Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — Page 3

The Old Speckled Hen.

By M. QUAD.

The Thompsons and the Browns, farmers, had been neighbors for ten yean, when in the same year Abel Thompson was left a widowef and Aunt Martha Brown a widow. Plenty of people said it would be only natural for the two to marry after a year or so, but what the principals in the case thought of it did not come out for over two years. T|ie farmer and the widow saw each other every day during this timfc. She continued to run her farm by the help of k hired man, but he was more or less interested. They sat together pt evenings and talked of everything but vHiat other people were talking about. It was one evening in winter after the farmer had imbibed a quart of elder and eaten three or four apples and realized the loneliness of his own home that he hitched around on his chair for awhile and then said: “Widder, there was a windmill man along today. He wants to put up a mill for me in the spring.” “Yes, windmill men come long about once in so often,” she replied. “He ’pears to have a purty good mill.” “Yes?’ “And the price is purty reasonable." “Yes?” “We wasn’t talkin’ about windmills all the time,” continued Abel as he motioned for another glass of cider. “We was talkin’ about other things.” “They are great folks to gab. I’ve known ’em to hang around all day and do nothin’ but talk.” “That windmill man said folks was

“THERE MUST BE TIMES WHEN YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE A MAN ABOUND.”

wonderin' why I didn’t git married agin.” "What Impudence!” "He said folks was a-sayln’ that It was my duty to.” “Humph!” “And he said folks was wonderin’ why you didn’t git married ag’ln.” "Just as If It Was anybody’s business 1” snapped Aunt Martha. “He said folks said it was your duty.” "Well, if folks will attend to their own business IH attend to my duty. I’ll tell ’em so if they come talkin’ to me. I hope you didn’t encourage him to keep on gabbln’!” "N-o-o. I hadn’t much to say, though after he’d gone I did considerable thlnkln*. Pm a lonely man, Aunt Martha.” “You orter git a fiddle and learn to play on it” “Sho! I haln’t talkin’ about fiddles. Fm a-sayln* that if I had a wife around the house things would be different. Just another swaller of that cider, please. I’m thinkin’ you’ve got the beat cider in the neighborhood. Yes, Aunt Martha, things would be different” “Well, why don’t you go and git married then?’ "Gosh hang it, I will. That’s what I come over here this evenin’ for. Aunt Martha, we haye known each other a long time. I know you are a mighty good woman, and you know I’m a purty good man. Oup farms jlne, and I can run two farms as well as one. You must be lonesome too. .There must be times when you’d like to have a man around the house to manage things. You’ve got twenty-eight hogs, and if the cholera breaks out among ’em what on earth you goln’ to do? I was a-thlnkln’ to myself last night”— “Abel, stop right there,” said the widow, kindly, but emphatically. “I know you to be a good man, but I haln’t In love with you? You haven’t teched my heart yet. Until you do I don’t want to talk about marriage. You jest go right along bein’ good and fteelln’ lonesome, and if I find my love bein’ aroused I’ll tell you so.” "That’s only fair,” said the suitor as he rose up to go. “I haln’t one to drive a woman Into marriage as one drives hogs. TH keep right on and take your word for It, and if you find you can’t love me TH staf stagle all the rest of • ", • ■ ' I »' . ’’ »’•■■■ *•

