Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Page 8

News Notes of Nearby Towns A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

MILROY. Lud Clark threshed Wednesday. Ed McKinley and family took ■dinner Sunday with I. J. Clark s. Lon Chapman traded his auto last week to a man near tS olcott. Earl Foulks visited his grandmother, Mrs. L. Foulks. in Monon Sunday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Miss Ettie visited Chas. McCashen and family Monday. Mrs. "Fay Lear and children spent Tuesday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell. Chas. McCashen’s attended Sunday school here Sunday and visited his another in the afternoon. Misses Pearl and Dora Clark spent Tuesday and Wednesday with their aunt, Mrs. George Foulks. A •’basket meeting is being planned to be held at the church and dinner in Ed McKinley's yard. Preaching Sunday. July 16, at 3 p. m.. by Rev. McCorkle. Make a special effort to hear him. AH are invited. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Bivans and grandson Harold visited their daughter, Mrs. George Bullington, and family Sunday. I. A. Clark of Sidney, who has been visiting relatives in Illinois, visited relatives here this week before returning to his home.

HONEST MEDICINES VS. FAKES President Taft’s recent message suggesting an amendment to the Pure Food and Drug law in its relation to Prepared Medicines, does not refer to such standard medicines as Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills, both of which are true medicines carefully compounded of ingredients whose medicinal qualities axe recognized by the medical profession itself as the best known remedial agents for the diseases they are Intended to counteract. For over three decades Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound has been a standard remedy for coughs, colds and affections of the throat, chest and lungs for children and grown persons, and it retains to day its pre-eminence above all other preparations of its kind. Foley Kidney Pills are equally effective and meritorious.—A. F. Long.

PINE GROVE. John Torbet spent Saturday night and Sunday with Clint Beck. Mrs. Sarah McCleary and Mrs. Lizzie Cooper were Rensselaer goers Monday. Had a fine rain Tuesday afternoon, but the hail storm was not so good. E. L. Hollingsworth was out to his farm in Barkley tp. Monday morning. Willis Hurley and Herbert Garriott are putting up hay on Mr. Rich’s place. Fletcher Ramey of Rensselaer is helping his uncle, Andy Ropp, put up hay this week. Rudolph Ritter and Francie Davisson called on Mr. and Mrs. Julius Schultz Sunday evening. Nellie Gilmore of Rensselaer attended Sunday school at Independence Sunday afternoon. Celine Cragun is spending a few days with her aunt, Mrs. Harry Beck, and family this week. Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and daughter Bertha spent Sunday with Mrs. Sarah McCleary and family. Mrs. Rebecca Hurley returned jome Friday after a week’s visit with relatives in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shroyer spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Adam Flesher of near Newland. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker and family spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Jane Hurley, of Blackford. Ruth and Nellie Gilmore of Rensselaer spent Sunday with their grandmother, Mrs. Jane Hurley, of Blackford. Mrs. Henry Ropp and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Dallas Ropp, called on ' the former’s daughter-in-law, Mrs. :oss Ropp, Wednesday afternoon.

• * WATCH YOUR KIDNEYS Their action controls your health. Read what Foley Kidney Pills have done/for your neighbor. Mrs. Sadie Gillespie, Huntington. Ind., says: “I have long suffered from severe backache due to kidney troubles, but since using Foley Kidney Pills I have not been bothered. They have also regulaated my kidney action and toned up my system generally and I can recommend them to others bothered as I was, as a very ouick and permanent cure.—A. F. Long.

[ SCHULTZ SETTLEMENT, j Fred Schultz threshed Thursday. Louis Schreeg was in our..settlement Wednesday. Harvesting oats and threshing is on (he rush now. Fred Krueger called on Dennis Healey Wednesday. Miss Augusta fitibbe called on Mrs. Paul Schultz Saturday. Both Bros, of Rensselaer bought two calves of A. R. Schultz Monday. Mina Lena Schultz and brother FJoyfl were in Rensselaer Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Schultz called «a Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schultz

Mr. and Mrs. Auust Krueger visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger Monday. Mfcees Antona, Lorene and Olga Schultz called on Mr. and Mrs. Fred Krueger Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Emiel Schultz and Leo Schultz made hay this week for Grandpa Schultz. ! Mr. and Mrs. Emiel Schultz, Herman Schultz and mother called on Paul Schultz and family Sunday. Mr. affd Mrs. August Makus and daughter, Miss Hulda, and Mrs. P. Waymoet called on Edward Ritter and family Sunday.

