Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1909 — Page 8

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTY. BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

EGYPT. Harry Cook visited at Joe Galey’• Monday night. Mrs. Charles Antcliff la on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Antcliff visited Charles Antcliff’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh visited at Geo. Kennedy’s Sunday. Hazel Blake of Wabash is visiting at D. V. Blake’s this week. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Beese spent New Year’s with M. A. Dewey’s. Miss Florence Antcliff returned home from her visit at Preston, 111. Misses Lucy and Hazel Blake visited the Egypt school Tuesday afternoon. Charles Antcliff and W. F. Michaels butchered hogs Tuesday and Wednesday. Jesse Dunn, who has been very sick with pneumonia is better at this writing. Several from this vicinity attended the proctacted meeting held by Rev. Bundy at Mt. Hope.

Besides 90 large cups from*each 25c package of Dr. Shoop’s Health Coffee, I now put in a 25c. clever silvered “No-Drip” Coffee Strainer Coupon. Look for it! The satisfaction of Health Coffee is, besides, most perfect. Made only from pure toasted cereals, malt, nuts, etc. Sold by John Eger.

SOUTH UNION. Charley Burns is on the sick list. Miss Ruth Bundy is on the sick list this week. > Mrs. Pete Hordeman did shopping in Rensselaer this week. Frank McCurtain of Parr went to South Dakota Tuesday. Mr. Brown of South America oalled on Chas. Burns Sunday eve. Comer & Casey shipped a carload of hogs Wednesday evening from Parr. Mrs. Amos Alter visited her mother, Mrs. Frank Lakin, one day this week. Rev. Bundy of Rosebud is holding a series of meetings at Mt. Hope this week. Hally Alter and Miss Jose Dexter took dinner with Miss Nettie Davisson Sunday. South Dakota shipped a few carloads of snow up in our locality Wednesday, by mistake. Clarence Pierson and Miss Gladys Harrington attended Sunday school at Good Hope Sunday. Mrs. Homer Stanley visited Mrs. Wm. Wilcox Sunday morning and attended Sunday school at Good Hope. Dall Gunyon and wife visited the former’s parents Sunoay. Mr. Gunyon’s grandmother of Monon was there; * Cooney Hildebrand of Pleasant Ridge came down .to help his brother-in-law, Pete Hardeman, butcher one day last week, out owing to the warm weather they defrred butchering until some future time. Mr. Hildebrand returned home on the milk train. A joint birthday surprise was held at Newt. Gunyon’s home Saturday evening in honor of his son, Virgil, and daughter Goldie. A very nice time was had by all. Light refreshments were served and the guests departed at a late hour, wishing them many more such birthdays.

Brave Fire Laddies often receive severe burns, putting out fires, then use Buden’s Arnica Salve and forget them. It soon drives out pain. For Burns, Schlds, Wounds, Cuts and Bruises ltd earth’s greatest healer. Quickly cures Skin Eruptions, Old Sores, Boils, Ulcers, Felons; best Pile cure made. Relief is instant. 25c at A. F. Long’s.

FOUR CORNERS. Simon Fendig is on the sick list this week. Effie Fisher is visiting relatives in Wabash and Grant counties. Mrs. E. W. Allen of Wheatfield is on the sick list at this writing. What Wheatfield needs is a firstclass butcher shop. Who wants the place? Win. Fitzgerald of Kankakee tp., was in Wheatfield Monday getting his horses shod. Chas. Gerber and family returned home Monday after a week’s visit with relatives and friends. We hear that Tom McCoy is to be pardoned or parolled in a few days. Why not let him serve his time? D. M. Hubbard of LaFontaine, lnd.,_ returned to his nome after a few days visit with Dave Wesner and family. Zero weather and Roosevelt’s message to congress made their appearance this week, which has caused some to shiver. The schools of Kankakee and Wheatfield townships are once more in running order, with the newly elected trustees in charge. Neal Clager and Otto Miller started for Oklahoma Monday. They will work on a large ranch, as they have contracts toat insures them work. Prof. Owens, who taught at Wheatfield last year but is now attending school at Valpo, was a visitor at the Hilleard home in Tefft Saturday and Sunday. The revival now being held at Wheatfield at the HL B. church will be continued all of this week. Quite a number have united with the

