Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — Page 7

Glad to Iffßlß l v . *" * |PLI 1/lJ see you B ral Come in and /' let u 5.... frl; 1~~~ < / / / i ; Figure with you on that bill. We will figure against Chicago or any other place onprice or grade. We belong to no association or combination. Onr prices are our own. Your for business, J. C. Gwin & Co

CARRIAGE. WAGON ' .A N D—WOODWORK SHOP ‘ J. P. WARNER, Proprietor PAINTING AND REPAIR WORK A SPECIALTY Shop in im>w building on South Fmnt - - _ .... Stret, one rquere below' 1 iteral Cc n, Fpt SSCIaeT. la 1 f

Van, th H ustlr AT THE FRONT With a Fir _t class Repair Shop Located in the Basement of the New K. of P. Building. s y--t s r-x e p—^s7--t,y--qyr-SJ. - J Old Furniture of any Description. Some things \ Musical Instruments—l have the f -V ' ■ celebrated graduated system for Vis’ YOU CRD get <g olins, Guitars, Mandolins, etc. Made as Good 3 1 fiu can hav . e your painted L j A door moved in your house. Las New: ( Your Carpets put down. Your Window Shades hung. ks rc. <<k If you have anything that is in a dilapidated condition come to me and get estimates. Will be in my office every day except Saturday of each week. Yours without a struggle, VAN THE HUSTLER.

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A CULINARY GENIUS.

Cooled pinner In Hl* Heme WMl< nt Buainesa In Hi* Office. The ordinary man is nowhere mors out of place than in the kitchen. All rilles have their exceptions, however, and a correspondent sends a story of a man who might have led armies perhaps, but was certainly equal to culinary emergencies. In the absence of his Wife and family it became necessary, as he thought, for him to cook his own dinner, and in view of the fact that he was a man of business his presence was also needed down town at his office. Now, the same body cannot be in two places at once, and this well known consideration would have settled the question for an average man. He would have either spent hls forenoon in the kitchen or gone to his office and lunched out This, however, was a man to whom physical laws do not courtesy even as custom to great kings. The case stood thus: He was to have a boiled dinner and 'would have It done to a turn, piping hot and ready to serve at his home coming. The meat, turnips and beets, therefore, which require a longer time, he put on before leaving the house. The potatoes and cabbage, needing less time for cooking, were put on the cover of the pot. Then he dropped a string through a hole in the edge of the cover, ran it through a loop suspended from the celling and thence down to the sink. In the sink hole he firmly stuck a candle, to which, two inches below the top, he tied the string. Last of all he lighted the candle and. went to his business. In two hours, or about half an hour before he was to return, when it was time for the vegetables on the cover to go to their appointed place, the slowly descending flame burned the string, which released the otherwise unsupported edge of the cover, which dropped Its burden into the pot and fell back where it belonged. When the genius reached home, his dinner was ready.—Youth’s Companion.

VISITORS NOT WANTED.

People Who Want to See Greenland Must Get a Royal Permit. Greenland is governed in a grandmotherly way by Denmark; but, as it consists of a group of colonies which would not under ahy CtrCTHßßtances.attract many tourists or traders, no outsider complains of the exclusiveness of the ©&oish authorities. Trade always has been and still is monopolized by the. state. and only government vessels are allowed to sail in Greenland waters. For foreign travelers also Greenland is a closed country unless the traveler in question has beforehand obtained the rare distinction of gaining the permission of the Danish government. The monopoly of the trade is said to protect the Greenlander from being deceived by unscrupulous merchants. The administration settles a fixed price both for the goods the Greenlanders purchase and for the products they sell. In this way all are treated In the same manner, and the business being carried on by the state is a guarantee that the natives are not imposed upon. Furthermore, the members of the administration are enjoined to take care that/the natives «do not leave themselves short of produce by selling more than they can dispense with, so that they are destitute of needful food and clothing whel the slack time arrives. The native Greenlander never has been, neither is he now, able to purchase a single drop of spirits from the administration. The exchange of goods between Greenland aird Denmark is, as a rule, carried on exclusively by means of the nine vessels belonging to the Greenland company viz, five brigs, three barks and a small* steamer having a total register of about 2,000 tons net. Several of these vessels, which are suitable for sailing through the drift ice, make two voyages a year and the steamer, as a rule, three voyages.— Montreal Herald.

