Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — Page 5

GREAT TREATY IS NOW MADE PUBLIC

Unites British Empire and Japan in Mutual Defense of Interests. CENTERS IN INDIA AND KOREA Stipulates for the “Open Door” and for the Status Quo. Lansdowne Explains to Russia and France That It Is No Menace, but a Guaranty of Peace in the Far East. St Petersburg, Sept. 27. —It is announced that the Russian representatives abroad were Instructed on Sept. 21, in a circular, to communicate to the governments to which they are accredited an invitation to a second peace conference at The Hague, and to announce that the Russian government’s proposals would be strictly practical, and especially and exclusively deal with the serious questions arising out of the late war. London, Sept. 27.—The text of the Anglo-Japanese treaty, signed Aug. 12, has been issued from the foreign office, together with a dispatch to the British ambassador at St. Petersburg, forwarding a copy of the agreement with instructions to communicate it to the Russian government at the earliest opportunity. The treaty contains eight clauses and a preamble. Otyects of the Treaty Stated. The preamble reads: “The governments of Great Britain and Japan, being desirous of replacing the agreement concluded between them Jan. 30, 1902, by fresh stipulations, have agreed upon the following articles, which have for their object: A—Consolidation and the maintenance of general peace in the regions of eastern Asia and India. B—The preservation of the common interests of all the pow’ers in China by insuring the indepeiMlence and Integrity of the Chinese empire and the principle of equal opportunities for the commerce and industry of all nations in China. C —The maintenance of the territorial rights of the high contracting parties in the regions of eastern Asia and of India, and the defense of their special interests in the said regions.”

Summary of the Convention. Articles 1 and 2 of the treaty agree that whenever the rights or interests of either government are in jeopardy thej- will counsel together as to common measures for defense, and that should either be involved in war In defense of such rights or interests the other will at once come to its assistance. conduct war In common and make mutual peace with the other power or powers involved. Aa to Korea and India. Articles 3 and 4 acknowledge respectively for Great Britain and Japan the paramount interests of Japan In Korea, stipulating for the “open door,” and the paramount interests of Great Britain in all that concerns the frontier of India, and her right to take such measures as she may deem neessary for their defense. Must Be True to the Preamble. Article 5 agrees that neither party to this treaty will without consulting the other enter Into a separate arrangement with another power to the prejudice of the objects described in the preamble. Article 6 provides a continuance for the former treaty stipulations relative to the late RussoJapanese war (which was still going on when the treaty was signed*. Article 7 provides for the manner In which each shall afford armed assistance to the other power, and article 8 makes the agreement subject to the provisions of article and provides that it remain in force tep years from date of signature, requires a year's notice of termination at the end of the ten years, and provides that if when the date of expiration arrives either party is at war the alliance shall continue until peace shall have been concluded. Not Intended as a Menace. Accompanying the agreement Is a covering letter from Lansdowne to the British ambassadors at St. Petersburg and Paris, for transmission to the Russian and French governments, respectively, in which the foreign secretary courteously reviews the agreement and carefully points out that the new defensive alliance is uot intended as a menace, but rather as •a Sfuarantee of peace and prosperity in the Far East, in which all countries may participate. Killed While Picking Up Coal. Upper Sandusky, 0., Sept. 27. —Rev. fi. A. Hutchinson, 84 years old, was killed by a passenger train while picking up coal along the tracks. His body was terribly mutilated by the train, his skull being crushed, bis back broken and both legs fractured. The aged minister was worth about 175,000. Epidemic of Diphtheria. Peoria, 111., Sept 27.—The board of health of Farmington, Hl., has Issued a proclamation forbidding children the use of the streets day or night until an epidemic of diphtheria now raging at that place is checked. . *