church and a great deal of interest is being manifested. Let the good work go on. Fish Gilmore of Lacross was looking for a location for a saloon at Wheatfield. He will find a remonstrance as the people of Wheatfield have not been idle, and put on file this week a remonstrance with over a 100 names. James Jones moved from the Shoppell farm last week and is now occuplng the house made vacant by Bert Vandercar, on the Fitzgerald farm. Bert is feeding cattle on the old Nels Morris ranch. One more move west and Bert will be out of Kankake tp.

If you will take Foley’s Orino Laxative until the bowels become regular you will not have to take purgatives constantly, as Foley’s Orino Laxative positively cures chronic constipation and sluggish liver. Pleasant to take. A. F. Long.

LEE. Miss Merle Carrothers is home on a short visit. Mrs. Thos. Spencer was at Lee Monday forenoon. Miss Tillie Kopka visited her mother over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Hugues visited over Sunday at Q. A. Jacks’. Mrs. Dodd spent a few days at Monon the past week. Josie Stultz of McCoysburg visited Dollie Jacks over Sunday. Will Rishling took a load of wood to Monon Tuesday. Mort Deardorff has been called to Peru this week on business. Tommy Conger, our teacher, stayed Tuesday night with Sam Noland. T. P. Jacks has had his straw pressed and is carring it here at Lee. Charley McCashen’s moved this week to the Carlos farm near Jim Tyler’s place. Jink Johnson and family and Fred Rishling and wife took dinner Sunday at Lute Jacks’. Mr. and Mrs. Mann are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs| Fred Stiers the past week. Arthur Williamson took a load of buckwheat to Monon Monday to have made into flour. Mrs. Josie Anderson has been helping to take care of her mother the past few days, at Mr. Deardorff’s. Rev. Simonsln begun a series of meetings at the church Tuesday evening. Everybody cordially to attend. Wesley Noland has bought William Gray’s property here and Mr. Gray will move to Rensselaer in the spring. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks attended church here Sunday morning and then took dinner with Alvin Clark and family. Orville Holeman and Elmer Gilmore drove Saturday morning to Ray Holeman’s near Monticello and returned Sunday afternoon. Sunday Jim Foster and Miss Ollie and Grace Vanderwort of east of Monon, and Miss Lora Culp, took dinner at Mrs. Holeman’s.

Cassie Holeman who spent her vacation week visiting relatives and friends here, has returned to her home near Monticello and taken up her high school work again. We have a new barber in town, George Swager, a nephew of Mrs. William Gray. He has started business in the small store building south of the railroad, belonging to Fred Stiers. Word has been received here that Arthur Parcels and family arrived at Friona, Texas, on Thursday at 1 o’clock, after leaving here Tuesday morning. They were tired, but had a very pleasant trip. Little Wallace Jacks, son of O. A. Jacks, who has been suffering for several weeks with what they thought to be rheumatism, is no better. Doctor Turfler O* Rensselaer called Wednesday evening. Last Friday evening the League gave a supper at the hall, consisting of oyster soup, vegetable soup, pie and cake, and they also gave a nice entertainment with the phonograph and violin. , Several good selections were rendered by a number of people. There was a large crowd, and the league took In a good sum of money. The proceeds go for the expense of keeping up the church building.

No need to be afraid to attend the Princess Theater—it has been examined by the fire chief and pronounced absolutely safe.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Born Wednesday, Dec. 30, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Seward of Leesburg, a boy. James Burns is preparing to go to a Chicago hospital for an operation, to have a tumor removed. Miss Deesle Fleming came up from Goodland Thursday evening for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Harris Martin. Mrs. Cora Stiers and children, of Lee, visited here a few days last week with Rev. Noland and family. Chas. Penwright and daughter Opal went over near Rensselaer last Saturday for a visit with the former’s mother. It is reported that a Rensselaer high school girl defined crowbar as "one *o them ’ere things that is used in raisin’ hay into a barn." Miss Leona Dunlap was reported to have been quite sick for the

