Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — Page 9

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Another Girl In the Case

By OTHO B. SENGA

The fireman jerked open his flannel shirt a button lower and glared resentfully at the two well dressed young men who were examining with amused Interest the small drivers and cylinders of his engine. "Not a Pegasus, evidently,” remarked one. “No, nor yet a Hebe,” laughed the other. “If you two mutts are kicking against old 18 you’d better cut it out,” Interposed the fireman angrily. “We meant no disrespect,” answered the older of the two courteously. “Our attention was attracted because we’d never seen one like it before.” “The old girl is no beaut,” continued the fireman, softening somewhat, “but she jumped from here to Boston at a mile a minute clip one day last month." “That’s a mighty good record. We felt there must be something remarkable about her,” returned one appeasingly. “If you’ve got a story, and I’m sure you have, come dowi* and give it to os,” urged the other, smiling winnlngly. * “She was a warm baby in her day,” began the mollified fireman, “but she’s shed her cow knocker, and for a good many years she’s been doing nothing better than poking box cars and fiats around here in the yard. But she got her dander up that day and yanked us over the rails in great shape.” “Something special, I suppose,” encouraged the elder man, passing his cigar case. “Something special! Well, I should say,” emphasized the fireman, “we was the special—three of us—and old 18.” He rounded his lips and allowed the cigar smok? to escape in a long, vaporous cylinder. “It was Sunday afternoon,” reminiscently, “and about 3 o’clock when a young feller Jumped off the trolley up there,” indicating the street where the trolley cars ran to Andover, “and came slamming down into the station as red In the face as If he had buttoned a nest

“DASHED DOWN THU LINK AS IF SHE’D BEEN ON HER TRIAL TRIP.”

of hornets In with his vest. He bumped into old Buster—that’s the station agent—and howled for a special. “Buster told him he wa’n’t running specials as a side line, and there wa’n’t nothing about the yard anyway but old 18, and an old shifter like that was hardly the thing for a special. “Well, the young feller talked all kinds of languages and showed all kinds of money. He wanted to go to New Haven. He’d got a telegram, but It didn’t reach him until after 2 o'clock, and he’d got to be In Boston in time to catch the 4 p. m. Shore line express from the South station. There was no connections anyway from here, and the special he must have. It seems he was a student at the Phillips academy In Andover, and a rattling good feller he was too.” The fireman, artful story teller, paused to whet the Interest of his listeners and puffed his cigar enjoyably. “I’ll bet there’s a girl at the other end of the llnel” cried the man who was looking for stories. “Or a fortune,” haiarded the other. The fireman grinned at both Impartially. “The young feller’s name was Hart, and he had a mighty convincing t9ngue In him, and the way he slung his argymenta at old Buster showed be knew tlwf way to a man’s inside heart. He rqped In Engineer Dan Duffy, too, and pin said old 18 would do the trick if M could have the road. $“Okl Buster kept the key tapping, and Conductor Tom Collins picked out ‘short end’ for the train. Then Buster got the word back from Boston: Olye'you the road.’ And It)

