Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — Page 7

«?) (jKAtthwiwfflinrteißmu Bamant ((■> Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect June 29,1903. South Bound. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. m. N 0.33 ludiauapolis Mail, (daily).. 2:01 p. m. No. 39—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. ra No. 8— Louisville Express, (daily) ..11:25 p, m‘ •No. 45—Local freight 2:40p. ra N 0.31 —Fast Mail 4:49 a, ra* North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (dully) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. No. 6—Mall and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. T No. 30—Cln. to Chicago Ves.Mall.. 6:32p.m. tNo. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p.m. •No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a.m. •Daily except Sunday. tSunday only, Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fhank J. Keep, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President and Gan. M’g’r, Chas. H. Rockwell, Traffic M g’r, CHIOAOO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

Bell Phone 131. Lafayette Phone 379. WABASH Arrival and departure of trains from The Lafayette Passenger Station Twerfth and Erie Streets In effect Sunday, January 8, 8 a. m. GOING EAST. No. 2. N. Y. and Boston lim, daily2:42 a.m No. 8. Buffalo Mail, daily. 8:00a. m No. 8. Mail and Express daily 8:45 a.m No. 4. Continental Limltdd, dai1y..2:12 p.m No. 24. Alantic Express, daily p.m No. 00. Lafayette Ac. ex Sunday ar.7:36 p.m JNo. 8. Not run bet. Ft. Wayne and Detroit GOING WEST. No. 51. Springfield AC., ex. Sunday.6:3o a.m No. 9. Kansas City Fast Mail daily.B:Bs a.m No. 3. Western Express, daily ....12:04 a.m No. 7. Mail and Express, daily 1:03 p.m No. 1. Continental Limited, daily.. 1:48 p.m No, .6. Fast Mail, daily 7:50 p.m No. 2, New York and Boston express, has through sleeper (buffet) St. Louis to Boston; also sleeper St. Louis to New York. Yestibuled free reclining chair car. St. Louis to Buffalo, and dioing car, serving all meals. No. 4, Continental Limited, daily, has through Pullman sleeper. St. Louis to New York and Boston. Coaches St. Louis to New York. Dining car serves all meals. No. 6, Mail and Express, daily, has connection with sleeper at Detroit for New York and Boston via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and New York Central R. R. No. 8. Through sleeper to New York, and chair car to Buffalo. No. 9 has sleeper and free reclining chair car to Kansas City. Does not handle baggage between Lafayette and Danville Junction. No. 1, Continental Limited,daily.same service as No. 4. Does not carry baggage for stations between Lafayette and Danville Junction. No. 3. St. Louis Limited, daily, ha 9 sleeper iPulln.an buffet) Boston and New York to St. .ouis; also free reclining chair to St. Louis, and St. Louis to Kansas City. No. 5, Fast Mail, Coach Toledo to St. Louis. Does not carry baggage. Ocean steamship tickets sold to ail parts of the world. J. RAMSEY. Jr.. President. C. S. CRANE. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent H. V. P. TAYLOR, Asst. Gen. Pass, and Tkt. Agent. St. Louis, Mo. THcjS. FULLER. P. & T. A., Lafayette, Ind. Attention Farmers. Why remain in the North and stay indoors six months ,in the year consuming what you -aise during the other six months? Go South where you can work out dcors every month in the year, and where you are producing something the year round. If you are a stock raiser you know your stock are now "eating their heads off” and, besides, have to be protected from the rigors of winter by expensive shelter, Economical stock feeding requires the combination of both flesh-forming and fat-forming food in certain proportions. Alabama and Florida produce. in abundance the velvet bean and cassava, the first a flesh producer, and the latter a fat producer, and they are the cheapest and best fattening materials known to the world. More money can be made and with less labor, in general farming, fruit and berry growing and truck gardening along oui road in the South than in any other section of the Union. If you are interested and desire further information on the subject, address. G. A. PARK, Gen’l Immigration and Industrial Agent, Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co., Louisville, Ky, WHEN IN CHICAGO ...STOP AT THE... New NortKem Baths Hotel e.nd Baths Combined. For Gentle* men Exclusively. (Occupying entire building of 8 eiories.) Traveling men are assured every comfort and attention. The most complete and attractive establishment of its kind in the United States. Unrivaled accommodations at only SI.OO A Bed One Night at this price—which I is less than t he charge at lirst-clasa hotels —and a Turkish Bath thrown in, Batbs—Tu'kisb, Russian, Shower. Needle andpiunge—the most sumptuously appointed that you can find anywhere. Restaurant—On the European plan. A good chef and moderate rates. Reading Room—Where you can rest and be thankful. Chiropody. Manicuring. OPEN ALL NIGHT. tySend /or Blueirated Booklet. ■ NEW ■ NORTHERN 3ATHS& HOTEL 14 Quincy SC. CHICAGO. Morris' English Stable Liniment Sold by A. F. Long.

