Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — Page 8

COURT NEWS

This is the last week of the November term of court and the next term will not convene until the second Monday in February. Judge Hanley will hold a January term in Newton county, commencing on the second Monday. Hulda Rosenbaum et al vs. August R. Schultz et al. Plaintiff’s demurrer to answer overruled. Ora T. Ross vs. Frank A. Ross. Defendant defaulted; cause submitted and decree of divorce granted plaintiff. Diana Hunting club vs. Perry Frank Naylor et al; judgment on default for $3lB and possession of premises. Lafayette Loan and Trust Co. vs. George H. Gifford, executor: continued for term. William H. Wells vs. George H. Gifford, executor, et al; continued for term.

George Dan vs. ,T. W. PI acker; dismissed for want of prosecution. Martha Rolescb vs. .T. W. Blacker: dismissed for want of prosecution. F. Guy Barnard ditch-—Drainage commissioner files . expense account of Thomas Maloney for Sll 7.2 G and same is allowed and ordered certified to auditor. Commissioners granted extension of time until 'he fourth Saturday to report. Carrie Thompson vs. James B. Thompson : defendant files answer to application, temporary allowance for : support, etc. Evidence heard. Court orders defendant to pay to clerk of court $2." cash for use of plaintiff: $25, January 1. for use of plaintiff; SSO, January 1, for plain tiff’s attorney; $25, February 1, for use of plaintiff. .John Werner vs. TTarvev J. Dexter and Emmet L. Hollingsworth; evidence heard, specific performance ordered as prayed for. Court finds for defendants on 63-100. E. L. Hollingsworth ordered to quiet claim. Eisele vs. Bristow; continued to fourth Thursday. Bruce et al vs. Ruby Batter et al. Ell Arnold, William Folger and A. O. Moore, commissioners appointed to make partition of real estate, make report. Court allows each of said commissioners *lO for their services and allows Spitler and Dunlap, plaintiff’s attorneys, S3OO.

John A. Sohrieber vs. Daniel TT. Turner: jury trial', verdict for defendant. Alfred F. Hager vs. Frank W. Johnson: dismissed by plaintiff at plaintiff’s costs. The jury has heard but one case during the term up to yesterday, when the case of Rutherford vs. Putts came up. Today the case Of Adams vs. Halstead comes up and will be tried, we understand. Tomorrow* the case of Eisele vs. Bristow comes up, and will probably be the last jury case of the term, V CASES SET FOR TRIAL Walter Adams vs. David Halstead et al; set for fourth Wednesday. Hulda Rosenbaum vs. August R. Schultz et al; set for fourth Wednesday. Frank H. Campbell vs. Everett Halstead et al; set for fourth Thursday. Alfred Stakley vs. same; set for fourth Thursday.

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

The man who writes, the long year through, hears readers say, “Write something new-! The thoughts you spring, from day to day, are bearded things, all worn and gray.” But there is nothing new on earth; there is no thought of modern birth; there is no plot or song or tale that Noah didn’t say was stale. I've read Jameg Boswell’s book again; in its Sam Johnson, best qf men, expressed his views on every theme of which the mortal mind may dream. And like an oracle lie spoke, and I delight to watch his smoke, but never did lie make remark that wasn’t known in Noah’s ark. But his remarks, though gere and gray, were spoken in the Johnson way, and, though he’s been a long time dead, we cherish still the things he said. Since'every thought on earth is old, and baggy-kneed and blue with mold, it profits not for me and you to strain at saying something new. We’ll take old thoughts we find astray, and doll them up as best we may.

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Helen Rowland says that the' dog or the husband that has to be tied Is usually the one that is eventually advertised in the “lost” column. Head of the class, Helen.

SCRAPS

For temporary use a lemon squeezer made of paper has been invented. According to a British chemist, tobacco ashes contain 20 per cent of potash. A patent has been granted for a trunk that also can he used as a bath tub. The Chinese have taken quickly to the electric toasters sent from this country. Before the war there were 800,000 government employes in the French republic. European soldiers carry small flasks of oxygen to revive gasstricken comrades. No less than 5,000 inventions have been submitted to the naval board in seven months.