Womanly “Tenderness.”

“Don’t talk to me of the teddernessof woman’s heart,’’ said the man who hates women, though he has never been married. "She hasn’t any. I was traveling recently on a through train to New York from the west, afcd tn the morning, just after most of us had dressed and were Sitting in the end of the car. the conductor came and called two men away. One of them belonged to an Intelligent and well dressed woman sitting opposite me. and when he came back she asked him what the conductor wanted. “ 'Why.' said the man seriously, ‘the man in lower 8 lias been found dead.’ “The woman’s eyes widefted. and 1 thought she was going to say something sweet and sympathetic, but she didn’t. What she said was: “‘Why, how thoughtless of him. In a car with all these women too!' * “Don't talk to me’about women.”— Washington Post

Cooked Under Water.

An Englishman' made a wager that be could cook a plum pudding ten feet beneath the surface of the Thames and won the bet by placing the pudding in a tin case and putting the whole in a sack of lime. The beat of the lime, slaking when It came in contact with the water, was sufficient to cook the pudding In two hours. Untll 1G27 the Chinese wore tbelr hair long and colled on tbe top of tbs bead, where It was fastened with an ornamental pin. Tbe Mantcboo edict making the pigtail a sign of loyalty changed this style. There aw no big words In the ser» mon on tbe ”**

STARTLED THE CAMP

A PRANK THAT ENLIVENED A BNOW BOUNQ MINING TOWN.’ - Tt»- Resurrection ot a Supposed Dead Lawyer Was a Mutual Surprise to tlie Ccenmunity and to the Victim of the Tricksters. “Life in a mining camp when it is snow bound,” said a prominent mining man of Chicago the other day, “is a dreary time, and men will do anything for the sake of a little amusement. The story I am going to tell you actually did occur, and at that time we all welcomed the Joke as a godsend and made a hero of its perpetrator. “The winter of 1893 rested an appallingly heavy hand on the Coeur d'Alene. Buried many feet deep under a mass of fleecy snow, the country lay prostrate. So intense was the cold and so heavy the weight of the snow that it was possible to work none but the richest claims. Ingress to and egress from that bountifully rich territory was a feat that none but the hardiest man dared essay, for it was an even chance that death from exposure might be the lot of the one who attempted it. “Wallace at this time was a thriving, busy, prosperous town where the artificial excitement of a mining boom everywhere betrayed Itself. The shutting down of many of the mines had left a large number of men living In Wallace with nothing to do. Time hung heavUy on their hands, and nothing was of’ too small importance to attract Interest provided it held out the hope of killing a few hours of the dreary time of waiting. “Just at this period the most prominent young lawyer of the town fell ill. There wasn’t anything particular the matter with him except a heavy cold and impending fever; but, being somewhat o's a hypochondriac, he at once believed himself to be In a dangerous condition. He promptly took himself to his bed In the rear of his office, denied himself to all but two or three of his Intimate friends, Installed 4 nurse to look after his wants and promptly gave himself over to that luxury of believing himself to be really ill which is so dear to the hypochondriac’s heart.

“The three men who were his friends and who were admitted to his apartment took advantage of the conditions surrounding him to perpetrate a practical joke that has since become famous in the northwest. They gave out lawyer, one Jack Greene, had died, and as hTs mourning' friends they received t-he camp, which called in a body to express its regret. “In the meantime Greene, in the next room, heard nothing, the visitors being naturally quiet in the presence at death. One of his friends went to the local undertaker and. Informing him that Jack was dead, purchased a coffin. Alleging the hard winter and consequent hard times, he beat the undertaker down one-half in his price.‘ The undertaker, however, got even by supplying a plain pine box painted a deep black. This was-placed in Jack’s office, and in the dead of night lumber carefully weighted to the weight of Greene’s body was packed inside it by the three conspirators. The lid was then screwed down, and the following day John Greene, followed by. the entire population of the town of Wallace, Ida., was laid away in the cold, cold giound.

