Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — Page 2

TIE JISPER GOIIIH DEMOGIRT L E.BaBCOCK.[BIT@HMDPnBLIM». OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter June 8, I*9oß, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. . __ . . - . - Published ‘ Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday ls* ; sue 8 Pages. « Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1911.

FOURTEEN IN PARTY

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out additional expense) reaching Old Point Comfort at 9 a. m.; Norfolk 8 at 10:30 a. m. In leaving New York harbor we pass the Battery at 3:12; the Narrows at 3:36; Romer Light, 4:06; Sandy Hook, (20 miles out) 4:11; Scotland Light Ship, 4:24; Highlands, 4:58; Asbury Park, 5:16; arriving at Old Point Comfort (316 miles,)’ at 9:00 a. m., Friday, July 7, Norfolk (328 miles) 10:30. All day Friday about Norfolk, Old Point Comfort, Fortress Monroe, etc., leaving at 7 p. m., for Washington, D. C., by Chesapeake Bay and Potomoc River steamer and arrive in Washington at 7:00 a. m., Saturday. All day Saturday in Washington, and leaving there 11:10 p. m., Saturday over Chesapeake & Ohio railroad (the great scenic route) for Cincinnati, which city is reached Sunday at 5 :00 p. m. Berths on boat to Washington and berths and meals on train to Cincinnati. We stop in Cincinnati at the Grand Hotel, one of the Queen City’s leading hostelries. Leave Cincinnati over C. H. & D., and Monon Monday for home, and reach Rensselaer either at 2:58 or 5:58 p. m., Monday, as may be decided, making the entire time gone eight days. Friends of any of the parties desiring to write them, may address mail to reach them not later than Thursday morning, in care of F. E. Babcock, Hotel Martinique, New York City, and to reach them not later than Monday morning, care same, Grand Hotel, Cincinntai, Ohio. All the parties who have arranged to go on this trip must be in Rensselaer on Sunday, Jply 2, in time to take the 2:58-'or 3:13 p. in., train for Hammond, where transfer will be made to the Michigan Central road. Should anything unforseen happen to cause the 3:13 train to be several hours late, we will take the 2:58 train.

MASTODON SKELETON

Is Found Imbedded in the Earth Near Anderson. Anderson, Ind., June ,^25. — Farmer Wells arid County Surveyor Dolph Smith, with several men, will resume work tomorrow morning bn the digging of the earth from about the skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon in a marsh eight miles northeast of this city. The discovery of the jaw bone, with six teeth and a great mass of bone, believed to be a part of the head of the mastodon, along with large bones that seemed intact with bones still below the ground, has led the men to believe they (have made a great find. One piece of the jaw bone is 28 inches long. It has six teeth, each tooth measuring four inches square and all in a remarkable state of preservation.

FATE OF THE CROPS

In the Northwest Will Depend on Rain This Week. Minneapolis, Minn., June 25. That' the last week in t June, by the weather influences that may t>hen rule, will tlirn the productive scale of the Northwest upward or downward by many naillions.of bushels of’grain, was the opinion commonly expressed by Chamber of Commerce men, who, after a week of heat and excitement, sent many messages into t>he country last night to learn to what extent there had been rain relief. If Monday brings rain that is ge'neral, they said, and the week passes without the high temperature that last- w,6ek blighted the grain in many of the heaviest producting counties of Minnesota, lowa and the Dakotas, July will come in next Saturday witn a prospect for a satisfactory crop over a wide extent of territory, notwithstanding the fact that in portions of the southern counties

of Minnesota, Northern lowa, the southern tier of North Dakota counties and over the greater portion of the ricnest part of South Dakota losses of from 40 to 50 per cent, that even copious rains could not now repair, have been reported. The forthcoming week will decide the fate of the 1911 crop. The existing situation dates back to the moisture deficiency of the year 1910, which left the subsoil dry.

TO SEARCH FOR BAD EGGS

State Food Commissioner Will Send Inspector to Northern County. H. E. Barnard, state food and ■ Irug commissioner, has arranged to send a field inspector into one of the counties in the north part of the state, on complaint of an egg buyer who says his business is being interferred with by huckster wagon drivers who refuse to obey the new law concerning the sale of bad eggs. The dealer explained that he was offering 14 cents a dozen for eggs “loss off,” while the hucksters were paying 11 cents and buying all eggs offered. The inspector will be instructed to prosecute the hucksters when found with bad eggs in their possession. It was represented that the hucksters were getting all the eggs in the county, i< spite of the lower price offered.

LOOK HERE, MR. FARMER!

