Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1899 — Page 5

CITY NEWS.

Minor Items Told in a Paragraph. Daily Grist of Local Happenings Classified Under Their Respective Headings. TUESDAY. Sheriff Reed is at Valpaiaiso, today. J. F. Warren is at DeMotte cn business today. * Dr. Hartsell is in Lincoln, 111., on a two days’ business trip. Miss Mae Dunlap, of Chicago, is visiting Rensselaer friends. Mrs. John Ward, of Monticello, is the guest of Mrs. J. G. Reynolds. Mrs. Emma Gray, of Logansport, is visiting her father, J. C. Thrawls. Mrs. Mary Lowe, of Monon ,Js visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bussell. Born, Monday, June 12th, to Mr. and Mrs. Chesley Wray, of Barkley Tp., a girl. Born, Sunday, Jun§ 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Conoway, northwest of town, a son. Mrs. Nate J. Reed and brother Wilbur Lally are at Monticello, visiting. Mrs. Walter Clark, of Carrol Co. visited her neioes, Rosa and Ella Culp last Thursday and Friday. James Fess, of Chicago, visited his sister Mrs. James W. Douthit, yesterday, and today went to Medaryville to visit his mother. Miss Lorine Vanatta, of Fowler, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips and other Rensselaer relatives. Mayor T. J. McCoy, Delos Thompson, Jesse E. Wilson and Councilman G. E. Murray, left last night for West Baden where they will rejunevate themselves for about a week or ten days. White & Son are building a store building on their lot on Van Rensselaer street, south of their livery stable. It will be a one story frame building, covered with iron, and its dimensions are 26 by 70 feet. The same firm will also enlarge B. S. Fendig’s poultry store, on Weston street. The following parties are delegates, who left today for Columbus. Ind., to.attend the three days session of the State Sunday School convention: Bertha Hammond, representing the Free Will Baptists, Helen Kelley the Presbyterians, Merl Gwin the Methodists, and Wm. Day, the Christians- E. L. Hollingsworth is also attending. Sam Roth and his new bride, late Miss Julia App, arrived from Tippecanoe Co., last evening, and are temporarily stopping with Mr, and Mrs. Milton Roth, on Forest street. Their arrival was celebrated by the early appearance of a band of boys with bells, and a little later by a large company or young people, Mr. Roth’s associates. The latter were provided with heavy artillery in the form of giant fire crackers, and they made a noise to be remembered. The newly married couple will set up housekeeping in Mrs. W. T. Perkins’ house, on Dayton street.

WEDNESDAY. Will Paxton, of Hammond is in Rensselaer today. Mrs. T. J. McCoy is in Chicago for a few days. Mrs. S. A. Royster is visiting her husband at Shelby today. Mrs. Frank Minikus and sou are visiting at Chicago HeightsMrs. A. Yates came home last evening from her yisit to Danville, 111. Charley Sigler, of Hebron visited his aunt, Mrs. G. W. Goff, a few days this week. Miss Hazel Warner tame home f yesterday, from a twcr weeks’ visit at Hammond.

County Treasurer J. C. Gwin is in Indianapolis on a few days b isiness trip. Miss Gail Wasson, of Northwestern University,JEvanston, returned home last night, for the summer vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Ray returned home to Lafayette today after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. Mel Powell, of Brook. Paul Wood, of the Chicago Dental college returned to Chicago this morning after a few days’ visit with his parents, south of town. Miss Clara Raise, a graduate of the Chicago Northwertern music school, is the guest of Misses Della Harris, Irma Kannal and Grace Thompson. Home grown strawberries are a fine crop this year, and among those who have been especially successful in both quantity find quality of crop, N. S. Bates will not take a back-seat to anyone. < Mrs. Eliza Gillam, who has been visiting her nephew, Louis Striver of Newton tp., and other relatives, the past three months, started today on her journey home to San Diego, California. Capt. M. F.JChilcote and Wm. E. Parkison have formed a partnership for the practice of the law. They will have their office in the room [so long occupied by Capt. Chilcote. The partnership will date from June 15th. An entertainment worth half a dollar of anybody’s money has been prepared for the benefit of the public library, and will be given Friday evening, and cost only 10 cents. The full program will be published tomorrow. O. C. Halstead, of west of town, -hipped three full blood Polled Durham heifers to a man at Shawneetown, in southern Illinois, a few days ago. Mr. Halstead is getting a wide reputation as a breeder of fine farm stock and poultry. Geo. A. Burroughs has resigned the presidency of Wabash College, at Crawfordsville. He has been trying to bring that fossiliferous and moribund institution in line with modern ideas, but the mossback element was too strong for him, and he has given it up as a bad job.

