Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — Page 8

WT ILT 4 P ff]T l te ns l nleres News Notes of k jMI i owns 1 ersely 1 old Nearby Towns 1/ Adjacent to the Jasper A» Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents . , f County Metropolis ’

—! IROQUOIS VALLEY. Mark Hoyes was in our .bcality Sunday afternoon. John Moore and so:'. Vick were in our vicinity Tut stay. . Mrs. Clyde Burris spent Sunday with Mrs? Fred Schreiner. Chloe Torbet spent Sunday with Katie and Lucy Mor gen egg. Lucy Morgenegg spent Saturday night and Sunday with home folks. Wm. McElfresh of Rensselaer spent Monday at his ‘arms 'in this vicinity. Barney Kolhoff and son Led attended lodge at Rensselaer Saturday evening. Mrs. Fred Schreiner and children spent Tuesday with her rather. Wm. Green and family. Quite a crowd from our vicinity attended the aband concert at Rensselaer Thursday eve. Mrs. Mollie Vance Of Rensselaer spent Saturday and Sunday with her father. Wm. Green. Clarence Green and family of Kniman spent Saturday night and Sunday with- Wm. Green and family. Mr, and Mrs. J. W. Marian and Charles Reed went to Morocco Sunday to Se Mrs. Win. Pollock, who is very Til. Charles ■ Grant and . wife spent Sunday with his father, Alton Grant, west of town. ’ who is very sick at this writing. . Those ..that., spent Sunday, with Geo. McElfresh and family were: Fred Schreiner. Clyde Burris. Louis Zillhart. Ethel Mariatt and Anna Richmond? ??;?

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I PINE GROVE. Lucy Morgenegg spent Sunday with home folks. Chas, Shroyer helped Harry Beck 'Veal a calf Monday evening. Mrs. James Torbet helped her daughter, Nellie Beck, paper Wednesday. Creola Torbet called ■on Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and Mrs. Harry Beck Thursday. Harry Beck and daughter Neva and Creola Torbet were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clint Beck spent Thursday afternoon with J. M. Torbet and family. John, Chloae and Creola Torbet spent Sunday with Lucy, Katie and Eva Morgenegg. Mrs. Stella Campbell and two children spent one day this week with Roy Torbet and family. Wm. Hess. a Sunday school missionary of Warsaw spent Wednesday night with J. M. Torbet and family.

Elmer Shroyer and Samson Cooper called on the former’s sister, Mrs. Roy Torbet and family, Sunday afternoon. Bertha Cooper is spending a few days with her uncle, John Cooper, who is in a critical condition at this writing. Mrs. Stella Campbell and two children of Laura are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Cnas. Shroyer and family. f Those that took dinner with Roy Torbet and family Sunday were Harry Beck and family, Bluford Torbet and wife. Mrs. Belle Dickey and J. M. Torbet, wife and son Charles.

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Net Certain. “On wbnt plane would they put ah aerial army covp/s?” - "Hard to say. They might decide on an aeroplane, and then again, they might prefer a biplane.”

Ample Proof.

*T see where a veteran newspaper man died the other day who had founded 157 country weeklies.” “A great old trouble maker, wasn't her ■

Proud of Him.

“My cousin Ernest," Mrs. Lapsling was saying, "always attends the reunions of the Harvard graduates. You know he’s an alumnium of that univarsity."

What They Say.

Some women want to vote. Some others say they don't; Some men say we'll see them vota. Some others say we won't.

The Reason.

“In this play of yours,” the critic complained, “you have violated all the rules governing dramatic art.” "Yes, I know it,” replied the playwright. "That must be one of the reasons Why it is having such a long run here and drawing better than ever.”

Its Lurid Glare.

Helrna Lee—What do you think gives the ocean this phosphorescent hue? _ Hardy Porte —It’s not exactly phosphorescent; I should call it sulphurous. and it’s due to the character of the language mostly used by people who have to make ocean trips.

