Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — Page 2

TIE m COUITY Ml f. i.Bnaq.siiTiimoHiiiati. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OP JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second Class Matter Juns 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 1. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4- Pages; Saturday: Issue 8 Pages. SATURDAY, DEC. 23, 1911.

CALL FOR CENTRAL COMMITEE MEETING.

Notice is hereby given for a meeting of the Democratic County Central Committee in Rensselaer, on ' Saturday, Dec. 23, 1911, at the office of the County Chairman, in the I. O. Q. F. block, at 1 p. m., for the purpose of selecting 8 delegates to the district meeting to be held in Lafayette on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 28, to elect a district chairman, and such other business as may come before the meeting. N. Littlefield, Chm. Judson J. Hunt, Sec.

Encouraging Murder.

Collier’s Weekly calls attention to the astonishing fact that the numbfr of murders in the United States last year reached a total of 8,975 —an average of one an hour, figures quoted before the prison reform convention at Omaha showed the number of murders in the United States per million to be 70 or 80 per milfion, as compared with 15 Italy, 13 in Canada, nine in Great Britain and fiVe in Germany. The indications are that the proportion is growing,; a casual glance at the daily papers indicate that. w Uollier’s conclusions are that murder is becoming safer in the United States by reason of the laxity in apprehending murderers, delay in enforcing the laws, acceptance of technical pleas and exercise of the pardoning power. This startling statement is ma ’e. and is apparently supportable by facts. If you commit murder, it is a better than 3 to 1 ~shot that you' will never be brought .to trial. It is a better than 80 to' 1 shot that you will never be sentenced to the penitentiary. It is a better than 80 to 1 shot that you will never be hanged or electrocuted. I President Tass rightly said' that the admimstratidn of crim-1 in al law ip this country is a dis-; grace to the civilization. One might well add that it is also] becoming a menace to human ; life.—Peoria Herald-Transcript.;

SPUDS FROM SCOTLAND.

Fifteen Hundred Tons Brought to New York to Break High Prices. New York, Dec. 19.—-Fifteen hundred tons of potatoes grown in Scotland reached New York today and will be placed on the market, it .is said, to break the high prices charged for homegrown tubers. Duty amounting to $750 wa, paid on the consignment.

LIGHTS FOR PORCHES

Will Be Furnished Citizens of Enterprising Ohio Town. Findlay, Ohio, Dec. 19.—The council of the village of Mt. ' Cory tonight passed an ordinance to issue. SI,OOO in bonds with which to build and maintain a lighting system, the current to be secured from the Western Ohio Railroad Company. ’’TA unique plan for the lighting of every street, veranda and, front door yard has been (level--oped. All persons owning prop-, erties will be asked to install large electric lamps upon the verandas of residences, and the current for the operation of these porch lights will be supplied free by the village. This will make the village one of the best; lighted in the state.

GRANDEUR

Of Mammoth Cave Rivaled by New Cavern Found Near New Albany, Ind. New Albany., Ind., Dec. 19. A subterranean, cavern rivaling in beauty and grandeur.the celebrated Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, or -Wyandotte Gave, in Indiana, was discovered today at the • quarry of a stone company in Washington township, Harrison county, on the Ohio river. 25 qriles below the city. An opening to the cavern was uncovered in blasting stone out of the quarry. The cavern has been explqred!

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for a distance of three quarters] of a mile, and the stalactite and stalagmite formations are said to be more beautiful and more] elaborate than those of either Mammoth or Wyandotte cave. 1 The newly discovered cavern! is within 10 miles of Wyandotte,and may be air arm oWhat"cete- * brated cave.

For Sale—R. C. Rhode Island i Red cockerels, full blood; $1 each; if taken at once.— C. W. Duvall, i j ; Kidney Trouble Affected His Nervous System. Mr. E. T, Cau, Logansport, Ind.,j tells us how many ways kidney ; trouble affected . him. He reeommends Foley Kidney Pills, which, re-? lieyed him of his troubles. “For I the past two years I have been both-! ■ t red with my kidneys and bladder. I ■ The- action of my kidneys was ir- [ j regular and attended with pain and! • a burning sensation, and my bladder J t was inflamed. It seemed to affect! | my nervous system and I was both/i erei with dizzy spells. Some time I ! ago I started to take Foley Kidney; i Pills and,, they helped immediately. ] ; A few doses stopped the burning: ] sensation, the dizzy spells left me I and I feel 100 per cent better. I; gladly ’ recommend Foley Kidney Pills to anyone suffering as I did.” —A. F. Long.

The Coming Poultry Show.