Italy is enforcing a series of regulations governing the width of wheel rims allowed on highways. An English woman is the patentee of bunks for ships supported so as to remain level, no matter how much a vessel rolls. Porto Rico has produced more than 483,000 short tons of sugar this year, the greatest output ever recorded for the island. Apparatus that simplifies the .examination of paper money under a magnifying glass has been patented by a California woman. Chinese, ship fresh eggs long distances in good condition bv coating them with a paste made of sea salt, vegetable ashes and water. New apparatus for filling automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply when the overinflation danger point is reached. A Danish nerve specialist places convalescent patients on top of a piano so that they may be benefited by its vibrations as it is played. A machine has been . developed for spreading fine rock dust on the passageways of bituminous mines to prevent explosions of coal dust. A new case and observation car has large windows at the tables so that diners may get a broad view of the passing landscape while din ing. A French aviator has placed a pneumatic buffer in front of the seat of his aeroplane to lessen the shock should he strike the ground heavily. For stringing beads quickly an ingenious German has patented a crank operated machine which feeds them on the point of a threaded needle. Fewer ships were built in American yards during the year ending last June than during the previous year, but their total tonnage was greater,

Sanitary advantages as well as safety for their contents are assented for new steel poultry gliipping crates, which can be folded flat when empty. Realizing that bass feel the hot weather, Hibard Raymond placed a cake of ice in a rocky cove in Lake Keuka, New York, and soon caught eight fine fish. An Englishman has invented a device to enable aviators in flight to pick up messages from the ground by dropping a grapnel at the end of a line. A submarine tender built for the Brazilian navy can admit an underwater boat into its hull and carry it, or subject it to extreme water pressure to test it.

Vehicles resembling light automobiles, but without motors, are used in some Swiss mountain resorts for a sport resembling tobogganing in snowless seasons. In a new pipe intended to give a cool, dry smoke the tobacco is loaded from the stem side of the bowl, draft being supplied by a hole in the top of the bowl. So sensitive is electrical apparatus invented by a French scientist" that it will detect the presence of one part of bicromate of potash in 200,000,000 parts of water. For the first time since 1 857 the yearly report of the general board of commissioners in lunacy, shows an absolute decrease in the number of all classes of insane in Scotland. Fuel oil obtained from Scotch 3hale fields has been found highly suitable sfor the British navy, and it is estimated that from 400,000 to 500,000 tons will be available annually for 150 years. An automobile that turns easily in narrow streets that two New York men have patented has a wheel at each side and one at each end, the steering mechanism operating the last two simultaneously. A New York firm has advised Consul Stuart Lupton of Gautemala City of the sale of one of its military aeroplanes to the government of Guatemala. The pride of the •machine wag $11,900. The American builder was put in touch with the Guatemalan officials by Consul Lupton.

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By ALAN HINSDALE

I am an auto enthusiast because I am especially fond of roving, and I can rove to better advantage in a car than in any other way. Touring in the autumn, when the leaves are turning, | find delightful. One evening in October about sunset I passed a cozy place a short distance off the road and determined to ask to bp housed for the night. Finding the gates locked. I left my auto in the road and, climbing the fence, walked up to the house. There was an ominous silence. Not a dog, pot a chicken, not even a cat, gave evidence of life. The nearer view showed me that the window shades were drawn. One shade had not been entirely puHed down, and I fcould look into the living room. What gives Some rooms an air of comfort that others do not possess, unless it is the taste of the furnisher, I don’t know. This room was especially inviting, so inviting that I yielded to a temptation to force an entrance. I made a burglar of myself and with an iron bar found on the place jimmied the window and went inside. There was a well filled wood basket beside the fireplace, and I lighted a fire and

