Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1908 — Page 3

A Word to Our Farmer Friends.

A manure spreader is a sore remedy for hard times. Every wide-awake farmer will plan to make up some of the losses sustained by reason of the ruinous slump in prices of farm produce last fall One of the easiest and surest ways to -do this is to encrease the quality and quantity of his crops. The farmer who'had a spreader last year, and used it, got as much again money out of the use of the same amount of manure as the man did who had no machine and spread the old way, and as a matter of course he had much more Goon cobn. In short, the men who had spreaders and used them are about the only men who have good corn this year. Investigate this assertion and it will be found to be true. That barnyard manure is the best crop-producer, when properly applied, none will dispute. That machine spreading produces best results none but the uninformed will deny. Buy a manure spreader, it will increase your corn crop 50 per cent in quality and 33 per cent quantity. There are very few machines made with which you can know what you are spreading to the acre. This feature is of the utmost iMPORTAnCE With my machine you know exactly what amount you are spreading. If

BANK STATEMENT. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., FEBRUARY 14. '9OB HKBOUBCBB. LIABILITIES. Loans. $258,070 79 Capital Stock $60,000 00 U.S. and County Bonds 11*27,600 00 Surplus and Profits . 12,814 47 Real Estate - 9,450 00 Circulating Notes 15,900 C 3 Ca5h191,358 65 Deposits39B.Bos 97 8486380 44 * 8486380 44 DIRECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vics President. Cashier. J AMES T. RANDLE. OEW. E^MURRAY. STATEMENT. Report of the condition of The Jasper Savings & Trust Co., of Rensselaer, Indiana, at the close es business on the;i4th day of February, 1908. BWOUBCM. LIABILITIES, Loans and Discounts 881,401 50 Capital stock paid in 825,000.00 County and Township Bonds 15348 80 Surplus 2,500.00 Overdrafts. 277 94 Discount, Exchange, InterFurniture and Fixtures 196.86 an< * feeg 8,504 89 Due from banks snd Trust Deposits on demand 113397 21 Companies 47,479 07 Deposits on time 12,280 48 Cash on hand . 8372 23 Current Expenses 6,709 92 Interest Paid...... 1306 06 Total Resources. ..8161.682 88 Total Liabilitiessl6l,6B2 38 State of Indiana) County of Jasper) I. Judson J. Hunt Secretar jyTreasurer of the Jasper Savings A Trust Company, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. JUDSON J. HUNT, Secretary-Treasurer. j' Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 24th day of Feb. 1908, “ Mauds E. Spitler, Notary Public. i My commission expires December, 14,1911. '■

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you want six loads, set the lever, and yon get six, not eight. Adj of the machines will spread too much, very few will Spread too little After spreading b k d almost every new beginner, b g used to seeing the manure so thick on the ground, puts on too muob by machine. This is a fatal mistake! You buy the machine so that you can turn all the manure into corn, hay or grain the year you spread it. That is where it makes you money. To do this the manure must be spread thin and thoroughly torn to pieces. One hundred loads—and most farmers have more than that of manure spread with my machine will put enough on 16§ acres of of ground to double a grass crop, or to add from 10 to 20 bushels of corn to the acre, and all of good quality. This same 100 loads if spread by hand would not cover more than' four or five acres. A big increase from 12 acres is therefore obtained by using a machine over hand spreading and with the same amount of manure and half the labor and time. > Buy a manure spreader for cash if you can, on time if you must, while they are sold at the old price. I sell the best spreader in Rensselaer. Come in and let me prove it to you.

C. A. ROBERTS.

Rheumatism Do you want to get rid ofitl If so, take Dr. Miles Nervine modified as directed in pamphlet around bottle. In addition to the direct curative properties it has a soothing effect upon the nervous system by which the rheumatic pains are controlled, and rest and sleep assured. It has made many cures of this painful disease, some of them after years of suffering. If it will cure others why not you. If your case is complicated, write us for advice, it costs you nothing ana may save you prolonged suffering. "I wu BO crippled that I could scarcely walk. After having my shoes on for an hour or two I could manage to walk by suffering the pain. Then I began to hawe pains all through my system. My doctor toM me I had an acute attack of inflammatory rheumatism. I read about Dr. Miles* - Nervine, bought a bottle and I commenced to get better from the start and for the past six months have scarcely any pain, aiM am able to walk aa well as ever.” _ JAS. H. SANDERS, P. O. Box 5, Rockaway, N. J. Your druggist sells Dr. Mlles* Nervine, and we authorize him to return price of first bottle (only) if It fails to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind SEED CORN FOR SALE. I have several hundred bushels .of 1906 corn of excellent quality for seed, either yellow or white, at 51.25 per bushel for selected ears. This is as Rood corn as was raised in Jordan tp., in 1906. Wm. Washburn, Rensselaer, Ind

IN LITTLE SPRINGS CANYON

By Addison Howard Gibson.

Copyrighted, 1907. by M. M. Cunningham.

