Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1909 — Page 2

Stops Hair Falling Ayer’s Hair Vigor, new improved formula, will certainly stop falling of the hair. Indeed, we believe it will always do this unless there is some disturbance of the general health. Then,a constitutionalmedicine may be necessary. Consult your physician about this. Does not change the color of the hair. formula with aach bottle /I Show it to your fillers v then d 0 Mh , , ay The reason why Ayer’s Hair Vigor stops falling hair is because it first destroys the germs which cause this trouble. After this is done, nature soon brings about a full recovery, restoring the hair and scalp to a perfectly healthy condition. —— Made by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell. Macs.——

DWil. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JABPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 3, 1908. at the post office at Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 318. - Residence 811. Advertising rates made known on application. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1909.

Food Prices Now and Later.

It has been a source of relief to find that prices of some of the everyday necessities for the table can come down. Even a trifle lopped off would seem to Indicate that the top had been reached and phenomenal rates could not be maintained for long. But those who keep close watch of the subject Insist that appearances are deceiving if the temporary decline Is taken to mean a permanent reaction. Compared with a few weeks or a few months ago the small buyer Is better off. Still, prices are high for the sea-son-evidence that current production, however abundant, is not overstocking the market. The serious phase of the living problem, marketmen predict, will come 1 ? r. when the consumers mtist de- !"■ i;• 11 ■tuff now going Into storage f ’ ' ) ■ It is costing the packv ■ c . i't It than the same class j . si at an advance on last The family preserving 1 ■ 1 'I also get busy and do in'' ■<-.n.ide storing. Things will I v“ set uh (-'y cheap for a few weeks and coa.-u .sptlon perhaps lavish-. “You can’t eat your cake and have it. too,” but you can often put by what Isn’t really needed for present comfort and next winter cut down the cold storage man’s expectations by just so much.

Short Distance Wireless.

A list of wireless stations recently compiled by tire navy department at Washington gives the total number as 782. .The ordinary employment of this method of communication has lifted it to an assured position as a business adjunct. Long distance stunts are. not demanded by the public as proof of wireless practicability. Quality of service has improved, and a steady development in the industry is reported. This country takes high rank in commanding the wireless service for a variety of short distance purposes. One company has 277 stations on the Atlantic coast, twenty-six on the Pacific and seven on the great lakes and operates, besides, 103 shipboard stations. The government uses the system extensively on the seacoasts and on vessels of all descriptions. In many operations connected with the sea wireless telegraphy is recognized as a necessity, and recently a bill was introduced in the national senate providing that all passenger steamships having a capacity of fifty passengers or more must be equipped with efficient wireless apparatus. Wireless has ceased to be a novelty, but its growth in usefulness and favor is shown by the Installment of circuit after circuit with advantage to communities and to the nation.

That report of a thousand huge icebergs bunched off Newfoundland /lakes much better reading than the sea serpent yarn, even though it is a nature fake. The quantity of lemonade and soda water handed over the bar at this season goes to prove that screen door appearances also are often deceiving. “Continued warm weather” lets OJd Prob out the same as “variable weather.” If it comes it copies; if not nobody grumbles.

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Ground Feed For Horses. For horses at hard work for long hours all the grain should be ground and mixed with chopped hay, says American Cultivator. A great deal of time and energy can thus be saved. If the horses are required to do hard work only a few hours each day the oats need not be ground. Because of their bulky nature oats are easier masticated than other grains. Old horses or others with poor teeth should always have ground grain. It Is almost impossible for them to make use of the whole grain. During the spring months or at any season of the year when they are shedding teeth colts should have ground grain In order to prevent any unnecessary use of the jaws during such a period. It Is argued by some that the cost of grinding will not make It profitable to grind feed for horses not at work unless they have defective teeth. But where one Is prepared to grind his grain himself the work can be done at odd times and the expense of grinding need hardly enter Into the question.

