Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — Page 5

Commissioners' Allowances. Followlug are the ullowadoea made by the eommlaaUiuera of Jaspor County, iud., at their regular February, 1906, term: Jacob Hensler, receiving pt. Oarrieou ditch $ 16 80 John O’Couuor, posting Olllam (. r. notices 21 00 C W buaaell, bounty on wolf eoalp... In 00 L H Hamilton, per diem Co. Supt.... 1(4 U) Same, postage 6 44 M B Price, per detm Co. Surveyor.. 69 00 Same, postage 2 00 S. K. NichoU, postage treas. office... 4 0» J N Leathermaii, same, auditor’s otfi A 00 M B Price, allotting ditches 3 00 Joseph Nissius, help on ditches 1 60 Sylvester Kichurds, same. 1 90 Nettie Brice, same.... 2100 Leslie Clark, supplies surveyor's olfi 8 00 S R Nichols, tut. Kent diteb bonds... 3 10 Same same, .Nissius ditch bonds.... 300 Same, court house bonds 7,306 25 G E Marshall, public printing 10 55 Same, same 61 00 Leslie Clark, same 14 75 J W McEwun, same 1 00 Same, same 64 0j Geo. L>. Morgan, posting del. tax uo. 8 50 Jasper Co. Democrat, public print. 3 55 J W McEwun, same 4 00 Leslie Clark, same .. . 5 10 Clyde Guuyon, labor at poor farm.. 13 50 Luella J. Phillips, same 12 00 Fred Schultz, same 6 30 E Hickman, plumbing, same 3 00 B Forsythe, supplies same (cont.)... 32 95 A L Branch, hauiiug coal ct. h 15 56 S R Nichols, freight, same 31 20 Same, same 74 70 Same, same 95 10 Victoria Coal Mining Co. 2 cars coal. 126 80 Same, 3 cars coal 120 30 Julius Taylor, repairs ct h 1 00 S B Jenkins, firing, same ■ . 13 50 Same. same ... 35 00 Geo LMurgan, same 5 85 Chas Morlan, laundry ct.h 90 Same, janitor 45 Oj Leslie Clark, printing signs, ct. h.... 1 50 Waruer Bros, repairs ct. h 11l 15 Fred Cissel, help ou rep. toi.rooms.. 3 50 E Hickman, repair steam pipe 1 00 City Rensselaer, water to Apr. 1, ’OS. 87 50 Same, lights ct. h. and jail 47 77 E Hickman, repairs jail 5 40 W B Peterson, game, sheriff’s resi.. 8 Oi C H Vick, destroying fish net 5 00 Trustee Jordan tp , refund assmt. Gallaher ditch 155 50 B Forsythe, supplies ct. h. and jail.. 5 25 Dr. Washburn, record for births.... 8 60 A F Long, vaccine virus 10 00 Joseph Greiser. Marion gr. rds 3 f*S Wm Burns, 1 old wolf scalp 10 00 Trustee Carpeuter tp.. burial soldier 50 00 E Hickman, repairs jail 19 75 Burt-Terry-Wilsou Co. sup. clerk... 17 50 Leslie Clark, same, Supt. office 13 00 W J Wright, coroner’s inquest 1 50 Ind. Chit. Kec. Home, board and trans. Morlan children 54 70 Thos. W. Grant, stock poor farm.... 37 00 Burt-Terry-Wilson, election sup.... 50 (10 Same, supplies clerk and supt 11 00 James N. Leathkkman. Auditor Jasper Co.

A Trick Exposed.

“Miss Singer says there was a note In the last bouquet she received over the footlights.” “Oh, yes. The manager sent her word that she would have to pay for her own flowers in the future, as he was tired of doing it”

