Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — Page 3

A Word to Our Farmer Friends.

A manure spreader is a sure 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 encreagg 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 be had much more good 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 beslf 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 iMPORTAnOE. With my machine you know exactly what amount you are spreading. If

BANK STATEMENT. REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER. IND., FEBRUARY 14. 190 S RSBOURCBB. LIABILITIES. Loan.;■ 1258,070 79 Capital 5t0ck......... $60,000 00 U. S. and County Bonds! p 27,600 00 Surplus and Profits. .. 12,814 47 Real Estate—,. 9,450 00 Circulating Notes 15,(00 00 Cash 191,35869 Deposits 398.56597 $486,380 44 $486,(480 44 DIRECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON, E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH. President. Vics President.——Cashier. . JAMEST. RANDLE. CEO. B. MURRAY. STATEMENT * Report of the condition of The Jasper Savings & Trust Co., of Reneaelaer, Indiana, at the close of business on theDith day of February, 1908. RESOURCES, LIABILITIES, Loan* and Discounts 581,401 50 Capital stock paid in $25,000.00 County and Township Bonds 15,348 80 Surplus 2,500,06 Overdrafts ... 277 94 Discount, Exchange, InterFurniture and Fixtures 196.86 and fees 8,504 69 Due from banks and Trust Deposits on demand 113,397 21 Companies....... 47,479 07 Deposits on time 12,280 48 Cash on hand 8,572 23 Current Expenses 6,709 92 Interest Paid...... 1,606 06 Total Resources $161,682 88 Total Liabilities.3l6l,6B2 38 * State of Indiana > • County of Jasper) I. Judson J. Bunt. Secretary-Treasurer of the Jasper Savings A Trust Company, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. JUDSON J. HUNT, Secretary-Treasurer. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2Jth day of Feb. 1908, Mauds E. Spitler, Notary Public. My commission expires December, 14.1911.

MONEY TO LOAN We have money to loan at any time, and in any amounts to suit borrowers. Our specialty is loans on farms and city real estate for one, two, three, four or five years, with interest payable semi-annually, to suit borrower, and with the most liberal terms as to payments on part of principal. We aiso loan on personal security and chattel mortgage. KW*Don’t fall to see as before borrowing elsewhere. AUSTIN & HOPKINS FdflßfilS’ NlUlllfll ® nwe tsMciio,' ® Of Benton, White and Jasper Counties. HKPSZBBNTZD BY MARION 1. ADAMS, BBHSSBLABB. 188. Insurance in force Dec. 81,1906, 52.295.660.00. Increase for year 1906. $139,445.00. ,> We prompfly obtain U. 8. and Foreign • of Invention for ’ free report on patentability. For free book.

yon want six loads, set the lever, and you get six, not eight. Any of the machines will spread too much, very few will spread too little After spreading by hand almost every new beginner, being used to seeing the manure so thick on the ground, puts on too much 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 dothis 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.

Headache? If it does, you Should try Dr. Miles* Anti-Pain Pills. Why not do so. They will relieve the pain in just a few win, utes. Ask your druggist There are 45,000 druggists in the U. 8. Ask any of them. A package of 25 doses costs 25 cents. One tablet usually stops a headache. They relieve pain without leaving any disagreeable after-effects —isn’t that what you want? "My son Frank Snyder nas used Dr. Miles’ Antl-Paln Pills for a long time. He never had anything to help him bo much for headache. A year ago he came home, and I was down sick with such a dreadful nervous headache. He gave me one Of the Anti-Pain Pills, and after while I took another and was entirely relieved. I always keep them in the house now, and gave many away to others suffering with headache.’’ . MRS. LOUISE LKWELLYN, Powell, South Dakota _ Your druggist sells Dr. Mlles* AntlPaln Pills, and we authorize him to return the price of first package (only) If It falls to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind SEED CORN FOR SALE. I have several hundred bushels if 1906 corn of excellent quality for seed, either yellow or white, at H. 25 per bushel for selected ears Phis is as good corn as was raised n Jordan tp., in 1906. Wm Warhburn. tL, . Rensselaer. Ind

The Hoodoo Ring.

By INA WRIGHT HANSON.

Copyrighted, 1907, by Jessis Morgan.

