Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1908 — Page 7

Special values, for September f Ladles’ and Misses’ tailored Aults and cloaks at the Chicago Bargain Store. FULL BLOOD SHORTHORN BULLS FOR SALE. One excellent 2-year-old and two yearlings. Also farms to rent, possession given either fall or spring. S. P. THOMPSON. ’Phone 37. Rensselaer, Ind. FARM FOR SALE. 109 acres, 4% miles of Remington, school house on corner, near stone road, R. F. D. and telephone, fair buildings, good well of water, black loam sdil, fairly well tiled, good orchard. Price S7O per acre. FRANK BARTOO, R k R. 4. Remington, Indf Epilepsy, Fits * Convulsions, or Spasms and St. Vitus’ Dance are Nervous Diseases. Most cases can be cured by strengthening and building up the nervous system. To do this a nerve medicine is needed. Dr. Miles’ Nervine will be found efficacious and satisfactory. It has tured many cases of these diseases and we believe it will cure you. We can give you names of many who nave been cured through its use. Write for advice. "My son John had epilepsy for years, and after having him treated by specialists for over 2 years he still continued to have spells. I had almost given up in despair, but knowing the virtue of Dr. Miles’ Anti-P&ln Plus for sick headache. I concluded to try the Nervine. During June, 1906, I £ve him a teaspoonful three times a y, then in July I gave it as directed, and I could see that he was improving, and he has not had a spell since August 28, 1906, and has taken no medicine since Jan.-07. I am writing the case just as it is hoping it will Induce others to try It.” W. R. ALLISON. Mooresville, N. C. Your druggist sells Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and we authorize him to return price of first bottle (only) If It fails to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind mm C DEALER IN C ill 111 It® li Catl \ RENSSELAER, IND. \ §ou are respectfully inbtteb to call *,t our office for tfje purpose of examining samples anb taking prices of €ngrabeb Calling Carbs, limitations, etc. <&ur toorfc tfje best, styles tfje latest anb prices tfje lotoest. REVIVO gp9 vitality “Hade a 1 Well Man omllt of Me '” Jt-c33 A- AtjuTVi IHfllnj xT produces fine results In 30 days. It sou powerfully and quickly. Cures when others fail. Young meu can regain their lost manhood, and old men may recover their youthful vigor by using HRVIVO. It quickly and quietly removes Nervousness, Lost Vitality, Sexual Weakness such as Lost Power, Falling Memory, Wasting Diseases, and effects of self-abuse or excess and Indiscretion, which unfits one for study, business or marriage It not only cures by starting at the seat of disease, but la a great nerve tonic and blood bnllder, bringing back the pink slow to pale cheeks and restoring the fir* of yonth. It wards off approaching disease. Insist on having ItKVIVO, so other. It can be carried In vest pocket. By mall, SI.OO per package, or six for (S.OO. We give free od«ine and counsel to all who wish it, with gmarkA.ee. Circulars free. Address «OYAL MEDICINE CO.. Marine Bldg.. Chicago, lU. For sale in Rensselaer by J. A. Larsh, druggist. ■Mr. MAKER'S “I mm hair balsam .And be*utifie§ the hair. - rrqtnoteM a luxuriant growtn.

The SPORTING WORLD

Larned Four Time Tennia Champion. Year after year the lawn tennia folks wonder whether William A. Larned Isn’t ever going to get too old to win cups, championships and other things. But William doesn’t. His recent victory marked the fourth holding of the all comers title In singles for Larned. And that at forty years of age! In a way the recent match was the repeti-

WILLIAM A. LARNED, NATIONAL TENNIS CHAMPION.

tlon of his first winning of the title In 1901, when he met and defeated Beals Wright in the final and took the honors by the default of Malcolm D. Whitman. The next year Larned defended successfully against Reginald F. Doherty of the English cup team, but lost m 1903 to the doughty little Hugh L. Doherty. He regained his title last year by defeating William J, Clothier. The latter had previously taken his championship by defeating Wright, w ho stood in the place of challenger recently.

