Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — Page 4

Broad Minded

Y youthful ideal of a husband has not met with its counterpart in my choice of a husband, therefore I shall draw the curtain against the narration of its shattered fragments. He shines Within his own sphere, not mine. In later life I am capable only of looking backward over experience’s tried'path in order to mold an ideal upon a pedestal founded on shifting sand, for age forbids my desire for another mate even if I were free to select such a one. Although my husband has proven unworthy of my ideal

my interest in life’s environments is still active. My intent is to delve into subjects tending to the uplifting of humanity. This statement appeals to me: < “I have never married, but T have reached the age*where I can cultivate any man I like without unkind things being said (one of the compensations of age), and I find nothing more interesting in life than companionable men.” It sounds withi a golden ring of freedom from the trammeled path of womankind in .general. A woman who has the fortitude to give public expression to her convictions, without fear of adverse Criticism, has reached the acme of life’s perspective, as her stable mind perceives it, and not with the deflected, vision of a warped mentality. Women as a rule are filled with an over-abundance of fear as to others’ comments if she gives vent to her innermost opinions, especially in reference to sociability or the association of the sexes. Even though a husband be of the sensible type and free from the demon jealousy, if the wife dare to step aside from the beaten path of Puritan ideas and manifest an inclination to welcome the companionship of intelligent men, aside from her husband, and even if they be his friends also, she is the target for innumerable flings of censure, especially by her own sex. With only a few exceptions I have always found that.men maintain

their respect toward nie with a.gentlemanly altitude, and in appreciation of said consideration by them and conjunction with my husband’s unusual sensibleness and absence of evil thoughts, I am glad to repeat the 1 same sentiments expressed by my co-writer. However, I contend that advanced age is not an essential to be obtained before a woman of firm character may enjoy the companionship of men with impunity. M oman’s weapon of defense in the presence of men in all walks life, is based upon her own mode of conducting herself and not upon "the actions ofmen.

That Poor Old Tired Business Man

By ANNA MARBLE

money waste, to Idok at the commercial aspect only. The man who uses up his nervous force must pay for this in hard, cold dollars sooner or later.v this is why it behooves the much talked of tired business man to watch his nervous resources as he would, liis watch or his pocketbook in a crowd. j Americans waste their nervous energy in a mad rush to accomplish great things at, infinitesimal time expenditure. There is no gainsaying the preciousness of time, but of infinitely more value is the all too finite nervous force—the steam which propels the individual engine.

Strong Appeal for Keeping Animal Pets

By L. JARDINE, Omaha, Neb.

< ' ' a nee the women who are most fond of dogs ! and cats are devoted and industrious mothers of families. Moreover,! there are just .as, many men as women who find pleasure in petting and caring for animals; and normal, properly brought up children are almost invariably fond of them.. 1 ’ j The discipline of learning to treat with kind consideration the household creatures whose comfort is so entirely dependent upon the thought- 1 fulness of their “big brothers,” is as valuable a training in character as a child receive; and the child who has never known the fun of romping with a jolly fbur-footed playmate in a spirit of mutual good fellowship has missed one of the keen delights of child life.

Too Much Talk About Use of Paper

By HERBERT SCHRECKE

I hope that this paper handkerchief does not become a law, as it never would be used by sensible people.

J Old Age is Not Essential to Company of Men

By CLAIRE WRIGHT

When will the human dray horse learn to conserve his strength for the added burden of old age ? Many a man who is a momentary miser may be a spendthrift of nervous force. The happy medium is, of course, the mean to be most desired—it was Aristotle who preached the desirability hundreds of years ago—but, of the two extravagances, the ovpr-expenditure of nerves must be deplored more greatly' than extravagance in mere money matters. Practically speaking, nervous waste is

Why is it necessary to assume, as most of those discussing the matter seem to do, that only childlc.ss women keep pets? The fact is that some people love animals and others do not, and whether or not one has children has nothing, .to do with it. I should say that the woman whose.patience and charity are wide enough to include even the lower orders of the Creator’s great family, would be the one least likely to shirk the duty of motherhood, and best fitted for its fulfillment. It happens that in my own acquaint-

•\ ' \ The fact that we must use paper towels in public places is no reason that we should use paper handkerchiefs. I think that this talk about using paper is going too far. . * Who, is going to be made to use a paper handkerchief? I have always wiped my hands on a towel before and have never had a disease , from using it, hut now I use one of my handkerchiefs for drying my face and hands rather than use a paper towel and -have chapped hands.

