Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1910 — Page 7

< simplest way to pay inevitable taxes, ;; ” and to pay them even more abundantly, is <• o TO - PUT ONESELF IN A POSITION TO AFFORD < > 4 o THEM. ’; ’ They shotdd be paid with the coin of character. jrtttttSSSif Throughout an immense breadth of the community this adjustment seems perfectly possible. One need only look out of the window to see how it may be done. One need only to cross to France to see it being done. Briefly, WE AT J, SPEND TOO MUCH. To this many replies are possible, but I suppose that no one will now have the hardihood to suggest that less spending means less employment or prosperity. It would mean these tomorrow, if tomorrow nobody rode in cabs. But this will not happen, and if it happened the wound would be soon healed. Besides, IT IS NOT EXTRAVAGANT TO RIDE IN CABS IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT. IT IS HEALTHFUL AND MERITORIOUS TO RIDE IN A CAB IF YOU CAN AFFORD IT, AND IT 18 WICKED NOT TO RIDE IN A CAB IF, BEING ABLE TO AFFORD IT AND HAVING GOOD REASON TO DO IT, YOU REFRAIN FROM AN UNREASONED AND PURITANICAL DELUSION A 8 TO ITB “EXPENBIVENEBB.”

More people would save if they would cease to regard saving as deprivation. A MAN SHOULD SAVE PRECISELY IN ORDER TO GIVE HIMSELF THE RIGHT TO SPEND. As Emerson says, man is born to be rich and thereby to gain the freedom of the earth, to achieve more contacts, finer culture and better company. How excellent, for example, is his doctrine that every man’s expense should spring from his character: “AS LONG AS YOUR GENIUS BUYS THE INVESTMENT IS SAFE, THOUGH YOU SPEND LIKE A MONARCH.” Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and this makes him necessary to society. This native determination GUIDES HIS LABOR AND HIS SPENDING. He wants an equipment of means and tools proper to his talent. And to save on this point were to neutralize the special strength and helpfulness of each mind. Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career. It is a large stride to independence when a man in the discovery of his proper talent has sunk the necessity for false expenses. The attitude of many people to the saving habit is pathetic. They wish to put by, but declare that they cannot get the thing well begun. The stone rolls back on sweating Sisyphus. Certainly IT IS THE BEGINNING THAT COSTS. If any young man asks me how he can save I have only one reply: SAVE FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER DIFFICULTY. In that sum there is a magic. It has the properties of radium. The man who has saved and invested five hundred dollars has passed his novitiate; he has completed his drill and will never go back. MEN SPEND TO RESEMBLE, WHEREAS THEY SHOULD SPEND TO DEVELOP. THEN SPENDING AND SAVING BECOME THE SAME THING.

To Fight Against Tuberculosis Is Patriotism.

By PHILLIP P. JACOBS.

HEN the government bugle sounds the call to arms and we realize that war is upon us few men are so cowardly or so indifferent to their country’s welfare as to ask WHETHER THEY OUGHT TO HELP FIGHT HER

ENEMIES and rout her foes from the borders of the land. But when the call from our same country comes to rise up against the foes of disease that kill by the tens and hundreds of thousands the great majority of men are HEEDLESS OF THE ALARM, AND THE QUESTION OF DUTY SELDOM ENTERS THEIR MINDS. at at at Yet if one stops to consider for a moment that tuberculosis, with its insidious and deadly touch, is slaying each year two hundred thousand men, women and children in the United States; that this one disease holds in its deadly clutches at least six hundred thousand people all the time, but that THREE-FOURTHS OF THIS DEATH AND SICKNESS COULD BE STOPPED, the duty of every patriotic citizen in the campaign against tuberculosis is plain, at at at THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION 18 AN INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL AND PATRIOTIC DUTY, BECAUSE IT MEANS THE CONSERVATION OF THE LIFE AND VITALITY OF THE NATION, STATE AND COMMUNITY. /' The United States loses annually in the lives of the victims of tuberculosis fully a hundred and fifty million dollars, two-thirds tc three-fourths of which amount could easily be saved if every citizen did his DUTY.

It Will Soon Be Thought Unfashionable to Be Sick.

By Dr. HORACE FLETCHER. Food Theorist.

XN FIVE YEARS FROM NOW IT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED RESPECTABLE to be sick. The great source of unhappiness in the world at present is the month. You should eat when you feel like it, eat what you may crave for at the time. You should CHEW YOUR FOOD THUtTY-TWO TIMES WITH EVERY MOUTHFUL. If you do this you will live to a great age. The idea that ft is well to CHEW YOUR SOUP may seem ridiculous. Try ft It will improve the soup and help you. Never eat when WORRIED, NERVOUS OR ANGRY. It is making and absorbing poison to do ft

To Save Money You Must Know How to Spend It.

By THOMAS P. O'CONNOR. M. P., Irish Politician.

Assistant Secretary of the National AModation For

the Prevention of Tuberculosis.

