Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — Page 9

I —, ■ STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH 14. '9°B. BESOLBCBS. LIABILITIES. L0an5......... *225.367 3# Capital Stock *30,000 00 O. S', and Comity Bonds 26,1(0 00 Surplus and Profits 15,724 39 Rank Buildluar- 7,<00 to Circulation. 7.500 00 Cash and due from banks 70,809 06 Deposits 276,052 03 •329,276 42 *329,276 42 DIRECTORS, » A Parklson. JohnM. Wasson. E. L. Hollingsworth, President. Vice-President. Cashier. James T. Randle. Oeo. E. Hurray. - I Farm loons n specially 1 sime 01 rour paronooe is Sonciied. | SS3QeSKS*X%SSXXXXXXSXXXX3^XXS%XXXXSXSXXSXXSX3^^ \ Blacksmith and Wood-Work Shop I 3 FRONT ST. NORTH OF K. R. BUILDING. * |5 ■! Blacksmithing | and Repairing | | Horse-Shoeing, Boiler and Engine Work, jjj afcjpg? Windmills, Tanks and Supplies, Well g XjliMf Drilling and Well Repairing, « MACHINE WORK A SPECIALTY. | ftesiamcePiiooe 259 ELHER GWIN & CO. f f FARMERS l FARMERS! | {ARE YOU GOING TO HAVE A SALE? ♦ ~~ ! ~" £ ♦ Employ the ‘‘Hustling Pair” of auctioneers. X £ Why? We get the highest prices, we treat £ X your friends and bidders with courtesy, we + ♦ guarantee satisfaction or no pay. Get our t terms before you employ your auctioneer. ♦ X Phone 515-H, HARMON & GRANT, Rensselaer, Ind. f ♦ ♦ Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CARE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEV ELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OR OLD ONES-TO GROW RICH? Do you want to know about rich farming lands, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from *3.0 * to *5.00 an acre which will be worth from *30.00 to 1150.00 within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (6) short weeks? O! places where truck growing and fruit raising yield enormous returns each year? Of aland where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing" prodtable manufacturing industries; of rich mineral locations,and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.

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FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

Extenaliatlaf Household Pest*. Dissolve two pounds of alum in three of four quarts of water. Leave it over night for the alum to dissolve. Then apply It boiling hot by means of a brush to every joint and crevice in the closet or shelves where the bugs congregate; also to the joints and crevices of bedsteads. Brush all the cracks in the floor and mop boards. Keep it boiling hot wbile using. \ Cucumber peelings laid on the shelves and plaster of parts mixed witb sugar placed in cracks are said to be fatal to insect life. Borax is a simple enemy to ants and roaches. Scatter it dry. A heavy chalk mark encircling your sugar box at a distance of four inches will surely prevent ants from troubling. If a rat or mouse gets into your pantry stuff into its hole a rag saturated with a solution of cayenne pepper. Peppermint sprigs laid around shelves and other places where mice frequent will drive them away. Chloride of lime will bring about the same result. Keep the chloride bottle corked. Another enemy to roaches is a mixture of equal parts of flour and borax distributed freely in drawers and cracks and allowed to remain. <s ■ A Kitchen Time Saver.