A Meaning Dialogue.

“When the officials visited the prison, a convict knocked against the governor accidentally, and what do you think the man said?” "What?” “He said: 'Pardon me.’ And the governor answered: ‘That lets you out.’ ”

Not the Costly Kind.

"Riffles says that In his salad days—” "That stingy fossil talking about his salad days' -Well, everybody knows that whatever else they have been, they were never chicken salad days."

A Modern Miracle.

"My wife is an astonishing woman." “Is she?” "I’ll give it to you. She told me the other night when I proposed going out that she would be ready in a minute. And she was."

Jealous Thing.

Miss Plainleigh—See my new engagement ring? Don’t you think my fiance showed excellent taste? Miss Ryval—Oh, yes—in the seleo tlon of the ring.

AMBIGUOUS.

Vanderfeller—l am willing to pay you most any price, If you only do me good. Dr. Bon ton —My dear sir; I’ll do you good, all right. Of that you may rest assured.

Room Enough.

Oh, do noto slight The "harem” skirt. It isn’t tight Enough to hurt.

Overdoing It.

Lobbylounger—The new play dldn*t go very well, even for a first night. Leading Man (wearily)—No; it had been rehearsed so many times we all got tired of it.

There may be certain lines of farming in which it is difficult to keep a definite account of the cost and profit but dairying is not one of these. There is no excuse for ignorance on the part of the dairy farmer. All trees and shrubs, in fact all perennial plants, must have a period of rest. This is true even of the evergren, whose foliage, while retaining its color, is as nearly destitute of vltaißy during the winter as those tree<« which shp.ke off their leaves In the ap- i

TIN PLATE SECRETS BARER ON STAND

Stevenson Tells How His Concern Went Into Trust. CAUSES ROARS OF LAUGHTER Witness Describes Scene When "Wire Pool” Members Met to Fix Price* —Says Baacke* Broke Hi* Pledge. 1 New York, May 24.—The steel trust lawyers met their match when John W. Stevenson, Jr., on the stand told how his tin plate company went into the trust. Stevenson, a rugged, white whis kered individual, said to be a relative of Robert Louis Stevenson, and a brother of "Danny” Stevenson, lord provost of Glasgow, kept everybody, Including the investigators, in roars of laughter. He has a gentle vocal burr and the keen wit of his native land.

Tells of Fortune-Making Days. Mr. Stevenson told modestly of the days of fortune making when he built up the Sharon Steel company, the Newcastle Wire Nail company, the Chenango Valley Tin Plate company, which he handed to the American Tin Plate company for a million and a half dollars; the Newcastle Sheet and Tin Plate company, which he turned over for a million, and of various other companies he had organized. He said that just prior to selling out to John W. Gates his wire nail company competition was So fierce that most of the tin plate mills were in a bad way and his own company, the strongest, was fee Ting pinched. Gates wired him and met him on a train and he agreed to sell, he said. Wire Pool Fixed Price*. Then the witness described a scene in a Cleveland hotel when the members of the “wire pool” once met to fix prices. They were all in a room, he said, and had agreed to fix the price of wire nails at $1.50 a keg. the meeting was in progress Frank Baackes of the American Tin Plate company excused himself for a moment

“I followed him down stairs and would ye believe it, the telegraph girl mistuke me for him, and, showing a dispatch the laddie had just written, asked me what one of the wurds was. That man had brukken his pledge even then and was wiring his concern to make the price of nails $1.40.” “And what did you do?” L “I was vairy mooch put oot, so I wired my company to meet this cut and then I took his dispatch up to the meeting and laid It before the others,” he said with a broad smile. Baackes Is Fined. "Baackes was fined and the chairman told me to kick him down stairs.” “And did you?” “No, he were too big a lad,” said Stevenson regretfully. The witness then told of how he was persuaded to sell practically all of his interests in return for which he ook some American Tin Plate stock and then he took a trip abroad. Asked what he did on his return, he said: "Wull, I begun to shok the oold apple tree again. I wanted somewhat to do to keep me busy. Toe Many Chorus Girls. “Ye see, I were getting along in years and didnt’ want to be like a lot f the other pair steel boys who came to New York and got in a lot of trouble. There were too many pretty chorus girls in' this town. One of the boys got married to a chorus girl.” “And others got in other kinds of trouble,” he added. The witness said that when the trust took over the Sharon Steel company it paid $13,200,000 in bonds.