pasts week, bnt lately showing signs past week, bnt lately is showing signs of Improvement. Jake Hockstetler left Sunday for Newcastle, Ind., where he will work in an automobile factory. Jake said that he would return in about two weeks in possession of a big red automobile. | Mrs. Geo. Brown and her mother, Mrs. Ollie Seward, left Saturday for Leesburg, for a visit with Fred Seward and family and Frank Doty and family. Mrs. Brown will return in a few. days but Mrs. Seward will remain there throughout the winter. ' We understand the temperance faction of this township have perfected an organization after the order of the Good Citizens League, for, the purpose of combatting the forces that make for evil. A permanent fund has been subscribed, which goes to show tnat they are in earnest and mean to carry on the work so well begun. There is some talk in different parts of the county of starting a petition for an election under the county option plan, but no action has been taken along that line as yet.

The tender leaves of a harmless lung-healing mountainous shrub, give Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy its marvelous curative properties. Tight, tickling, or distressing coughs, quickly yield to the healing, soothing action of this splendid prescription—Dr. Shoop’s Cough Remedy. And it is so safe and good for children, as well. Containing no opium, chloroform, or other harmful drugs, mothers should in safety always demand Dr. Shoop’s. If other remedies are offered, tell them No! Be your own judge! Sold by All Dealers.

Black Langshans Exclusively—l,000 birds to select from; prices right, circulars free. Come to the show at Rensselaer Jan. 18 to 23 and see some of my birds. WM. HERSHMAN, R-R-l. Medaryville, Ind. SIMPLE REMEDY FOR LAGRIPPE. Racking la grippe coughs that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar. The sore and inflamed lungs are healed and strengthened, and a dangerous condition is quickly averted. Take only Foley’s Honey and Tar in the yellow package. A. F. Long. Another case (40,000) of those good business envelopes just rereceived at The Democrat office. Leave your next order for envelopes with us and get entire satisfaction. NOTICE. The Farmers Mutual Insurance Association of Benton, Jasper and White counties will hold their annual meeting Saturday, Jan. 9, 1909, in the K. of P. Hall, Remington, Ind. Forenoon session 11 o’clock a. m. W. H. CHEADLE, Pres. F. E. FISHER, Sec. Overcoats of all descriptions and also suits at just what they cost us wholesale. Don’t forget the time and the place. DUVALL & LUNDY. FOR SALE:—3-year old roan gelding, weight 1300; 1 pure bred Holstein bull calf. WM. AUGSPURGER, R-R. 3. Phone 515-G. Rensselaer, Ind. Now is the time to buy yourself an overcoat or suit as we are selling them at just what they cost us wholesale. Think how much you can save on either. Be sure and inspect our line before buying. DUVALL & LUNDY. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS* MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the regular annual meeting of the stockholders of The Jasper Savings and Trust Company, of Rensselaer, Ind., will be held at the office of said company in Rensselaer, Ind., on Wednesday, January 6, 1909, at 7 o’clock p. m. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Pres. JUDSON J. HUNT, Secy.-Treas. All wool shirts at greatly reduced prices. All sizes from 14 to 18%. Call and see them. DUVALL & LUNDY. FOR EXCHANGE AND SALE. 400 acre finely improved farm. 8. E. Indianapolis. Want large stock of goods. 160 acres, Jasper county, well improved, stone road two sides, well drained. A-l farm. Want stock hardware. $12,000. 80 acres, Jasper county. (East). Improved. Want stock groceries, 15,000. Clear. We have farms for telty rentals. Also several fine residences in good towns for farm. If you have anything for sale or exchange, call and see us. From present indications we believe farms will be in demand at good prices. So call and list your farms with us. We are doing the business. 1 nice 5-room cottage, two halls, closets, newly papered and painted, all in nice repair, no incumbrance, located in the city of Anderson, Ind. Want a good small tract of land for this. Here is a chance for a nice home. Well rented. Have a |6,000 stock of goods, such as house furnishings, queensware, glassware, chinaware, stoves, notions, etc., etc. Bedsteads, matresses, comforts, sheets, pillows, etc. In fact, everything in house furnishings. Want farm. We are open for business and we are ready to act. We fully contxpl all we handle, and we do the business. C. P. WRIGHT A SON, K. of P. Building. Read ”Tbe Round-Up.”

