Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — Page 3

ftytoJMwe wm || ffi|' M '' i- ‘ Ho. 74 " J ‘~’” Water, fire and air are the three things most necessary for life. When the ancient Greeks desired to exile a traitor or criminal, they denied him the use of these three things in Greece which drove him out of the country. To-day water is not only a necessity, plenty where yon want it, when you want it, and the way you want it is a great and good luxury. "* ■ . ' ——— Ask any family with their home well plumbed and they will tell you that they would just about as soon be without fire as without the convenience. We ask your plumbing buisness on three points: the first is that our work alway looks well. This makes a lot of differnce in the attractiveness of vour home. In the second place our work is durable. It lasts as long as best good and honest reliable work permit. / Besides our charges are reasonable. They cover the actual cost of the material and workmanship required for the job. We will gladly give you an estimate on the work you want done to prove this. We guarantee our work when finished to cover ‘ the other points. r J 5 ; Eger’s Hardware Store Rensselaer, Indiana

Notrßesident Notice. The State of Indiana, Jasper County. 11l the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term,-1912. Jerry Dugan, et al. vs. Junia Bradford, et al. Complaint No. 7809. ' Now comes the plaintiffs, by Babcock and Parkinson, their attorneys, and file their complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants Junia Bradford and Mr. Bradford, her husband, and Mr. —— Bradford, widower of the said Junia Bradford; F. W. Howard and Mrs. —— Howard, his wife, and Mrs. Howard, widow- of the said F. W. How-ard; Frederick W. Howard and Cyntha L. Howard, his wife, and Mrs. —— Howard, unknown wife of Frederick W. Howard, and Mrs. I Howard, unknown widow of the said Frederick W. Howard; Mr. Howard, unknown husband of Cyntha L. Howard, and Mr. Howard, unknown widower of the said Cyntha L. Howard; William Freeman and Laura C. Freeman, his w-ife, and Mrs. ■ —— ; Freeman, unknown Wife of said Wil-< liam Freeman, and Mrs. Freeman. I unknown widow of William Freeman, i and Mr. Freeman, unknown hus-1 band of Laura - C. Freeman, and Mr. I ■ —•— Freeman, unknown widower of ; Laura C. Freeman; William D. Leel and Mrs. Lee, his unknown wife,; and Mrs. -—— Lee, unknown widow j of said William D. Lee; Charles W. Beeker and Mrs. Beeker. his unknown w-ife. and Mrs. Beeker, unknown widow of said Charles W. Beeker; Charles Beeker and Mrs. —— Beeker, his unknown wife, and Mrs.' Beeker. unknown widow of Charles, Beeker; William Shepard and Mrs.; Shepard, unknown wife of William 1 Shepard, and Mrs. Shepard; unknown widow- of William Shejpard;' George Brett and Mrs. —— Brett, unknown wife of George Brett, and Mrs. —4— Brett, unknown widow of George Brett; George L. Brett and Mary, Brett, his ’ wife, and Mrs. Brett, i unknown wife of George L. Brett, and Mrs.. —— Brett, unknown widow of said George L. Brett, and Mr. ! Brett, unknown husband of Mary Brett.i and Mr. Brett, unknown widower of Mary Brett; John H. Elliott and Virginia Elliott, his wife, and Mrs. Elliott, unknown wife of John H. Elliott, and Mrs. Elliott, unknown widow of John H. Elliott, Mr. ——- Elliott, unknown husband- of Virginia Elliott, and Mr. Elliott, unknown widower of Virginia Elliott; John S. • Thacker and Julia A. Thacker, his wife, and Mrs. Thacker, unknown wife, of John S. Thacker, and Mrs.; Thacker, unknown widow of John S. Thacker. and Mr. Thacker.' unknown husband of Julia A. Thacker, r and Mr. Thacker, unknown wid-1 ower of Julia A. Thacker; Emma F. I Bass and Mr. Bass, her unknown husband; Mr. ■ Bass, unknown wid- 1 ower of Emma F. Bass; William Rook and Mrs. Rook, his unknown wife. • and 'Mrs. - Rook, unknown widow of said William Rook; Erasmus M. Weaver and Mrs. -r- Weaver, his un-: known wife, and Mrs. Weaver, unknown widow of Erasmus M. Weaver; William T. Burgess and Mrs. Burgess, his unknown wife, and Mrs. Burgess, unknown widow of William T. Burgess; Edgar A. Brown and Martha J. Brown, his wife, and Mrs. —— Brown, unknown wife of Edgar A. Brown, and Mrs. ——— Brown, unknown widow of Edgar A. Brown: Mr. ——— Brown, unknown husband of Martha J. Brown, and Mr. —— Brown, unknown widower of Martha J. Brown: Marth Juiian and Mr. Julian, her unknown -husband, and Mr. .Julian, the unknown widower of Marth Julian; Mat the. Julian, and • Jacob B. Julian, her husband, and Mtv —— Julian.- unknown husbatiti ofMartha Julian: and Mr.. Julian, unknown widower of Mattia Julian. Mrs. Julian, .unknown’ .wife of Jacob B. Julian, and Mrs. —— Julian, unknown jwidpw of Jacob P. Julian; Jesse Cates and Rebecca Cates, his wife., and Mrs. Cates, Unknown wife of Jesse Cates, and Mqs: Cates, unknown widow of Jesse Cates, and Mr. ■—w Cates, unknown husband of Rebecca Cates, and Mr. Cates, unknown, widower of Rebecca Cates; Jane, M. McCully and Mr. —— McCully, her unknown Tins'- : band, and Mr. McCully, unknown widower of Jane M. McCully; ■ John M. McKinney and Jennie 'his wife, and Mrs: McKinney; . unknown wife of John M. McKinney, and'

