Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1905 — Page 4

Public Sale of Live Stock. The undersigned will sell at Pub“ftTsabs at bis residen e 3| m les west of R-n’selaer, 4 tn les sou heast of Mt Ayr. begin ting at 10 a <n, sharp on FRIDAY, JAN 6TH, The following property, tovit: 8 Head of Horses, Consist ng of one good span of mules 3 and 4 years old, one brood mare 12 year old, one 2 year old gelding, one yearling gelding, one good spring oolt, one pony 6 years old in foal to heavy horse, one burro with oart gentle lor children. 35 Head of Cat It*; consisting of 3 mil oh oows 2 of them fresh. 9 two ye t nld steers, 5 yearling steers, 7 two year old bsiLrs, 8 spring calves 3Jall calves. 14 Head of Hogs; 5 poland ohina boar, pedigreed 1 duroo Jeisey boar .pedigreed, 8 shoats weight about 100 lbs .Sheep 46 he d good shrop hire ewes Also one buck, will sell in lots of ten. Terms of sale 1 year’s time, or 5 per cent off for oash.’on sum over $5 A C. PANCOAST. T. J Clyne, Auctioneer. . C G. Spitler, Clerk.

fUBUC SALE, The will sell at public eale at his resident in Barkley tp 4 miles north 1| miles miles east of Rensse'.aer,-beginning at 10 a m. sharp on. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11, Tte following propeity, to vi ; 7 Head of Horsts, consisting ol one good span cf mules, 6 years old. agjod all r uid w.r'j team one bay horse 12 y cars old present condition 1400 lbs. Oae brown horse 11 years old wt 1100, one roan mare 5 y»ars old, one gray horse 8 years old wt 1050, cn bay mare 9 years old wt 1200. 15 Head of cattle 4 head us milk oows. be 'resh i i M»roh and first of April, 3 htad of yearling eteers 3 head of yearling heifers. 1 yearl ing her ford, 3 he fer calves. 1 steer calf. Farm Implements, Vehicles etc, Consisting of one Milwaukee binder, one McCormick mower one hay Tike, one Mitohs 1 farm wagon one surrey, one top buggv steel tire, two walking plows 14 inch and 15 inch, one gaag plow rut part of two years. one sulky pl >w 16 inches Big Injun, tw' walking clutivators, oie sit of spring ehovels, one welder a set of black emith took; New fanning mil Endgate seeder a< d many o'her? of leas import uio>. T.rmofSile I vest's t me or 8 per cent ff f>r ca h ov< rss GE9 M ELFREBH Fiel P illips n-er. C G Bpi tier, C trk. BIG PUBLIC SALE.

Box Social At Randal School House, Jan. 7tn 4 *OS Aurol program wil te giv u. Come Er>r.body.; J nnie Eib. Tevcher. Notice to Contractors N >tice i« hereby sivnn that on Tuesday, the SEVENTH DAY OF FEBRUARY, lUUft. at the regular February Session ot the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. State of Indiana, said Board will let to the lowest responsible bidder, by sealed bids, the construction of the Gravel Roads in said County [known as ‘‘The Independence Road” ‘‘The Vernon Branch" and the “Central Gillam Branch" ordered bj said Foard of Commissioners constructed in the Township of Gillam in said County, according to plans and specifications now on file in the Auditor's Office of said County, which Ro ids are considered and will be let as a whole and are of the total length of IS 542—10C0 miles. Biddtrs will be required to fi e w : th bids bonds to the approval of the county Auditor in twice the amount of such bids and in all respects as provided by Section 4 of tne Act of March 11' ii, 1901; Acts 1901. page 453. Bids must ba on fi e by 12 o’clock M. By order of th > Board of Commissioners. JAMES N L-ATHERMA ■< Auditor Sail County December 15th 1904, 3 w