GOAL OPERATORS TO MEET WMINERS

Bituminous Men Appoint Committee for Conference. Will CONSIDER WAGE SCALE i . Tn~ Informal Discussions Employers Are Unanimous in Saying that Scale Asked Is Too High and Entirely Qut of Question.

Indianapolis, Jan 26. rence committees to meet with the miners’ scale committee have been appointed by the soft c.oal operators representing Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Western Pennsylvania. Eight operators and eight miners were selected to represent each of the states. The demands of the miners, as formulated, were presented informally, but there was no argument on them. Before meeting with the miners’ comrftit.tee the operators held a caucus and discussed the wage scale which was about to be presented to them. They were unanimous in the sentiment that the demands would be rejected if presented as a whole, as the adoption of she new scale would place a heavy burr.cn of cost upon the operators, and the wages are now as high as could be paid without increasing the cost of coal at the mines and this cannot be done.

MINERS FAVOR THE RECALL

Prepare to Amend Owq Law,and Have It Apply to Union Officials. 'lndianapolis, Jan. 26.- —Recall of international officials of the United Mine Workers of America is provided in a constitutional amendment adopted by the miners’ convention. Ten per cent of the membership may initiate a recall and on petition of 30 per cent an election shall be held. Attempts by some of the leaders, especially among socialists, to reduce the percentages failed, though they declared the recall machinery as stipulated was too cumbersome ever to be effective. President John F. White urged caution in introducing the reform and supported the plan as adopted. He declared in-favor of recall of judges and Said if it had been available years ago trade unionism would not have suffered the wrongs from the courts that had impeded its progress. By an amendment to the constitution the miners’ conventions will be held every two years, instead of annually, hereafter.

TAKE UP BEEF MARGINS

Attorneys for Government Continue Examination of S. G. Langher. Chicago, Jan. 26.—Search for more light on the margin system used by the National Packing company was the subject of considerable interrogation by Pierce Butler, government counsel, wheh the packers’ trial was resumed in District Judge George A. Carpenter's court. Steiner G Langher, who formerly figured margins, was recalled as a witness. Langher read from books of the G. H. Hammond Company, under which corporate title the National operates. The margin books covered the period from April I,' 1907, to March 31, 1909. Methods of keeping , these books were explained at length to the Jury.

BIG TUNNEL NEAR FINISH

Bore Through Solid Rock Will Carry New York’s Water Supply. 1 V Matteawan. N. Y., Jan. 26. Only ' nine ieet more of boring remains to connect the two ends of the tunnel j which has been under course of construction here to carry the new water supply for New York city under the Hudson river. Next week Mayor Gaynor and other New York city officials will witness the completion of the great, engineering ieat and will walk through the tunnel. The boring is through solid rock. 1,130 feet below the bed of the river..

FESTIVITIES FOR FARLEY

Catholic New York Closes Its Welcome to Newly Elevated Cardinal. > New York, Jan. 26.—Catholic Ntew York brought to close its welcome for Cardinal Farley. In the morning there was an ecclesiastical reception at St. of a magnificence never surpassed in this country. Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Prendergast, twenty bishops and hundreds of priests were present. In the evening the Catholic club gave a reception to Cardinal Farley.

Carnagie Portrait for Peace Palace. j The Hague, Jan. 26. The government of Holland has commissioned B. J. Boomers, a prominent Dutch artist, to paint a portrait of Andrew Carnegie for the palace of peace here. Governor Brown Inaugurated. Atlanta, Ga., Jhn. 26.—Joseph. M. Brown was inaugurated governor-!of | Georgia.

Fine Silver-Plated Orange Spoons and ■ Given away Absolutely Free to purchasers of Starr’s Best Coffee, the very best ‘ on the market, and at the lowest price, quality considered. Come and see. C. C. STARR & CO.

HENRY T. RAINEY

Illinois Man Asks Inquiry into Panan-% Canal Matters.