STRANGE NEW VAPOR

Gas Coming from Petroleum and Salt Water Is Deadly and Debilitating. SPECIMENS OF ITS EFFECTS When It Doesn't Kill It Affects the Brain Friends Commend w Governor Hanly. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 29. Physicians in Delaware county are worried over unusual phenomena in the way of effects produced by the admixture of salt water and oil from the oil field east of Muncie. There are many proofs to indicate that when salt water and crude oil is mixed, a gas is given off that will produce death In a few minutes’ time and that will cause a temporary loss of memory to those who may be rescued before the gas has had time to have fatal effect. Applies to the Williams Tragedy. The investigation by Coroner Aaron Cecil, of Delaware county, into the case of the Williams family, last week, when Mrs. J. C. Williams and daughter Margaret were asphyxiated by gas coming from oil and salt water that had come into their cellar, and Williams and son John, almost met death while trying to rescue Mrs. Williams and her daughter, leads Dr. Cecil to believe that a new’ and strange gas is" produced by the oil and water. He Remembers Nothing. Williams, who was carried from the cellar where his wife and daughter met death, is unable to recall anything that happened that day. He is rational in all other ways and knows that his wife and daughter are dead, but cannot be made to realize how it all happened. Williams’ son John, who was overcome while bringing out the bodies of bis mother and sister and rescuing his father, says that while the effect of the gas has been bad on bis mental faculties, his memory is still good. Two Other Similar Cases. J. R. Meredith, a pumper on the D. C. East oil lease, which is near Smithfield. says that while working on top of an oil tank a few weeks ago, he was overcome by the gas and fell unconscious to the ground below’. When he recovered he could remember nothing of what had happened. While bending over an oil well on her father's farm. Miss Nellie Swanders, a well-known young woman living near Selma, was similarly overcome, falling unconscious to the ground. For days she was unable to remember any- ' thing. EARLY VOTE GET THE OFFICE ? Club Organized in Indiaua Gains Fame Abroad and a Britisher Wants Information. Marion. Ind.. Sept. 29. The Ten O’clock Button club, organized last national campaign by Elam Neal, chairman of the Eleventh Indiana district Republican central committee, is gaining fame abroad. It is said a request has been received from the Oxford district, England, where a candidate to the house of commons desires information about the workings of the Ten O’clock Button club, saying he has a majority of 500 votes to overcome. J. N. Langham, chairman of the Ninth Pennsylvania district, has asked for particulars about the club. Two days preceding the last general election the Eleventh district chairman forwarded from-his headquarters in this city a letter and a button urging the voter to cast his ballot by 10 o’clock. The result was that a heavy vote was cast early in the day and the party devising the scheme profited thereby, apparently. Why She Wants a Divorce. Muncie, Ind.. Sept. 29.—As a reason why she should be divorced from Riley Mills, Mrs. Della Milis, in her complaint, just filed in the circuit court, alleges that her husband has not taken a bath for nineteen years. When they were first married, he took one bath, she says, but has never taffen any since. She also charges that he 'is “slothful, Indolent and lazy, though physically able to work.” Perhaps Its a Radium Meteor. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 29. While standing in the door of his farm house near St. Anthony’s. Ind., Cyrus W. Winkler saw a bail of fire fall from the sky and alight in a vacant lot near the house. Winkler found It was a meteor five Inches in diameter and weighing five i>ounds. During the darkness the meteor shines like a jewel. Cattle Attacked by Blackleg. Bloomfield, Ind., Sept. 29. The farmers of Fairplay and Jefferson township, a few miles northwest of this place, are alarmed over the appearance of “blackleg” among the cattle on a number of farms. Several head of cattle have already died of the disease. ’PoMum Wandered Into Town. Evansville, Infl., Sept. 29. An opossum weighing thirty pounds was down at the corner of Eighth and Powell streets by four patrolmen and finally killed by the officers. It is supposed the opossum wandered in from the country and got lost in the city. Quakers Oommend Gov. Hanly. Richmond, Ind., Sept. 29. The Indiana yearly meeting of-. Friends by unanimous consent sent a message to Governor Hanly commending his attitude in regard to law enforcement and the safeguarding of public funds.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 46c: oats 25c. Mrs. John Fox and baby of Lafayette are visiting here this week. ■Vjjirman Thompson and John Ellis have entered Chicago University. .-Uf.mery Constantine and Arthur Harrington, of Goodland, were business visitors in the city Tuesday. A. Harmon of Pontiac, 111., is here this week visiting his sons and looking after his farm west of town. Al Ramey was called to Seawall, lowa, Tuesday by the death of his daughter, Mrs. George Anderson. -'LMts. J. A. Haner left Tuesday roF'her home in Kansas City after a week’s visit with Mrs. A. D. Washburn. c \M rd. Joseph Putts and Thena Hildebrand are taking treatment for nervous trouble at the Rome City sanitarium. The remains of the infant child, of Mr. and Mrs. .John Schmidt of Danville, 111, was brought here for burial Tuesday. J\Mrs. 0. H. Hunt of Medaryville returned home Wednesday after a week’s visit here with her sister Mrs. W. W. Reeve. The tax levy of the town of Monticello is sl.lO on the SIOO valuation, or about 82 cents less than that of Rensselaer. \Mr. and Mrs. John Shroer of Barkley tp., left Saturday for a few weeks visit with relatives and friends at Zanesville, Ohio. Freeman Wood, the colored barber, has opened a neat and attractive shop in the remodeled Makeever building, east of the Makeever hotel. F. M. Hayes of Barklsy tp., remembered The Democrat man this week with two large pie pumpkins and a fine watermelon. Thanks, Mr. Hayes. James Laughlin has moved from the Mrs. Dr. Alter property, on South Van Rensselaer street, into the James Matheson property on North Cullen street. * - -VThe brick work on the new Christian church is progressing satisfactory. The new church is going to be a very handsome edifice when completed. - J- Hunt returned Sunday evening a two weeks business trip to New York, Washington and other points in the east. He reports a very pleasant trip. —XMrs. George Stoudt and daughter Ruth, of Remington, and niece Miss Nona Legg, of Logansport, were guests of Mrs. F. E. Babcock Wednesday and Thursday. Vlhere has been no damaging frost in this section as yet and practically all the corn, except possibly a few fields of extremely late planted, is out of the way of any frost that may come. There will be a joint supper, speaking, entertainment, etc,, by the Red Men and Old Fellows, at Gifford, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 17, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Admission and supper will be free. Good music. Come. * A. Leavel came out from Wabash county Saturday and spent a few days with relatives and friends here and at Remington, returning home Wednesday. Mrs. Leavel who has been here with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Sayler for the past three weeks, returned home with him. *

