Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. I ... c/ Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 46c; oats 280. * See second page for editorial matter^ Only $1.25 to Chioago and return Sunday, Aug. 19. Unole Jared Benjamin is sick with catarrh of thebtouiach. -"SjJrTT. Hunt is now manager of tnK Jasper Saving & Trust Co. Madaline Ramp is visiting sister, Mrs. N. Krull, at Kentland. Gray is up irr Wells ‘‘county looking after his farm interests. s Bessie King, the librarian, 'revisiting her parents at Winona Lake this week. H. C. Nevil, Sr. of Tamaroa, 111., is visiting his son, H. C. Nevil, Jr., for a few weeks. \iars. Robert Randle of Mexico, /dSo., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Nowels. E. L. Hollingsworth was in Indianapolis Tuesday and again Wednesday on business. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hoover of eopthwest Marion are visiting relatives in Johnson county. ' s and Mrs. W. C. Milliron are niGettysbarg, So. Dak., looking after their farm near there. Kosta, Trustee of Coltp., Newton county, was in the city on business Wednesday. Miss Harriet Yeoman returned last Friday from a visit with Miss Louise Harmon at Pontiac, 111. Rev. M. V. Brown and family will not return to Florida, we are told, but will settle down here. A. Leopold has bought the former Milliron restaurant and hats placed his son Simon in charge of same. K. Hollingsworth and family are sojourning at Lake Genevia, Wis., making the trip there via automobile. W. J. Merica has gone to Shelby ville to work awhile in a bakery and consider the proposition of purchasing same. M will leave on the wirly train Monday for Indianapolis to attend the annual ten days’ encampment of the I. N. G. Mrs. Rudolph Eisele of Pontiac, 111., and daughter, Mrs. J. P. Reckey of Monticello, are visiting Vincent Eisele, south of town, this week. Mrs. Thomas Driver of Barkley tp., went to Chicago Thursday and from there to Geneva, 111., to meet a sister whom she had not seen for 18 years. Goble, formerly of Rensselaer, but late of Omaha, Neb, is now located at Indianapolis as clerk in the W. H. Block department store. We know you will enjoy our new serial, “The Manager of the B. & A.,” the opening chapters of which will appear next week. Don’t miss reading it. Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Baughman went to Winona Lake yesterday where the latter will remain for a few weeks in the hope that her health may be benefitted. Rev. G. H. Clarke went to Remington Thursday to attend the district meeting of the Christian church and the opening of Fountain Park Assembly. Mrs. George Moorehead of Jennings county, is expected here today to visit her son Albert Moorehead of this city and to attend Fonntian Park Assembly. The Newton county republican central committee has selected J. C. Murphy of Morocco for county chairman, to succeed Dr. Shafer of Brook, who is moving to Lafayette. The new Christian church will be dedicated Sunday, Septr 2. Rev. J. H. O. Smith, of Valparaiso, will preach the dedicatory sermon. Further announcement will be made later. city school board has enjtfaged Miss Ethel Sharp to teach the fifth grade in the Rensselaer schools in place of Miss Lena Jackson, who has* resigned and will attend the State University. Miss Mindwell Crampton,daughter of A. B. Crampton, of the Delphi Citizen, and well known to many Rensselaer people, will be married Sept. 5 to Mr. Henry B. Wilson, Jr., of Copper Cliff, Ontario. Both are Purdue graduates, where they first met.

