Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1905 — Page 2

BENSSEL4ER REPUBLICAN Office in The, Republican Building, Corner of Washington and* Weston Streets, Rensselaer, Indiana. l ISSUED EVERY ' "T! ?; TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ***“*" BY m —IT . GEORGEE. MARSHALUIi: EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. H TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year. - $1.50 Six Months, • - - .75 Three Months. - ST -50 Entered in the {Office |of the Librarian at Washington as gecond-class jmatter. FRIDAY MAY 5 1!)05;

The State Tax Levy.

State Audi or Sherrick has noli, fied County Auditor Leathermen that the (state iax levy has betn fixed as follow*, the figures being basstd upon each value of property and upon each Poll. Bta'e tax general fund, 12 oe_ts per SIOO, 50j p r poll. State educational institutic ns fund 2s’ per SIOO. State sobool tax fund, 116 per SIOO, 50 ceata oar pall. State benevolent mstutioa fund 5 cents per SIOO. The total of tbe sfa‘e tax, levy is 31 7-20 and is for the years ’OS, ’O6 and ’O7The state levy heretofore waa, 30f cents. The increase is lees tuan one oent on the SIOO

Dr Edwin A. Schell, o! Crawfordsville, one of tbe leafing n nisters of this State has receivt a oalhto a Methodist church at LosAngeles, Cal. They agreed to give him $3,000 and a panonsge. As a result of the discovery that the new marriage licansps form prescribed by the stite beard of health does not contain any question concerning the length of time the applicants have lived in the oonnty. a meeting of the b >aid will soon bi called in order that this question can be added to tbe list.

Tha town of Earl Park and the township in which it is situated has “b'anketed” out all of i s saloons, for two years, by a blauket remons’rmc * under the Moore law. Tais leaves only one place in Bentoa county where sslooi s sare still permitted, whioh is Fre jland a small place in tbe west psrt of the county,

The Purdue University agrioul tural experiment ststion is about to issue its annual report on tbe fertilizers used by the farmers of the state, and it is understood thHt it will bliow e better oonditijn existing at p*esent than has existed for years. Prof. Arthur Goss, di reclor of ttie station, is stile chemist and the law requires that each f.-r'.iliz*r compinv selling tbe fert.lizer in tbe state fi'e cerlitionte with tbe fctite chemist, showing the co.nposi ian of the fertilizer, and also sho viLg that each {package sold bns been properly labehd Inspectois report they find a betttr eberlinnc-i to the law by dealers in oornmeroial fertilizer than ever before.

Oar polit>aa' prohibitionist is a peca air pe son. He will have his nvu way at all hazards. Oat a ])wigh\ 111., an in Jail Illinois . t-v.y vote at every spring •leotion oa the question of “wet or dry.” UsUtlly par y lines are forgotten and the main question is whether the towns will bavs saloons or not. This is deoided bytbevjte of candidates for or against the ssloons Tne saloon party united on a candidate. Tne anti-saloon men did the same thing except about forty prohis, who nominated a candidate of their own. The saloon candidates polled 284 votes, the anti saloon oaDdidites 272 votes and the probi candidate 43 voles not many to be sure, but enough to vote prohibition out of Dwight which has been a “dry town” for' twenty-four years.

THE TIRED COWBIRD

DOWNRIGHT LAZY IS THIS BLACK HOBO OF THE ORIOLE TRIBE. - It Bnilda No Nests of Its Oirn, but Lays Its Egga In the Nests of Other Birds and Never Troubles Itself About Hearing: Its Yonng. The cowbird was bom so tired that if he could compel any other bird to gather his food for him he would do so, but he cannot, so he scratches about all day among the herds of cattle and sheep and goes to roost at night In great bands of hundreds of his relatives, alwiys selecting a bushy tree, such aS a cypress, for a night’s perch. All up and down the Mississippi river valley is the common summer home of these birds, for only in the depth of winter do they retreat to the warmer mesas of Mexico, whither most of the other birds have proceeded them. In the spring following such a winter they are the first to return, filling all the new year air with their chatter and lining the barnyard trees. You must not think that the glossy black and brown birds so plentiful around southern California barnyards during the winter months are cowbirds, for they are not. They are called “graekles” and seem to be more like crows than blackbirds. You can find their nests, big, bulky affairs, In the orange and cypress trees of almost any of your ranch homes. There are many, many members to the blackbird family, the sweet voiced meadow larks and the gorgeous golden orioles as well as the more sober colored blackbirds and graekles, and of all these but one forces the hatching of her eggs and the feeding of her young on to another bird mother.