Mrs. . - McKinney, Unknown widow .of John M. McKipney, and Mr. —— McKinney, unknown husband of Jennie McKinney, and Mr. McKinney, unknown widower of Jennie McKinney; Quintus C. Mason and Mary B. Mason, his wife, and Mrs. Mason, unknown wife of Quintus C. Mason, and Mrs. - Mason, unknown widow of Quintus C. Mason, Mr. —— Mason, unknown husband of Mary B. Mason, and Mr. Mason, unknown widower of Mary B, Mason; Edgar J. Farlow and Eva N. Farlow, his wife, and Mrs. —— Farlow, unknown wife of Edgar J. Farlow, and Mrs. —Farlow, un-

known widow of Edgar J. Farlow, and Mr. - Farlow, unknown husband of Eva N. Farlow, and Mr. Farlow, unknown widower of Eva N. Farlow; Walter S. Mason and Lilly Mason, his wife, and Mrs. —— Mason, unknown wife of Walter S. Mason, and Mis. -- Mason, unknown widow of Walter S. Mason, and Mr. Mason, unknown husband of Lilly Mason, and Mr, —— Mason, unknown widower of Lilly Mason; India Adams and W. E. Adams, her husband, and Mr. ——- Adams, unknown husband of India i Adams, and Mr. Adams, unknown widower of India Adams. and Mrs. —— Adams, unknow n wife of W. E. Adams, and Mrs. Adams, unknown widow of W. E. Adams; Jennie Williams and W. M. Williams,, her husband. and Mr. Williams, unknown husband of Jennie Williams, and Mr, Williams, unknown widower of I Jennie Williams, and Mrs. -— — ■ Wilj Mains, unknown Wife of W. M. Wili liams. and Mis. -—— Williams, unknown I widow of W. M. Williams; Lizzie M. ; Greenwood and Mr. -- Greenwood, f herunknown husband. andLMr. —— i Greenwood. unknown widower of Lizzie ■M. Greenwood; Alice Hoop and P. H. , Hoop. her husband, and Mr. —— Hoop, unknown husband of Alice Hoop, and Mr. Hoop, unknown widower of Alice Hoop, and Mrs. ; ■ - Hoop, unknown Wife of P. H- Hoop, and Mrs. ■■ - Hoop. unknown widow of P. H, ■Hoop; Jennie Rout and Charles L. Rout. • her husband, and Mr. Rout, un- : known husband of Jennie Rout, and Mr. u Rout, unknown widower of Jennie Rout, and Mrs. Rout, unknown wife of Charles ’L. Rout, and Mrs. - Rout, unknown w,«ow of 1 Charles L. Rout; Robert L. Mason and Mrs. ■ ; —— Mason, his unknown wife, i and Mrs. Mason, unknown widow of Robert L. Mason; Lutellus Mason and Nettie Mason, his wife, and Mrs. ‘ Mason, unknown Wife of Lutellus i Mason, and Mrs. Mason, unknown widow of Lutellus Mason, and Mr. Mason, unknown husband of Nett tie Mason, and Mr. —— Mason, unknown widower of Nettie Mason; Earl ■ Park Tile and Bfick Company; the unknown successors. assigns. creditors j and representatives of the Ear. Park Tile and Brick Company; James L. ■ Mason and Mrs. Mason, his wife, and Mrs. —— Mason, unknown widow of James L. Mason; Esther Walpole : and Mr. Walpole, hen unknown husband. Mr. —— Walpole, unknown ; widower of Esther Walpole; Luke Wal- ! pole and Mrs. —-■ Walpole, his unI known wife, and Mrs. -- Walpole, i unknown widow of said Luke Walpole; Lizzie Walpole and Mr. - ■ Walpole, her unknown husband. and Mr. Walpole, unknown widower of f said. Lizzie Walpole; Maggie Walpole and Mr. —*— Walpole, unknown husband of Maggie Walpole, and Mr. -- ■ Walpole. unknown widower of said Maggie Wajpole; and ad of the unknown heirs, devisees; legatees, representatives, administrators, executors. ' successors and assignees of each and every of the'—•above and foregoing named defendants: nnd all of the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, representatives. administrators. executors, and assignees of the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, renresaijtajlyes. administrators. executors apd successors 'and assignees of each and every of the foregoing named defendants an- not residents of the State of Indiana.? Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that’ unless they be and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the ‘ second Monday of February, A. D., 1912, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said Countv and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same -will be heard and determined in their absence. In Witness Whereof. I hereunto set [SEAL! my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 19th day of December, A. D., 1911. _ C,C. WARNER. Clerk. Dec.23-3Q-Jan. 6 The Democrat office is well equipped tQ do the better grades of job printing.