/Snfr. and Mrs. C. E. Hershman afxVaiparaiso are visiting here This week. Mrs. Ott Clark went to Iron River, Wis., Wednesday to visit her son Ernest. far. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke Sunday with relatives and friends in Lowell. fFrank Biggs and Geo. Putts left Wednesday for northwestern lowa tb work in the harvest fields. Mrs. Frank Foltz and her mother, who have been visiting in Omaha, Neb., returned home last Eriday. J Charlie Beaver of Milroy tp., nrtiyered the first home grown watermelons of the season in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clifton of Chicago are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. T. F. Warne 4t Parr this weelpt , \D: H. Hopkins and Glen Baker wUSrkley tp., will leave Monday Surrey, No. Dak., to work in the harvest fields. Mrs. G. H. Clarke and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jones, at Richmond, Ind., for a few weeks. Elliott Burr and daughter' Cynthia of Lynchburg, Va., are visiting relatives and old friends' in Jasper county for a few days. Glen Bates left Wednesday for Portland, Oregon, after - a few weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates of this city. Lightning killed a cow for* John Schatzley of near Kersey Sunday and two cows for J. B. Tyler of the same neighborhood Monday. -_ Jkrthrflge and Mrs. Hammond of Lafayette, and Mrs. W. B. Austin, of Chicago, Were in the city Wednesday, to attend the funeral of J. E. Spitler. '\Miss Katie Shields is visiting Niagara Falls this week, in company with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Malone, of Monticello. The rain here Thursday evening was heavy and was accomfianied by considerable wind and ightning. At Parr, it is said, very little rain fell. John Sharp is busily engaged in the work of securing views and having fine half-tone cuts made for bis souvenir album of Rensselaer, which will be in press next week. Regular services at Trinity M. E. church on next Sabbath. The pastor will preach at the morning hour and Rev. A. G. Work of South Chicago, will preach at the union service in the evening. James Shafer of Brook has traded an 80 acre farm in Jordan township, formerly owned by Robt. Michael, for 219 acres of the Doc Nichols farm in Barkley tp. The Jordan land is figured at $7,115 and the Barkley land at $lB,615. “The Manager of the B. & A.” is a story full of absorbing interesting from start to finish. If you are not already a subscriber to The Democrat you should become one at once and get every chapter of this interesting railroad story which alone is worth a full year’s , subscription. Mrs. G. F. Meyers and Mrs. F. E. Babcock returned Sunday from a week’s stay at West Baden. The former was not feeling well when she left here, and became so much worse that their stay was cut short a few days. Since her return Mrs. Meyers has been under the doctor’s care. ■X.Bro. E. J. Stienbach ,of the ff£entland Democrat, will be married August 18 to Miss Lillian Stewart of Chicago. We had come to believe that Ed was a confirmed bachelor and safe from the wiles of the gentle sex, but it seems we were mistaken, and we join in extending hearty congratulations. The Monon will ran another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Aug. 19, on same schedule as former excursions, passing Rensselaer going at 8:48 a. m., and returning willleave Chicago at IJL :30 p. m. The fare for round trip from Monon to Rensselaer, inclusive, is $1.25; Surrey and Parr, $1.15; Fair Oaks, sl.lO. ybooney Kellner’s supply of ice pfit up last winter is about exhausted and he is making arrangements to ship in artificial ice from Lafayette and Indianapolis, whioh he asserts, he will be obliged to charge 45 cents per hundred instead of 30 centß as formerly. He was in Indianapolis Thursday on business connected with this matter.

■ mm »«■■■ M"» ■VBBJP Misses Leah Knox and Laurel Biggs took in the Wabash’s excurto Niagara Falls Thursday, The new court house at Kentland has been turned over to and been accepted by the county commissioners. * Another supply of souvenir post cards of views of Rensselaer at the Sharp photo, studio, including the new Christian church and fire department. The new Indiana Harbor road will begin carrying mail August 20, giving Moroooo and Kentland additional Aai| service that will be most welcome to the people of those burgß. “Farmer” Hopkins and Theodore Lang of near Parr got into a fracas down in the levee neghborhood Monday evening and the mud was churned up considerably before they were through. No injuries reported and no arrests. Regular preaching service at Barkley M. E. church Sunday morning, 11 a. tn. The church roll will be called; every member is expected to respond with a quotation from scripture. Those who can not be present are requested to send a response to be vs y Roy Hickok, for whom a subwas taken by B. F. Fendig to pay the expense of sending him to Colorado.for the benefit of his health, left Tuesday for Denver. After purchasing a ticket some S4O was left to pay his expenses for a while after reaching there. r\Alf Donnelly returned Sunday 'from his trip to Virgie, Texas, to see his brother Will. He thinks Texas is a great state, says there is some mighty fine timber where Will is and that he took a day’s horse back ride through the timber. Crops were good in some sections passed through while in others it had been too dry. The Financial World of Chicago, a publication devoted to stock and mining investments, devotes Iwo columns of its valuable space in the August number to the alleged fraudulent doings of the firm of Makeever Bros, of New York City, sons of Milton Makeever, late of Newton tp.,this county, in the floating of Mt. Shasta and Phoenix gold mining stock. It claims that the stock is worthless and the Makeovers knew this fact and have cleaned up a big wad of money from the alleged swindle. NHwp**id seem that our long delqydfPApril and May showers are now coming with full force and effect. Rain has fallen here nearly every day for the past week and in large quantities. As a result scarcely no threshing has been done and the oats that are still in the field—nearly one-half of the acreage yet remains unthreshed—will be badly colored and damaged a great deal unless we get some fair weather right away. It has been very warm for the past two weeks, and the rains and hot weather have whooped corn along at a great rate. Fred Robinson, the 24-year-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Robinson, formerly of .Gillam tp , died at the home of his parents in Medaryville July 25, of heart trouble and other complications. He had been in Montana for the past two years for the benefit of his health, but continued to grow worse and was biought home bv his brother Clarence about the middle of July. He leaves a father, mother, two sisters, Mrs. Millie Guild and Mrs. Nora Faris, of Medaryville, a sister, Mrs. Florence Faris of Wapata, Wash... a brother, Clarence Robinson of Moore, Mont.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEfIENTS.

