Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — Page 3

That isn’t all you save either. You know people ■MMI who have drank Arbuckles’ ARfOSA all their lives. Look at them. They like I it and they haven’t had to \\ < F” t dnnldng it \\ Don't let any man sell ’A you something instead, 'a which may ruin your stomach and nerves. AS? aJxWk7 / Ccmplie, with all / nauißtnrat, of the “HDiSw/ National Pure Food I v -aw * f |l ‘* f * ntre No. /<1 /*/ 2041 ' fiW * w “ h ' > /w? / ington. HOMINY MEAL The best feed for fattening hogs or cattle known. A carload just received at the Rensselaer Feed Store which we are selling at the very low price of $22 Per Ton A. L. Branch, Prop. » v*‘ HOLD YOUR HEAD As shown in this cut, and think as you read. The hands show the location of two of the common eye-strain headaches. Are you subject to either of them ? If you are you should have your eyes carefully examined and, if found defective, corrected with proper glasses. Many others have found complete relief in glasses; why not you? Eyes examined free by latest methods. Office over Murray’s store. A. G. CATT, Graduate Optician. Three Farm Bargains. . 80 acres, two miles of two stations, on main road, five room boose, rranary, crib, two wells, fruit, 60 acres cultivated, 10 acres young timber, 150 rods of tile with fine out* let. Price $25 per acre. Terms 5300 down and good time on balance at five pet cent interest. 130 acres, three miles of good town, free mail, school on farm, five room house, good barn, hen' house, good well, lota of fruit, half cultivated, half timber pasture. Price $25 per acre. Terms 1,000 down and long time on remainder at five per cent internet. 65 acres, near school, on main road, free mall line, three mllpe from good town, good four room house, good barn and other outbuildings, some fruit and good well. Price only $22.50 per acre. Terms S6OO down and long time on difference at five per cent interest. The above farms are in Jasper county and. are all rented. If you are looking for a bargain do not miss Inspecting these places. G. F. MEYERS, Rensselaer, Ind. a, nun hlilluLs«ssßs«s naimce laocHfflon, Of Benton. White and Jasper Counties, IBBPKBBBNTKD BT MARION I. ADAMS, BSNSSBLABR. IND. Insurance In force Dec. 81, 1000, •2,295,660.00. Increase for year 1908. •139,445.00. y . ' ■ -I. 1., -/--j-jr --1 The Democrat for job work.

The SPORTING WORLD

Yanks Won' Many English Derbies. It is probably not known to the generality of people that of the last six anniversaries of the great English Derby five have been won by jockeys from America; and, though on node of these occasions has the finish been of an absolutely hair raising nature, yet, on the other hand, not one of these races has been so easily won but that it required all the skill of a most accomplished rider to bring about the result Indeed, the very conformation of tho Epsom course calls for an ample supply of both nerve and horsemanship throughout the whole of the journey before victory can be achieved. The start taking place about half a utile from and opposite the stands, the horses then gallop up a slight incline for about half a mile, after which the next half mile is rather downhill until the famous Tottenham corner is reached, where they turn into the one-half mile stretch. Round this same corner Fred Archer of days gone by was reputed to have raced many times with one leg over the rails. This last half mile is a very gentle decline. The “blue ribbon of the turf" the great race is called lu England, and the term “Derby" has now become a household word in all countries where horse racing prevails, since every nation has now its “Derby,” and all over the globe stirring contests take place and great multitudes attend. The scene at Epsom on Derby day cannot be adequately described, but must be viewed to be realized.

Donlin to Be an Actor.

MIKE DONLIN.

The defection of Mike Donlin from the ranks of the New York National ball team has left a big hole in the once world’s champions. Donlin was a great hitter, a reliable fielder and a speedy runner. Mike has left ball to go on the stage. His wife is an actress, and they will join forces.