POULTRY

MAKING MONEY WITH DUCKS i ■— Proparly Fed on Sweet, Clean Grain and Pure Water Fowl Produces Egg That la Delicious. Nearly all good eaten in England and on the continent relish duck eggs, even more than the hens’ eggs. Properly tod on sweet, clean grain, green stuff with pure water the duck produces eggs that are delicious. The Indian Runner duck lays better eggs than the Pekin, although the .latter is in greater favor in the United States, doubtless because of its pure white color. Pastry cooks in hotels and restaurants prefer duck eggs and some persons who have learned, how pala-

Good Egg Producers.

table they are buy them, but there Is a decided prejudice against duck eggs in the general market. Duck raisers can remove this prejudice by judicious advertising in the local papers, setting forth the advantages of duck eggs and advising as to their palatability. The Indian Runner is almost as large as the Pekin at ten weeks, although the latter is more heavily feathered and this gives it a larger appearance. . Runner ducks do not need water to swim In but should always be provided with clean water for drinking and if this can be running water so much the better. y

PROPER HOUSE FOR POULTRY

Mistaken Idea to Think That Hens Do Not Lay in Winter Because Their Coop Is Not Warm. Very often I. hear persons say. “Our hens don’t lay In the winter because our hen house is not warm enough.” I have kept hens, lots of them, for 25 years, and kept them for eggs and I got the eggs, too, and I never kept them in a warm house either. I will tell you what I depend upon to keep the hens warm in winter and that is good heavy feathering (I have the Rhode Island Reds and there is no breed that has a better coat of Teath’ers for winter than this one), says i writer in the Successful Farmer. Rich blood and active exercise keen it In circulation. Yes, I used to try to make my hen houses warm, but only succeeded in introducing a condition which, if followed up, looked to me as though they would be worse than the cold.

I don’t wish to have it understood that my houses are open with cracks and-knot holes, for they are not; every 'part is made tight except at the windows where tHe muslin curtain is in. The question is not how warm you can make your poultry bouse, but how dry you can make it. There is no danger in having it too dry. When yon have built a ben house with two thicknesses of boards and paper between, tight doors and windows and a good roof and lots of glass on the south side, you have what some call a warm house, but you have what I call a damp one. that is if you have very many hens in it, and it be damp lust as long as you keep it tight and close and allow no ventilation. A hen will stand a lot of cold and long, too. If she is in a dry house.

EXCELLENT FEED FOR HENS

Turnips Nailed to Board With Cut Side Up Affords Fowls Green Truck Needed in Winter.

Turnips make an excellent green food for laying hens during winter. The best way to feed them is to cut

Turnips for Hens.

them in halves, nail them on a board with cut side up, and place where the hens can have free access. Turnips take the place of grass and other greens which cannot be had in winter. The object in cutting and feeding in this way is to prevent the hens from scratching them through dirt and litter. Potatoes and apples can also be fed in the same manner.

New Poultry Roost.

SA tew poultry roost I* idade of perforated iron tubing which has been soaked with a solution deadly to insect lite.

A BASHFUL SANTA CLAUS

(Copyrtaht. mt) SSiT wu Christmas eve. Andrew Hillington, with «a* neat little package in E Ms breast pocket and a 1 throbbing heart beneath •“ the same pocket, had been trying for a full hour to j/o| muster up enough courage / to take out the package, t and offer it, together with iS his throbbing heart, to Amabel Tuttle.