In England the cuckoo has this same habit, hut the American cuckoo builds her nest and sits on her eggs as nicely as any robin or dove could do. Sometimes our road runner so far forgets herself as to lay her eggs In the nest of a quail or a meadow lark, but not often, but when she does the bird upon whom Mrs. Road Runner tries to Impose generally breaks the strange egg or else goes away and leaves the nest alone. Then the field mice and the wood rats have a feast, to which sometimes the road runner comes herself, for she is very fond of eggs as long as they are not her own. But the cowbird never makes any such poor job as that. She always selects the nest of some smaller bird—ln regions where warblers are plentiful the home of one.of these little singers is most frequently chosen—and there as many eggs as she thinks the owner of the nest will submit to are laid. Sometimes the warbler goes right on incubating the Intruder, but uow and then the two old birds get together and dump the egg out oo the ground. Nests have been found in which the warblers put a mud floor over the first nest and built another one on top of It, leaving their own eggs to spoil because they knew no other way to rid themselves of the cowbird. If the cowbird comes back by the repaired nest she will put another egg in It, and generally this egg Is hatched and raised by the foster pair on whom It has been forced.

It requires about ten or eleven days for the young cowbird to break the 6hell, while most other birds of Its size are two or three days longer, and thus he has a good start on the other nestlings In point of growth. When hatched the cowbird is larger than the sparrow or the warbler and consequently gradually crowds them into the background, taking all the food that should belong to them. As they grow weaker from this he grows stronger, and it is not long until he tips them out of the nest and is sole master of the two old birds, who work ceaselessly to satisfy his awful appetite. In a very few days he gets too large for the little nest and goes out into the branches, where the old birds still contJnue to feed him in a way they never do their own young after they have left the nest. In Mexico and South America there is a cowbird that sometimes builds a nest of her own and sits upon and hatches her own eggs, but no such thing ever happens among the black hoboes of the oriole family found farther north. How many eggs a cowbird lays no one knows, but as many as seven have been found in one nest of the oven bird, a kind of thrush found In the eastern states. Usually, however, only one egg is laid in each nest, especially if the birds to whom the nest belongs are small and the nest too little to hold more than o.ne of the cowbird’s young in comfort. The parent cowbird never disturbs the eggs of any of the birds in whose nests she leaves her own, knowing full well that if she did so the nest builder would In all probability desert her home or throw the strange egg out. Oftentimes more than one cowbird lays In same neet, and, as no two eggs of \kese birds are ever exactly alike in color, you may be sure that no cowbird knows her own egg half a minute after she has laid It.—Los Angeles Times.

Liked Wooden Ships.

Admiral Farragut was a “very old fashioned sailor, with a strong prejudice’ in favor of wooden ships.” says Captain F. S. Ilill In bis “Twenty Years at Sea.” The admiral bad gained bis victories in such ships and declared himself “too old a dog to learn new tricks." In the Mobile fights his flagship was the wooden ship Hartford, though he was urged to take the new Ironclad Teeumseh. It was a noteworthy coincidence that the Teeumseh was the only vessel lost in the battle. Bhe was sunk by a torpedo and weiit down with her captain and more than a hundred of her crew.

Every man has Just ns much vanity as he lacks understanding-— Pope. r,. ± - -—»

F. V. Baptist Pastor Engaged

The F, W. Baptifet ohurch Le.e, which has lot g been without a settled pastor, has now engaged the tervicts of Rev, A' ft. Harper, of LaGrange. He has preaohed here several times and ia thus quite well known to his congregation. For several years past he has been the regular state evir galistof his denomination for tois state but as no evangelist is efficially employed this year, this has left him free to accept a sett'ed pastor ite. He will move here at onoe. He will hold services in ibe church here every Sunday, b ,tb m.ruiugeaud evening.

Study of Birds.

Local visitors to the Winona Assembly ill be interested in tbe announcement that arrangements have Been made again tlrs yehr with Col. Isaac Brown, the well kmwn ‘ bud and bee man,” to be at Winona throughout the entire summer. This student of bird life will c induct an excursion every morning from 4 o’clock t j 6 among tne the trees, across the meadow and into the Winona forests, with all who may seek to study the b.ris at their busiest, and hence happiest, time of the day. Hundreds of boxes for maitins, wrens, bluebirds, eta , have been erected on the grounds and with the thousands of birds that are always to be found in the groves and forests about the lake, the advantages for the study of bird life srj idea’, C douel Brown, after tje season opens, will be found under the great oak trees scuth ol the Audi orium at almost any time when not conducting excursions, and will be ready lo talk of b ids food to either pupils or tetchera.

Daniel G. Wagner Resigns.