August 8, to Mr. and Mrs Joe Bomtrager, south of town, a son. Millions For Defense. It Is always a pity to destroy a pretty phrase, particularly when so laudable a sentiment as patriotism Is involved. You have all heard “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!” for the phrase has been famous for a century. It It attributed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who represented the United States In France In 179t5. John Jay had made a treaty with Eng land that threatened to involve us iu a war with France, and the directory then governing France refused to receive Mr. Pinckney, Intimating that the payment of a certain sum might settle the dispute. Then It was, according to a popular story, that Mr. Pinckney said “Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!” It is said, however, that When he was asked about It afterward he answered, “My answer was not a flourish like that, bus simply, ‘Not a penny, not a penny!’ ’* The Democrat handles Farm Leases, Mortgages’, Deeds and other legal blanks. Also prepared to do all kinds of fine job work.

HOT WEATHER DEBILITY.

How to Protect Oneself Against Heat Fatigue, and Summer Disease. Many people are so easily affeoted by the hot weather as to be capable of but little work during the summer months. Inquiry among this class will show that in nearly every instance there is a weak stomach and more or less indigestion. Put tho digestive organs right by using Mi-o-na stomach tablets and the summer time will prove the pleasantest, most desirable and enjoyable season of the year. One little Mi-o-na tablet before each meal will give you life, vitality, energy and physical endurance during the heated term and ward off the ordinary diseases of summer. Mi-o-na is not an ordinary summer tonic or digestive, it is a true strengthener of the digestive system, building up the .organs to perfect health and vitality by curing the indigestion and absolutely removing all pains and distress in the stomach, specks before the eyes, sick and nervous headache, and other symptoms that come from a weakened stomach. Mi-o-na makes positive and lasting cures and is sold by B. F. Fendig under an absolute guarantee that it will cure all diseases of the stomach, except cancer, or the money will be refunded. Ask him to show you the guarantee they give with every 50c box of Mi-o-na.

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Enchanted Handkerchief. This handkerchief is just the thing for young magicians to possess. It has the power to make things disappear. You use it to cover some borrowed article —a coin, say, or a cardpull the handkerchief quickly away, and, lo! the borrowed article has completely disappeared. The handkerchief is prepared as follows: Get two pretty good sized men’s handkerchiefs, both exactly alike. In the middle of one of these cut a slit about four inches long, which get your sister to hem round the edges to prevent its becoming larger. Now ask her to lay one handkerchief upon the other and sew together the edges. If the work is done neatly the whole will appear to be nothing more than a single handkerchief, especially as, when you draw it from your pocket, you shake it out, with the unprepared side toward those who are watching you. Next, taking the' card in the left hand, you cover it with the handkerchief, at the same time slipping it into the pocket-like arrangement between the two. So. you see, when you ask some one in the audience to ’’hold the card covered by the handkerchief, please,” and then jerk the whole from his hand, the effect will be that the card has disappeared. Bee Bread. Do you know that the bees get bread as well as honey from the flowers? Watch closely some time and you will see the whole performance. You must keep your eyes very wide open, though, or it will be over before you know it. 1 First, Miss Bee sucks up the precious drop Of honey which the flower has stored away for her. She always knows just where to fVid it, too, though each blossom has its own particular kind of pantry. Then she gathers her flour. This is generally packed in tiny boxes, with slits in the side, and Miss Bee has only to put in her funny little feet and scrape out the precious flour. We call it pollen, but the name does not matter. To Miss Bee it is flour, and she packs it away carefully in tho wee baskets on her hind legs, first moistening it with a drop of honey. When she has as much as she can carry she flies back to the hive and stores away her load for future use. The bread made from this flour requires neither raising nor baking. The pollen grains are crushed, soaked and kneaded with honey, and the bread is ready for the baby bees, who are the only ones that eat it. Game of Paas Alone. This is a first rate outdoor game: Arrange two Hues of lwy and girl players, each headed by a captain. At the right of each captain place ji clothes basket or hamper full of all sorts of odds and ends— books, balls, clothespins, pencils, tin cups’, tin pans, cushions, spools, brushes, thimbles, button hooks, etc. At the other end of each line place an empty clothes basket or hamper. Behind each line place a guard. At a signal from the hostess the two lines get furiously busy. Each captain snatches nnything at all from his full basket, passes it to the player standing next to him, and that one passes it along to the next, etc. The end player throws it into his empty basket. Meanwhile the guard watches closely, and if any player, through nervousness or carelessness, drops the. article that has been handed him to pass along the guard pounces down upon it and takes it back to the full basket to be passed over again. The side which first transfers everything from Its full basket to its empty basket wins. The more “rooters” there are to encourage the rival sides the Jollier the contest See Baughman & Williams for fire insurance