Around the Farm. There is nothing like rotation, thorough cultivation and plenty of good barnyard manure to keep the soil in good shape. There Is a lot of satisfaction In working in good, mellow soil. It can be kept right only by constant, systematic working. The poor places In the dooryard should be attended to at once. They are an eyesore to you and a discredit to your place. Grass seed can be worked Into the ground after It Is loosened. In buying farm machinery always get the best and most reliable. It will prove cheapest In the end. The right waj’ to handle manure is to handle It as little as possible. Put it where you can use It at once. Keep the cultivator shovels bright and sharp. They will do better work and the team will do more work.— Kimball’s Dairy Farmer. Heart Girth and Vitality. The boys at the Nebraska experiment station tried out some steers last winter to determine the type that make the best feeders. They took the measurements of each one In the most minute particular. The steer that made the best gain in the feed lot was the one having the largest heart girth In proportion to weight. The steer shewing the lightest gain had a very small heart girth. While this Is the result of only one winter's work and cannot be taken as establishing any positive law, still it looks very much as if cattle with large lung power, with a good heart and consequently perfect digestion are best calculated to make big gains In the feed lot, and we thought everybody knew this all along.—Denver Field and Farm. Feather Pulling Fowl*. Feather pulling Is a habit said to come from idleness. When once the fowls learn the habit they seem to delight in eating the feathers. The relief suggested Is plenty of grit, oyster shells and some dry lime mortar from a building, offered freely. A piece of fat pork tied to a strong cord and swung In reach of the fowls seems to give some relief. The cause of this habit seems to be the lack of lime in the system of the fowls. Fowls on the range seldom acquire It. while those In confinement too often do. Even cockerels yarded to be fattened and those tn crates for crate fattening often acquire the habit.—Country Gentleman. Prepotency of the Sire. About the most reliable basis of calculation as to the power of transmission. or, as it is called, prepotency of the bull, is the dairy character of the grandmothers and great-grandmothers on both sides of his pedigree. He is the stored up results of what lies back of him. The quality' of bls ancestors will have more effect on his offspring than the performance of his mother. She gives to him of what she Inherited more than of what she does. She may be rich In inherited qualities and yet for some reason be herself only an ordinary performer.

To Fatten Broilers. An excellent mixture for fattening broilers is made as follows: One hundred pounds of finely ground barley, 100 pounds of finely ground corn, 100 pounds of finely ground oats, with bulls sifted out, to which mixture is added thirty pounds of beef scraps. Buttermilk or skimmilk is used for mixing, the former being preferred. The birds are fed twice a day at intervals of twelve hours and are kept on this diet for three weeks. Value of Cultivation. Probably no operation on the farm pays as well on the Investment as the extra tillage requisite to decure ideal conditions. Clods repel the tiny roots and vacancies between carry neither ready moisture nor food. Sometimes, especially in dry seasons, the dlffertnce in yield between a cloddy soil and one open, mellow, with available food easy to reach and moisture at will, approaches 100 per cent.—Professor J. W. tanburn. New Hampshire. Water Hortas Frequently. Watering often is far better than waiting till a horse is almost choked and then letting him have all he can drink. Many horses are spoiled by the latter method, while no one ever hurt a horse bv frequent watering.

THE SPORTING WORLD

Coveles’C, r *ct Himself. Has Pitch*-: • cJeskle of the Philadelphia Nation.;is shot his bolt? Is the Giant kitk-r <>f l!>08 a fizzle this A. D. 1909? These are questions which are up to Manager Murray of the Phillies and which he' probably will decide within the next few weeks. It Is bruited about among the members of the Philadelphia team that the big miner has shown but little this spring—that he has been unable to get a free movement to his pitching arm and that his reserve supply of nerve also is extremely low. Coveleskie looked like a wonder in the fall of last year, and the way he mowed dowu the Giants In those several games he pitched against them made the election excitement sink into

PITCHER COVELESKIE OF THE PHILADELPHIA NATIONALS.

