Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — Page 3

VOL. X.

REPUBLICANMEETIHGS.

W. H. PARKINSON AND G. A. WILLIAMS at Aix, Friday, Oct. 21, 7:00 P. M. W. H. PARKINSON AND ABRAM HALLECK at McCoysbtjrg, Monday, Oct. 27. 7:00 P. M. G. A. WILLIAMS at McCoysbtjrg, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 7:00 P. M. Wheatfield, Thursday, Oct. 23, 7:00 P. M. —— y ESTEL E. PIERSON at Parr, Saturday, October 25; Valma, Monday, November 3, Jones School House, Carpenter, Thursday, October 23. Duvall School House, Jordan, Monday, October 27. Egypt School House, Jordan, Friday, October 31, 7 P. M. JESSE Ex WILSON AND ABRAM HALLECK at DeMotte, Friday, October 24, 7:00 P. M. JESSE E. WILSON AND MOSES LEOPOLD at Center School House, Gillam, Monday, Oct. 27, 7:00 P. M. B. F. FERGUSON AND CHAS. M. BLUE at Kniman, Thursday, October 23, 7:00 P. M. B. F. FERGUSON at Wheatfield, Thursday, Oct. 30, 7:00 P. M. HON. E. D. CRUMPACKER at Rensselaer, Wednesday, Oct. 29 7:00 P. M. G. A. WILLIAMS AND ABRAM HALLECK at Remington, Saturday Oct. 25, 7:30 P. M.

Natural Anxiety.

Mothers regard approaching winter With uneasiness, children take oold to easily. No disease costs more little lives than croup. It's attack is to sadden that the sufferer is often beyond human aid before the dootor Arrives. Such oases yield readily to One Minute Cough Cure. Liquifies the mucus, allays inflammation, removes danger. Absolutely safe. Acts immediately. Cures oolds, grip, bronchitis, all throat and lung trouble. F. S. McMahon, Hampton, Ga: “A bad cold rendered me voiceless just before an oratorical contest. I Intended to withdraw but took One Minute Oough Cure. It restored my voice in time to win the medal.” A. F. Long.

Reduced Rates to the West.

Commencing September Ist, and daily thereafter, until October 31st, 1902, the Wisconsin Central Ry. will sell Settler’s tickets from Chicago to points in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, at greatly .reduced rates. For detailed information inquire of nearest Tioket Agent, or address 0. O. Hill, D. P. A., 630 Clark Street, Chicago, 111., or Jas. 0. Pond, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee, Wis. Trees that will grow are the kind that S. E. Yeoman sells. Give him your order. *

The JOURNAL and CHICAGO WEEKLY INTER OCEAN for $1.40 per year. JOURNAL and TOLEDO BLADE, $1 25 ®l)c Rensselaer Journal.

Our Man About Town

Discourses on Many Subjects and Relates Sundry and Other Incidents.

County Superintendent Hamilton, the story goes, having a few minutes to spare alter examining a certain aehooi, put a few questions to the lower-form boys on the common objects in the school-room. “What is the use of that map?” he asked, pointing to one stretched across the corner of the room. Half-a-dozen shrill voioes answered in measured articulation: “To hide the teacher's bicycle!” V Some of the hats worn by the women this fall look like old sls Panamas I have seen 30-oent men wearing during the summer. They are simply awful, 1 don’t know just why women take delight in deforming themselves to such an extent. V The latest Bensation in woman’s olothing line that has appeared on the streets of Rensselaer is the “sweater.’’ It’s a stunner and fits like a glove, showing every wrinkle of the “form divine.’’ Persons who have seen it say it is rather “loud;’’ but then they would be apt to say the same thing of Mother Eve’s figleaf dress if it were on exhibition on the streets at this day and age of the world. Some people are so unreasonable! v Here is another idea for Inventors to work on. We all know how useful an alarm clock is; yet it never makes us feel like getting up in spite of the fact that it arouses us. Will some one come forward with an arrangement that will ring a bell and shoot's hypodermic charge of activity into a person at the same time. V

There is a gentleman living in this burg who deserves a write-up in order that he may see the errors of his ways, repent and return to the fold ere it is too late and the goblins have taken him away down stairs where they never eat ice cream and where it is hotter than summer forever and ever. Take him in his general attributes and he is not a bad fellow. He pays his debts, goes to church and is in every way a very respectable man. He is pretty good hearted and if he saw anybody having bad luck he would stop his antomobubble long enough to help him. He gives alms to the poor and never appears to think he has done much. He does not look up sweet cider when it is many days old. His wants are few and come in regularity but he manages to supply them without anybody’s assistance. He is “laying up” money and some day he will select some town, buy a little cottage, put his shekels out to multiply, and become a retired gentleman. He is not a politician except upon those occasions when they drive you up to a booth along a rope walk just like they drive cattle into the chutes at the Chicago slaughtering pens—then he is only a politician for a minute and a half. Fact is there is only one spot in which the man is entirely wrong. That is this one: He is always giving the town the black eye. He hasn’t lived here many years—came in be-

cause it payed him to stop here — stayed here beoause the pay kept coming in fresh and fresh and everything moved all right for him. Still he stays. The town is no good, he says. Yet he stays. Things are oheaper elsewhere. Yet he stays. We are all slow and pokey here. Yet he stays. Got a good job here but then the town is too slow. Well, well, well! If he wasn't such a good fellow in other respects and if we didn't want a dollar of his money every year we’d just joke him a little harder about his tendency to make ns all look like cancelled postage stamps. In the language of the sweet singer of the swamps:

“We wouldn’t all be aldermen We wouldn't all be tramps We wouldn’t be any more than we could If the effort broke our lamps Nevermore, friend, nevermore.” V Now they are telling this exceedingly funny story upon a local physician and one of his patients who lives out north of town. The doctor was called ont hurriedly and left some tablets with the following written advice: “One tablet to be taken three times a day, in any convenient vehicle.” The family looked into the dictionary to get at the meaning of the pro-

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scription. They got on well until they came to “vehicle.” To this they found sundry meanings attached; as oart, buggy, wagon and wheelbarrow. After grave consideration they concluded that the doctor meant the pin should be taken while the patient was riding out in some vehlde. Accordingly, not having any carriage, they trundled the viotim up and down in their wheelbarrow in the fresh air three times a day, while he took his tablets. In the course of a few weeks, the fresh air taken so regularly, completely oured the patient. , _,..» ... ----- ■■ i . For many years it has been the custpm in this burg upon the 31st night of the present month, Providence permitting, D. V. et cetera—as we usecl to say in our youthful high school days when we were learning how Caesar fought the Gauls—to plant a carriage on the spire of the aohopl house and hang a milk house on top of court house. This year we have heard, whisper* ings that things are to be revived once more in regal, elf-like fashion, and that persons who cannot give the pass-words and grips upon that nigh t had better retire to their virtuous couches and seek, the slumber-land of the just, for all the merry Oain-raisers in this end of the oonnty will be out turning Rensselaer into topsy-turvy land.

It is also related upon good, if somewhat irreverent authority, that there will be a dell of a heated occasion in the neighborhood ofoabbage land all over the town. Carpenters and grave diggers are likely to be in demand the first day of November. There will be a few innocent little masquerade parties indulged in and the old maids of the town will go through the necessary formula to see who will oome to their windows at midnight. It would be nice to scare these same old maids! ! I A rural subscriber suggests that if possible he will make an entrance into the office of the Journal. He had better not for the devil and the watch dog will he up all night making googoo eyes at the moon. Once there was an editor who had his paper run for him on Hallowe’en—but that’s another story. We trust nobody will take his spite out on us that evening before dosing hours and come in and subscribe. Ah, n—no—no—that—that would be too—too much to . hope for, Rachel! » * * Add the following deflnations to your vocabulary: Bachelorr-a wild gander that tame geese love to chase. Smart Aleck—the fellow all the girls are fond of. Sport—the man with a loud voice and five cent brilliants in his shirt front. Glutton—one that digs his grave with his teeth. Taxes—perodical bleeding as prescribed by the governor and sure as death. Divorce—a legal dooument much sought after by sporting natures. ..

If agreeable you might also learn the following commentaries on the celebrated sayings of the town philosopher. 1. “Know thyself.” Nit. Don’t do it. The time you waste would suffice to put you wise to many more agreeable acquaintance. 2. “Consider the end”—both ends if they do not meet. 3. “Know thy opportunity.” And don’t dodge it. Next time it will pass in an automobubble and won’t know you. 4 “Most men are bad.” The wise man evidently intended to except himself. 6. “Nothing is impossible to industry.” But industry is Impossible to many. 6. “Avoid excess.” That is to say never to get a piano when your neighbors can only afford an organ. 7. “Suretyship is the precursor of rnin.” Correct. Especially when you go bail.

The WorSt Form.

Multitudes are singing the praises of Kodol, the new discovery which is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by digesting what they eat, by cleansing and sweetening the stomach and by transforming their food into the kind of pure, rich, red blood that makes yon feel good all over. Mrs. Oranfill, of Troy, I. T., writes: For a number of years I was troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia which grew into the worst form Finally I was Induced to use Kodol and after using tour bottles I am en tirely cured. I heartily recommend Kodol to all sufferers from Indigestion and dyspepsia. Take a dose after meals. It digests what yon eat. A. F. Long.

