Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — Page 3

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RENSSELAER. IND., yTHURSDAY, MAY 15. 1902.

Farmers Not Too Well Paid.

“Whether there is a ’beef trust’ that makes the price high to the oonsumer Ido not know, hot I do know that the priee of live fat oattle is not chargeable to any ’beef trust’ and that the farmer and oattle feeder who make the beef are not getting too much for their product,’’ said Oapt. W. A. Rankin, of Onarga, yesterday. Oapt. Rankin farms 4,000 acres of Misouri land, and fattens oattle for the Ohioago market. “Beef oattle are high because theyare scarce and because there was a short corn crop last year. Here are some figures on the cost of making beef which you can depend on: A good steer from western ranges, which I bay for feeding, will oost me 5 cents a pound, and he should weigh 1,000 pounds—or |SO. “To make a good steer of him, I mast keep him five months, and feed him seventy-five bushels of corn at 60 cents, or $45 worth. The five months of pasture will oost $5. Insurance, for there is a risk in handling oattle, will be $1 at least. I say nothing of care or interest on money invested, letting that be offset by what the hogs pick np after the steer. To get him to market, the transportation, commission, yardage and feed, will cose at least $4.50. That brings the total oost of my steer up to $105.50. If very successful in handling him I shall have put on him 500 pounds in the five months, making his weight when sold 1,500 pounds. The top price for fat steers yesterday was 7} cents a pound. My 1,500-pound steer, therefore, would have brought me yesterday $108.75, or $3.25 more than I had paid oat on him. There’s not mnch money for the former and cattle feeder in that. “Why do I fatten steers then ? Because I cannot afford to let my farm run down, which it would if I did not keep cattle, and because I hope for a good corn crop, cheap feed in the future, and then a chance to make a little profit. In 1882, just after a short corn crop, good steers went to $9 50 a hundredweight, and there was no beef trust then. It is unfair to the farmer to give out the impression that he is getting too much for his cattle.”—Chicago Record-Herald.

Hands Off the Mail Boxes.

If mischievous country boys or drunken hoodlums think for a moment that they can in any way harm or molest or injure a rural mail box, they are mistaken. These boxes are as sacred and carefully looked after as the safe in the postoffice in New York City, or the registered packages in the railway mail trains. They must not be touched, except by the postmen and those who receive the mail through them. The following is an illustration: Deputy United States Marshal Boyd, of Indianapolis, has just arrested and placed in the Vigo county jail Nathan Kester, a former, who resides a short distance from Terre Haute. Kester is accused of violating the postal laws. He is said to have knocked a mail box off a fence on one of the rural routes and caused his wagon to run over the box and destroy it. It is said Kester at the time was in an intoxicated condition. Mr. Boyd took Kester before the United States commissioner at Terre Haute, where he waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury. No boxes in this county have been reported as having been molested.

The Chicago Glee Club.

No male quartette has ever so thoroughly delighted the Florida Ohautauqua through the entire history of fifteen years.—Wallace Bruce, Pres, of the Florida Chautauqua., DeFuuiak Springs, Fla. The music and readings of the Chicago Qlee Oiub are entertaining, amusing, elevating and in spiring. I am enthusiastic in my commendation, and hope to have them .again next year— W. M. Vines, Pres. Lyceum Course., Ashville, N. O. The entertainment given by the Chicago Glee Club on Tuesday evening was a success. The club has the reputation of being one of the finest in the country, and the blending of the voices was faultless. The rendition of “Remember now Thy Creator” and ‘‘Ole King Cole” was received with a great deal of enthusiasm. At the completion of the program the audience refused to leave until the club responded, rendering “I’m a Pilgrim.”—The Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio. At opera house, Saturday, May 17. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $1.40 for one year. “Special deal.”

Our Man About Town.

