Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1909 — Page 2

The Cough of Consumption Your doctor will tell you that fresh air and good food are the real cures for consumption. But often the cough is very hard. Hence, we suggest that you ask your doctor about your taking Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It controls the tickling, quiets the cough. A We publl.h our formulae /I We baniah alcohol j from our medicines X I 9f Z 6 I*o We urge you to a Jiyc/ o con^‘u oar One of Ayer’s Pills at bedtime will cause an increased flow of bile, and produce a gentle laxative effect the day following. Formula on each box. Show it to your doctor. He will understand ata glance. Dose, one pill at bedtime. - Made by the J. C. Ayer Co., Lowen, Mass

THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. I.f.MBCOCK.EDITOBtHDPUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June >, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 316. - Residence *ll. Advertising rates made known on application. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue • Pages SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1909.

DRY WEATHER CLOSES MILLS

Pwinsyhanla Suffering from a Prolonged Drouth. CROPS AND PASTURES RUINED Farmers Have Suffered Heavily from the Lack of Moisture—Schuylkill River at Lowest Point in Its History—Thousands of Persons Employed in Mills Are Idle Because of the Scarcity of Watter to Furnish Power—Wglls and Springs Dry. Philadelphia. Sept, 3. —Very little rain has fallen in eastern Pennsylvania for several months, and the drouth which has been thereby ere ated is in the acute stage. Crops aiid pasture fields have burned up for lack of moisture and the loss to the farmers has been heavy. A dispatch from York says the big paper mill of P. H. Glatfelter company at Spring Grove has been compelled to suspend operations because of the drouth. The works are operated by water power, and operations will not be resumed until the water supply ,s replenished by a rainfall. The dispatch adds that York county is suffering the most serious droutli within the memory of living persons. Wells and springs in the country have gone dry and supplies of water for various boroughs are becoming exhausted. The Schuylkill river is at the low est point in its history, and more than a thousand persons employed in the mills at IManayunk. a suburb of this city, : re idle because of the scarcity of water.

TORCH PUT TO EIGHT BARNS

Evansville Pyromaniac Still at Work —Twenty-Seven Fires In Week. Evansville, Ind., Sept. 3.—The incendiary who has been starting fires iu this city Is accused of applying his torch to eight more barns This makes twenty-seven barns destfbyed by fire during the last week. In addition so the eight barns, two residences were damaged.

When Knowledge Is Valuable.

The faculty of having one’s mind pigeonholed Is of great value. Some people have i their ipental bookcases and storerooms piled up with masses of material, all valuable perhaps in their way, but jumbled up mid piled together so that when any oue thing is wanted It Is uot to be had without overhauling ten times as much other material, which, however valuable it may be In itself, has no particular use at tbe moment of search. Other people can lay their mental bands on any particular fact or fancy at n moment’s notice aud can keep on pulling out other facts and fancies -of the same general character until they have told or found all they know. There is such a thing as an embarrassment of riches in one's mental treasury as well as tn matters material.—Exchange.

Favorites.

"What are you going to put in there?” asked his wife. "Peas, dear,” replied the man with the trowel. "Say, if you’re going into the house, bring out a can with you. Too know—the kind we had for dinner yesterday I”—Puck. ... - .. ...was

ACH man in this country has the right to make an honest living, unhampered by unfair, privileged or dishonest competition. But to secure that right it is essential that business men of every community COOPERATE TO ENFORCE FAIRNESS OF BUSINESS METHODS. One main difficulty which has

to Be faced in the battle against privileged rights or monopolistic effort lies in the failure of business men to recognize their individual obligations to the community in which they reside. They must come to recognize that THEY MUST CO-OPERATE WITH TFTF.TR COMPETITORS when questions affecting the probity of business methods which have a bearing upon community interests arise. Competition is necessary to the active conduct of business, but in that competition NO UNFAIRNESS, NO PRIVILEGED CONDITIONS, NO MONOPOLISTIC ADVANTAGES, MUST BE PERMITTED TO PREVAIL. Only by co-operation can we eliminate unfair combination and dishonest or privileged competition. H *t H THERE IS BUT ONE MEASURING ROD FOR THE CONDUCT OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES, BE THEY THOSE OF THE SMALL DEALER OR OF THE GREAT CORPORATION WHICH HAS BEEN GRANTED POWERS WHICH MAKE IT A FACTOR IN CONTROLLING THE INDUSTRIES OF THE COUNTRY. THAT MEASURING ROD IS PLAIN, OLD FASHIONED, COMMON HONESTY, AND THAT MEASURING ROD MUST BE USED BY THE GOVERNMENT IN PREVENTING DESTRUCTION OF THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE BY THE GRANTING OF PRIVILEGES AGAINST THOSE INTERESTS. R R R The government, in granting corporate rights, SHOULD RETAIN THE POWER TO INSPECT THE BOOKS AND METHODS OF DOING BUSINESS of the corporations it creates and to make such investigations as to enable the government to learn whether or not the corporation is seeking to shut out competitors or to control the political affairs of a state or the nation. That’s all there is to the question of publicity. •t R at PUBLICITY DOESN’T MEAN AN IMPROPER PRYING INTO THE AFFAIRS OF A BUSINESS FIRM OR CORPORATION. IT MEANS DUE AND PROPER INVESTIGATION BY AUTHORIZED GOVERNMENTAL AGENCIES WHICH WILL DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT PUBLIC INTERESTS ARE BEING RESPECTED. THE ROAD OF THE FUTURE HAS BEEN MADE EASIER BY THE INVESTIGATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE PAST FEW YEARS AND THE PROSECUTIONS WHICH HAVE FOLLOWED.

