Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — Page 6

FOR THE CHILDREN

An Interesting Experiment. The following is an interesting experiment, which consists in placing five fluids on the top of one another In the order of their density without allowing them to mix. ( It is best to show this experiment after dinner when coffee is being served. You will then have all the liquids necessary at your command. A tall, thia glass is the first requisite. At the bottom of this glass pour in a little cold sweet coffee. Then make a cone of paper, whose point is turned at a right angle, and cut off the point so as to make an opening no larger than a quarter of a dollar. Pour gently in a little cold water, which will escape by the limb of you funnel, impinge on the side of the glass and take its due place on the surface of the coffee. Cease pouring when the height of the water equals that of the coffee. Through a second cone you potir a layer of strongly colored wine, port if •' possible, through a third a layer of salad oil and through a fourth alcohol that is on the table for boiling your coffee. If carefully done each layer will swim upon the under fluid, and the whole will present a glass of brown, white, red, yellow and white layers of liquid.-—Magical Experiments How Furpie Was Discovered. The discovery of purple was achieved by a very humble boy, a fisherman named Alonzo. Ilis master, also a fisherman, left, him in the boat, telling him to watch the nets. While Alonzo did this he also did something else, his master one day discovered. lie marked pieces of linen with letters and designs. A ring which he had found one day upon the shore served as a stamp for these designs, but what attracted the attention of Alonzo’s master was that they were made in a color not then known—purple. The master inquired how this color had been obtained. Alonzo could not explain l any better than by showing how it was done. He dropped the ring into the slimy matter of a shellfish. The mantle of this .creature had been torn in some way, and the slimy matter was Oozing' from it. This made marks on the linen which when dried by the sun turned into purple. This color was adopted by the king of the country where Alonzo lived as the color of royalty and has thus remained to this day. New Year’s In Japan. Among the common people in Japan New Year’s festivities are of am important character. The preparations begin about the middle of December, and two or three days before the month is ended the fronts of houses are covered with emblematic decorations. At each door there are planted in vases filled with earth great branches of pine and of bamboo, and from one end to another of the projecting roof is stretched a garland of plaited straw. This is a very antique custom, and in the middle of the twisted straw there are usually hung as trophies a citron, a lobster, some seaweeds, ferns and green leaves from the izourika tree, each of the objects having an auspicious meaning for the occupants of the house. The temples are opened on New Year's night, and the faithful there seek the fire to cook the zoomi, a sort of rice cake, with a sauce called misso, which is composed of haricots of fermented oats and of salt. This is the first repast of 'the year and is .eaten before the sun , rises. —■ ’ ■ Conundrums. What is the difference between a cry-baby and an umbrella? Well, an umbrella you can shut up. What is the difference between a light in a cave and a dance in an inn? One is a taper in a cavern; the other is a caper in a tavern. What is the difference between a boy looking upstairs and one going up? is stepping upstairs; the other is staring up steps. Why is a lemon stick like a race horse? Because the more you lick it the faster it goes. • = A Gift For Mother. Something that a little hand can make for mother for Christmas would be “lifters” or pads to use in working around the stOve. These can be made of any heavy material, folded, or can be made of several layers of thinner stuff. You can sew the edges of these together with yyur smallest stitches. These lifters are easily made and are really useful. A half dozen of them put in a pretty box will please mother and save many ugly burns. z( .■~ • J Digging For Fish. ———- r . The natives of certain parts of India are in the habit every year in the summer of digging the dry river banks for fish. Which they dig out by hundreds, just as they would potatoes. The mud lumps are broken open, and the .fish, perhaps eight inches or ten inches long, will always be found alive and often frisky, as if just removed from its supposedly native element—the water. New Year Bells. See the children gayly go As the bells are ringing ’Cross the country, white with snow, Their happy voices singing. "Tis New Year’s morn, and they’re away To church beyond the hill. And there they meekly, humbly pray To do their Master’s will. r.,j 'J Sin Is a foe that all must fight. For he’s lurking everywhere. And each must war with all his might. Using good resolve and prayer. Tor the strongest weapon jwe can ugg. Against our common foe, To make him to our victory yield Is rlghtvousness, you know.