Jos Gans. No other pugilist in the ring has fought so many really hard battles as Gans. He is without doubt the cleverest man in the ring today, bar Done, in any class. He has the peculiar faculty of being able to pick out the vulnerable point of an opponent and goes at it as unhesitatingly as a surgeon with a knife. ,y Withal he is most merciful, and even with his great cleverness he takes no pleasure in cutting his adversary to ribbons. He is one of the many prize fighters who do not save money. He is very liberal and an inveterate gambler. He backs himself in those fights that he tries to win and dallies with every known game of chance. Gans is what many persons term a born pugilist, and had he remained strictly square in his ring endeavors he would without doubt be one of the most popular fighters in the ring today despite his color. TJie Game Not 80 Good. Malachi Kittredge, the new manager of the Montreal team, said the other day that the baseball of today is not the game of old. “We miss the great hitters of the past, like Connor, Brouthers, Ewing, Mike Kelly, Orr, Delehanty and Hardie Richardson,” said the veteran catcher. “We* do not see so many long drives nowadays as were frequently made by those old stars. Then, again, the catchers of today are not like Bennett, Ewing, Tom Daly, Ganzel, Buckley, Mike Kelly, Clements and Morgan Murphy. Tom Daly, by the way, was one of the best catchers I ever saw, while Amos Rusie was the greatest pitcher that ever stood in a box.”

Davy Jonas Satisfied. Jones declares himself well satisfied with the result of the Chicago American champions’ trip to Mexico. AU of toe players are in fine shape. White’s condition alarms Comiskey, but “Doc” is never in any kind of condition until well on in the season, but it’s a cinch that he will round into good -f<wm before long. Is Josh Joshing? Joshua Crane, Jr., Harvard football coach, will start a new football school, teaching only technical points. Idea is on correspondence basis, funny fellew says. Perhaps Joshua is only joshing

OLD FOGY LOVE

lam an old buffer now—at least, so I hear the young fellows call me behind my I have had a not altogether unsuccessful life. Why should I deny it? In outward honors at least I have had a brilliant if not great career. “Lucky!’—well, Woodburn will do; ’tis near enough—was the name by which men knew me at the bar, though ’tis only the older generation now which will be able to recall it unless indeed some diligent and sober minded student, digging among the archives of the past, should perchance unearth a certain book on torts and see the name on the title page of this, alas, now antiquated volume. 1 i Then I am back again walking in schoolboy cap and jacket along the Avon banks with Hetty Price—bright, laughing, quizzing Hetty. Ah, what a sad havoc her merry brown eyes made in my youthful studies! She lost me the Latin prize and was the unconscious cause of getting me more than one good swishing, and old Nobs—he became a bishop afterward—could lay it on too. But nevertheless I would not part with that period of my life in spite of the swlshings and for all the prizes that ever fell to the lot of a S—bury boy. It was a bright, merry, mischievous face which ever played hide and seek upon the pages of my books, and it was a corner by the river that I ever saw in my mind’s eye when I should have been following Cyrus in his interminable wars or hamifaering out Irregular verbs with old Le Broeq, the Fredch master. And the fellows wondered what was up with old Woodburn, whose interest in cricket had gone and ever preferred his own company to that of his fellows.

Every half holiday whefi the others flocked to the cricket nets or the fives courts I betook myself off on my own business, meeting Hetty now here, now there, as the necessity for secrecy demanded. She was, I found, a curious mixture of sound common sense, which was her own, and romantic aspirations, which she had acquired from “Bow Bells” and such like literature. Her great ambition in life was to go on the stage, and it was of this that she dreamed as she polished up the glasses behind the bar or drew a tankard of ale for Ben Hoskins, the carter, wlio winked his eye in un-Romeollke fashion as the cool home brewed went down his dusty* throat “But” as»ebe shrewdly remarked, “I am not such a fool as to throw up the Farmers’ for an uncertainty. I am waiting for a chance.’’

“Bow Bells,” “Bow Bells,” Hetty! Many a one has, like you, longed and hoped for the fairy who is “going to change all that” and waited, waited until at last there comes not the good fairy, for she is away in other folks’ concerns, but a wrinkle here, a gray hair there and stern reality to obliterate the rosy dreams of youth. Not long after this I left B—bury through causes which do not concern us now and saw no more of Hetty Price. Our farewell was tender. At the time I thought it the bitterest pang of my life. Once only I heard from her, long years after, when I was no longer amenable to school discipline, and as her letter makes much plain I do not hesitate to produce it in full. I have it still by me somewhere. It ran:

