Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — Page 2

WAITING. I wm (tanding on the corner Of a very busy street, I was anxiously awaiting For a friend I wished to meet, I had waited twenty minutes And my brain was in a whirl; i/ I was looking for a girl. Tall girls, short girls, girls of middle height; Stout girls, thin girls, girls of brawn and might; Young girls, old girls, girls of every age; And the dreamy matinee girl from the fashion paper's page. 1 maintained my careful vigil Though my eyes were growing weak; 1 was just a trifle dissy And a flush was in my check. I had waited forty minutes And my brain was in a whirl: I waiting fora girl. Prim girls, trim girls, girls of every site; Fair girls, rare giyls. girls with angel eyes; Prude girls, rude girls, bashful girls and shy; And the girl of comic opera with the naughty Utile eye. I grew faint, and weak, and thirsty, And my back was bent with pain; I felt a strange sensation At the bottom of my brain. I had waited sixty minutes With my luckless brain awhirl; Just waiting for a girl. Pale girls, frail girls, girls of slender waist. Blonde girls, brunette girls, girls of paint and paste; Gibson girls, Christie girls, girls both mild and rash; And the supple-limber athletic girl who always “cuts a dash.’’ Beware my fate, kind reader. Should you chance upon these lines; A little ten by seven now My wasted self confines. They tell me that I’m harmless. That my brain is in a whirl; All through looking for a girl. Celt girls, svelte girls, girls cut a ia mode; Quiet girls, riot girls, girls who’ve “seen the road;” Bright girls, slight girls, all make a phantom new That passes through my inlud in vain kaleidoscopic view. —Joseph Boulton Loughrey, in Life.

LITTLE PANCHA

Pancha’s mother was a nice, clean little woman. Every afternoon, when the sun was on the other side of the caaa, she used to alt on a tule petate In front of her door, and, with her cigarette tucked over her ear, carefully comb her children’* heads. They sat quietly, after the fashion of Mexican children, while los animates were being decimated. All but Pancha. Whether Pancha objected to the •laughter of the innocents or it was just her “innate cussedness" no one could determine. Pancha was four and short and squat for that age. Her eyes were extraordinarily large and the blackest I ever saw. They apparently had no pupils. I was told her father and mother did not love her because she was so black. Pancha was indeed the black sheep of the family. She looked as’though she had been smoked, There was something pathetically savage about her. She was in a continual broil. The other children had but to say tauntingly, “Pancbita es mala!” to have her’fly at them like a wildcat. When outnumbered and outgeneraled, which was seldom, for she was a veteran of many tights, she would go •way to a path on the mesa, where the dust was thick and the nepales grew la plenty. Cue very hot day we were all sitting out in the patio under a big green awning, the tinkling of the fountain and the drowsy chirping of the birds the only sounds, and we were all sleepy. There was a long tiled corridor lead Ing to the patio, and In this I heard tho mozo remonstrating with some one. When I went in Pancha was there, defiantly eying the big nu>zo. She grinned with delight on seeing me und held out in a hot. grimy little hand a present for me. Something muy bleu. It was hers, all hers, but now It was mine. She watched my face with open anticipation of my delight. It was a piece of meat wrapped In a soiled tortilia—a tortilla Js not a napkin, but Its capacity for getting soiled is just as great ns though it wt*e linen Instead of a comestible. But meA—think of it! When had Pancha a piece of fat pork before? And she was giving it to me! I thiftk it Is on my credit side that I ate with every appearance of delight. That piece of fried pork cemented <n:r friendship. one of Pancha’s treasures, ranking above her rosarlo and her scapular. Was one beautiful earring, which dangled to her square shoulder. It was a long glass ruby about the size of the pendants hung from lamps. The other ear contained a bit of straw, keeping the car under cultivation. One d iv I went down to Guanajuato. When 1 returned I brought Pancha a pair of earrings. My thrifty New England friend said: “Why earrings? Why not something useful?” Because. And then there js another reason. Children detest useful presents. Once I snw a little boy revive two Christmas presents. One was the right boot for the right foot, and the other was the left boot for the left foot. Was Jie grateful? Xot a bit of It. He cried long and loud. Pancha’s earrings were silver—big hoops wrought in a design that looked like lace work. Pancha was very happy the day she received them and went about swelling her little pigeon breast in pride, the earrings shining white against her brown cheeks. Next day she had her mother put on her little fiesta dress, a frock of red cotton, and submitted to have her hair brushed and her face washed, then came proudly up the steep grade to the casa grande to visit and show her finery. The little fat woman, her great eyes glistening with excitement, sat in