In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOTEASE, The antiseptic powder to shake into your shoes. Relieves hot, tired, aching swollen, sweating feet of all pain and makes walking a delight. Takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Sold everywhere, 25c. Sample FREE, Address, A. S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.

NOTICE. Pursuant to an act passed by the General Assembly of 1911, creating the State Bureau of Inspection, notice is hereby given to every person,' firm or corporation operating any business, regularly employing five or more persons, agriculture and domestic service excepted, that a license fee of one ($1.00) dollar shall annually be paid to t'he Chief Inspector, and on receipt thereof the Chief Inspector shall give to such person, firm or corporation a certificate showing the license fee has been paid. Any person, firm or corporation failing to comply with the provisions of this section are subject to a fine of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. The Chief Inspector will submit to each person, firm or corporation a blank form upon which such person, firm or corporation shall report to the Chief Inspector the following information and such other information as may be required by the Chief Inspector: 1. Officers, 2. Character and location of business. 3. Number of persons employed; males, females. 4. Description of buildings and equipments, number of floors, elvators, boilers and fire escapes. Blank forms as required by law will be furnished on application at the office of the State Bureau of Inspection/ Room 120, State House, Indianapolis, Indiana. ELLIOTT R. HOOTON. Chief of the State Bureau of Inspection.

HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE

Pan For Quickly Cleaning Silver Tableware.

Every housekeeper knows bow much work is entailed in keeping silver clean; furthermore, that this work must be done frequently, as the ware tarnishes even when stored away. A device has been invented by which the cleaning can be done in a fraction of the time heretofore required and without auy scouring with powders or pastes. A metal pan. with a grating Just above the bottom, is partly filled with d solution of warm water and a tablespoonftil each of common salt and baking soda. The pan is made of a material which will not corrode from the. action of these substances in the water, but this same action will remove the tarnish from silver in a few minutes. The tableware is placed on the grating in the pan and allowed to remain there for from one to two minutes if warm water is used and from five to ten minutes if the water is cold. It is then removed and wiped dry, leaving it as bngbt as new.

Rump Steak, Old English Style. To prepare this have three or four pounds of rump steak cut about an inch thick. Put one tablespoon of butter in the frying pan and let it melt without browning. Put steak in the frying pan. cover closely and let it ■lowly become very hot As soon as it is thoroughly heated add salt and pepper. then keep it jnstsimmering (never allowing it to boil) until perfectly tender. It will require about an hour and a half to cook it Just right. When done place the steak on a heated platter. add a little walnut or tomato ketchup to the gravy in the pan, let it get very hot and pour it over the steak. Sometimes a slice of onion or carrot is added to impart a delicate flavor to the steak. ''. (

<TT Item* of Interwt □I from Surrounding Town, Termly Told.. Chronicling the Happening* in the Territory Adjacent to the Jatper County Metropoli* (.

CHICAGO TO SEE WAR

Realistic Battle Scenes To Ba Depict .J at Military Tourney. • ■ —— i Among the special features to be introduced at the National Military Tournament to be held in Chicago July 23 to 30 are reviews of the Chicago police, mounted and unmounted; an oldfashioned company drill eiecuted by veterans of the civil war, clothed in the faded blue they wore in the early 60’s and armed with Millie rifles; a review of the Veteran corps of the First infantry, Illinois National guard, in rhe gray dress uniforms which used to give that famous organization so distinguished an appearance; elaborate exposition of the skill of cadets from the various military academies, and concerts by the Daily News Boya’ band. At night the evening feature of every performance will be a band concert from 7:15 to 8:15 by one of the various regimental bands. The main evening performance will open regularly at 8:15., The night scheme also contemplates the reproduction in detail of camp and battle scenes, which wfll

The Famous Wall Scaling Drill.

bring into simultaneous action in the arena more than 5,000 men. This event will be carefully staged so that the onlooker will get almost as manjf thrills as if he were viewing the progress >f a real night attack. It is planned for a regiment of infantry, together with detachments of engineers, cavalry, artillery, signal and hospital corps and a wagon train carrying ammunition and supplies, to go into camp along the banks of an imaginary stream. When everything is in readiness and "taps” have been sounded, the camp will be attacked by a strong force which will reach the field by scaling a wall. Seeing the prospect of defeat and the loss of their wagon train, the defenders will vigorously defend their position while the engineers work under the screen of their fire and throw a trestle bridge across the river. As soon as this structure is completed the wage a train will be driven over in safety, followed by the defending troops, who will then blow up the bridge in the face of the enemy:

5,000 FOR FIRING LINE

Greatest of Sham Battles Scheduled for Chicago Tournament. By means o' numerous scenic adjuncts every spectacle presented at the National Military Tournament, to be held in Chicago, July 23 to 30, will be made thrillingiy realistic. That it will be sufficiently impressive is assured by the fact that it comprehends infantry and cavalry fire by more than '5,000 mcq, supported by twenty field pieces, a number of gatling guns and Colts automatics. Every regiment, every battalion, every company of the National Guard in Chicago is working night and day to perfect drills and maneuvers which are expected to astonish the thousands who attend the tournament. Heretofore, In times of war or riot the citizen soldiery nas proved itself more ti an efficient and there are very few instances on record where it has not been able to cope with almost any situation. The National Military Tournament, however .will enable the people of Illinois to see for themselves just what the militia means and to what extent it would prove useful in defending this country in times of war. “The object of the National Military Tournament ,is patriotic in every

Soldiers in Camp.

sense of the word,” said Tournament Manager John R. Young. “The Association of Comerce is back of the tournament because it wants the public io see just what our military means Many who are not conversant with the national guard are likely to belittle the citizen soldier. They do not know what he is doing. The national guard is in reality the defense of the state. To it we look for protection at all times and there is no work too hard for the boys who are ready to leave their offices at a moment’s notice and shoulder a gun for duty.”

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

GARY Forty thousand dollars more has rolled into the treasury of the Gary Young Men’s Christian association, making the total gifts to date $290,000. The latest gift is from the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel corporation in Gary and the sum will be used to furnish the quarter of a million dollar home which Is rapidly nearing completion. Announcement to this effect has beeu made by Charles M. Mayne, the newly elected general secretary of the local association, who for the last en years has been engaged in a similar capacity at Lincoln. Neb. Other, gifts to the association include SIOO,000 from Elbert H. Gary, a sum which he later raised to $200,000, and which was supplemented by a third gift of a block of Fifth avenue frontage valued at $50,000 to be used as a site for the club building.

SOUTH BEND—A determined fight for cheaper gas in this city has been launched against the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company. A petition bearing several thousand signatures was presented to the common council. The company will be called on to reduce its rates to a figure in conformity with the cost of production, which has been greatly reduced through modern inventions. The rate is now sl.lO a thousand. This was made when the original franchise was granted in 1898, and the company promised to reduce it. The franchise does not expire until 1960. The Northern Indiana company, the moving spirit in which is Charles H. Geist, of Philadelphia, has gas and electric plants in nearly, every city and town in this part of the state and also operates interurban lines.

V/ABASH - According to a recent ruling of the Wabash county board of education, no girl who is engaged to be married during the coming year will be employed to teach in schools of Wabash county. Members of the boa r d frown upon the “newly wed” teacher and say that she cannot successfully reign over both a home and a school room. The board further says that when a teacher weds she will be discharged. Past experience has taught the school authorities that a woman just married loses proficency as instructor. There are a number of teachers in the county who have been married several years and they will be retained, but single ones must not marry and expect to hold their positions. WABASH Bert Jackson, who is eighty-three years old, living five miles south of this city, attempted suicide by cutting bis throat with a razor, J>ut did not sever his jugular vein. He then threw the razor down and itabbed himself with a small pocketfchife about fifty times in the cutting entirely through the windpipe and It is not believed he can recover. He had accumulated considerable property, but recently became mentally unbalanced BLOOMINGTON-—ihomas Stimson who is town marshal of Ellettsville, seven miles north of here, Was almost mobbed, tarred and feathered by Ellettsville citizens. When Sheriff Browning of Blpomington arrived on the scene, a crowd of several hundred had Stimson naif stripped. His name had been connected with that, of a woman. Both were taken to jail.

Au URN Suit has been begun in the circuit court kto oust Lida Leasure from Le office of county superintendent of DekaP county. The four trustees filed the suit, basing their action on the grounds that Dr Lcasire does not possess the necessary quaii fications, the licenses required by law. She is the only woman ever elected to the office in Indiana. INDIANAPOLIS Charles Kohtzeldt, employed as a caretaker on the country estate of Albert Lieber, was mysteriously shot while plowing corn in the lowlands along White river. The bullet is thought to have been fired by campers along the river and tne shooting probably was an accident. Physicians de not believe the wound Is fatal.