As the pony picked Its way up the wild, rock bordered canyon Ivy Norris took In great breaths of the ozone of the Arizona foothills. “This Is living!” she cried, throwing out her arms. “The folks back hontA would not know me. These three months spent In this wonderful cKmate have made me strong and young again. And this weather! Back In New Hampshire they are having snow, while out here It Is golden sunshine all day long. My heart Is full of the day —Thanksgiving! When I write' back home that I spent my Thanksgiving out in the foothills all alone the folks won’t believe me. They’ll simply say I’m learning western ways fast—to manufacture some big ones to boom the country.” The last of August Ivy Norris, pale, thin and thirty, had arrived from the east to teach the Lone Mesa school. The cowboys on Mr. Tower’s ranch, where she boarded and lodged, treated the coming of the cultivated little woman as a great Joke. Her short skirts, the boots and the handsome little revolver and cartridge belt furnished them material for comment for weeks. Even Warde Hughes, the/oreman, was amused at her first attempts to mount and ride Pilot, the gentlest pony on the ranch, but he equally enjoyed the pluck with which she persisted in learning to ride and the use of the little revolver that looked so comically dangerous in her small white hand. On this Thanksgiving morning the handsome foreman had reined In his cow pony behind a thicket of mesquite trees and was watching faithful old Pilot carefully bear his fair rider up the trail of Little Springs canyon. All at onee he became aware-es the fact that a few months had wrought a great transformation in the schoolteacher of Lone Mesa. The thin form had rounded out into graceful curves, the pale face had become plump and rosy, and her awkwardness in the saddle bad given place to an easy manner that could no longer be ascribed to a novice. “She’s like a girl of twenty,” he soliloquized. “By Jove, she’s the neat-

HE WATCHBD IVY NORRIS COME ON UP THE BUGGED TRAIL.

eet edition of her species that ever struck these foothills. I wonder if she knows where she is going. She’s a good ten miles from the ranch house now and still going on. Well, she’s a pretty interesting stray, and I’m going to see that she doesn’t get entirely lost” With this thought Warde Hughes entered another trail, then cautiously made a detour, coming back to the canyon just above Little Springs. Still concealed back of some manzanlta bushes, he watched Ivy Norris come on up the rugged trail. She was singing a stanza of an old school song that he remembered, and the notes floated up to him on the warm November air sweet and clear as an angel’s song. Suddenly she ceased, and she glanced quickly up the slope. Then, catching up her revolver,-she sent a shot whlzzlng off into the chaparral. A tawny form dropped out of sight down the ravine. “Ah,” exclaimed the foreman admiringly, “she made Mr. Coyote bit the dirt as well as a soldier could have done it” Guiding the pony to the springs, Ivy dismounted. While Pilot drank in long, satisfying quaffs from one of the little springs the young woman looked about her, noting the steep granite walls that surrounded her, the deep azure of the sky and the golden glow of the sunshine enveloping everything like a loving mother keeping a winter’s chill at bay. Then she saw Wards Hughes approaching from an opposite direction. “May I join you, Miss Norris?” he asked. “Certainly, Mr. Hughes,” she answered. “It is noon, isn’t it?*’ giving an odd little squint at the sun as if she were already enough of a plainswoman to estimate the time by its elevation. “It is about 1230,” said Hughes, with the old timer’s accuracy. “Then it is time for my lunch, and

I’m as hungry is that wretched coyote I shot at It is Thanksgiving day, Mr. Hughes. I have beef sandwiches, olives, cheese, crackers and some fig wafers In my saddlebags. With New England hospitality I ask you to help me eat them.” “While It is not the custom of us cattlemen to take a lunch at noon,” be returned, looking* into the bright eyes of the little woman before him, “I am glad to break the custom on this occasion by accepting your invitation.” Under a live oak they spread the paper napkins which Ivy had brought and arranged the lunch upon them. Hughes soon caught the happy spirit of his companion, and, throwing his mask of conscious restraint aside, he talked and laughed w’itb her with the pleasure of a boy. “The spring must furnish us tea,” she said, banding Hughes her pretty silver folding cup. He quickly filled it from the spring near by. Then he passed the cup to her. “I did not think of having company,” she said apologetically, touching the rim daintily with her pretty lips. “I wish I had another.” “I’m glad you haven’t,” protested Hughes heartily. “I like this one best” 'taking the cup from her hands and drinking. For a minute Ivy made no reply. Then she looked at the man sitting opposite her as if in doubt of his meaning. The next instant she smiled frankly and said: “Well, I think I do too.” The half serious simplicity of her speech amused Hughes, and, throwing back his head, he laughed in real enjoyment. “I’m sure we’ll get on all right,” he said, still laughing. Hughes declared there never was such a lunch. The greatest Thanksgiving feast in the land was nothing compared with this. The cold, pure water which they sipped in such good comradeship from the one cup he was sure outrivaled the nectar of all the gods. All too soon it was finished, and they sat back under the live oak silent, but happy. Suddenly Ivy realized it was midafternoon and she had twelve miles to ride back to the ranch. Tomorrow there would be school and the old routine of duties. Today held sunshine, laughter, Joy; the next would be filled with the daily grind and hard tasks. Watching her from under the wide rim of his hat, Warde Hughes saw the weary expression begin to settle over Ivy Norris’ face, and he understood. Left an orphan after finishing school, his loneliness had driven him west Here temperate habits and sterling principles had won him success. Now a woman, loving the freedom of his hills as he loved it, had entered his life. Suddenly he beheld a vision—a vision of liberty for both. Immediately he felt an Intuition that the loneliness of both was at an end. The new life of sunshine, the sunshine of a wonderful lote, was glowing for them. He yearned to tell her, to lift the shadows from the patient face, but the moment of realization was too blissful for speech. “Come,” he said at last, springing up to meet the. new life and claim it for them. Gently he took her hand and lifted her to her feet Then, looking into her beautiful eyes, he said eagerly, “Little woman, I want you to let me make every day of your life a Thanksgiving like today.” A soft flush stole Into her face, but she did not leave the strong arms which held her.

