Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Sorrowful Face Due to Other Troubles

NEW YORK. —A small, quiet, but sorrowful if not disgusted looking man sat by the side of a medium-sized automobile that was drawn out of the road as a large touring car came along, driven by a man with an inter* rogatory aspect. The man in the touring car had seen that auto every time he passed that day, so he slowed up and leaned over: “How long have you been here?** “Several hours.” “Can’t you find out; what the matter is?” x “Nd.” “Inlet valve all right?” “Yes.” “Trouble with spark plug?” “Think not” “How are your batteries?” “O. K.” “Haven’t got a short circuit, have you?” “Oh, no.” “How’s your commutator?” “Great”

How a Bride’s Roses Led Her to Tears

Kansas city, mo.—when winie Boy got married he bought his wife flowers, of course. And after the wedding Mr. Willie Boy naturally decided to preserve the flowers to look at for all time by pickling them in alcohol. That was all right—it didn’t cost much, just $2 or $3 —but there was a 700-mile trip before Mr. and Mrs. Willie Boy got home. At first they decided they’d pack the treasure in the brass jardiniere ■“Art” sent and bring it home in the bottom of one of the trunks. Then Emaline —that’s her first name—remembered that among other things it might explode and ruin her perfectly good rosecolored dress that “Doc” went crazy over before she was married, and that there was a 26-inch willow plume in the same trunk, not to speak of a pretty coat, a lavender gown, a few more hats, a couple of hundred doodads or some more clothes. So the natural consequence came. Willie Boy carried the remains.

Mosquito Gets Credit for a Runaway

NEW YORK.—-A mosquito which apparently was a cross of the famous or notorious families of Jersey wellborers and Staten Island rock-drillers, saw George Gordon's nose, buzzed a little song about “Oh, for a pasture new!” and swept down upon the nose. The nose and George were at that moment behind a horse that George ■was driving. Now, Gordon had had all he could <do to manage that skittish steed before the advent of the insect. When he felt the first jab of the Skeeter's surgical scissors George started to knock the squatter off his nasal territory. But he restrained his hand, for In that instant he remembered that he needed both hands to handle the fractious horse. And there was George in a dilemma equal to that ancient one that concerned a devil and a deep sea. If he didn't knock that mosquito off his nose he’d lose his life blood, but if he took a hand from the reins to deliver

Eat Muskrat, Maybe; Farm in Chicago

T* HIC AGO.—“Loin of Chicago Grown v Muskrat with Bullrush Sauce.” Bills of fare in Chicago restaurants will Carry the foregoing item as a., “special, fresh today” entree if the plans of three pioneer “muskrat farmers” culminate in success. The first muskrat farm has Seen started. Its products are to be food and fur. Its market will be Chicago, as a beginning at least, but success may broaden its scope. Mark Gelder, loan merchant. 1732 South State street; Jack Eck, painter, 348 Twentysixth street, and John Horan, Willow Springs, are the proprietors of the farm. Its location is in the “Sag” in the towns of Worth and Palos, 20 miles southwest of Chicago. It comprises 190 acres, is more than a mile

“Perhaps your worm gear is clogged.” “No; all clear.” ° J “Got any gasoline in your tank?" “Plenty.” “How about your circulation? Cylinder isn’t bound, Is it?” “No, sir.” “Tires seem all right?” “Never better.” “Wei, maybe your vibrator isn’t adjusted.” "That’s all right.” “Have you looked at your carburetor?” • -Yes.” “How about the cam shaft?” “Grand.” “Have you tightened your connecting rods, examined your clutches and gone over rhe differentials?” “Yes, yes.” The man in the touring car paused a moment and then, looking at the stranger by .the roadside, said at last : “What’s the matter with that machine of yours?” “There isn’t anything the matter with this machine; but since noon my wife has been in that house over there kissing her sister’s first baby good-by. When she gets through, if you are not more than a thousand miles away and will leave our address, I will telegraph or cable the glad news.”

The Pullman was hot and Willie Boy thought of the explosion. No use leaving the jar out on the vestibule. It might break there. He wanted to stay in the Pullman, but he couldn’t. He had to stay outside and hold the pickled roses. Night came and Willie Boy was sleepy. He went to bed, but he didn’t sleep; he was too busy hanging the roses out of the window to keep the alcohol coot Kansas City came, and then home; Emaline walked into the house and Willie Boy followed with the pickled once-were roses. “What’ll we do with ’em?” he asked. “Why, put them in the attic, of course,” Emaline answered. Willie Boy hadn’t been married very long and he wasn’t independent. Still there surged into his face the blood of battle and his voice spluttered as he spoke. “A-at-tic?” he asked. “Will we? We won’t I carried those things 700 miles, and if they’re worth carrying that far they’re worth looking at, even if I don’t think they amount to much. Attic nothing. Mantel, that’s where they’re-' going, understand —mantel. Hear me?” And that’s the reason Emaline cried the first day she had got to her new home.