Farm and Garden

CEMENT WATER TROUGHS. Plana For Construction of an Inoxpansi va Necessity. Watering troughs, like many other concrete structures, may be made without steel re-enforcements, but If so constructed the walls must be half again as thick as when re-enforced, and even then are more apt to crack. The size and capacity of the trough varies with the purpose for which It is used, but for troughs up to about ten feet long by two feet wide by*'two feet deep the thickness of the reenforced walls should be about five inches.

It Is essential that a watering trough be water tight. The conditions for obtaining a trough which will not leak are: First, a richer mixture of concrete than is required for ordinary work; second, enough water in mixing to give a sloppy concrete, and, third, the placing of all concrete at one operation. It is extremely difficult to make any structure water tight unless all three of the above conditions are complied with. The best mix of concrete to use varies with the sand and gravel employed, but generally speaking one part of portland cement to one and a half parts of clean, coarse sand to three parts of screened gravel or broken

THE TROUGH FOR THE FARM.

stone are advised, or if gravel from the natural bank is used without screening one part of portland cement to three parts of natural bank gravel. If sand alone is available use one part portland cement to two parts sand. The amount of excavation necessary for the foundation of a trough de pends upon the size. For a small trough level off the earth and tamp the ground well before placing any concrete, but for a trough of large capacity a foundation should be used.

Place a two and a half inch layer of concrete in the form and immediately after placing and before the concrete has set place a sheet of woven fence wire or some other wire fabric over the concrete, bending it up so that it will come to within an inch of the top of the forms at the sides and ends. Place two and a quarter inches more of the concrete in the bottom and ram lightly to bring the mortar to the surface and smooth it off evenly. Have the Inner form all ready and as soon as the base is laid and before it has begun to stiffen set It, taking care to keep it at equal distances from the sides, and then immediately fill in the concrete between the outer and inner forms to the required height The time to remove the forms depends upon several conditions, such as the wetness of the concrete, the weather and the temperature, but generally such forms can be removed within two days. After removing the forms wet the concrete thoroughly and paint the inside surface with pure portland cement mixed as thick as cream. Protect the trough from the sun, keeping it wet for about a week. Feather* In Place of a Hen. If a hen can hatch a duckling why can’t a bunch of any sort of feathers hatch a chick? As a matter of fact, they can, as has been demonstrated by the tireless brooder invented by a California man. In general appearance the brooder resembles other machines of the kind, but there is no space in it for the lamp or other beating apparatus used in the older types. Instead a number of bunches of feathers are fastened to the underside of the lid.

A FIRELESS BROODER.

These feathen are Jost long enough to reach the floor of the box, with a little left over. The eggs are laid on the bottom, just beneath the feather tufts, and when the lid Is closed each egg Is Inclosed In a cluster of down that makes a very good Imitation ben. As each egg is hatched out the lid can be lifted for a second and the chick removed without the difficulty that would attend its removal from the old style brooder, the interior of which is reached from one end.

Freedom from worry is a fine thing to develop a good disposition, but drawing a big salary for speaking gentle words of cheer acts more rapidly. There is this peculiarity about duty—it never seems able to connect up with a certain type of person at all, wherefore we must conclude that duty does not know its business. v Ton may not be able to keep a good man down, but occasionally there are hot tempered people who insist upon stringing a bad man up. Coming. Down upon us E’er we know it Will the Santa Claus Descend. And we'll have to Make arrangement On his whiskers To attend. Santa Claus May get the credit For his large. Productive dash. But he does not Fill the stockings If we don’t Supply the cash. It is up to us To hustle At this season Ot the year If we’re going to Make connection With the storied Christmas cheer. If we’re looking For a visit From the reindeer And the sleigh We will have to Go in training Several extra Bills to pay. It's a shame To speak about it In a way So plain and blunt. If the little ones Should hear it— Which we hope. Of course, they won’t— It would make them feel So sorry If they only understood. But they’d still accept the presents. You can bet your boots They would. Explained. “What is a promoter, pa?** "A promoter is a man who knows absolutely bow you can get enormously rich.” “Does he really know?’ “Yes.” “How does he know?’ “Because if he did not know it would make you rich be wouldn’t draw a salary, and he has to have that” She Was Curious. "I never loved any but you." "Didn’t you?’ “No.” "Honest?’ “Honest” “Well, what did you call the other cases?’

The Democrat for sale bills.

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Wabash Portland Cement Great Strength, Durability, Fine Color. Best for Sidewalks, Foundations, Floors, Walls, Concrete Blocks, Bridges, Etc. WABASH PORTLAHD CEMENT COSold by HIRAM DAY, and C. B. JOHNSON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Remington, Indiana♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦OOOSSOOOOOOSOSSSOSSOOOOOOSOSOOQi Farmers’ Mutual Insurance ASSOCIATION OF BENTBN, 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

John G. Culp Auctioneer PLEASANT GROVE, IND. (Graduate of a Chicago School of Auctioneering.) Well posted in values of Live Stock. Write for dates or Phone 517-1.