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* big armchair In the xala eating her cakes and drinking deep of the milk. Before the burden of entertaining her became onerous she slid from her chair and, to my surprise, came to me to be kissed before starting for her home. She went down the grade used by the ox wagons. There was ar deep cut In one place, where the grade had been unusually steep. Here she was lost to view. A moment later there was a tremendous rattling and pounding along the road. I ran, filled with anxiety, for once before I had known of the eight mule teams to become frightened and tear down that steep road, maiming the mules and killing the driver. I reached the bluff, and, looking down into the cut, I saw—can I ever forget it?—the poor little waddling figure In Its red dress, trampled down by the frightened mules, crushed and rhangled by the great wheels of the heavy ox wagon. I heard one pitiful wail. When we picked up the bruised little heap I found In the bosom of her frock several small pieces of bread that she had stowed away to take home. I insisted that her loved earrings be buried with her, washed the dirty little hands and face and made a wreath of jasmine for her head. Afraid they might resent my interference, I did no more. The stiffened remains were wrapped in a white cloth and placed on a board —coffins cost too much for the very, very poor in Mexico. So they covered her face, and the father, putting the board on his head, carried her down in the night thirty kilometers to the graveyard. He rented a tiny piece of ground and dug the grave himself. The priest was a kind old fellow and gave his services for nothing, which was fortunate, for poor Narisco had 25 centavos for his whole expenses. Thus Panchita, in her gay red dress and silver earrings, was laid away in the consecrated ground.—Edith Wagner In San Francisco Argonaut.

Mixed Path to Happiness.

“How nice and fit you look this morning! You always look so fresh after a shave,” said Myers to his wife as he entered the breakfast room. “How pretty that little house dress is that you have on!” she answered, with a smile. “What on earth are you two people talking about?” inquired the friend who was visiting them. “You see, we read an article in a magazine supplement once, entitled ‘Recipe For a Continuous Honeymoon,’ ” said Mrs. Myers. “It gave a list of the phrases that husband and wife should say to each other every morning before breakfast. George was so tickled with the idea that he cut them out and pasted them on the doors of our respective bedrooms. We were to use one of the phrases every morning. But it happened that lie pasted the two sections exactly wrong, so that the husband’s list was on my door and the wife’s on his. And now when he comes in and says to me. 'You don’t know how well that waistcoat sets off your great deep chest,' I answer, ‘What a dear, lovable little thing you are.!’ That's the answer. We have a lot of fun out of it. Great scheme, isn’t it?”—New York Press.

Lifting With the Fingers.

Did you ever aee a man lifted from the floor with the Index fingers of four or five persons? it is not hard to do if tin* effort is made with perfect unanimity. Five persons can very easily raise a man with only seven fingers if the subject is not too heavy. Let two persons stooping down place their Index fingers uuder the feet. Two others, with one finger each, will raise the elbows. A fifth will raise the chin with one finger—total, seven fingers. When all are in readiness let each take a long, full breath, and all together, “One, two, three, raise!” When the effort to be put forth is only of short duration there is considerable muscular force In the fingers, and It Is not strange that the united power of seven fingers should overcome the dead weight of a person of 150 to 100 pounds. "1 can t understand what you see In that Miss Ridgeway.” “She always has the beautiful Mrs. Sparkslelgh for a chaperon.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Troubles daily seem- to thicken, Life's a melancholy song. # Half the world is always kickin’ Cause the other half does wrong. —Washington Star. The new fe leral inspection law practically puts a government inspector in every farmer’s dooryard. If every sheep, hog, calf, steer and heifer be not properly bred, fed. loused, bathed and kept spick and span there may be trouble.