800 BEATKB. The cook who uses this egg beater saves the time she would otherwise lose with an old time affair, and the eggs are beaten twice as light. With no exertion whatever the crank, which is shown in the illustration, is turned, which revolves the paddle in the Jar, beating the egg light in a very short space of time. Stuffed Cabbage. Cleanse and boil a large, firm head of cabbage uulil tender; then scrape out the inside, leaving enough for a solid outer wall. With the scrapings mix a cupful of fine bread crumbs, a little salt, pepppr and celery seed and a small onion (if liked) cut fine. Beat this up with a tablespoonful of warmed butter and three eggs. Fill the cabbage with this stuffing, tie around It a strip of cloth and bake until brown. Moths In Carpet. If the moths are in a carpet turn it back and Iron on the wrong side with a hot flatiron. Then sprinkle the floor underneath liberally with turpentine, pouring it into the cracks In the floor if there are any. ltub the turpentine In, and then you can turn back your carpet. Repeat this treatment two or three days. Some people sponge the right side of the carpet with spirits of turpentine before ironing. The spirit must not be used near a light or fire. The Value of Common Salt. Besides so necessary in cooking, salt has many uses not so generally recognized. Salt cleans the palate and the coated tongue, and a salt water gargle Is splendid for sore throat. A pinch of salt on the tongue, followed ten minutes later by a drink of cold water, has been known to cure a sick headache many times. Salt hardens the gums, keeps the teeth white and sweetens the breath, consequently it is a splendid tooth wash. Added to water for cut flowers, it will long preserve their freshness. Salted water and alcohol is splendid for strengthening the muscles. It will also check small hemorrhages. Remember In a Sickroom— That medicine bottles should be kept out of sight. That garrulous friends should be treated In the same wise fashion. That a rubber ice bag is as useful as a hot water bag. That everything about the room should be scrupulously clean. That it is sometimes safer to humor sick people than to argue with them. That rapid recovery from illness often depends more upon nourishing food than upon medicine. That sweet smelling flowers should never be permitted in a room where there is a very sick person. Rockefeller aa a Story Teller. John D. Rockefeller is not the dull, dry lecturer at his Sunday school ns some would believe. He likes a good story, and he tells one well. When he essays the Irish dialect, if hid behind a screen from his auditors, they would believe he was a true sou of the Emerald Isle. On his last visit to nls class he told of a Celt who had heard of his (Rockefeller’s) eu?Paous wealth. A. man was telling him about it. “ ‘Why, do you see pointing to an elgfit day affair that was ticking away on the mantelpiece. “T do,’ says Pat ‘“Well, every time that pendulum swings Rockefeller gets slo.’ 14 ‘Well,’ said Pat ‘l’ll stop some of his money today. I’ll stop the dock.’" —iNew York American.

The Last Word

By KEITH GORDON

“As if marriage were the only end and aim of a girl’s lifel” she threw off scornfully. Her companion smoked imperturbably into the night for several seconds before replying. Always he had the air of one loath to break a silence, one who had a constitutional aversion to the futilities of speech. But she was accustomed to that, even whimsically attached to bis deliberate ways. At last he Bpoke. In the darkness she could see his face only as a pale blur, but there was a suspicious pweetuess in his tone. “All the little rippling, purling brooks,” he said slowly, “and all the ordinary rivers, even the great majestic streams, ‘wind somewhere to the sea.’ And I’m sure it isn’t my fault,” he added in an injured voice. “Some rivers plunge underground and lose themselves,” she argued stubbornly. ’ \ • “I said ‘ordinary rivers,’ ” This with laconic patience from the gloom. A quick, flashing smile touched her lips and vanished as if frightened to find itself out in the dark. She wondered—well, a .number of things; as, for instance, what he was thinking of at that very instant, whether he had ever really been in love and, if so, what she was like, how deeply love would stir him, whether— She made a little impatient movement to brush away the thoughts which buzzed through her mind like gnats, but still they hovered about, scattered, but not dispersed. He was one of the men a woman simply had to think about—broad of shoulder and exasperatingly masculine, a sort of unexplored country of mannishness that forever challenged. She drew a sharp, piqued sigh. However much the feminine mind paid tribute, he apparently preserved a Jove-like calm. Ruthlessly she prodded him again. “But why hasn’t a girl just as good a right to contemplate the joys of bachelorhood as a man?” she demanded. “A man marries If he wants to, when « 1

“WOULD YOU PROPOSE TO A MAN IF —ER—YOU LOVED HIM ?”

he wants and, above all, because he wants to, while a girl—well, she gets the idea that matrimony is a refuge from the wrath to come. If she doesn’t marry, she knows that her best friends will refer to her behind her back as an ‘old maid’ and think of her as one of life’s failures. It isn’t fair! Why hasn’t she Just as much of a right to her singleness as a man?’’ The dark mass in the opposite chair seemed to be considering the question. There was a movement, and the point of light that marked his cigar shifted. “She has,” he said, with calm conviction, “only one expects her to hav#'too much taste to exercise the right.” There was a pause, and then he elaborated: “Being a woman, you see, dear girl, is Just a trifle like being caught in a net. It is by no means the same thing as being a man, and all the emancipation in the world can’t really free her. She is an entirely different being, and I’m rather glad she is!” Hie girl was holding her breath, she scarcely knew why. Sprites, hand in hand, seemed to be dancing along her nerves and singing in tiny threadlike voices that only she could hear: "And I’m glad too! And I’njr glad too!” It took her several moments to study the sudden Joy; then she pursued the argument calmly: “But, no; surely you’re hot in earnest Surely you’re not of the antiquated school that believes, for instance, that a woman’s brain is of a different and, of course, inferior caliber to man’s.” There was a fine disdain in her tone notwithstanding the fact that her heart was beating Impatiently. The man chuckled softly, for, truth to tell, he was that very sort of creature. Never had he been able to take the organ under discussion seriously. He admitted it now without reserve, with a fine, large, indulgent masculine assurance. “It’s a wonderful little contrivance, the feminine brain,” he concluded, "but certainly It Is different” Again In the darkness the mouselike smile flashed out and back again, accompanied this time by an audible sound that started as a snicker, but was deftly turned Into a sniff of scorn. It was, the latter that the man reo-