WSW NOTICE The State of Indiana, ( In the Jasper Circuit Jasper County j Court February Term. 1905 John C '■h'rkandM ■“.) G odwin, constituting ' the firm of Goidwin I & Shirk > Complaint No. 6671 Vs I Ida Aliison Constantine | & Eine y Constan in - ) Now come ths Plaintiffs, bv Austin & Hopkins their attorneys, an i fie 'heir complaint h nin, together with an affidavit that the defendant, Ida Al Ison Constantine Is not a resident of the state of I "lia na. Notice Is thereto e hereby given said Defendant, that unless she be rnd appear on the first day of the luxt Term of the Jasper Oir cnit Court, to be holden on he. 2nd Monday of February, A D. 1905, at the Court Horse in Rens-elaer in said County and State, at d answer or demur to said complaint, the same wi'l be heard and determined in hei absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set /'TSTTAvit hand and affix the seal of said SEAL urlj a t Rensselaer thia Bth day of t>veember, A.D. 1901. Dec2O27-J3 C.O.WARNER, Clerk.

Notice of Administration Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, Administrator of the estate of William Goff, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to beinsolvent. JESSE E. WILSON, Administrator, Dec. 22nd, 1904. D27JS-10 Commissioner’s Sale o Land. Notice is herebv given that the undersigned has be appointed commissioner to sell the real estate hereinafter described in cause no. C 686 of the Jasper Circuit Court, wherein Edward F. Mitchell et al are plaintifts and Isaiah H.Mitchell etjal are defendants. said real estate being described as follows, to-wit;-Thirty-two(32) acres off the west side of the south east quarter of the north west quarter of section thirty six (36) township thirtyone (31] north, range five (5) west; also ten [10) acres off the s juth end of the north east quarter of the north west quarter of section thirty six (36) in township thirty one [3l) north, range five [5) west, all in Jasper county, Indiana. w Te ms of Sale. Said sale will b,3 made on and after January 16th, 1905, at private sale and for cash, and for not less than the full appraised value of said real estate. An abstract will be furnished for the inspection of any proposed purchaser. CHARLES G. SPITLER. I Commissioner I Dec. 2C-27-J3

TO 33 acres in Kankakee township all cultivated, orchard, no buildings, 100 acres in Wheatfield Township, black land, fair bui dings, near stati »n Owner will take |’.50l in clear pro. - perty of any kind as first payment. 5o acres in Walker township, all prairie land, lies along large ditch near station. Owner Hi take $1 000 in town property. Dakota or South- . ern land. 81 acres near the Jasper county oil fields I Owner will take J 1,000 is good t.ade and give long time on difference. 160 acres in Van Buren county, Michigan All cultivated except 20 aces office timber has good nine room house large barn, seventeen acres of grapes in full bearing and a large amount ot other fruit. Owner will take part In clear town property or hotel. '4O acres cultivated, fair buildings. Will trade for live stock, 80 acres good Improvement. Will trade for town property. > 100 acres, black land, near station, good buildings. Owner will take clear town property as first payment. 21 2 acres in Laporte county well improved, tiled, owner will trade for clear property or livery. Clear property in this city to trade for good improved land and will pay difference A good seven room house on three lots in Fowler Ind to trade for property in this city, or land. Several registered stallions and Kentucky jacks to trade for land or town property. Property in Chicago and other cities for land. Also have a large list of fine bottom land tn Jackson and Scott counties Ind., well improved at from $35 to SSO per acre. If you have anything to ex< b inge we can matchit no matter what it Is. Call or unite and make your wants known. You will confer a favor on us and we may be able to da you good. G. F. HEYERS Over Murray's Store. Rensselaer Ind.

For Sal?: 40 sc'es of timber, 4| mi es southeast of R-nsselaer. [nd , will s-ll by the ac e or part of • ere. Wil s=Jl cod or stove w><d. or po'es. Stove wood cut t> f rder. Card wood $2.00 per co d on the gr und W. E Jacks. Re-idence nr ar timber.