UNDER THE HOLLY BOUGH.

By WAYNE HENRY.

(Copyright, 1910, by American Press Association.] > - ' YE who have loved each other. Sister and friend and brother. In this fast fading year, Mother snd sire and child. Young man and maiden mild, Come gather here And let your hearts grew fonder As memory sha'l ponder Each past unbroken vow.

Old loves and younger wooing Are sweet in the renewing Under the holly bough.

YE v.iio have nourished sadness. Estranged from hope and gladness. In th.s fast fading year —■ Ye with o’erburdened mind. Made aliens from your kind. Come gather here,

Let not the useless sorrow Pursue you night and morrow. , K e’er you hoped, hope now, Take heart, uncloud your faces And join in our embraces Under the holly bough.

SANE CHRISTMAS NEXT.

Why Should Indiscriminate Gift Giving to Grownups Continue? Is the movement for a safe and sane fourth of Jiilj' to be followed by one for an economical Christmas? Do the majority of people feel that the Christmas present has been as much overdone as the firecracker, the toy cauuon and the pinwheel? It must be understood in the outset that the movement to curtail Christmas giving has bo relation to the children. The joy of the little ones in their Santa Claus and bis bounty is too beautiful a thing to disturb. It is only the presents to the grownups, to every Tom, Dick and Harry with, whom one happens to be acquainted, the presents that are a burden and a bore both to giver and recipient, that it is proposed to abandon. - Frequently these are given through a sense of duty and cannot be afforded by the donor. Just as frequently they are not needed by the one on whom are bestowed. Thus the outlay is not justified. It is a deprivation to one without any corresponding benefit to the other. The recipient in turn'‘feels it a duty to make presents to tjie giver, presents that perhaps he can as little afford and that his friend as little needs. Thus both have had to make sacrifices for which they have received no‘equivalent good. It is this sort of giving when we expect a return, this giving through a sense of past or prospective obligation, against which there is widespread revolt. It is not in harmony with the Christmas spirit. If is commercial, onerous and lacking in spontaneity. It makes us dread the return of the holiday when we should welcome it with jpy. ~ Fortunately the habit -is -dying out. Without any preconcerted movement to that end it is still being dropped by mutual consent. A has reached the point of insurgency where he doesn't give a hang, whether B remembers him or not. He will not rack his brain and deplete his pocketbook buying unwelcome things for B. ®nly to cause B in torn to hurl,. perhaps grudgingly, equally unwelcome things at his own head. All unknown to A tfie same insurgency has been working in the heart of B. and thg irrational custom falls of its own weight. In consequence the day oh which we celebrate the b ; *rtli of tbe Son of Man ceases to be a far.- ric counter exchange. V";b. ’ J drer. it i : different.- We give to tb: i for the pure joy of it without riy bepe pf retuni. We enter into theii’ Joys sir.d partake of the Christmas spirit* by sharing it with them. Thus we unconsciously fulfill the command of him in w hose (honor tbe day is celebrated and Veritably become as liilie children.

J. A. EDGERTON.

DAMES AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. Annie Wakeman Lathrop Is making a tour of this country to study the conditions of American women for a group of Loudon newspapers. Miss Mary E. Holmes, class of 1895, is the chairman of the committee of alumnae in charge of the work of building a student building at Wellesley college. Miss Frances Melville, M. A.. Edinburgh, recently received the degree of bachelor of divinity at St. Andrews, Scotland. She is the first lady to have attained this distinction in a Scottish university. Miss Catherine Dame, who for the last several years has been chief of the cataloguing department in the library of Cornell university, has gone to Albany to take a similar place in the New York state library. Mrs. George W. Fackler, widow of a millionaire machinery manufacturer, purposes to Start a movement among the women of the country to stop exhibitions of wild animals and birds and to eliminate zoological parks. Mrs. M. F. Maude, widow of the late Canon Maude, celebrated her ninetyfirst birthday recently at her home at Overton-on-Dee, England. She has held the honorary post of secretary of the Missionary Leaves' association since 1870. Mrs. Maude is the author of the famous hymn “Thine Forever.”