A Rose Lawn Boy Describes His Experience In the Klondyke. OUR CABIN. A half mile below the mouth of Marshall oreek is a bluff on the left bank of the Yukon, whioh rises fifty or sixty feet above high water mark. A hundred yards back on the bluff stands, or stood, the little log oabin where we lived in the winter of ’9B and’99. We had read and heard mnoh regarding the cold winter weather and so planned to keep onr oabin warm. On a little rise In a dump of timber we dug a hole nearly three feet deep till we struck a bed of sand, whioh we used for a floor. Over this we built onr .osbin. Logs were out, notched at the ends and slightly flattened on opposite sides. One of these was laid down; three or four lnohes| of long moss laid on It, then the next log, till It was high enongh. A flat roof of poles on top, oovered with two feet of moss and six inches oi dirt. The sides we?e banked np with brush and dirt. Two steps led to the floor from the little door. A twelve inch square window near the door feced the south so we conld get all the light there was. One day in November the snn went behind the mountain south of us and it was sixty-three days before he next peeped over it to see how we were getting along. His appearanoe was welcomed, you may be sure.

On the east wall were three bunks made of poles, one near the floor, one near the roof and one in the oenter. Under the window was a “deacon seat.” As we had no ventilator In the roof the top bunk was a hot one. Frank usually slept there with no covering over him. One night a man who was staying over night heard ns speak of how hot the upper bunk was. He said he would like to sleep there. He came from Arizona. In the morning when asked how he slept, he said, “Bully; that's the first"time I’ve been warm since I left Arizona.” I think he was warm alright, for we baked bread that night. Ever after we called that bank “Arizona.”

Our table was made from boxes, folded np against the wall when not in nse. The cabin was eight by twelve feet iu size and three of us spent the winter there very comfortably. One time when it was 40 degrees be low zero we were gone for a week and on returning fonnd the water in onr bucket had only begun to freeze. One stormy, oold night, nine men slept in this oabin. In his sleep a big six foot Oalifornlan kioked the stove over npsettlng a pan of water- on a man’s head who happened to be asleep under it. Men of all nationalities stopped with ns. At one corner, On the outside we

ALONG TIE YUKON.

ATTENTION X FARMERS! SECOND ANNUAL—^ <2a **-CORN EXHIBITION, I WILL TAKE PLACE AT \ LONG’S DRUG STORE. The contest is as follows: Three prizes will be given; ist, 2nd and 3rd, for the three best samples of corp brought to my store any time up to Nov. ist, 1902; ; and on Nov. 10, 1902, competent judges will pass upon the quality of the corn and the prizes will-be awarded according to tneir judgment. We invite every Farmer in the vicinity of Rensselaer to enter this contest. The Prizes to be given To enter this contest, bring us are as follows . FOUR KARS of the Best Corn For the Best Four Ears of Corn •J wy U have 8 ’° t * we will give a Fine Gold Watch, AiA. The Conditions of the ConFor the Second Best Four Ears / test are as follows: of corn we will give Five Gallon. / jjtSlgN Th* no person other than actually engaged in fanning can enter thfa contestof Our Best Ready Mixed Bara Paint fggafcjnjgy 2nd. All .ample, of Com mustbe-tied - For the Third Best Four Ears with the Husks, and have a tag with your of Corn we will give a 25flb Pail t VUutMy . . _ „ , .. . . 6 3rd, That all samples must be left here of Long'* Condition Powder, not later than November Ist, 1902. A, F, LONG, Druggist.

[IF YOH’RE NOT PARTICDLAR 1 I L * CUt gurc W^ere you buy I I BUT IF log ARE PARTICULAR- I I want the best going-— at the best price I I then get our price before buying. 1 I DONNELLY LUMBER CO. I #lll#i>#lk#)l , # I Stop Paving Rent. | * WHAT’S the use of paying rent when you £ can own a home of your own paid for with the # # money now given your landlord. We will 1 build you a modern residence complete and #you can pay for same in small monthly payments and in a few years be the owner of your §3 * own property. Isn’t this worth serious con- * sideration ? Think the matter over and call on #■ # U 8 full particulars. We do all kinds of 1 # Contracting and Cement work at lowest prices. # Let us figure on your next job. | RUSH & WARREN. |

built a cache, in which to store our provisions out of the reaoh of dogs and wolves. Ohas. oalled It the “pilot house,” on aocount of Its location and the general appearance It gave to the oabin. At the front was a flag pole. When we were at home the stars and stripes waved from the top of this pole. I still have the flag. It is torn, ragged and dirty, but pleasant memories cluster around it. For light we burned candles. For beat we burned sprnce and blroh in a little box stove of sheet iron. Often now, in my dreams, I see again the stars shining on the mountains and river and hear the mnrmnr of the wind through the trees, and faintly from the distanoe the ory of the wolf floats baok in its long wailing notes. I love the “Northland” and hope I may some day again look upon its beauties and feel the blood

bounding through my veins till I feel a responsive sympathy with the dog who howls at the moon, because he must express himself in some way and that is the best way he knows. Life there is full of vigorous action; one is constantly overcoming “things inanimate*’ and the sense of having aohieved seems to appeal more strongly to one there than here. A Prospector. Stevens' garments are the lowest for same qualities. A Stevens’ garment will fit any regular figure better than any other make, as more attention is paid to the designing and tailoring, as only skilled labor is employed. Would be pleased to show samples. A telephone message to 174 will bring samples to your residence. Genevieve Sprioo.

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