Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — Page 8

News Notes of if SE"* Nearby Towns I pecmgi in the Temtofv . , - Adjacent to the Jasper A* FunuAcd by Our Regular Correspondents County Metropolis

PINE GROVE. j ■r, James Campbell is not improving very fast at this writing. 1 ' Andy Ropp and Theodore Snow were Medaryville goers Sunday. Nellie Gilmore and Bessie Ropp attended Sunday school at Aix Sunday. Neva Beck returned home Sunday aftw a week's stay with her aunt, Mrs. Clint Beck. Mrs W. N. Jordan and daughter Day spent Sunday with Mrs. J. M. Torbet and family. M;. and Mrs. Harry Beck and sons spent Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet. Nellie Gilmore of Rensselaer spent Saturday night and Sunday With her aunt. Mrs. Chas. Walker and. family. Everett Walker, Carrie Harriott, Bessie Ropp arid Creola Torbet spent Sunday evening with Bernice.and .Lucy*Walker. John Dale of Crawfordsville came Saturday and stayed until Monday with his fatht r-in-law, James M. Torbet and family. returning Monday accompanied by his little son Ivan who has been spending the spring with his grandparents.

Saved Child from Death. ‘ After our child had suffered from severe bronchial trouble for a year,” wrote G. T. Richardson, of Richardson's Mills. Ala., ”we feared it had consumption. It had a bad cough all the time. We tried many remedies without avail; and doctor’s medicine seemed as useless. Finally we tried Dr. King's New Discovery, and are pleased to say that one bottle effected a complete cure, and our child is again strong and healthy.” For coughs, colds, hoarseness, lagrippe. asthma, croup and sore lungs, its the most infallible remedy that's made. Price 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by A. F. Long.

| MT. AYR. -! 1—" (From the Pilot.) A trio. J. A. Dunlap, A. J. Long and Mr. Hosmer. of Rensselaer were in this place Monday. Mr. Nafsinger and sister from Jordan tp.. were guests of Mrs. G. Johnson and family Sunday. Trustee Stucker was a county seat visitor Monday, toting down the returns of Saturday's election. Saturday as A 1 Wilson was coming to town, one of his horses was taken with a severe case of colic and died. Jim Rice is working out at King Chamberlain’s preparing for the enlargement of the house and cribs. Mrs. Guthrie took her departure Tuesday for the southern part of Illinois, where Guthrie has a job on a dredge. VV. W. Miller at present writing at Pasadena. Cal., has given his brother Aleck the power of attorney to rent him a house, as he expects to return some time next month, if not sooner. Messrs. Parkison and Dunlap drove over from Rensselaer Tuesday and went out to see Jack Brown. Their wives accompanied them to this place and spent an hour or so with Mrs. Dunlap. Workmen commenced Thursday excavating for the foundation of the Odd Fellows building. Stueker & Hopkins have the contract, and it goes without saying that it will, be a good job and speedily completed. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Perrigo of Watseka. 1 Mr; and Mrs. C. Johnson and Miss Morrison of Donovan, called on E. G. Perrigo Sunday. The former were Gene’s parents, the Johnsons his uricle and aunt. They drove over in a Mitchell 1n sixty-five minutes.

I)o Ghosts Haunt Swamps? No, never. Its foolish to fear a fancied evil, when there are real and deadly perils to guard against in swamps and marshes, bayous and lowlands. These are the malaria germs that cause ague, chills and fever, weakness, aches in the bones and muscles and may induce deadly typhoid. But Electric Bitters destroys and casts out these vicious germs from the blood. “Three bottles drove all malaria from my system,” wrote Wm. Fretwell, of Lucama, N. C., “and I’ve had fine health ever since.” Use this safe, sure remedy only 50c at A. F. Long’s.

