Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1909 — Page 3

EASY TO MIX THIS,

Simple Recipe for Kidney or Bladder Trouble or Rheumatism. What will appear very Interesting to many people here is the article taken from a New York dally paper, giving a simple prescription, which Is said to be a positive remedy for backache or kidney or bladder derangement, if takes before the stagr of Bright’s disease: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake wdll in a bottle and take in teaspoonful doses after each meal and again at bedtime.

A well-known druggist here at home, when asked regarding this prescription, stated that the ingredients are all harmless, and can be obtained at a small cost from any good prescription pharmacy, or the mixture would be put up if asked to do so. He further stated that while this prescription is often prescribed in* rheumatic afflictions with splendid results, he could see no reason why it would not be a splen did remedy for kidney and urinary troubles and hackache, as it has a peculiar action upon the kidney structure, cleansing these most important organs and helping them to sift and filter from the blood -the foul acids and waste matter which cause sickness and suffering. Those of our readers who suffer can make no mistake in giving it a trial.

LETTER FROM OKLAHOMA.

Okalahoma City, Okla., March 1. Editor Jasper County Democrat, Dear Sir: I told some of the readers of the Democrat that after I had looked around out here, I would write a letter to you, and I want to say, after being here a couple of months and looking around a good deal, that I certainly think this is a wonderful country and a wonderful city; The city is well supplied with churches of 'all kinds, and they have the Epworth University here, and I think about fifteen large public school buildings. They have located the State Normal here and are just beginning the erection of a $300,000 building. The Methodist Church is also preparing to put up a $200,000 building to be used forf a young ladies’ school. New buildings are 'going up all over the city, ranging in price from $2,000 to $400,000. They tell me that there is one building going up that will cost $400,000. I meet farmers here from the different states, who have sold their farms and 1 invested their money here, and are well satisfied, and I think if I had money to invest, or children to school, I would invest it here. Real estate men are making money here, some of them fast. I site on instance where a man bought a lot here the other day and held it three days and cleared $1,600 on it. This is a sample of the way they are doing business. Anybody who wants to write me about anything may address me at 132% West Main Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Yours very truly, A. G. W. Farmer.

$400,000,000 FOR WAR.

The three great appropriation bills for army, navy and war pensions are so far advanced in Congress that their combined sum is easily estimated. The ■navy* bill, as it passed the senate, carried nearly $137,000,000; the army bill, which has been reported in the Senate, carries for the military establishment alone about $103,000,000; the pension bill, carrying $160,000,000, was passed by the Senate yesterday after having been previously passed by the House. The three bills are likely to become laws carrying substantially the appropriations mentioned, and the total sum thus provided on account of prjeparation for war and on account of past wars reaches $400,000,000. Only for one year, however. The $400,000,000 will be wholly spent in the fiscal year beginning July next. • This $400,000,000, in a single year of peace, for past wars and military preparations, can not be paralled by any other nation on earth. This vast sum according to the official estimates, would pay for the Panama canal.—Springfield Republican.

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MONET TO LOAN. A small funount pt private money to loan on first mortgage on real estate In Rensselaer, if taken at once. ARTBUR H. HOPKINS.

The Town Fool.

By M. QUAD.

[Copyright, 1008, by T. C. McClure.]

It was a brutal way of putting it, but everybody in the town of Graham bad come to speak of Jimmy Landon as the town fool. It was said that the boy bad been bom bright enough, but at the age of five a stroke of lightning bad worked the change in him. He lost the power of speech, and his mind was weakened, and after the death of bis widowed mother he was an Inmate of the poorhouse for two or three years. Then he became a hanger-on of the town, having no particular home, but being cared for as an object of charity. Not quite that either. He was always willing to do any work he could to pay his way. He could hear if h? could not talk, and, though he seemed to bgve no more mind than a child of three,' he got along very well. Two things the boys of the town came to learn in time—Jimmy had a streak of cunning in him, and he was revengeful. ‘ Jimmy Landon was thirteen years old and had been looked upon as the town fool for several years when a sort of event happened in the quiet community. A stranger, who called himself Colonel Bliss and who was so crippled up with wounds that he had to use a pair of crutches, arrived in town and delivered a series of lectures on war. It came to be understood that he had been the colonel of a gallant Illinois regiment and that owing to his wounds and other misfortunes he was in bad financial shape. He did fairly well with his lectures, and he made many frieuds, and when he proposed to open a singing and writing school he received much encouragement. He could sing, and he wrote a beautiful hand. The colonel took up his quarters at one of the two inns in the town, where he had the use of the hall used for