For McCormick mower and binder repairs, call on C. A. Roberts, just across the street from Frank King’s blacksmith shop, Rensselaer, Ind. j 22

DO YOU WANT LIGHTNING PROTECTION?

I sell the largest and beet lightning conductors that are made. I' also handle the copper cable at the following prices : 28 strand, pure copper, 7%c per foot; 32 strand, 9c; 40 strand, extra large, and see me or write me at Rensselaer.— F. A. Bicknell.

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FARMS FOR SALE. 165 acres, one mile from court house, on stone road. n. R., telephone in house. This farm is all black soil; in cultivation. A large tile crosses |his 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 hom° and will be sold at right prices. 80 acres, all cultivated, good house and barn, chicken bouse, gpod well*, good outlet for drainage, on pike road, R. R., telephone and nfear school. Will sell on easy terms 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, w-hich has some time to run. Owner will sell on easy terms or trkde 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 soil. 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 four-room house. • 21 acres, fine black soil, five blocks from court bouse, 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. MEJYERS.

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A Patriot’s Ruse

By CAPTAIN F. A. MITCHEL.

W W y HEN the war of independence >7*/ came on. New York’s populaV v tion had changed from a lot of pipe smoking Dutchmen to comprise many people of refinement It was then that that society in which Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr shone ten or twenty years later was forming. People had begun to use silver on their tables instead of pewter, and social dinners were quite pretentious. One Nicholas Van Schoonhoven, a wealthy citizen, built in his house in the village of Greenwich (long since a part of the city of New York) a vault in which to store his valuable tableware. It was located in the second story in a hallway running past his own bedroom. Van Schoonhoven was a patriot and when in the struggle for independence the British occupied New York he moved to Westchester county, some fifteen or twenty miles up the Hudson river, within the American lines commanded by young Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Burr. Before the evacuation he returned to the city to be near his real estate, leaving his movable valuables in Westchester county. Edith Van Schoonhoven while in Westchester met a young lieutenant in Burr's regiment, Charles Robertson, and the meeting had resulted in a love match. The separation when she went back to the city was very trying to a pair of lovers aged twenty-two and nineteen respectively. Though but a few miles apart, they were still very far. Robertson stood the separation a month, then, putting on a countryman’s clothes and carrying a large basket containing butter, eggs and other farm produce, be set out for New York. At King’s bridge, a wooden structure spanning Spuyten Duyvil creek and connecting Manhattan Island with the mainland, he found the British pickets. His farm produce passed him, and he walked to the southwestward, crossing diagonally what is now Central park and made toward the Hudson lower down till he came to the village of Greenwich. As he was crossing a field where the Columbus monqment now stands one Peter 01dershaw, a rabid Tory, saw and followed him. Unaware that he was watched. Lieutenant Robertson knocked at the door of Nicholas Van Schoonhoven. showed his basket of produce i and was admitted. This Oldershaw saw and straightway walked down to Bowling green, where he found General Howe, to whom he reported the fact The general sent a small troop commanded by a sergeant to capture the young patriot, whom he did not doubt had come into his lines for the purpose of spying.

Charles Robertson and Edith Van Schoonhoven were sitting together in the parlor, where they could look out on the broad Hudsoh. when they saw a dozen redcoat troopers dash up and surround the house. For a moment Edith was paralyzed; then, suddenly gathering her faculties, she seized her lover’s hand, ran with him upstairs and. opening the vault door, thrust him in, closing the door after him. locking it and putting the key in her pocket She was too excited to think of his being smothered, but fortunately a small ventilator had been left over the door.

When the sergeant entered Edith had recovered her equanimity so far as to meet him with a well feigned look of surprise on her face and invited him to search the house. Not finding any one. he left the premises guarded by his men and rode to General Howe. Howe, believing that the lieutenant was there, sent Captain Fawyer with his company, to relieve the sergeant and to take up his quarters in the house, keeping it surrounded. Sawyer, who was a young London swell, at once began to make love to Edith. She found it somewhat difficult to feed her lover, since she had no way to do so except through rhe ventilator. and. having to stand on a chair for the purpose. she dared not transmit food when the captain was in the house for fear of his catching her at it One night when the bell on Trinity church, far away on the lower end of the island, struck 1 Edith arose from her bed. put on a dressing sack, went to the vault, unlocked it. let her lover out, took him up to the third story and locked him in an unused room. Then, going down to Captain Sawyer’s room, she knocked at his door, calling to him" that she had been frightened by a huge black cat that had got into the house and asking him to drive it out “Don’t trouble yourself to put on your clothes.” she said; “use this ’’ And. opening the door a few Inches, she dropped a double gown of her father’s into the room. Sawyer arose, put on his boota and the double gown, seized the only weapon handy, his sword, and went out into the hall. There he found Edith, apparently very much frightened. She had lighted a candle and conducted him along the hall to the vault, whose door stood ajar. “There—the horrid thing went in there!" she almost shrieked. Sawyer boldly entered the vault. In a second he heard a click behind him. He was a prisoner. > ’ “ Running to the room where she had left her Jover, Edith released him and lighted him to Sawyer’s apartment, where the Yankee put on the Britisher’s uniform, went downstairs and after a parting kiss strode out and past the guard. Sawyer,. after taking in the situation’