my days. Pm kinder sot on you. you' see, and I don’t want nobody else." During the next month things went along as usual, and there was no further reference to matrimony. Then Abel was sent for, and as he reached the widow’s house she said: “Abel, my sister, over at Tompkinsville, is sick and has sent for me. I’m goln’ over and may be gone three or four days.” “Well, I’ll run things the best I can while you’re gone,” he replied. ‘‘What I want you to look out for in particular Is that old speckled hen. You know I’ve had her for/the last ten years, and I’ve learned to think a good deal of her. She haln’t well 'tall jest now, and I hate to go away and leave her. She’s got signs of the pip, and if I should come back and find her dead it would almost break my heart. Abel, I want you to be kind to her. I want you to sympathize with her. I want you to doctor and nurse her." *•1’11 do It, Aunt Martha. I’ll jest put in all my time nursin’ her up. I’ll be jest as kind to her as I would be to a baby." “That’s good of you. She’s only a critter, but when one gits use to a critter he can even love an old speckled hen. She ain't laid an egg for these fiveiyears past, but she's got a hold on my affections for the eggs she used to lay. Why, she's laid over a hundred with double yolks, and one time she fit and licked a chicken hawk." “You go right on, widder, and leave it all to me,” said the farmer. “I’ll do Jest as much for that old hen as I would for a brother. I hain't sot up a night for the last twenty years, but if she’s taken bad I shan’t close my eyes till you git back.” The widow departed, and half on hour later Abel was carrying the old hen home under his arm. The three days went past, and the widow returned. She had only entered her house when the farmer appeared with the hen in a basket. He had her wrapped in red woolen cloths. She smelled of camphor and various linimepts. Her toes had been trimmed and greased, and he had applied salve to her comb. With deliberateness be removed wrap after wrap and finally reached the last end and set the hen down on the floor with: “There she is, Aunt Martha, and jest as good as she was five years ago. I’ve worked over her for three days, and I’m tellln' you there hain’t a hen in the hull county can come up to her,” “How splendid of you, Abel—how splendid!” gasped the widow, and as if to corroborate her words the hen raised her head, swelled out her breast and tried to give utterance to a crow. “See that—hear that, widder?” asked Abel. “Yes, I do, and, oh, Abel”— “Is your heart teched, widder?” “It is, and—and”— “And you'll be mine?’ That was in March, and they were married in May, and the old speckled hen was alive at last accounts and making efforts to return to her duty.

The First War Correspondents.

In a sense Julius Caesar w’as a war correspondent, only he did not send his “Commentaries” piecemeal from the “theater of war,” but indited them at his leisure in the subsequent peace time. The old Swedish Intelligencer of the Gustavus Adolphus period was genuine war correspondence, published, Indeed, tardily compared with our news of today, but nevertheless fresh from the scene of action, full of distinctiveness, quaint and racy beyond compare. The first modern war correspondent professionally commissioned and paid by a newspaper was the late G. L. Gruneisen, a well known literary man, who was sent to Spain by the London Post with the Spanish legion which Sir de Lacy Evans commanded In 1837 in the service of the queen of Spain. But this new departure was not followed up, and no English paper was represented In the great battles of the first and second Punjab wars.

PERT PARAGRAPHS.

It may be that the good die young, but it by no means follows that the young die good. The way some men run for office it almost seems as if the office were running, too, and keeping a good bit ahead of them all the time. It is hard to please everybody, and, after all, nobody would care to be that inoffensive, anyway. No man has a cinch on wisdom. Any man is due to go off his base and qualify for service in the great army' of fools at any minute. If anybody is justified in tendering himself a vote of thanks, it is undoubtedly the self made man.

If you want to know how stubborn we can be, just oppose us on an immaterial •point and watch I us get busy. ' Wh?n some on® else comes tp, F—.. grief it is curious how we somehow seem to remember that we al--1? ways thought he would.

Ever notice that thoae people who suffer In silence are always round telling their friends all about It? If you say nothing about people that you would not say to them, you would do much to ward overcoming your die* ease of talkitta. / *’