NEW JERSEY FIGHT BEGUN

Three Republican Candidates—Taft, Roosevelt and La Follette Tour State Making Speeches. Newark, N. J., May 24.—With three Republican presidential candidates within her borders, New Jersey is the political center of the country. It will remain so until Tuesday night, when the poll* will close and the Republicans of the state will have announced their preference as to Taft, Roosevelt and La Follette. President Taft opened his campaign in Camden with another ripping antlRoosevelt speech. Colonel Roosevelt delivered several speeches and Senator La Follette spoke at several points. A large part of the campaigning will be by automobile. Governor Wilson is the only candidate named on the Democratic primary ballots, but the governor’s campaign committee is opposed by a Strong anti-Wilson organization which is trying to elect "uninstructed” delegates. 1

SECRET ORDER CAUSES STIR

Rtsmored at Fort Leavenworth That 10,000 Troops Have Been Ordered to Texas. Leavenworth, Kan., May 24.—Fort Leavenworth is excited over a secret order to General Potts, commandant of the Central division. Rumored he had ,been ordered to be ready to take 10,000 troops to Texas. He refused to discuss the telegram. The pontoon equipment of engineers is held on flat cars. All officers on leave recalled.

Car Ahead

By Harmony Weller

(Copyright. 1912. by Associated Literary Press) George Verner entered a crowded surface car and found the last unoccupied seat. It chanced to be directly behind a very young woman and an infant. Verner attempted to become interested in his paper, but the profile of the girl ahead of him stole his glances with every turn of her head. She was very young, very new to motherhood apparently; the man behind knew this because of the frantic, strained effort she made to keep the child in one position that it might not awake. A more experienced mother would have known that the baby would rest more comfortably in the easy relaxation of her arms. Verner remembered the fearful, breathless clutch with which he had first held his sister’s baby, but gradually that feeling of holding a breakable toy had left him. There was that same fear in the eyes of the young girl ahead of him, and Verner knew that she was living in momentary dread of the child falling to pieces in her arms. He was beglniiing to sense the strain of her tense attitude when the car came to a stop. “Car ahead!” yelled the conductor. The passengers, in various stages of peevishness, gathered themselves and their belongings and prepared to follow the conductor’s bidding. Not so with the woman and the baby. She cast one startled glance at the outgoing passengers, and then her eyes met Verner’s. There was positive tragedy in their depths. Then it was that Verner saw the big suit case on the floor beside her. “How' did she manage to get on the car if she couldn’t get off w r lth a suit case and a baby?” Verner asked himself while he raised his cap and addressed her. “If you will permit me —I will carry—” ’ “Oh—if you would be so kind,” she gasped in a frightened little voice, and before Verner realized it she had

If You Will Permit Me, I Will Carry-

put the baby in bis arms and was about to pick up the suit case. "1 am more used to this,” she said with a half blush. “I can easily take both,” Verner told her as he swung the tiny infant against one big shoulder and took the suit case from her. "Her eyes are decidedly coquettish for a young mother,” was his Inward comment as he helped her into the car ahead. He found it within his consciousness to condemn married, flirts, even though they had shaded gray eyes and one elusive dimple. When he had put her comfortably into another seat in the car ahead she made room for him beside her and sent up a smile into Verner’s eyes. Although he felt himself to be treading on dangerous ground, he accepted the offered seat. His destination was a few blocks beyond and he felt that his heart could not be hopelessly damaged in so short a time. He sighed as he wondered who the man might be who called this little beauty his own.