NEARLY 2,000 IN ONE BIG GRAVE

Impressive Ceremony In Messina Burying Place. RUINS BLESSED AS TOMBS - . t Records Kept In Messina City Hail Are Burned—Men Under Direction of Major Landis Are Searching for the Bodies of Consul Cheney and WifeSearch for Survivors Is Still Going On—Bodies of the Dead Burled In Quicklime. Messina, Jan. B.—Earthquake shocks still continue here at the rate of about ten per hour. Fire also has again broken out, completing the destruction of the city hall and all the records stored there. A most impressive funeral ceremony was witnessed at Messina when Archbishop Barrigo made his'Way through the ruins of the city to the cemetery at Mare Grosso and blessed a grave 100 feet wide and thirty feet deep, containing 1,800 bodies. The dead were piled one on top of the other and covered with quicklime. The prelate was followed to the cemetery by a large gathering of survivors whose lamentations mingled with the Latin words of the service and benediction.

Subsequently the archbishop walked through the ruins and blessed the milh tary hospital, the. military college, the barracks and the archibshop’s house, considering these wrecked edifices as so many cemeteries. Under them were the corpses of soldiers, students, policemen and monks. All the valuables found among the ruins are being taken on board the steamer Duca di Genoa in the bay. Currency to the amount of $3,600,000, including the contents of the safe of the Sicilian-American bank, was transferred to this vessel. A banker named Mauromati. who was one of the richest residents, lost everything. v He went to the authorities barefooted and half clothed, and asked for a pair of shoes and an overcoat. One House Quake Proof.

Writing from Messina, Signor Bertollnl, minister of public works, says only one house in Messina is habitable. It was constructed by a reputed eccentric, who for years past has been strengthening his residence with iron bars and other ingenious devices in order to make it strong enough to resist an earthquake. "The rescuers during the first week.” says the minister, “accompanied prodigies of endurance. They saved 12,000 people, some wounded and others uninjured, from the .ruins. At the same time all the survivors, the total running up into the tens of thousands, have been' moved away, nourished, clothed and housed all at the expense of the government. “There are no survivors at Messina now excepting a small number being embarked on a steamer for Taormina or on board emigrant vessels placed at their disposal to convey them to a point near Syracuse. These last refugees can live for one month with the provisions on board the vessels transporting them. “America Stands First.” "The prompt co-operation of foreign aid added much to the rapidity and thoroughness of the relief work, and in this respect American stands first. Our gratitude to the United States will endure forever.’’ Men under the direction of Major Landis, the American military attache at Rome, have been working for four days to recover the bodies of A. S. Cheney and his wife from the ruins of the American consulate. The apartment of the Cheneys has not yet been uncovered, and many feet of wreckage remain to he removed.

MURDER MYSTERY GROWS.

Doubt That Dismembered Body Was That of the Rev. Carmichael. Detroit, Jan. 8.—The Rev. J. H. Carmihael [Carmichael] and Gideon Browning, a carpenter, are missing from their homes in Adair, St. Clair county, and the ashes and human fragments taken from the heating stove of the Methodist church at "Rattle Run.” near Columbus, have been removed to Port Huron for microscopic examination. This was the sum total of developments in the Carmichael murder mystery. To determine whether either of the missing men was the victim of the murder or to locate either of the two is the problem the St. Clair county authorities are wrestling with. Doubt has been expressed as to whether it could be stated positively as yet whether the dismembered body found in the stove of the country church was that of a man or a woman, so fragmentary are the parts that remain for the doctors to work upon. Among other rumors that gained currency was one that the Rev. Carmichael had been located alive in St. Thomas, Ont.

Special Guard for Judge Wright.