Insignificance and for the time being gave the center of the National stage to “Cove.” But this season he has been unable to repeat. The Giants have hammered him in pure joy for the wallopings he gave them last fall, keeping them out of the world’s series, and other teams have taken in an equally kindly manner to everything be could serve. If he doesn’t get back on his stride pretty soon it will be up to Manager Murray to move some other twirler into the line of regulars and give the big Coveleskie a chance to get back his ability and his nerve on the bench or in some prep, school. Fred Clarke May Retire. Fred Clarke, the leader of the Pittsburg baseball team, who has piloted his crew to three National league championships, will retire from the game at the close of the present season. This statement is made on the authority of the wife of the premier player. “Fred will'retire," said Mrs. Clarke “He has had his innings, and his departure will mean an opportunity for some other player. While we are attached to Pittsburg, there is a great big ranch in Kansas that needs his attention, and after this year it is the ranch life for both of us. It is not generally known that Fred did not banker after playing this year and did not actually decide to play until aftet he went to Hot Springs to join the team. Then he decided to try for just one more pennant, but this is his last try.” Manager Clarke later verified all that his wife had said. Pennsy Gets a Good One. Joe Ballard, the great scholastic miler from the Providence (It. I.) high school who bolds the mile scholastic running record and the lad who broke the half mile, one mile and two mile records in the recent New England scholastic championships, will enter the University of Pennsylvania in the fall. Ballard Is the best scholastic mile runner in America, and he recently raced a mile in 4 minutes 263-5 seconds and beat a field with ease and then went out and took two other races. Kraenzleln Declines Tiger Offer. Df A. C. Kraenzleln. the track coach of Mercersburg academy;' recently received an overture to become track coach at Princeton university. He also received overtures from four or five other colleges in this country. Dr. Kraenzleln has shown wonderful skill In turning out winning track teams at Mercersburg for the last three years. He has refused these various offers and will return to Mercersburg this fall. Cook, Cornell’s New Track Captain. Eddie Cook of Ohio has been elected tmptaln of the Cornell university track team to succeed C. M. French. Since be went to Cornell he has been successful in the pole vault and broad jump, having twice won first place In the broad jump in the Olympic games. He also tied with Gilbert of Yale for first place in the pole vault at the Olympic games, clearing 12 feet 2 inch- . »•.<. He Is a junior in the College of | ‘ Ivll Engineering.

We’re right in Line with any kind of Livery, HORSE OR AUTO. Give us a call. -> Phone 14 1 DUVALL BROS. Farmers’ Mutual Insurance ASSOCIATION OF BENTON, JASPER AND WHITE COUNTIES Insures all farm property against fire and lightning. Pays two-thirds on all personal property. Face value of policy on buildings. Over $2,000,000 insurance in force. All losses paid promptly. FRANK E. FISHER, W. H. CHEADLE, Secretary. _ President. MARION I. ADAMS, Solicitor

Heat and Fresh Air.

It is ungrateful as well as unwise to knock the weather man when the mercury In the thermometer gets ambitious of a rise. One way and another summer heat lures and drives humanity outdoors into the fresh air. Thousands of city folks sleep on the roofs and in parks and squares who but for the oppressive heat would never inhale during sleep so much as a single breath of fresh air. Outdoor air Is hot and even stifling, but far less stifling than air shut between walls and kept from motion. City folks are not alone in preferring the outside of a house to the inside In summer. Even in the open country a large part of the house, especially in the upper stories, is too hot for comfort. The country kitchen travels to a shed or shady tree. The table goes under a tree also unless there is a spacious open porch. At night all doors and windows remain open, the largest and airiest rooms are invaded by sleepers, and everybody be» comes a fresh air fiend In the process of getting cool quarters. The moving air may seem as hot to the face as dead air, but It is Invigorating to breathe. Players play harder and longer In hot weather than In cool and hold out because they breathe more fresh air in twenty-four hours. And folks who loaf should thank the heat for forcing them to loaf in the open air.