WHEN JOE STRUCK OIL

By MARIAM HARCOURT

It had been understood for a year or more that Joe Green, son of Farmer Green, was to marry Bessie Hurlburt, daughter of an adjoining fanner. There was not a cloud on the horizon until a young man named Harry Beeclynan came Into the neighborhood to sell and to show the fanners how to set up wire fencing. He secured board at Hurlburt’s and at once became "stmck” ,pn Bessie. His admiration naturally pleased her, and when people began to hint that It was a case of love a new Idea came Into her father’s head. He knew Joe to be an honest, hardworking young man, and the question of money had never come up. If lie married Bessie he would take her to his own house and provide for her as well as a farmer wonld ! be expected to. It was only after the wire fence man came and exhibited his “roll'’ and talk-

HE JAMMED HIM UP AGAINST THE GRANARY DOOR.

ed of stocks and bonds and bank accounts that Farmer Hurlburt realized what a good thing It would be to have a wealthy son-ln-law. Young Beeehman encouraged the feeling in both father and mother, and his lavishness In buying presents for Bessie would have carried a less sensible girl off her feet But when he began to court In earnest she began to draw away, and Joe Green had nothing to be Jealous of. It was soon discovei-ed, however, that he had a light bn hand. The spirit of avarice had been awakened In the souls of the parents, and It was not long before they had u good deal to say to Bessie and something as well to her lover. “Look here, Joe,” said Farmer Hurlburt, who prided himself on his plain speaking, “I have said that you were one of the best young fellers in this county, but you ain’t Just the match for Bessie. She’s smart and good looking and one of the sort who ought to live in town and wear silks amj satins instead of plodding away on a farm. I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but I wish you’d look around for some other girl.” "You want her to marry the wire fence man, I take it,” said Joe in reply. “Yes. Joe; I do. He’s got money. He’s making more of it. He’ll be ns rich as Vanderbilt in ten years more. He offered to lend me SSO the other day without any security at all. . He's not only in the wire fence business, but he’s Into windmills and drainpipe and patent farm gates. He’s going into a speculation next week In which he will clear $3,000 or $4,000 in no time at all, and mebbe I’ll go in with him. You ain’t expecting to make a dollar extra this year, and so”— “I’m looking for oil down along the creek,” interrupted Joe. “Can’t be none there, Joe; can’t be no oil In this county., I like you as a man, Joe, but being you haven’t got money I shall have to ask you to stay away after this. It may take your appetite away for a few days, but you’ll get over It In a week and shine up to one of Jim Gardner’s girls.” Bessie was told at the same time that she would be expected to discourage Joe and encourage the other one, and, though she promptly rebelled, her parents put the foot down In a most vigorous way. In a manner the field was left clear for the wire fence man. Unfortunately* for him, he was a boaster and a braggart He was making a few dollars, but could not count on anything permanent. He realized that If he got the farmer’s daughter at all It would be through the aid of money, and he began to plan and scheme. Circumstances aided him. One day he received a private and confidential letter from New York. An individual in that city had got possession of a bank note plate and was printing greenbacks by the tens of thousands. He was willing that others should share In his good luck. He was so willing that he would sell greenbacks for 10 cents on the dollar and warrant them to pass current anywhere. It was the old, old green goods game, and young Beeehman bit In turn he became so generous hearted that he was willing to let Farmer Hurlburt In on the spec. Together they hoped to raise SSOO In cash, and

POLITIGAL BANKING METHODS IN JASPER COUNTY.

