Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1901 — Page 2

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THE REPUBLICAN OFFICIAL PAPER Of JASPER COUNTY vlßcm in BepublicaDlbulldlng on the corner of Washington and weeton Streets. ISSUED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. Term of Subscription. One Year $1.50 EH> months 75 Three Months 50 Friday, June 14, 1901.

FAIR OAKS.

Mr. Betts, representing the H. R. Stone Lumber Co., of Chicago, was in town Saturday on business. Frances Brady and Mrs. Ungar spent several days last week with Mrs. Frank Nelson at Thayer. Dr. Proudly has his family here from Chicago. They are occupying the rooms adjoining the drug store. C. D. Mallett and wife are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Schofield at Michigan City. A number from here attended the graduating exercises at Rose Budd Jast Sunday evening. Dr. Kirk and wife, ©f Parr, were in town Sunday the guests of Mrs. Lambert. Moe Erwin is spending this week jo Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Jfewton Waterman. Mae Fox is spending this week writh Mrs. G. E. Marshall and other friends at Rensselaer. Miss Edyth Moffitt has returned home from Valparaiso, where she has been attending Normal school the past nine weeks. \ Regular monthly temperance meeting at the M. E. ohurch next Sunday evening. Everybody in- - vited.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Plummer, of near Wolcott, are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. Best, at Rose Lawn; also with Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham, of this place. Don’t forget the strawberry and ice cream festival at the sohoo house next Saturday evening, June 15th. Music will be furnished. Go and have a good time. Reterson’s Illustrated entertainment was presented last evening to a small but enthusiastic audience. The views comprise a wide range of subjects and cannot fail to be of deep interest and educational value to all persons who may have the good fortune to see them, Mr. Wm, Rawlinson, who is connected with th® entertainment, gave a series of •acred views on Sunday evening in the M. K. church which were appreciated by a large audience.

John Jones’ Bus Line.

Answers calls, day or night, any part of the city* Telephone 278, at restdenoe, or 186 at Schofield's bam.

A Pigeon as Valet to a Crow.

“Tom was the name given to a lordly young crow,” says Florence M. Kingsley in The Ladies’ Home Journal. “Beauty was a snow white pigeon of about the crow’s age, with whom he was reared. Just how it came about we never knew, but we soon discovered that Beauty regularly acted as maid of all work to Tom. She fetched and carried morsels of food at his imperious command, and one of-her unvarying duties was the preening of her master’s feathers. Tom was very much of a dandy. His coal black pluniage always appeared perfectly dressed and shining, but the arduous labor of his toilet was performed for him twice every day by the humble and affectionate pigeon. “Our fine gentleman would come in from a roll in the dust or a dip in the fountain and, seating himself upon a certain railing, utter a short, sharp call. Instantly Beauty would descend to his side and begin her task, fluttering anxiously from side to side as she worked, drawing each shining black feather carefully out to Its full length in her pink bill, Tom meanwhile dozing luxuriously, with closed eyes, after the manner of the complacent patron of a skillful barber. If Beauty unfortunately pulled a feather too hard, a squawk and a sudden peck Informed her of her mistake.”

His Spelling System.

Dobbs met his friend Turner In the tram. They were both going to Birmingham and stopped at the same hotel. Turner registered his name “E. K. Phtbolognyrrh.” Dobbs, noticing It, exclaimed, "Here, what are you using such a foreign, outlandish name for?” “I am not assuming any foreign name,” replied Turner. “What kind of a name Is It, then?” “That is my identical old name, and it is English too—pronounced ‘Turner.’ ” “I can’t see how you make ‘Turner’ out of those 13 letters; besides, what Is your object in spelling that way?” asked Dobbs. I “Well, you see, nobody ever noticed my name on the register when I wrote it ‘Turner,’ ” the latter explained, “but since I commenced writing it ‘Phtbologynrrh’ I set them all guessing. It is, as I said before, English spelling, j *Phth’ is the sound of ‘t’ in ‘phthisis,’ | ‘olo’ is the sound of ‘ur* in ‘colonel,’ ‘gn’ there is the/n’ in ‘gnat,’ ‘yrrh’ is she sound of ‘er* in ‘myrrh.’ Now, If that doesn’t spell ‘Turner* what does it spell ?”—London Standard.

Optimism.

When the optimist was dispossessed and thrown, along with his household Impedimenta, into the cold street, he chuckled furiously. “Why do you laugh, my friend?” Inquired a passerby. “Because I have just now been emancipated from toil,” replied the optimist. “For years my life has been one long struggle to keep the wolf from the door. But now that I have been deprived of the door I no longer am compelled to toil. Sweet, indeed, are the uses of adversity!” • Then the optimist walked off, whistling gayly, into the sunshine.—New York Sun.

A Task.

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little and to spend less, to make, upon the whole, a family happier by his presence, to renounce where that shall be necessary and not to be imblttered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same grim conditions to keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.— Robert Louis Stevenson.