“About ten days later Jack, having entirely recovered bls pristine health, appeared upon the street. To say that bls advent created a sensation is to put it mildly. Three or four superstitious miners, thinking it was his ‘ba’nt,’ straightway took to their cabins on the hillside and to prayer and fasting. The only woman in the camp had a fit of hysterics and fainted dead away. Greene, however, stopped the general panic that bls appearance was precipitating by stepping into the Crystal Palace saloon and there absorbing his four fingers of ‘red eye’ in a perfectly natural and earthlike manner. "It was hard to tell whether the town of Wallace or Jack Greene was the more astonished by the explanations that there ensued. At length, when those present had become convinced beyond cavil or doubt that it was Greene In the flesh and not Greene in the spirit—although by this time it must be confessed that spirit In great plenty was In Greene—they sent for the three conspirators. “ ‘What did you do It for?* was the question addressed in blunt and simple terms to the ringleader. “ ‘Well, I’ll tell you. You see we wanted to run Jack for a town office and we thought in this way we could get a line on how he stood with the community. But’-and here be slapped a wad of newspaper clippings down on the bar In front of the astonished wd aggrieved Greene, ‘Jack, you won't do. Just read those obituaries and see what the people think of you. Why, after, such a send- off as that we wouldn't dare to run you fdr the office of picking fleas off a yellow <Jog that was locked up on the town farm ’ ”

Lucky Dog.

Briggs—Tbe Dudleys seem to think a great deal of their dog. Griggs—Naturally; be Is something they never quarrel about, as they do their children When the dog exhibits some bad trait, neither can declare” that he took it from tbe other.—Boston Transcript „ x

Lots of Company.

Stranger—You must find It very lonely pn these hills. , Shepherd—Lonely! No. I don't Why. there was a man an a ‘oss passed yesterday, an there’s you today.—Punch. There la no law to prevent a woman from planting herself In front of a milliner's show window and wishing she had a bank account of her own.—Chicago News.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS. £}RS. JOHNSON & KRESLER Physicians and Surgeons. > over Pottery -Store in new fiolllnt-swoih mild lug, Office Phone m >r. Johnson’s, residence 221 So River Street Phone 21, . »f dee hours: 10 to 12 am; Ito 3 and 7 to 8p m >r. Kresler’a res'dence South sullen Street Phone 870 “ ’ffice hours: 0 to 11:30 a m. 1 to 3 4 7 to 8 p m. BKNHBBI.AER. IND SV. W. HARTSELL, M.D HOMEOPATHIC Physician and Surgeon, hronlc diseases a specialty. In Stock tor■Vi Ilianas block opposite court house. Phone 30 RENSSELAER, IND. (,B & IM. WASHBURN,M.D . Physicians and Surgeons. »r I. B. Washburn will give special attention to meases of the eye, ear, nose, throat and chronic Hosses. He also tests eyes tor glasses. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store, telephone No. 48. Bh.NBBEL.AER, IND, □R. A. L. BERKLEY, Physician and Surgeon. ■nice in Odd Fellows’ Annex, opposite public Square. Phone 120. RENSSELAER. ’ND QR. E. O. ENGLISH. Physician ana /surgeon Night and day calls given prompt attention, ’.evidence euone 118. Office Phone 177 RENSSELAER, INDIANA. DR.. A. J. MILLER, Physician and Surgeon. Rensselaer, - - Indiana, Office up stairs in Forsythe block. Genera) practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Galls answered promptly day or night. Office anij Residence phones 204 (Jasper Co.) DR. TURFLER & TURFLER, Dr. Francis Tnrfler Dr. Anna Francis Turfler. Osteopathic Physicians Graduate American School KIRKSVILLE MO. iffice Warber’s new building suite 1. RENSSELAER, IND ATTORNEYS. Faank Foltz. Charles G. Spitler Harry R. Kurrte. po LTZ, SPITLER & KURRTE (Successors to Thompson 4 Bro.) Attorney-at-Law. u»w, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in County RENSSELAER, IND.

