Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1905 — Page 3

Dr. Chas. Vick, Eye Specialist This is an age of SpecialistsThe ability to do one thiug and do it well more to be commended and is of more benefit to Humanity than to do many things and none equal to the best. We limit our practice on the eye to the errors of refraction, of which we have made a special study for over thirty years. Office in C. H. Vick’s fruit store, next door to express office, RensBelaer, Ind. TOWHSBIP TBOSnES' CURDS. Jordan Township. The under»lsrned. trustee Of Jordan township, attends to official business at his res. deuce on the flrst Saturday of each month; also at the Shide schoolhouse on the east side, on the third Saturday of each month between the hours of 9 a. m.. and 8 p. m. Persons havin* business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Bostomce address, Goodiand. ind. R-F-D----CHAS. E. SAGE. Trustee. Milroy Township. The undersigned, trustee of Milroy township, attends to official business at his residence On the flrst and third Saturdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address. McCovsburg, Ind. ■ W. C. HUSTON, Trustee, - Newton Township. The undersigned, trustee of Newton township, attends to official business at his residence on Thursday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address Rensselaer. Indiana. Phone 86-A Mt. Ayr Exchange. \v. B. YEOMAN. Trustee. Msrlon Township. The undersigned, trustee of Marion township. attends to official business at his office, over the First National Bank of Rensselaer, on Fridays and Saturdays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address Rensselaer. Indiana. CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE.Trustee. Union Townohip. The undersigned, trustee of Union township, attends to official business at his residence on Friday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern hemselves accordingly Postoffice address. Rensselaer. Indiana. R. F. D. 9. HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. Gillom Townohip. The undersigned, trustee of Gillam township, attends to official business at his residence on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Medaryville. Ind. THEODORE PHILLIPS, Trustee. Poland China Hogs FOR SALE OF EITHER SEX. Sows sired by (Ohio’s Great Hog) Wichita Chief, Captain Sunshine and Sure Perfection the Great, bred to a son of L. & \V. and Sure Perfection 89089. Prices reasonable. J. F. FENWICK, R.F, D. No. 1, Goodland, Ind, mm i DEALER IN C lie. iiiTffl ml gag l RENSSELAER, IND. I r -> Upholstering and Repairing Having sold my bicycle repair business, I have concluded to put In the place of it, and in connection with my undertaking business, adrst-class Upholstering and General Furniture Repair Business. I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. i ’PHONE 56. A. B. COWGILL. V y REVIVO JWjfS RESIOnES VITALITY j»y unvra is-r mnn/l Hinr produces the above remits tn 80 days. It sets powerfully and quickly. Cures when all others tall. Xonng men will regain their lost manhood, and old men will recover their youthful vigor by using REVIVO. It quickly end surely reetores Nervousness, Lost Vitality. Impotency. Nightly Emissions. Lost Power, Falling Memory, Wasting Diseases, and ell effects of self abuse or excess end Indiscretion, which unfits one for study, builness or marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of disease, but Isa great nerve tonic end blood builder, bringing back the pink plow to jMde cheek; end restoring Pm Are of youth, ft wards off Insmlty and Consumption. Insist on having BE VIVO, no other. It can be earned In vest pocket. By mtU. •LOO per paokage. or aU for 9MO, with a pml lOIAL MEDICINE CO, t3K«jS£*For aale in Rensselaer by J, A. Larab druggist. Bead The Democrat for news.