Rabbins It" In. Dumlty—Morris said that I had no more sense than a yellow dog. I consider that an insult. Wickle—So it is. There’s no reason to suppose a yellow dog has less sense than any other colored dog.—Boston Transcript. Satisfied. Estelle—You don’t seem to worry at all about the wrinkles in your face. Jack—No; a person can’t have everything the way he’d like it in this world, and I'm satisfied that the kinks in my conscience don’t show.—Detroit Free Tress. Facta la tbe Case. “How,” asked Lady Biisslngton, “did your son ever come to marry that American girl?” “He didn’t,” replied the dowager duchess. “She came to marry him.”— Chicago Tribune. The Ballad of tile Ice. A little dish of broken Ice Lay basking in the sun. Its owner had forgotten It Before her work was done. But when she went to get the ice And bring It In to tea She found the Ice was not what it Had been cracked up to be. —Puck. o ______ I’ncle Sam’s Shop. Uncle Sam sold during the year 1904, according to figures given out from Washington, goods worth $1,451,355645. He bought goods worth $1,035,909,197 and used the balance to pay off debts and the interest on his mortgages. It was the first year when Uncle Sam has ever made billion dollar purchases. Ten years earlier he spent only $676,000,000, last year $995,000,000. However, Uncle Sam doesn't feel poor, ne broke another record by exporting for the first time over $500,000,000 worth of manufactured goods. In ten years the excess of exports over imports—sales over purchases—has been over $4,000,000,000. Sales have been upon an average more than 50 per cent greater than purchases. Last year and in 1902 the excess of sales was only 40 per cent But that isn’t much to worry about In the three years 1893, 1894 and 1895 the excess of sales was only 12 per cent and we have done fairly well since.

WASHINGTON LETTER

[Special Correspondence.] The appointment of a joint military and naval board to investigate tbe advisability of including In tbe instruction of cadets at West Point and Annapolis lessons in self defense and personal encounter was decided upon at a recent meeting of the cabinet. The present war between Russia and Japan has shown that personal encounter is more likely to occur in war than has been thought. Particularly is this likely to happen at night, when many attacks in the present war have been made. The training of the Japanese in sword play and their agility came in to great advantage. Some time ago President Roosevelt called to the attention of Secretary Taft and Secretary Morton the desirability of encouraging the physical development of the cadets, and subseqnently a course of instruction in Jiu jitsu, the Japanese method of wrestling, was recommended. Big Indiana For Inaugural. The inaugural committee has appropriated $2,000 to pay the expenses of bringing to this city six of the most famous living Indians. They are to ride Indian ponies and wear their tribal robes and war paint and will be about the most gorgeous part of the parade. The Indians who are coming are Quanah Parker of the Comanches, Geronimo of the Apaches. Buckskin Charley, representing the tltes; American Horse of the Cheyennes, Hollowhorn Bear of the Sioux and Little Plume of the Blackfeet. The chiefs will be accompanied by six interpreters and attendants. They will assemble at the Carlisle Indian school and come here with the Indian school cadets. Reviewing Stand*. Preparations are being made for the erection of the stands in the Court of History, between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets. The president’s stand, directly in front of the White House, will seat about 1,000 people, and the stand directly opposite to this and in front of Lafayette square will accommodate 5,000 people. Both pavilions will be erected by tbe inaugural committee, which will sell the seats. As four years ago, the seats will be apportioned among the guests of the president, the senate and house, the judiciary and the press.

Miner* to Parade. Two hundred miners marching in their mining clothes and torch caps will be a unique feature of the inaugural parade. A delegation of miners returning from the convention of the United Mine Workers at Indianapolis submitted the plan to the president recently, and he heartily approved it. Loeb’a Doorkeeper Reduced. Arthur Simmons, Secretary Loeb's negro doorkeeper, has been reduced to the rank of a common messenger in the interior department. The announced reason was that Simmons “had been there too long” and seemed to have forgotten how to treat people. Simmons regarded himself as Mr. Loeb’s watchdog. Before he would take a stranger’s card in he subjected him to a cross examination that was calculated to bring out every essential fact in his history. If the explanation did not suit Simmons the caller was turned down regardless of rank. He offended the German and Italian ambassadors with his insistent questions, and they were among many complainants. Simmons was appointed a doorkeeper at the White House in President Grant’s administration. William B. Dulaney, President Roosevelt’s barber, has been promoted to Simmons’ place. New Conaol General at Hankow. President Roosevelt has nominated William Martin of New York to be consul general at Hankow, China. Mr. Martin is a native of Dunkirk, N. Y. He was appointed consul at Chinklang, China, by President McKinley and was there during the Boxer troubles in 1900. In 1902 he was appointed consul at Nankin. Portraits of the Sisrnera Complete. Visitors who, strolling through the government buildings here, see portraits of occupants of each of the cabinet offices from the foundation of the government, the signers of the Declaration of Independence and other notables do not realize what a long and tedious task it was for Major Peabody, an officer of tbe state department, to make these collections. As a result of Major Peabody’s labors in bringing to completion this work the government now has likenesses of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence and all but three of the men who framed the federal constitution.

