Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1899 — THE FIRST BABY. [ARTICLE]

THE FIRST BABY.

tts Coming is Looked. Forward to With Both Joy and Fear and its Safe Arrival is Bailed With Fride and Delight by AH The arrival of the first baby in the household is the happiest and most important event of married life. Theyoung wife who is to become a mother delights to thinkof the happiness in store for her when the little one shall nestle upon her breast and latterly she shall hear it lisp the sweet and holy name, “mother." But her happy anticipation quickly vanishes when she realises the terrible pain and suffering through which she must pass while bringing the little one into the world. An indescribable fear of the danger attendant upon the ordeal soon tend child-birth; they know that by the use of “Mother’s Friend”—a scientific liniment—for a few weeks before the trying hoar, expectant mothers can so prepare themselves for the final it is safely passed through with com2x iw»ta.nt mothers who for the

have been enamoured of when he killed his wife, was married a few days ago to a Crown Point man,' named Link. Charles Bridge, the young man who was. found in Miss Mowrer’s room, joear Monticello, was captured at Lebanon, yesterday. * It is stated that he has heretofore always borne a good reputation, and his strange proceeding in this case is therefore all the more inexplicable.

Horace M. Campbell is one of this year’s graduates of a Homeopathic medical college, in Chicago. He was brought up fn Gillam Tp., and is the son of a former well known local M. E. minister, of Gillam, and had himself been in the active ministry for quite a number of years, before he concluded to turn physician. He will probably locate at LaPojrte. Governor Mount says he will defer the organization of the national guard in the districts covered by the 160th and the 161st regiments of volunteers, as the service men are to be given the preference in the making up of the guard. ' < There was a fire in the Western Indiana (Monon’s) depot, in Chicago Thursday morning It began on the third floor and extended into the tall tower. The firemen had some trouble in subduing the fire, but finally succeeded. The damage done amounted to about $6,500. K Geo. W. Burk, north of town, sold three large draft horses, Wednesday, to Jim Shearer, of Remington, and received for the three, $375, spot cash, which was at the rate of $125 each. It is quite a many years since we have heard of three horses, other than the fancy kinds, selling for as good prices as these sold for.

A syndicate composed of the firm of Foltz Spitler & Kurrie, W. B. Austin and J. W. Paxton have bought of Wm D. Burdett, receiver of the former Commercial Bank, of Oxford, the former Dwiggins farm, just north of town. There are about 155 acres in tie tract and the price paid, as stated in the deed, was 16,500. The new owners will improve the farm by a thorough system of tiling.

The Wabash College Glee and Mandolin clubs, twenty three strong, were greeted by a large and enthusiastic audience last evening in Ellis’ Opera House. The glee club sang their numbers admirably and wei;e repeatedly encored. The mandolin club achieved a like honor. And altogether a very fine entertainment was presented. The members had a very pleasant time here, socially. They were divided into parties and entertained during their stay, by leading families. After the performance last night they were given a reception at the club hall; and today at noon, they were all given a dinner at A. McCoy’s residence. They will be at Delphi tonight and left for there on the 1:45 train.

SATURDAY. Miss Gertie Leopold has a severe case of tonsilitis. Earl Jeffries has gone to Terre Haute to attend the state normal school. . Mrs. M. L. Spitler arrived home today, from three weeks’ visit in Goshen. Roy Blue has finished his term of teaching in Wheatfield Tp, and is now at home here. T. J. Sayler has sufficiently recovered from his late very severe sickness, to be about the house. Mrs. Sarah Gillett, of Marley, Hl,, is here visiting the families of her brothers, R. W. and G. E. Marshall. F(%k Sayler has completed has copied his term at book-keep-lUl \ V.OTIS r ,lll fIOSS'

to his bed. He is suffering from nervous prostration. At Monticello Miss Lucy Mowrer, the viptim of Charles Bridge’s midnight attack, has made affidavit charging him with attempted murder. The hearing is set for next Monday. Judge Wiley had a narrow escape from death while in old Mexico. His train was derailed by an earthquake shock, and a piece of rock crashed through the coach in which Judge Wiley was riding. He was under the roof struck by the rock hut was unhurt. —Fowler Republican. Attica will receive the first new mail wagon turned out by the Terre Haute carriage and buggy company, which has a large government contract. The town has 3,500 inhabitants, and postoffice receipts, which amount to $26,000 a year, exceed that of its size in the world. Valparaiso, which got rid of one its superfluous daily and weekly papers a month or two ago, by the consolidation of the Star and Vidette, is now to have another daily and weekly. Charley Bowser, of the Chesterton- Tribune, with two Indianapolis parties, are arranging to establish the new publications at an early date.

Charley Kleist, the Monon agent here, is this week enjoying an extraordinary amount of festivities. He left Tuesday night for Indianapolis and Wednesday evening attended a banquet of Scottish Rite Masons. He will then go Stinesville for a short visit and then to Reynolds where he will remain on next Monday with his mother, that being his birthday, presumably his twenty-eighth.— Brookston Gazette. —The revival continues with the usual large attendance and intense interest. Bro. Reed did not speak from any text but gave his hearers an iiiteiesting extemporaneous talk. He will have charge of the meeting again tonight and both' of the regular Sunday services tomorrow. An urgent and cordial invitation to attend all these meetings is extended to every one. 8.