Just fwenty-three minutes from the time young Hart had blew in with his roll and his convincing eloquence Duffy throwed the throttle wide open, and the old hooker dashed down the line as If she’d been on her trial trip. I jammed her with pine knots soaked in karesene, and Duffy never took hla eyes off the rails. “Old 18 soon showed her mettle, and no big engine passed us that Duffy didn’t get a hand from the cab. Hart was game. We couldn’t go too fast for him, and at easy stretches we must have struck a mile a minute. It was just 2:45 to a dot when we plunged into the long train house at the north station, old 18 snorting and humping like she understood she was a special. “All the way from Reading to Boston in just fifteen minutes and thirty seconds, aud we reckon the run at Just about thirteen miles. I could almost ?ee old 18 winking her weather eye at some of them big six wheelers, and the kind of a you’ve-did-well-Sissy air that t‘ cy seemed to have as they looked do—n at her was enough to make a man hitah—a c:nn who can see them thing-, yon know” The fireman paused and anxiously regarded his dead cigar. “Young Hart made his train, of course?” - “Oh, yes; he had plenty of time. He jumped over to the other station on the ‘V and we let old 18 cool off a little, and then she hitched back to Reading. But I’ve kinder noticed a new pitch to her whistle ever since, and I reckon the old girl knows she done a big thing that day.” “Light up again,” urged the seeker after stories, handing the cigar case. “That isn't all?” suggestively. “No. ' About two weeks after that young Hart run over from Andover one day and give one of these ere things to old Buster, one to Tom Collins, one to Dan Duffy and one to me, and mine,” triumphantly, “is as big a Jim Dandy as the others. They’re all just alike.” ne took a small velvet case from his pocket handling it gingerly with his grimy fingers. One of his companions took it and pressed the spring, disclosing a small scarfpin—a knot of gold with a tiny diamond point. “That ere little stone’s a real di’mond,” said the fireman proudly. “No ground glass about that. I wear it when I dress up and go some places.” “It’s ail right—a fine thing,” admired his new friends. “Well, goodby—them’s good cigars—see you again some time, maybe,” dropping the velvet case into his pocket and turning toward his cab. “Hold on,” cried the story gatherer, catching him by the arm, “that isn’t all! What about the girl in New Haven?” The fireman grinned tantalizing; then his face sobered. “I’m afraid you two gents is going to be disappointed. There ain’t no girl in this story—only the woman that every man owes his best to. A man may have half a dozen sweethearts if he’s lucky, but he never can have but one mother,” raising his greasy cap reverently. “Hart’s mother was dying, they thought, that day when old 18 humped herself over the rails with the boy, but she got well, and it was her that sent us the plus. So long, gents. Put the story in the paper if you like. It’s worth printing, dead sure!”

The Poor Child's Advantages.

“My most serious problem Is how I can give my children the advantage of the poor man’s,” McClure’s Magazine quotes a rich man as saying and makes this comment: The modem system of education employed by the rich and well to do and secured often at Infinite self sacrifice even by those of very moderate means obscures rather than brings into light the realities. No material provision, however ample and Intelligent, can alone make for verity. No amount of “opportunities” or, "advantages,” however unusual, are sufficient to awaken the soul. \ Indeed in the very multiplying of material advantages the spirit of the child Is more often than not smothered and distorted. Too many masters, too many toys, too many tasks. The poor little head and heart have neither strength nor time for brooding and dreaming In the forest and field, as young Schurz had. He has no long evenings for sitting around a family table or before a fire reading and talking, no spur to find things to do and to find things to think about The attention continually distracted, the Imagination burdened, the sense of pleasure overfed, what time, what strength, Is there for the child of the very rich, brought up In the usual way, to develop?

FIFTY THOUSAND BUTTER WRAPPERS. The Democrat has just received a shipment of 50,000 regulation size and quality of genuine vegetable parchment butter wrappers. By buying so large a number in one shipment we are enabled to sell them at the lowest Chioago prices—9o oents per 1000 plain; $1.75 per 1000 printed. Orders by mail most be accompanied by cash, and will have special attention. J. H. Cox has the exclusive sale of A. G. Morse’s candies in Rensselaer. ts

SECTION TWO—Pages 9 to 12.

Rensselaer, Jasper Indiana, Saturday, December 15, 1906.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

IlUnolfl Central’s New Head. James T. Harahan, who recently succeeded Stuyvesant Fish as president of the Illinois Central railroad, hqs filled almost every position in railroad work since he started in as a switchman in ISG4. During his career he has been locomotive engineer, conductor, train dispatcher and yardmaster. In 1879 Mr. Harahan became superintendent in charge of the Memphis line of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. In 1884 he became general man-