“You seem perfectly at home with babies,” the girl remarked by way of breaking a more or less awkward silence. "I have three of my own,” Verner 1 told her In a half Jesting manner, and wondered afterward why he wanted to convey that impression. “Oh,” was all the girl said, but her tone was noticeably colder, her attitude more aloof. The girl’s frigidity spurred on the man’s imagination. He talked glibly of a beautiful wife and children whom he had never seen, of a home he had never known. i An Inscrutable smile, not unlike that of the Mona Lisa, hovered over the young woman’s eyes and lips. Verner wondered whether or not she was believing him. A sense of irritation stole over him at the mockery in her eyes, and when his destination drew near he was half glad, half sorry.

"I regret I cannot go on with you and help you when you get off the car,” he said by way of leave taking. “I have a business engagement.” “Thank you very much,” she replied sweetly, “but baby’s father will meet us at the end of the line.” Verner bowed formally and received a cool little nod in response. Nor did he give way to his desire to turn and watch the car as it whizzed off toward the end of the suburban line. The young woman looked regretfully after him; then she sighed as she gazed down at the sleeping baby and drew him with greater tenderness into her arms.

"He is too good looking even for dreams,” she murmured, and whether she referred to the small man in her arms or the big man on the street no one, perhaps not even the girl herself, knew. Another meeting did not occur until some three months later. It was at a dance given by the suburban yacht club. Verner entered the ball room with a stately beauty on his arm. Before they had made one turn of the room he knew that the little mother was among the guests and that she was popular with a number of cavaliers. The stately beauty felt Verner’s arms stiffen around her waist and wondered at his sudden lack of interest in her breezy conversation. She might be a widow, was the thought uppermost in Verner’s mind, but the brilliance of her costume and the existence of the tiny infant practically denied this. Together with his condemnation of married flirts Verner felt Irritated and jealous because of the men who dangled over the girl's dance order. He avoided catching her eye as long as he could, but when she danced so close to him that he saw the mockery in her expression and her nod to him he could only return her greeting. After that Verner found that he was being introduced to her. “The ninth and seventeenth dances are leap year w r altzes, Mr. Verner,” she said, looking laughingly into his eyes. “May I please have both, of them?”

“You may if I may have two others,” he put in quickly. ' She blushed swiftly and handed Verner her card. “Have you a dance left. Miss Gregory?” another moth about the candle questioned the girl. Verner’s startled, interrogative eyes searched the girl’s face, and she laughed. “You are not married—then?” he questioned without regard for the amused listeners. “Not any more than you are, Mr. Verner.” She glanced at him from beneath her lashes? “You know—l didn’t believe, even for a moment, that you had three kiddies.” Verner had the grace to blush. “Just the same,” he told her laughingly, “you deliberately tried to palm that baby off as'yours.” “I did not,” she retorted quickly. “You took it entirely for granted. I was merely carrying my brother’s baby over to my home and somebody helped me both on and off the car. Of course —” she paused and glanced shyly at Verner —“none of us even dreamed of my having to change cars.” “And yet,” he looked deep into her eyes, “it was fortunate —in this case, wasn’t it?” He waited with laughter in his eyes but a compelling note in his voice. Alice Gregory looked up and the dimple came into play. “Perhaps it was,” she said.

Fools and Their Bets.

The story recently printed that a fool, to win a bet, put a billiard ball in his mouth, and it took a surgical operation and the removal of five teeth to get it out, reminds Father Beck of a simpleton he once knew whose first name was John. One day John was with some girls who were having fun putting hen’s eggs in their mouths, and John declared that he could put a goose egg in his mouth, and the girls dared him to. John was brave, and wouldn’t take a dare, and by dint of perseverance he got the goose egg In, but when he tilled to take It out it wouldn’t come, and when he was threatened with lockjaw, the girls got scared and hustled John off to a doctor. The doctor, after diagnosing the case, doubled up his fist and with an under cut belted John, one on the chin. John was relieved, but the egg never amounted to much as a goose afterward. We are sorry to relate, says Father Beck, that the experience did not do much good in curing John of the silly habit. He kept on biting off more than he could chew for the remainder of his life.— Kansas City Journal.