Amabel was just such a young woman as just such a young man as Andrew would ardently desire to present with his throbbing heart and the contents of the neat package. The latter contained a ring, set with a single diamond. The throbbing heart contained what Andrew was ready to promise should be life-long devotion to Amabel.

Why go into detail regarding the whole year during which he had laid siege to the heart of Amabel? There had been moments this Christmas eve when Andrew's fingers nervously sought his breast pocket. Amabel knew he was on the verge of proposing. Gracious mercy! The woman who cannot diagnose a threatened proposal is no woman at all. The stammering speech, the flushed brow, the hesitant remarks, the fixity of stare —all these and many other symptoms are to the average woman what temperature and respiration are to the Specialist in fevers. For some unexplained reason women like to postpone a proposal. They prolong the agony. They enjoy the sighs, the awkwardness, the anxiety, of the swain. They revel In his abject *willlngness to sacrifice himself, if need be, to gain their promise. It may be that instinct teaches them this is the only moment when the man will be a slave. At last, however, it became time for Andrew to say good-night. It was Christmas eve, and he knew Amabel’s family would have some little preparations to make for the festivities of the morrow. He did not think for s' ment of the tremendous fact that when a young woman allows a young man to spend Christmas eve with her she is writing "Yes” in large letters on the wall. No man can realize anything at such times. Andrew said he must be going, after Amabel had began to wonder if he was going to talk about the weather and the latest book all evening. “Must you go, really?” she asked,brightly. “Wait just a moment. I have something for you.” She went into another room, then came back with a small package, which she handed to him. “Just a little Christmas remembrance,” she smiled. “You won’t

“Just a Little Christmas Remembrance.”

mind getting It ahead of time, will you? Such good friends as you and I needn’t wait for Christmas day itself, need we?’ . - She carefully stood immediately beneath a spray of mistletoe when she said this, but Andrew did not notice IL This Is further proof that love Is blind. “Thank you,” Andrew mumbled, nervously. “I—l—l wish you a merry Christmas, Am-amabeL” “That’s nice of you, and I hope you like the little gift. It really isn't a gift, Andrew. It’s just; a necktie I made for you myself. I wish it could have been something nicer—but you'll let the sentiment that goes with it count for what it lacks in value or beauty, won’t you?” I -

She carelessly reached up and adjusted the spray of mistletoe, smiling also at Andrew. Andrew stood there, turning the package over and over In his hands, blind as ever. What Amabel thoughtwwe never will know There must be tliffes while a woman Is landing a man that she is so en raged with his obtuseness that she would keenly enjoy thutojUng him on the head with a shovel.

By Wilbur D. Nesbit

Andrew got his eyes away from hers long enough to ask: “Are you going to have a Christmas tree?”

"No. We’re old-fashioned, you know. We’re just going to hang up our stockings ip front of the grate, and let Santa come right down the chimney. I love those old customs, don’t youT”

As she spoke of the old customs she once more pushed the spray of mistletoe up into place. This time Andrew saw it, and away down deep In his heart he wished he were just a good friend of Amabel’s. You see, under the mistletoe, things may be done by good friends which would call out the troops if attempted by a lover who has not yet declared

"Oh, Andrew!”

his love in speech, but whose every action tells what is affecting him. He told her he had spent a pleasant evening; he thanked her for the little gift; he promised to come again, and he got out and away—and then he realized that he had not given her the present he had meant to hand, to her with a few well chosen words which should cause her to fail into his arms and promise to be his forever. Also, he realized that he had not even wished her a merry Christmas In -the way he had planned to wish it. All the way home he abused himself for being such a fool. Why, any man with a spark of self-Conildence, he told himself, would have told the girl what he had in his heart and In his pocket for her —wop id have made a neat but effective little speech of presentation, and would have concluded his peroration with her head against his shoulder and her plump white hand in his. There came to him a flash of Inspiration. Why not play Santa Claus, take the ring to Amabel’s home, -climb In a side window from the porch, deposit the ring and a note In her stocking? This would make her feel that he had planned it all as a real Christmas surprise for her. A Christmas gift and a Christmas proposal all at once would certainly appeal to the romantic side of any girl. So he wrote his note, wrapped It about the ring, replaced the ring and the note in the little box, wrapped it up, and betook himself to Amabel’s home. . v .'

The porch from which he planned to effect his surreptitious entrance was a side one. He remembered that last summer Amabel’s father had said .be must have the catch on the window repaired. He knew perfectly well Amabel’s father hadn’t done so—for he knew Amabel’s father was like all men.