ognlzed and greeted with an am used

laugh. “Ever hear about the little buttercup that pined to be a daisy, or the rose that swore it was a potato, and if it wasn’t it would be—there now?” Inquired the man, with bland curiosity. Again the point of light shifted. He bad replaced the cigar in his mouth and settled a little more luxuriously in bis chair as if in mere sybaritic enjoyment of his extraordinary luck in having been born as be was. “Your illustrations are beside the facts,” she retorted at last, with dignity. “I was not asserting that girls wish to be men!” “Well, then”—bis tone implied an amiable desire to please—“ever hear of the little buttercup that insisted that it was a daisy In splte of appearances and the testimony of its yellow petals? Well, that’s like the foolish little girls who want to be judged by man’B standard.” Two slender hands were clapped noiselessly, bat their owner enunciated with some heat: “How would you like to be a woman yourself and be put upon and—and snubbed and forever taunted with the fact of your inferiority? Oh, not in so many words,” she Went on hurriedly, lest he should interrupt her speech. “Not that, of course, but by being told that you couldn’t understand, being patronized, having allowances made—‘Oh, well, she’s only a woman!’ Just tell me, honor bright, how would you like it?” \ The man chuckled The vision of himself In the predicament suggested was not without its humorous side. The figure of speech he had used a few minutes earlier cfeme back to him with a uew force. It was like being caught under a net, though the meshes were silken. “Well?” she demanded, with a ring of triumph in her voice. “I don’t suppose I should like It,” he admitted between puffs. “But that doesn’t prove anything, you know," he went on hastily. “That’s because I’m a man.” Then, as an afterthought, “When you’re once used to being a woman—er—l should think you might get used to It—grow to like it Man’s good angel, you know, and all that!” “But what if one wearies of the role of good angel—what If one longs to be Just oneself? For my part, I don’t see why man shouldn’t be woman’s good angel for awhile—he’s so strong and brave and, above all, superior!” Her voice was deceptively mocking. Being only a man, and a man in the dark at that, he had no way of knowing thather eyes were dancing mischievously and she was wondering if he were horribly shocked. What he did know, however, was that the voice, with its youthful, almost boyish treble, was the sweetest in the world to him, that he would rather be mocked and Counted by those lips than flattered by any others. Still be bad a point to prove, and he tossed the dwindled cigar off into the bushes that flanked the porch, squared his shoulders aggressively and demanded: "Would you propose to a man iter—you loved him?” His listener gasped. This was carrying the war into the enemy’s country with a vengeance. Propose to a man she loved! Not for rubies and diamonds—not for principalities and powers! One might propose to a man one didn’t love, but to the man—never! “No,” came the answer in a voice grown suddenly small and meek. “And she talks about wanting a man’s rights!” he groaned to some invisible person. “And she hasn’t the nerve to do a little thing like that My, oh, my I “I’m afraid you’ll have to stay In the good angel business awhile yet—until, for instance, you can stand up and tell a man you love him. I don’t see any other way.” There was a pause, in which he waited for her to speak, but she said nothing. Then he leaned forward, and In the gloom she could see the shining of his eyes. He, too, must have seen some secret thing in her face, for, with a laugh—soft, exultant—he took her bands in his and pressed them fervently to his lips. “You are such funny, helpless, ridiculously superior creatures,” were her last words upon the subject a little later, “that I suppose it will have to be—yes.”

Glycerin For Indigestion.