ager of the whole Louisville and Nashville system, later serving the Baltimore and Ohio railroad as the general manager of the Pittsburg division. In 1888 he went to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern as assistant general manager, was afterward general manager of the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas railroad and the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad and In 1890 became second vice president and general manager of the Illinois Central. s Clrcnmatancri Alter, Etc. Timothy Woodruff, chairman of the New York Republican state committee, was once enjoying a walk In the vicinity of Albany when he came upon two men rolling about in the road in a desperate fight, according to Lipplncott’s. The man on top was pummelIng the other unmercifully. Mr. Woodruff Intervened, with the result that an armistice was declared between the two. “I don’t see how you can look me in the face,” indignantly exclaimed Woodruff to the man who had been on top, an individual who was, by the way, a much larger man than his opponent. “Don’t you know that it’s an Infernal shame to keep striking a man when he’s down?” A broad grim came to the countenance of the rebuked one. “Sure, me friend,” he said, “if ye knew all the trouble I had to git him down ye wouldn’t be talkin’ like that!” Polite Ceylonese. William Jennings Bryan, describing his world tour In New York, praised the Ceylonese. “The Ceylonese,” said Mr. Bryan, “are the politest, the urbanest, the most tactful people you can Imagine. “They have a proverb that gives some Idea of their delicacy. This proverb says: “‘lt is safer to pull the tail of a tiger than to call a lady’s attention to her first gray hair.’" T. F. Ryan's ftetireaient. Thomas F. Ryan, who controls a majority of the stock of the Equitable Life Assurance society, will in the future devote his entire attention to the fiduciary and financial Institutions with which he Is identified. This he made known In a statement announcing his resignation as a director from

all the railroad and Industrial corporations In which -he has been a dominant factor. This step does not mean that he will withdraw his financial Interest in the companies. That he has Indeed no such Intention seems pretty clearly indicated by the fact that plans have already been laid to name one or another of his sons to fill many of the vacancies caused by Mr. Ryan’s retirement. In some of these concerns Allan A Ryan, who Is now the head of the New York Block Exchange Jiauaa & Allan A,

JAMES T. HARAHAN.

THOMAS F. RYAN.

Ryan & 8r0.,' will take his father's place, and John Ryan is expected to fill some of the other vacancies. Mr. Ryan Is a factor as trustee or director in twenty-nine corporations, .presenting a capitalization of more than a billion dollars. He comes next to James B. Duke in the American Tobacco company and is a large stockholder and a director in that great combination.

FARM IRRIGATION.

Convenient Type of Head Gate For Private Ditch. « Each farmer needs a head gate to control the flow from the main or branch canal Into his private ditch. This head gate should meet the requirements of both the canal company and the farmer. The Interests of the company demand that it shall be'water tight when closed, large enough to admit the necessary flow and so made that it cannot be raised above a given height. The farmer is likewise Interested in having a substantial head gate of ample size, but In addition he desires it to be designed in such a way that he can, when he chooses, close it partly or altogether. The head gate is placed at the edge of the canal, and cither a wooden box or pipe conveys the water under the embankment of the canal. When n wooden pipe Is used a convenient type of head gate, as described by S. Fortier, is that shown in the cut. The box, as shown. Is about twenty Inches wide and seventeen Inches deep inside,, and the gate which is made to fit this opening consists of two thicknesses of one inch boards. The upper part of the gate

LATERAL HEAD GATE.

stem Is a round steel rod threaded and the lower part a piece of band steel welded to the rod. This flat portion is imbedded between the boards of the gate and fastened with bolts. The gate Is operated by means of a cast Iron band wheel, held in place by two cross timbers, which in turn are supported by posts resting on the box. The special nut, attached to a chain and locked, prevents the gate from being raised beyond a fixed point, yet it does not prevent the gate from being partially or wholly closed.

BEET PULP.

Some Results of Feeding It to Cows and Sheep. In regard to beet sugar making and the use of beet pulp for stock a writer in Orange Judd Farmer says, among other things, that the industry is growing, which means a continually Increasing acreage of sugar beets and a greater supply of beet pulp each year. The pulp has a feeding value and Is returned to farmers who want It for feeding. In view of this fact and to give farmers not conversant with the value of pulp some Idea of Its worth as a stock food I will recount my experience. When fed to milk cows It was found that the dry matter of beet pulp and corn silage were of equal value, but owing to the high percentage of water In beet pulp twice as much of It is required to furnish a given amount of dry matter as of com silage. Palp Saves Other Feeds. When twenty to eighty pounds of pulp were fed per day there Was a saving of four to fourteen pounds of hay. The pulp bad a most beneficial effect on the milk yield. Most of the cows were decreasing In milk flow at the time pulp feeding began, after which there was an increase. Lamb* Made Good Gains. Lambs made as good gains on pulp as on com at the Colorado station. One ton of pulp was considered equal to 200 pounds of com; two pounds of sugar beets were found to be equal to about one pound of pulp. According to this experiment, It paid to Bell beets and buy pulp. In a trial with four lots of lambs a ration of pulp and lucem 1 made a gain at less cost and gave larger profits than rations of lucera, pulp and grain, lucem and sugar beets or lucera, sugar beets and grain. Pulp fed sheep were weak boned, not very fat, but produced mutton of good flavor. Lambs fed pulp In large quantities had soft flesh and shrank heavily when slaughtered. It la recommended that pulp be sett to greatest extent at commencement of the feeding period.