| SCHULTZ SETTLEMENT, j —i ! Paul Schultz was a Rensselaer goer Tuesday. A. R. Schultz was a Parr goer Saturday morning; Amiel Stibbe spent Wednesday night with John Stibbe. Miss Lorene Schultz spent Monday with her grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. John Stibbe attended church at Kniman Sunday. A. R. Schultz attended the theater in Rensselaer Wednesday night. Mrs. Michael Schultz Wednesday with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Schultz. Miss Antona Schultz called on , her sister, Mrs. Fred Krueger one day this week. ' ‘ i Misses Antona, Lorene and Leo Schultz spent Sunday evening With Paul Schultz and family. Miss Lena Schultz took Mr. Hickman to Rensselaer Monday afternoon in their Overland auto. Mrs. -‘ Paul Schultz and Mrs. Amiel Stibbe took supper with Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schultz Sunday... , Michael Rosenbaum is staying with his grandfather, Michael Schultz. He will be his grandpa's all-around-man this summer. A. R. Schultz and sons, Amzie and Fermon, and daughter, Miss LenA and Harry Hickman made a trip to Cedar Lake Sunday in their new Overland auto. Corn planting his begun in our settlement In good earnest. The ground is in good shape with fair weather and a

goodly share of the corn will be planted this week. ; 1 /

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children.

Relieve Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and are a pleasant remedy for Worms. Used by Mothers for 22 years. They never fall. At all Druggists; 25c. Sample FREE. Address, A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, X. Y.

DO YOU WANT LIGHTNING PROTECTION?

I sell the largest and best lightning conductors that are made. I also handle the copper cable at the following prices: 28 strand, pure copper. iy 2 c per foot; 32 strand. 9c; 40 strand, extra large. \IV2C. If you are interested, call and see me or write me at Rensselaer.—F. A. Bicknell.

I)o You Have the Right Kind of Help Foley Kidney Pills furnish you the right kind of help to neutralize and remove the poisons that cause backache, headache, #and other kidney and bladder ailments. —A. F. Long.

FARMS FOR SALE. 165 acres, one mile from court heuse, on stone road. n. R.. telephone in house. This farm is all black soil in cultivation. A large tile crosses this farm with many laterals. giving it good drainage. There is a large 11-room house; large barn, double cribs, and other outbuildings; all in good condition. There is a good well, windmill, and large bearing orchard. This is a good farm and a desirable home and will be sold at right prices. 80 acres, all cultivated, good house and barn, chicken house, good well, good outlet for drainage, on pike road, R. R.. telephone and near school. Will sell on easy or will take trade as first payment. 161 acres, all good land. 15 acres timber, remainder cultivated, and in meadow. There is a four-room house, outbuildings, new fancing. large ditch, and some tile drainage. Mortgage $4,800, which has some time to run. Owner will sell on easy terms or trade his equity. 600 acres, three miles from good business town, near gravel road, 400 acres in cultivation and meadow, 200 acres pasture. There is a large eight-room house, large bank barn, double cribs, windmill and good well. There is a large dredge ditch just built that passes within a few rods of this farm that gives it a fine outlet for drainage. This is a fine grain and stock farm. Price right. Will take up to $15,000 in good trade. 160 acres, in Polk county, Ark., near Oklahoma line, and five miles from railroad. This land lies well and is productive soii. Will trade clear and pay difference. 80 acres at a bargain, on easy terms, five miles out. 25 acres at a bargain on easy terms. On main road near large ditch; has fbur-room house. 21 acres, fine • black soil, five blocks from court house, cement walks and good well, sell at a bargain. 160 acres in the wheat belt of Kansas. Will trade clear for property or land here and pay difference. G, F. MEYERS. Lady Decies Under the Knife. London, May 12. —I-ady Decies, who was Vivien Gould, will undergo an operation for the removal of appendix today by Mayo Collier, senior surgeon to Northwest London hospital.

BOY LOST i \' * 1 rs * ; mlmk IP* Perhaps you haven't lost a boy* but If you've lost SOMETHING ELSE put an ad. in this paper end WE’LL HELP YOU TO FIND IT.

NDIANA STATE NEWS.