Gambling Menacing American Homes.

CUE gambling spirit runs back to remote antiquity and is CHAIIACI ERISTIC Ot SAVAGERY as of modern society. Many of the prevailing evils of today are new; other evils may arise in the future, but selfishness goes back to the beginning, and gambling is one of the first offsprings of selfishness. GAMBLING WHEN LEAST EVIL ADDS NO WEALTH, PRODUCES NOTHING, PROMOTES NO INDUSTRY. IT TENDS TO THE IMPOVERISHMENT OF NATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS. AT ITS WORST IT IS HANDMAID TO EVERY FORM OF SIN AND COPARTNER WITH THE WORST ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE. n r n The gambling spirit and the “get something for nothing” spirit help to give the shark and swindler his chance. GAMBLING IS CURSING AMERICAN HOMES IN THE SHAPE OE BRIDGE WHIST AND KINDRED CARD GAMES. It may be seen in the transformation of women under the intoxication of the game, in the neglect of children and home duties, in the evil influence upon the whole family. R R R GAMBLING IS A GREAT MENACE TO CHARACTER. IT IS A SYNONYM FOR DISHONESTY. TWO THINGS ARE GREATLY TO B; DESIRED—FIRST. INDIVIDUAL INTEGRITY, A FINE SENSE OF RIGHT IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LIFE ON THE PART OF THE INDIVIDUAL; SECOND, THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS AGAINST GAMBLING AND THE ENACTMENT OF MORE FARREACHING LAWS

Neglect of Criminal a Crime.

By F. O. HELLSTROM

IF a man be convicted of a crime and serve a term in prison and no steps be taken to effect his reform or cure A GREATER CRIME AGAINST SOCIETY HAS BEEN COMMITTED TH AN TH E CRIM EO F THE IN DIVIDE AL. Any prison management that forgets the moral ethics, justice and humanity, .cannot justify its right to existence. The prison that is managed and DOMINATED BY THE SPIRIT OF REVENGE is simply a barnacle that society must remove in order to facilitate human progress. R R R WHEN THE INMATE’S CHARACTER IS UPLIFTED THE DUTY OF PRISON MANAGEMENT HAS IN THAT MEASURE BEEN DISCHARGED. THE SHACKLES OF CRIME HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM THE MIND OF THE INMATE, AND THERE HAS BEEN ADDED TO SOCIETY A USEFUL MEMBER. IF THE MAN DISCHARGED GOES FORTH WITH BITTER HATRED AND VENGEANCE IN HIS HEART AGAINST SOCIETY, THEN BOTH ARE TO BE PITIED, FOR THE STORM WILL SURELY BREAK AND SOME INNOCENT PERSON WILL BE MADE THE VICTIM. The solving of the criminal problem is a subject that reason and the spirit of charity alone can solve. I prefer to take my stand for reason and charity backed up by the home, the schools and the churches. YOUR SCHOOLS, YOUR CHURCHES AND YOUR PRISONS ARE A PRETTY TRUE INDEX TO YOUR CIVILIZATION. By the fruit shall ye know them. Give us more schools, more churches, more charity and less barleycorn and revenge and there will be less need for jails, reformatories and penitentiaries.

Publicity Would Make Corporations Honest.

By JAMES R. GARFIELD.

By Rev. JAMES D. BILLS. Methodist.

Warden of the North Dakota Penitentiary.

Ex-Sccretiry of th* Interior.