FERGUSON & WILSON, • Attorney s-at-Law. VHI practice in all the courts. Will give care-tu-ntlon to any and all kind* of Legal Buiines, a trusted to them. Office west aide of Public Square-npetaln. BENSBKLAER, IND, J. M. Baughman. G. A. Williams Baughman & Williams, Attorney s-ai-Law. Law, Notary Work, Loans and Real Estate, pec lai attention given to collections of all finds. Office over “Racket Store. U.EKHBELAKR, - INDIANA. CJHARLEB E. MILLS Attorney-at-Law, Insurance, Collections, and Real Estate, Ab •tracts carefully prepared, Titles Examined farm Ixians negotiated at lowest rates, jffice upstairs lu Odd Fellows’ Temple. B. AUSTIN * Lawyer and Loan Broker. •rnce In Forsyths Bieck, corner Washington and Vanßcnsselaer st., RENSSELAER, - - - IND. J. J HUNT, ’ A ttorney -at-Law. x~‘ — j»w, Real Estate. Insurance, Abstracts and <<ians. orvica: Over Ellis A Murray’s »t->re RENSSELAER, IND. 0 P. HONAN, Attorney A i Law, aw, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance and Real Ksytte. Will practice tn all the Courts. All business attended to with promptness and dispatch. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. RAY D. THOMPSON, A ttorney-ai-Law, Notary Public, collecttoas, Imans, and ell leical Business carefully attended to Office Over First National Bank North of Court House i r. irwiß 8.0. Irwto (RWIN A IRWIN. Hncceesors to Warren A Irwin. Real Relate, Abetracte, CoilecUons, Fann Loans and Fire Insurance. OffiwtaOdd Fellawi,’Block, RENSSELAER, IND

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. W. H. PARKISON Attorney-at-Law. Insurance' Law Real Estate, Abstracts and Loan*" Attorney t«r the < nicago, Indlanapoll* & IxiulsVUJe Railway co. Will practice In all of he Courts Offipeover Fanners’ Bank ;on Washington St. / x. Rensselaer, jasp- r county. Ind. Ralph w. marshall, Attorney at Law. Special Attention to nettling Estat s. , DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. 3 —OFFICE— In former Clerk’s office. Eastpf Court House. RENSSELAER, IND. H. HOPKINS, t Aitorney-at-Law, ’ Loans and Office, Southwest Cortlßßl restate. ner K. of P. Bldg. BENISELAER, IND. BANKS . • A. McCoy, Pres T. J. McCoy, Cashier Walter White, Asst. Cashier. 2t. MO COY & Co.’S BANK Oldest Bank in Jasper County, ;Estab aLed 1804. Transacts a general banking bnsinesi, buys notes and loans on long or short time on personal or real estate security, Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits Foreign exchange bought and sold. Your patronage is solicited. Patron* having valuable papers may desposit them for safe keeping

Cbe first national Bank Of Rensselaer, Ind, Addison Parktson, President. John M. Wasson. V. President. E. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier Successor to the business Commercial State Bink Opened March 2nd. 1903, at the old location NOKTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; de posits received payable on time or on demand Money loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on ailOHles at Home and Abroad bought and sold, collections of notes and accounts a spc-. laity. 5 per cent Farm Loan* " Your Business Solicltsd. / DR. H. L. BROWN, DENI IST Crown and Bridgework, Teeth without plates a specialty. All the latest methods in Dentistry. office over Larsh’s Drugstore. Gas admlnlstered for painless extraction of teeth. L. WILLIS, Gunsmith, * ftt Special attention given to Bicycle Repairs of kinds Front’ street, i; block J -.‘Z/' l/ BOUthof WMhtn K tOD ‘ BICYCLE SUNDRIES. Loans, REAL ESTATE Insurance

Call on B. O. Gardner for bargains in land, properties for sale or exchange. Agt. for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company. Agt. for the Traders Fire Ins. Co. List your properties with me Farm or City. Yours for I usi less, B O. Gardner, * Rensselaer, Ind. -••-PIONEER---MEATMARKET J Eigelsbach. Prop, Beef, Pont Veal, Mutton, miisage, Balogna. Etc* ' at the lowest prices. —Highest Prices Paid for— HIDES, & FALLOW J. W. HORTON, Dentist in an medeia f«atn mi. Sold and Percahln Yevk. <Kas fei Palnlm Bstraatlen, A* Office opposite court house