HAD BEEN CAUGHT BY A LEG IN A BEAR TRAP.

dancing. He could have had the best room in the house, but he did not want it. He wanted one with a back instead of jk front view. Jnst beneath his windows was the roof of the kitchen, and below that was the roof of a shed. From thence it was a drop of only six feet to the alley in the rear of the hotel. These things were mot taken notice of by outsiders until later on. The town fool took a liking to Colonel Bliss at once. He was drawn toward him by his crippled condition. The lad had never seen anything like it in his life. The colonel could manage to get up and down stairs, but no more. If he left, the hotel it had be be in a carriage. Jimmy Landon started out to attach himself to the stranger as a body servant, but his unusual curiosity brought about his downfall. He had served for two weeks wtyen the colonel found him rummaging his trunk and sent him to the right about. Not only that but he whacked him over the back with one of his crutches. Those whacks destroyed the boy’s illusions. The colonel was no longer a god to him. Jimmy had reasoned it out in his silly mind that the trunk was a partnership concern and that he had a perfect right to examine its contents, and to be whacked for doing it and then to be driven away in disgrace aroused a thirst for revenge. '

The schools bad just got fairly started when more events came along. One night the postofflee was robbed of cash and stamps to the value of S2OO. It was a widow who held the office, and everybody felt sorry for her. It was decided that the trick had been done by two men who were seen loafing abont the streets at a late hour that night, and the sheriff failed to get any clew. The colonel heard of the robbery, of course, and seemed to take a deep interest in it. In fact, his advice was taken by the sheriff in seeking to solve the affair. Only ten days later the leading dry goods store was entered at night and S7O In cash taken. As no goods were taken, the sheriff reasoned that some one in the town was the robber, but the colonel differed with him. In his opinion an organized gang was at work and the fellows had been frightened away before they could begin loading up their wagon. During the next week there waa

nothing doing. Then a farmer who bad sold a lot of cattle and had the money in his bouse was neatly robbed of -'very dollar of it He and his wife were sleeping in a bedroom off the sitting room, and the robber had effected entrance by using a ladder and a second story window. The sum taken was S3OO, and now the sheriff and his deputies began to move lively. By the advice of Colonel Bliss, w;ho hinted that he might add a detective agency to his schools, certain highways were watched at night. Nothing came of that, but the postofflee in a village in a contrary direction was robbed of SIOO worth of cash and stamps. The fool could hear, and he heard all. about the robberies. He couldn’t grasp the particulars the way other folks did. but he absorbed enough of them to make him act queerly. He went about with a grin on his face, and when spoken to about the robberies he put on the most knowing look his face had ever worn. The sheriff bought the lad 10 cents’ worth of candy and tried for an hour to get something out of him, but Jimmy simply munched the sweets and grinned. If he had anything up his sleeve he wasn’t going to bring it to light just then. The robbery of the farmer was still being talked of when a hardware store in the town was entered and robbed. In addition to $25 in cash, the robber bundled up S2OO worth of the choicest cutlery. There was no clew until Colonel Bliss furnished one. He directed suspicion toward the town fool. Jimmy Landon was brought to the hotel by the sheriff, and the colonel and others set all sorts of traps for him, but were no wiser at the end of three hours. The boy would grip and giggle and lie down on the floor and laugh, but no one else could see where the joke came in—if there was a Joke. For two weeks after the robbery of the hardware store there was nothing doing. The colonel held to it that the boy, fool though he was, had become frightened. Then the grand climax came, and it was a hair raiser. There was a private bank in town, and the owner had quietly put on a watchman. One night this watchman heard suspicious sounds at the back door and raised an alarm and heard some one running away. Fifteen minutes later there was the awfulest kind of a row in the rear of the hotel. None of those who rushed out were prepared for the sights that greeted them. Colonel Bliss, without his crutches, had been caught by A leg in a bear trap, the town fool was rolling on the ground in laughter, a man’s trail over the roofs could be traced in the thin snow, and there were tracks leading from the trap back to the bank. Jimmy Landon had suspected the man that whacked him with a crutch and set a trap for and caught him. There was no getting out of it for the colonel. First, it was shown that he was no more a cripple than, any one else, and, second, the plunder of his various robberies was right there in his trunk. He simply stood on his dignity and went to prison for ten years, and the town fool is still today welcome to make his home with any family in the community. The doctors say that his mind will never be any brighter, and other folks say there is no need for it to be.