Through the side yard and over the porch rail he went. " The window he found unfastened. Carefully he raised it and felt his way into the room. To his astonishment he saw a ray of light beneath the door and heard voices in the adjoining room—where the stockings were to-be hung. “Well, Amabel,” her father was saying, “what did Romeo have to say tonight?” The reply was a sniff from Amabel, which Andrew interpreted as betng a suggestion to her father that he mind his own affairs.

“Did you give him the necktie?” Amabel’s mother asked. “Yes.” “Did he like it?”

“He never looked at it.” “Well, I must say! In my time a young man would have shown more gallantry.” - “Not a Hillington, mother,” Mr. Tuttle said. “They never think of what to say until a week later.” Andrew grated his teeth. This was true.but not pleasant.

“Well, you couldn’t expect him to tell how be liked it. when he hadn’t seen it,” Amabel said, stoutly. “And ft wouldn't have been polite for him

to look at It right there—besides, ij shouldn’t have given it to him to-i night" | "No,” her mother said. “That made| Yt look as though you expected some-i thing from him.” Andrew was standing in the darkness, in the middle of the room. He wished the family would quit talking —especially as they were talking of him —and go to bed and allow him to drop his gift into Amabel's stocking. He did not dare to move, for fear of running Into some furniture. He hardly dared breathe. Suddenly from down street came the clang of a gong. Also the clatter of horses’ hoofs on the frozen highway and the rumble of wheels. The noise increased as the horses drew near, to subside and cease In front of the house. The Tuttles heard It “Must be a fire, or the patrol wagon,” Mr. Tuttle exclaimed, throwing open the room where Andrew stood. Andrew darted behind a bookcase just in time. Mr. Tuttle went through the room to the hall and opened the front door. Mrs. Tuttle followed him, despite Amabel’s remonstrances that shq would catch cold. There was the sound of foosteps up the walk. "What’s the matter T’ Mr? Tuttlel asked. “WberOs he?” said a voice. "Where’s who?” S• "Patrolman Jones telephoned |bas i he saw a man breaking into your i house." Andrew shivered with alarm. Thief was a predicament. To be arrested| as a burglar, to be carted off to Jail,, without a chance to explain. Hei peered from behind the bookcase and! saw Amabel dreamily hanging her! stocking. He swiftly came from his! hiding place, and silently hurried to| her side. Taking the package from} his pocket, he whispered;' “Amabel! I—l forgot to tell you II love you, and here’s my proposal, andi the engagement ring, too!” The mere fact that he had appeared! thus mysteriously at her side did noti appeal to Amabel. She did not thlnk| of that at all. She said: “Oh, Andrew!" And she then allowed herself to fall Into his arms.

That there was much excited conversation in the hall, that men were running around the house and peering! into dark corners in the basement and. in the upper rooms was something off which Andrew and Amabel were entirely unaware. Mr. and Mrs. Tuttlel came back, after the officers had gone! away utterly bewildered. Even they had been so excited that the presence* of Andrew struck them as nothing unusual. Amabel’s shy but delighted announcement of her engagement was recelved merrily, however. > In fact.! father and mother Tuttle and thei’ young people got so deep in their plans for the future that they almost) forgot the incident until suddenly Mr. Tuttle said: "I wonder who the dickens that burglar was, anyhow?” "I —I’ll bet It was me!” Andrew} stammered. “ i “Well, I must fix that window tomorrow,” Mr. Tuttle decided.

“Humph!” said Mrs. Henry Peck, “this paper has a lot of alleged jokes, about women giving their husbands cigars for Christmas presents. I think that any woman who is fool enough to give her husband a box of the vile things ought to—Why, where has,~.„ Henry gone?” But Henry was out in the hall shak> Ing hands with himself. t

Quieting Her Suspicions.

“My dear," said the Suspicious Wife, “this sealskin sack you gave me for Christmas has the odor of- gasoline.” “Very likely,” answered the Crafty Husband. "But you know Santa Claua is using an automobile now.” Nevertheless, she had her doubts about it, fearing that he had purchased the second-handed ot a cleaner.

More Blessed to Give.

“Stingy?” repeated the Neighborhood Gossip, “is old man TitewadcL stingy? Why, did you hear w'hat he gave his wife for a Chrlstmak present? He let her go to the dentist that morning and have ten aching„.teeth pulled, knowing very well that it would prevent her eating any of the Christmas dinner.” ' • J

Sad Case.

A fellow who lived on the isthmus. Was bothered somewhat by strabisth- , \ mus. He said: “It is-sad, But my eyes, which are bad, See New Year when looking at Cbristhmus.’' \ 1