A new gag: A carpenter says when his saw gets dull, “It is getting real bashfUl.” * * * The other day we ran aoross an old fashioned man who wore boots with heel braces on them to keep from running them over at the heels. V People never know what they want. There is not a house In this town that has stood for ten years without having some ohanges made in it. V A woman in this town is glad that a certain girl got married and moved ont of town, beoause before her marriage she would always stop and wait to walk down town with her. V A school boy, but not a very old one, told of a horse that ran away, and said: “It got scared at the alligator.” He probably meant the elevator, but Alligators do scare horses. V One of our friends said his wile always used to press his trousers, but she could never get the shape just right and he always looked bowlegged, so she has quit pressing them and sends them to the pantatorium, and now his legs are straight again. *** One of the customers in a barber shop the other day said: “I want my beard cut off. I don’t want it palled. If I wanted it pulled I would go to a dentist.” We do not know any class of workmen who have to stand as mnch saroasm as the barbers. V

A man in this town has a penohant for calling people by their first names. He even calls his father by his given name instead of calling him as other men do their paternal ancestors. When this man goes to heaven, he will say to St. Peter, if he meets him: “Hello, Pete!” And if he sees any archangels he will say: “Ab, there, Arch !” It must be nice to be so comfortable. i *** A barber in this town says it used to be just as customary to ask a man if he would have hia whiskers dyed as it now is to ask him if be will have a shampoo. Half the men dyed their whiskers and many a time he has dyed a man’s beard coal black when he had hair as yellow as sunshine. Nobody dyes his whiskers any more, except an occasional one who does it himself, and then he gets more on bis skin than on his whiskers. *«* The mistress of a boarding house bought her daily supply of eggs the other day and when she went to use them found that one of them was hard boiled. She is now trying to find out what the hen had eaten, or if it is a breed of chickens that all lay boiled eggs. They would be much handier than the ordinary kind. There are a good many people awaiting her investigations, for if she finds the breed, they will try to raise some hens that will lay egg nog. V

Several weeks ago as I was coming down from Chicago I fell in with a garrulous old chap whose hobby was his horror of the ravages of rum. In the coarse of his denunciation of the use of intoxicating beverages, which, for the most part, was not any too severe, he said, “The man who will take a drink of whiskey or beer will steal.” In this I could not agree with him. It was patting it a little too strong. Besides it was a hard rnb on Noah, David, Solomon, and several other gentlemen whom we have been taught to regard as examples of righteousness. It is sad to contemplate Qeorge Washington and Daniel Webster appropriating other people’s prop rty, Socrates swiping silverware at a symposiac, Plato picking pockets, Grant burglarizing a bank or General VanSant robbing hen roosts. lam inclined to think that the man who will make such a statement will He for a nickle and swear to it for a dime. While it is doubtless the part of wisdom to let liquor alone, it is more likely to make one liberal with his own property than covetous of that of others. These addle-pated asses who talk without judgment do nothing bat barm to the cause they seek to farther.

THINGS IN GENERAL!

Discusses Sundry and Other | Matters.

Daily Happenings Around the Prairie City. TIMELY TOPICS TERSELY TOLD! News Items Caught on the Run and Served- While Warm Without Trimmings or Embellishment. Local and Personal Notes. Take your eggs to Murray’s store. Miss Mel Abbott is visiting in Montleello. Miss Laura Gangloff is visiting in Indianapolis. Miss Ola Boyer, of Goodland, Is visiting friends here. Mrs. W. 0. Babcock and Miss Sarah Reeoe are at French Llok springs. Kentland has let the oontraot for a new school building to oost $16,576. Rev. Carpenter, of Goodland, preached at the Missionary Baptist ohurch Sunday. Mrs. Joe Bowen was oalled to Marion last week by the slokness of her sister, Mrs. Etna Parker. School fends to the amount of $32000 are lying idle in Lake oounty waiting for some one to borrow the money. Miss Alice Mills has returned to her home in Ottawa, 111., after an extended visit with her brother, O. E. Mills. Something speoial? Sure thing. The Ohioago Weekly Inter Ocean and this paper $1.40 for one year. Ask ns what it means. Misses Martha Oppenheimer and Henrietta Eisen, of New Orleans, are the guests of the former’s sister, Mrs. B. S. Fendig. Jake Wilberg, traveling salesman for a Chicago clothing house, left last week for a trip through New Mexioo, Utah and Colorado. John W. Alkire and John M. Johnson, of Remington, will apply for saloon license at the next term of the commissioners’ court.