• Railroading as a Field For the College Man. By EDWARD H. HARRIMAN, Railroad Financier. X Copyright, 1908, by Brown Bros. ; COLLEGE EDUCATION WILL BE A GREAT HELP TO U THE MAN ENTERING RAILROADING IF THE MAN <> I I <> IN GOING THROUGH COLLEGE HAS KEPT THE U !■■■ U FOUNDATIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING ;; J 1 ;; FIRMLY FIXED. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF HE ” O HAB NEGLECTED HIS HANDWRITING AND FOR- < GOTTEN HIS ARITHMETIC IN HIGHER MATHEMATICS NOTHING COULD BE WORSE FOR HIM. IF, HOWEVER, HE STILL RETAINS THESE ESSENTIALS HE HAB A GREAT ADVANTAGE IN THAT HE HAB A BROADER VIEW OF THE WORLD AND A GREATER KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO LEARN. •t M « The high school boy has the advantage in that all the FIRST ESSENTIALS of good work in railroading are at hia fingers’ ends. For instance, take the making of a simple statement. A statement should be like a picture—something that can be taken in at a glance. A high school boy will draw such a statement with perfect accuracy and clearness, while a young college graduate will draw it in such a way that it is a puzzling scrawl. Thus college education is IN THE BEGINNING A REAL DISADVANTAGE, and in every case the high school boy'does better work than the college man for the first few years. However, as the college man has overcome these habits and has GOT BACK TO FIRST PRINCIPLES he will go ahead much faster than his less educated rival. His mind is naturally better developed and MORE CAPABLE OF GRASPING THE FINE POINTS of the business. On the other hand, the high school boy ; being younger, is more adaptable and has not in most cases the irregular habits of the college man. NO MATTER HOW WELL EDUCATED A MAN MAY BE, HE MUST START IN RAILROADING AT THE VERY BOTTOM. 1 A railroad man has no fixed home. He is like a naval officer, always at sea, and, moreover, he is always working to the limit of his endurance. It is the hardest life and yet one of the most pleasant. It cultivates an insight. It TEACHES A KNOWLEDGE OF MEN and in this way is the BEST TRAINING FOR ANY PROFESSION. PULL CAN NEVER CARRY A MAN FAR IN RAILROADING. IT 18 HARD WORK AND APPLICATION THAT COUNT. MANY A MAN STARTS OUT WELL, BUT, LACKING THE STICK TO IT SPIRIT, WHICH IS SO PRE-EMINENTLY ESSENTIAL, FALLS INTO OBSCURITY. '

Great Disasters Upbuild The Spirits of Men. By the Rev. Dr. LYMAN ABBOTT of New York. IN a great disaster like the recent Italian earthquake the spir itual benefits outweigh the physical evils. , THESE CATACLYSMS AND TIDAL WAVES ARE UP* BUILDING THE SPIRITS OF MEN TO RICHER, RIPER AND MORE ENDURING EFFORTS. THE FACT THAT THINGS ARE TRANSIENT AND TEMPORARY MAKES BETTER MEN. R at tt Already we have a new sense of kingship. You read how the king and queen immediately went to the aid of the unfortunate peasants. You also read that immediately—in that fraction of a half second—the thought occurred to the peasants to TURN TO THE ALMIGHTY. Skeptics laugh at their falling on their knees in prayer, at their procession with the cross, but through their tears the peasants saw more than the laughing skeptic—they saw THE ETERNAL SPIRIT. In that half minute more than 100,000 died. Many more have passed away between then and now. Despite this phenomenon we should still assume this to.be an orderly universe. Nothing material remains. LIFE, SPIRIT, FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE—THEY DO REMAIN. They are eternal. k R R r THE SPIRIT THAT PROMPTS—THE SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRISE—WILL REMAIN TO PROMPT THE SURVIVORS TO GREATER EFFORTS.

Laboring Man Seeks Only His Fair Share. By WARREN E. STONE, President of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. CHERE is no necessary strife between capital and labor; neither is there any fundamental strife between the capitalist and the laborer. CAPITAL IS SIMPLY LABOR SAVED AND MATERIALIZED. The great fundamental principle in fixing the wage scale is often overlooked. If capital could be brought to realize that a certain portion of the, wages paid to labor stands for the exhaustion of the principal—for the WEAR AND TEAR OF THE MACHINERY OF THE MAN—then I think capital would have a better understanding of the true ground upon which rests the claim of labor for more compensation than merely enough to exist upon. No thinking man will deny that every business must make good its depreciation, its wear and tear, before it has any profit. Precisely so it is with lafyor. The ENTIRE CAPITAL OF THE WORKINGMAN IS THE BONE AND SINEW OF THE MAN, the muscle, energy and brain power, which day by day are being worn out and consumed until eventually he is used up and goes to the scrap pile of commercial industry as so much wornoiit junk. M W. W “BUT,” SOME CRY, "THE LABORING MAN WANTS ALL OUR MONEY.” NOTHING 18 FURTHER THE TRUTH. GIVE THE WORKINGMEN FAIR WAGES, FAIR LIVING CONDITIONS, ANO THEY W|Lk.. DUPLICATE THE HEALTH OF THE WORLD IN -»-,5 :«<■.. '