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Tricks With Coins. To pick up a coin off the table with the flat band is apparently not an easy trick. To do thlß place the hand so that the cushion of the flrst finger presses well on to the coin, which will then adhere. By careful handling a penny may be bade to stand on Its edge on a slip of paper near the edge of a table. Puzzle: To get away the paper without upsetting the penny. Method; With a knife or something else that is fairly heavy hit the paper smartly in the center. Get some one to place the open bands together, palm to palm; then put a coin betwepn the two third fingers and double all other fingers Into the palm, still peeping the hands together.' You will be surprised to find It Impossible to drop the coin without unbending the fingers. By a little practice a coin may be flicked up the sleeve with ease. Take the coin between the thumb and second finger and flick the finger smartly in the direction of the 1 sleeve. Place a pile of, say, a dozen pennies on a plate and challenge any one to deposit the pile undisturbed on the table, touching the plate only. To do this trick raise the plate about a foot above the table, then draw it sharply toward you. Karl, the Arctic Dog. Captain Sverdrup, the arctic explorer, tells how one of his dogs, named Karl, fell ill during an expedition, even losing her appetite, a thing almost unheard of in an Eskimo pack. Kari was not only a good dog, but a wise one, and therefore she knew what to do. She curled herself round in a ball and lay down close by one of her comrades, between his legs, where she would be sheltered as well as warm. This, however, was not at all to the mind of the dog in question, and he was ungallant enough to get up and change his place. But Karl was equal to this difficult situation. She took her allowance, went up to the dog in question and put it down before his nose, as much as saying: “Here, this is for you. Nowdo be kind and let me lie quiet.” Then she licked his face in a coaxing way and curled herself round again in her old place. This time she was really allowed to remain in peace. The Fox and the Goose. There was a fox who lived in a woods not far from a farmhouse. He had a large family, which were always hungry. One night the fox said to his wife, “Today In my travels as l was passing Father Jones' house I saw a nice fat goose.” “That would make a fine meal,” answered Mother Fox. “Yes,” said Father Fox, “and now I’ll be off, for It is about time.” When the fox came to the coop be saw the goose: “Well, Mother Goose, I heard that you told the farmer about me stealing his chickens." “Why, no,” answered the goose, “I have not seen Mr. Jones since the other morning when he came with my breakfast” “It's no use trying to argue me out of my supper, for it was Just a month ago you scared away the chickens I wanted.” So he seized the poor goose by the neck and carried her off to his den. The young foxes had a good dinner. They all smacked their lips and said It tasted fine. Cat In the Hole. In playing the game six shallow holes are dug rather nearer together than the bases in baseball and arranged so as to form a diamond. In the center stands a boy with a ball In his hand. At each hole is a boy with a stick, one end of which he rests in the hole he is guarding. When the l>oy with the ball sings out, “Cat In the hole!” all the other boys change holes. As they do so the boy with the ball tries to throw It Into one of the holes before any boy gets his stick into it. If he succeeds, the boy who is slow in changing finds the ball in the hole before his stick and is out. He then has to take the ball himself. The WrlKht Who Wa« Wrong. Wright, M. P., is determined to write a book on ancient rites. This is all right, but Wright can’t write a right book on rites, because he is too busy righting his country’s wrongs. Is Wright right therefore in writing on ancient rites when he might be righting modern wrongs? His opponents say not. Such a man, they say, is wrong. Such a man, they say, Is Wright. Therefore Wright is wrong. Demanded a Bodrxnard. Little Dorothy was stung last summer by a bumblebee. This year when the garden was gay w-lth spring flowers she would not go Into It without her mother. On being asked why Bhe would not go alone she replied: “Because I saw a big stlnglebee out there.”—Little Chronicle. All Fido’a Fanil. Polly—Mamma, Fldo just snapped at me. Mamma—What had you done to Fldo? Tolly—l only pnnlsbed him. I was playin’ he was a horse, and he barked, and that was naughty, because horses don’t bark-. Tommy Dntton's Awful Future. "I can never, never be a man!” Sobbed little Tommy Dutton. "Because, for all I've tried so hard, My clothes I cannot button! "If I should wear a collar, Like my dear papa. JT. am sure I could not fasten It; My arms don’t reach so faft "And when I go to part my hair I get quite cold and dread; I stretch my arms, but the horrid comb Only goes to the middle of my head! "I’ll have to be a little boy And stay right here, I guess. And aU because—oh, dear me, I am too small to dress!’’