LABOR MEN IN ST. LOUIS

Alleged They Met to Plan Action on Coast. Hotel Clerk Tells of Conference in 1910—Chicago Man Tells of Hunting Trip. Indianapolis, Jan. 26. —Frank Schilling, a hotel clerk in St. Louis, was called before the federal grand jury in the investigation of the dynamite conspiracy to tell about a meeting of labor leaders at St. Louis in 1910, when; a conference of American Federation of Labor officials was held. Olaf A. Tveitmoe, an official of the California'building trades council now under indictment, and J. J. McNamara were present in St. Louis. -At this time, according to Ortie E. McManigal, McNamara learned of labor conditions on the Pacific coast and said “something must be done out there.” Subsequently McManigal was sent to California and his visit resulted in plans to blow up the Llewellyn iron works. Louis Weiss, a saloonkeeper in Chicago, also testified. He accompanied J. B. McNamara and McManigal on a hunting trip in Wisconsin after the. Los Angeles Times disaster. On this trip detectives who had been following McManigal for weeks learned that J. B. McNamara was the “J. B. Brice?" wanted on the Pacific coast.

TAFT AIDS TO VISIT PANAMA

Telf* Fisher and Hitchcock to Sait far a Tour of Inspection. Washington. Jan. 26.—Secretary of the Interior Fisher and Postmaster General Hitchcock, "the only two members of President Taft’s cabinet, who have not visited the Panama canal, have been ordered by the president, it was unofficially learned to make a tour of inspection. They will leave here probably about the middle of February. On account of the numerous questions which arise in cabinet meeting discussion dealing with the changed commercial relations that the opening of the Panama canal will bring about, the president is desirous of having every member of the cabinet familiar with conditiohs on’ the, isthmua.

FLAMES KILL TWO CHILDREN

Baby and Small Boy 'Perish While Parents Are Compelled to Flee. Cumberland, Wis., Jan. 26. Two children of Mr. and Mrs. O. A.'Morton were burned to. death when fire destroyed their log home. Mr. and Mrs, Morton topic their baby and little boy from their room td the kitchen and' went back for clothing. The fire spread quickly and prevented their return. The parents broke through a window to save their own lives. • _ By that time the kitchen was ablaze and the children perished.

Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound is a medicine. Give it to your children, and take it yourself when you feel a cold coming on. It checks and cures Coughs and bolds and croup and prevents bronchitis and- pneumonia.—-A. F. Long.

BOXES WERE LARGE

RECIPIENT OF PRESENT CORRESPONDINGLY DELIGHTED. But, Figuring Up the Financial End of the Transaction, He Did Noi See Just Where He Had Made Much.

Once there was a man who came into possession of some boxes. Nothing funny in that? Of course not. Anybody who had a chance to get some nice packing boxes would have been as glad as he was. “They’re big ones,” said the friend who gave them to him, and the recipient laughed happily. “The bigger the better,” he said, merrily. “I’ll send down to the place and get ’em this afternoon.” That afternoon he approached a move wagon man and told him he had 14 packing cases to be moved, and asked what he would charge. The move wagon man took a stub of pencil and made a calculation based upon usual charges of 25 cents per box, and finally agreed to move them for $2.50 as a whole.

The box owner then went home and waited for his boxes. At last he called up the place where, the boxes had been stored. The owner of the storeroom was angry. He more than intimated that the boxes were in the way and suggested that the owner come dow*n and take them away. The move wagon man had come, seen and departed, shaking his head. The owner then went down to straighten out the matter. He found that the boxes were indeed large. One was a little fellow eight feet square, while the others could have held a couple of square pianos apiece. They were foreign-built boxes, dovetailed and firm and built with screws and cleats and plainly intended to remain boxes.

“This ain’t no lumber yard,” suggested the man who had the storeroom. “You’ll have to get ’em out this afternoon. I need the room.” Then the owner worked! the telephone frantically in search of a purchaser. By four o’clock three people had called, looked at the boxes and taken fright. They were very large boxes.

By five o’clock the owner was trying to boxes away. One man agreed to take them and he was happy until the man called up and, remarking that he didn’t bargain to move houses, threw up the jot* At six o’clock he nearly had a fight with the owner of the storeroom, and it ended in the box owner hiring a man at 50 cents an hour to make Itanber of the boxes, and hiring a move wagon man at two per trip to haul the lumber away. When ne came to analyse the situation he found he had bought three dollars’ worth of second-hand, nailstudded, frayed-ended, hatchet-mauled lumber of odd sizes,, and had paid |4.50 for it.