COLUMBUS—An affidavit has been filed in Mayor Barnaby’s court here against C. Mathron of Indianapolis, charging him with violating the pure food law. A car load of bananas shipped here from Indianapolis and consigned by Mathron was condemned by the local board of health and the sale of the fruit was stopped. PRINCETON Frederick J. Lewis with a 44-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver, put ten bullets through three paper balloons at heights of 250 to 300 yards, bringing the balloons to the ground. Lewis’ feat was to demonstate the efficiency of a heavy revolver for long-distance shooting. BLOOMINGTON—That the county jail has been overrun with occupants since the saloon began operations is the assertion of the county sheriff. The county is trying to devise some scheme by which the board cost of prisoners may be shifted from the county to the city. SOUTH BEND—With four frightful knife wounds in his breast, John L. Baldwin of Detroit was found in a dying condition in Howard Park. He died a few minutes later on the way to the hospital. The name of his assailant is not known. The stabbing was a mystery.

TERRE HAUTE—Supposedly “mad” cats have bitten children in West Terre Haute and Dr. Thaley, county health commissioner, has issued notice that “all stray eats or cats that show any evidence of sickness must be shot at once.”

Uncle Philemon’s Ghost

And How Its Visits Were Stopped

By CLARISSA MACKIE

“That for a ghost!” cried Clarke, with a contemptuous snap of his fingers. “Who ever saw one? Did you, Evans?” “Perhaps.” said his friend evasively. “I’m not certain whether I did or not That's why I invited you down to keep watch with me and make uncertainty certainty.” “In other words, when is a ghost?" jeered Clarke, in his favorite vaudevillian manner.

"Usually at 12,” returned Evans dryly. “Now. so that you may not become nervous through anticipation, let us forget the grewsome story of my Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon and turn to pinochle.” They drew closer to the library table, while the servant piled more wood on the fire and placed a tray of refreshments close at hand. Then the man withdrew, leaving the two friends sitting in the large, high ceilinged apartment, whose walls were lined with tall bookcases variegated with large family portraits. “Who is tbe gent with the leary eye?” demanded Clarke suddenly as be flung down his cards and faced toward one of the paintings. “That over the fireplace?" “That’s my Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemoil,” explained Evans solemnly. “The old party who walks?" asked Clarke, a trifle put out In manner. “Yes. Why?’ “I wish you’d hang a curtain over the picture. With due respect to your ancestors, Evans, old man. he’s about as disagreeable a party as I ever met." Evans smiled rather maliciously. "If you prefer it, Ed, we can go in some

STEPPED EASILY TO THE BROAD SHELF. other room —my den. for instance—only I thought you didn't mind influences and small matters of that sort,” hinted Evans. “The library for mine,” asserted Clarke stiffly, and then the play went on for another hour, but all the time the visitor was twitching uneasily in his chair, evidently ill at ease over the close scrutiny of the beruffled and bewigged old gentleman standing so stiffly in the gold frame over the fireplace. “Oh—ah”— yawned Clarke as the hour of 11 was chimed. “You licked me all to bits, Ed. Let's quit. Pm dying for smoke.” “Same here.” said the other, scratching a match. “What did the old fellow do?” asked Clarke after a silence which he had vainly employed in endeavoring to , stare Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon out of his disagreeable countenance. “What was his particular wild oat that he must come back to see how it flourisheth?” “Horses.” said Evans laconically. “Extravagant I suppose, and put a mortgage on the bid home, is that what the double uncle did?" “Yep.” “Then he’s a double dyed old villain.” sniffed Clarke. “Ought to had his head bumped. I suppose the other uncle, his namesake, the last one, had to work off the mortgage.” “Right again.” “Well, what’s Philemon back again for? Trying to raise some more money on the place?” “Give it up. He’s been hanging around the last three years now. doing the same old stunt. You see. his father had a beautiful stable of blooded' horses, and at one time when the old gentleman was away and young Philemon was borne (you’d neverthink that decrepit old gentleman ever was young, with good red blood in him. would you?), why, Philemon took advantage of an opportunity to dispose of the whole stable for a large sum. and after one wild night, when he entertained a crowd of his half intoxicat