Changes In Basket Ball. Collegiate basket ball will be an entirely different game next season as a result of changes made in the playing rules by the collegiate basket ball rules committee at its annual meeting. Last season there was much criticism because of rough playing in the championship series, and the rules committee instead of doing the expected and making rules to prevent roughness has done the opposite. The most important change is to make legal a basket scored by a throw after a dribble. This was done, it was announced, with the object of making the game more popular. It will ainoug a certain class, and It will also make the game rougher than ever played and one that will make football mild by comparison.

Heidrick May Get $5,000. Emmett Ileldrick. star outfielder, quit the St. Louis Browns of the American league three years ago to go Into the coal business with his father in Pennsylvania. The Browns made him many tempting offers to get him back into the game, but Emmett was too busy helping pop make money. But the recent commercial depression must have hit the coal business in Pennsylvania, for Ileldrick Is again earning money as a ball player. He recently rejoined the Browns and will play the outfield the rest of the season. It is reported that Manager Jimmy McAleer has contracted to pay Heidrick a $5,000 salary for the last seven weeks of the season.

Halstead May Retire. J. P. Halstead of Cornell university, the most sensational one mile runner Ameriea has seen since the days of Tommy Conneff. is going to retire from the track. This piece of news, unwelcome though it Is. is vouched for by a member of the Olympic games party to whom Halsted confided his Intentions shortly after the London games were over. Halsted made no secret of the fact that he was sorely disappointed at his luck In London, both on account of the stomach trouble that affected his running and the “unfortunate” heat drawings that paired him against Mel Sheppard in his very first effort

Lajoie Praises Goode. Manager Lajoie of the Cleveland Americans Is loud In his praise of Wilbur Goode, the former left handed pitcher of the New York team who is now playing center field for the Naps. Lajoie thinks him the best looking youngster he has seen, and unless his showing in the recent games is a mere flash in the pan he believes that he has corralled a great player.

Record Breaker For the Reds. By shutting out Little Rock recently Ralph Savidge. the linger nail curver purchased by the Cincinnati Nationals, created a season's record In the Southern league with but one run allowed la forty-five consecutive Innings.

Refuses $40,000 For Allen Winter. M. H. Reardon, owner of Allen Winter, wlnuer of the Readvllle Derby, the richest purse ever hung up for trotting horses, recently refused an offer of $40,000 for the animal. Cardinals Buy Osteen. 1 Shortstop Osteen of the Fort Wayne Central league team has been landed by the St. Louis Nationals.

FOR THE CHILDREN

When tho Elephant Bnoezod. Superstitious showmen say that when an elephaut sneezes it is a sign of luck. It is an interesting spectacle anyhow. One morning when Jolly, a zoo elephant, sneezed all the zoo attendants took n vacation to laugh. Everything was quiet In the zoo when somebody shouted: “Look out! The elephant’s going to sneeze!” All the attendants deserted their posts and ran to look. Jolly had drawn up bis sides until his back was bumped. Ills tall was stiffly horizontal. His mouth was open, his eyes shut, while tears us large as peanuts rolled down his leathery face. There was a great drawing up of the sides, a long continued convulsion, a trembling of the floor and then an explosion like the report of the Boer cannon Long Tom at Ladysmith. Half a bucket of water shot out In a stream toward the monkeys’ cage, while the elephant’s legs trembled as he prepared for a second sneeze. There was a rumbling like that of an earthquake and a volcanic crack. All the animals set up a roar, and every monkey screamed The qnagga brayed, and the kangaroo barked. The leopards snarled, and Prince Tiny Mite nearly tumbled off his platform. Jolly had been known to sneeze only twice before since he came to the zoo. —London Mail.

A Good Trick. Take a string ftbout eighteen Inches long and tie the two ends securely together. Pass one end through one of the rings of a pair of scissors, then thread the other eml through It and after that through the other handle or ring of the scissors. Now hang the scissors up by the string, which is knotted at the end. The trick is to get the string off the scissors or the scissors off the string without touching the knotted end of the string. It seems Impossible, yet It is quite easy. The way to do it is to pull the loop loose from the one handle of the scissors, pass it through the other handle In exactly the reverse way to the way It was brought through in the first place, puli it through until It is long enough to carry it over the scissors and bring it around back to the handle from whietr you started.