that knockout swing away would go his bad-tempered horse! Gordon shook his head violently and blew his breath toward the mosquito to dislodge it, but all to no purpose. The insect held on and just bored and bored. Gordon gritted his teeth and remembered the story he had read in school about the Spartan. But what was a mere fox gnawing at a boy’s vitals to a real, war-size Jersey mosquito sinking an artesian well in a man’s nose! George could stand it no longer. Up went one hand in a savage sweep. It missed the mosquito. Forgetting all except his desire for vengeance, George swung with the other hand And as the skeeter buzzed ‘Ha, ha!'* the horse, freed from control, bolted. Perhaps the wind created by the speed blew the mosquito off Gordon’s nose. At any rate the pest vanished. Just as Gordon grabbed the reins and started to saw on the bit a wheel struck a stone and out he shot He landed bruised and stunned at the side of the road. Dr. Frederick T. Witte, who was passing in his auto, got out revived Gordon and took him home in his mar chine. When they arrived at the Gordon domicile, lo? there was the runaway horse standing quietly at the stable door.- - . f

long and consists of the fairest stretch of swamps and shallow, little lakes to be found m this section of the country. It already has a large muskrat population. The birth of the farm came when Gelder signed a lease for the land with Mrs. Catherine Rawlings, its owner, for a term of 15 years, starting on April 16, at a rental of S2OO a year in advance. The farm may figure as a worthy champion in the fight against the high cost of living. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently recommended the meat of muskrats as a food. He emphasized its cheapness and its good qualities, including flavor and nutritious value. The farm may enable many people to follow his 'advice. “Our first idea was just to trap for the furs,” said Gelder, “but knowing muskrats were good to eat, we decided to investigate conditions and try ,to promote muskrats as a popular article of diet. We have strong hopes of success, for a trial will convince people that the meat of the muskrat is good.”

Ideas in Blouses

rIESE three blouses may be copied in most blouse materials. The first is in white washing silk, finely tucked and trimmed with Valenciennes lace insertion. A frill of silk finishes the right front The deep cuffs are of wide insertion. Materials required: 2% yards 36 inches wide, 4 yards narrow insertion, % yard wide for cuffs. - The second is in spotted zephyr, made with two wide tucks over the shoulder that are stitched to bust A wide box-pleat stitched at each edge, and ornamented with buttons, trims the front' Collar band and cuffs of

EXTENDING THE CLOSET ROOM

Good Plan by Which Space May Be Made When the Compartment la Small. If one is short of closet room a very good plan is to hang skirts sideways in the closet instead of hanging skirts, frocks and coats all flat against the back wall of the closet Frocks may also be hung sideways, leaving only the coats to be stretched on hangers and suspended from the back wall of the closet In order to hang garments sideways it is necessary to have a shelf across the top of the closet and to screw small hooks on the under side of this shelf. The hooks are arranged in pairs along the under side of the shelf, each pair of hooks being meant for a single skirt or frock. Two loops of braid are sewed in each skirt band and two in each frock at the waist line, one loop being hung on each hook. The garments are much more easily gotten at in this way than when they are hung one over another at the back of the closet. This method of hanging also permits the garments to hang perfectly straight, and makes it possible to store a large quantity of clothes in one closet. If the closet is deep enough the coats also may be suspended on stretchers from the shelf. This is an ideal arrangement, for it leaves the closet door free for a pier glass, which is a most useful adjunct to a girl’s room.

In Place of a Knot.

The use of a knot is to be avoided in sewing and not to be tolerated in embroidery. The accomplished needle woman rarely finds it necessary to start with a knot, save in gathering or basting. Sometimes a tiny one is slipped under a hem, but it will show on right side if material is sheer and makes an ugly lump in ironing. Two or three over-and-over stitches 1 taken on wrong side of material is as secure as a knot, and much more sightly. In embroidery there is no excuse for a knot Two or three tiny stitches taken on outline or in body of work where it is afterward covered will hold any stitches. Knots only tend to an untidy wrong side, which no good embroiderer will tolerate, and make the work rough in laundering.

Embroidered Pongee.

Pongee frocks are now ready for the last touch, which is given by the embroiderer. Handwork put upon this excellent surface is never wasted, and the tone of the pongee is the exact background for the dull leaf green and old rose of the conventional running Vine of the Tudor rose design. This is used successfully on the side opening of a plain Russian blouse house frock, and its sections are repeated in short strips at intervals on the tunic’s side opening. The work is flat to effect, suggesting very little padding.