TED’S GHOST PARTY

By CHARLES FREEMAN

Jobu Ellison slowly descended from the carriage aud turned toward the house. He walked slowly and with the bearing of a man utterly dejected. Nettle, watching him from the veranda, dropped her work and rau toward him. “Was it any better today?” slit asked anxiously. Her father shook his head. “The day force went out when they came to work,” he said. “The night force stopped work about 2 o’clock this morning.” “Don’t you think that Ted could help?” she pleaded. “He knows the men so well.” “I told Raymond that I would not have him about the works again,” said the old man bitterly. “Have you broken your pledge?” “I have not seen him since that night,” she declared, “but I do think he could do you so much good, father.” Ellison pushed her aside with gentle roughness and passed on up the walk. Nettle looked after him for a moment, then, with a sigh, followed the bowed figure Into the house. When the big contract had come, there had been much Jubilation. It was not alone that the completion of the contract meant a large sum of money; it was the work that the successful termination of this Job would brlßg. Then Ted Raymond, head draftsman in the pattern room, had asked for Nettle’s hand and had been refused her father’s consent. He had been dismissed, and since then everything had seemed to go wrong. There had been a strike of the workmen, and when the strikers had been

IN THE WREATHS OF SMOKE FLOATED THE DEAD ENGINEER’S IMAGE.

replaced with new men the newcomers had refused to remain in the plant, declaring it to be haunted. The engineer employed to replace the striker had disappeared after the first night’s work, and it was declared that he had been thrown into the furnace. Night after night his phantom form could be seen hovering in the smoke and steam from the stack aud exhaust pipes, and no man dared remain, the fear of the night shift communicating itself to the day force. Raymond always had a good influence over the men, and Nettie felt certain that he would be able to adjust matters, bnt she bad given her pledge not even to speak to him, and she oould not urge him to take up the work. It was late that night aud Nettie was combing her hair when there came a gentle tap on the door, and she opened it to admit her father. She was shocked at the change that had come over him in the few hours since dinner. His face was seamed with furrows and his form stooped with care. “I have been thinking over what you said,” he began without preface as she assisted him to a chair. “I do not want to break my word, but absolute ruin stares me in the face. If Raymond can stop this fear of the supernatural in the men I will take back what I said and accept him as my son-in-law. Will you sepd him to me in the morning?” “Are things as bad as that?” she bsked. Ellison nodded. “Unless I can obtain a permanent force by the end of the week,” he said, “it will be impossible to complete this contract in time.” “And this Is only Tuesday,” Bhe mused. "Ted cun do if.” Ellison went away comforted. Apart from what he termed his presumption, he liked the man with his clean cut incisive manner and quick comprehension. Somehow lie felt that herein lay his solution. The next day there was consternation in the strikers’ camp. The pickets reported that Ted had been made superintendent of the works. They liked him, but also they feared him. That night gave Ted his first view of the specter. He remained with the night shift, and shortly after midnight there was a cry of alarm in the yard, and he rushed out to find the men all staring at the huge smokestack. There In the swirling wreaths of smoke floated the dead engineer's image. Once or twice the specter van-