An arm-load of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. □ Trevor Eger left Monday to resume his studies at Harvard uni.,, versity. A fine new serial story, “The Yellow Holly,” will soon appear in The Democrat. Watch for the opening chapters. Mr. and Mrs. John Body, of Watseka, 111., who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. W. R. Shesler, returned home Thursday. Granny Wilkins, the 103-year-old Remington lady, was returned to the poor asylum recently, her daughter, Mrs. Watson, being unable to care for her properly. The Democrat wants two good steady girls of fair education to learn type-setting. Must be girls in town, who can board at home. Steady position. Apply at office. A party of Minnesota land seekers returned home last week. James and Charley Clark purchased a 200 acre farm and Lewis Hammond purchased 320 acres near Drooten, near which W. W. Burns also has bought. Frank Wood of Wolcott was here this week a few days. He has sold his interest in the dry goods business of Boi court & Wood at that place to his partner and will go to El Campo, Texas, next week prospecting with a view to locating there. The Big Four railroad expects to have the new Indiana Harbor road which passes through Morocco and Kentland, completed by January Ist, it is announced, and then the principal part of the freight and passenger traffic will be over the new road.

F. A. Mower, cashier of the Farmers Bank at Wolcott, which went under last winter, was arrested recently in Paw Paw, Mich., where he was going under the assumed name of F. A. Simons, and brought back to White county and later released on a $2,500 bond. We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher, formerly of this county, but lately of Jennings county, who now reside in Shelbyville, Ind., are the proud parents of a girl, born on the 18th of this month. Mother and babe doing well. The father is as happy as a lark, and is all smiles. An ordinary council composed of pastors and members of the churches of the Monticello Association, will meet at the Milroy Baptist church Thursday of next week to act in the matter of ordaining Rev. F. A, Morrow, of Wolcott, to the full work of the ministry. There will also be an evening service. There were 184 tickets sold here for the Chicago excursion last Sunday. And, after all, Knabenshue didn’t sail his airship, this being the excuse offered by most of those who took in the excursion, that they “wanted to see Knabenshue sail in his airship.” The day was too windy for the attempt to be made. brick work on the new Mur-ray-Long block is now completed to the top of the second story, and the work of laying the upper ceiling joists is now going on. The building will have a very neat front, with up-to date wide windows in the second story, and will be a handsome and imposing structure when completed. Mrs. Eliza Renicker of Pyrmont, Carroll county, and Mrs. Levi Renicker of Rensselaer, left Thursday for Covert, Mich., for a few weeks visit with relatives. The former has sold her farm in Carroll county and may decide to locate in Rensselaer. The farm contained 111 acres and she sold for $27 per acre more than she paid for it four years ago. Monticello Journal: The Hammond Tribune may have new owners and a new editor but the paper is using the same old box of miscellany plates for the past six months. There are about twenty columns of the stuff and as soon as they finish a rttn of it they commence over again. It is probable there are people in that burg that can repeat the stories from memory so often have they been published. Mr. Frank W. White, a musical director and teacher pf violin, has permanently located in our city and is now ready to receive scholars at his home on North Front street. Mr. White is a licensed teacher from the Marion conservatory of music, and teacher of the same courses as are given in the first class conservatories. He would also like to form a class of 15 young men and boys on clarinet to join the band. He also teaches mandolin, guitar, etc.

Bev. W. W. Lineberry, D. D., of Plymouth, Ind., President of the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant church, will hold a business meeting at the M. P. church, corner of Van Rensselaer and Clark streets, to-day at 2p. m. Everyone interested in the church is requested to be present. Rev. Lineberry will preach at Rose Bud church Sunday morning at 11 a. m.,and at the church here in town at night at 7:30 p. m. You should come out and hear this able preacher. Wlil H. Flagg, Pastor.

