Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — Page 4

IK JBSPER..GOUMTT MIT ' F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephone* Office 315 Residence *ll Entered a* Second-Class Mall Matter (June 8, 1908, at the postofflee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of Mandi *. 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1916.

WILL STUDY ROAD BUILDING

Unusual importance attaches to the eighth national good roads show, which will be held in Boston next February. At the same time will occur the annual convention of the American Road Builders’ association, The enormous sums of money appropriated under the new federal road law, together with the many large appropriations by states and smaller* units of government, will make the next decade the moat significant period of improved road building in the history of the country.

It is of the greatest importance that highway officials and road builders become acquainted with the very latest ideas in road construction. The mistakes of the past should be pointed out and avoided. The results of extensive government and state work should be carefully studied. Details of administering 4he funds to get the best results and to qjiminate graft and mismanagement are important. All these things will be considered at the convention and show. Farmers’ good roads associations will do well to send representatives to this double meeting, not on a mere junket but commissioned to return with detailed reports. Farmers’ and merchants’ road pro_moting associations are needed as ’•d check upon officials handling these new funds; it is money of the .people that is being expended, whether it comes from, federal appropriation or from local tax. Start a movement now to have your representative at this big road convention. —Country Gentleman.

WHAT WOULD THEN HAPPEN?

In the event of the discovery of election frauds in Gary what effect woujj it have on the admittance of New and Watson into the United States senate? The question is being discussed in Gary. It is significant that at Washington there are plans on foot to have the senate probe into the defeats of Senators Kern and Taggart. On the heels of the announcement comes word of possible arrests in Gary. Several politicians declare that the discovery of any frauds in Gary might be grounds for the senate to refuse admittance to the successors of Kern and Taggart as each legislative body is the. arbitrary judge of who shall be admitted to its ranks.—/Hammond Times (Rep.)

Short Furrows

"Abe Martin" in Indianapolis News.

“ When I wuz a girl, winter never used t’ ketch us without a bin full o' p’taters, a keg o’ kraut, a lot o’ punkins, a smokehouse full o’ meat, a barrel o’ cider, plenty o' mince meat an’ lard an’ apples an’ flour. As we went along we ’casionally bought some kef-osene an' a lettle coffee—perhaps,’’ said Mrs. Tilford Moots this mornin'. “Well, you’d be under .suspicion if you stocked up like that t’day,” said Uncle Niles Turner. “Law me, th’ war has even affected turnips, an’ blue cotton rompers ter children have jumped nine cents, while little, round, shoddycloth hats fer boys that alius sold fer three times as much as they cost new retail fer twenty-five cents more.’’ “Well, th’ storekeepers, unless ther natural born actors, seem t’ feel ag bad o’er th’ high prices as th’ rest o’ us. I bought a pound o’ navy beans this mornin’ an’ th’ clerk cried when he counted ’em out.** “You kin read a newspaper thro’

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a thirty-cent slice o’ ham, an’ round steaks are so thin you have t’ reinforce ’em.” “It haint been over a year since we used t’ throw th’ cabbage cores away, an’ now cabbage is five dollars a barrel.” “I don’t see how th’ European soldiers kin pay it.” ‘?Th’ thing I don’t understand Is that rabbits are sellin’ at th’ same ole price while gun shells have doubled in price.” “If this thing keeps on I reckon ther’ll be jest as many desolate homes in this country as ther are in Europe.” “O’ course we’ll have our boys, but they might as well be gittin’ shot as starvin’' under our very noses.” “Carrots have great food value.” “So has walrus blubber.” “I reckon we’d git awful tired o’ carrots after a few months.” “Yes, they haint got no stayita’ qualities.” “They don’t hit th’ spot.” “No, they haint nothin’.” . “I don’t know what we will do. I’ve been all over town an’ th’ only things left that are within reach of all are furnace gloves an’ bananas.”

' T, 1 The union depot and freight station at Sheldon, Illinois, was burned *Saturday night If, as present returns indicate, California has • gone for Wilson, three of its presidential electors will be women—Mrs. W. C. Tyler, Los Angeles; Mrs. Spinks, San Francisco, and Mrs. Wylie, Fresno. Like Miss Rankin, the woman congressman from Montana, they will be the first of their sex ever chosen for the office. The Whitley malleable casting factory at Muncie, one of the largest concerns of its kind in the middle West, wag destroyed by fire Monday. About 100 men were in the factory at the time and some of them were saved with great difficulty. The loss will reach $250,000, and I about 800 men will be thrown out of employment. There was no insurance. Moses Budreau of near Earl Park, who was arrested some time ago on a charge of stealing chickens, plead guilty in the Benton circuit court last week when confronted with incriminating evidence, was sentenced to the penitenMry - for from one to fourteen years in* addition to being disfranchised for two years and fined $lO. The large house on Will H. Ade’s stock farm southwest of Brook, was burned Monday morning. Datid Harris, who occupied the house, had lighted a gasoline stove and then went to the barn to do some chores, and a few minutes later the whole structure was ablaze. Few of Mr. Harris’ household goods were saved. Both house and contents were insured.