eo companions at a pnflceiy least, tne entire sum of mohey disappeared as if it had never been. He awoke the next morning sober as an owl and could give no accounting of the transaction. The horses were gone, and their gamings went with them “Philemon’s father was angry enough because the young man could not recollect what be bad doue with the money, and it was finally concluded that what he had not spent in entertainment he had been relieved of by his unscrupulous companions. The money was gone and Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon was disgraced. “He died a moderately poor manland poor—and today the disappearance of the money is as much a mys- J tery as ever. They say that the old gentleman returns now and then, especially on the anniversary of the day on which he made the unhappy deal with tbe horse buyers, in order to make a more thorough search for the missing money. I saw him a year ago tonight. and I hope you are scheduled to be cured of your doubts.” Evans lighted his cigar once more and leaned comfortably back in his chair. Clarke shrugged his shoulders and. turned over the leaves of a magazine with careless Indifference. “No objections to my potting at him with my revolver?” he asked hopefully.

“Why, no—so long as you don’t cut a hole in the portrait.” assented Evans. “Are you a good shot?” he asked as an afterthought. “Am I? Ask Timothy Allen. "I knocked the button off his cap the other day.” “I can trust you with Uncle Philemon. then,” said Evans, relieved. “Want somebody else in?” asked Clarke. “I can run out and ask one of your servants in if you want me to.” He turned toward the door. “They won’t do at all—too much of the emotional about them. What we need for these experiments are men of physical muscle as well as those of mental power. Understand?” “Trying to.” said Clarke helplessly. “I’ve been thinking, Dan,” went on Evans thoughtfully, “why wouldn’t it be a good idea for you to step up tothe shade of my uncle and endeavor to prove whether his guise is that of real flesh and blood or”— “Whether he’s a combination of misty gray chiffons?” ended Clarke disgustedly. “I’ll not do it. I’ll take shots at him, though.” Five minutes before 12 the clock gave a little warning click, which was followed by the clicking of Clarke’s revolver as he cocked the weapon. “Somehow it doesn’t seem just the right thing to take advantage of an old man like that.” Evans was beginning. rather uneasily, when the big clock in the hall boomed out tbe hour of 12. to be immediately followed by tbe smaller chime of the library clock. Then it was that they both found their attention attracted to the picture of Uncle Philemon over the fireplace. Some unseen wind was blowing it gently to and fro. out from the wall and then back again, and they distinctly heard the rub and knock of tbe heavy frame as it pounded the wail. A little drift of dust floated down, from the disturbed frame. “My Lord!” gasped Evans excitedly. But Clarke was speechless ~ with amazement, his hand holding the cocked pistol resting on the edge of the table and quite carelessly pointing the weapon at tbe huge Chinese porcelain vase that stood at one end of the mantel. The drifting dust seemed to thicken and form a cloud which obscured the picture for a moment. Then it thinned again, and out of the frame there stepped Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon, resplendent in velvet coat and

lace and bewdgged and powdered and patched. He stepped easily to the broad shelf And paced down its length toward the Chinese vase, his head towering upward, his hands clasped behind his bent back. Seen through the mist, it appeared that the portrait of Evans’ uncle was still in the frame, and yet he paced the broad mantel, dexterously evading the few ornaments with his silk stockinged legs. The two watchers gasped excitedly, and then Clarke's nervous finger inadvertently pressed the trigger of the pistol, and it went off with a startling detonation in the quiet room. The form on the mantel shelf seemed to rush back into its frame, which hung rigidly as before. The dust disappeared. and the room lay bathed in the warm lamplight as it was before the clock had struck. The room was the same, save that the great Chinese vase which had stood .on the mantel shelf even before the day when Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon had lived in the old brick mansion was shattered by the straying bullet from Clarke's careless weapon. When they gathered their wits together and convinced themselves that they were not dreaming—that they had simply talked themselves into seeing ghostly visions and after the refreshment tray had helped to restore their courage—they gathered up the broken porcelain vase and found within its shattered shell all the money Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon had carelessly stowed away that day so many years ago when in the sowing of his wild oats he had chosen to sell off his father’s blooded horses. The money was all there in gleaming gold. “I guess the old fellow has raised the mortgage at last,” said Evans a little breathlessly after they hadp counted it and examined it to their hearts’ content." “And laid his own ghost at the same time.” added Clarke seriously, which was quite true, for Uncle Philemon’s Uncle Philemon never walked again for he had accomplished his long postponed act of reparation. -