Report of Assignee Chapman: T. J. McCoy overdraft 3152,548.46; A. McCoy overdraft $86,594,66; A. &T. J. McCoy overdraft $4,330.82; McCoy, Son & Porter overdraft $16,733.37; Stock Farm (McCoy, Thompson & Rinehart) overdraft $25,556 65; W. A. Rinehart (A. McCoy’s son-in-law) overdraft $1,609.91; A. L. Berkley (T. J. McCby’s son-in-law) overdraft $3,725.95; T. J. McCoy <fc Delos Thompson overdraft $325.10; Jasper County Republican Central Com., overdraft $159.16; Republican postmaster’s overdraft $1,855.43; Republican county treasurer’s overdraft (personal account) $2,202.55; Republican sheriff’s overdraft (personal account) $717; Notes of the McCoys and other republican politicians aggregating over $25,000 more, all unsecured.

after some correspondence with the liberal minded man In New Y'ork It was decided that the wire fence man should make a little Journey and bring back ten for one. The farmer sold a horse, a cow and three hogs to make up his share of the money, and his prospective son-in-law Started for the east. Joe and Bessie had not quarreled. He had ceased hoeing potatoes to dig holes aloijg the creek and look for the black stuff that had made so many men rich. In a sense they were waiting for things to turn up. “Sarah," said the fanner to his wife after Beeehman had departed, “how would you like to have silk dresses all the rest of your life?” “Don’t scare a body to death, father,” she repik'd. “I know you and Harry are going to make millions of money, and I’m so nervous that I break dishes every time I clear the table off.” “Bessie," he continued as he turned to the daughter, “how would you like to ride out In a carriage drawn by four white horses and have so many diamonds on that you shone like the sun?” “If Joe finds an oil well he may buy tne a diamond ring,” she quietly answered. “Don’t you keep It up about Joe. He’ll never find no oil wells, or, if he does. It will be after you are married and living in a palace and having forty servants to wait on you. Me and your mother have set out to get you a feller, worth $1,000,000, and when you are receiving the president of the United States in your own castle you'll be glad you had such a father and mother.” A few days later Bessie set out to spend the afternoon with a neighbor. She had not been gone above an hour when young Beeehman returned from his journey. He carried a tin box under his arm, the key thereof In bis pocket and exultation in bis heart. Soon after his arrival the two men went to the barn to coant over their “ten to one.” The box was unwrapped, the key Inserted and the packages taken out to be counted. Then there came an Interval, during which time the wire fence man and the farmer looked into each other’s pale face and spoke no word. The “money” was green In color, but that was all. Young Beechman had been done np as thousands before had been done and had brought hack only blanks. They were still looking at each other and licking their dry lips when Joe and Bessie drove up to the gate. As she entered the house Joe hitched the ■id

(A “good thing,” bat slightly overdrafted.)

A. M’COY A CO, BANKERS, POLITICIANS AND PROSPERITY SPOUTERS.

horse and came out to the bam. “I Just wanted to say.” he quietly Observed, “that four days ago I found oil along the creek and that this after noon Bessie and I went to Justice Jordan and got married.” In reply Farmer Hurlburt got up and took young Beeehman by the collar and slammed him up against the fanning mill and then Jammed him up against the granary door and then walloped him all over the floor and ended by throwing him outdoors and sending a kick after him. Then he turned to the newly made husband and held out his hand and said: “Joe Green, there’s only one fool in the Hurlburt family,' and that’s me. Let’s go hi und have some cider and kiss the bride.”