sat down in a big easy Chair before it. I dreamed all sorts of dreams about the place, but they all connected me with it, and they were ail dependent upon a lovely Imaginary girl who was to make me happy In it. After awhile, hearing a step on the porch without. I turned and saw the object of my dreams looking in through the window. At any rate, a girl was there and evidently interested in the person within. I arose and went to the window, the girl retreating before my advance. “Don’t be frightened,” I said reassuringly. “I’m not a burglar.” And I explained to her how I happened to be there. She heard me through, then told me that the place belonged to her. She would not come inside, but after some hesitancy told me a bit of a story. She had been born and lived near by. She became engaged, and her fiance had built the house with the intention of their making a nest together in it when they were married. It was all ready for tbeir occupancy, and they were to have been married in a few days, when her lover sickened and died. She had never been in it since a few days before his death. Having seen a light in the window, she had come from her home to discover what it meant. I apologized for trespassing and offered to vacate immediately. “No,” she said; “I wish you would remain as long as you like. You have broken a melancholy spell. I live where I can see this house all the while, and I think that it has kept me in an abnormal condition. The moment I saw the light in it that spell seemed to snap.” She asked me to go to her home with her for the evening. I did so, and she introduced me to her mother, a sister and a brother. I passed a pleasant evening with intelligent and refined persons, and when bedtime came I was offered a room for the night. “No,” I said, looking at the girl who had told me her story. “I think it would be better for you that some one should sleep in your house.” She made no reply to this, but asked me to come to her home for breakfast the next morning. I proposed that the family come to the other house for breakfast. Her mother urged this, and I left them expecting them to come to me the next morning. I slept hi the best bedroom, which was in readiness, and the next morning arose early to make a few necessary preparations. Jn due time my hosts appeared, and all except the bereaved girl took on the merriment of a picnic. But I was happy to find that before the meal was over she had lost much of her sadness. Before I left my newly made friends she said to me: “If at any time while you are touring you find yourself in this neighborhood please feel welcome to remain overnight here.” I accepted the offer, intending to do that very thing. The next month I rode out to the place, called on my hosts of my first visit, and we all spent the evening together in the vacant house. I asked permission to use the premises for a few friends at Christmas time, and it was granted. I had a special object in this, which was to get the. bereaved girl used to merrymaking there. I told my friends her story and that I proposed to make her one of the party if possible. They all endeavored to make her forget her grief, and one night we persuaded her to sleep in the house. This did more than anything else to break the ice, and before the party broke up she had entirely thrown off her abnormal condition. When the spring opened I began my touring and never failed to spend at least one night in the vacant house. Of course I always visited the owner. It was my object to make her the center figure of my dreams when sitting before the fire the night I had burglarized her house. In this I succeeded, though I was a long while about it At the end of a courtship she consented to be ifay wife. There was a wedding, and she and I are now occupying the house together. The place is singularly pleasing to me, remembering how I came to occupy it permanently, and I think that nature has kindly obliterated from my wife the sadness that once attached to it. This has largely been accomplished by the advent of children.

Inspiration Miscellany

Why Not Cure Your Bad Habits? In a large’eastern city is a professional hypnotist who has a wide reputation for curing the habit of intemperance. His method is very simple. “There is no real hypnotism about it —unless it is a matter of self hypnotism,” this professor once said. “I simply observe the mind process of the man that drinks and advise him how to reverse it. The subconscious soliloquy in the mind of the man that drinks runs something like this: ‘When did I have my last ball? Whew! Long as that! I don’t see how I stood it so long. Wouldn't have thought It possible.’ And so on the victim repeats to himself on the principle that he needs this-periodical stimulant just as It Is necessary to heap coal on to fire to keep it from burning out. In a word, that man self hypnotizes himself into tlio belief that he needs a drink. "My advice to cure this craving is not to fight the appetite, but to fight down the cause that leads to,the appetite. Let a man repeat to himself over and over again: ‘I really donH need this drink. If I take it. it’s simply a matter of pouring so much down my throat superfluously, for I could get along without,’ Before long he will be surprised how instead of hypnotizing himself into drink he will hypnotize himself out of it.” Simple, isn’t it? But if this self hypnotism, or whatever you choose to call it, is a cure for intemperance why is it not equally a recipe for curing other bad habits?

TEMPTATIONS.

Too many of us are gardeners to our temptations. We cultivate them assiduously. We do. not realize that the strength or the weakness of a temptation depends largely on ourselves. Every time we yield the temptation to which we have yielded is strengthened for its next attack, and it may take half a dozen victories on our part to counteract the strength imparted to a temptation by a single failure of ours.

