Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1915 — Page 3

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

OAK GROVE. Frank Braddock called on Olive V.’ishard Sunday. Miss Myrtle Shell called on Miss Irene Jungles Tuesday. Firman Pettet spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Virgie. Raymond Graham called on Mary Cunningham Sunday evening. Misses Myrtle and Viola Kerns called on Mrs. Elmer Kerns Tuesday. x Leonard Wyant of Kouts, called at the Fleming home Saturday evening. Leton Gifford and lady friend spent Sunday with Miss Mildred Gifford. Mrs. A. Wylie and daughters are spending a few days with Mrs. John Ferris at Parr. Robert Bebner, Albert Kerns and Charles Karch took Sunday dinner yith L. H. Wylie and family. Olive and Emma Lilly and Mary Cunningham took Sunday dinner with Klysta and Hattie Graham. Mrs. George Collins and children of Monticello, are here visiting this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Shell. Mr.and Mrs. Ernest Tomlinson Mr. and Mrs. Gail Michal and children spent Sunday with J. F. Pettet and family. Mrs. Lona Cavinder and daughter, Lillie, of Wolcott, are here visiting a few days with Mrs. Ernest Nuss and Mrs. James Cavinder.

A Good Household Salve.

Ordinary ailments and injuries are not of themselves serious, but infection or low vitality may make them dangerous. Don’t neglect a cut, sore, bruise or hurt because it’s small. Blood poison has resulted from a pin-prick or scratch. For all such ailments Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is excellent. It protects and heals the hurt: is antiseptic, kills infection and prevents dangerous complications. Good for all skin blemishes, pimples, salt rheum, eczema. Get an original 2-ounce 25c box from your druggist.—Advt.

SOUTH AMERICA.

George Caster was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Miss Irma Clark called on Miss Sarah Martin Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Louis. Swartz an ddaughter, Ethel, were Remington goers Monday. Mrs. Albert Dolfin isvisiting relatives and friends in Demotte this week. Miss Orabelle Swartz and nephew, Earl, called on Blossom Grouns Monday afternoon. Miss Orabelle Swartz and Blossom Grouns called on Leona Ogle Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Vanatta called on Mr. and Mrs. William Chapman Saturday afternoon.

Miss Kathleen Bassett of Goodland, is spending this week with her aunt, Mrs. William Fisher. Mrs. John Murphy of Surrey, is spending a few days this week with her brother, Frank Sommers. Frank Sommers spent from Friday until Monday with his '•bister, Mrs. Harry Newman, of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gilmore spent last Thursday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs, John Southard.

Mrs. Anna Vincent and three children of Monticello, who has been visiting her mother for the past week, returned home last Friday.

There was a surprise party given at William Lewellyh’s Sunday at which about forty-two were present. They had a dandy dinner and five gallons of ice cream, and all enjoyed a fine time.

There was rather small attendance at Sunday school Sunday because of the storm. We have plenty of them these days, but some don’t last long. Church Sunday morning and evening. Blossom Grouns is leader of the Young People's meeting. And don't forget the ice cream supper tonight, July 24. Be sure and bring your pocket books, as that is an most essential thing at an ice cream social. Of course you boys won’t forget, but 1 thought I would warn the older men as they sometimes forget trifles like that.

A Cough Remedy That Relieves.

It’s prepared from the healing Pine Balsam, Tar and Honey—all mixed in a pleasant, soothing cough syrup called Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey. Thousands have benefited by its use —no need of your enduring that annoying cough or risking a dangerous cold. Go to your dealer, ask for a 25c original bottle Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey, start using at once and get rid Of your cough and cold.—Advt.

MILROY.

Mrs. Albert Dolfin is visiting her parents this week. Frank May’s visited Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks Sunday. John Mitchell and family spent Sunday in Remington. Mabel Clark and Jennie Harwell were in Rensselaer Tuesday. • Mrs. C. E. Clark spent the first of the week with Jennie Harwell. Loren English spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks.

William Harwell and Mans Beaver and families spent Sunday with- Lud Clark's. The B. Y. P. U. was well attended Sunday evening and was led by Janita Fisher. Misses Letha and Alice Clark visited their uncle, George Foulks', this week.