What the Worm Turned

By Honore Willsie

Bob lay on his cot and looked out the door of the adobe hut toward the cook’s shack, from the chimney of which came a wisp of smoke. “Five o’clock,” he thought. “Don’t have to get up for an hour yet It’s going to be a roaster today.” And he threw off the blanket which the cold of the Mexican night demanded, then lay with bared chest and bands locked behind his head. Through the door his gaze could travel for miles across the desert, and with #-es that saw but did not heed he stared far out where plain and sky met. “Gads! What wouldn’t I give to see the little old town?” he said aloud. “The willows on the river are Just smoky fuzz about now. The maple leaves are Just little reddish scraps, and the hypaticas are out, and the wild flowers are thick in Holman’s woods. The air is just like—oh, look at those cactus plants! I bonder what grudge nature had against the earth when she made them. And the sky by noon will be nothing but an inverted redhot kettle, with us spluttering and frying down beneath it. Homesick! I tell you, I’m crazy with it! I’m”— "Say, Bob, dry up your muttering and murmuring, will you, and give a man a chance to sleep!” And a sleep flushed face turned toward him from the cot across the room. “Too late to sleep now, anyhow, Wallace,” answered Bob. “Wake up and talk to a fellow, can’t you?” Wallace heaved a great sigh, tossed off his blanket and, like his friend, lay with bare chest and arms behind his head. “Say, Wallace, let’s pass this up and go back to God’s country. These deserts are just wearing the heart out of me. Let’s go back, finish up that last year In college and settle down and act white again. Uncle John was right. We never were cut out for mining experts. Gads! Six months of this has been enough for me. The sun and the half breeds and, by Jove, most of all the blamed bugs have got on my nerves. I may be as bad as a girl, but I admit that I -would like to go back where I could sleep without wondering if a centlped or half a dozen of those long legged spiders were going to snuggle up to me before morning. Let's go home, Wally.’’ Wallace’s gray eyes stared steadily out the door. “Bob,” he said slowly, “you don’t know anything about homesickness compared with what I could tell you. But I tell you right here,

THE CENTIPKD HAD STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF WALLACE’S CHEST.

once for all, I'm not going home until Alice sends for me. You can do as you please.” Bob turned his pillow over, looked at his watch and then said: “Well, I’ve told you before that I thought you and Alice were a couple of chumps to let a misunderstanding about a waltz break your engagement, and I’ve told Alice bo, I don't care if she Is my sister. But It's your affair. And you know that homesickness or no homesickness, I’ll stick by the mine as long as you do.” “But,” Wallace continued, exactly as If Bob bad not spoken, “this Is a God forsaken country. When you get out on the desert, with nothing but lonesomeness all around you, I tell you—say, Bob, do you remember that willow tree down, by Acker’s? I’ll bet there will be forty kids down there before school this morning getting whistle sticks. The bark Is just right now. And, say. I’ll bet, too, that every kid of them has a russet apple In his pocket to eat at recess. Nothing but russets left now!” “Um,” said Bob, Tve forgotten what an npple looks like. And about now we’d be teasing to wear a straw hat to school—a cap gets so hot about noon—and every time one of the kids runs Into another they rattle like gravel against a window pane.” “Marbles!” said Wallace. “Do you remember the time that Mlbsy Jones swallowed a ’stoney’ and the teacher licked him so hard for ‘communicating’ with you that Mlbsy actually coughed It up? Gee! I haven’t thought of that for years. And the grass In the pasture Is getting velvety, and the little fellows are wondering how many weeks It will be before It will pay to