’ Don't -forget the Renselaer Poultry Show, to be held in the Odd Fellows’ building the firstj week in January. The Association as4zs everybody who has anything in the way of freak poultry, etc., that they could bring in to report same to IL B. Murray. Sec., or B. L. Brenner. They want anything they can use in the frpnt windows to make a show, his promises to be the best show yet and everybody should attend. It only costs 10 cents to be a booster.

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“BECAUSE”

By MARIAN L. WATSON

(Copyright. k&ix. by Associated Literary Press) “Tell me! You must!” Eldon said masterfully. “How can I? When I don’t know?" Mavis answered hesitantly. They were on the lawn, In sight of the rest, but well out of. earshot Eldon shook himself Impatiently. “Women are all alike,” he said. "They care only for the game, never thinking how It hurts.” “I don’t play games—none worse than tennis,” Mavis protested, with the least pout. Eldon looked at her, his mouth setting grimly. “Then —I am either blind or crazy," he said. “You have played with me—played fast and loose, now for six months. The game has got to end.” "Oh! Has it?” Mavis asked saucily, as if she would leave him, but turning back after the third step. He had made no move to follow—instead, stood with his hands clenched and hanging at his sides, his eyes blazing, and his mouth still set. “I wish I had a mirror—-to show you how ugly you look right now,” the girl went on, drawing nearer and looking at him. Finding him silent, she added, half under breath, “I—I — would tell you things—if I rightly could. But, indeed, I can’t! All. I care about is to have good times—to be friends with you—with Clem and all the rest —and keep you away from the other girls.” “I see! You are a monopolist,” Eldon answered bitterly. “Otherwise a coquette, as heartless as you are vain, the sort that kills a man’s faith in womanhood —and sends him out into the world, little more than a beast.” “Dear, dear! All this tragedy wasted on just me!” Mavis apostrophised She was a bit frightened—then fore she, meant to carry things with high hasid. Very pretty, sadly sr.iled, rich and willful, she had never had a serious moment, nor the shadow of a serious grief. Conquer cam< natural to her—she had 1 -an f coquette in the cradle. Truly the v,s

“You Had Taken the Sunshine With You.”

so much in love with love, she thought she had never carfed supremely for any of her lovers. Eldon

had come nearer than the others to getting inside her heart. Therefore , she held him at a distance. She did ; not mean to marry anybody so : ages. Why should she, when the whole world of pleasures lay enticingly open to her? i “The curtain is falling. Good-by!” j Eldon said, turning from her but npt offering his hand. She caught it between both her soft palms, saying roguishly, “It shan’t ‘forget its manners! No, indeed! Nice ' little boys always shake hands—but ; then nice little boys don’t leave a ; party in the middle of things.” 1 “I have nothing to do with nice , little boys—l mean to have less to do ’ with nice little girls,” Eldon flung at her, snatching away his hand. He was trembling—he did not mean Mavis should know 7 it, She looked at him with w’ide, wondering eyes. “Why! Are you really going? And going angry?” she asked. “I thought you were only fooling—because you were a little bit vexed.” “It is rather ‘vexing,’ ” Eldon said tensely, “to stand Jy- for two hours, getting hardly a look, and seeing the girl you love fling herself at another fellow’s head. You can’t deny you’ve been doing that! And such a creature! Clem Allen should not be permitted to come near a decent girl—", “I don’t care about him! Nor about you!” Mavis cried angrily, snapping her rosy fingers. “If you can do nothing better than insult me you had better go away;” “I shall not come back—until you send for me,” Eldon said, turning away. _ Mavis laughed—her flash of temper was ovdr. “Yes, you will!” she called over her shoulder as she ran to join" the others. ’ Clem Allen stood watching her. As she came up to the group he tried to ?*at her apart from the rest, but she evaded him and plumped down at her mother’s elbow. After a minute eyes began to dance wickedly—-

somehow she always gathered courage, after the manner of spoiled children, in the warm. uncritical motherly presence. Allen was saying floridly: \ “What can 1 do for you, Miss Norton? Shall it be punch? Or a cup of tea? Or a cushion for your feet? I’m ready to fetch or carry—anything." "Then —go fetch back Frank Eldon. I am just finding out I want him a while longer,” Mavis answered, her •yes wickeder than ever. Allen looked disconcerted. “I think Frank ought to suffer for his bad taste in leaving us," he began, tentatively, but Mavis broke In imperatively: “Never mind that. You go and bring him to me! Quick! It won’t do to let his horse get too much the start of your car.” “D’ye mean that?” Allen demanded, pursing his lips. * “Cross my heart?” Mavis answered, with her most ravishing smile Sb 3 did not In the least know why f 1"» was sending him upon such an errai'd —only that it had suddenly come to fier she hated the sight o r him.