FARM AND GARDEN

NEW WINTER LETTUCE. A Large Type of Plant Able to With. stand Diaeaae. The bureau of plant industry recently reaped its harvest of excellent lettuce seed from a large plot which it had under cultivation in close proximity to its chief’s offices in the grounds of the department of agriculture. The interest attached to this particular yield Is that it is seed of a type of lettuce sturdy and strong and able to withstand the diseases to which forced lettuce is heir. From $2,500,000 to $3,000,000 worth of lettuce alone is forced in the United States each winter. Greenhouse gardeners in an endeavor to get rich quick

THE NEW STURDY LETTUCE

[Six weeks old and three feet high.] have failed to note that this forcing was weakening their stock until now the weak lettuce often becomes so diseased in the hothouse that It is by no means rare for a gardener to lose an entire crop of greenhouse lettuce by a disease to which these overstrained plants are particularly liable. Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industry, in order to correct this evil has been working for two seasous on this subject and has at last succeeded in obtaining a crop of winter lettuce plants immune to the lettuce disease. At the same time the plants are of large size and capable of developing as early as the most specialized winter lettuce. From these extra large early and fine heads another crop was raised and the seed sown. The seed from successive crops, carefully examined and selected from time to time, was planted during the past summer in the departments’s experimental plot and the seed finally secured carefully guarded and later distributed to greenhouse men and state experiment stations. It is believed, concludes American Cultivator, that through this work will be saved from ruin the winter lettuce industry, which for the last three years has been threatened with extinction. WHEN SLAUGHTERING. An Arrangement For Raising and Hanging a Hog. Here is a butchering device that may be of Interest. By its use any one can hang a hog or small beef or, in fact, several of them at a time if you make a long top stick and several

BUTCHERING DEVICE.

clevis hooks to operate hook A into. Spread stick and wind up rope, then lower spread stick into clevis hook and slide out of the way. When not in use remove the two lower bolts and fold up like a jackknife. The gear wheel and worm can be had at any machine shop.—Ohio Farmer. Care of Proteu Tree*. There Is a saying among nurserymen that "it is the thawing and not the freezing of thewoots of trees that injures them.” If trees arrive in a frozen condition the thing to do with them is to plant them at once or imitate the process aB near as possible by packing the roots in soil or sand without exposing them to thawing. Let them thaw out slowly—the slower the better. It is not a good plan to throw the roots Into water. If the roots are allowed to thaw in a cellar without cover or if exposed while frozen to warm air they will be seriously injured.—Country Gentleman. The Democrat bandies Farm Leasee, Mortgagee, Deeds and other legal blanks. Also prepared to do all kinds of fine ioh work.

Vol. IX. No. 37

CATARRH To prove unquestionably, and beyond any donb that Catarrh of the nose and throat can be cured I am furnishing patients through druggists, smal free Trial Boxes of Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Cure Ido this because I am so certain, that Dr. Shoos’! Catarrh Cure will bring actual substantial help Nothing certainly, is so convincing as a physical test of any article of real, genuine merit. But that article roust posses* true merit, else the test will condemn, rather than advance it. Dr. Shoor’s Catarrh Cure is a snow white, healing antisei ic balm, put up in beautiful nickel capped glass lars at 50c. Such soothing agents as Oil Eucalyptus Thymol, Menthol, etc., are Incorporated into a velvety, cream like Petrolatum, imported by Dr. Bhoop from Europe. If Catarrh of the nose and throat has extended to the stomach, then by all means also use internally. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. Stomach distress, a lack of general strength, bloating, belching, biliousness, I,ad taste, etc. surely call for Dr. Shoop’s Restorative. For uncomplicated catarrh only of tho nose and throat nothing else, however, need be used but Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Curo A. F. LONG.

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