CIGARETTE WORST ARTICLE.

Edward Page Gaston of Chicago testified in London, July 3, before the select committee at the House of Lords on Juvenile smoking that the worst article America sent to Great Britain was the American cigerette. “It is worse,” he said “than Chicago tinned meat.” Mr. Gaston also warned British Legislatures against the attempts at bribery on the part of the American Tobacco Trust in order to balk unfriendly legislation. Earl Beauchamp, chairman of the committee, closely questioned Mr. Gaston regarding the effect of the American laws against the sale to minors and he stated that nearly one-fourth of the population of the United States now benefited through living under the anticigarette legislation.

WOULDN’T BITE.

Judge Benson, the new Senator from Kansas, was sworn in about five minutes before the airship came over the Capitol, to the great detriment of business in that staid and august body. Senator Long, Benson’s colleague from Kansas, was hustling out to see the wonder. He stopped at Benson’s desk. “Judge,” he said “don’t you want to go out and see the airship?” “Now, see here, Long,” Benson replied, “I’m a Rube and I’m from Kansas, and this is my first day here, but I’ll be darned if I’ll bite on anything like that.”—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

TRUTHFUL.

“My Dear,” said a vain old man to his wife, “these fiiends here won’t believe that I’m forty-five years old. You know I speak the truth, don’t you” “Well.” answered the simple wife. “I suppose I must believe it, John as you’ve stuck to it for fifteen years.”—Exchange A few Weber wagons and beds left yet, and will sell at a bargain. Call on L. S Renicker.

TEDDY WAKED IT UP.

Teacher—How long bad Washington been dead when Roosevelt was inaugurated? Scholar—l dunno; but it hasn’t been very dead since Teddy has been there. —Brooklyn Life. Remember the greatest bargain sale ever attempted in town. July 14th to 28th. Chicago Bargain Store.

Painting Time is bound to come around once in a 1 while. Even the best paint will wear off in time. But painting time will come around least often if, when you paint, you use Eckstein Pure White Lead (Mada br tba Old Dutch f rooeaa) mixed with Pure Linseed Oil. It is the accepted standard paint. Looks best, lasts longest, and costs least in the long run. Send for free booklet, beautifully illustrated. Valuable to any one who would preserve end beautify bis property at the least outlay. NATIONAL LEAD COMPANY 1810 State Street. Chicago. 111. “■ 7or sale by first class dealers.

BRAIN LEAKS.

Most self-made men act like It. The lord lovetb a cheerful loser. Things won by Chance are usually lost by carelessness. Men do not rise to God by stepping on their neighbors. A woman can never understand bow men can use so many pockets. Men who wait for inspiration usually hunt for the soup kitchen. It is easy to be liberal with the money that other men have earned. A mother always feels cheated if another discovers her baby’s first tooth. Corrupt politics is caused by the lack of interest on the part of the honest citizen. Our idea of good nature is to be able to smile and look pleasant when one has a toothache. Too many men lock up their good nature with their merchandise and oarrie their troubles home. A great many people are starving because of money wasted in tall spires and stained glass windows. It is a good thing for a man that the authorities do not tax him on the value set upon a worthless dog by the baby of the household. —The Commoner.

SMALL BEGINNINGS OF FAMOUS MEN.

J. Gould was a book agent. Henry Villard was a reporter. Elihu Burritt was a blacksmith. James McEwan was a printer. Benjamin Franklin was a printer. A. T. Stewart was a school teacher, James J. Hill began as a roustabout. Daniel Drew began as a cattle trader. Abraham Lincoln was a rail splitter. Cornelius Vanderbilt ferried his own boat. William Lloyd Garrison was a printer’s devil. John Wanamaker began life at $1.25 a week. Andrew Carnegie began life at $2 50 a week. William A. Clarke as a young man was a miner. John Jaoob Astor sold apples on the streets. Thomas Edison began as a telegraph operator. Henry H. Rogers was a grocer's delivery boy. John D. Rockefeller worked in a machine shop. Thomas F. Ryan was a dry goods clerk.