Teaching girls to whistle is a higher education fad which runs full tilt against the classic saying, “Whistling girls and crowing hens are sure to cpme to some bad end.” Hot weather also has an average to keep up. and as things have been going it must be simply fierce some of the time. Earth's first message to Mars will probably announce that Spain has just collected that Cuban colonial debt. Blue for army uniforms again is also a reaction against what the Spanish war brought in.

COAL FOR THRESHIMG West Virginia Splint The Very Best, Free from slate, Bought at Lowest Prices ST. ived Portland Gement =- AT PARR, INDIANA =--■ If you have any Cement Work this summer or fall give us a chance. We wish to close this car out to make room in our store house for coal. G. M. Wilcox & Sons PARR, - - INDIANA

If man can sleep twenty years he .can sleep three hundred, so perhaps some Rip Van Winkle truant from Hendrik Hudson’s Half Moon will wake up in nick o’ time to see the old ship go sailing by, piloted by airships and convoyed by all sorts of twentieth century marine monsters.

Hurry calls for harvest hands by the thousands fail to thin the ranks of husky “out of works” in town who hold up well to do pedestrians for a nickel to take them to a job across the ferry. Having mustered a long line of distinguished ancestry, the corporation tax must eventually have standing in .the community. Somebody is working right now on prize exhibits for the corn show, the talry show and many a sideshow of tlhe county fair. Wrong time of year to try to spring a revival of the old song. “There’ll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight.” Woman suffragists propose to make it. hotter and still hotter for man until he capitulates. Indianapolis Feels Storm. . -Indianapolis, July 13.—Great damage to growing crops and property was done by a severe rain and electrical storm which was felt here. In Indianapolis the wind arose to a velocity of thirty-two miles an hour and In three hours 1.51 inches of water fell. Stubborn. A little girl was heard talking to her rabbit. “Five times five,” she said, “six times six, seven times seven.” Between times she shook the rabbit violently. “Dorothy.” said her mother, “what are you doing to your rabbit?” “Well, papa says,” replied the child, “that rabbits multiply rapidly, and Bunny won’t do it”

EGER BROS, are selling "Standard" or "Sisal" Binder Twine at 8 l-2c.

Well Drilling Ma Repairing We have just purchased a-brand-new well drilling outfit and solicit patronage in ’Qur line of work. Phone 298 or 354. MOOffiE & HOCHSTETLER

J. W. HORTON . ■ .. ' ‘ i DENTIST Opposite Court House

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lujUjlUlU'llHt Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Leulsvllle and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect March 7, 1909. - ' o SOUTH BOUND. 4o.3l—Fast Mall 4:45 a. m. No. o— Louisville Mail (dally) 10:65 a. m. No.33—lnapolls Mall (daily).. 2:01p.m. <o.39—MUk accomm (daily).. 6:02 p m NORTH BOUND. -To. 4— Mall (daily). 4.59 a. m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31 a. m. No.32—Fast Mall (dally) 10.05 a. m. No. 6—-Mail and Ex. (daily).. 3:17 p. m. No.3o—Cln. to Chi. Ves. Mail 6:03 p. m No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Loweii. Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct con.ectlon at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen'l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Myr ’ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. h. S. Ellis Marshal] w. 8. Parka Clerk.. .....Chas. Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councilmen. 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 LongweU Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk’.. Charles C. Warner Sheriff ....Louis P. Shirer 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 M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist 2* at . r ‘ ct 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 .Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer. ...Gillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shirer.. uankakee Edward Park150n..................Mart0n George L. Parks.... Milroy E. J. Lane Newton Isaac Kight... Union 8. D. Clark Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green. Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield 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’a 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. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. Telephone 629-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. Postoffice 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 2uJSJ? eek ’<n P? 1180 " 8 having business with Ine will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Fair . Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.