Dear Mr. Woodburn—You will doubtless be surprised to hear from me after all these years, but I thought I would like to know how things are going on. There is also another reason, as the Inclosed will show. Well, I remained at the Farmers’ for a long time after you left—much regretted—waiting for the chance which was so long in coming, but it came at last. I answered an advertisement and left the monotony of the Farmers’ for the wider stage of a traveling company, by which means I hoped to reach the heights of fame. Eighteen months passed by, but, alas, the fame was as far off as ever/and the discomforts present, and, while at one time I envied those behind the footlights, I now grew to envy those in front, until at last I wished myself back again. The chance came, and, as you see, I am here once again, not in my old capacity, however, for I have entered into a permanent engagement, having, under conditions, a theater of my own now. being manageress and part owner thereof. In this business I am associated with another, whose name may be seen on the playbill over the door—to wit, Joseph Maddox, once miller’s foreman, now landlord of the Farmers’. Now. If ever you come to S. again perhaps you will come and have tea with us if you have turned teetotaler, or a glass of beer if you have not, and I will draw it myself for the sake of pld times —that Is, of courserlf you forgive Joseph, who, I fancy, has something to say. From yourt,' with kindest remembrance, HETTY MADDOX (once Hetty Price). Heigho! So Hetty Price had married Joe Maddox! This, then, was the end of her ambitions. Lord, how jealous I used to be of Joe, and Joe doubtless of me! How mad, too, I should once have been if I knew that Joe would marry Hetty! But somehow now I felt that it was only as it ought to have been in the fitness of things. Anyhow all is fair in love and war, I suppose. Good luck to them both, and long may the Farmers’ Arms flourish! And I sent them a present, and at dinner that night I drank to the success of the Farmers’ Arms and the health of its landlady, once Hetty Price—merry, laughing, mischief loving Hetty—my first love.—Englishwo man. Ths Catbird. He’s due in May. His wings are very short, It is said he steals fruit His song is demeaned by catcalls. He is of a slate color. * ’ He has a Jekyll and Hyde temperament He la, exquisitely proportioned, measuring nine inches. Mrs. C. looks much like him and lays six of the prettiest dark green : blue eggs.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

An Advocate of Peace. William T. Stead, the English peace advocate and editor of the Review of Reviews, now visiting America, is one of the world’s foremost advocates of universal peace. This is Mr. Stead's third visit to America. He came herb first in 1803, when he wrote “If Christ Came to Chicago,” and a second time in 1897, when he crossed the Atlantic With Richard Croker and wrote “Satan’s Invisible World Displayed,” a resume of the evidence of the Lexow commission, which investigated the New York police department Mr. Stead’s third visit is in the interests of the peace conference of the nations to be held next June at The Hague. Mr. Stead has outlined a plan to force the adoption of four definite

WILLIAM T. STEAD.

peace measures at The Hague conference. The plan is for twelve representative citizens from each nation to descend in a body on the conference and demand the adoption of his measures.

Briefly stated the proposed measures demand that before nations let loose their war dogs they shall agree to thirty days’ mediation by a third and disinterested nation, all nations violating this measure being declared outlaws by the family of pations; that an appropriation be made equal to 1 cent on every $lO spent fbr armament by nations,“which shall be devoted"toThe promulgation of international hospitality and world power; that arbitration be made obligatory in certain secondary matters and that no nation increase its armament for the next five years.

Ths Golf Caddy. “The golf caddy,” said a southern journalist as he chewed a sprig of mint, “is a new type. This lad is independent, witty, altogether without reverence. “On John D. Rockefeller’s visit to Bon Air he tried a little golf one aftei> noon in the neighborhood of Augusta. “On a rather difficult shot Mr. Rockefeller struck too low with his iron, and as the dirt flew up he said to his caddy: “ *What have I hit?’ “The boy answered, with a harsh laugh: “‘Georgia, boss.’”

New Head of the Great Northern. Louis W. Hill, who succeeds his father, J. J. Hill, as president of the Great Northern railway, has been trained from boyhood for the duties which have now devolved upon him. The new president of the Great Northern is a Yale graduate and has gone through all the departments of the complex railway business—mechanical, executive and accounting. As he grew in knowledge larger responsibilities were placed upon him until he became president of the Eastern Minnesota railroad. Later he was made first vice president of the Great Northern and finally its head. James J. Hill, personally one of the most conspicuous figures in the Amer-

LOUIS W. HILL.

ican railway world, had been president of the Great Northern since its organization in 1889. As chairman of the board of directors he is not to give up, for the present at least, his management of the finances and policies of the Great Northern and will continue to perform as chairman the duties with which he has been charged for the last eighteen years as president The Great Northern as it stands today, one of the most important railroad systems in the country, is largely the result of the efforts which James J. Hill has devoted to the upbuilding of the northwest ,