L fayette, Ind,, May 4—ra-iel G 1 Wagner, chief train d spaloher of the Chicago division of the Monon Rai'rjad. today tendered his r<sgaatirn to the company which he has served fjr tixteeu y( a'B. T welve j ecra of this time he has b en chief train dispatcher with headquarters in this oity. Wagner has accepted the position of ohief dispatcher of the Jacksonville and Tampa divieon of the Atlantic Coa&t Line Railroad and his headquarters will beat Sanford, Fla.

A Death in Keener Township. Simon Septkama, a well known resident of Keener township, died Friday night, cf inflimation of the bowels, after a short sickness H< was abcut 35 years old, unmarried and lived with his mother He wfs cf Hcllßnder nationality. H’gnest market price guaranteed Kr our eggs at Mu rays. Good five room house, city and oietera water, in house. Rent rent reaeonabte. Enquire of 8 Monaghan, Weston street, near Susin street. Don’t fail to attend tha Big Sale commencing Wednesday May 3rd, Laßne Bros. $63.70 To Calforua anti Return Yia ; The Wabash System. Tiokets on eale May 1,2, 3, 9 10, 11. 12, 13, uni limited to 90 days. Liberal stop overs both going and returning. For detailed information call on or address, \ Tnos. Follen, Pasa. & Tkt- Akt. Agf,, Lafayette, Ind. Barred Plymouth RockjEggs. Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs for sale. From 3 pers headed by high scoring Birds 11.00 and $1 50 p*ls, J. L. Baboook. , Phone 542 A Parr, Ind. w June 15

For sale or trade, good furnishednotel, 12 rooms, well, cistern, wood-house, good stable, for 5 horses, good location, and a money maker, Immediate f ossessi n if taken within 10 days Enquire of Mrs. F. Lamber', Fair Oaks, lnd or Irwin & Irwin, Agents., w6tp Rensselaer, lod. The establishment of Mis. L. M. Inns ia now loaded to overflowing with the m st artistic creations of summer head gear ever brought to Rensselaer. Hundreds of hats to pleese hundreds of wearers. Come and pick out YOURB early. The prioe is sure to suit - . 1 . A . • —-- ........ - ' Early and late tomato p'ants at Mrs. ,T ihn Zimmermans

Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. * Notice to Stockhoidars. Chicago. Apiui. 24, 19(5 A speeial meeting of the stockholders of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company will beheld at the office of the company, room No. 615, LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, Ilhnois.on Thu eday, June 29, 1905, at eleven o'clock a. m., to consider and vote npon pro positions to authorize and issue fifty year four per cent, bonds of said company to the face amount of not exceeding $55,000,000, redeemable on sixty dajs’ notice at the price of 102% per cent of their face value, plus accrued interest, and to secure the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds by mortgaging all the railroad property, corporate rights and franchises now owned by said company and all which may be by it hereafter acquired by the use of any of the said bonds or their proceeds; such mortgage to provide that $34,626,000 in face amount of said bonds shall be reserved to pay or retire the bonded indebtedness of said company under existing mortgages, and that the balance of said bonds shall be used for the construction or acquisition of additions and improvements to tne property of said compauy, including additional equipment, and to reimburse said company for expenditures, made by i' after July 1,1902. and not otherwise funded, for such additions and improvements and for the acquisition of the stocks end bonds of other corporations owning connecting railroads or railroad bridges. By order of the Board of Directors. A J. DAVIDSON, J. S. FORD, President. Secretary. w June 30 Call for Heeling of County Council. The Jasper County Council of Jasper County. Indiana, is hereby called to meet ixi special session at the Commissioners’ Court Room in the City of Rensselaer en the 15tli day of May 19)5, at 11 o’clock a, m. to transact such business as may be properly brought beiore the council for consideration. Witness my hand this Ist .day of May 1905 JAMES N. LEsTHERMAN, Auditor ol Jasper County, lnd.

Decide What You Will Do.

An engineer who starts to build * bridge and then keeps finding bettei plaees to put his piers, and wondering whether he has selected the best location or cot, will never get the bridge across the river. He must decide, then go ahead and build the bridge, no matter what obstacle he may strike. So it is with the builder of character, he must decide finally what he wiil do. and then make for his goal, refusing tc look back or be moved from his course. Tens of thousands of young people with good health, good education, aau good ability, are standing on the end of a bridge, at life’s crossing. They hope they are on the right way, they think they are dei-s the i and yet they do not dare to hum tk: bridge they have just crossed. They want a chance for retreat in case they have made * mistake. They can not Devr tha thought of cutting off ail possibility of turning back. They lack the power to decide conclusively what tourse they wiil take.—O. S. Maiden in the August “Success.”