"INCURABLE” HEART DISEASE SOON CURED.

By the Great Specialist in Treating Weak and Diseased Hearts, FRANKLIN YULES, M. D., LL. B.

Who will Send s2xso Worth of Special Treatment ana New Book Free.

To demonstrate the remarkable curative powers of his new and complete Special Personal Treatments for heart disease, short breath, pain in the side, oppression in the chest, irregular pulse, palpitation, smothering spells, puffing of ankles or dropsy, Dr. Miles will send, free, to every afflicted person, $2.50 worth of treatment. The worst cases soon relieved. They are the result of 28 years of extensive research and remarkable success in treating, the various ailments of the heart, stomach, and nerves, which so often complicate each case. So astonishing are the results of his treatment that he does not hesitate to offer all afflicted persons a two-pound Trial Treatment free. Certainly nothing could be more generous. Few physicians have confidence in their treatments. There is no reason why all afflicted persons should not avail themselves of this liberal offer, as they may never have such an opportunity again. Delays are dangerous. No death comes more suddenly than that from heart disease. Mr. J. B. Hann, 119 W. Maryland St.., Indianapolis, Ind., cured after 2 physicians failed. Mrs. Elvina Sonders, Decatur, Neb., after 10 failed. Mr. P. W. Runyan, Spencer, lowa, after 3 failed. Mr. L. A. Prout, Lisbon Falls, Me., after 12 failed. Mrs. Mary DeHart, Greenville, Pa., after 11 failed. Mr. C. E. Smith, Wayne, Mich., after 3 failed. Mrs. Elizabeth Boal, Eagleport, 0., after 4 failed. Other cures from your state sent on request. Many cured after 5 to 15 physicians and professors had pronounced them “incurable.” Send to Dr. Franklin Miles, Dept. H., 813 to 823 Main St., Elkhart, Indiana, at once, for Heart Book and Free Treatment. Describe your disease. i Try our 1-40-1 coal for your range, it is the cleanest and best coal for ranges on the market. Try it and you will be convinced. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. ’Phone 4. ■ ”■ '"■-Hl I 11. The Democrat office for horse bills.

TALK ABOUT QUALITY. Won Sweepstakes at the Rensselaer and Lowell Poultry shows, 1909 —3 silver cups, 16 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, $1.60 for 15; $6 for 100. WM. HERSHMAN, R-R-l Medaryville, Ind. WOOD AND COAL. . We carry the largest stock of wood and coal in -the city. We carry 1-40-1, Eatser Gem, and Jackson Hill for ranges, Splint, Pittsburg and anthracite for heaters. Our wood is good and dry either in 4 foot, 16 inch block or split wood. When in need of wood or coal give us a trial. RENSSELAER LUMBER CO. ’Phone 4. Don’t forget this—>l2.so buys a guaranteed Sewing Machine at Worland’s Furniture Store.