New Year's Customs.

French families always make a special point of being reunited at the New Year. The Romans always make it a practice to appear In new clothing on New Year's day. The peasants of Italy hail the New Year by beatingAvildty on frying paus and shovels. . 1' . . On -New Year’s eve Chinese merchants pull down their bld advertising posters and put up new ones. In Greece the father of a family, however poor, must give bis wife and each child a New Year present of money. Scotsmen regard the taking of money on New Year’s day as a very risky proceeding, even though it be in payment of a debt < In Germany if millet and herrings only be eaten on New Year’s day it is believed that money will be plentiful all through the year. In Japan at the New Year business generally is suspended, both private and public. The jinrikisha coolie is the only man who'works.

Current Comment.

The prospect that the consumer will shortly be able to consume something is about the rosiest outlook upon the national horizon.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. ' • The hobble skirt may do for avenue promenading, but it is a flat failure for wear when ice skating. Not a fewyoung women have found that out.— York Sun. With Postmaster General Hitchcock personally- leading raids upon bogus get-rich-quick schemes it begins to look as though there are a lot of American promoters who will be compelled to go to work.—Nashville Tennesseean. i

Household Hints.

Old huckabacks make an excellent polishing cloth for plate. For wiping delicate china old linen lias ho equal. Poorly ventilated kitchens have something to do with the prevalence of poor cooking, authorities say, since the vita ted air destroys the sense of taste and smell. the capacity of your lamp if the front is of some material other than glass and prevents you from seeing the height of the liquid. Then use for filling it a quart or pint measure marked in fourths and thirds.

Sporting Notes.

Milwaukee wants the 1912 American bowling congress. The American Automobile association has 34,000 members. Columbia’s varsity eight is to have a new- shell. So is Pennsylvania. Jockey Danny Maher is twenty-nine and has been riding since his fourteenth year. , Columbia’s varsity crew will row a two mile race with Annapolis on the Severn river on May 13.

Political Quips.

Cheer up! How would you like to be the politician who has to count the days between now and 1912?—Atlanta Constitution. However, there will be enough Republicans in the Sixty-second congress to keep them from being pointed out as curiosities.—Washington Post. The defeated Republicans are doing a lot of worrying about the fearful task the Democrats have ahead of them. ’Twas ever thus.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

The Royal Box.

Emperor Francis Joseph speaks twelve languages. Emperor William of Germany, like his father and grandfather, is a skilled workman and has all his sons equally well«trained. Queen Mary, wife of the* present king of England, makes It her chief business to save as much as possible. She believes in economy and seeks to discourage - entertainments that are wasteful in their luxury and extravagance.

HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE

Extension Table That Works Automatically.