MARION A secret inveJtigtion at the National Soldiers’ Home near this city has developed the startling fact that there has been wholesale thefts of clothing, and General Steele, superintendent of the institution, summoned fifteen inmates to appear before a court of inquiry. HenryAAmsden, clothing clerk, is now in the guard house and is said to be accused of complicity in the thefts by G. H. Brandon of Minneapolis, a representative of the United States department of justice, who is here investigating. Nothing is given out authoritatively at the home, but it is said Frank Addison, a veteran of the Spanish war, who 1b now in jail on a charge of stealing supplies from the quartermaster's department, gave evidence on which the. present indictment'is based. Addison not only implicated others in the thefts of which he is charged, but gave details of other thefts which include clothing and led to the placing of Amsden in the guard house. It is believed that outside parties were in league with those at the home LAPORTE The new Y. M. C A. building in this city was opened to the public, and was also dedicated with elaborate services Several thousand people passed through the building 'add participated in the services of dedication, the latter being featured with the, dedicatory address of Dr J. B Donaldson, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Sharon E Jones of Richmond, E. S Stacy of Indianapolis, G M. Wells of Chicago, and L P. Hardy of South Bend and R. A Rogers of Michigan City. Music was fur nished by the Laporte City Band. The '’ campaign for the ne w building was launched a year ago, $75,000 being subscribed for the purchase of the site and the erection of the building, which is an imposing three-story structure with basement. TERRE HAUTE The rooms of the Vigo county /mining board in the court house were crowded with miners anxious to secure certificates provided for by the miners' qualification act passed by the 1911 legislature. This is the last week under the law in which the board can issue certificates. Many of the mines in this county have been closed, as the operators do not appear anxious to lay themselves liable to the penalty of SIOO a day for employing men without certificates Members of the board declared it will be impossible for them to meet the demand for certificates in the short time remaining. This means that a number of mines will close down next week and remain closed until the men are supplied with the necessary credentials.

RUSHVILLE Reuben Cregor, living near Falmouth, committed suicide by emptying the contents of a double-barreled shotgun in his head. His son Arthur, thirteen years old, who was mowing the front lawn when his father discharged the gun. found his father in a death struggle The child, frightened, ran screaming to the home of his older brother near by, and was barely able to speak the few words telling them of his father's condition. Cregor and his wife had been separated for several weeks, and the latter filed a suit for divorce last Thursday, alleging failure to provide and asking custody of their children ELKHART James L. Herman, an attorney, announces that he will file in the federal court at Indianapolis an action to determine the legality of the Elkhart city ordinance specially taixing trading stamp companies and dealers who may be using trading stamps in Elkhart. He will ask for an injunction against the city to prevent enforcement of the ordinance until its validity is established. Herman’s client is a stamp company of Elkhart, now preparing to resume business there. The ordinance, passed in 1903, imposed a special license of S3O a month on dealers and $75 a month on stamp companie's.

MICHIGAN CITY The school population of this city is 6,458, according to the enumeration taken by the board of trustees, which is a decrease of 566 from the enumeration of 1910. The slump is attributed to the removal of families, owing to lack of work at the steel car factory. A revival is expected when the factory begins the construction of steel cars, for which a new plant will be built next summer. It is predicted that the new plant will increase the population of the city from 19,000 to about 25,000 within the next two years. HARTFORD ClTY —Fire completely destroyed the home of Frank Hudson. Licking township assessor, and all the assessment sheets which had just been completed. The members of the family escaped in their night clothes. County Assessor Buckles called the state board of accounts for advice and, acting upon instructions, six deputies were started in the field to do over again the worjt which must be finished by May 15 Mice and matches are supposed to have caused the blaze. EVANSVILLE "Drink plenty of water, a starved man’s rations,” said John Pellum of Eagle Creek when asked his prescription of gaining seven pounds of flesh in o three days to come within the weight limit for army recruits. Pellum went into "training” to get additional weight immediately after the enlisting officers informed hijn he was too light He was weighed twice daily at the station until he reached the required limit. BLOOMINGTON—AII of the seven men who have been charged with the whitecapping of Harvey McFarley, near Paynetown, are uhder arrest, except William Chambers, a farmer, in the southern part of the county. The officers have been unable to find him, and believe he has left the county.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITH

PERT PARAGRAPHS. \yHEN we look at some people we wonder what life would hold for them If the tailors and dressmaker* should all go on permanent strike. The desirability of being busy depends, in a measure at least, upon the nature of one's activities. / Every old bachelor considers the married state a thing to be acquired—by the people he doesn’t like. n It is a cunning man who when he has made up his mind to break with a friend first borrows money of him. Insipidity isn’t to the taste of most of us. Still, it has its uses as an adulterant The-only way to discipline a certain kind of man is to marry him to a hysterical woman. Common sense and good tastes belong naturally to a homely girl. A senator is a man who is in training to become a railroad director or a corporation attorney.