Washington, Jan. B.—Because of the receipt of numerous letters of a threatening character by Judge Wright growing out of his recent decision in the labor contempt cases, Major Sylvester, chief of police, has instructed the captain of the precinct in which the Justice resides “to take such precautions as ordinarily would be taken to protect a citizen from the possible work of cranks.”

The Round=Up AT Romance of Arizona ( Novelized From Edmund Day’s Melodrama By JOHN MURRAY and MILLS MILLER ■ . . •.'■■■ I Copyright. 1908. by C. W. Dillingham Co.

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.aro, writhing still, but feebly. "Hello, lole rattler!’’, he exclaimed. ‘Here’s isomethin* to stir you up.” And he tossed the brand upon the top of the -cactus. Taking another burning stick from the fire, he applied it to the soles of his victim’s feet. Lane writhed and groaned under the excruciating torture, but uttered no word or cry. McKee brought other brands and began piling them about Ms captive’s feet. In the meantime the sahuaro had caught fire at the top and was burning down through the interior. A thin column of smoke rose straight above it in the still air. The rurales in the valley below, who had reached the beginning of the ascending trail and were on the point of giving up the pursuit, saw the smoke and inferred that the Apaches, either through overconfidence or because of their superstitious fear of the mountains, which they supposed Inhabited by spirits, had camped on the edge of the valley and were signaling to their other party. Accordingly the Mexicans renewed the chase with increased vigor. As McKee bent over his captive’s feet, piling against them the burning ends of sticks, the rattlesnake on the sahuaro, incited by the fire above, struggled free from the impaling thorns by a desperate effort and dropped on the back of the half breed. It

Lane writhed and groaned.

struck its fangs into his neck. McKee, springing up with an energy that scattered the sticks be was piling, tore the reptile loose, hurled it upon the ground and stamped it into Then he picked up one of the brands and with it cauterized the wound. AB the while he was cursing volubly—the snake, himself and even Dick Lade, who was now lying in a dead faint caused by the torture.

“Curse such a prospector! Not a drop of whisky in his outfit! I’d slit his tongue fer him if he wasn’t already done fer. 1 must keep movin’, movin’, or I’m a dead man. I must bustie along to the mountains, leadin’ my horse. Up there I'll'find yarbs to cure snake bite that my Cherokee grandmother showed me. The rurales will have to get the other ponies, but some day I’ll come back after Lane’s cache.” A half hour later the Mexican guards appeared upon the scene and unbound Lane’s unconscious form from the sahuaro, which the fire had consumed to within a foot of his bowed head. They deluged his face and back and bathed his tortured feet with the contents of their canteens and brought him back to life, but, alas, not to reason. *

Six months later there limped out of Chihuahua hospital a discharged patient, wry necked, crook backed, with drawn features and hair and beard streaked with gray. It was Dick Lane restored to his old physical strength, so far as the distortion of his spine caused by his torture permitted, and to the full possession of his mental faculties. He mounted one of the captured ponies and rode off with the proceeds of the sales of the others in his pocket to purchase provisions for a return to his prospecting. Before plunging into the wilderness he wrote a letter:

Chihuahua. Mexico. Mr. John Payson. Sweetwater Ranch. Florence. Ari*., U. 8. A.: Dear Jack—l have been sick and out of my head in the hospital here for the last six months. Just about the time you all were expecting me home I had a run in with the Apaches. And who do you think was with them? Buck McKee, the half breed that I ran off the range two years ago for tongue slitting. After I had done for all the rest he got me, and—well, the story’s too long to write. I rather think McKee has made off with the gold I had cached just before the fight. I’m going back to see, and If he did I’ll hustle arbund to find a buyer for one of my claims. I don’t want to sell my big mine. Jack. I tell you I struck it rich! But that story can wait till I get back. Your loan can’t, though, so expect to receive 13,000 by express some time before I put in an appearance. I hope you got the mortgage renewed at the end of the year. If. my failure to show up then has caused you trouble, you'll forgive me. old fellow, I know, under the circumstances. I’ll make it up to you. I owe ypu everything. You’re the best friend a man ever had. That's why I'm writing to you instead of to Uncle Jim, for I want you to do me another friendly service. Just break it gently to Echo Allen that I’m alive and well, though pretty badly damaged by that renegade and tell her that It wasn’t my fault I wasn’t home •njtbfi-dax. I niPTniaeiL She’ll, fnrgiv<-m-TKow, and" Be paflenT awhile"fimJSf. It’s ail for her sake I’m staying away. Give her the letter I Inclose. Your old bunkie, DfCK LANK (To be Continued)