Best Selling Book in the World.

The Bible is the best selling book in the world. It leads, and by a long interval, all other publications in copies purchased in the ordinary channels of trade, without regard to what may be called the official distribution.. Every bookstore which undertakes to carry a full line of stock sells the Bible. Several important corporations confine themselves to the manufacture and sale of Bibles, and others find In the Bible their leading feature. Of no other book can this be said. Speaking some time ago of the Insatiable demand for the Bible as an article of merchandise, an oflicer of the Methodist Book Concern. which till recently issued cheep editions of the Bible, said: *TJk eali puiflisherp, we have to keep watoh of the sale of books In general. even tbe most popular, so as not to gat eyeretoOtoad. Bat this never occurs in pfitoUng the Bible. We just keep the pihbses steadily- at work, and if we haggxm to find that we have 4<V--000 or 50,000 copies on hand it gives ue no uneasiness. We are sure to sell them, and we go straight ahead printing."—Century.

Gambling Among Women.

The passion for gambling is quite aa prevalent, perhaps more prevalent, among women than among men. The majority of men who play cards for stakes do so as a diversion in leisure hours; among women of the present day card playing has become an ab sorbing pursuit, by day find night, to the subordination of other interest* At no pretious period in America, ana nowhere since the eighteenth centory, has the gambling mania been so prevalent among well-to-do women as at this time.—Philadelphia Public Ledg«r.

Oranger, Do. 43549 Imported Trend) Percberon Dapple grey, weight 1900, fine bone and muscle, 8 years old and a prize winner in both France and America, STANDS FOR 1905: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays at Granville Moody farm in Barkley township.== a Thnrsday, Friday and Saturdays at McCoysburg. Terms sls to insure German Coach horse Three years old, imported March 1905, dark brown, weight 1900. fine build and action. Will make the sea- ” son of 1905 at McOysburg. Terms, $12.50 to insure. Both these horses are licensed and the colts are holden for service, and the owners parting with mares or taking out of county or state, the same becomes due at once, Iflcgoysburg porn Company Owners.

A SERENADE IN AUTUMN.

Low drops the rose, the fading rose, That bloomed upon her casement there; Soft steals the night, the brooding night, And folds its shadow o’er my fair. To her the breeze, the autumn breeze, Brings farewell perfumes from the vale; Whilst In the trees, the changing trees, Sorrows the mateiess nightingale. J3ear her, oh, wind, that chilled the vale, the message of the dying flowers; That love is all the summer gives. And swift as flame are summer , hours. I Tell her, oh rose, who oft lay pressed Against her heart thy vine upon. That winter weaves but myrtle wreaths And summer dies when love is done. Tell her, oh, night, how time and chance Urge fast apace the priceless days; How sorrow waits or joy delayed, And love which loiters, love betrays. —McClure’s Magazine-

OVER THE SEA. As summer clouds on zephyr wing But half obscure the sky, So distance doth but half conceal The love-light of thine eye. As Memnon, tuned 1 to Nature’s voice. Gave forth its soft sweet strain. So mem'ry wafts on wings of love They voice to me again. That good-bye spoken with thine eyes So thrilled this aching heart, The sea was hut a sea of bliss. And it was sweet to part That loving tomb at thy soft hand. That fervid parting kiss. ▲ willing captive left my soul. In prison house of bliss. Speed on, speed on. thou laggard. Time; Oh, ship, hasto o’er the sea; V Ail hall the happy day that brings f* My loved one back to mew \ Klara Christian. Marietta* Ora j

A Republican for Fioe Job Work. Republican for Sale Bills.

Republican for Sale Bills. flood Pasture For Cows Good pasture for 20 cows, right adjoining town, good water. For terms apply to John Makeever. dw May 22p Home grown asparagus, freth and tender, at John Eger’s. Mrs. Mattie Grant, agent for Mandel Bros.’ tailor made suits, shirt waitß. jackets, cravinettee, eto. Oiders taken at her residence on Front street. Remember that Murray’s store wants to bny your eggs. To every customer bringing to Murrays one or more oases of eggs Re will give a nine doz. egg oase free, as long es the present stock of oases last. Cards of Thanks* The undersigned desire in this way to extend their very grateful thanks, for the great kindness and assitanoe extended to them, on the oooasion of their reoent great loss by fire. J, N . Gunyon and Family. Settle With Donnelly Lumber Co. Having sold my interest in the Donnelly Lumber, Co notice is given that all aooonnts of the Company are now due and ptyable to me, at the office near the depot. All accounts not settled by cash or uo*e by May Ist will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. dwmay3rd Wm Donnelly.