A Mystery of Plant Life. Of all the mysteries of plant life the greatest perhaps is the power that various sjteeimens have of drawing from the same soil secretions that are of a wholly opposite chemical nature. Of half a dozen plants growing in the same soil, surrounded by the same air, supplied with the same water and living under precisely the same conditions in every respect one will give man food, another will give him medicine, another a delicate perfume, another a disgusting odor and another a poison will kill him. The scientists have solved many of the problems of nature, but this is one that they have almost given up. It is. indeed, as the scientists themselves confess, one of the most perplexing in the universe, yet they do'not despair of solving It one of these days.—Chicago News.

Knotty Problems. A fanner moving has a fox, a goose and a basket of corn. He comes to a river, and the l>oat will carry only the farmer and one of his charges. Now. if he leaves the fox and goose alone the fox will eat the goose, and if lie leaves the goose and corn alone the goose will eat the corn. How can he safely take them all across the river? He must take the goose over, come back and take the fox over; bring the goose back, take the corn over and come back for the goose. A l>oy driving home some ducks was asked how many he had. He replied, “When in line there are two ducks ahead of a duck and two ducks behind a duck and one duck In the middle. How many ducks had he? Answer, three ducks.

Making a Blue Print. If you have ever been lu an architect’s office you have doubtless noticed on the wall or on tables plans of houses printed in white lines on a blue background. Many persons wonder how prints of that kind are made. The printing is doue by sunlight, much as a photograph is printed from a negative. Specially prepared paper Is used for the purpose. Architects’ tracing paper, with the plan in black, is laid on the prepared paper, and the whole Is then exposed to the sun, the effect being to turn the body of the paper blue, leaving the parts under the black lines of the drawing light in color. A water bath then darkens the blue and whitens the transferred lines of the drawing.

Digging In the Sand. I am digging, digging, digging. Just as fast asT can. I am digging In the sand by the sea. For I think that down below Where the palms and Ilona grow A little boy Is digging up to me. He Is digging, digging, digging. Just as fast as he can. He is digging in the desert hot and dry, And if he doesn't stop While I work at the top We shall tunnel through the world, he and I. I am digging, digging, digging, and the sun is nearly set. I am digging, but the bell has rung for tea. Oh, suppose while I’m away The waves come up to play—- • They often do—how dreadful that wouH be! I am digging, digging, digging, and I’m hungry as caq be. But I must 1111 the hole before I go. For the waves are creeping near, And I have a dreadful fear Lest they should catch the little boy below! —Youth’s Companion.

Farm and Garden

FOUL CLOVER SEED. Makes It Plain Where the Weed Crop Comee From. The Connecticut experiment station is doing a greut work in testing clover seed. It obtained fifty-one samples of the seed just as it is sold by Connecticut seed dealers. These samples were tested for weed seeds and also to see what per ceht of the clover seed would sprout. The result of the test shows that only one-sixth of the seed as sold was tit to use. Three samples were adulterated with a worthless plaut, and forty-one had more or less dodder, the most dangerous weed or parasite which can get into the crop. Few days pass without a complaint from some one who finds the dodder in his clover. Samples are often sent in showing the clover plants strangled by a pest which twines around them and sucks their life away. The cut shows a mild form of the affliction. Think of putting the seeds of this curse into the ground wbeu you seed your clover! Yet that i» just what is being done when we buy ordinary clover seed. In one sample of this Connecticut clover seed 6,441 seeds of the dodders

DODDER ON CLOVER PLANT.