THINGS NICE GIRLS NEVER DO.

Do not turn their heads to look after impertinent men. Nice girls do not either ask or answer impertinent questions. Do not get in the habit of-speak-ing familiarly to all the men they know. Do not write silly letters to young men, or permit thsm to write such letters. Do not direct their conversation to one person where several others are present. Do not imagine that every man who is pleasant to them has fallen in love with them. The nice girl does not talk and laugh loudly when traveling or in any public place where she may attract attention.

WORTH REMEMBERING.

(1) Avoid as far as possible drinking any water which has been contaminated by lead pipes or lead-lined tanks. (2) Avoid drinking water that has been run through galvanized iron pipes. (3.) Avoid using anything acid which has been kept in a tin can. (4.) When grippe or other epidemics are prevailing wear a little crude sulphur in your boots or shoes. If a man will studiously practice looking wise it will go for the real stuff with most people. Jennings—Why did your doctor advise you to quit smoking? Bennings—l presume he wanted to find some way for me to save money to pay his bill. A stranger in Chicago had his pocket picked while at prayer in Church. InChicago.evidently.it is necessary to watch as well as pray. —Pittsburg Dispatch. “Here’s a letter from a woman,” said the answer-to correspondent editor, "who wants to know what to use in cleaning carpets.” “If she is a married woman,” suggested the snake editor, “tell her to nse her hueband.”—Chicago News.

Flagg Real Estate & Insurance Agency

Rensselaer, Ind. Ground Fleer, Journal Bld’g. Telephone 524-D.

Can rent your property. Can mH your real estate. Secure tor you the beat Life and Fire Inaura nee. Get the poor man a home on 40 yean time at 3 per cent interest. Secure tor the moneyed man a safe and profitable investment. Execute your deeds, mortgages and other legal documents. Call on us at any time and we will convince you that what we offer is a “Square Deal.” Read this entire list for it contains splendid bargains and are located in several states. WANTED—TO BENT. 6 or 7 room house, with cellar and barn, in Rensselaer. A farm of 80 to 120 acres. Can move on farm Ist March or sooner. Can give best of reference. FOB BENT. Eight room house, barn and 3 lots. Nice variety of fruit, good location. INDIANA. 139. Seven room house and two lots in good location in Rensselaer. This is a new property. 51.200. Will take good team of horses as part pay, or 3680 cash and easy terms on balance. 140. 57H acres, Gillam township, Jasper county, Indiana. 7 room house, barn 40x60, good well, old and new orchard, 500 rods tile, 40 rods new hog tight fence, rest fencing turns horses and cattle. Road now being piked past the place. Right at school and church. Free mail delivery and telephone in the house. Price 33.500. Time on 31,935, in 5 annual payments. Will consider some trade on balance. 141. 9room frame house in nice residence part of Rensselaer, Ind. Good barn, g. od well, plenty fruit. All modern conveniences. A bargain. Cash, 32,300. 142. 80 acres in Barkley township, Jasper county. Indiana. Two sets of buildings and everything n good shape. Splendid farm. ¥76 per acre. 143. Nice, large vacant lot in north part of Rensselaer, Ind. SIOO cash. 144. Stock of general line of goods in Rensselaer. Ind., for sale or trade, The building in which they are located can be rented. 145. A complete stock of general line of Soods in a town of about 300 on the Monon ;. R. for sale or trade. 146. A complete stock of dry goods ard notions ia Rensselaer, Ind., for sale or trade. 147. Nice clean stock of drugs in splendid location in Monon, Ind., for sale or trade. 148. A fine line of general merchandise to any amount you want. Will trade this for land. A bargain for cash. 149. A fine brick residency in large, beautiful grounds. 3 blocks from court house in Rensselaer. Ind. Will trade this and 148 for a farm or make it worth while for cash. 150. A nice frame residence in good condition. Modern conveniences. Beautiful place. 2*4 blocks from court house, Rensselaer, Ind. 152 . 320 acres in Walker township, Jasper county. Ind. Some timber but mostly prairie. Drained by good ditch. $22 per acre. Time on 36500. 153. 120 acres, I*4 miles of Dunnville, Ind. 344 per acre. 3600 cash, easy terms on balance. 154. 80 acres in Keener township, Jasper county, Ind. 316 per acre. s’-00 cash and easy terms on balance. 155. 140 acres on the Coates ditch in Milroy township. Jasper county. Ind. Best of soil. 342 per acre on easy terms. This will bear investigating. 156. 3 room house, lot 323x126. a splendid location, in Rensselaer, Ind. Nice variety fruit, good well, good soil, a 6 inch and 8 inch tile crosses the lot giving the best of sewerage, *I,BOO. Investigate. 157. 80 acres in Milroy township, Jasper county, Ind. 3*4 miles from town. Good 3 room house, good barn, splendid well, good orchard, alt black loam soil. *55 per acre. Loug time on $1,500 at 444 per cent. Balance cash. 159. For sale or trade. Two story. 7 room house in Reminvton, Ind. Lot 65x150, well, cistern and goood barn. A nice property. Exchange for Rensselaer property and pay difference if any, or trade for merchandise. $1,500. 160. 107 acres in Gillam township. Jasper county, Ind. Good 7 room h >use, good barn, well tiled, on good gravel road, near school. $75 per acre. Time on 32,000. Will take part or all in Drugs and other merchandise. 161. Hotel in a thriving town on the Monon R. R. Doing a good business. $2,500. $1,(00 in 2 years at 6 per cent. Balance in land or grocery stock. 162. 240 acres in Hanging Grove township, Jasper county. Ind. outside fence, well tiled —ls inch into a2O inch. Meadow and tilable laud, *4 mile to school. 1 mile to grain switch. 380 per acre 36,000 in 4 years at 4% per cent. $5,000 cash, balance in goods or stock.