CHOICE MISCELLANY

Radium and Blindness. Radium rays will not at present furnish a cure for blindness, reports Professor Greeff of Berlin in a published account of an official Investigation of the optical properties of radium. This research was largely undertaken as the result of a paper by Professor London of SL Petersburg, In which he claimed that, there was hope for the blind in radium. According to Professor Greeff, the rays given off by a fluorescent surface excited by radium rays are simply those Of ordinary light and as such cannot affect a blind eye. The actual radium rays, however, are sent out in all directions, -penetrating all structures. and the effect, a sort of sea green radiance, is the same, whether the radium is held in front of the eye or at the side of the head. It, has,been asserted that fluoroseence actually occurs In tiie eye and that rays of ordinary light are accordingly emitted, but this view Is opposed by Professor Greeff, and the fact is cited that radium rays do not bleach the visual purple of the retina. He also states that when the function of the rods and cones, which transmit visual concepts from the retina to the nerve centers is destroyed the eye Is unable to provide for the sensation of sight—Harper’s Weekly.

A Reindeer Express. The capacity of the reindeer for team work Is remarkable. His hoofs are very broad and do not penetrate the snow crusts. His average weight is about 400 pounds. He will swiftly draw a sled carrying 600 pounds and with this load can cover thirty, fifty and even ninety miles a day. The reindeer teams now carry the malls from Kotzebue to Point Barrow, a distance of 650 miles,

the most northerly post route in the world. No food Is carried for the deer. At the end of his Journey or at any stopping place he Is turned loose and at once breaks through the show to the white moss which serves as food. It costs nothing to feed him. As the white settlements increase in the mineral bearing parts of Alaska and in many places remote from railway and steamboat transportation, the reindeer express will be one of the most Important factors In territorial life.—Dr. Sheldon Jackson in Southern Workman.

Gaelic Movement In Ireland.

The Gaelic movement has met a severe cheek in Ireland. John McDonagh Mahony is the justice of the peace for Cahereiveen and is an enthusiastic Gaellcist. Mr. Mahony Insists upon signing his name to warrants and other documents “in characters which are alleged to be those of the Irish language” and persists in the practice, although he has been authoritatively Informed by the lord chancellor of Ireland that it is illegal. The justice of Cahereiveen insists that his signature is his usual one and disputes the lord chancellor's law, and there the matter resLs, except that he is enjoined from sitting on the magisterial bench until he gives assurance that he will “sign magisterial documents In English."

Derelicts of the Pacific.

It is a curious fact that many vessels In the Pacific abandoned by their officers and crews as in a sinking condition have drifted about the seas for months. The latest ease of this kind Is the ship Benjamin Sewall. She was dismasted last October In the Formosan strait, and the crew took to the boats. They swore that they saw the ship sink, but this was evidently an optical illusion, as she has been seen recently and Is now one of those derelicts more dangerous to shipping than sunken reef or passing vessel in a fog. —San Francisco Chronicle.

Who Owns the Railways f

It Is estimated that only about $85,000,000, which is approximately 5 per cent of the annual income of our railways, goes to foreign Investors. There are not far from 1,000,000 owners of railway stocks and bonds. Of the remaining 95 per cent, $1,684,447,408, 40 per cent is divided among the owners of the stocks and bonds and 60 per cent among 1,180,315 employees. Counting the families supported by the holders of securities and employees, over 10,000,000 people share In the railroad earning*.—Success.