cot school and go swimming. Say, Bob, do you remember”— “Shut up, will you?” growled Bob. “Haven’t I enough to remember without adding to the list? Say something pleasant now before we have to get up.” A silence followed. After a few seconds, without knowing why, Bob turned and looked at bis friend. Then, with a gasp of horror, he lay still and stared. Wallace was lying with every muscle of his body rigid. His hands clutched either side of his cot, and beads of sweat stood on his forehead, while with half raised head he stared down at his chest. There, its ugly brown body outlined against the flesh, was a centlped slowly moving abont on the white expanse, now forward, now back, now stopping, as If to wonder at the throbbing which vaguely disturbed it. Neither man stirred or uttered a sound. The natives had told them that when frightened the centiped digs In Its claws for support and that thus the victim Is poisoned. There was no sound save the heavy breathing of Bob and tlie song with which the cook announced to the world: "The flower, the flower, The pretty pepper flower Lived and loved in the sun!” The centiped had stopped in the middle of Wallace’s chest. Bob saw a sudden quiver run through Wallace's white Ups, and then slowly the tremor was communicated to bis entire body. “What can I do? Oh, what can I do?" he thought. Then very deliberately the centiped began to move. Carefully, as if each of Its myriad legs must be exactly planted, it traveled, Inch by inch, across Wallace’s body and then, like lightning, dropped to the floor. Simultaneously Bob was upon It with a heavy boot, and its ugly length of loathsomeness was gathered to Its fathers. Then, without a word. Bob handed Wallace a dipper of water, which the man took with trembling hand and chattering teeth. Breathing hard, he lay white and limp for a few moments. Then he rose, pulled on his clothes and, deliberately walking over to the wall, began to take down the garments hanging there'and to throw them into a suit case. “That will be about all for me,” he Baid. “I made up my mind that if that thing ever got off me I was going home, where bugs are less affectionate. You can do as you please. I am going home to Alice.” And he Jammed a riding boot in on top of a heap of writing paper. Bob watched him with a half grin. “Me, too, Pete,” he said. He walked to tlie door and called to Pedro to harness the bronchos. ' “A centiped is a bold, bad bug,” he continued, “but it wouldn't surprise me if Alice acquired a weakness for It.” Then he, too, began to pack a suitcase.

An Accented Speech.

It was in 1847, when the Free Soil state convention was held at Herkimer. There was a great gathering of Free Soil Democrats and abolitionists. In the ballroom of the hotel—it was called a tavern In those days—before the opening of the convention were gathered the leaders, who were constructing the new party platform, slating the officers and committees and doing other preliminary work. In a chair tilted against the wall was Prince John Van Buren running over the manuscript of the great speech he was to deliver. Occasionally he arrested the work of his associates with an invitation to listen to a paragraph which he considered especially good. His readings each time produced laughter and applause. Finally he read a passage which excited shouts of laughter and applause. When this had died away somebody said, “John, you ought to have that part printed in italics.” IYinee John affected surprise at the suggestion. “Gentlemen,” lie said, “I want you to understand that this speech Is all italics!”

Deeds That Live.

In 1801 tlie Archduke Varies was called to take command of the army of Austria, which at the battle of Hohenlindeu had been defeated by the French and Bavarians. Near the scene of action he met a number of wounded soldiers who had been abandoned on the road by their commander for want of horses to draw their carriages lu the retreat. The archduke, who on many occasions had shown his humanity, immediately ordered the horses to be taken from several pieces of cannon that were being hauled to the rear. “The life of one brave man is better worth preserving than fifty pieces of ordnance,” he said. The abandoned guns fell into the hands of the French commander, who, when he heard of the motive that had prompted the sacrifice, immediately ordered the whole to he sent buck to the gallunt archduke with his compliments, observing that he should be unworthy of being tlie opponent of his imperial highness if he took advantage of so noble an act of humanity.

A Contradiction.

The Kriesblatt, published in the district of Hochst, Prussia, printed the other day this advertisement: “Lost, a perambulator containing a slx-month-old baby, the same having been left on Sunday outside a public house in Sossenhelm, or possibly In Hochst, or UnterMederbach. On the perambulator cover the following Is embroidered, ‘Sleep well; mother watches over yob.’ ”

Necessary Training.

First Student—What are you studying law for if you don’t Intend to practice It? Second Student—Oh, I’m going In for politics, and I wish to know the weak points of the law.—Tom Watson’s Magazine.