The Moist Month. April. Tou know what’s expected of yon— Plenty of dew. Moist dripping- hours Devoted to showers That will produce , For our use In the May Flowers And green grass Which will grow into hay. Then have no fears. Scatter your tears Down on the earth in a liberal spray Any old way. We’ll not complain Though it may rain Pitchforks and cats Down on our hats. Knowing the onion crop Needs every drop. Send it down steady. We will be ready, Glad that old nature Is getting its fill, Knowing you will not Send It a bill. Yes, little April, Your weeps bring us pleasure. Send them on down By half bushel measure. Unless our umbrella, Confound it. is stolen. We care not how rivers And ditches are swollen. Still for that prospect Your spouts do not fetter. We may be able To steal one that’s better. Come on. then! Make a ten strike. Go as far as you like With your sprinkling cart, Bless your old heart!

Where He Lost. “Got a puncture, have you?” “No; I haven't got a puncture,” replied the exasperated one, who didn't care to answer foolish questions at that moment. “I just let the air out of the tire to give it a rest.” “Indeed! I am a puncture expert and was going to offer to fix it. So long." To Meet an Emergency. “Madam, have you any old clothes to givfe away.” “I have a suit belonging to my husband, but I fear it is too big for-you.” “Oh, that will be all right You just set me out a square meal and watch me eat enough so that I can fill it” Utility. “He has the no breakfast fad.” “Too bad, isn’t it?” “Yes.” “How did he happen to go off his head so?” ■ “He is boarding on the European plan.”

“His wife is a partner ip. his business, you said,” “I think so.” “Silent?” “Silent! Isn’t she a. woman?”

Well Backed Up. “How do you manage your husband?” “Simply by kindness.” “Do you find that sufficient?” “Yes, indeed, so long as I keep a rolling pin exposed where he can plainly see it” , Of Course. “Are you fond of flowers, Mr. Oldun?” “Passionately, Miss Steen.” “What is your favorite flower?” “The flower of youth and beauty,** One Was Plenty. She said that I must ask her pa. I kicked on that because—well, aajr, I knew the kick her father had And didn’t want it sent my way. Her voice was trembling as she spoke. Was it a snicker or a sob? I said: “All right, you throw me down. Tour pa will not complete the lob."

OUR SOLDIER DEAD IN 84 CEMETERIES.

More Than 350,000 Heroes of Our Wars Are Buried in Graveyards Owned by the Government. IN the palmy days of democratic Athens the bones of every citizen who perished in the service of his country were brought borne to be buried in the Ceramicus. A day was appolr*»d in the winter, when military operations were suspended, for the funeral. Oue of the noblest orations of antiquity—that attributed by Thucydides to Pericles—was delivered on such an occasion. Mddern nations build stately mausoleums for their great generals, but are usually content to allot only the hasty trench or ditch to the common soldier. The bones of British soldiers are scattered the world around. To this rule of indifference as to the final resting place of obscure heroes the United States forms a shining and honorable exception. There are today eighty-four national cemeteries, which contained on June 30, 1909, the graves of 359,285 American soldiers and sailors. *" The national cemeteries are mainly a result of the civil war. In September. 1861, the secretary of w r ar by gen-

GENERAL SHERIDAN’S MONUMENT IN ARLINGTON.