“Pauline, I love you. Will you marry me or won’t you?” I made my little speech -desperately, with my eyes shut The silence was so long that I opened them to find Pauline with her own eyes shut aud her lips moving rap’ldly, but noiselessly. “What are you doing?” I inquired as calmly as I was able. “I was saying the protection charm for lovers,” she answered, smiling sweetly at me. “It’s lucky for you that you asked me” today. No more lucky days for me till the middle of next month.” “Oh, superstition, thy name is Pauline!” I said fondly. No matter what absurd ideas she had, she was the sweetest girl in the world. “Tomorrow I will bring the diamond,” I added after awhile. “Ob, no, please,” she answered promptly. “1 should rather have a ruby. Rubies exert a special protection in matters of love.” Next day when I entered the only jewelry store the place afforded I was wishing that my Pauline were not so superstitious. Of course 1 wanted her to be pleased, but diamonds seemed to me the only gems for betrothals. When I met her In her garden that night I fancied that she looked pale, and when I gave her the box I thought she seemed on the threshold of tears. “Open it, heart’s dearest,” I allured, not without some trepidation. But she put the box up her lace sleeve and began whispering to me of how she w-as ever prone to hold her pleasures a little while from her until she had tasted anticipation to the full, and she was so wonderfully entrancing that no mortal man could remember such mundane things as metal or brilliants in the soft symphonies of her feeling-swept voice. But there was a change in my sweetheart after that. v I had sometimes chafed over the necessity, when we were starting for somewhere and had only a brief time to get there in and had forgotten something, of being compelled, when we returned for it, to sit down till we had counted fifty, but this Pauline always laughingly Insisted on. Now she treated all signs seriously. She no longer laughed when we spilled

SPYING A LADDER LEANING AGAINST THE WALL, SHE WALKED UNDER IT.

the salt. She looked at me with fear in her eyes as she threw a pinch of it into the fire. She sometimes cried when I left her, as though my absence were to be an Indefinite thing instead of a time of hours, and when I came to her she often rejoiced, as though I were come from a far country, and through Ml these days she refused to wear my ring. One night I spoke sharply to her. “Pauline, take my ring from your sleeve, or the corner of your handkerchief, or your pompadour, or wherever you have concealed it, and put it in its rightful place,” I Insisted. “It’s in the house,” she faltered, looking at me With frightened eyes. “I’ll get it.” Returning, she placed the red leather box on the arbor table, and with her face wreathed in tragedy she began ts talk. “I looked at the rings in that store before you went in to get it There was only one ruby, as yon know, and I thought it beautiful, beautiful! I had told the man when I went In that 1 wasn’t going to buy, so he began to talk to me. He said he called the ruby his ‘hoodoo ring.’ He said a young man bought it first for his girl, but she jilted him before she ever saw the ring, so he brought it back, exchanging it for a diamond scarfpin. Then a man bought it for his daughter’s gift sbe. died, the week before, and he sold it for money to buy the poor child’s shroud. Wasn’t It dreadful, Harry? Then a mysterious veiled lady said she was going to buy it, but she'Suddenly disappeared and was never heard of after. "I went home in a dreadful state of mind. All day I was sending the mental suggestion to you not to buy that ring, but just before closing time I sneaked ip to look, and the ruby was