Big Public Sale Being obliged to relinquish their lease on the McCoy land, the undersigned will offer at Public Auction in the town of McCoysburg, Jasper county, on the Monon railroad, 9 miles east of Rensselaer, commencing at 11 a. m., on THURSDAY*, MARCH 11, 1909, 1:15 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 12U head of 3-year-old Steers, to be sold in lots of 20, or to suit the puchaser. These cattle are of good quality and in fair flesh, and all native cattle. Ten head of spring calves. Five cows. 2-1 Head of Horses—Consisting of 2 Black Mares, 6 and 8 years old, wt. 2,800; 2 Bay Mares 5 and 6 years old, wt. 2,600; 1 Dun Mare 10 years old, wt. 1300; 1 Grey Mare 7 years old, wt. 1100; x Bay Mare 8 years old, wt. 1400; 2 Brown Mares 8 years old, wt. 2300; 1 Black Mare 6 years old, wt. 1100;2 Grey Mares 6 and 9 years old, wt. 2600, one in foal; 1 Sorrel Horse 4 years old, a driver; 1 trey Mare, 12 years old, wt. 1000; 2 coming 3-year-old horses, bay and a grey, wt. 2800; 2 Bay Geldings, 12 years old, wt. 3000; 2 Geldings, 3 and 4 years old, bay and a grey, wt. 2600; 1 Bay Gelding 5 years old, wt. 1400; 2 Bay Mares 12 years old, wt. 2200. One wagon and some farming implements. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. MCDONALD & PHILLIPS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot Lunch on( Grounds. All Monon trains, north and south, will stop at McCoysburg on date of sale.

Farm Bargains 40 acres, no buildings, on public road, near school, churches and station. Only $500; terms S2OO down. 64 acres, near good town with all kinds of business, 3 churches, bank, brick high school, elevator, and lies on main road, free mail route, school across the road; has five-room house, fair barn, chicken house, smoke house, garden fenced with picket fence, good well, fruit, 12 acres in rye; lies near dredge ditch now being built, ditch tax paid. Will offer for a short time at only $22.50 per acre. Terms, S4OO down. 126 acres, in good neighborhood, near good town, on free mail route, school on the farm; good house, barn and other outbuildings, good well, fruit for family use; 18 acres in rye, 45 acres for corn and remainder timber and pasture. This farm lies near _dredge ditch now being dug and the ditch tax paid. Price $22.50 per acre for quick sale. Terms ><oo down. 280 acres, near several stations, on grUvel road, school, is level black land, 30 acres cultivated, remainder original soil mostly black prairie land, is fenced and has been used for pasture, has 25 bearing apple trees, but no buildings. This land lies 11 miles from this place and in good neighborhood. If sold soon will close it out at $22.»0 per acre. Terms SI,OOO down. Will take live stock as first payment on either of the aboye places or clear property in this city. Can give possession of either place if sold soon. G. F. MEYERS. Office in Leopold blk., opposite State Bank.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Jasper county, State of Indiana, adminisratrix of the estate of William Paris, late of County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. LIZZIE u. PARIS, Administratrix. March 4th, 1909. Judson J. Hunt, Atty for Adm. L. P. Shrier was in Wheatfleld on business Wednesday. Many Children are Sickly. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children’s Home, New York. Break up Colds in ®4 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, and Destroy Worms, At all druggists, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y.

For Sale or Trade:—Two desirable building lota in the west part of the city, each 67x160 feet, well drained, shade, and fruit trees of various kinds set out Will sell cheap for cash or on time or will trade for well located medium priced residence property and pay difference. Enquire at The Demo crat office.

GOOD COFFEE, For 'Breakfast Nothing better to fit one for a good day’s work than a cup of coffee at breakfast time. But get good coffee. Poor coffee is little better, from a health standpoint, than roasted snowflakes. There is nothing there which your system demands or palate relishes. Say—try our Ferndell Coffee. That’s all. McFarland & Son Reliable Grocer*