Moat Carious Thing.

Mrs. Quizzee (who wants to know everything}—-Now, what do you consider to be the most curious thing you ever B*tf, professor? Professor Trotter—A woman, madam. —Harlem Life.

Drawing the Line.

A good story is told in Missouri at the expense of its once famous governor, Claiborne F. Jackson. Before be solved the ejpgma of lovelock he had married five sisters in reasonable lapses of consecutiveness. After one wife had been lost and appropriately mourned he espoused another, and be kept his courting within a narrow circle of his own relatives, for he rather liked the family. The antiquated father of these girls was almost deaf, and when the governor went to this octogenarian to ask for his surviving daughter the following conversation ensued: “I want Lizzie.” “Eh?” “I want you to let me have Eliz-a-beth.” * ~, “Oh, you want Lizzie, do you? What for?” “For my wife.” “For life.” “I want—to— marry—her.” “Oh, yes. Just so. I hear you, boy.” “I’m precious glad you do,” muttered the governor. “Well,” slowly responded the veteran, “you needn't halloo so that the whole neighborhood knows it. Yes, you can have her. You’ve got ’em all now, my lad, but for goodness’ sake, if anything happens to that ’ere poor misguided gal, don’t come and ask mefor the old woman!” Jackson solemnly promised that he never would.

Origin of “Whig.”

Several reasons have been assigned to account for the word “Whig,” universally known to all the English speaking people. By some the word is supposed to be a contraction of a longer one, “whlggamore,” ■which in some parts of England and Scotland, especially Scotland, signifies a drover or herder. It was in 1679 that the word first became common in the British isles, when the struggle was in progress between the peasantry and the aristocracy to have or not to have the bill passed by parliament to exclude the Duke of York from the line succession. All who were opposed to placing the duke in the line of succession were derisively called “whiggamores,” or “drovers,” just as the city dude of today speakers of the “grangers,” the “grays,” the “chin whiskers” and the “bayseeders.” But Scotch tradition gives altogether a different reason for the existence of the word. It is this: During the early religious wars in Scotland the weakest of the factions used the words “We Hope In God” as a motto. The initials of these words were placed on their banners thus, “W. H. I. G.,” and soon all the followers of that clan were given the title of “Whig.” which was afterward attached as a party nickname.

Journalistic Errors.

I do not allude to what are obviously mere misprints, such as when The Morning Post announced at the head of Its fashionable Intelligence that Lord Palmerston had gone down into Hampshire with a party of fiends to shoot peasants, but I refer to blunders due to crass ignorance of a pretentious order. Perhaps the best Instance was when one of the “young lions” of The Daily Telegraph in a leading article enumerated the great masters of Greek sculpture as Phidias, Praxiteles and Milo, ignorant of the fact that Milo Is not a sculptor, but an Island. The Times was even worse when, mistaking Prussia for Austria, it devoted a whole leader to discussing why Prussia had joined the zollverein. The Saturday Review once explained at great length that the population might be nourished gratuitously ou young lambs if killed unweaned before they had begun to crop grass, having therefore cost nothing to feed. Many other Instances will doubtless occur to your readers. —Notes and Queries.

A Mixed Wedding Party.

“The college roommate of a friend of mine was engaged to a lady in New York,” writes the Rev. D. M. Steele In his article on “Some People 1 Have Married” in The Ladies’ Home Journal. “His people are CongregationalIsts, but while at Yale he became a Unitarian. Her parents are Roman Catholics, but she was a member of the Ethical Culture society at Carnegie hall. In compliance w r lth her mother’s wish he asked five different priests to marry them, but all refused. In despair he came for me. I married them, an Episcopalian, with the ritual service In a Presbyterian chapel. The Roman Catholic brother of the bride and the Congregational sister of the groom were present. This sister acted as one witness; the other witness was a Jewess.”

Careful Statement.

“Was this man Dennis an entire stranger to you?” asked the cross examining counsel of a witness tn an important case. “Sort?” said the witness, whose stupid face was crossed with wrinkles of anxiety, for he had been warned to be cautious and exact in his answers. The lawyer repeated his question. “Well, no, sorr,” sajri the witness, with a sudden gleam of enlightenment. “He couldn’t be that, for be had but the wan arrm, sorr, but he was a parrtial stranger, sort. Oi’d niver seen him befoor.”—Youth's Companion.

Punishment ant Reward.

Whenever a certain Atchison boy is bad, his mother makes him put on his Sunday clothes. She finds that this is punishment enough, though it is reward tor her girls when they behave.— Atchison Globe. Never give up to children if they are in the wrong. Do. not rob them of a memory that their mother and father were always true to their principle®.— Ladies’ Home Journal

. —"— *— -L, , A New Firm Organized. George W • Shar ) and W • B- Peterson have 1 organized a new firm under the name of ; Rensselaer Decorating Co.; have opened a GENERAL SUPPLY STORE, . FOR I Paint and Wall Paper I Including brushes, tools, etcusedby the trade- Our place is in the , . I Down Stairs Room on Liberal Corner where we have a full supply of the above material. T 1 ese two gntkmen have been ccntracting business in the painting and paper hanging businessfer scire years and will continue to promptly respond to all orders for he sane lines in the future. Satisfaction guaranteed throughout. Telephone 293. Rensselaer Decorating Company.