Ten minutes later Allen was shouting to Eldon“ Hi. there! You’re wanted! Back at the tennis party!” “Who says so?” El-on asked, not drawing rein—he had set his ho-e galloping as soon as be was on the highway. Alien leered at him knowingly. “The queen herse’i' said so—rhe sent me—Queen Mavis, you know. Her motto seems to mo: 'Let ro attractive man escape? Wise young person, that—mighty vise! 11 we hook up in double harness I s’ all have the time of my life teaching her not to be so wise.” > "No dcubt!” Eick n said, through his set teeth. He lad but half heard. Words get tattered between galloping !?< ofs and the burring of'a motor. “Go back and say I won’t came—you km v you can’t make me.”

‘Oh. I think., I can!” Allen muttered. rendi- 3 the car recklessly a-r? l. A 1 undred yards in front of El- on, he turned squarely across the ro stoT';-?:i and shouted: “Be good! Yi ; can’t pass me—and your horse up to jumping the fences. Go La- i: ind face the music—and the Mavis." “I will —but not until I’ve thrashed you soundly,” Eldon said hoarsely, k ?p ag from his saddle. /Jion was alone; he had not waited to call his chauffeur. Before he could start the machine Eldon had wrenched him from his seat and was shaking him as a terrier shakes a rat. “I ought to kill you,” he said vefy low. “I would do it—only you are just a catspaw. Fight now—defend yourself—if you’re any part of a man I’ll give you a man’s chance, little as you deserve it.” “Why, Frank! I —I —you know we’ve got no quarrel!” Allen sputtered ruefully. He was taller and heavier than Eldon, but gross of ' habit and in soft, ill condition. “I carrie after yob all in fun. Queen Mavis— —•” “If you dare name her again I shall have to kill you,” Eldon interrupted, but turned away as he spoke. Very shortly they were on the Norton lawn again, standing a little distance from Miss Mavis, who beamed' at the sight. ’ Allen said subduedly: “You see, I brought him,” but got no farther. Eldon had gone up to the girl and j stood holding her hands and asking, 1 “Why did you want me back?” “Oh, just because!” Mavis answered, saucily, but moving apart from the rest. When there was no danger of eavesdropping she added softly, “Because I found out all at once you had taken the sunshine with you—and I wanted it back again.”

Opium Smuggling.

The infinite patience of the Chinese, says a writer in the Wide World magazine, is well illustrated in a smuggling story which I heard from an imperial maritime customs official at one of the barriers on the Upper Yangtse. The incident occurred several years ago in an attempt to avoid duty on a small amount of Szechuan opium that was headed for Shanghai. “An important article of down-river trade,” said the official in question, “is the, little belled and spangled cap worn by the Chinese children of from two to six years of age. In passing a number of boxes of these in the spring of 1906, I chanced to notice that the tinkle from the little bell in the center of the cap I was examining was rather muffled. Forcing it open, purely out of curipsity, I was astonished to find a tiny pellet of opium, hardly a quarter of an inch in diameter, which had been substituted for the clapper, Of course we had to jjearch the whole lot, and our aggregate haul from about 5,000 caps-—a couple of days’ work for us—was less than ten pounds of opium ”

Sleep and Let Sleep.

It was in the small hours of a muggy morning. From a seat near the Mudham docks, where he had spent the night, Pat watched the Merely Mary Ann as it loomed out of the fog. “Want a job?” asked the foreman, suddenly appearing. “Shure, it’s only six o’clock,” continued Pat. “Never mind that,” retorted the foreman, “we want a man to help us unload that ship." ’ “What’s the cargo?” asked Pat. “Sleepers,” said the foreman shortly. “Sleepers, bedad!” exclaimed Pat, with his fingers to his lips. "Shure, didn’t Oi tell yes it was too sopn to start work! We -mustn’t be wakin’ em up so early in the mornin’!”—* Answers. -

NOTES from MEADOWBROOK FARM

By Willian Pitt

laying hens. Late in the fall Is a good time to hatch spring chicks in some sections. Shorts are more economical feed for sows and growing pigs than corn. The deepest mudhole and steepest hill measure the real distance to market

Turkeys will soon become weak and subject to disease where inbreeding is practiced. i I T1 Where there is plenty of skimmed milk, beef scraps for hens need not be bought ? ' ' When the hogs fall to gain at least a pound a day it is time to say goodby to them. I Get your cows started right for the coming cold weather and they will do well air winter. I Build a warm, dry and otherwise comfortable room for the calves for the cold weather.