Mr. Rockhlll'a Successor. The appointment of a director of the bureau of American republics to succeed William W. Rockhll), who is to go to Peking as minister from this country, is said to lie between two men. These are William C. Fox, chief clerk and editor of the bureau, and Charles M. Pepper, the well known traveler and newspaper writer. It was thought some time ago that Mr. Pepper stood the better chance, but the chances are now said to favor Mr. Fox. The appointment will probably be delayed for some time, and this may again lead to change in the probabilities. Inasmuch as Mr. Pepper has some unusually strong backing. A Wonderful Timepiece. There is a chronometer at one end of the rear lobby of the senate belonging to the weather bureau and supervised by one of its trusted employees, Mr. Jones. So wonderful a piece of mechanism is this chronometer that it varies only aboyt eight seconds a year. Since this session of congress began it has varied less than one second. v CARL SCHOFIELD

“JASMINE”

By VIRGINIA LEILA WENTZ

When his pretty little cousin from New Orleans had married one of his chums Tom Chester had felt a bit dubious as to the outcome. u Selwyn was a handsome chap, a spoiled child of fortune, who in ail his life had scarcely felt a restraining finger upon his impulses, to say nothing of a restraining hand. He was the possessor of big capabilities either for good or evil. Would Doris develop the god or the devil in him? And, for Selwyn’s part, would he make the light in his young wife’s laughing eyes still brighter, or would he deepen the already sensitive curves in her childish mouth? Two years had proved Chester’s doubts to be not without justification. “What a pity! What a pity!” he thought as he sat in. his office one morning and looked across the table at his fair client. “So you’ve come to me, Doris, for advice?” He looked out of his window. How mockingly the skyscrapers loomed against the sky line—a monument of man’s greatness, and yet at heart so little was man! He turned searchingly upon Doris. “Do you really want me to speak as yorr lawyer?” She bent her pretty head in affirmation. “Well,” answered he, still meeting her eyes keenly, “divorce him.” “Yes,” she laughed (it was the laugh of a woman who dare not cry), “the facts are hideous enough, are they not?” “Wait; that was your lawyer’s advice. As your cousin, Doris, as his friend, as a man, God knows, who loves both, I beg you to forgive him. Hasn’t he repented, dear? Doesn’t he ask you to let him begin ail over again on a clean slate? That’s all a man can do. It’s a woman's hand must wipe out all the old, hideous markings.” She leaned wearily back in her chair. “Yes,” she said, “we women are sent into the world to pardon, aren’t we,

“WILL YOU GIVE ME A FLOWER ?” SAID CHESTER CURIOUSLY.

like governors and priests? Only we are not expected to give sentences and penances.” How beautiful she was, with that queenly poise of her young head contrasting so oddly with the pathetic droop of her scarlet mouth! Chester’s eyes narrowed as he studied her. Meaninglessly the dull sound of traffic came up from the streets below. "Where did the Jasmine come from, Doris?” he asked abruptly. The penetrating odor had suddenly made him hark back to the day of that pretty little southern wedding in New Orleans, when everything seemed crowded with its perfume. A crimson flush surged into Doris’ cheeks, then spread to her broad, sweet temples and dimpled chin. “The jasmine?” she echoed helplessly. “Yes; where did you get It?” Still flushing, but silent, she looked down at the white waxen petals and the shining leaves. “Will you give me a flower?” said Chester curiously. She wrenched the Jasmine from her girdle and impulsively rose from her chair. “Certainly,” she said; “take all of It. Take it as a portion of your fee. You’ve told me what I can do; tomorrow I’ll drop in and tell you what I want to do.” As her hand touched his for a second she nodded whimsically toward the Jasmine; “I reckon this is the first time any one ever paid you in such a romantic fashion?” When the elevator had taken her down, Chester walked back to the table and looked at the blossoms lying there in all the stiff, white pride of their southern fragrance. “And I'd never guessed it,” he commented slowly. “So there’s another man in tbe case. And I was putting all the trouble down to Doris’ pride. However, this jasmine explains. Poor; Selwyn—poor chap! She can’t care' overmuch for the donor, though,” he reflected logically, “or she wouldn’thave left me his gift” Just then the door opened. It was Doris, more radiantly lovely than he had ever seen her. 1 “What’s that name children use for, one another when they take back gifts, Tom? An Indian giver? Well,