THOLSANDS OF FURS. A Vidette reported who dropped in at the i ffi«e of W. Hayworth & Co, this morning wa< surprised at the amount f business done b ? this firm. The sk ns were pasked in almost all the available apace in the large alore rooms there beirg so netting like 2 000 all tcld. Ihe fi m sold 20,C00 about a month ag >. Th ae, with what is on handa cow and what will yet be brought in before the close of the year will otal close tc 50,000 for the And yet we are told that all the fur beaiicg animals are extinct in th a aaolion. —Valparaiso Vidette.

Public Sale. The uud-rsigned wll sell a> Pab'ic Sa’e at lis rtai-'enca on the ranch in J tp., 7 miles san hw\ st <. f Reneselaer, and 5 miles northeast of F reeman, 0 g noing at 10 a. m. shaip o« THURSDAY, JAN. 12. The following p opeity of A McCoy A Porter. Tuwit: 20 Head of Hors ib: C) Bst D ' of 10 g>od w> rk torses, 3 meths, 4 th'te-year old o:lts, 3 coming tw >-y a-8 old Six Head of Good C .<*>, Agooi milk cows, one a Je o ey, several freah within 30 'L>B Farm Imp emettS, Veh cl s eti. 5 broad tired wagons, 1 two seat'd spr n£ wagon, 1 delivery wa-on 5 sets of duble harnecS, Imo* icy machine. 1 manure spr.ad'r, 4 cu tiva’ois, 1 riding b eakiug p ow 1 jva'ki g b eak n- plow, 1 thrat Uaf harro*’, 1 corn planter. 100 rods or wire, 1 fann ng mill, 20 good feed trouibs 9 se'f feeder*. 1 » and sheder, aad many eraalbr rt c es. 5,000 bushels of c rn that will 1 e s Id *t pr’va e sale. I’erm*-of S le O e year’s credit or 5 off for cash tn sums < ver $5. WAL' ER V. PORTER. Fied Fbill ps Auctioneer, C G Spithr, Clerk. Hot lunch on Grounds,

Special Meeting Board of Edncation, Offi e < f The County School School Superintendent Renes-laer Ind ana, Dec 27, 1904. To The \>u'jty Board of Education: You are hereby cal ed to meet in -pwial session in thia office Wednesday, January. 4 1905 at 1 ;30 p. m. Purpore of thia meeting is to dec'de on the date of the next County Teaohera Insti'u'e. Aa many of the Ex-trueteea as can are urged to bo present at this meeting, It ia important lint evt-ry trustee and president of the School Board in the county attei d this meeting. Louis H. Hamilton. County Superintendent. Dr. Chas. Vick, Eye Specialist. . Thia ia an a u e of Specialists. The abil ity to do one thing and do it well ia more to be commended v d ia of more benefit to humanity tn n to do many things and none <qiial to the beat.-’ We limit opr jraotioe on the eye to errors of re'HCtion, of which we have made a Special Study for over thirty years Office in 0. H. Viok's store next door to express office,

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Two Extremes of Animal Eyesight. If we could see an eye which has actually been evolved from one like that of amphloxus, let us examine the head of a lizard. Disregard for a time his bright eyes, one on each side of his head, and look directly down on the center of the skull between them. Here we will find an oddly shaped scale marked with a little depression and this is, indeed, what is left of our Cyclopean eye in the tiny sand creature. Lizards doubtless derive very little benefit from it, as the nerve leading from it is very small, but in some of their ancestors it must have been of great value in detecting the presence of enemies from above. In all creatures above lizards this third median eye (called the pineal) is found although of no use whatever; this persistence, perhaps, showing of what great importance it once was. In a chick in the early stages of incubation this eye is very considerably developed, while yet the paired eyes are but small structures. But suddenly Nature seems to realize that the old regime has passed—tnat the little bird will need other more modern eyes, and the two sides begin to develop with wonderful rapidity, and soon catch up with and distance the Cyclops eye, whose early start ends only in promise. There was certainly a time long ago when living creatures were not blessed with eyes. In creatures now living upon the earth, we may trace a series of eyes from the highest and most efficient to the simplest dot of black pigment. The eye of the eagle may stand for the first, and the eye-spot of the amphioxus or the eight sense-germs of a. jellyfish for the other extreme of the series. The amphioxus is a little worm, or fishlike creature which most of the time lives buried in the sand of our seashores. He is interesting and important out of all proportion to his size, two inches, for he is ome of the lowliest creatures to be honpred with a backbone, the class-mark of all higher animals. He has no skull and no brain, but near the front end of the thin thread of nerve (the foreshadowing of our spinal chord) is a tiny black dot. By means of this he distinguishes light from darkness, which is all his simple life requires. Let us not forget the position of this single, most primitive of .eyes—in the center of what would be the brain if the lowly creature had one.