A most ingenious form of extension table that can be operated by a child has been invented by a New Jersey man. advantage over the old style extension table Is that the leaves are always at hand and the adjustment can be made in a few seconds. The leaves are pivoted on the central leg of the table and inclosed in the hollow top. lying at right angles with the bisection when the piece .is closed. By pressing a lever at one end of the table the two sections open automatical-, ly, and as they open the leaves are swung around into proper ]>osition and adjust themselves, also automatically. English Plum Pudding. Three pounds of raisins, two pounds currants, one-half pound citron, onequarter pound each of lemon and orange peel, candied; one and one-half tabiespoonfuls allspice, four jtounds dark brown sugar, three loaves stale bread centers, one pound candied cherries, one pound English walnuts, onehalf pound almonds, one-half pound suet, chopped: eight eggs. Roil, the chopped suet, almonds, walnuts and cherries cut in halves, the raisins and currants and the sliced citron, lemon and orange ]>eel in flour. Shake the loose flour from them and add the bread centers broken in small piqces. or better if grated, the sugar and all spice. Stir until all are thoroughly mixed. Beat eggs slightly and add to above mixture. Add enough flour and water to make a good paste, or enough to make the pudding hold together firmly. Put pudding into strong square of unbleached muslin, pull corners of muslin to center so as to form a ball and tie tightly with strong cord. Fill large kettle with water and when water is boiling rapidly drop in the pudding. Boil four hours. The water must constantly be boiling all of the four hours and thoroughly cover the top of pudding. Sour Cream Nut Cake. Break two eggs in a large cup and fill the pup with sour cream. Put in a mixing- bowl and add a level teaspoonful of soda and a cupful of sugar. Beat all' well, then add flour enough to mix a little stiff. Flavor with vanilla. Take one large cup of English walnut meats, chop fine, stir into the batter. Bake in a moderate oven. Ice and cover top of cake with half walnut meats. Meatless Mincemeat. One peck of' green tomatoes put through meat grinder; cover with water and boil till soft. One-half peck of apples chopped fine, one pound of raisins, one pound of currants, one-half pound of beef suet chopped up fine, three pounds of brown sugar, one pint of vinegar, one teaspoonful each of ground cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mix all ingredients and boil till apples are soft. Delmonico Potatoes. To two cups cold boiled potatoes cut in one-half inch cubes allow one and one-quarter cups white sauce and onequarter cup grated cheese. Put a layer of potatoes in a buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and one-half the cheese. Pour over half the sauce. Repeat. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake until crumbs are brown. Baked Peas. Get the green whole dried peas. Soak overnight. Parboil as one does beans. To one pint of dried peas put three-quarters of a pound of fat pork into bean pot. Add peas, one teaspoonful salt, one and a half teaspoonfuls dry mustard, one and a half teaspoonfuls sugar. Cover with boiling water and bake all day. Boiled Icing. In making a boiled icing the secret of success lies in taking off exactly at the right moment. A better test than spinning a heavy thread is to drop some of the sirup into cold water and when it adheres to the bottom of glasis when pulled up it must be taken off at once. . French Cabbage Soup. One quart water, one pint sliced raw potatoes, one pint sliced'cabbage, butter tbe size of an egg, a little salt and pepper. Cook for one hour slowly. then put all through colander and add another lump of butter. Cook ten minutes longer and serve. Chicken Baked In Milk. Clean the chicken and cut in pieces, put into a baking dish and cover with a mixture of half milk and half cream with pepper ahd salt to taste and bake. By the time the milk ed away the chicken will be tender and deliciousFor the Breath, After eating onions either eat a leaf of parsley or drink a glass of milk Either one will remove the odor.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate, Loans Will practice in ail the courts. Offic. □ver Fendig’s Fair. , . RENSSELAER. INDIANA. J. F. Irwin. 8. C. Irwis Irwin & Irwin,. Law, Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loams. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER. IND. I. O. O. F. Bldg. Phone 153 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER. Practice in all courts. Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection department. Notary in the office. Rensselaer, Indiana Arthur H. Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate Loans on farm and City property personal security and chattel mortgage Buy. sell and rent farms and city prop erty. Farm and city fire insurance Attorneys for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION □file® over Chicago Department Store RENSSELAER. IND. F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of Women and low grades of fever. Office in Williams block, opposite Court House. Formerly occupied by Dr. Hartsell. Phone, Office and Residence, 442. S. Herbert Moore, H. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. AU calls win receive prompt attention night or day from my office over the Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 251. Rensselaer - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Opposite the Jasper Savings & Trust Company Bank. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 11 fl.