you can use that name for me, be cause I want these back.” As she pinned the jasmine into her girdle again her little gloved band trembled perceptibly. “Tell me, Doris,” he said to her commandingly as he arrested her a second time at the door, “what is the meaning of this? As your cousin and friend I would wish to know, but as your lawyer I must know—l must.” “You shall tomorrow, Tom!” she threw back at him over her shoulder. “I’ve made up my mind at last!” She was gone, but not before he had caught a gleam of tears in her eyes. As Chester waited at the “L” station on his way uptown that afternoon some one grabbed his arm and gave him a gay greeting. When he glanced at the fine boyish face he almost groaned. "The woman be loves will make him a god or a devil, I used to think,” reflected Chester as they made for a double seat in the car. “And when Doris is gone—not much doubt about the outcome.” “Wait a minute, old boy,” said Selwyn as Tom, in uncertainty, was about to pull out an evening paper. “You’ve been a jolly, stanch friend to me. When I deserved a right down hard kick you didn’t even side step. That’s why I want to tell you”—his voice broke suspiciously, nnd he fingered at his collar—“everything’s right, and I’m the very happiest man in all New York!” “Eh? What’s that?” said Chester blankly, dropping his paper and squaring about. “’Twas like this,’”explained Selwyn, a wrapt smile on his handsome face. “You know, of course, we haven’t been living together for three months. Well, this morning as I was coming out of my club whom should I run right into hut the dearest little woman God ever made. Old chap, I don’t know how it happened, but actually she let me walk down the avenue with her, and when we came across a ragged urchin at a' corner with little bunches of jasmine tied with twine she actually half turned for a second. Suddenly I saw the big tears well in her eyes”— The collar seemed to be troubling him again. “Her home in New Orleans was literally thick with Cape jasmine, you know, Tom ?” he went on. “And, like a queen she said, ‘Don’t you want to get me a bunch of those blossoms?’ Did I want to, indeed! And, by Jove, old chap, if she didn’t pin them in her girdle and wear them! Tomorrow she’s going to send for me and tell me whether I may enter paradise again.” Selwyn’s voice seemed to trail off into a happy vagueness. “I don’t think,” said Chester gravely, the odor of the jasmine still in his nostrils—“l don’t think she’s going to turn you out.”

How an Infant School Was Founded.

It is well known that the Society of Friends objects to all war. This conscientious feeling has sometimes placed individual Quakers in an awkward position. For instance, during the war against the first Napoleon a ship that was partly owned by a Friend captured a Dutch vessel. The long continuance of the state of war prevented him for several years from compensating the owner and sailors of the seized vessel in accordance with his principles. In the meantime he invested the money received as his share of the prize, and when at last pence was declared he paid it over, with interest to date, to those who had suffered by the capture of the vessel. Not being able to find them all, he founded with the rest of the money a free infant school in Amsterdam, this being the port from which the Dutch ship had sailed. The school was the first of the kind set up in the city, and it was housed in a building called “Holland’s Welfare,” which was the name of the captured vessel.

Willing to Amend It.

There was once in New York an Irish tailor whose eccentricities threatened to bring trouble to him, but whose wit always saved him. One morning a Mrs. Murphy came into his shop and found him working laboriously with a pencil and a piece of paper. She asked him what he was doing, and he replied that he was making out a list of the men on the block whom he could whip. “Is Murphy’s name there?” inquired that man’s wife. The tailor confessed that, like Abou Ben Adem’s, Murphy’s name headed the list. When Murphy heard of this he came to the shop with belligerence in his eyes. He inquired if the report was true. “Sure an’ it’s true. Phwat of It?” returned the tailor. “You little grasshopper,” said Murphy, “I could commit suicide on yez wid me little finger. I could wipe up de flure wid yez wid me hands tied!” “Are ye sure about thot?” asked the tailor. “Sure I’m sure about it.” “Weil, then,” sighed the knight of the shears regretfully, “I’ll scratch ye ass the lisht.”