HINTS FOR FARMERS

To Tan a Hide. Take the hide green and salt well. Let it stand for thirty-sis hours; then take hair off with lime in the usual way. After taking off hair let hide soak for seven or eight days In clear running water; then scrape and clean off. For a hide of ordinary size dissolve three pounds of alum and five of salt in enough warm (not hot) water to cover It. Put In hide and leave five days, stirring every day. At the end of that time take out and put in vessel with enough clear water to cover: then add five pounds of clean bruised red oak bark. Let this stand till desired color is got; then take ®ut. wash In clear water and hang up. When half dry begin working and work till dry. Small hides in proportion.—Southern Cultivator. Hogs and Straw Ricks. Some farmers think that, a straw rick is a good place for the sow and her brood to sleep. This is a mistake. It best to keep them away from the straw pile winter and summer. In the winter the pigs will burrow beneath the straw, get too warm and take cold when they come out into the freezing atmosphere. Coughing and wheezing is the result, and the pigs do no good or die. Besides, if burrowed beneath the straw they are liable to be stepped on and seriously injured or killed by the stock running.to the rick. During tbe summer mouths especially should the sow and her young be fenced from the straw pile. If they burrow down into the half rotted straw they will be very apt to contract some disease. Sheep Notes. Cold air will not injure sheep, but a wet coat and a cold wind may prove as dangerous as it would with any other animal. Cornstalks are valuable fodder for sheep, and if they are cut green and properly cured and then put through the shredder there will be but little waste. Breeding ewes should not be allowed to get fat. They should be kept in good condition and so fed as to be plump and hard, but there should be very little surplus fat on them. If pastures fail late In the fall they should be given extra feed in order to keep them in good condition, so there will be no trouble getting them in lamb. Poultry Notes. Others have built up an egg laying strain. Why not do so yourself? Lazy hens cause much of the high prices for eggs. Make ’em get busy and hustle. The warmer the weather the more water required, as more is thrown off by the body. Many a hen that is otherwise well fed may fail to lay on account of Jack of water. Successful poultrymen, in order to keep their poultry on a paying basis, are continually culling their flocks. One of the great values of green food, it is said, lies in its ability to aid in the digestion of other things.—Farm and Ranch. Alfalfa For Pasture. Alfalfa has not been used to any great extent in the eastern states for pasture. For cattle it is knowy as a dangerous pasture, on accoufit of its tendency to produce bloat, aud cannot be safely used unless the animals are kept on it continually. For sheep aud swiue it furnishes the best of pasture. There is, however, one drawback to the use of alfalfa for grazing purposes, on account of its Ila billty to be tramped out by the stock pasturing on it. It may be that after alfalfa comes to be more commonly grown that it will be found valuable for pasturing purposes, but as yet it is grown principally for hay.—Farm and Fireside. Scaly Leg In Poultry. The first thing to do for scaly leg Is to get every bird troubled that way out of the flock by itself. Then the roosts aud all tbe woodwork of the houses should be thoroughly washed with kerosene. Boiling water or whitewash with a few drops of carbolic acid will also do the work. Do anything to kill the parasites, which make their home in every crack and crevice. When the houses are clean, keep them so. This is your only salvation. To relieve tbe hens which are suffering take sulphur and lard, mix them and rub the mixture on the legs ouce a week till cured. Some good poultrymen use simply gas tnr rubbed on well. —E. L. Vincent la Farm and Fireside. Care of Milk Vessels. The sooner the milk utensils aud separator are washed after use the easier it is done and the less danger there is of their becoming foul. To do this properly you need three waters. First, use a lukewarm water to remove all the milk. Second, use water a little warmer, into which should be thrown a handfuT of salsoda or a few drops of concentrated lye. Third, use au abundance of boiling water, which must penetrate every nook and corner and remain long enough to destroy every germ that may still be looking for a home. Scalding Poultry. When scalding poultry for market it Is best to first dry pick tbe legs, so and they will not necessarily be placed in the water and change color. Neither the heads nor tbe feet should touch tbe water: The water ought to be as near tbe boiling point as possible without boiling.

i A LARGE SHARE OF YOUR EARNINGS ■ Go For Eatables—- • So why not see that this mon* ; ey is wisely spent. • There is freshness to think ’ about—and cleanliness and •' economy. ’ This suggests to us that this ■ store might be of service to . you—because its aim is to deal ’ in grocery goodness. • How well it succeeds is a mat- ; ter for each customer to de- • cide personally. ’ We would be glad to have • YOUR opinion. : McFarland & Son ’ Reliable Grocers. J 1-1-H-l 1 I I I I | ! | |

NORTH DAKOTA SPECIAL FARM BARGAINS.