I Vote your Coupons I On page six of this issue of The Democrat we make public what we term a Popularity Voting Contest. It is our intention to conduct this contest on a fair and square basis and every vote that is sent in to be voted for the Church, Sunday School Lodge or Club will be correctly and honestly counted for the one voted for. We wish to state that the prize offered by us is worth every cent of $300.00 and that the jj ! CHASE Piano, manufactured by the Starr 8 Piano, Co., which we are giving away, can not be purchased of any dealer in the state of Indiana, a 2 or any other state, or of the manufacturer, 2 for one cent less than $300.00. 2 jj To clearly show that the prize we are offer- 2 ing is of the value we claim for it, we have pro- 2 cured from the Starr Piano Co., a written guar- 2 ■4 antee which shows the full value to be worth the 2 s selling price of $300.00, and to be of the very 2 J best of workmanship and fully warranted for a 2 Jterm of five years. There will be no outside s people connected with this contest, and at no g time will we allow any person to say that we have a scheme or chance game, or anything of J that sort, for there js no chance or scheme con- 2 5 nected in any way shape or form. It is merely s a popularity voting contest between the many 2 different Churches, Sunday Schools, Lodges 5 ij: and Clubs in our field. All votes are to be sent 2 5 addressed to 5; | Jasper County Democrat j Rensselaer, Ind. 5 j A WORD TO MILLINERY BUYERS, f Miss Mary Meyers, Rensselaer’s ▲ popular milliner, is now located ▲ in her new quarters, one door ▲ east of the Harris Bank, where she already has a beautiful line of fall millinery for your in- A spection. Her new room is ▲ light and cheerful: just the place 4 to select your new hat. If 4 ▲ you are thinking of purchasing ▲ ▲ anything in fall millinery, you —▲ will find it a treat to call on Miss ▲ Meyers, for her new display A ▲ promises to be the most beautiful and complete ever shown in ▲ Rensselaer. stalest jwow ahhivuvc ▲ Latest “Paris and JVcbu yorK ; ▼ Creations. ▼ ▲ ▲AAA A A A A A A A A a AAAAAAAAAAAAA ▼▼▼▼▼ ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ v ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ ▼ I FIRST ANNUAL g iPUBLIC SALE | OF \ \ PURE BRED O. I. C. HOGS. j II will bold my first annual sale of pure bred O. I. C. hogs 5 Wednesday, September 13, 1905, at my farm in Barkley town- 5 ship, Jasper county, Ind. This will be a rare chance to secure good stock of this J celebrated breed of hogs. Prospective customers and others are 5 invited to call and see my stock on any week day. £ THOMAS DRIVER.

LOW RATE EXCURSIONS TO PORTLAND. OREGON

Account Lewis and Clark Exposition will be in effect via Wisconsin Central Railway. If you intend to go to Portland this year ask the ticket agent to make your ticket read via Wisconsin Central between Chicago and St. Paul. Pullman sleepers, free reclining chair cars and a la Carte meals make the journey comfortable and pleasant. Further information cheerfully given by addressing C. 0. Hill, T. A., 204 Clark Bt., Chicago, Illinois-

ty&lepfuph 00&rafc£fX&eded Our institution, the largest, best equipped and instruction moat thorough of any in the country. Endorsed by officials of W. U. Tel. Co. and numerous railroads. Demand for operators urgent. We are able to fill only a portion of calls made Spon us. Expense for entire sis month's course uition. board, room, stationery and text-book) •93. This can be reduced. Catalogue mailed free, which explains all. Home instruction also. Dodge's Institute, Monroe St., Valparaiso, lad OK APPOINTMENT. State of Indiana, ) Jasper County, S “ Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of John G. Hell, deceased, late of Jasper County, Indiana, bv the Jasper Circuit Court. The said estate is supposed to be solvent. , Everett Kinney, Administrator Volts & Spltler, Attorneys.