Danger signals! € Do you take cold with every change in the weather? Does your throat feel raw ? And do sharp pains dart through your chest ? Don’t you know these are danger signals which point to pneumonia, bronchitis, or consumption itself? If you are ailing and have lost flesh lately, they are certainly danger signals. The question for you to decide is, “Have I the vitality to throw off these diseases? ” Don’t wait to try SCOTT’S EMULSION "as a last resort.” There is no remedy equal to it for fortifying the system. Prevention is easy. Scott’s Emulsion prevents consumption and hosts of other diseases which attack the weak and those with poor blood. SCOTT’S EMULSION is the one standard remedy for inflamed throats and lungs, for colds, bronchitis and consumption. It is a food medicine of remarkable power. A food, because it nourishes the body; and a medicine, because it corrects diseased conditions. 50c. and SI.OO. alldnundsts. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York

Henceforth the down town Western Union telegraph office will be found in the Makeever House building. It was moved yesterday afternoon z and today, to the room in the west side of that building, opening on Cullen street. By the aid of three line men from Lafayette the office was moved without at any time breaking the outside connections. The office will still be in charge of Bob Johnson, who has managed it to the entire satisfaction of our people, ever since a down town office was established here.

THURSDAY. Mrs. Joe Kight is visiting relatives at Fair Oaks. Miss Ethel Sharp is at Burnettsville visiting. O. P. Benjamin, of Lafayette, is visiting at W. R. Nowels. Miss Ernest Burns, of Monon, is the guest of Miss Maud Jacks. Mrs. W. W. Karsner, of Chicago, is visiting Mrs. E. D, Rhoades. Mrs. Charley Rhoades is visiting Mrs. O. K. Yeoman at Fair Oaks, today. Mrs; Angeline Horner, and son, of Leadville, Colo., are visiting her sister, Mrs. W. B. Austin. Ed. O’Connel returned to Chicago yesterday, after several days’ visit in Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Malchow are [visiting their daughter, Mrs Swartz, at Brookston, John Eiglesbach came home, today, from the commercial department of Notre Dame University at South Bend. Frank Foltz is building a residence adjacent to his own place, on Work street, to be occupied by his mother. Dr L. Page, of Honey Grove Texas, is visiting his relatives Mrs. M. E. Kolb and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz. Mose Leopold and Geo. Moss, of the law department, of the State University at Bloomington, are home for the summer vacation. Ernest Stewart resigned his position in Wade & Wood’s barber shop and went to Hammond yesterday, where he has secured another position. Mrs. A. Wartena went to Hammond yesterday to attend the wedding of her brother-in-law, Lorenzo Wartena, and visit relatives a few weeks. Mrs. Mary E. Kannal and daughter Irma returned home last evening. The letter is a student at Northwestern University, at Evanston, 111., and her mother has been visiting her for a week or two. The following parties are picnicing at Cedar Lake today: Misses Grace Thompson, Sylvia Robinson,] Iva Washburn, Mary Bates, Della Harris and Clara Raise, of Chicago, Messrs. Harrie Kurrie, Albert Overton, Schuyler Robinson, Charley Grow and Orren Parker. W. D. Sullivan, of Lafayette, a former graduate of the St. Joseph’s College and an ex-editor of the Collegian, is here to attend the college commencement exercises, which], begin this evening. Mr. Sullivan is now a student at St. Mary’s/Theological at Cincinnati. John Steinbrunner, of Fort (Recovery, Ohio, also a former student of the college, is here also for the commencement. Countyj [Treasurer Gwin is at Indianapolis today,! settling with I the state treasurer. By-the-way, it mayj be added that the simi--1 annual settlement sheets taken from this county, and prepared by ' Auditor Murray,'Jhave the credit of being the neatest settlement ; sheets sent out by any county in the state.

An Eye Opener.

Fourth of July hats going at bargain at Mrs. L.;M. Imes L. S. Renicker will sell you a top buggy for J3B. Come and see it before buying elsewhere.

SOME QUEER CUSTOMS.

Camp Dish wash Inc aad Tory Islaad Teamakla*. An old camper-out once related to a horrified housekeeper his experience of dishwashing in a miners’ camp. It did not take much time, though the company was numerous, and the utensils of the kitchen were in constant use. The reason why it took hut little time he sufficiently indicated by the state* inent that the cook pot was not cleaned till it became too small to hold a pudding of reasonable size. Then somebody got a hammer and knocked off the hardened accretions from its interior till it was restored nearly enough to its original capacity to render further service. On Tory island, an out of the way bit of an Irish islet, the natives are not much more dainty in their living, and their habit of letting the grounds remain indefinitely in their teapots has disastrous consequences. “Every day and all day long,” says a recent writer, “the teapot sits stewing in the embers of the hearth and at each successive brew fresh tea is thrown in, but the old is never thrown out until the pot is choked.” The result is an unusual and excessive rate of insanity. Little wonder, when a Tory island boy who was questioned as to his usual meals could reply: “Stirabout for breakfast and tay for dinner; tay, of coarse, at taytime and stirabdut for supper; whiles we have tay for breakfast instead, and stirabout for our dinner, and then another sup of tay before bedtime.” However, this diet, injurious as it is to the nerves, does not seem to affect the muscles. The Tory islanders are a robust and vigorous race, the men averaging six feet in height and the women unusually tall and strong. The women, indeed, have need of all their physical strength, since it is thy who do the bulk of the outdoor work, while the men stay at home and spin and weave. “At Anagry strand on a Sunday morning,” says the same observer, “one may •witness a strange sight. At low tide more than a mile of roundabout is saved by wading across a narrow bay. The men include in their Sunday’s wardrobe shoes and stockings. The women, by courtesy and custom, wear ‘martyeens’—footless stockings with a loop passing over the toe. Each good wife takes her good man upon her shoulders and the heroes are conveyed across dry shod.” —Youth's Companion.