Fowler item in yesterday’s Lafayette Journal: John Stoll of Remington, driving a Ford automobile, ran into a buggy driven by Meddie Patnaude on the Barce road in front of the Briley home Sundayevening about 7 o’clock. The occupants of both buggy and machine were badly shaken up, but none was seriously injured. The buggy was completely demolished and the horse was injured. William A. Hennegar, a prominent citizen of Tippecanoe county, died in a hospital ,at Lafayette Sunday morning aftTr a several months illness following a stroke of paralysis, aged 70 years. He wag formerly a Christian preacher and held charges in White, 'Cass, Carroll, Miami and Pulaski counties. (He resided in Francesville for several years and while there conducted services at Francesville, Medaryville and in Jasper county. He also served for several years as postmaster at Francesville. Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. Hennegar but two survive, Homer W. and Guilliford' Hennegar, of Lafayette. Mrs. Hennegar died about thirteen years ago at their home in West Lafayette. ■ -7 Tuesday evening several Morocco men imported a keg of beer, purchased a supply of brand-new tin cups and were then ready to assist in the jollification over the election of Wilson as President. Parsing the word around they soon had a good sized crowd of the thirsty, who proceeded to the barn where the wet goods had been stored keeping. But alas! alas! Some one had been there before them and the beer had disappeared. The boys are inclined to lay the blame at the

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door of some Republican brethren who, they ‘say, were making a desperate effort to drown their sorrow in the flowing bowl. However, the beer is gone and the leading question is “Who stole the booze?”— Morocco Courier.

SCRAPS

South China has no roadways. Soap ip 83 cfents a pound in Germany. Sorghum grain is a valuable poultry feed. German helmets are nearly as light as straw hats. The cork oak of Spain is said to grow best in poorest soil. The Chinese government is about to open its first aviation school. Paper covers to protect automobiles in storage have been invented. The steel mast of an Atlantic coast oil barge is used as a smokestack from the galley. The earth under a blanket of snow is usually ten degrees warmer than the air above it. Because of the scarcity of wood in Switzerland about 70 per cent of the ties on the government railroads are metal. Diseases of animals cause losses of $212,000,000 a year in the United States. Much of this loss is preventable. Of the 800 German missionaries engaged in different parts of the British empire before the war, 400 were in India. Wash water used in the churn should be approximately the same temperature as the buttermilk, or within two degrees of it. Because of the war®Switzerland has increased its acreage under cultivation in grains by more than 20 per cent over the 1914 figures. A recently patented attachment for phonographs displays the notes and words of a song as its record is being played by the machine. New apparatus for filling* automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply, when the overinflation danger point is reached.

Air-cooling methods of the rapid- | fire guns now in use have proved' inadequate, and the soldiers seem to think that water-cooling is superior. Australia avoids orphan’ asylums, by sending parentless children to private families, which are paid for their care until they are years old. Dr. L. O. Howard, chief bureau of entomology at ton, D. C., says there is no srayifr thing known to science as a silent mosquito. Rbcent observations made in northern Norway indicate that the average display of aurora borealis takes place at *a height of from sixty to sixty-five miles. Frightened by a mouse, a woman guest of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, New York, shrieked so loudly while taking a bath that hotel detectives almost broke into the bathroom. Miss Veronjca Williams, who keeps a news stand in a New York hotel, was much surprised to have Pedro Pineri, just returned from Mexifr City, give her a fifty-peso Carranza note for an evening paper. While she was trying to figure out how much change to give back, Mr. Pineri, thinking the note might not be enough, handed her another one and told her to keep the change if there was any. • ' In Duma’s novel, “Le Vicomte de Bragelonne,” he introduces the story of the man with the iron mask as being the brother of Louis XIV, This, however, has been proved the mere invention of Vontaire, who created the story In one of his romances. While many still believe the mysterious stranger was Charles I of England, historians claim he was but an obscure Italian political adventurer known as Count Matthloil. Yet to this prisoner was accorded great deference.