gone- i could not bring myself to tell you then that I didn't want it after you had been good enough to please me, for I knew you preferred a diamond, so I said I would forget its history. I compromised with evil and took, ft, but I have never opened the box." “You haven’t looked at the ring?” I exclaimed. “No. But just having it in my possession has done such awful things! First my poor kitten ate the poisoned meat, then my best loved vase fell to the floor when no one was near It and broke itself to pieces, I tore my best dress the first time I wore it, and you had the automobile accident.” “But I didn’t get hurt,” I objected. “Yes, but it’s a warning!” she walled. “I don’t want the ring, and I don’t want you to keep it, and it is a shame to make that poor man take it back. Let’s bury it somewhere, and you needn’t get me another. I will -be satisfied without an engagement ring.” Then I laughed. I couldn’t restrain myself any longer, and my poor girl’s wet eyes looked at me reproachfully. I picked up the box and touched the spring. She gave one long, earnest look at the sparkler, then looked wildly at me. “Why, It’s a diamond!” I nodded. I could do no more then. “Is that the ring I have been carrying around or hiding away for two mortal weeks?” I nodded again, helpless with laughter, and it was not long till Pauline laughed with me. Then she kissed the ring and slipped it on her finger. Next she went to the door of the arbor and looked deliberately at the moon over her left shoulder. Spying a ladder leaning against the wall, she walked under it. A rusty nail showed enticingly in the moonlight, but she did not turn it around. She came back to me, sat down and regarded me gravely. “I still have an unholy curiosity to know who did buy that ring and what it did to them ?” she said mournfully. “Oh, heart of mine,” I crooned, “can it be that you have lived for a whole summer in this place and. have yet to learn that that jewelry man fe known hereabout as Ananias Jones, although he was christened Henry? He just dotes on talking to pretty girls, and he has quite a genius for story telling. Figuratively speaking, my beloved, he sold you a gold brick.” Pauline sighed and removed her shoes. She placed the high heeled, absurd little articles on the table, regarding .them seriously. Then she put them on again, being careful to dress the left foot first “There! That’s the very worst one of them all,” she said in the tone the great man must have used when he had conquered his last world and there were no more of them. “There’s a worse onel” I cried in so mighty a voice that Pauline jumped. “Today week is Friday, the 13th. You wouldn’t dare let it be our wedding day?” I knew it was an unfair advantage, and I was about to take it all back when my blessed girl snuggled herself into my delighted arms. “I might dare, Harry,’* she whispered, “but wouldn’t you as lief It would be a day sooner?”

Trespassing.

Inventive genius seldom achieves success at the first attempt A half grown boy In Pennsylvania, who had devoted his leisure hours for many months to the making of a milking machine of his own devising, at last completed it to his satisfaction and resolved to make a trial of it Without saying a word to any one he carried his machine down from the attic, where he had wrought patiently day after day to bring it to perfection, and took it out to the barnyard, where old Cherry, the family cow, stood placidly chewing her cud, with her big, lusty calf playing round her. A few minutes later his mother saw him trying to re-enter the house unseen. He was covered with dirt from head to foot and in a state of demoralization generally. In his hand he was carrying something that looked like the wreck of a toy battleship. “For mercy’s sake, Jud,” she exclaimed, “what have you been doing?” “I’ve been trying my milking machine on the cow,” he said. “Your milking machine? Good land! Did the cow do all that to you?” “No,” answered Jud. “Old Cherry would have stood for it air right. It was the calf that—er—kind o’ seemed to object to the machine.”—Youth’s Companion.

The Discovery of Bret Harte.

A copy of the Overland Monthly had fallen into my hands, and I was exceedingly interested In a sketch, “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” by an author whose name I had never before heard. I asked Mr. Fields to read it, and he cared more for it even than I, being much older and wiser, and be very soon dictated a letter to Mr. Harte, begging him to send something to the Atlantic. The reply, which came in due time, I think, not only expressed a willingness to become a contributor, but spoke of the writer’s probable departure from California. I cannot say how long it was before the Harte family reached Poston and became the guests of Mr. Howells in Cambridge. I only know that it was the time when every man was quoting from “The Heathen Chinee” and generally carrying...the verses in bls pocketbook. There was, I thought, a good deal of curiosity felt about the office as to the sort of man the suddenly popular author Would prove to be. He was found good looking and exceedingly well dressed, extremely self possessed, with a gracefully friendly and even affectionate manner to the new business and literary acquaintances of his Own age in the establishment, with whom be speedily became intimate.—Atlantic \ • --i- - —_

The Jasper Savings & Trust Company HAS MOVED V ■' . 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 Is Invited to cell end see us In our now quarters.

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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.

• with Francis & Co., whether we have money or not, because they take any thing we 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 your bill for either new or repair work, we confidently ask that you call in and get prices. ESTIMATES QN ALL BILLS LARGE OR SMALL CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. THE RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. Across from Depot. TelephonaZNo. 4.

eggs for hatching. S. L. Wyandatt and R. I. Reds, 15 for 50 cents at house, No. 1 laying strain. Mrs. J. B. Thompson, Remington, Ind., ’Phone 26. Subscribe for the Democrat

For Sale:—Two good builds ing lots in good residence location in Rensselaer, each 67x160 feet, well drained and set ont in fruit; cash or on time. Enquire at The Democrat office. Read The Democrat for nrwn