Proper Treatment For Burna.

In case of burns death may be due, first, to asphyxia; second, to shock, and, third, to septicaemia. The medical man seldom gets to the case in time to treat the first condition, the second is essentially a general condition, while the whole success in preventing the third depends upon the immediate local treatment. It Is therefore the last condition which must be considered here. Among the public It is a generally* accepted idea that the thing to do in the case of a burn is to dust flour over it or to cover it with oil, and, Indeed, even in some comparatively late text books on surgery a mixture known as “Carron oil” Is advocated. The use‘of such applications cannot be too strongly deprecated, and, indeed, if the lay mind could be taught that the best thing to put on a burn before the doctor is called Is a hot compress, which should contain some boracic acid if there is any in the house, it is probable that the majority of deaths due to septicaemia after burns would be prevented. For the whole alm and object of the local treatment is to prevent sepsis. Flour and olive oil may be soothing and may allay the pain, but there is no antiseptic property in them; rather they are excellent culture media for bacteria.—-London Hospital.

Why He Remembered.

The Lawyer (cross examining)—Now, what did you say jtour first name was? The Witness (cautiously) Waal, I was baptized John Henry. The Lawyer—You were, were you? How do you know you were? The Witness Waal, I was there, you know. The Lawyer—Huh! How do you know you were? The Witness—Why, I couldn’t have been baptized otherwise. And, besides, I think I can remember it quite well. The Lawyer—Ho, you do, do you? The Witness—Waal—er—yea. The Lawyer (deeply sarcastic)—Kindly explain to the court and jury, my friend with the phenomenal memory, how an Infant in arms came to remember that ceremony so well, wm you? . ; * The Witness—Waal—er—you see, I wasn’t baptised until I was eighteen years old.

The Jasper Savings & Trust Company HAS MOVED To its new and permanent location in the room formerly occupied by Long’s drug store. In our new and well arranged quarters we shall be better able to handle our constantly increasing business, and we solicit the patronage of the public who have occasion to do a banking : business, promising prompt and careful service. The public la invited to call and ace ua in our new quartern.

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The Anvil Chorus “Order is Heaven’s first law,” DeArmond’s work’s without flaw; “Instinct builds a nest that’s true,” DeArmond shapes the horse shoe. W. S. DeARMOND, Tefft, - - Indiana.

f Do you know that we can do business “f- 9 9 with Francis & Co., whether we have money or not, because they take anythingwe have ’ in trade, that is worth while trading. I can also say that they sell goods at the lowest figure, whether you buy for cash or trade, because we’ve compared them with other places. Their in the line of general merchandise. Give them a call. FRANCIS & CO.

The Garden Spot of Indiana Buy a Farm There While You Can Several thousand acres of land yet for sale in the “Gifford District” of Jasper county. Many of the farms are well improved with good buildings and the crops are there to show for themselves. Will sell on easy terms. Call on or write to me at once’if you want to get a farm in this garden spot of the state before prices of land double. Also have other lands for sale in Indiana and other states. , ED. OLIVER, Newland, - - - Indiana.

LUMBER We have never before been so entirely prepared to handle all departments of the building trade as we are this year. The prospect of increased building this year has caused us to lay in a larger line than at any previous period and we have the largest stock in the country. More than 25 cars received before April Ist. CEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, BRICK SEWER PIPE, RUBBER ROOFING, LADDERS. Beleiving that we can sell you vour bill for either new or repair work. we confidently ask that you call in and get prices. ; ESTIMATES ON ALL BILLS LARGE OR SMALL CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. THE RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. ! Acroee from Depot Telephone No. 4.

JQOTICB OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Jssper County, State of Indiana, administratrix of the estate of Wil* Uam H. Eger, Ute of Jasper County, de* ceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. MARY D. iORR, i Admini strati ix. February tS, MOB. '

For Sale:—Two good building lots in good residence location in Rensselaer, each 67x150 feet, well drained and set ont in fruit; cash or on time. Enquire at The Democrat office. Read The Democrat for news