Reliability Is Wanted.

The great prizes of life do not fall to the most brilliant, to the cleverest, to the shrewdest, to the most long headed or to the best educated, but to the most level headed men, to the men of soundest judgment. When a man is wanted for a responsible position his shrewdness is not considered so Important as his sound judgment. Reliability is what is wanted. Can a man stand without being tripped, and if he Is thrown can be land upon his feet? Can he be depended upon, relied upon, under all circumstances to do the right thing, the sensible thing? Has the man a level head? Has he good horse sense? Is he liable to fly off on a tangent or to “go off half cocked?” Is he “faddy?” Has he “wheels in his head?” Does he lose his temper easily or can he control himself? If he can keep a level head under all circumstances, if he cannot be thrown off his balance and is honest, he is the man wanted.—O. 8. Marden in Success Magazine.

WOMAN AND FASHION

For Young Girl*. Blouse waists made with chemisette effects are among the novelties of the season for young girls and are eminently attractive and girlish. This one Is exceptionally dainty and is made of white silk, the chemisette and cuffs being of tucked muslin, but there are Innumerable combinations that are equally correct, all simple muslins be-

DAINTY BLOUSE WAIST.

ing suited to the design, while the chemisette and cuffs can be of anything preferred or the chemisette only of contrasting material. The sleeves are among the very latest that are shirred to form double puffs, and the waist is full both at the shoulders and center front. The quantity of material required for a girl of fourteen years of age is three and five-eighths yards twenty-one, two and one-half yards twenty-seven or one and five-eighths yards forty-four inches wide, with seven-eighths yard of all over tucking and three-eighths yard of silk for belt. The Spring Sleeve. The question of sleeves in the future—that is, the coming spring and summer—is one of Interest, and many of the predictions made concerning them are heard with mingled pleasure and disapproval, the latter for some, the former for others. So far as the lingerie blouse is concerned, the leg o’ mutton, with a full top topering down to rather narrow sleeves below the elbow and gathered into medium width cuffs of tucks or bands of fine embroidery, are among the latest imported models. This is the most sensible fashion of all. Its full top conceals both the too thin and the too fat arm unless it be of the sheer variety, and its close lower portion does away with the dipping and mussing of the fuller old style sleeve.

Fashion Hints. Necklaces of opal beads are much Worn. Ecru lace is used in preference to dead white. New earrings are of large pearls In a peculiar shade of buff. Chiffon mohair is softer and less wiry than the ordinary mohair. No one with a paucity of gowns Is wise in selecting a conspicuous red toilet. New finger rings show settings much larger than have been worn for a long time. The Latest Toqne. A new toque, the latest thing in Paris, has no brim at all at the back, but at the front the brim of the curled up type is nearly three inches high and the same height at the sides also, but from the middle of the sides it slopes down until at the center of the back there is none left. The termination is absolutely flat, nearly square, and on it cachepeigne of some sort is to be affixed. This toque fits beautifully over the coiffure when the latter is low. Du Barry Hoods. Those fascinating Du Barry hoods, which any girl who knows how to use a needle can readily fashion for herself, are making quite a furore for themselves, and fashioned in gauze with a dainty silk lining they certainly are most becoming to any type of face. 4 ' An Attractive Design. New designs in shirt waists are being constantly brought out, and this one, showing some novel effects, was stylishly developed in brown mohair. The front laps in double breasted style, and the right front is slashed to allow the tie to pass through. Three deep tucks in the upper part provide suf-

STYLISH SHIRT WAIST.

fldent fullness, and a shapely appearance is given in the back by the tucks extending down to the waist line. The epaulets and the narrow re vers are strapped with tan colored broadcloth and finished by small silk covered buttons. The sleeves are in the regulation shirt waist style, gathering into straight cuffs. Any of the season’s waistings are suitable for the making, such as pique, madras, albatross and taffeta. The medium size will require two and fiveeighths yards of thirtysix inch material.