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The Trump Card Mine

By GUY HALLECK

I had worked In the Trump Card mine, where they were taking out gold in paying quantities, and had invested my savings in it. I had subscribed for my stock when the owners were forming the company and they needed money. Consequently I got a good lot of stock for very little cash. Three hundred and fifty dollars was all I had, but it bought me 10,000 shares of stock. The “lead” on which the value of the mine depended soon died out, and the mine appeared to be worthless, but the incorporators knew of paying veins which ran in our direction and believed tha>-some of them extended into our property. So they held on until a rich vein was discovered on adjoining property, and there was a fine chance by digging down a hundred feet to strike the extension. But those interested in both mines kept the secret from outsiders, and our managers got on to it only from lheir neighbors trying to buy us out. I was completely Ignorant of all this. One morning I was told that the company had no more work for me, it having collapsed, but since the original owners did not like to see me lose anything they would buy my stock at what I had paid for It. I thanked them, but told them that I saw no reason why I should not suffer with the rest, and I would put the certificates away and consider them charged up to profit and loss. But they insisted on making me whole, and I, unsuspicious, sold them my stock. For some time after this, so far as 1 knew, there was nothing doing in the Trump Card mine. Occasionally there was a quotation at from 3 to 5 cents a share on the mining stock exchange. One evening while walking by the property I was surprised to see some workmen coming out of a hole in the ground, carrying their dinner palls. 1 asked one of them if they, had been at work, but he was a Norwegian and spoke no English. In fact not a man of the lot could understand a word I said. If I had simply discovered that work was being done in the mine I would not have become suspicious. But that the owner had thought fit to employ only those who could not communicate jvith inquirers. seemed singular, especially since when I was working for them their men were mostly Americans. Looking at the sales list of stocks that evening in the newspaper, I saw more sales of Trump Card shares than 1 had noticed for several weeks previous, though the price had only advanced a fraction. I wondered if something was going on. That night I lay awake thinking. I sent my wife to linger in the neighborhood of the mine and watch. She saw nothing unusuaD There was nothing alive in It so far as she could see. The same night I went to the property and sat on a stump near by till 2 o’clock in the morning, when a cart loomed out of the darkness and passed away into the darkness again. I noticed that it was without a creak. I knew enough about mines to believe that it was carrying ore, and the axles were muffled. x The next day I went down'to Denver, where I procured an Interview with a man who had held a lot of Trump Card stock, but had sold it at a small profit before the mine collapsed. I told him v that Lcould give him a pointer on a prospective rise in a certain stock and secured a contract from him that if I named it and he bought and made a profit he was to give me 40 per cent of his gains. Then I told him that I believed there was something up in Jp-ump Card. He consented to make a small investment in it by way of observing its effect on the market, and, being busy himself, committed the matter to me. I found that the only stock to be had were scattered shares held by those who considered their investment a dead loss, and most of these did not care to sell at th 4 present low market price. This -strengthened the confidence of my backer, and when I proposed to go about among the former stockholders and pick up the stock at private sale, paying an advance on the market price for it, he assented. In this way I got what stock did not belong to the original owners, and then I began to bid for more on the exSome stock came out, and my backer feared that we were buying a dead horse. But it turned out that the ring had sold some stock to prevent the price from going up. This they did because some of them had not got all the shares they wanted.

When I had bought all the shares my backer would stand for and had put back the money I had received for those the managers had so kindly relieved me of, I was obliged to await developments. They came one day when there was a scramble for Trump Card stock on the exchange, and it went up like a squirrel climbing the trunk of a tree. My wife, who was as much absorbed in the matter as I, came to me with the papers giving an account of “A Stir In Trump Card” and threw her arms around my neck, delighted. Evidently the secret, whatever It !Was, had come out. The company had struck a new vein not connected with any other and was getting out ore that assayed S3OO to the ton. I reaped a small fortune, but after all I was disgruntled because I did not get revenge on those who had bought my stock for a sqng when they saw fine prospects ahead.

REVISED EDITION.

“I’m a self made man.” “You’re lucky. I’m the revised work of a wife and three daughters.”—Richmond Times-Dlspatch.

Oh, Much Better!

Customer—What is the difference between those twenty-five cent diamond pins and the fifty cent ones? Clerk—You get a better diamond,— Exchange.

One of Many.

A girl who called herself Mae Talked eighteen hours each dae. She talked very well, Yet, the truth to tell, She had nothing whatever to sae. —New York World.

A Secret.

Patience—Don’t you think she can keep a secret? Patrice—Well, she ought to try to hide that paint on her face if hhe can. —Yonkers Statesman. -

Speaking of Hate.

Mabel—Will he fight at the drop of a hat? Ethel —Sometimes. When one drops from twenty to nineteen ninety-eight and his wife improves the opportunity to save.—New York Globe.

