Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — Page 3

j Well Drilling and Repairing ji ! We have Just purchased a <| | brand-new well drilling out- | fit and solicit patronage in ]! ! our line of work. Phone i| ; 298 or 354. !; MOORE & HOCHSTETLER RJ. W. HORTON DENTIST Opposite Court House [fiiffl C ........DEALER IN f ITilii - cm < RENSSELAER, IND. <

e)) ITp Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis Cincinnati and tha South. LoulsvilU and French Lick Sprlnga. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect March 7, 1909. SOUTH BOUND. fo.3l—Fast Mail 4:45 a. m No. s—Louisville Mail (daily) 10:65 a. m No.33—lna'polls Mall (daily).. 2:01 p. m *o.39—Mlik accomm (daily).. 6:02 p. m. NORTH BOUND. (dally) 4.59 a.m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31 a. m No.32—Fast Mall (daily) 10.05 a. m. No. 6—Mall and Ex. (daily).. 3:17 p. m. No.3o—Cln. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:02 p. m. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to lei oft passengers from points south ol Monon, and take passengers for Lowen Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct conlection at Monon' for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED. O. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Qen’l Mgr. CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr. Chicago. W. H. BEAM. Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal) w. 8. Parks Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney... Geo. A. Will lams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief..,.. .J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councilman. i ßt , H. L. Brown 2nd Ward J. F. Irwin 3rd Ward Eli Gerber At Large..C. G. Bpltler. Geo. F. Meyers. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred LongweU Terms of Court—Second Monday In February. April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERB. 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- Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Berkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer .....Gillam George Parker. Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shlrer. aankakee Edward Parkison Marlon George L. Parks Milroy E. J. Lane Newton Isaac Klght Union S. D. Clark Wheatfieid Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfieid 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. Poatofflce address, Rensselaer, Ind.. R-R-4. Telephone 629-F. W. H. WORTLEY. Trustee. NEWTON TOWNBHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each mohth. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address, Rensselaer. Ind., R-R-3. B. P. LANE, Trustee." - T -- j union Township. i 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. Postoffice address. Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

A STORY WITH TEETH

Introducing a Mysterious Woman With a Strange Mission. By M. QUAD. [Copyright, 1909, by Associated Literary Press.] The village of Brinkly was and Is today a place of about 1,200 Inhabitants, and the country Is thickly settled with farmers for seven miles around before coming to another village, bus” only one_ dentist has ever made It pay there since the place was founded. He didn’t stay but a couple of months, but he carried away a roll of money as large as a log. It wouldn’t be polite to say that the villager and the farmer do not give proper attention to their teeth, but they are never in a great hurry about It They hate to part with the old roots and snags and keep putting off the evil day when they have got to get Into the executioner’s chair. It might have been said of Brinkly and the surrounding country that not an adult had a good set of teeth and that up to a certain day no one was giving dentistry any serious thought. Then on a Monday morning a change took place. A traveling dentist who had his office in a van drove into town and opened shop. For two days no one went near him, although he hung out a sign of the most painless kind of painful dentistry. Then a strange woman arrived. She was dark complexioned, dressed like a gypsy and passed fbr one. She was a mysterious woman on a mysterious errand. She had come to that locality to search for a great buried treasure. She couldn’t search for it by her lonesome, ns the spirits guarding it had put a ban on her, but the gold was to be found through some one else. That some one else must have a tooth drawn to propitiate the spirits. Then he would be led to the treasure and would whack up with her. The hours for finding the treasure were between midnight and 2 o’clock in the morning, and the searcher must on no consideration say a word to any one about what he was after. If not finding the

THERE WERE A TELL AND A RUSH.

treasure the first night he must have a second tooth pulled. He might have to lose three, but that would be the end. Had the woman gone about among the women telling this yarn she would have been laughed out of their houses. She did exactly the contrary. She interviewed the men. Her very first victim was known as the hardest headed old chap for fifteen miles around. He was so stingy and mean that when he had the mumps he refused to let any of his neighbors catch them free of cost. He bit at once. If there was any buried treasure around there he wanted his half of it. fhdeed, he wanted it all if he could get it He had heard about the traveling dentist, and within two hours of his talk with the woman he was at the van. It was 60 cents a pull, and the dentist selected a front tooth that might have continued business for several years longer. The pulling hurt like blazes, but as the man carried the molar away in bis pocket he felt that the treasure was his. On a Sunday night, which was a week ahead, he was to stand alongside of an elm tree and watch for the flash of a firefly. Two feet under ground beneath the flash the box of gold would be found. The next day the dentist pulled teeth for no less than five different men. Some of them met each other at the van and made all sorts of excuses for being there. Deacon Spooner said he had been thinking of parting with a tooth for the last fifteen years, and Elder Tompkins said that he had a loose tooth that bad prevented him from eating boiled dinners ever since he became a widower, Each had a slight suspicion of the other, but tried to act carelessly and gave no information. The dentist numbered farmers as well ns villagers among the callers, and when Saturday night came he could figure that he had performed on forty-eight men. On Sunday night between the hours named those fortyeight men were looking for elm trees and fireflies. The village was pretty well shaded by elms, but there were not enough to go round. In some" Instances two men found themselves un-