set rip a terrific howl. hoping to make himself beard by the guard without.' but be might as well have tried to make himself beard from the bowels of the earth. He was not used to ris ing early, so he was not missed in the morning by his men. Edith kept him confined as long as she dated, then let him ont and the saucy gtrl had the effrontery to ask if be had killed the Considering the ridiculous tight the episode would place him In. Caprain Sawyer never reported it When the evacuation of the.city took place Robertson entered it and married the girl who had saved him from the fate of a spy.

Humor and Philosophy

By DVNCAN M. SMITM

PERT PARAGRAPHS. yyHEN things begin to come our way a little we feel that the reward of patient merit is a sign that the world is really growing better. Sometimes a good conscience is merely one that has not been out of cotton packing. It is a good thing to be approachable. Opportunity isn’t so likely to shy at you. * The things that are going to happen are going to, so what’s the use of worrying about them? When a man goes wrong all his relatives say he took after the other side of the bouse, as they always knew. It is a good thing to know what you want almost as good as to have what you want. Some men who are out of work seem to have the idea that jobs go round searching for indigent people. It isn’t hard to fool a man if his own excellence is the theme. The people who are always trying to be pleasant sometimes succeed in being exceedingly tiresome. The thoughts that an empty beaded man thinks are pretty certain to be secondhand. Variety may be the spice of life, but when the variety is the smarting kind we feel like saying. “No mustard, thank you.”

The Real Thing. Ideals, ethics and the like Are very fine to make A highfalutin talk about. But profits take the cake. About the right and wrong of things We fritter time away. But if it is a business deal tVe. wapt to see it pay. A man—and, when it comes to that. A woman is the same—la strong for any great reform That does not block his game. But let him have his money there Invented, bringing rent, He’ll argue with you for a week That good Is the intent. If it can be impersonal And no one stands to lose. Then everybody, old and young. Can for reform enthuse. But when it cramps the pocketbook Or tramps upon the toes Of some one in the audience Right there are born some foes. If there is profit in the deal A man will wink and say: "Oh. well, I didn’t make the world! Things always ran that way.” When he has nothing there to gain And not a cent to lose His ethics nicely come in play As Just the thing to use.

Safe Occupation. “I care not who makes the laws if I can write the songs.” —“Go ahead and write them. Who la stopping you ?” “But who would sing them?” “Nobody. 1 hope. That is why lam so willing you should write them.” | Awful Possibility. “My boy seems to be a natural orator.” “You shouldn't encourage him.” “Why not?” “If he keeps it up be may talk himself into congress.”

Rank Incompetence.

First Boy—You wouldn’t do for a caddie. Second Boy—Why not? First Boy—You don’t know any more about golf than the fellows what play it Not Voluable. “Money talks.” “I guess so.’’ “Did you ever hear of its getting into trouble for gossiping?' "Never experienced it” No New Discovery. “You have lovely eyes. Miss Kittie.” “So I’ve been told.” “Indeed!” ■ 4 “Yes, by men with more money than you have.” ' - ■.

A PEACE PREACHER.

Mrs. Elmer Black, Who Has Gone Abroad to Spread the New Gospel.

MRS. ELMER BLACK.

Mrs. Elmer Black is one of the persons who do not agree with ex-Pres-ident Roosevelt in his opinion of the impossibility of settling international disputes by arbitration. Mrs. Black is an apostle of peace. She talks and writes peace. One of the most interesting addresses made at the recent peace conference in Baltimore was hers. Mrs. Black is vice president of the congress. She is also editor and publisher of the Editorial Review, a magazine z-that advocates universal peace. In regard to her peace views, Mrs. Black says: “I would not have, much faith in arbitration treaties or even Hague courts if evolution had stopped with nationalism, if patriotism bad only passed from a devotion to the state to a blinder devotion to one’s country. But because I see everywhere this new habit of thinking in world terms, this growing oneness of all humanity, this deepening sense of brotherhood and a kinship of soul stronger and more enduring than mere national distinctions—because of this I believe that the promise of world peace and the reign of law is both feasible and certain of fulfillment.” Mrs. Black is now abroad, where she is to address many notable gatherings in favor of universal peace.