W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER, - ■- INDIANA Chronic Diseases a Specialty. E. N. Loy HOMEOPATHIST. Office East Side of Court House Square. Phones—Office 89, Residence 169. TELEPHONES Office. 2 on 300 Residence 3 on JOS Dr. F. A. Tin f(er OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN. . Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post Graduate American Schoo) of Osteopathy under the founder. Dr, AT. Still. - , Office Hours —9-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello, Ind. 1-2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. Dr. J. H. Hansson L .- VETEKNARY SURGEON—Now at Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office In Harr a Bank Building. Phone 443. Mrs. J. W. Hauck CHICAGO MUSIC COLLEGE GRADUATE OF 15 Years Experience Will instruct a limited number of Pupils in Piano Work Call at residence or address Box 97 RENSSELAER, - INDIANA

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Chicago to Northwest. Indianapolis.. Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSEI AER TIME TABLE, in Effect June, 1913. SOUTH BOUND. <o.3l—Fast 4-ts » No. s—Louisville MaU (dally) io-55 a. m. No.33—lndpolis MaU (daily).. 1:59 p. m —Mgfc accomm (daily).. 6:02 p m No. 3—Chi. to L0ui5vme......11:05 p m NORTH BOUND. 40. 4—MaU (dai1y)............. 4.59 a. m No.4o—Milk aceumm. (dally) 7:31 a. m. N 0.32 Rast Mali (dai1y)...... 10.05 a. m. No. 6—Mail and Ex. (daily).. 3:17 p. m. No.3o—Cin. to Chi. Ves. MaU 6:02 p. m. Nc. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to Ist off passengers from points south oi Monon, and take. passengers for Lowen. Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connection at Monon for lAfayette. FRANK J. REED G. P. A. W. H. McDOEE Pres, and Gen’ 1’ Mgr, CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr’ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

CITY OFFICERS. M ayo . r ....G. F. Meyers Marshal J. k. Davis Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer ~R. d. Thompson Attorney Mose Leopold Civil EngineerL C. Kios terman 51 re Chief..J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden. C. B. Stewart Councilmen. Ist Ward....... George Hopkins 2nd WardElzie Grow 3rd Ward Frank Kresler At Large..........C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt 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. Shlrer Auditor... James N. Leatherman Treasurer. J. D. AUmaa Recorder.J. W. Tilton SurveyorW. F. Osborne Coroner. N....W. J. Wright SupL Public Schools. ?.. .Ernest launson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer.E. N. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District... Charles T. Denham Comr>issioners' Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar.....Barklev Claries May.... Carpenter J. W. SelmerGillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wort leyJordan Tunis Snip Keener John Shiver. - txnnkakrw Edward Parkison.......Marion George L Park5............Mi1r0y E. J. Lane....... Newton Isaac Kight..........Uni0n S. D. ClarkWheatfield Fred Karch.............Wa1ker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt.... .Rensselaer E. C. Eng1i5h........... Rensselaer James 11. Green.. Remington Geo. O. StembelWheatfield Truant Officer. .C, B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. ■ The undersigned trustee of Jordan □ ownship attends to official business at his residence on tbe First and Third Wednesday of each month. Persons having business with me win please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind, R-R-4. 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. Postoffica address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of 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.

FOR SALE 6, 7 or 8 per cent First Mortgages secured by Improved Real Estate worth from three to five times the amount of the mortgage. We collect and remit interest and principal without charge. $2,000,000 in First Mortgage Loans, without one dollar loss, is our record. Write us for map of Oklahoma and for information concerning our First Mortgage Loans and Oklahoma Alfalfa lands. A. C. FARMER & CO., 208 North Robinson St., Oklahoma City, Okla.

Millions to Loan I We are prepared to t?ke care of all the Farm Loan business In this and adjoining counties at Lowest Rates and Best Terms, regard!. *s of the “financial stringency.” If you have a loan cos • Ing due or desire a new loan It w|H not be necessary to pay the excessive rates demanded by our competitors. *- FIVE PER CENT. skiii GoniM - ’ Pfoapi Santee ,f| ' . A ■ . ■ Odd Fellows Bld«. Rensselaer.