der the same elm. Then they lied tc each other like troopers as they watched for fireflies. The firefly Is seen only on a certain night when the weather hi[s some quality about it that calls them out, and this was one of the months when they are never seen at all. None of-the searchers took this Into consideration, but waited and watched and grew nervous as they thought of the treasure. Before 10 o’clock Monday forenoon the dentist had men waiting while others were beiflg served. There were some among them that had come to lose their first tooth and otHers to lose their second. The fellow was a lightning puller, but there were two or three patients left over when darkness fell and he closed his van. The new ones on this day had been told by the woman to stand under beech trees. There was just as big a crowd on Tuesday, and it was not fairly disposed of until Thursday. Of course it had got noised around the village that there was something up, but not a man peached. There was something more than suspicion among them now, and the only way was to lie to each other. They did lie. Men who had always scorned the slightest evasion now came out and lied as easily as if they had always made It a business. They lied to each other and to their wives, and some of them had three teeth drawn all at once; so as to have the bulge on the one and two tooth fellows. Half a mile west of the village was a beech grove. Outside of that there wasn’t a beech tree within two miles. On Sunday night more than 100 men were in that grove before the clocks were through striking midnight. They rubbed elbows and they crowded each other. Some pretended that they were walking in their sleep and others that they were looking for stray hogs or cows. When an hour had gone by some one saw or thought he saw a light moving about beyond the creek that skirted one side of the grove. There were a yell and a rush. As men ran they punched and kicked each other. They even jumped upon each other’s back. Fifty men fell into the creek and fifty more on top of Them. It was a grand battle royal, from which no one escaped scathless. Next day some of the crowd wanted to consult the woman and get closer particulars; but, though they drove all over the country, she was not to be found. And then arose another complication. Fifty men, disregarding Sunday nights and elm and beech trees, began a daytime hunt for the treasure. They even went so far as to spade up each other’s garden. It was three days before the search ended and the excitement died away, and then the bamboozled began to think of their teeth, though, strangely enough, they did not connect the gypsy woman with the loss of them. The dentist was ready. He could replace teeth as well as displace them. He sent for an assistant and had all the work he could do for two months, and his prices were just double those charged in the city. lie didn't get quite all he had operated on before, but it is still contended in Brinkly that he went to Europe, bought an old castle and is still reveling in power and luxury. Now and then In the firefly season a man goes out at midnight and leans against an elm or beech tree, but if guided to any certain spot the most he finds by digging is an old oysten»can or the skull of a dead and gone horse.

Chopin and the Children.

A chronicler of the life of Chopin, the great pianist, tells the following anecdote: On one occasion the pupils in his father’s school, freed temporarily from the ’•estraint of the elder Chopin, arranged to have some fun with their tutor. When the commotion was at its height Chopin entered and set himself to quell it. He told the boys that if they would remain quiet he would play for them. He darkened the room and started , his improvisation, telling the skylarkers a romantic story of a band of robbers who approached a hoijse, mounted by ladders to the windows, but were frightened away by a noise within. They fled into a dark wood, where they fell asleep under a starry sky. Chopin by this time was playing more and more softly, as if seeking to lull the robbers in tiie wood and incidentally the children in the schoolroom to rest. When he had satisfied himself that his hearers had actually fallen asleep, Chopin crept from the room abd brought his parents to look at them. He turned up the lights, and the boys slept on until he reseated himself at the piano and struck a thrilling chord, at which they all awakened with a start.

