive and at praising him when he Is dead.

THE 99-GENT Racket Store. Our February Sales are Record Breakers. Goods of every description slaughtered to make room for the New Spring Goods which are now on the way. Do not be deceived, but come and see for yourself what inducements we are throwing out for the benefit of our customers. Look at the quotations and then act accordingly. Here 15hey Are: Lace: Jieedles: \7nderOur lace and era- Four .papers of \Ufear: broidery depart- sharp needles, AU Qar i adie8 > meats must all be bodkins, darners, j , children’s cleaned up. We house pins, black and onder _ will sell you laces and white shawl wear wiU be sold and embroidery pins, hair pins, all at a reduction of from 1c per yard complete in a nice per cent> and % up to 19c per yard cabinet. Regular IO this meang at that we will guar- 25c goods for leagt 25 per cent antee you cannot this sale only e i ßew here. Do buy anywhere else not fail to take or ou e 1 16 Odds and advantage of this amount we ask for if yoa nee d same, same. Ladies, do M^nas, not miss this sale. Clothes pins lc Good during Feb- a dozen; tacks lc Want Kiary, 1904. a paper; chair You to call and seats 5c each; snow see the special inshovels, regular ducements we can Linen: 25c kind, to close offer you in China out, only.. 1 A and Glass Ware. s°° yards India Electric Ift The largest and linen. Others get light globes I best stock in the 10 and 15 cents per f or 0n1y... county. yard for same. To «, close out we will _ _ # sell all while it OtlV flottOfl y“a o f „V er 7C Department: Our linen table Pearl Buttons, all sizes, per d0z...... 5c cloth, that others Talcum Powder, the best, per can 5c get 85c per yard Amonia, per bottle 5c for, we will close Basting thread, three spoons f0r...... 5c out to you while it Sewing machine oil, very best, a bottle 5c lasts at the U. S. metal polish, per box 5c low price Tooth Picks, two boxes for 5c Linen napkins Bird seed, per pound package 5c that can’t be beat Castoria, per bottle only 19c in the county for 12 boxes of matches only 10c price, at 3 cones of ironing wax 5c per dozen 55 c Large size bottle of vaseline 5c

* See the beautiful pictures we are giving away free. Also the SB.OO pictures we give away for $2.00 in trade and 89 dents in cash.. Pictures suitable for any house in the land or any room. A fine selection of subjects to select from. We have made arrangements for over, 1000 of them to please our many customers. At no other place, only TShe 99c 'Racket Store E. V. Ransford, Prop., Rensselaer, Ind. . a

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And please remember The Democrat office is especially “it” when it comes to horse bills. Foley’s (Hooey and Tar cure* the cough caused by>ttack of la grippe. It heals the lungs. Sold by A. F. Long, druggist.

Austin & Hopkins offer better terms on farm loans and city property than any firm in Jasper County. The Democrat for county news.