were iu one pound of clover seed. In that same sample there wex - e 12,769 seeds of plantain, 1,695 of foxtail, 1,017 of sorrel. 226 of bindweed, 2,147 of lamb’s quarters, 1,808 of wild carrot, 226 of curled dock, 1,243 of tumbleweed and many others, making a total of 44,522 weed seeds in a pound. In another sample there were 78,604 weed seeds in one pound sold as clover seed. Just imagine what a farmer does when he sows six or eight pounds of such stuff on an acre! Another thing was the low quality of the clover itself. It has been demonstrated that the heaviest seeds give the strongest plants during early growth and in most cases largest yields. This Connecticut bulletin states that clover seed of average quality should run 302,000 to the pound. While lighter seed may give a greater number of plants, a greater proportion of tffein would die out or do poorly. In twenty-six out of fifty-one samples the seeds weighed less than the standard. As for vitality, the average of these fifty-one Connecticut samples was 86.0 per cent—that is, the number out of a hundred strong enough to put out a sprout. One sample showed only 64.2 per cent of seeds with any life to them. One sample was so poor that only 48.1 per cent of the seed was clover, and only 84 per cent of that would sprout. Ttiree samples were evidently adulterated with black medic. Seed of this plant is imported from Germany expressly to adulterate clover seed. It is so much like clover seed that an expert is needed to detect it. In one sample there were 11,615 seeds of dodder in one pound of clover. With a seeding of eight pounds per acre this means two seeds of dodder to each square foot, and tests prove that this dodder is not dead seed.

Hints to Mushroom Growers. In turning up a portion of a bed maggots may be discovered iu the manure. A few may do no perceptible harm, but a large number will eat up the spawn, leaving uot even a thread to develop a single mushroom. Many kiuds of insects are apt to swarm in warm cellars, together with the egg laying varieties which cause the maggots, regardless of foul air which may often accumulate and which is an injury to the mushrooms. In each succeeding bed in large cellars insects follow up the new beds and become more vigorous. A high temperature such as we bad last fall Is conducive to their continued existence In summer garb. A good crop, however, can be secured in spite of them when the houses are kept at al’ times cool. When mushrooms are grown in glass houses the return pipes are best run under the walks. In the usuah way of heating, where the pipes run under the benches, paper placed 'over the beds will be found beneficial as a protector from excessive heat and drying. With good, vigorous spawn, properly prepared compost and care about the requirements of heat and moisture, a good crop is a positive certainty. Tberte are garden crops equal to if not surpassing the mushroom as money makers to the producer, but no on* need complain of well managed mushrooms. —~

FOR THE HOUSEWIFE

For Tan and Fraeklaa. The following is efficacious In removing tan and freckles and is cooling to the skin: Tincture of benzoin, one ounce; tincture of musk, two drams; tincture of ambergris, four drams; rectified spirits, five ounces; orange flower water, one and one-quarter pints. Another cream that is highly recommended to prevent and remove freckles and discoloration, soften and whiten the skin and prevent roughness is the following: Fure honey, four ounces; glycerin, one ounce; rectified spirits, one ounce; citric acid (pure), three drams; essence of ambergris, six drops. Mix the honey and glycerin by gentle heat, add the acid and then the essence of spirits, When the first mixture is cool put the two together and agitate until well mingled. These mixtures are good for the hands as well as the face.

Hanging Pictures. Never hang pictures against a background of figured wall paper unless the figures are small and indistinct. If the design is large and stands out it is better to hang no pictures whatever on the walls. Plain side walls make the best background for pictures, especially if the color is in one of the tints of gray or tan. Few pictures look well If hung high. Portraits especially should be hung on a level With the eyes. Do not hang in close proximity water colors and oil paintings or paintings and engravings.

A Cooking Hint. Fruit will retain Its shape better If la cooking four or five large marbles are placed in the bottom of the vessel before the fruit is put in it. When the contents begin to boll, the motion causes ihe marbles to roll about and keeps the fruit from burning. This marbles can be used quite as satisfactorily in making jam and catchup as in cooking fruit of any kind. Some persons use a silver dollar for the same purpose.

A Simple Door Check. All that is required for a screen door check to keep it from slamming is a small rubber ball that can be purchased for a few cents. A stout cord is attached to the rubber ball and bung on a nail driven into the door casing. It

SCREEN DOOR CHECK.

is hung at such a point that only a portion of the ball extends in the doorway, as showq in Fig. 1. Fig. 2 shows the door striking the ball and Fig. 3 the ball swinging clear of the door when the door is closed.

Value cf Whole Cloves.

Sprinkled among iVvs and woolens and under earpets and rugs, they will be found effective if not superior to the ill smelling moth preparations. And if the housekeeper who superintends the canning of her fruit will put a quarter teaspoonful of whole cloves on top of the thin cloth which many wisely place over the hot fruit before put ting on the lid she will not be annoyed witlf*the molding of her fruit.