eral order directed accurate and permanent records to be k.ept of deceased soldiers and their places of burial. The work was assigned to the quartermaster general’s department. That department already had charge of the burial of officers and soldiers, but its care had ordinarily ended with the drifting smoke of the guns that were discharged over their graves. By act of July 17; 1862. congress empowered the president to purchase cemetery grounds to be used for the burial of “soldiers who shall die in the service of their country.” Such was the intensity of the great war that for some time no action was taken nnder the law. Following the battle of Gettysburg Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania inaugurated a movement whereby several states purchased seventeen acres of ground embracing the cfeqter of the Union line and caused to be disinterred and reburied there the bodies of the soldiers who bad been buried outside this area. The cemetery was dedicated by Lincoln. Nov. 19, 1863, In that perfect tribute to the “honored dead” who there “gave the last full measure of devotion.” The cemetery was subsequently taken over by the nation. * In the summer of 1865 a force of men under Captain James Moore was sent to Andersonville to inclose the grounds and provide headboards for each grave. They were able to identify 12,461 of the graves, leaving only 451 “unknown.” The eighty-four national cemeteries are divided according to importance into twenty-six first class, twenty second class, sixteen third class and twenty-two fourth class cemeteries. Those in the first class include Arlington, Andersonville, Antietam, Chalmette, Chattanooga, Nashville, Corinth, Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Jefferson Barracks, Shiloh and Vicksburg. - In the number of interments that at Arlington stands first, with 21,106. That at Vicksburg is a rather close second, with 16,892. The Nashville cemetery is third, with 16,691. Arlington, as is generally known, formerly belonged to the wife of General Robert E. Lee. Mrs. Lee was a daughter of George Washington Parke Custis. who was a grandson of Martha Washington. The stately mansion, whose classic columns have been seen by' every visitor to Washington city, was inherited by her. and at the out-

break of the civil war it was the Lee home. Lee, then a colonel in the United States army, wrote his resignation there April 20, 1861. Two days later he quitted his beautiful home forever to accept command of the military forces of his state. Overlooking as It does the Potomac and the capital, a more beautiful spot could scarcely be Imagined. Magnificent old oaks shade its glades and knolls, and art has perfected what nature left undone. The cemetery contains the tombs of Logan. Sheridan, Lawton and other noted generals. One of the most interesting national cemeteries Is that on Coster's battle field in Montana. The story of how the dashlpg yellow haired young major general and every man of fire-com-panies of the-Seventh ca valry losttheli lives in battie with the Sioux. June 25 1876, is known to every one. The smallest national cemetery is that at Ball's Bluff. Va. It is on the site ot the battlefield of that name, fought in 1861. It is only fifty feet square and is situated on a large bluff overlooking the upper Potomac. It contains the graves of one known and twenty-four unknown soldiers.

Powerful Stimulant.

“He seems to have recovered from his idleness.” “Yes, he was cured by suggestion.” “Indeed.” “Suggestion that he should consult a SSOO specialist.”

Powder Mills Blows Up.

Youngstown, 0., May 12, With a blast that was plainly felt in this city,, one of the mixing mills of the big branch plant of the Dupont Powder company at Daughton, % northeast of here, }»lew up. So far as can fc< learned no one was injured and only two buildings of the plant were wreckedi.

Neither Polite Nor Pleasant.

“Opportunity knocks at every man’s door once.” “Is that all?” “That’s what they say.” “I wish some other things would copy it.” . “What, for example?” “Adversity for one. It never knocks, but just opens the door, walks right in and takes the most comfortable things you have.” All Bosh. “I believe in the free and unlimited coinage of common sense.” “It is just like all of you crack reformers.” v “What is?” L “To believe in something that even if you had the power to put it through would fail for want of a competent 'man to operate it” useless. A cloud may have a silver lining, But what’s the benefit In that? You see It In the distance shining Just like a dressy major’s hat, But as your wings are not in training. Tour aeroplane, alas, unfit, There isn’t any use in straining To get a fair sized chunk of It. Suppose you take a fall and shatter Your elbow or your collar bone And, finding out what is the matter, Deliver up a heartfelt groan. The optimist would call attention To ways that you were truly blest. The silver lining he would mention Would be from toil a two months’ rest. Were you in foolish way! to squander Your patrimony here and there And when you saw it flying yonder Sit down and watch it in despair. That wouldn’t be the way to view It, As you by this time should have learned. The sliver lining’s there—go to it— Now what you have you’ll know yoa’ve earned. This shiny lining, to be candid. Is a delusion and a snare. For when misfortune's blow has landed Its full ot nearly double share For you chastisement stern and gaUlng Is In Itself sufficient blow Without some busybody calling. might be sp much worse, you know?”