ECZEMA LODGES IN THE SKIN

Not a Blood Disease-—Cured by Oil of Wintergreen Compound. For many years eczema was supposed to be a blood disease, and was erroneously treated as such, but now the best authorities agree that eczema is only a skin disease and must t>e cured through the skin. The eminent skin specialist, Dr. D. D. Dennis, first discovered the eczema germ and his discovery was quickly taken up in both Germany and France. To kill the eczema germ and at the same time heal the skin, Dr. Dennis compounded oil of wintergreen, thymol, glycerine, etc. The remedy is a liquid, not a mere salve, hence it sinks right into the pores of the skin. Washing with this oil of Wintergreen compound seems to take the itch away at oneb; soon the scales drop away and the disease disappears. B. F. Fendig, Rensselaer. The prescription has now been used so long as to have proven its absolute merit and we do not hestltate to express our confidence in D. D. D. Prescription as used with D. D. D. Soap.

LIKE A MAN.

That man “Exchange” says some mighty good things, occasionally, and here is one of them. “A newspaper is like a man—because generally it reflects some man—and it should be judged as a man should be judged; largely and on the whole. No man lives a perfect life; no editor prints a perfect paper. If an editor is honest, he is bound to offend some one every day of his life; if he doesn’t offend some one the editor is namby pamby and flabby. The same thing is true of the average man. A newspaper is bound to make mistakes; in getting news it must necessarily take hearsay. But if, in the long run and in the main, week after week and year after year, a paper stands for decency, for honest thinking and clean living, if it speaks fair for those who are trying to do good, and condemns sneaks and cheats and low persons, that is a good paper.”

Foley’s Orino Laxative cures constipation and liver trouble and makes the bowels healthy and regular. Orino is superior to pills and tablets as it does not gripe or nauseate. Why take anything else? _A. F. Long.

TO FRIENDS OF THE DEMOCRAT.

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50,000 BUTTER WRAPPERS.

Another shipment of 50,000 No. 1 stock ‘‘Quaker Brand” parchment butter wrappers just received at The Democrat office. The Democrat is in position to supply printers in neighboring towns with these wrappers for less money than they can buy them from the wholesalers in small lots. The price of this class of paper stock has risen in common with all other papers, and we are compelled to charge a little more than we formerly have for them. On this shipment the retail price will be sl.lO per 1,000 unprinted, or $2.00 per 1,000 printed; 500 unprinted 75c; or $1.25 per 500 printed. The Democrat is the only print shop in this section that carries the “Quaker Brand” of parchment wrappers, the very best we have ever seen in this class of goods.

PRICE vs. QUALITY And perfect fitting. Mere spectacles fitted in a haphazard < way are apt to be an injury to the eyes. J This is a matter in which you canndt afford to take < chances. To preserve vision means to help the eyes do < their work; to help the eyes means to wear glasses—not J any glasses, but scientifically fitted glasses. J We are fully qualified in this line and would appre- < ciate your patronage. Our glasses are reasonable in < price—your sight is priceless. < DR. ROSE M. REMM EK : Second Floor of Harris Bank Building. ’Phone 403. ,

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 horseshoe. W. S. DeARMOND, Tefft,

TALK ABOUT QUALITY. Won Sweepstakes at the Rensselaer and Lowell Poultry shows, 1909 —3 silver cups, 15 specials and 2 on cockerel, 4th cock, 4th pullet, and 4th hen, at Indianapolis, in the largest and best class of Langshans I ever saw. Eggs from my pens $3 for 15; outside flock, $1.50 for 15; $6 for 100. WM. HERSHMAN, R-R-l Medaryville, Ind. Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that may develop into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar, and It soothes Inflamed membranes, heals the lungs, and expqls the cold from the system. A. F. Long. MONEY TO LOAN. A small amount of private money to loan on first mortgage on real estate in Rensselaer, if taken at once. ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts

REAL ESTATE TRANFERS.