, it Rained Copper. The cadets of Annapolis sat in the side aisles of the chapel, leaving the center aisles for the officers and their families, says Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady in “Under Tops’ls and Tents.” When the offering was received, the two boys charged with the duty of passing the plates did not make the slightest effort to circulate them among the cadets, for we never had any money. They would walk rapidly down the aisle and then come deliberately up the middle, gathering thence what they could. One Sunday the chaplain announced that he would preach a missionary sermon the next Sunday. It did not have the ordinary effect in emptying the church, for we were obliged to go as usual. During the week it occurred to the bright mind of a senior, or first class man, who is now a prominent New York financier, that it would be well for the cadets to make an offering. So he sent out to the bank on Saturday morning and succeeded in smuggling in over 300 copper cents, which he distributed 1 cent per boy to the Episcopal battalion. We stationed a strong, long armed man on the outside seat of the first pew In each aisle. The chaplain made a piteous appeal for pennies even, and when the astonished cadets who passed the plates started on their perfunctory promenade the strong, one armed men aforesaid promptly relieved them of the metal plates, and each one dropped in one copper cent with an ominous crash and then deliberately handed the plate to the next boy, who did the same thing. It rained copper cents for about ten minutes. The chaplain was dreadfully disconcerted, the officers fidgeted and looked aghast. Some of them laughed, and the cadets preserved a deadly solemnity. The affair was a striking success.

For Rent —A suite of Rooms over Porter & Randle’s store. Call on Mrs. lines or at the Commercial State Bank. The Nickel Plate Road. Offers low excursion rates to Denver, Colorado Springs, GlenWood Springs Col; Ogden and Salt Lake City, Utah; Hot Sdrings S. Dakota; St, Paul and Duluth, Minn. Tickets on sal® from June 18th to Sept. 10th, good to return until Oct. 31st. Write, wire, ’phone or call on nearest agent or R. J. Hamilton, Agent, Ft. Wayne, Ind, Idw-SeplO Fob Sale —Miscellaneous household goods, stoves, beds, book cases, also harness and buggy. C. D. Royse. One Fare Plus SI.OO Round Trip to the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo via the Nickel Plate Road beginning June Ist and continuing the entire summer; good returning' within 10 days from date of sale. Write, wire, ’phone or call on nearest agent or O. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind., or, R. J. Hamilton, Agent, Aug. 1. Ft. Wayne, Ind. Money To Loan. I have several thousand dollarof private funds to loan on Real Estate (farms) for from one to three years time on seven per cent, and small commission in sums of •300 and upwards. M. F. Chiloote.

On Front Street •aOne door north of the Marble Shop, you will find CHAS. A. ROBERTS in his New Implement Shop, A little late but “better late than never,” I have on exhibition McCormick Binders and Mowers and also their world beater Corn Harvester; Studebaker farm Wagons, Buggies and Carriages, I have the agency for the Union City Carriage Company of Ind. Ttey have a wide reputation of making first ’lass goods and sold at a very low price considering quality. Ido not ship in car load lots but pay Spot Cash and can meet any one’s prices. Please call and inspect, it will cost you nothing—everyone welcome. I have the agency for Gas Engines, Threshing Machines, Clover Hullevs and Parson’s Self Feeders, the best in the land, Don’t forget the place, one door north of Marble Shop, on Front Street. I am Yours Respectfully, C. A. ROBERTS.

Cbe Only fruit Store, C H- VICK. Prop- Phone 254 ■DEALER IN California and Domestic fruits, Thompson-Reid Ice Cream The Finest in the City. I also have the Chicago and Indianapolis DAILY AND SUNDAY PAPERS And a complete line of 5 and 10 cent Novels, Cigan and Tobacco, Agency American Steam Laundry Laundry Called for and Delivered to any part of the city, Satisfactory }ftlork. Guaranteed ipZEvery Case*

Epworth League Convention At San Francisco, California Low Rates via th® Nickel Plate Road, from July sth to 12 ana good returning until Aug. 31at. Write, wire, ’phon® .or call on nearest agent or O. A. Asterhn, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind., or, R. J. Hamilton, Agent, July 12 Ft. Wayne, Ind.

The Nickel Plate Road. Will sell 4th of July excursion tickets on July 3rd and 4th, good returning until July sth, inclusive, at one fare for round trip, good only within a distance of 200 miles. Write, wire, phone or call on nearest agent, or 0. A. Abtbblin. T. P. A., 96 Ft. Wayne, Ind. July 3rd