Considerate.

Jaggs—l want you to help me pick out an auto. Loan Shark—Why me? Jaggs—You’ll probably own it in a short time.—Judge.

The Usual Way.

“Why don't you report the bad condition of that fence?” “What’s the use? If they did make an investigation, they would only whitewash it”

Tact.

He—This isn’t" like the kind of bread mother used to make. She (angrily)—Oh, I suppose not He—-Your bread is so much better, dear.

On the Trall.

"Does your fiance know your agot Lottar partly." FUegende Blast?

POULTRY

NOTED BREED OF CHICKENS Fowl Imported From Europe Few Years Ago, Has Gained Much Prestige Among American Fanciers. After studying all the good breeds I finally decided on the Anconas as coming nearer to' Sheppard’s standard of perfection than any other. This noted breed of chickens, imported from Europe but a few years ago, has gained great prestige among fanciers in America, and yet more has it found a place in the estima-

Ancona Cockerel.

tion of those w’ho look upon the utilitarian side alone of this beautiful, active and ever alert bird, says a writer in an exchange. Its attractcive color, beautiful form and graceful carriage at once give it a place among the prime favorites of the coop, in the .competitive show, as well as on the table of the preacher, and the crates of the egg producer. I have known pullets to lay an average amount of 259 eggs each jfer year for the entire flock, and this in the cold climate of the northern states. They are active and hardy and without doubt flourish best in close confinement of any known breed. Their eggs hatch the largest per cent, of all breeds, because of their superior hardiness. The chicks run forth from incubator or brooding hens as alert as matured songbirds. Young cockerels often crow at the early age of six weeks. Pullets will frequently lay when 4% months old

Ancona Hen.

when properly cared for. It is my firm belief that on account of their phenomenal growth they will produce more meat by the end of ten weeks after hatching than any other breed of this class, and even some of the larger breeds.

WINTER CARE OF THE DUCKS

Feed Any Green Stuff That Happens to Be Handy—Not Much of Any One Plant Given at Time. During winter I feed my ducks any green stuff that I happen to have handy. Turnip, parsnip and carrot tops, cabbage leaves, beet leaves, onion tops, purslane, pigweed, tender crab grass, lettuce, radish, mustard, cut fine, all make good bulky feed. These are dried in the shade during the summer and stored like hay. When I want to feed them a quantity is boiled for 12 hours and mixed with finely cut roots, such as potato, turnip, parsnip, carrot, onion and beets. Apples are also used, says a writer in the Orange Judd Farmer. These are all cooked. Not much of one kind of plant is given at a time. Four measares of any one with four of corn chop, to each of wheat bran, red. wheat shorts and boiled fresh meat are fed as a mash—all the ducks will eat up clean in few minutes. If any of the mash is left, it is at once removed to avoid its getting sour. This feed is given twice daily during the winter and three times in spring. It has always proved satisfactory.

GREEN FEEDS YEAR AROUND

Nothing Better Than Well Cured Clover Rowen or Second Growth Cl - ver Hay—Bran Is Substitute. (By J. F. BCHUREMAN. U. S. Department of Agriculture.) There is nothing better than well cured clover rowen or second growth clover hay. This should be cut up fine and steamed. Clover is not only highly nitrogenous, but rich in lime, a substance required by the hens for providing shells for the eggs. Aside from alfalfa there is no other food, that can take the place of clover. By allowing a ration of scalded clover to hens they will keep in better laying condition and the production of eggs will be increased. Where clover hay cannot be secured, bran is a very good substitute, though not so rich in mineral matter. Vegetable food should be supplied the year around, such as cabbage potatoes, beets and turnip.. ,