“The way you look” in a cap is worth paying for. You never looked so well In any cap as you look in a HEIDCAP. It has the lines and the “kick.” It makes you look a thoroughbred. C. EARL DUVALL RENSSELAER. IND.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

New Ambassador to Russia. William W. Rock hill, promoted from the post of minister to China £o that of ambassador to Russia, is peculiarly qualified for the St. Petersburg portfolio. President Taft’s choice of Mr. Roeklitll for the Russian post was based largely on his knowledge of the position of Russia in China, with especial reference to the vexed railroad zone question. There has been constant friction between Russia and China in Manchuria, notably along the line of the Manchurian railroad. The question is filled with possibilities, and the United States realizes the benefits

WILLIAM W. ROCKHILL.

that will follow the presence of an ambassador at the Russian capital thoroughly acquainted with the details. Another delicate diplomatic task he will be called upon to perform is that of securing from the Russian government the guarantee of proper treatment of Hebrew citizens of the United States traveling in Russia. That this step would be taken with regard to Jewish travelers in the czar’s dominion was promised by Mr. Taft in the last campaign. Mr. Rockhill was assistant secretary of state under Grover Cleveland. He has had twenty-five years’ experience in the diplomatic service and has represented this country at several important posts in the orient. One disconcerting thing about facts is they have an unsettling way of getting in one’s road and causing a general upset. The purpose of an investigating committee seems to be to prove that it isn’t so.

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Humor and Philosophy

By DUNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. The Amount of egotism that some people manage to flourish with is a matter of constant astonishment to most modest mortals. Some misinformation has such a convincing sound that it is so hard to resist it Why worry since we have forgotten what we wanted last year and don’t know what we may want next? There are two sides to anything, but what of it? You can’t be in two places at the same time. In order to make a fool of himself all a man has to do is to let his conceit have a half chance and it will do the rest. There is this about the cocksure man—he has all the benefit of knowing that he is right, even after he is proved wrong. It would be nice to be able to do anything if it were not for the fact that In that case people would expect you to do something.

Easy of Access. The path that leads to trouble Is not so hard to find. And one may stumble on it If he Is so Inclined. . Just let him own an auto. And I have got a hunch Most any road he travels He’ll find It in a bunch. But that Is quite expensive. There are some cheaper ways If he will go about it To find where trouble strays. If In a family racket He tries to smooth things o’er He’ll get enough, I’m thinking. To stock a good sized store. Or he might slyly venture To kick a neighbor’s cat If he would In a hurry See trouble come to bat. He might when some one warbles Upon the patient air Express his true opinion And get it then and there. He need not run a circus. He need not own a goat. Alone he need not venture To price a lady’s coat. He need not buy an airship And flutter In the air, He need not lift a finger— There’s trouble everywhere.

Not Many of Them. “I always try to be affable to my Inferiors.” “Indeed!” “Yes. invariably.” “At that yon aren’t called on to exercise your affability a great deal, are yon?’

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CHICAGO’S GREATEST SHOW.

Bzpoeltloa Surpasses All World’s Beoords la Attendance. ..Chicago’s latest and the world's great** l ° d “ u ’ RIVERVIEV? J2Xbreaking all crowd leoords In this city of multitudes. The attendance of the famous World’s Fair is eclipsed. A million persons via* Ited the exposition the first few days of Its opening. By daylight, opening day, a muttitude fathered at the massive main gates. hey came out of the city on Street cars; from the country by trains) from all points of the compass afo&t, on horseback. In automobiles, carriages, electric, elevated and steam railways and by boat.

State street sent thousands of richly attired beautiful women In picture hats and gowns, the factory settlements young girls In modest garb but with equally light hearts, the busy marts' portly business men in autos, slender clerks, their wives and children, carrying picnic equipment, the resident districts’ children in merry troops, shouting and laughing, aristocrats from the boulevards, and workingmen in holiday attire, a light-hearted, expectant throng that swarmed through gates, driveways, turnstiles and even over the white walls eager ato view the marvels Of the great exposition. Thousands arrived on a fleet of electric launches, steamers, big excursion • boats, sailing craft and rowboats, all gaily flying bunting and flags, laden with Joyous crowds, whose noises of merriment mingled with the music of many bands.

All day the vast concourse of shouting men, women and children passed Into the grounds. They were confronted with an endless revelation of architectural, scenic arid natural splendor In theaters, pavllllons, courts, midways, esplanades, exhibition buildings, art and Industrial halls, casinos, concert stadiums for great military bands and orchestras, causeways, boulevards, waterways and gleaming white tassellated buildings. Turreted and dazzling In their beauty the buildings form snow white avenues and fringe the shores of diamond lakes from whose prismatic depths spout and spray fountains of crystal waters by day and opalescent mists of green, purple, orange and heliotrope by night. The mile square center of marvelously beautiful structures sets like a city of Carrara marble In the emerald heart of groves, forestry and flower plats. Chlcagtr is ever surpassing Its own achievements but it will never build such another spectacular splendor as Biverview Exposition- “