I When selecting a cow for the dairy look and see if the eye of the animal is large and full. This is the time of the year when dairy cattle require better care and more liberal feeding. ■ - ■ To thoroughly clean milk utensils they first should be rinsed with cold ; water, to remove all particles of milk, The successful feeding of lambs depends largely on their being offered great variety of food while in the yards. ’ 1- • ' Peach trees can be planted any time between last and first frost; the . earlier in the winter they are planted the better. Keep qll the rotten fruit well cleaned up around the orchard, as these constitute the winter quarters ; of numerous orchard pests. If all of the garden space is to grow profitable crops, no large trees must stand closer than thirty to fifty feet from the garden fence. The calf that is expected to develop ■ into a strong and profitable cow ■ should be given all the chance possi- ■ ble during its early period of growth. The best results are usually obtained from the work that is systematized and most carefully planned. This is 'not always the hardest work on the farm. The best way to stop a hog from eating chickens is to put it on the market as soon as possible, since it will soon lead other hogs into the bad habit

The best milking pail is the one so constructed that it will reduce to a minimum the amount of dirt falling into the milk during the process of milking.

An old horseman says that the chief cause of colic in horses, or the cause of the largest per cent, of these cases, is brought through long abstinence from water.

Do not neglect to secure a good supply of fine dust for the, fowls during the coming winter, while the ground is yet dry and ’there is dust in the road.

There is much .difference in the individuality of cows and their powers to produce milk as there is in men and their powers to perform certain kinds of work.

The profit in a cow comes from the extra amount of milk she will yield over what she ordinarily gives on common pasture or the coarse feeds usually given her.

The poultry raiser who notes his flock carefully, taking! into account what they are doing, and capable of doing, ought to know more how to feed and what to feed, than anyone advising at long range.

It Is very dangerous to pasture stock on second growth sorghum or Johnson grass, as this year has been dry in many sections and these crops have been grown under unfavorable conditions.

Skim milk is a good food fbr poultry. The fat has befen taken (from it and leaves it proportionately *rich in protein, which is-a very desirable element in poultry food. Use it to mix a mash for the chickens. You may also give them all the milk they w'll drink.

CIRCUIT COURT ALLOWANCES. GRAND JURY. Geo W Bond. 4 days, 48 miles.... 10 40 George Iliff, same. 28 miles 9.40 John Southard, same. 48 miles.... 10.40 C P Henna nsen, same, 72 miles.. 11.60 S R Nichols, same 8.00 B J Motore, same.: .i....... B*oo PETIT JURY. Thomas C Callahan. 3 days, 15 m. 37.50 Chas W Harris, same, 7 miles.... 6.70 Fred Banes, same, 13 miles 7.30 Victor Yeoman, same 7 miles 6.70 -David L Halstead, same, 7 sriles.. 6.70 Grant Culp, same, 12 miles 7.20 Jerry Hess. same. 15 miles Kenton Parkison. same, 9 miles..,. 690 James Longstreth, same 10 miles.. 7.00 David A Collins, same. 40 miles... .10.00 Thomas Florence, same 18 miles.. 7.80 Henry Kolhoff. same, 3 mi1e5...... 630 George Foulks. same. 12 miles '7.20 MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES Jasper Co Tel Co. phone j-ent 20.65 W I Hoover, sheriff's per diem Oct . special Nov regular.s2.oft Same, serving grand jury 6.15 5 a “ e „. same - J* 111 jury 25.10 C C Harner, Oet spec. Nov reg.. 52.00 Same, order drawing grand jury... .25 Same, same, petit jury -...... .25 Same, .venire for grand jury....... *4O Same, same, petit jury.... 40 Same, oath grand jury bai.iff...... 50 Same, same, riding bai1iff........ .50 Same, same, room bailiff.... 50 Same, same, court reporter... ’SO Same, rec allow to jur0r5........ 100 Same, same bailiffs and sheriff 50 Same, cert of gen allowances 1.00 Same, rec 1 indictment, index, etc .50 Same, general index of causes.... 5.00 Same, miscel cert of allowances... .50 Same, cert of app 3 spec judges.. 1.50 Same, allow, four @ 50c 200 Same, preparing bar docket 5! 00 Healey & Clark, printing bar dock 15.00 Bobbs-Merrill Co. *aw b00k5...... 28.00 Callaghan & Co. same.... O 0 West Publishing Co. same 175.00 W J Wright, reporter’s table 10.00 Um Erwin, grand jury bailiff...." 8.00 Same, jury bai1iff................. g.OO Gus Grant, riding bailiff 12.56 C J Hobbs, same... 250 Gus Grant, bar bailiff Oct spec and Nov regular 52.00 C R McFarland, ct reporter same. 130.00 "m. Darroch. special judge...... 20.00 Geo F Marvin, 5ame...... .... 15.00 James P Wason. 5ame............ 2o'oO Same, same 15.09 Francis J VurpiUat, same. ]. B F Fendig,-draw Nov jurors.... 3.00 C Cr Warner, p05tage........../. 10 00 JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

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