A Bathing Hint

A hint for women who bathe to the brine and at times find the temperature of the water chilling is to wear a close fitting one-piece garment of very think flannel under the silk bathing suit This makes the salt water bath no less efficacious and is a safeguard against rheumatism. The precaution is an especially good one for those who swim at the Maine seaside resorts. ■ ■

embroidery insertion. Materials required: 2% yards 28 inches wide, 1 dozen buttons, % yard insertion. One of the most attractive blouses. The third is a style suitable for voile or other thin material, w be made of the same as is used for nkirt. It has first a small round yok; and collar of tucked net, then a shaped yoke of fancy silk or embroidered net, the material being arranged in short tucks. The sleeves are gathered into shaped cuffs to match the yoke. Materials required: 1% yard 44 Inches wide, % yard embroidered net or silk, % yard tucked net.

MADE HER OWN CHATELAINE

Good Use of Silver Ornaments by Girl Who Was Possessed of Originality. Arranging some of her silver ornaments to be especially useful Is the work of a girl who has just gone into mourning and does not wish to buy a nice black purse bag. Considering that silver was permissible with black in which there was no crepe, she evolved a chatelaine, using an oxidized silver chain on which to string them. The chain was one that had been used for keys by the departed relative, and, in order that the cable It represented should be formed into a hook, the girl removed the original fastening and substituted a small silver slip ring, through which each end of the chain passed. Then it . remained only for her to put on a silver card case, which depends from a short chain of its own; a silver coin purse, a tiny box of the same metal, in which she carries a powder puff, and a silver backed ivory memorandum tablet. In her card case she keeps such of her money as is in bills, the coins, of course, going into the tiny purse. When she wishes to have the case for its original purpose, in the afternoon, she has only to open the slip ring and off comes the short chain.

HAT FOR SUMMER

Picture hat for summer wear of pale blue chip, lined with black chip. Medallions of blue linen edged with lace and large chou of lace.

Washing Irish Crochet.

Irish crochet collars and neckwear may be the most durable a girl can use or the most unsatisfactory. It depends upon the laundering. Wash in thick hot suds made from pore white soap. Rinse through several waters and put through a thin starch water. Squeeze out excessive moisture between cloths. Pin the crochet piece to a cushion or heavily padded board. Pull out all the points and edges, fastening each one with a pin to the cushion. Allow it to remain until dry, when it will look like new. If the lace is much yellowed the cushion can be stood in the sun during the drying procesfe. A drop of bluing can be added to the last rinsing water, or,if a creamy tint is liked the lace can > be put through a weak tea.

Printed Net.

Printed nets in black and white effects are very stylish and are extremely smart when trimmed with black lace and black velvet. ■

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Congressman W. P. Brownlow of the First congressional distrim of Tennesree is repdr ted dying at nis home in Johnson City. - 1 The probe into charges made by Senator Gore has been postponed until the December session of congress, ow- ; ing to lack of funds. An unidentified woman returned a kidnaped child to its mother at Paasale, N. J., and escaped with another child Of the same-tamUy. t Eight hundred chickens and twenty horses were burned to death in a fiiw I along the Harlem river in New Yorn, in which twenty firms suffered losses. Policeman John Fl Rotchford. who has been on duty at the White House at Washington nearly eight years, is lead, following an illness of nearly two months. -

Frank L. Fhrris, th* thineen-year-old son of Charles L. Farris, formerly a state representative from Louisville, 111. eloped with Nellie Krutsinger. nineteen years old. Col. August Fleishman, sixty-eignt years old, a Civil war veteran, whose home was in Cleveland, escaped from the Ohio Epileptic hospital at Gallipolis and was killed by a train. Pledges amounting to $400,000 for the endowment fund of the University of Vermont, necessary to obtain 1100,00 offered by the Rockefeller fund managers, have been secured The duchess of ViaUn. who was Miss Anita Stewart of New York, gave birth to a daughter at the residence of the duchess’ mother. Mrs. James Henry Smith, on Grosvenor square. London. A private cablegram received at New Orleans from Bluefields, Nicaragua, states that General Matuty haa been executed, following a trial by court-martial. It was charged that he betrayed the Estrada cause. Everett Carleton Crear of Albany, N. Y., a cadet at West Point, denied that he was chewing gum when asked by the officer of the guard. Crear was tried and found guilty of making- a false statement and was dismissed. John C. Wurst, former treasurer of the Debolt Building and Loan association of Cincinnati, who was found guilty of embezzling $20,000 from that Institution, was sentenced to serve nine years in the Ohio penitentiary. W. J. Bryan returned to Lincoln. Neb., from his six weeks' trip to Europe. He will remain ten days in Nebraska, devoting his time to state politics. Just what form his political activity will take Mr. Bryan is not prepared to say. All the rooms' of the White House will be accessible to the public during the coming summer for the first time tn many years. Before leaving Washington President Taft gave instructions that the buildings should be thrown wide open.