[■is SUj IsMisffiS] F VX/E desire to thank the people of Jasper and sur- 4 T rounding counties for patronage in the past 4 T. and kindly ask a continuation of the same. Remem- 4 J ber we carry Groceries, Dry Goods, Buggies, 4 J Wagons, Harness, and handle Horses and Milk 4 F Cows. We try to sell what the people want to buy 4 T and buy what they have to sell. Experience has 4 J taught us that people buy where they sell, and where 4 T they get value received. Remember you get here 4 J what you buy . ": : 4 We have just purchased a carload of new Bug- 4 J gies to sell at bed rock prices. We are always 4 anxious for more business and always ready to do as 4 Twe agree :::::::: 4 xW. L. WOOD - Parr, Ind. 1 1 l Anti-Pain Pills 1111 l Cure Headache ? Almost instantly, and leave no bad effects. I j IThey also relieve every other pain, Neurali I gia, Rheumatic Pain, Sciatica, Backache, I I Stomach ache, 'Ague Pains, Pains from in* » sUBBS < jury, Bearing-down Pains, Indigestion, Dizx^nesß’ Nervousness and Sleeplessness. HI HR w Prevent All-Aches By taking one or two Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills when yon feel an attack coming on. You not only avoid suffering, but the weakening influence of pain upon the system. 11 nervous, irritable and cannot sleep, take a ’ tablet on retiring or when you awaken. This soothing influence upon the nervea 'brings refreshing sleep. • 25 doses, 25 cents.* Never sold in bulk.

FOR THE CHILDREN

Leading Quotations. One person in this very delightful and instructive game gives a familiar quotation, which must be promptly followed by another question from the next player beginning with the letter that concluded the preceding quotation.

For example: First Player—“lf you’ve ’eard the east a-callin’, you won’t never ’eed naught elsE.” Second Player—“ England expects every man to do his dutY.” Third Player “Young folks are smart, but all ain’t good that’s new; I guess the gran’thers they knowed suthin’ tU.” Fourth Player—“ United we stand, divided we falL.” Fifth Player—“ Life, what is it but a dreaM?” Sixth Player—“ Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little lonG.” Seventh Player—“ God’s in the heaven. All’s right with the world,” etc. This game is not quite so easy to play the first time, because most people are only too unaccustomed to exchange quotations, but in a few evenings you will find yourself quoting quickly and enjoying the pastime wonderfully well.

The Twinkling Stars. The twinkling of a star has never been explained to the satisfaction of all investigators, but it is generally believed to be due to controlling causes within the earth’s atmosphere. That the cause may be looked for within the belt of air that surrounds our planet (to particles of vapor, dust, etc.) may be inferred from the fact that the planets never exhibit the characteristic twinkling so noticeable in the star. One reason for this Is the size (apparent) of the planets, each of which shows a sensible disk, even to the naked eye, while the strongest Instrument in the world only shows the stars as being mere points of light This being the case, any foreign substance in the atmosphere would momentarily hide the light and make the star appear to twinkle.—New York American.

Things Worth Knowing. That a growing mushroom can lift up a paving stone and that creeping plants sometimes kill the plants round which they climb. That there are scarcely any wild goldfishes left anywhere. That the gray buzzard is the heaviest bird that.flies..

That some hedgehogs like blacking and will lick people’s boots. That the first electric railway in the world was built in Ireland. That Turkish men are more polite to their mothers than to any one else. That Japanese workmen are obliged to wear on their caps a card saying what their business is and who is their master. That steamships can move much more quickly in deep than in shallow water.

Walter Scott as a Boy. When Sir Walter Scott was only eighteen mouths old be was taken with a severe fever, which affected his right leg so that he was lame thrqnghout his whole life. At the age of four a favorite aunt took him to Bath in hope that the waters there might lessen if not entirely cure his lameness, but they did not give him any relief. He lived at Bath for several years, learning to read at a dame school, taking private lessons of an aunt and often attending the theater with his uncle, Captain Robert Scott. It is told that one evening upon seeing the play “As You Like It’’ youug Scott became so excited during the quarrel between Orlando and his brother that he screamed out at the top of his voice, “Ain’t they brothers?’’

A Curious Needle. A former king of Prussia one day visited a needle manufactory in his dominions to see what machinery aided by the human hand could produce. He saw a number of needles, called superfine, thousands of which put together did not weigh half an ounce, and expressed his astonishment that such minute objects could be pierced with an eye. At this, the borer—the workman whose business is to bore the eyes in the needles—asked for a hair from the king’s head. It was readily given, when the workman placed it under the boring machine, made a hole In it with the greatest care, furnished It with a thread and then handed the singular needle to the king.

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