The Dinner Table.

The most elegant and attractive dinner tables are seldom the most elaborate ones. Linen which lias the gloss of good laundering, china and silver which shine from perfect care and a few flowers or a jardiniere of ferns in the center make a more Impressive dinner table than the more elaborate ones ornamented with lace and ribbons and expensive centerpieces.

Pillow For an Invalid.

To prevent l»ed sores and insure a comfortable bed make a pillow that will reach from shoulder to hips, not too wide, of some smooth material, such as sateen, etc. Fill with whole flaxseed. This will never lump or get hot or l>e In any way uncomfortable. Split Hair. . A hair which is split at the end has ceased to grow. All split hairs should be cut off for several Inches to make them healthy. Singeing Is better than cutting, but one must W experienced before attempting the latter method. To Wash Cut Glass. It is necessary to have a soft brush In order to keep the cracks and crevices of cut glass perfectly clean. Wash in hot water with soapsuds and ammonia, rinse in clear cold water and wipe dry with a very soft cloth. Household Hints. If comforts and quilts are dried in a food stiff breeze they will be as light and fluffy as when new. Colored French hnndkercblefs will not fade if they are dipped in salt water before the usual washing. Saits of ammonia mixed with lime will take out stains of wine from silks. Spirits of turpentine is equally good for the same purpose. Gum arable starch is obtained by pouring boiling water over the gam arable, then diluting It to the righLeons Is tenay. It is an excellent starch for pieces that are starched to dry and mast not he ironed.

BIG STOCK SALE. The undersigned will offer at Public Sale at their residence % mile East of Kniman, 14 miles North and 1% miles East of Rensselaer, 4 miles West and 3 miles South of Wheatfleld, 10 miles East of Roselawn, known as the old Fred Meiaer farm, commencing at 10 a. m., on TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1008. The following described property, to wit: 30 HEAD OF CATTLE—ConsistJKF ing of 10 good Milch Cows, three and four years old, all giving milk and all with calf; 2 three-year-old Steers; 7 two-year-old Steers; 2 yearling Steers; 1 fine roan Bull, three years old. 50 HEAD THROUGHBRED POLAND CHINA HOGS —Consisting of 1 Sow, weight 200 pigs four weeks old; 1 wKSmßimm Sow weight pounds, with 7 pigs four weeks old; 2 Sows weighing 200 pounds each with 7 pigs one week old; 2 Sows weighing 150 pounds each, to farrow Oct. 20; 1 fine Poland China Boar, weight 150 pounds; 14 Shoats four months old, weight 80 pounds each. ONE DUN BRONCO—Mare, ten years old, weight pounds, in foal to coach horse and service settled for. 21 HEAD OF FINE GEESE. Terms—A credit of ten months will be given on sums over $lO, without interest if paid when due; 6 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. J. W. HILL & SON, John F. Pettet, Auctioneer. Buzz Marble, Clerk. Hot Lunch on Grounds. Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. I-aw, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice In all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Arthur H. Hopkins, Law, .Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farm and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire Insurance. Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING. LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over Chicago Department Store. RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Irwin. S. C. Irwin. Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real Estate and Insurance. 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER. IND. Frank Foltz C. G. Spitler. Foltz & Spitler (Successors to Thompson & Bro.l ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER. IND. Chas. M. Sands LAWYER Law, Collections and Abstracts. Office: Room 1. I. O. O. F. Building. Office Phone No. 140. RENSSELAER, - IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs In Durand Block. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Indiana. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 118. M. D. Gwin, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. Office opposite Postoffice, In Murray’s new bulldlngi PHONE 205, day or night. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon. RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Dr. E. N. Loy HOMEOPATHIST Office in rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Hartseil. Office phone 89, residence 189. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. TYPEWRITER PAPERS. The Democrat handles several different grades of typewriter papers in legal size form, put up la neat pasteboard boxes so that It may be kept clean, and corners do not get turned or soiled. We cut thin paper from flat stock in any quantity desired. We invite an inspection of thfci class of paper from users of typewriters and from attorneys.