Ism MB ■ ■ {STI | CA.TITA.L. $25,000. / SHAREHOLDERS’ LIABILITY $25,000. J r $ Chis company is prepared to receive deposits, paya- j ll* ble on demand, or at a specified time, with interest at J 3 per cent, per annum. It makes a specialty of sav- J ings accounts of si.oo and upwards, which may be Z withdrawn at any time, and loans money on mort- 5 8 gage and collateral security at current rates. Call J 8 and make your wants known. 1J 11 ■-l-LlL.T.'ljri'..‘Jl™ ! —J*'!,' 1 1,',. '■ .I,_u i Office In Rensselaer Bank Building.

Save Your Eyes by Wearing Diamond Lenses. Npne genuine without trade mark on every lens. Absolutely clear and free from every defect. Accurately ground and centered, fused from minute crystal pebbles, have no equal, being the most perfect lens made. I control the sale of these lenses in Jasper and Newton counties. Dr. Chas. Vick, Eyesight Specialist. Office in C. H. Vick’s fruit store, next door to express office, Rensselaer. Ind. Strange to say, when a business woman falls in love she never stops to ask if the man can cook and sew on buttons.

165. 43 acres in Barkley township, Jasper county, Ind. Good 3 room houM, good bars, double crib, good well, 50 fruit trees, 1 mile from gravel road. Now rented at good interest. $46.00 per acre. IM. 80 acres in Barkley township, Jasper county. Ind.. 8 miles from Remselaer, gravel road entire distance. A good paving gravel pit on farm, 70 acres in cultivation, 10 acres oak, hickory and walnut timber. 7 room J lo !*®®' W ®H painted, good barn, other outbuildings, windmill, tank and large orchard. Free mail, 144 mile to store and church and 3 miles to railroad. S6O per acre. SISOO in good trade, balance on easy terms, 167. 149 acres tn Milroy township, Jasper county, Ind. One house, 5 rooms, 1 B rooms, barn 24x30 good oak frame, granery, two hen houses, milk house, good bearing orchard and young orchard, each splendid variety fruit. good black soil, natural drainage, 7 miles from Monon and 3 miles from McCoysburg, SSO per acre. Will take city residence to the amount of $2,500. 168. 80 acres in Union township, Jasper county. Ind., 6 room house, large barn, orchard, all in corn. Some timber. Free mail, telephone and 80 rods to school. 11 miles from Rensselaer, gravel all the way, except 80 rods. Cash 327.50 per acre. Now, do you want to buy a farm ? 169. 40 acres in Walker township, Jasper county. Ind., 4 room house. All in cultivation. $1,400 if taken soon. A Bargain. SALE OF TEXAS SCHOOL, LAND. Terms—One-fortieth cash, balance in forty years, 3 per cent, interest. These lands are located in 100 counties. In the northern counties the laud is practically level prairie, and w'estern counties the land is partly for cattle growing; in the southern counties winter truck farming is extensively practiced. Vegetables can be marketed any month in the year, and it is only a question of a short time until these truck lands are high priced. The time to buy is now. The price of the school land is from $1 to 34 per acre. A pamphlet giving full particulars may be had for a stamp. If one or more persons employ the Texas State Land Bureau to act as attorney to select numbers for 8 sections of State Public School Lands or Bonus School Lands, the Texas State Land Bureau will furnish the person or the representative of the company of persons, free round trip transportation from any railroad point in the United States to any railroad point in Texas. <The Flagg Agency can get you a round trip from Chicago to the nearest railroad point to any of the lands we handle in Texas for $25. Much less than one fare tor the round trip. 855. 