MOORE BILL IS SIGNED

Governor Haniy Puts His tura to the Latest Measure for Temperance. WEEKLY PAY BILL IS DEFEATED Governor Pleads for a Itest—Faithless Husband Taxed $50,000 Ali-mony-State News. Indianapolis, Feb. 16. Governor Haniy lias signed the Moore hill, which makes a remonstrance against an individual application for a liquor license or against all applications effective for two years when signed by a majority of thevotersof a wardor township. The bill for payment of wages weekly, introduced by Senator Koehne at the request of the Federation of Ijibor, was the special order in the senate and was defeated by a vote of 18 to 25. Governor Pray* Your Consideration. Union I>. Hunt, private secretary to Governor Haniy. has issued the lollowing statement relative to the governor's illness and consequent inability to receive all the callers lie would like to see during the rest of the sess on of the general assembly: "Governor Haniy is always glad to meet and greet tbe people, but owing to a two weeks’ illness, because of which lie lias been absent from his office, and the accumulation of business incident to such absence, and for the further reason that the heavy work of the general assembly is yet to come, and because he feels the necessity of husbanding h s strength for this work, the governor, much as he regrets to do so, will be compelled to deny himself to all callers during the remainder of the session except state officials and members of the bouse and senate. Train Service Start. Again. Indianapolis, Feb. I(s.—Train service throughout northern Indiana has been resumed. The Lake Erie and Western railroad has started trains and several county sheriffs with prisoners who have been snow-bound were enabled to reach the Michigan City penitentiary. The Big Four service is running close to the schedule time on its Michigan division.

Say* the Lord Commanded Him. Indianapolis, Feb. 16.—‘*1116 Lord commanded me to whip my wife and I did it,” said Rev. E. L. Caler. Caler had objected to the way in which his noon meal had been prepared. Mrs. Caler’s mother took part in the row and had her chair kicked from under her by the irate evangelist. HE LOVES ANOTHER WOMAN Required to Pay a Matter of $50,000 te His Wife Before He Can Go His Own Way. Indianapolis, Feb. 16. Mrs. Avant has secured a divorce from William Avant, a wealthy business man of Indianapolis, the court ordering him to pay his wife $50,000 alimony. The trouble between the Avants was csisml by an unidentified woman. Mrs. Avant testified on the stand that two years ago sc-me one told her that her husband was in love with another woman, “When-I was leaving Indianapolis for California.” she said. “I told my husband what 1 had heard before I boarded the train, lie said that he was in love with another woman and I asked him to give her up. When I eftme back I asked him if he had dropped her and he admitted that he had not. I tried in every way to get him to promise to be true to me.” Avant did hot deny this on the stand and said that lie had admitted to his wife that lie could not give up the oth er woman.

Thief in the Normal School. Terre Haute, Ind., Feb. 16. For months past money belonging to pupils of the State Normal school has been missed by the owners. Last Saturday night the Butler university basket Iwill players found their street clothes rifled of money. Zeno Vandover. a student from Indianapolis, has been arrested, and evidence of his guilt is said to have l>een found in his room. Cut in Half by n Locomotive. Bedford. Ind., Feb. 16.—Fred Smith, aged 17 years, was instantly killed at the Southern Indiana round-house. He, with a helper, was engaged in cleaning out an ash pit from which an engine hod just left when another engine rushed in unknown to them until too late to escape. He was cut in half. I>ted of Starvation and Cold. I rownstown, Ind.. Feb. 16. Mrs. Martha .1. Yexter. 00 years old, froze to death at her home near Crothersville. The father and two sons were unable to get work. When citizens went to their home to offer help they found the mother dead of starvation and cokl. Wife Jealous of a Preacher. Kokomo. Ind., Feb. 16. — Rev. William Imbier is an applicant for a divorce, charging in his complaint that his wife is inordinately jealous of him, objecting to his handshaking and pastoral calls. £ Rains $15,000 ia Two Bonn. Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 16. Fir* that started in the basement of the Allen block, on the public square, destroyed property valued at $15,000 before the flames were under control two hours later.