A new time card will go into effect on the Monon June Ist. There will be no radical changes in the running of the through passenger trains. Mrs. F. B. Lyon and; children returned to their home in Delphi the latter part of the week, after a visit with her sister, Miss Maude Healey. Mr. John Somers, of Jasper county, and Miss Sallie Johnson, of White county, were united iu marriage by Rev. D. J. Huston, at his residence in Milroy township, last Wednesday. A novel feeling of leaping, bounding impulse goes through your body. You feel young, act young and are young after taking Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig. The North Judson News editor says he has been on the sick list for a week, suffering from what his physician calls “zyzwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba.” He must have been eating something. Owing to the chilly condition of the atmosphere and the dedication of the soldiers’ monument at Indianapolis this week, only eighty-five tickets were sold at this point for the Chicago excursion last Sunday. Mother, yes one package makes two quarts of baby medicine. See directions. There is nothing just as good for babies and children as Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents. B. F. Fendig.

Company “M” departed on the early train Monday for Indianapolis. Their hearty cheers on the way to the train showed that the boys were in good spirits. A large number of citizens are also attending the dedication of the monument. A widower of Wanatah remarried the other day, only two weeks after his first wife’s death, and when the boys came to charivari him he went out and told them they ought to be ashamed of themselves for making such an uproar around a house where a funeral had been held so recently. The supreme court has ruled that the general funds of a secret society are free from taxation, even though the money is loaned out and is drawing interest. If the lodge, however, takes the funds and builds a block for rental, the block is taxable. Mrs. George B. Antrim, of Chicago Heights, died in a * Chicago hospital Sunday night. The remains were taken Tuesday to her former home at DeMotte, where the funeral took place. She was thirty-three years of age and leaves a husband and two children.

Arrow Shots.

I shot an arrow tnto the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. —Longfellow. The reason some folks do not suooeed any better is because they growl too muoh. It is astonishing what men will tell long-winded, uninteresting stories. > It is astonishing how many people there are who think they helped make you what you are. Did you ever notice how many bundles every man carries on Saturday evening ? There is not muoh difference between a pup and a boy. When you see an actor who 1» natural on the Btage you do not realize how muoh training it required. Some days seem to be lots worse for loafers to bother you than others. Time never flies like it does in the morning when a man thinks he will just take another little nap. Did you ever hear of anybody send* log for a loafer ? If diamonds become commoner, nobody needs give us one. When a man does a real silly thing folks are charitible and say he has never been away from home and does’nt know any better. No man is so trifling that he does not think of his ups and downs. You might just about as well lie. Polks think you are a liar anyway. Howjwould you like to be a preacher and have folks say, “He is not muoh of a preacher, but he is the best we can afford ”? Every man likes to watch things that are none of his business. Is it not odd that whenever a man sells out the other merchants say he had to get out of business because he sold goods too cheap. A newspaper is not interesting after there has been a lot of dippings taken out. No matter what man goes out of business, some will be sorry while others will be-glad.. When you have a good thing, do you want other people to have it too?. If all the fruit trees that are set out in this country would grow this would be a howling wilderness. The drier a speaker is the longer he insists on talking. The wonder to us always is how people can care so much about this world when they know what a seedy old world It is. Just about the time a man becomes' fixed so he can live easy he is too old to enjoy it. It does not pay to laugh at a vulgar story a man tells, for if you do, he will be sure to tell another one.

Will Be No Peach Crop.

The state statistician has issued tr crop bulletin for the period ending April 10. It says, in part: ‘‘The reports show peaches killed everywhere,, and in some localities the trees injured)' to a great extent. Other faults promise only a fair yield; many varieties of berries suffered from the drought of last summer and the faeezlng of the past winter, and so far as reported, the indications are that we shall haye a short crop. Inquiries were sent out the last of March. In the report 100 per cent represents the average acreage and average condition. The aver*age wheat condition in Indiana, as shown by the reports, is 75; ths average aoerage, 78. The average oats acerage is 80.”

FIVE PER CENT FARM LOANS.

On* Per Cent Commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, has a special sand to loan at 5 per oent interest and one per cent commission. No delay.

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