Henry Deboy and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. William Vannatta.

Preaching next Sunday, Jully 25, after Sunday school and in the evening after B. Y. P. U. The Ladies’ Aid will give an ice cream social on the church lawn tonight, July 24. Everyone invited. Mrs. Della Rogers and son of Monon, who have been visiting S, D. Griffiths, returned to their home last Friday. Mrs. Dr. Bassett and children of Goodland, visited her sister, Mrs. William Fisher, and family, the first of the week.

A birthday dinner was enjoyed by a number of relatives and friends at Mr. Lewellyn’s last Sunday, it being Mrs. Lewellyn’s birthday. James Stevens’ came in his new Overland car Sunday to visit his sister, Mrs. William Culp, and family, bringing his father with them for a visit with Mrs. Culp.

An Easy, Pleasant Laxative.

One or two Dr. King’s New Life Pills with a tumbler of water at night. No bad, nauseating taste; or belching gas. Go right to bed. Wake up in the morning, enjoy a free, easy bowel movement, and feel fine all day. Dr. King’s New Life Pills are sold by all druggists, 36 in an original package, for 25c. Get a bottle today—enjoy this easy, pleasant laxative.—Advt.

Real Estate Transfers.

Mathew W Sandefur et ux to Warren Zellars, July 20, Its 1,4, 5,8, 9, bl 19, Virgie, $125. George H Luse et ux to Rose A Luse, July 20, w nw, 28-32-5, pt ne, 29-32-5, 217.50 acres, Kankakee, |l. q. c. d. Rose A Luse to George H Luse, July 20, pt se, 29-32-5, 160 acres, Kankakee, sl. q. c. d.

If Mothers Only Knew. Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for children relieve feverishness, headaches, bad stomach, teething disorders, move and regulate the bowels and destroy worms. break up colds in 24 hours. Used my mothers for 26 years. All druggists, 25c. Sample free. Address, A. S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.—Advt.

A Costly Sport.

When an Indian went Ton the warpath armed with a bow and a tomahawk the money cost of killing a foe in battle was but a trifle. The more civilized and ingenious men become, the higher the price paid to slaughter an enemy in war. I once quoted a Frenchman as saying that it cost $20,000 to kill one German in the Franco-Prussian war. He divided the cost of the Avar by the number .slain and so reached his result. An official report says that in one recent engagement 200,000 j shells were fired by one army in one hour. Such "Wnnonading is deadly work for an enemy and likewise devastating work for the poor taxpayer back at home who must supply the enormous sums of money required to pay for smns and shells.

When horses last but four or five days and auto trucks but a/week, when rapid-fire guns rain steady streams of millions of shot, the money cost of maintaining an army greatly exceeds that in any past war.

And so skillful have the surgeons and physicians become that they allow very few soldiers to die of disease and Wounds. That again adds to the money cost Of putting an army out of business.

Disease during the Crimean war did for nothing what costly shot and shell must do now if an army is to be routed. Thus medical science in saving life counterbalances mechanical science which invents new methods of destroying life and so piles up the cost of this sport of kings called war.-—Philadelphia Ledger.

A Great Works (Me.) man has performed with perfect safety such aerial stunts as walking across the St. John whirlpool on a wire an inch thick suspended about 200 feet above the whirlpool, but met with a serious accident by fallingfrom a ten-foot staging.

A brick chimney in an Akron (O.) house has grown up six inches in the last two years. Building inspector Gill, called to investigate, found that the chimney had been built on a tree stump that has since sprouted.

SNAPSHOTS AT NOTABLE PERSONS

Coleman du Pont, New Power In Eqwtab’e Life.

Photo by American Press Association.