WATTERSON’S SON IS INSANE

Shoots and Mortally Wounds Hotel Proprietor at Saugerties, N. Y.— Raves in Jail. Saugerties, N. Y., July 2.—Ewing Watterson, eldest son of Henry Watterson. editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, who has been suffering from an affection of the mind for several years, became violently insane and shot and mortally wounded Michael J. Martin, proprietor of the Market Street, hotel The shooting was done in the case of the hotel and was without provocation. Watterson ran up the street waving his pistol wildly In the air and firing at everyone who crossed his path. He was pursued by friends of Martin, several of whom had guns which they fired at Watterson, none of the shotstaking effect. Watterson was finally overtaken and captured by a policeman and Is now in the Saugerties jail,' where he raves constantly. Young Watterson owns a farm about five miles from Saugerties, where he lives with his wife and -three children.

WAYMAN SUED FOR $50,000

Juror Spare Who Stood for Acquittal In Browne Trial la Plaintiff. Chicago, July 2. —State’s Attorney John E. W. Wayman was made defendant In a suit for 150.000 filed In the supreme court by Attorney Max M. GOodman, representing Charles Spare, one of the Jurors who stood tor acquittal in the Lee O’Neil Browne bribery trial The suit charges slander. Other Jurors who were criticized by the state’s attorney following the mistrial of Browne, are expected to take similar action. -

REVENUE CUTTER SAVES 16

U. S. S. Mackinac Rescues the Passengers From Leaky Launch in Hay Lake. Sault Ste.- Marie, Miclu July 2. Had it not been for the timely arrival of the revenue cutter Mackinac 16 persons would undoubtedly have drowned when the little launch Laura M. sprang a leak in Hay lake and filled with water two miles from shore. The launch was bringing a load of passengers from West Neeblsh. When In Hay lake she suddenly began to leak.

Mrs. “Jack” Haverly Dead.

New York. July s.—Mrs. “Jack” Haverly. widow of the minstrel “king,” died in a private sanitarium. She had been ill more than a year. Since her husband died, in 1901. Mrs. Haverly has had a hgrd struggle for existence.

UNDEFEATED CHAMPION OF THE NORTHWEST.

T. A. Ireland, Rifle Shot, of Colfax Wash, Tells a Story. Mr. Ireland is the holder of four world records and has yet to loee his first match—says he: “Kidney

trouble so affected my vision as to inter* sere with my shooting. I became so nervous I could hardly hold a gun. There was severe pain in my back and head and my kidneys were terribly disordered. Doan’s Kidney Pills cured me after I had doctored and taken nearly every remedy Imaginable without relief. I will give

further-details of my case to anyone enclosing stamp." Remember the name —Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.T.

INCOMPETENT.

Mrs. Hare —Old Snail got his boy a position last week and he only held it one day; Mr. Hare —What was ft? Mrs. Hare—A messenger boy.

But He Wasn’t.

Senator Depew, in his Washington residence on his seventy-sixth birthday, told a reporter that his health was perfect. “You do. Indeed, sir," said the reporter, heartily, “look the picture of health." “Yes," bald the senator, "I shouldn’t have said I was well if my appearance didn't bear me out A self-contradlo tory statement is merely ludicrous. You have heard about the census taker?” “A census taker rang the bell of a Hillyer place residence the other day and an elderly gentleman opened ths door. “Td like to see the head at ths house,* said the census taker. “ 'S-sh! Not so loud!’ whispered ths elderly gentleman. 'Now, what is it? I’m the head of the house T "

The Luggage Question.

DeLancey Nicoll, lawyer, Is always a well-dressed man, and abominates a slovenly appearance. At the Union club he said of a westerner one day: “He has come on to New York for a week and I don't believe he has brought a stitch of luggage with him." >. Here Mr. Nicoll smiled. “Unless, indeed,” he added, “he’s stowed something in the large bags he carries in the knees of his trousers.”

There’s a Reason.

“Paul, if I were to die, should you marry Widow Muller?" “Good heavens, no!” “Why not? Every one says how like me she is.” “Yes, that’s Just the reason." Some people would accomplish a lot more if they didn’t waste so much time telling others what they are going to do.

A “Corner” In Comfort For those who know the pleasure and satisfaction there is in a glass of ICED POSTUM Make it as usual, dark and rich —boil it thoroughly to bring out the distinctive flavour and food value. Cool with cracked ice, and add sugar and lemon; also a little cream if desired. Postum is really a food-drink with the nutritive elements of the field grains. Ice it, and you have a pleasant, safe, cooling drink for summer days —an agreeable surprise, for those who have never tried it. , “There’s a Reason” for POSTUM Postum Cereal Ca., Limited, Battle Creek. Mich.