Ished, only to reappear again, and ftor twenty minutes the men stared. Tbe% as if moved by a single impulse, they! went to their lockers, and an hour later Ted and the old watchman were left alone in the yard. The day shift went to work, as usual, but it was not long before the men grew uneasy. There Were no apparitions in the daytime, but they felt nervous at the thought that the spirit of the murdered man hovered over the works. At the noon hour they talked it over, and when the whistle blew for the return to work they went to the office in a body. They found Ted busy with Borne bits of glass covered with red paint. He looked up as the spokesman entered. “Better make it short,” he said quietly. “I suppose you do not want to keep on working in a haunted foundry.” “That’s right,” declared the leader. “We can’t stand it.” “Think you can hold out through the afternoon?” he asked. “We are going to give a little ghost party tonight. Keep at it until knock-off time comes, and the two shifts will have supper together.” “Won’t that ghost be around tonight?" demanded the leader suspiciously. "It may be all fdollshness, but you saw It yourself last night." “I hope to again this evening,” he said. “That is where the fun will come. Like to be a ghost yourself tonight?” Something in Ted’s manner convinced the committee. The members went out into the yard and advised a return to work. All the afternoon there was an evident dislike of going into dark corners alone, and the engineer shivered every time the draft made the furnace roar, but they all stuck to tie work and shared In the party at 6 o’clock. “It will be dark enough by 9 to have the party,” declared Ted. “When the whistle blows come Into the yard and don’t be afraid.” Just before 9 Nettie and her father came whirling up, and a few minutes later the whistle blew its summons. The men trooped into the yard and gathered about In little knots, whispering to themselves. Presently from the stack there arose a dense white smoke, and almost Immediately the ghost of the dead engineer appeared. With a cry the men drew together, and a moment later Madison, the spokesman of the morning, came toward Ted. “The boys want to know if you are going to keep your word,” he said roughly. “Yqu said you was going to fix that ghost.” “So I am,” said Ted evenly. “I said, too, that I was going to make a ghost of you. Look up.” With a shriek Madison' fell to the ground, writhing in terror. There in the smoke wreaths was his own face. Ted’s face followed and in turn a dozen of the others. Then the light died away aud Ted mounted the steps of the office. “Boys,” he said in a voice that penetrated every part of the yard, “I promised you that I would lay that ghost. I think I have done so. It was a clever stage trick. The strikers are using Jones’ hall across the street for their meetings. You can see that the tower is about level with the stack. When fresh coal was put on and the smoke was heavy it acted as a screen for a magic lantern in the tower. That was all there was to it. When they went up to work the lantern tonight I had the police there to catch them, and my own man worked the lantern for this little seance. One of the men they caught was the engineer himself. He is no more dead than I am. Are you satisfied to go back to work? We have a big contract, and I want to know that you boys will stick.” “You bet we will!” came the chorus, and Ted turned to Nettie. “Let’s go over to the house and have our own celebration,” he suggested.

Water Butterflies.

lteal water butterflies spread their lovely wings in the clear wavelets of the blue Mediterranean. Their scientific name is pteropoda, or wing footed. The commonest is perhaps the “boat butterfly.’’ His body seems formed round a tiny brown kernel, the size of a grain of wheat, and is covered with a shell soft as gristle and almost transparent. His wings are large, roun<J and clear as glass—so clear that before they can be examined they must be put in a saucer of water against a black ground. The shell is so loose that a mere touch separates it from the body. All the sea butterflies have on their tongues rows of strong pointed hooks. They are all flesh eaters. It is wonderful to watch through the transparent shell and almost equally transparent body the motions of the heart. These butterflies lay eggs. Just like the laud ones, and, like the land ones, are fond of warmth and light.

Treating Open Wounds.

In the treatment of open wounds, where there has been surface injury only and the discharge has not been great, muclKheneflt has been found to follow tly> sintpbj plan of treatment here described. The part Is well washed with warm water. It is patted dry. Then It is very freely covered with boric acid powder. Over all is laid a piece of linen. Now adhesive plaster is cut into strips so long that they can go right acrosa the linen and be attached to the healthy skin. By means of six or more of such strips the linen Is securely fixed. Over this is placed a piece of cotton wool. Finally the part Is ueatly bandaged. Practically the air is now excluded from the fore part, and this Is the reason for whatever good may result. The dressing* are removed at the end of seven or tem days. The par* Is washed, then treated as before. >