She Got Even.

An old English farmer, whose wife was 111, went for some medicine to the nearest town. Calling at a roadside inn, he spent all he had”, including the. money for his wife’s medicine. ■ Not wishing to go back without it, and to save bother, hei borrowed a bottle, filled it with colored water, and took it home. There he sweetened it and gave it to his wife. Some time after she had recovered he told her of his deceit. She Ulffd nothing, but a month later, when her husband came in to his tea, she was busy churning, so she asked him if he would churn, as she we was tired. Of course, he started churning. In about an hour he said:

“This cream is a long, while i’ turning to butter, lass.” “Aye,” his wife replied. “I’ve been at it nearly ail t’ afternoon. Tha had better get tha tea an’ rest a bit.” “Nay,” he said, “I won’t get my tea till this job is done.” So he turned at the old churn for another hour, and then, tired out, he said: “I think this is never goin’ to turn to butter." ' ‘1 don’t think it will; for 1 took fifteen pounds of butter out just before tha pame in, arid, if ever tha wants me to tak watter for medicine, just remember about churnjng two tours at nowt but buttermilk." The old fellow’s reply is not recorded—Los Angeles Sunday Herald.

The old hen, the carelessly inbred hen, the\mongrel without a well-bred ancestry, keep the egg-production of this country down to seventy-five eggs average per year. A little more care in feeding and breeding would doub'e this and double the revenue from the po.:l try yards of this country.

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' * or Sale —Oliver or Jewett typei wntejj' m good condition and price reasonable.—AßTHUß H. HOPKIXS - ts For Sale—2-Good Timothy hay 3 miles from t own.—Enquire of P »• PORTER, or phone 130 Barred Rocks—For sale at M I Adams:, phone 533-L. ‘ fl Farm Roans—Money to loan on ar n ° l P r °Perty in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. . Cobs For Sale—-A big load of cobs delivered any -place in the dity for 50 cents.—PHONE 499. \\ anted-—Work on a farm with live in by married man. - 1 AC K Sis r ELDS, Rensselaer, „ Sale — r Good '4-foot wood at $-,.-.5 per cord on ground, % mile north and 2 miles west of SuTev - JOS. KOSTA, Fair Oaks, R-l, of* phone Mt. Ayr exchange. ' ts For Sale or Rent—A 7-acre farm, l mile west of court house, good improvements, lots of fruit, asparagus and strawberry beds, well, cistern, barn. etc.—Mrs.-S. W. WILLIAMS, R-3, Rensselaer, phone sly-D. i For a,e —'Modern new 9-room house and 5 acres of ground located in the south part of the city. Enquire of MRS. A. GTANGLOFF for further information. ‘

Wanted—Good men to sell the Rawleigh Remedies in Indiana territory. Some good first-class territory available. See or write me at N. HJLE, The Rawleigh Man, Rensselaer, lad. f 4 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 chance and I win give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sherift Jasper county, Knimaa, Ind.

For RenP—The room now occupied by The Jasper County Demo-. crat, which will be vacant about March li_. This room is now fitted up with two water motors* shafting, etc., which can be bought very cheaply of The Democrat, and one wanting a room with light power can step right into a room already equipped.—A. LEOPOLD.

vFor Sale—Barred Rock Cockerels, the world's greatest strain.— THOMAS E. REED, R-3, Remington, -Ind., Phone 79-J. ts Legal Blanks-—Warranty and quit claim deeds, real estate and chattel mortgages, cash and grain rent farm leases, city property releases of mortgage and several other blanks .can be purchased in, any quantity desired at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. Road tax receipt and order books are also kept in stock.

M Without Delay Without Commission Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. L W. H. PARKINSON. Glasses flitted by ✓ Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office fiver Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. 232.

B hair R balsam aiM * )€a ? t^e * the h*ir. Ne ve/Vails “to' Hair to its Youthful Color.

The 25 tons of timothy hay advertised in the J. E. Bislosky sale will be sold the first thing, at the beginning of the sale —Wednesday, Jan. 31, oile mile north of Pleasant Ridge.