SETS TWO AFIRE

' T ■ ' 4- . ..1.... Woman With Clothing In -Flames Hurls Herself In Bed. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. B.—Mrs. A. Fitzgibbons, her, clothing aflame from an explosion of' gasoline poured on tho kitchen fire, threw herself on a bed beside her sleeping husband and three-year-old daughter and then rushed from the house and fell dead. Fitzgibbons was awakened by the flames and was severely burned while saving the life of his daughter.

ONE HUNDRED POISONED

Tainted Food Causes Illness in Government Hospital for Insane. Washington, Jan. B.—Ptomaine poisoning is thought to have been the cause of 100 patients and employes of St. Elizabeth’s, the federal hospital for the insane, becoming suddenly ill after dinner. The hospital authorities are investigating. None of the cases was serioqs.

THIRTY KILLED IN RIOT

Trouble Caused by Insult Offered Turkish Woman by Soldier. Mosul, Assyria, Jan. B.—Serious rioting followed the arrest of a soldier for insulting a Turkish woman. His comrades tried to rescue the soldier and the turbulent elements of the populace joined in the fray. Thirty persons were killed and thir-ty-five wounded.

SEAWEED AS A FERTILIZER.

Its Value to Coast Farmers is lR’ creasing. Seaweed is a valuable fertilizer. The Irish peasants prefer it to manure, and the farmers of the Orkney islands formerly let farmyard manure accumulate unused on account of its inferiority to seaweed as a fertilizer. The seaweed that is brought ashore or drifts there is dried and burned, and the ashes are spread over the land. The ashes contain a good proportion of potash and phosphates, and some kinds of weed also yield nitrates. These three substances are the life of vegetation, and for this reason the ashes of seaweed are an ideal food for crops. Some years ago a French sea captain attempted to organize a company to send ships to the Sargasso sea, where they could easily collect big cargoes of drift weed and bring it to France to be burned for the fertilizing ashes. Capitalists told him, however, that they did not think it would pay to carry the weed so far, and the money was not raised. It is asserted by some authorities that the great deposits of nitrate of soda which are sent from Chile to all parts of Europe and the United States to be spread over the farm lands were formed by the decay of huge masses of seaweed when the land was sunk under the sea. Undecomposed parts of seaweed, it is said, are still found there.

The attention of the Cape Colony government was recently called to the fact that very large quantities of seaweed are constantly being washed ashore along the northwest coast, and at last accounts the government had sent for samples of the weed to determine its value as a fertilizer. « Sir Humphry Davy was one of the first to recommend seaweed as a fertilizer about a century ago. For generations the inhabitants of the Channel islands have gained a fair living by collecting and burning the weed and selling the ashes as manure. These arhes are also largely used In the British isles and along the Norwegian and French coasts. The publications of the United States agricultural department say that the use of seaweed as a fertilizer is Increasing tn this country, that for long stretches of the New England coast the weed is utilized by the farmers for fifteen to twenty miles Inland and that It Is especially favored for the stimulation of clover fields. Rye beach is almost always strewn with the weed, and few lands ever show so luxuriant growth of red clover as those in the neighborhood of this beach. The seaweed thrown up on the shores tn the neighborhood of Cape Town has long been regarded as an expensive nuisance. The city government has for years been paying teamsters to collect the stuff, haul it away and bury it. The amount of weed thus disposed of has been about 1.500 tons a year. The city authorities have now seen a new light and are spreading the news among the farmers that the weed is a very valuable fertilizer. .

Number the Irons.

Housewives will find that numbering the irons with chalk will be a simple way of determining which iron was used last when there era several on the stove. v. Raised' biscuits from Gold Medal Flour are excellent. SSuiSl