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Game of Malaga Rnlalna. The game of Malaga raisins is very amusing and is almost sure to bring in a large number of forfeits for the director to cry at the end of the evening. The catch is caused by the director coughing or making a noise with his throat before he says the sentence, which all the company must repeat after him, one at a time. Thus, the party having all seated themselves In a circle, the director says, “H-e-m (here making a noise In bls throat), Malaga raisins are very good raisins, but Valencias arq better.” The young lady or gentleman sitting second is almost sure to say, “Malaga raisins are very good raisins, but Valencias are better,” of course incurring a forfeit through not saying “H-e-m” or making a noise in the throat like the director. As soon as any one of the party has repeated the sentence, if the little lady or gentleman leaves out the "H-e-m,” the director says, “Edward, or Fanny, or whatever it may be, you have said wrong—a forfeit!” but must not tell him how he has said wrong, and then passes on to the next. The third, fourth and almost all the party, with the exception of those who have played this game before, are almost sure to leave out the “H-e-m,” and thus incur a forfeit each as often as the game goes round. It makes the game more amusing even, if one or two of the number do know the trick, if those not in the secret should do it correctly and they not. And it is very good fun to see the many ways all pronounce the words, thinking they have to pay a forfeit through not pronouncing them properly. When it has passed round three or four times and a good many forfeits have been collected, then, and not before, the director cau tell them in what Way they have Incurred so many forfeits. The Cedar Tree. Away from its native home the cedar grows rapidly and makes a spongy wood, by no means lasting. On Mount Lebanon, however, its growth is very slow and its wood so hard that it was quite fitted for use in the building of Solomon's temple. Some ancient writers declared that it was imperishable and employed for carving statues of the gods. Its resin was used to preserve the papyri on which books were then written from the ravages of worms, and by its means the books of Numa were kept in his tomb unharmed for 500 years after his death. The Arabs believed that cedars live forever and possess qualities of intelligence and foresight similar to those of Instinct and reason in man. They think they know the changes of the seasons and spread out or draw in their branches, turning them unward

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or downward, according as the snow prepares to fall or melt Rhymin* Lights. Are you good at rhyming? Thia game, called rhyming lights, is lota of fun. One player thinks of a word and gives the others a rhyme to it Thus she may think of “coal,” and she says, “I’ve thought of a word that rhymes to pole.” The others have to guess the word in this fashion: If they think the word is “mole,” they say, “Is it a little animal that burrows?” “No,” says the first player. “Is It a small loaf of bread?" they ask. “No, It Is not roll,” says the first player. “Is it something you eat bread and milk from?” they guess. “No, it is not a bowl,” she answers. “Is It something you burn?” “Yes, it Is coal.” The player who thought of “coal” then finds a word for the others to guess. How Beea Hum." Did you know that bees hum from under their wings? It Is not the stir of those beautiful white wings we hear. It is the air drawing in and out of the air tubes In the bee’s quick flight. The faster the bee flies the louder the humming is. Did you know that Insects feel? They have nerves all over them, through their wings and out to the end of every feeler. Cicadas Not Locusts. The cicada is often Incorrectly called "locust”—a term which should be applied only to grasshoppers. The cicada la a peculiarly interesting insect in that it has the longest life period of any known Insect. Some kinds live even seventeen years and are known as the seventeen-year cicada.—St. Nicholas. A Girl’s Funny Saying. A little girl sat In a parlor with a cat. A maid, entering, said: "Look at kitty washing her face.” “Oh, no,” said the little girl. "She Isn’t washing her face; she is washing her feet and wiping them on her face.”

On Being Ten. I’m very nearly grown, you see. Next birthday I'll be ten, And I suppose that life will be. Oh, very different then! Though being nine Is very nice. And you do pleasant things, I think at ten there will be twice As many happenings. I know a girl who’s ten, and I Have often heard her say She does not have to ask, but goes Just where she likes to play. And when you're ten I think that yon May sometimes sit up late; At nine, no matter what you do. You go to bed by eight. I think you give your toys away. You feel so nearly grown; You’re very quiet at your play; You go downtown alone. There's lots of things you do. I s'pose, That I don't even know. Oh. dear, when anybodygrows It is so very slow! But wouldn't it be very strange When I was truly ten If I should think I'd like to change To nine years old again? Of course it always seems to me I To be ten would be fine. “n But do you think I’ll ever be Just homesick to be nine? —Youth’s Companion.

See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans. Come to The Democrat office for all kinds of job printing. The great Clothing and Shoe Sale will continue to Oct. 13 RaRCATV