240 acres of choice black land, fine for rice, corn, oats. etc. Good story and a half house. 7 miles from town. 344 miles from railroad switch and postoffice. $23.50 per acre. Will exchange for a stock of goods. Many other bargains that will not last long; better investigate now. 857. 1280 acres in N. E.Dallam county, Texas, near railroad. Thia is the cheapest piece of land in Northern Texas, $4 per acre, *1.280 in 3 years at 6 per cent., balance cash. DAKOTA. Can get yon a round trip from Rensselaer to these lands for one fare plus $2. When you go get recept from your ticket agent and if you purchase land the company will refund your car fare. Lauds in Emmons county, N. D., from $lO per acre up. We have several hundred tracts of lands for sale with free 160 acre government farms adjoining, near Dickinson, N. D. Solicitor of lands in Burleigh, LaMoure and Ransom counties, N. D. Land $12.50 to *25 per acre. 4* down, balance in ten annual installments, at 6 per cent. Lauds in Sargent and Ransom counties for sale aud trade. For sale on the crop payment plan. One-fifth down and half crop goes to pay for land. Come and let us tell you all about it, and give you books and maps. 74. Ne *4 7-131-55, locateds miles from Forman, county seat, land all wild and all fenced, almost level, sl9 per acre. Incumbrance SI,OOO. 6 per ceut. Will exchange for horses or a rolling livery stock. This quarter is well located and surrounded with good farms.

MISCKLLSIfKOUS. 158. 40 acre* of walnut and oak timber land, 3% mile* from Centerville. Reynold* county, Mo. *1,500. Will trade for property here. What have you? 163. 560 acre* near Hopkin* Park. 111.. 30 mile* from Chicago Height* and 55 mile* from Chicago. IZO acre* timber, balance ha* been farmed. Mostly level, but no marsh Large dredged ditch through it and some tile, splendid outlet. Fenced, two well*, two house*—one has 5 rooms. 360 per acre. Time on •14,000. Balance cash or trade. 164. 80 acres in Taylor couuty, Wis., i£ mile of post office: 20 acres in Hemlock ana birch timber, balance has been burnt over. Soil red and yellow clay. 3800. is clear. Will trade f»r stock of groceries, general merchandise or cattle. 171 A. 160 to 4909 acres, rich alluvial, unimproved prairie land in Vermillion Parish, Louisiana. Price, SI.2S.

I’ll tell you a story that is said to be true, for it may be of use some time to you. ROBERTS AT ONES GOOD ALL That C. A. Roberts is selling Buggies is true. Call and see and I will show them to you. Wanted:—Every reader of the Jasper County Democrat, who needs a Sewing Machine, to write at once for our Special Offer. The Standard Sewing Machine Co., Box 5, Indianapolis, Ind. See Baughman & Williams for farm and city loans.