It may be interesting to some of us to know that the Spring of 1843 was in many respects similar to this spring. On the 20th of March in that year the ground was covered with abouttwo and a half feet of snow, and the ther-

mometer stood below zero the greater part of the month. The following April snow still remained on the ground so the people went to town in their sleds to attend the spring election, which was held the second Tuesday in April.—Ex. Farmers began sowing oats in nearly all directions from town, yesterday. No doubt still more of them are pushing the good work today. The weather today, though cold and raw as it is, is not unfavorable for farm work, so long as it continues dry. The weather we have had so far this month has been on the whole, very favorable for the farmers, as it has been good drying weather, and that was what was needed, of all things, in the weather line.

A long article jp a recent Cincinnati Enquirer concerning the Black Diamond Railroad, which is coming our way, talks very flattering of the enterprise and says that actual work will begin in -a few weeks. Sir Thomas Tancred, the eminent English engineer who has inspected the whole route and found sale for the bonds in London, says: ‘‘This road will be one of the grandest ever built on this continent. Its seaboard terminus. Port Royal, S. C., is on a straight line north from the proposed Nicaragua Canal, and when both these commercial highways are completed they will shorten the commtinioation from China to Chicago and the Northwest 12,000 miles, as against the San Francisco route.”'

MONDAY. Oats 24-26 cents. , Corn 28 cents. Wheat 60 cents. Frost Trout, of Chicago, visited R. B. Harris’s over Sunday. Mel Wishard, of Purdue, spent Sunday with his parents hereMrs. Mamie Spitler Teter left this morning for her home in New Mexico. The farmers are sowing oats and preparing to sow, all over the county, to beat the record. Miss Mary Washburn returned to Chicago, yesterday after a short visit with her parents here. Mr. P. H. Smith of the Rensselaer steam laundry is in Chicago today buying fixtures for the new laundry building. Mrs. P. W. Clark has so far recovered from her late very severe and dangerous sickness as to be able to get out of doors some. A. L. Willis, the veteran gun smith and bicycle repairer, is now able to get to his shop again after bis long lay-up with a broken hip. Mrs. Ada Horton returned last night, after seven weeks sojourn _ . _ • Z*W| • i

inanguarted a hat removing reform, by requesting all the ladies present to remove their head coverings during the services. The condition of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marshall’s infant son whose dangerous sickness has heretofore been mentioned, varies considerably from day to day, but is, on the whole, considerably more encouraging than a day or two ago. Rev. C. D. Jeffries, of the Presbyterian church, has been in poor health for some time past, ap the result of an abcess, and was unable to hold services at the church yesterday. Martin V. Lyons, an old soldier from the soldiers’ home, at Marion, was killed Saturday, at Delphi, by a Monon train. He was walking on the track, when struck, and was instantly killed. The primary teacher- was constrained to whip one of the little boys, Monday, and to impress him with the fact that it was done for his own good, told him how much she hated to whip him and that it hurt her almost as bad as it did him. She was paralyzed when he sobbingly asked if it hurt her in the same place as it did him. Ex. A riot occurred on the north aide yesterday morning. A mob of boys assembled in the vicinity of Barney Koezftia’s residence and began bombarding him with rocks. Things might have been more serious had the 13 inch rocks got into action, as it was only the small calibre rapid fire variety. Barney notified the chief of police who assembled his forces and re-' stored order.

Who shall say that Uncle F. W. Bedford is not a good weather prophet? He said several weeks ago, that April would be unusually fine, and so far his prediction has been fulfilled. It is true we have had some raw cold weather this month, but there have been no bad storms, nor in fact storms of any kind, and considerable pleasant weather and all of it drying weather, which was what was needed above all things, to make roads passable and farm work possible.

Bro. H. W. Veach, of the Lowell Record, spent Sunday in Rensselaer visiting his best girl. It is a practic the young man has been following forasome little time and being smoother than the general run of guileless newspaper men, be has so far escaped detection, but he could not always escape the vigilance! of the Republican’s eagle-eyed reporters. The boys of the 160th and 161st regiments will come home wealthy, in a few weeks. Besides what regular pay may be due them, each man will receive at least $36 in the way of mileage and subsis- ! tunce from Savannah to India nap-

Rev. C. Fenwick Reed, the evangelist, finished his revival meetings at the M. E. church, Sunday. The meetingshave been largely attended all along, and much interest manifested, and quite a number of conversions has also resulted. Mr. Reed left this morning for Seymour, Ind., his next point of labor. Mrs. Reed, who has been with him during his stay here will remain a few days longer, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Murray. Never frighten your little ones into obedience with silly threats. Many a timid, shrinking and cowardly man has to thank the experience of his nursery days for this defect in his constitution. It is cruel and wicked to tell a child that if be is naughty the black man will take him away, or something equally terrifying, as foolish nurses and careless mothers have learned to their cost. Small wonder if the child, whose susceptible mind has been tainted with stories of the supernatural, grows up a helpless, cowardly specimen unfit to fight the battle of life. Detroit, Michigan, is the first city in the United States to undertake municipal ownership of street car lines. Recently the city council of that city acted on the matter and appointed Gov. Pingree, Carl E. Schmidt and Elliot G. Stevenson as a commission to buy and operate the roads for the city. The resolution was adopted by a vote of 21 to 11. The commission will notify the council of the terms agreed uqon before any purchase is made. Municipal ownership is the most popular movement of the decade regarding municipal affairs. But in this respect the cities of this country are far behind many of those in Europe. This is especially the case as compared with the more progressive cities of England and Scotland. '. ' ■