MARRYING FOR TITLES.

The Adaptability of American. Women Aida Them Vastly. It is well understood in Europe that if a man marries into an untitled family it is better for him to marry an American than a woman of any other nationality, for the same reason that Napoleon gave for making choice of a Spaniard—she had no family in France to be enriched and ennobled. Europeans don’t trouble themselves much about American social distinctions and can’t understand the difference between a fortune made in 1796 and one made in the same way in 1897. Many of the diplomatic corps have married Americans; there have been several marriages of Washington girls to secretaries of legations and attaches within the last year, and a large proportion of them have turned out well. American women are natural diplomats. A European woman is born and bred’ in a certain, rank of life, and although she may be transported to another rank she takes with her the stamp of the grade to which she belongs. Not so with an American woman. As the wife of the premier of Great Britain she would put Lady Clare Vere de Vere to shame by her quick adoption of most of the characteristics of the daughters of a hundred earls. There is less risk in an American girl marrying a diplomat than any other sort of a foreigner, for a diplomat is under bonds to behave himself. But if she is ambitions and desires to make a really brilliant match she ought to marry a citizen of the United States. —Illustrated American.

How a Caterpillar Defends Itself.

The caterpillar of the puss moth, quite a common insect in this country, has a most effective way of defending itself, and may prove, as we’shall presently see, dangerous even to human beings. This well-protected caterpillar is provided between its bead and forelegs with a cleft, from which it can protrude an organ capable of squirting out a quantity of very acid fluid to a considerable distance, and when alarmed it habitually makes use of this formidable weapon. In one of the entomological magazines a correspondent states that 'he was observing some of these caterpillars in captivity when he happened to disturb one, and it suddenly squirted out a quantity of fluid in a jet, which struck one of his eyeballs, though his head at the time was quite two feet away from the insect. He rushed off in great agony to a doctor, who told him that the eyeball was in a very dangerous condition. His eye was totally blind for hours after the occurrence, and it was some days before he finally recovered. What the effect of this fluid must be upon smaller creatures we leave our readers to imagine! —Chambers* Journal.

Cowboys of the Asphalt.

The cowboy and other dbshing plains riders lean far over in their saddlesand pick up, as they go dashing past, articlea that they have dropped upon the ground. So does the dashing bicycle rider of the city. Not on the boulevard* perhaps, where the crowds would scarcely permit, but on some quiet, aspbalt-paved block. There you may see a skillful and daring rider cast his cap upon the ground, and then you may see him as he sweeps past it on his wheel bend over and pick it up without pausing in his flight. This before a small but appreciative audience of friends and neighbors sitting on the doorsteps and such passers-by as may happen that way.—N. Y. Sun.

Great Bargains. COLUMBIA Dip TOM. Ladies’Columbia Bevel-Gear Chainless, Model 51, 1898 til iceßccnccdto S6O. Ladjies’Colombia Chain, Model 46 [] 1898{Pnce s7s.|.Reduced to $42.50 I These machines■■areffColurnbias of highest thej Columbia guarantee. They" are not shop-worn[wheels carried over from last year, but are of Compare them part for part with.other-bicycles and you will find good reasons for of Columbia quality. The stock of these] d. . See our artistic folders, etc. POPEJMFQ. CO., Hartford, Conn. B. FORSYTHE, M Columbia Dealer, Rensselaer.

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BUSINESS! Buggies, Surreys, Wagons, Mowers, Binders, I ■ Threshing Machine Agency and a full line of extras on hand for Mowers and Binders McCORMICK HOWERS & BINDERS, The Studebaker Bros.’ Farm Wagon agency; have wagons in stock. I have the celebrated Weber Farm Wagon agency. The world’s best Threshing Machines and Engines; it is the Huber (ask parties who use them.) BUGGIES AND SURREYS. My line cf surreys can not be duplicated for the price I ask. Call, and investigate. My buggies I defy competition. S REMEMBER that I guarantee all goods I sell and a special guarantee on prices of mowers and binders. Wishing my friends all a prosperous season, I am* ,4 Yours Very Truly, Goods will be found rear of |cOt>rt|< of Ike Giazebrook’s black- ~ smith shop, on Front St. , . RENSSELAER, IND.J