Cultivate Persistence

“If St. Paul had lived a couple of thousand years later he would have been a captain of industry.” This is the remark attributed to John D. Rockefeller after hearing a sermon in Cleveland in which St. Paul was held up as a model of power an<i forcefulness. Mr. Rockefeller said that Paul's virtue was that he was persistent and that persistent men got to the top; that natural leaders are rare and reap rich rewards in business and industrial life, for every line of commercial effort offers them big opportunities. These are simple, plain, truthful words from the mouth of the most successful captain of industry the world has known. Persistence, patience and assiduity have as great rewards today for the young man who possesses these virtues as they had fifty years ago, when Mr. Rockefeller was working sixteen hours a day in a country store for a salary of $3 a week.

Be Yourself. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, hut of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. That which each can do best none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin or Washington or Bacon or Newton? Every great man is unique. Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.—Emerson.

COURTESY.

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light. Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers. It transmutes aliens into trusting friends And gives its owner passport round the globe. —James f. Fields.

Nobody’s Business.

Under the impression that it is “nobody’s business,” young people are apt to take chances with their reputations which the older persons know are fatal. The thoughtlessness of youth is responsible for many escapades which are entered into innocently, but end most disastrously. Young man or young woman, is not what you do the business of your parents, your relatives and your friends? Remember each in turn is affected by your actions. Whatever you do reflects on those with whom you have daily contact. If not for your peace of mind, you should keep yourself under control for the hake of those who love you. One. rash act may tear down a reputation you have been yoVtr young life in building.

Ballarat Sam

By M. QUAD

The day I arrived in Adelaide, Australia, I was twenty years old and my pocket contained a dollar for every year I had lived. I had exactly £4 to begin life on in this colony, but was a healthy youngster, with no fear of the future. Luck was with me from the start. On the second day after landing from the steamer I hired out to a sheep raiser, who had a ranch on the Murray river, near its junction with the Darling, and on the third we started off up the country. One evening I was building a fire to cook supper by, while McCall, the overseer, went to secure a lever with which to raise a wagon off Its wheels. I w’as thus alone for a few moments. Suddenly a man burst out of the thicket and came running up to me.

“For God’s sake, young feller, give me a bite to eat!’’ lie said as he stood before me. "Don't be afraid of me. I’m a sheer) herder who has been lost in the bush for three days and a half.” I stepped to the wagon and handed him a piece of bacon, some hard crackers and a handful of tea, and after he had placed them in his pockets he continued: “Young feller, do me a greater favor still. Lend me your pistol and knife until tomorrow, when you will pass my station, and, furthermore, do not mention to any one that I was here. Do this and you will never regret it” Then he hurried away. Just as McCall came back with the lever there was a clatter of hoofs, and I looked up to see five mounted men ride into camp. They were in the uniform of the patrol, and the appearance of the men and horses showed that they had had a long ride of it “Well, Captain White, what is it?” asked McCall, who seemed to know every one of the five. “Been after Ballarat Sam again,” was the reply as the captain dismounted. “And lost him. eh?” “Yes, curse the luck! We struck his trail near Dobney’s yesterday morning, and he led us a chase of fifty miles during the day. We killed his horse about dusk'last night and had him surrounded in the scrub. lie got out, however, and we did not get his track until about noon today. We followed to the creek two miles above and there lost it.”

"We continued on up the country and finally arrived at the ranch, and for the next six months I was hard at work as a sheep herder and neither saw nor heard much of the outside world. Then one day I was called to report at headquarters and upon my arrival found a couple of visitors there —two gentlemen who had lately arrived from England. They had come out to Australia to go into the sheep business, but would leave it in care of an agent They hired me and a number of others,- and we began work with them.

One evening we had finished supper and were grouped about the campfire when one of the dogs barked and we looked up to find ourselves covered by five rifles. “Hands up or you are dead men!” shouted a voice, and every one of us quickly obeyed the command. The five advanced, each keeping bis rifle leveled, and when I could see the man who had spoken I at once identified him as Ballarat Sam, the man whom I had befriended months before. He recognized me almost as quickly and, taking a step forward, he said: “Well, boy, you did me a good turn that day and I’ll not forget it. Move over to the left Now, then, gents, who are you?” All our arms were in the wagon, and we were helpless to offer any resistance. The first thing they did was to despoil their captives. After they had robbed the two gentlemen of everything they had of value and helped themselves liberally to our stores in the wagons Ballarat Sam shook hands with me and said: “So'you didn’t inform the police you had seen me that day?”