Ahead of His Time.

“What a pity that Malthus did not live to see the automobile!” “Why so?” “He would have been so pleased to see it carrying out his theories of keeping down the surplus population.”— Baltimore American.

Reconciled.

Dear mother smokes a cigarette. In days gone by it made me fret. Then I was green. I’m getting ripe, I’m glad she doesn’t.smoke a pipe. —Exchange.

Who Knows?

“You are an authority on nautical matters, are you not?” “Yes, I suppose I might be considered so. Why ?” “Perhaps you can tell me how it is that a ship can let go her anchor and still keep her hold.”—New York World.

Regular Cat.

Kathryn—Where I bougnt tins suit they told me she original price was three times what I paid for it. Kittye—l suppose so, dear. But in those days the sewing machine hadn’t been perfected and skilled labor must have been expensive. Philadelphia Bulletin.

And by the Day.

“Old man Scadds is a funny proposition. After working hard for forty years and making $1,000,00t he bought a farm out here and now he is working harder than ever.” “Oh. well, he has three hired men to do the resting for him.”—Minneapolis Tribune.

Fleeting Fame.

He wrote the novel of the hour. ’Twas at eleven forty-five. Fame quits us soon, for one at noon Eclipsed it wholly. ' Sakes alive! —Louisville Courier-Journal

Before He Shaved.

“One last look at your face,”*she said. “I want to remejpber you as yop once were.” For she knew he was an unskillful shaver. Then she got him his cup of lather and proceedings began.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

.. nder this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a word far the sing insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coining within the above rate, will be published two or more times—as the case may be—for 2S cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage win be rharged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale—A good base burner.— J. B. THOMPSON, Rensselaer, Ind. R ~ 4 - , n-23 For Sale—Good re-cleaned timothy seed, |3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale—The residence of the late Judson H. Perkins. Inquire of ETHEL PERKINS at county clerk’s office. For Sale—so,ooo to 75,000 feet of oak lumber, consisting of 2x4, 2x6, x-sills, inch boards, plank and bridge material. Price from sl2 to $lB at mill, with exception of bridge plank, which is $25. Also have white oak posts on ground at 7c each. Call J. N. BICKNELL, phone 642, Rensselaer. ts For Sale—One surrey, very nearly as good as new; 1 set livery harness; 1 one-horse mowing machine; 1 range stove; 1 five-tooth cultivator; 1 sausage grinder; 1 bedstead; churn.—F. M. PARKER. Phone 217. n-24

For Sale—Three houses of five and six rooms; in good .condition and well located. Can oe sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small payment down and balance In annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. ts For Sale—Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west es Rensselaer, on county farm road.— A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr. ts For Sale—One 4-year-old mare, gentle; one spring colt; one black mare, good driver; 20 July pigs; new Deere corn planter with fertilizer attachment; new gopher; sulkey plow; new wagon and wagon bed; mowing machine; hay rake; set double work harness; platform scales, etc., etc.—MRS. M. E. DRAKE. Phone 243-Black. n-23 For Sale—One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, '75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. care THE DEMOCRAT. LOST Estrayed—One yearling steer, color light red, right ear split.— HOY RISHLING, Phone 902-D. n 26 FOR RENT For Rent—Good 6-room house, with garden and truck patch, \'a.i west side of town.—JOSEPH NESSIUS, Sr. n-22 For Rent—Five-room house on River street, only two blocks from postoffice.—MAßY JANE HOPKINS. WANTED Wanted—Family washings MRS. DOLPH DAY. n-28 Wanted Cheap typewriter, in good condition.—THE DEMOCRAT. Wanted—To fill your bin with soft coal whilq we have it. Phone 273. HAMILTON & KELLNER n26 Wanted—Man past 30 with horse and buggy to sell Stock Condition Powder in Jasper county. Salary S7O per mopth. Address 9 Industrial Bldg., Indianapolis, Indiana. MISCELLANEOUS Typewriter Ribbons—The Democrat carries in stock in its fancy stationery department the famous Nedich make of ribbons for nearly all the standard makes of typewriters, also for Burroughs adding machines. Price 65c each. Will be sent by mail prepaid to any address on receipt of price. ts FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire oi M. I. ADAMS, j>hone 533-L. FaiTnJj^ans —We can procure you afiMHWr loan on your farm at 5 Can loan as high as 50 per ■F of the value of any good farm. in getting the money after ■MEM approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. I epi ihpi HUI IllU Without Chargee fee n Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PAMKINBO* Russian engineers soon will begin experiments that will cover three years to ascertain if sugar beets can be raised profitably in Siberia. Subscribe for The Democrat.