Alonzo C. Bass to Percy V. Castle, Feb. 5, e% nw, 16-28-6, w% sw ne, 16-28-6, 100 acres, Marion, $7,000. George W. Turner to Simon P. Thompson, Feb. 6, se nw, 36-32-5, Kankakee, sl. q. c. d. \ * Ray D. Thompson, adm. to James Wiseman, Jr., Feb. 8, e% ne, 26-31-7, 80 acres. Union, SI,BOO. Ray D. Thompson to Ray D. Collins, Dec. 15, its 5,6, bl '*4, Newton’s or Clark's add., Rensselaer, SSOO. Seth B. Moffitt to Iva Moffitt. Feb. 24, nw, 27-31-7, 159.35 acres, its 8,9, 10, 11, 12, Fair Oaks, Gilmore’s add, $9,600. William D. Marquess to Charles H. Peck, Jan. 26, n>4 se, bl 2, Stratton’s add, Remington, S9OO. Charles H. Peck to 11. Edward O’Connor, Feb. 9, n% se, bl 2 Stratton’s add. Remington, S9OO. John L. Duvall, attorney in fact, to Rose Roy, Feb. 9, n’-> ne, 28-28-6, n% nw, 28-28-6, 160 acres, Jordan, $7,000. George F. Meyers to Lewis P. Shirer, Feb. 11, pt nt4 nw, 3-29-7, 57.47 acres, Newton, $3,600. Emil Walter to Arthur M. Barley, Jan. 19. pt outlot 25, 25-32-6, Wheatfield, $5. q. c, d. Alonzo M. Ebaugh to Cornelius M. Horner, Feb. 2, ne se, 13-28-6, 40 acres, Milroy, $460. Lucy Clark, et baron to Edward Jackson, Feb. 12, It 5, bl 5, Graham’s add., Wheatfield, $5. q. c. d. Jerome G. Andrus, et ux to Charles M. Greenlee, Sept. 1, e*4 sw se, 17-29-7, 20 acres, Newton, $2,300. Delbert O. Pitts to Charles Danford, et ux, Feb. 1, s e, 33-32-6, nw, n% sw, 34-32-6, 320 acres, Wheatfield, $12,000. Alda F. K. Parklson to Granville Moody, Feb. 13, se sw. s\i se, 7-29-0, pt sw sw, 8-29-5, pt. nw nw, 17-29-5, ne, ne nw, 18-29-5, 310 acres, Barkley, $12,800. John H. Schatzley, et ux to Harry Milligan. Feb. 10, pt 25-32-6, Wheatfield, $3,000. Laura B. Fate to Maude E. Spitler, Feb. 16, ne, 32-31-6. 160 acres. Walker, $12,800. Maude E. Spitler to George Fate, Feb. 16, ne, 32-31-6, 160 acres, Walker, $12,800. Mary K. Borntrager, et al to Henry Leurs, Feb. 13, sw sw, 32-29-6, 40 acres, ne ne, 6-28-6, 54.46 acres, Marion, $5,700. Henry Hildebrand to Morris Henoch, et al, Feb. 15, Its 11, 14, bl 7, Leopold's add, Rensselaer, S4OO. George Antcliff to Caleb Friend, Feb. 18, e% sw, 29-28-7, Jordan, $5,700. George Antcliff to John Fenwick. Feb. 18, w% sw, 28-28-7, Jordan, $7,040. Harrison Warren to William O. s>chanlaub, Feb. 17, Its 8,9, nw. Owen's sub div, 19-29-6, 10 acres, Marion, $2,000. George Stalker to Andrew C. Caidwell, Jan. 15, s% se, 15-29-5, 80 acres, Hanging Grove, $6,100. James Norgor to Horace G. Daniels, Feb. 5, its 5, bl 1. Austin & Paxton’s add, Rensselaer, S6OO. Edgar B. Hunt, et al to Archie F. Williams, et al. Jan. 29, pt w 54 sw, 13-27-7, Carpenter. sl. q. c. d. Same to Lewis W. Hunt, Jan. 29, se se, 14-27-7, 40 acres, Carpenter, sl. q. c. d.