General T. Coleman du Pont, who recently purchased from John P. Morgan a majority of the stock of the Equitable Life Assurance society, has been president since 1902 of the E. I. du Pont de Nemours company, often referred to as the powder trust. General du Pont first came into touch with the insurance company when its building on Broadway. New York, had been destroyed by tire. He leased the land and began the construction of the new Equitable building, one of the largest office buildings in the world. Then came the news only a few weeks ago that he had bought control of the Equitable stock from Mr. Morgan. And now the statement is made that the general is entirely willing to sell bis control to policy holders, giving them an option of two or three years. Born in Louisville, Ky., fifty-two years ago, Mr. du Pont as a boy attended the Urbana university, in Ohio, and later entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated as an engineer. He at once began to practice his profession in large enterprises in Pennsylvania. Later he took up the mining of coal and iron ore and still later the construction and operation of street railways. Subsequently he entered the steel business, and finally, in 1902, became president of the industry founded more than a century ago by his paternal ancestors —the manufacture of explosives. Judge Advocate of the Navy. As a result of "recent developments at the United States Naval academy Secretary Daniels ordered a court of inquiry to investigate serious charges against a number of midshipmen. Several of the young officers were recommended for disrfilssal on the ground of having used improper means in examl-

Photo by American Press Association.

CAPTAIN IiIDLEY M’pEAN. nations. Ridley McLean, judge advocate general of the navy, conducted the investigation. Captain Ridley McLead was commissioned judge advocate general of the »a.vj on Nov. 5, 1913, witli rank of captain (on the navy list he is a commander). When Secretary Daniels made the appointment he said, “The reports on fitness of officers on file in the bureau of navigation show Commander McLean to be an officer of exceptionally high type and marked ability." At the time of his appointment he was serving as executive officer on the battleship Florida. Before being promoted to his present duty Captain McLean had officiated as judge advocate in a number of courts tpartial. He was born In Tennessee in 1872 and was appointed to the Military academy in 1890.

Weather Forecasts for Week Beginning July 21.

Washington, July 20.—Weather predictions for the week beginning tomorrow, issued by the weather bureau today, are:

North Atlantic states: fa:r and moderate temperatures until near end of week; warmer thereafter. ■. .

Middle Atlantic states: Generally tair with moderate temperatures. M arnier weather, however, probably toward end o' the week. South and- east gulf states: Generally fair except local thundershowers probably along coast and in Florida; normal temperature. West gulf states: Overcast weather, occasional showers, and moderate temperature probable during next severali days. Latter part of week probably fair and warm.

Ohio valley and Tennessee: Generally fair and moderate temperatures probable during the next several days. Warmer weather indicated fer latter part of week. Great lakes regions: Generally fair and moderate temperatures probable until near end of week, when warmer is probable.

Plains states and upper Mississippi valley: Moderate temperature and generally fair first half of week. Latter half will be warmer and generally fair, except that widely scattered thundershowers are probable. Rocky mountain plateau region: First half of week generally fair, with moderate temperatures. Latter half overcast, warmer; probably showers.

Pacific states: Generally fair, with normal temperature on coast, and warm weather in interior, probably during greater part of the week.

Publicity Bulletin of State Board of Forestry.

In line with its other various projects for the advancement of forestry among the people of Indiana, the State Board of Forestry is planning an elaborate exhibit of the forest and its products for the state fair at Indianapolis, September 6 to 11, 1915.

The exhibit is to be so arranged as to be of interest to the forester, the lumberman and ordinary layman as well.

The board is erecting a new building at the grounds, which is admirably suited to the purpose for which it is to be used. It is of "the bungalow type, twenty-four feet wide by thirty-six feet long, and is being finished in a pretty brown, with tapestry brick porches of a corresponding shade.

The interior is to be occupied by a composite exhibit, featuring the lumbering, timber preservation, and woodlot interests of the state. Several new departures for this season’s exhibit are being planned, which will be of unusual interest to all. Further announcements will be made at an early date.

RECORD OF SCHOOLBOY HUMOR.