Glycerin is a really valuable remedy for Indigestion, and In the course of a few days, or at most of a fortnight, a sufferer may expect to be cured. Mix a small teaspoonful of pure glyeerin with water and take It with or Immediately after each meal. Of course the patient should also use discretion iu the selection and In the amount of food, for if the diet be at fault It Is folly to expect" health. I'aea of Peppermint. No household should be without peppermint. Nothing will relieve a buru or bee sting quicker than the application of a little peppermint. For vomiting, sour stomach and headache a few drops of peppermint in a little warm water often give Immediate relief. r Care of Brood IMarea. Feed the brood mares liberally and see that the hay Is of good quality, not too ripe when cut and wall cured. Many a well bred foal has beelj ruined for lack of nourishment before birth. Ford For Grotriaff Ptffa. Growing pigs do better with less corn and more clover, oats and bran, make better growth of bone and muscle and do not get fat so young, which is unfavorable. Lie* la the Heahoaae. % cheap and effective lice remedy is ■aid to be a pound of moth balls dissolved In a gallon of kerosene and applied to the roosts once a month.

The SPORTING WORLD

The Great Chesbro. Jack Chesbro, according to Manager Griffith of the New York Americans, is the greatest pitcher in the world. “He Is better than was Amos Kusie in his palmiest days,” says Griffith. Chesbro now draws $6,000 salary on Griffith’s team. “One reason why Chesbro is a great pitcher,” says Willie Keeler, “Is be-

JACK CHESBRO, STAR TWIRLER.

cause his heart is always in his work. “He Is rabid on the subject of pitching. There are other pitchers who would be Just as good as Chesbro if they took the Interest in it that he does.’’ Floral Kina to Race la East, Floral King, the best race horse at New Orleans since the day McChesney left the track, will race in the east this year. H. Gardner, owner of the horse, BUnka he can win against the best thoroughbreds of the north, and as there are more valuable stakes to be won on the great metropolitan track than in the west, the champion of the south will undoubtedly be shipped to .New York soon after closing his engagements Jn the south. The big bay son of Giganteum-Rosa Regina Is distinctly first class over the mile route. He has great speed and can handle big weight without much trouble. In his races over the Crescent City track in the winter he demonstrated repeatedly that he holds every horse safe at the fair grounds track over all distances up to a mile and a sixteenth. Beyond that Journey it is questionable if he can give away much weight to his nearest rivals and beat them home. During the meeting at New Orleans he has started twice and won both races. Ilis victories included the Inaugural and Christmas handicaps. In all the struggles he carried big weight. He would not have to carry nearly as many pounds in the east, and this would give him an excellent chance to, gallop away with many first prizes.

Sisrn Hint Quickly. Ijrrjr. Manager Larry Lajoie of Cleveland says he has unearthed another “Rube” Waddell. “Several times recently,” says Larry, “a young man has come in to see me, trying to have me sign him for the seasou. He has all kinds of confidence in many ways and is as eccentric as the ‘Rube.’ “He has twenty-six curves, he tells me, and he has them classed according to their value. When I asked him if he could pitch the spit ball he replied: •That’s a cheap curve. I will teach it to any one for 50 cents. But If you want to see a curve that is a curve you want to see the one that I have called the lily of the valley. It not only curves out, but in also, and sometimes takes a drop.’ •This floored me. and I told him that we did not have a catcher in the league that would be able to hold him. Then I noticed Moore standing there, and I said, ‘Say, what do you think of Moore as a pitcher?’ ‘Oh, he is Just fair,’ the wonder replied. ‘He has got a lot to learn, but if I was on the team I think I could make something of him, as he is young aud has a good deal of speed.’ ” , H iff ash I, Jiu Jit mu Expert. Katsuguma Higashi is the greatest Jlu Jltsu expert now in this country, and he has started a school hi New York, where Americans are introduced to the Japanese art of self defense. Higashi it was who overpowered Ajax, the champion strong man of the New York police department. He is a master of all the deadly Jiu Jltsu tricks and claims that he can kill a man in several seconds simply by pressing on the back of his neck or on his spine. Higashi is also writing • book on jlu Jltsu, in which many of the so called “killing” tricks are explained. These deadly maneuvers are taught only to the Japs, as It Is feared that If they became widely known irresponsible people would experiment with them and fatally Injure some one.