; “No, sir.” “Well, you were mighty kind to me, and I am going to return the favor. Take this hundred pound note and save it for a rainy day, and here’s the finest pistol and knife in Australia. Probably some day you will see me hanged, but whatever is said of me you can vouch for the fact that Ballarat Sam never forgot a favor or failed to get even with an enemy.” f Columns of matter were printed in the Australian newspapers concerning Ballarat Sam and his crew of outlaws during the next year, and his pictur* was posted everywhere and a large rc« ward offered for his capture dead or alive. The authorities were bound to get him, but he seemed to bear a charmed life for awhile, and, although arrested several times, he always managed to escape by some ruse or other. Finally he was surrounded by a patrol numbering forty policemen and taken prisoner, and when brought handcuffed to Adelaide the entire population of the town turned out to view the famous bushranger. I happened to be in the city at the time and witnessed the hanging, and probably I was the only one in the vast crowd that felt a pang of regret. He went to his doom with a smile, and after it was over the timid ones in Australia breathed a sigh of relief. Ballarat Sam was a bad man, but he had played fair with me.

TIME AND CHANGE. When we were kids together, JueCan you that time recall?— And played along the shady lane Beneath the maples tall, Tou then were nine and I waa ten. And oft I’d say in fun, “Just think, Jane, you’ll be twenty when I come to twenty-one!” But when I came to twenty-one, A gawky youth and green, I wondered how the trick was doner For you were just eighteen! Then luring fortune beckoned me— The world I wandered o’er. I got back thirty-three And found you twenty-four! And now I’m getting old indeed. These gray hairs make that plain. My flower of youth has gone to seed. Pray, what’s the secret, Jane? I’m lost; I know not what to do. Oh, cruel fate that’s mine! For, 10, I now am forty-two. While you’re but twenty-nine! —Cleveland Leader.

Good Point.

“Henry, how would it be to ask th& Jephsons to dinner some night soon?” “Fine. I like them. They always gc home so nice and early.”—Puck.

Unfortunate Accident.

Jinks—And has Mrs. von Speedaway a husband? Miss Oucher—She had one, but broke It! —New York Globe.

A Bad Lamp.

Buzz —How old is that lamp? Fuzz —Three years. Buzz—Well, turn it out. It"s too young to smoke.—Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.

At the Wedding.

To kiss the bride the people flock Into the gay reception room. And then they pass outside to knock The very badly frightened groom. —Detrot Free Press.

Prophet Defined.

Sunday School Teacher—Benny, can. you tell me what a prophet is? Benny—Bayin’ somethin' for a nickel and sellin’ it for a dime.

Makes a Difference.

Mabel —Does Bell’s husband know the value of money? Ethel—Yes, if it’s for gowns; no, if it’s for cigars'—Boston Globe.

Knew What He Wanted.

“You must remember, my boy. that wealth does not bring happiness.” “I don’t expect it to. I merely want it so that I may be able to choose the kind of misery that is most agreeable to me.”—Boston Transcript.

Fun and No Fun.

You’ve seen the form of Art, perhaps, We know as knockabout. Two fellows biff each other’s maps With canes or cudgels stout. v ’Tis fun to see two fellows poke Each other in the jaw; But, tried on us, we'd find the joke The worst we ever saw, —Louisville Courier- Journal.

Well, He Became So.

“Children,” asked the visitor, whc was addressing the school, “how many of you can tell me what it was that Napoleon's soldiers used to call him?” Nobody answered. “Think a moment! ‘Little’”— Still nobody spoke up. “ ‘Little Corp’ ” “A little corpulent!” shouted the children.—Brooklyn Citizen.

Table Talk.

The Smart Boarder.—Don’t you think it’B something like cannibalism for you to eat that peach? The Pretty Boarder —No more ao than for you to eat that real.—Exchange.