S ■ ■ ■■ 3 = K We also handle all kinds of E 3 Pumps and Cylinders, Pipe and E S Fittings and do Plumbing of S S all kinds. Steam and Hot Wa- EE s ter Heating All repair work S 3 promptly attended to. 3 Call and see us before buy- gr S ing or ’phone 141 or 262. § jFimmimmiiMmiMUiMiiiiiiiiminiiiiT j Millions to Lohnlj \ We are prepared to take care 2 J of all the Farm Loan business In fj v this and adjoining counties at 5 9 Lowest Rates and Best Terms, 2 J regardless of the “financial atrln* g j gency.” If you have a loan com- 8 9 Ing due or desire a new loan It wIH £ 9 not be necessary to pay the ex- jt J cesslve rates demanded by our 9 competitors. £ * FIVE PER CENT. | Small commission - Prompt service s 8. - , \ \ Irwin & Irwin | y Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer. 2 AuSa REVIVO JgjT&affl l “Had** Well Man oiSSSr’ •* ■*.” produce* flue result* In 30 days. It acts powerfuUy and quickly. Cures when others fail. Young men can regain their lost manhood, and old men may recover their youthful vigor by using BBVIVO. It quickly and quietly removes Nervousness, Lost Vitality, Sexual Weakness such as Lost Power, Failing 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 is a great nerve tonic and blood builder, bringing back the pink glow to pule cheeks and restoring the Are of youth. It wards off approaching disease. Insist on having REVIVO, no other. It can be carried in vest oocket. By mall. SI.OO per package, or six for $5.00. We give free advice and counsel to all who wish it, with »ee. Circulars free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO., Marine Bldg., Chicago, lIL For sale In Rensselaer bv J. A. L&rsh, druggist. Hhair balsam Cleuue. and beautifies tbs hslr. Promotes s luxuriant growth. Mover Polls to Restore dray Heir to its Toothful Color. Come ecalp disease, a hair falling. This Is An Easy Test. Sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease In one shoe and not In the other, and notice the difference. Just the thing to use when rubbers or overshoes become nec;essary. and your shoes seem to pinch. Sold Everywhere, 25c. Don’t accept any ' substitute.

Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South. Lou lav Ills and French Lick Springe. l RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect June 14, IMS. SOUTH BOUND. —lx°til* v lUe MaU (dally) 10:66 a. ra. USES: „ NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail (dally) 4:30 a.m. N°.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31a.m. No.s2—Fast Mall (daily) 9:65 a.m. No. 6—MaU and Ex. (daily).. 3:28p.m. No.SO—Cln. to Chi. Vee. Mail 6:36 p.m. No-66—Cln. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:67 p. m. •Dally except Sunday. No. 3 will atop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowen, Hammond and Chicago. No. S 3 makes direct connection as Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED. G. P. A.. W. H. McDOEL. Pres, and Qen’l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr.. _ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, AgenL Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor j. H. 8. Ellis Marshall W. S. Parks Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer. ,t H. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. j. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery; Councllmen. Ist Ward H. L. Brown 2nd Ward....'. j. F. Irwin 3rd Ward Eli Gerber :At Large..C. G. Spitler, Geo. F. Meyers. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney..... .Fred Longwell Terms of Court—Second Monday In February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. |Clerk..... Charles C. Warner Sheriff Louis P. Shlrer Auditor James N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D. Allman Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor W. F. Osborne Coroner.. W. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest L&mson I County A55e550r.......... John Q. Lewis j Health Officer.. M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymlre 3rd District... Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley, Charles May.................... .Carpenter J. W. Selmer .Gillam George Parker ...Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley ' Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shlrer Kankakee Edward Parkison Marion George L. Parks Mllroy E. J. Lane... ......Newton Isaac Kight Union S. D. Clark Wheatfleld Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English, Rensselaer James H. Green. Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan township attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month; also at George Wortley's residence, on the west side, the second Wednesday after the first Saturday of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflee address, Rensselaer, Ind.. R-R-4. Telephone 529-F. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflee address. Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE. Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township attends to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflee - address. Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

Nil DAY, ..; DEALER IN lime Hoir it i (Ml """"" ~ " RENSSELAER, IND. r * • Aw-He •s sassesssssaasse essMeastisst* sees sstssssai tea *e**s****seea*a***a***** We have a supply of money to loan on farms at Five Per Cent and a reasonable commission, and shall be glad to answer inquiries by mail or by ’phone : : : : MiISIKMU North Sid* Public Square The Democrat office ifor horse bii