QUAKER FRILL

The Combination of Strange Fashion Notes a Feature of the Season. The success of "The Quaker Meid,” a new comic opera in London, has started many Quaker fashions. One of these is the pointed neck frill, which

SHAPED FRILL.

Is finished In > front with a ribbon rosette. small bow or fancy pin. This frill is laid in accordion plaits. The wide band of ribbon about the head, giving a turban-like appearance to the coiffure, is one of the developments of the harem fashions. Thus one may see the most remarkable combinations of costume i>eriods. as in this case the Quaker -and Turkish notes, it may well be seen that the fashion designers have a wide catholicity of taste.

A Queer Charm.

In many parts of Norway . the Chances of marriage or old maidenhood make the girls nse a strange love charm in order to know their fate. A maiden who desires this weaves a net of the finest hair, working ten minutes on a moonlight night, and she believes that if she does this successfully for thirty moonlight nights she will be married within three years. But woe to the girl who breaks the hairs she weaves with or tears holes In the net—she is decreed to be an old maid.

Wine Stains.

Wine stains on table linen should be covered immediately with salt and afterward washed out in cold water. Should any stain remain lay over it a paste made of lemon juice and salt, leave it till .dry and. then .wash out ip. -old water.

MH Mt Bill tt. (Under thia bead notices will be published for 1-oeni-a-word for the irst insertion, %-eent per word for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Mo notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two er more times, as the case may be tor 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to ths advertiser.} For Sale—-An upright piano in first-class condition, as good as new. —VERN SHOOK, Rensselaer. j 4 For Sale— Good millet seed. Inquire of C. H. PORTER or Phone 130. jy2 Estrayed— From my pasture last Saturday 19 head of 2-year-old steers. Anybody finding them please notify THOMAS REDGATE, 3% miles northwest of Rensselaer, R-3, or Phone John Zimmer, 501-A. ts For Trade.—A good round for sale or trade. What have you to trade? And a 5-passenger Cadillac automobile in good order. On account of my fertilizer business I have no use for them. Your price is thine.—J. J. WEAST, Rensselaer, ts Wanted— -Local and traveling salesmen representing our reliable goods. Any man of good appearance who is not afraid of work can make this a satisfactory and permanent business. Write at once for terms. Outfit free. Territory unlimited. Big money can be made. Apply quick—ALLEN NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y. Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chanqe and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O'CONNOR, Ex-sherifi Jasper county, Kniman, nd. Farm Loans— We are furnishing the money.—DUNLAP & PARKISON, I. O. O. F. Bldg, Rensselaer, Ind. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts 100 Envelopes— Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not be without—for 50 cents at The Democrat office. Farm Loans— -Money to loan on farm property in anv sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN.

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Ditch Notice. ■ i : . : Notice of the Filing and Docketing of Drainage Petition. To Cynthia Barnett, August Barnhardt, Philip W. Davis, Jacob Rich, C. F. Schuster, Margaret M. Harris and Charles V. May, Trustee: You and each of you are hereby notified that I, Samuel Huggins, have filed in the office of the Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana, with the Auditor thereof, my petitjpn and the same is now pending in the Commissioners' Court of -'Jasper County, Indiana, for the drainage of my real estate, described as follows, to-wit: The West half of the Southeast quarter and the East half of the Southwest quarter of Section fifteen, in Township twenty-seven North, Range seven West, in Jasper County, Indiana, to establish a tile drain as follows: Commencing at a point in the “County Ditch,” now constructed, and at a point about thirty-five rods West of the Northeast corner of the West half of the Northeast quarter of Section fifteen, in Township twenty-seven North, Range seven West, in Jasper County, Indiana, and running from thence South, along the present line of an old open ditch, to a point which is about thirty rods West of the Southeast corner of the West half of the Southeast quarter ofj said Section fifteen, and running from thence Southeasterly and terminating at a point in the public highway, at the Northwest corner of the South half of the Northwest quarter of Section twenty-three, in said Township, Range, County and State. Said drain to be constructed of tile as set forth in said petition. That real estate owned by each of the above named persons and corporations will be affected by said proposed drain. .That said petition arid the required bond were filed with the Auditor of Jasper County. Indiana on May 28, 1911, and 'that said petition is docketed - for nearing on Tuesday, August 8. A. D.. 1911 SAMUEL HUGGINS. Dated this 9th day of June, 1911.