The eye of the jellyfish is so primitive that we can hardly »ay whether it sees er leeiS. That is, when a floating jellyfish begins to sink below thesurface of the water as the shaaow of an advancing ship falls upon it, it is probably affected by the sensation of darkness, but perhaps the pressure of the onrush wave has something to do with it. A horse, a bat, a mole, a monkey, a seal , all have a trace of this third eye, and when we put a finger on the “soft spot” of the head of a tiny baby, we realize the wonderful import of it — that the softness is due to a near approach of this same third eye to the surface, striving as it has done in so many lower creatures to push its poor Imperfect lens to where the light can act. upon it. But the old ways have given place to new, and the child’s blue eyes look out at you and the Wo; Id and see all that is necessary for its life and needs. r We can hardly iniagi",' afiy.LLC more the loss of our JJcsignt, and yet there are many creatures which have found life moie pleasant in the darkness of caves and underground tunnels or to roam only at night, when there eyes are useless, and by the lack of use these organs have degenerated to mere specks and in some cases the skin has grown completely over them. Thus we find blind fishes and lizards in. dark caves, and blind ants and moles all but blind in their dark subterranean homes. Certain bats, too, have but tiny dots for eyes, and depend chiefly upon their acute hearing and some sense by which they can feel the 'vibrations of the air. Snakes have but poor eyesight, and like fish have no Eyelids. Their eyes are covered with a thin, transparent scale which is ever open, la sun and shade, at noon and midnight, in an awful, never-winking stare. We cannot imagine how sleep can ever come to such creatures. Finally, let us turn to the most perfect eye nature has ever produced. We can read and write and do many things by the aid of our eyes that are forbidden to other creatures of the earth; but this is because of the brain behind directing the eyes. We can look closely at the stars, and we can watch the actions or a tiny dot of life many thousand of times smaller than a mote of dust. All this we can do by means of the two “magic tubes," the telescope and the microscope. But when the unaided eye is alone considered, birds put us to shame. “Observe an eagle,” writes a noted scientist, “soaring aloft until he seems to be but a speck in the blue expanse. He is far-sighted, and scanning the earth below, descries an object much smaller than himself, which would be invisible to us at that distance. He prepares to pounce upon his quarry; in the moment required for the deadly plunge he becomes near-sighted, seizes his victim with unerring aim, and sees well how to complete the bloody work begun. A humming bird darts so quickly that our eyes cannot follow him. yet instantaneously settles as light as a feather upon, a tiny twig. How far off it was when first perceived we do not know, "but in (he intervening fraction of a second the twig has rushed into the focus of distinct vision from many yards away. A woodcock tears through the thickest cover as if it was clear space, avoiding every obstacle. The only things to the accurate perception of which birds’

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I PIANOS I and Organs— % Will sell as cheap as you can buy the same "grade of goods anywhere. Also a fine line of second hand or- “*“** /I\ gans to sell cheap. Don’t send off for an organ or «■» W pianos until you get my prices. W INSTRUMENT ON EASY PAYMENTS.' W W Pianos from <150101375 W Organs from 25. to 100 /In Come and see me in CastlelHall Building. Jr f. benjiman *

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