WASHINGTON LETTER

[Special Correspondence. 1 The board of education of the District of Columbia has decided on a departure In the treatment of the grounds around the public school buildings of the District and has enlisted the aid of Building Inspector Ashford to carry out his ideas. Wherever the extent of the grounds around a building will permit it is proposed to beautify them with shrubbery'and flowers and ornamental walks, and in the case of some of the larger sites spaces will be set aside for gardens for the pupils, where gardening and botany may be taught at the same time that the grounds are beautified. Mr. Loeb and Carrie Nation. Several months ago Carrie Nation, the hatchet wielder.from Kansas, came to Washington and created a scene at the White House, raving in the office of Secretary Loeb like a mad woman. She said she had been told that the president smoked cigarettes on the steps of the capitol at Topeka, Kan., and that he drank whisky while on his way through that state in his private train. She wanted to know whether this was true, but before she could ask the question or get an answer she had become excited, made many threats and had been led out of Secretary Loeb’s office to the fresh air.

Punched the President’* Picture. Secretary Loeb did not have an opportunity to get even with Carrie Nation until a few days ago, when he received a letter from Miss Lucy Page Gaston of Chicago, saying that Carrie Nation hnd walked into the quarters of the A nticigarette league there and punched a hole in the picture of I'resideut Roosevelt with her umbrella. When Miss Gaston remonstrated with her she declared that the president chewed and smoked tobacco and was “no good anyway.” Miss Gaston disputed this point, and when Carrie Nation said she would pay the league SSO if it could be shown that the president did not use tobacco Miss Gaston wrote Mr. Loeb and” asked him to help her make SSO. He promptly wrote her a note saying thut the president never used tobacco in any form in his life. Mr. Loeb is waiting to see whether Carrie Nation pays the SSO. Special Work For Mr. Robb. By direction of the president, Assistant Attorney General Robb will have as his special work for perhaps a year to come the completion of his review of the investigation bf the several divisions of the postoffice department, upon which he bus been engaged for some time. Included In this are the final work orj the New York office, the Chicago office, the charges against Postmaster Merritt of Washington and those against Edwin C. Madden, third assistant postmaster generaL Details of these charges are not procurable, but they generally allege carelessness in administration of the public work, and, in some instances, are specific accusations against officials connected with the offices to which reference bus been made.

Last Arctic Expedition. Secretary Hitchcock has brought to the attention of the government of Alaska the fact that a reward of 5,000 rubles lias been offered for Information leading to the finding of the Baron Toll’s arctic expedition. It is considered probable thut the expedition may have stranded In Alaskan waters, and the governor of the territory is requested to give wide publicity to the reward. Changes In the House Restaurant. The members of the house decided during the last session that there should be a change in the manner and method of conducting the house restaurant, and during the summer a number of change's will be made. A new feature, which is expected to prove eminently satisfactory, will le the construction of a number of private dining rooms. It Is realized that parties of members are oftentimes anxious to discuss private matters while at luncheon. This privilege they have been denied so far by the public character of the restaurant. ■ Wanted a Beneficial Lea. Jonas Grist called at the White House a few days ago to make a request of the president and was placed under arrest as an alleged crank. His home is In Perryville, Md. lie said his brother had trouble with one of his legs, and he (Jonas) wanted the president to give him a permit to take up a collection. “I want to get him a beneficial leg,* he said, “and I thought the president would give me permission to take up the collection.” “Don’t you mean an artificial leg?” Jonas was asked. “I certainly don’t,” was his response. “I mean a beneficial leg.” The Agricultural Year Book. The year book of the department of agriculture will be Issued early In June. It will comprise an edition of 500.000 copies, of which 470,000 are reserved for the use of senators, representatives and delegates In congress, and the remainder is reserved for those connected with the work of the department. The Washington Monument. Colonel Symouds, the officer in charge of the Washington monument, has reported that the shaft was not damaged by the lightning bolt which struck It recently. The bolt entered the top of the shaft, burned out the telephone there, passed down the iron framework in the elevator shaft to the lower floor, through the shaft alley to the motor room, where it burned out a relay coil on the switchboard, and then passed along the electric cable to the engine room, in the boiler house, where it entered the ground. The boiler house to several hundred feet distant from the monument CARL SCHOFIELD.