Duly Classified and Illuminated— Some of It Mighty Timely. “The source of food supply in England is in ships” Here is a “schoolboy howler” which turns out to be an important fact—-and one which has been well illuminated by recent .events. It is timely information, too, that “to germinate is to become a naturalized German.” From the same source—the class in civil government—we receive the reminder that, “the President takes the yoke of office. 1 ’ The joke, is on us. For, to quote a schoolboy, “The press today is the mouth-organ of the people.” Which in phraseology, suggests another boy’s description of how the cavalry swept over “the eyebrow of the hill.’’ V . ’-

The reader is earnestly requested not to apply the Salic law to this compilation: '-The Salic law is that you must take everything with a grain of salt.” Many of thes.e “howleis” are taken, from the notebook of the writer, who had experience as a high school teacher. It should be added for the sake of the boys that some of the howlers were written by girls. ‘ Now let us begin with the class in civil government. ' - “I don’t know anything about the constitution, as I was born in Kansas.” “The minority is composed of the minors.” ‘•The spoils system: The place where spoiled things and waste are kept. The board of health has largely taken the place of tfhis.”. “An ex post facto law is one that gives officers a right to go to foreign countries and get criminals, dead or alive, and take them back to the place where the crime was committed. It is a law, where the crimes of the father descend to his children; they are punished for him.” “Benjamin Franklin is the founder of electricity.” ■■■

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“George Washington was a land savory.” ; '‘Lord Raleigh was the first man to see the invisible Armada.” (English.) “Tenneyson wrote ‘ln Memorandum.’ ” “Tennyson also wrote a poem called ‘Grave’s Energy.’ ” “Louis XVI. was gelatined durin,, the French revolution.” “Ben Johnson is one of the three highest mountains in Scotland.” “George Eliot left a wife and children to mourn his genii.” “Henry I. died of eating Palfreys.” “Caesar was a king and went high up on a mountain.”

“Lincoln had a woman make him a suit of homespun from rails which he had split. They were hickory rails, hence hickory shirts.” “Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats backwards.” “Where poisoning by acids is caused the blood should be immediately drawn from the bruises to send back the acid.” “If the schoolroom is without ventilation how are the pupils to study with the fowl air pressed down upon them; it makes them oftentimes sick and inclined to laziness.’’ “The blood vessels are the veins, arteries and artilleries.”

You might think from these quotations that the brain really is “a soft bunch covered with wifnkles.” Or perhaps your conclusion would agree with this: “The bones of the blood are the cerebrum, the cerebellum and other small bones.” “Reflex action ih when anything is turning one direction and it turns in the other.” The man who eats too fast or too well may be interested to know that “the heart is located in the left part of the stomach in a loose membrane sack.” “A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian.” “May day commemorates the landing of the Mayflower.” “The Boxers were Corbett, Fitzsimmons and Bill Johnson.” (“Were” is correct.) “A renegade is a man who kills a King.” "In India a man out of cask may not marry a woman out of another cask.” “The Pharisees were people who liked to show off their goodness by

praying in synonyms.” “Modern conveniences: Incubatorsand fireless telgraphy.” “A lie is an aversion to tho truth.” (Ah, an epigram!) “The German Emperor has been called the Geyser.” (Worse than that.) And now, gentle reader, school is dismissed for the day.

A Wonderful Invention.

The Jlritish war office has probably had Its fill of warlike inventions submitted to it since August last, but one doubts if it has seen anything quite so wonderful as the machine of a Scotch shoemaker in 1764. Details of the instrument are sadly lacking in the newspapers of the period which described it, but it was announced as enabling six men to do as much as a whole regiment. Forty-four thousand shots in two minutes was its modest rate of fire, and by simply touching a spring one could make it present a “harvest of bayonets” to the 4 enemy. Further, it could he' ’“driven to pieces” in a moment if likely t<f be captured, and put together in a minute ana a half when the danger was past.—• London Chronicle.

Circumstantial Evidence.

’‘Speaking of circumstantial evidence,", said a lawyer at the University (’lub; “George Frisbie Hoar used to tell this story: “‘A young woman met her husband as he returned from the office, and showed unrnistakeable signs of weeping. “‘“What’s (he matter, Ellen?” asked the husband. ‘‘ ‘ “Oh, John,’’ she said. “I dropped my diamond ring off my finger, and 1 can t find it anywhere.” “ ‘ “Don’t worry, E'llen; it’s all safe. I found it this morning in my trousers pocket.” ’ ’’—Boston Transcript. ' '♦

It is stated that hundreds of thousands of gallons of choice nut oil are being lost every year in British Honduras because no practical means has been found for its recovery. A California electric company has a demonstration car which, is sent to all the county fairs in the state, for the purpose of familiarizing the farmers with electricity for farm and home use.