610 acres of the finest land in North Dakota. It joins and surrounds the village of Buttsville, Ransom county, only 5 miles from Lisbon, the county seat. 555 acres under cultivation, and 55 acres are in tame grass and prairie pasture. Not a single acre of low, wet, sandy or hilly land. There are two sets of new farm buildings, each consisting of house, barn and granery, small but new and neat. Good water supply. Can be divided in almost any shape to make two convenient farms. Nothing to beat this in the northwest to-day, regardless of the price. If desired present occupant would rent for series of years. 160 acre farm, situated 7 miles south of Sheldon, N. D. No buildings, rented for next year for % crop delivered. Owner to furnish seed. A rare bargain must be sold before Oct. 1, 1909. This farm more than half paid for Itself this year at price it is now offered for. For further particulars call at this office or address F. D. G., care Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind.

Genuine “Quaker Parchment” butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at The Democrat office in any quantity desired.

Well Drilling and Repairing \Ve have just purchased a >' \ brand-new well drilling out- '' i fit and solicit patronage in ; our line of work. Phone '' \ 298 or 354. j' jjMOORE & HOCHSTETLER: RJ.W.HORTOH DENTIST Opposite Court House ■ -H-I- H ■! .l-F-i-H-l' l i I- l l | | m | l |. Automobile I j LIVERY j We have just purchased ” another touring car and ” ;; will place both cars at ” the public’s service. ” ;; We drive our own cars •• and guarantee satisfaction. i i When in need of a car we I i •• will be glad to serve •• ” you. Our prices are :: right and our cars ” •; reliable. ” Phone 262 - 141 or call at our shop IiSH H- H-'t l- l 'l l- l l l 'i l-M-1-H l' 11 1 lib ’ PAfeKER’fc »<AIR BALSAM Ommm and bmutlhM th* hair. Promoto. a luxuriant growth. Tails to Be.tore Gray

Chicago to Northweat, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South. Loulavllla and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABL.K. In Effect March 7, 1909. r ™ SOUTH BOUND. <o.3l—Fast Mail 4:46 a. m. No. s—LxuiUvllle Mall (daily) 10:55 a. m Mall (daily).. 2:01p.m. <o.39—Milk accomm (dally).. 0:02 p. m. NORTH BOUND. 40. 4—Mail (dally) a sa ■ w» N 0.32 —Fast Mall (dally)10.06 a. m. No. 6—Mall and Ex. (dally).. 3-17 n m. No.3o—Cln to ChL Ves. fckli 6:02 £ £ No. 4 will atop at Rensselaer to lot off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Loweii, Hammond and Chicago. ** Nos. 31 and 33 make direct con-* lection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, O. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen'l Mgr CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mg??, W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Marshall W. g. p arka £ ler kChas. Morlan Attnrnl3 r ...MoaeS Leopold S, tt ?, rn ?y“ Geo. A. Williams F ™rh?^ neer V H - u Qanjbl « Fire Warden r c. B. Stewart , . . Councilman. 2nd ’ H. Brown 2nd Ward..... ...J. F Irwin 3rd Ward.. .Ell' GeX? 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. £J, erl b-' Charles C. Warner * Louis P. Shirer Auditor James N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D . Allman Recorderj. w. Tilton SurveyorW. F. Osborne Coroner J. Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer m. f>. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. I®* rtc tJohn Pettet .....Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustee* Township Win. Folgar. ....Berkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer .Gillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. WortleyJordan Tunis Snip Keener John ShirerKankakee Edward ParkisonMarion George L. Parks.Milroy ®- J - ......Newton Isaac KightUnion s - b- ClarkWheatfield red ’KarchWalker Ernest Lamson, Co. Suptßensselaer E. C. English,Rensselaer James H. Greenßemington Geo. O. StembelWheatfield 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’* 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 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. 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 Friday* of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. . ISAAC KIGHT. Weak Kidneys Weak Kidneya rarely point to weak kidney Nerves. The Kidneys, like the; Heart, and th* Stomach, find their weakness, not in the organ itself, but in the nerves that control and guide and strengthen them. Dr. Shoop’s Restorative la a medicine specifically prepared to reach these controlling nerves. To doctor the Kidneys alone, is futile. It is a waste of time, and of money a* well. If your beck aches or is weak. If the urine •P r “ dark and strong. If you have symptoms Of Brights or other distressing or dangerous kid. (O’ Dr. Shoop's Restorative a month— Tablets or Liquid—and see what It can and will do for you. Druggist recommend and sell Dr. Shoop’s Rostorativo “ALL DEALERS” IHIIH W.| 1 1 DEALER IN ) [ I[ | [ lime Hoir Bffl n 8 I tai i; i! I m ISSUM. HD. I : nnniiD ss’&mjssk unUUr r si " . A T z* 1 I Nq vomiMnc. no dietress. A safe and pleasing syrnp—Uta. Druggiste.