Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1908 — Page 4

Classified Column. FOR BALB FOR SALE—A good gelding mule, coming yearling; sired by Kenton’s Jack. Reed McCoy, McCoysburg. llntf FOR SALE —Thoroughbred boars, ready for service, at the Rosebud farm. Pedigrees furnished. Price sls. Amos H. Alter & Son, phone 5078., 'B. jy. 2, Rensselaer. -———- n.2op FOR SALE—2O,OOO feet of oak lumber for farm or cribs; 2,000 oak posts; 20,000 feet of bridge timber. Inquire of Fred Phillips, a FOR SALE —1 base burner, a $55 stove, will be sold cheap. Inquire at P. W. Clarke’s jewelry store. FOR SALE—A good buck sheep. Shropshire bred. Registered. At a bargain. B. D. Comer, phone 521 A. FOR SALE—An almost new carriage. In best of condition. Call on Earl Barkley or phone 305. FOR SALE OR FOR RENT—My residence In Parr. Inquire of Mrs. Linnie Gant Rensselaer, Ind.

FOR SALE—Nice Holland cabbage at the Globe Onion Farm. A. Donnelly. FOR SALE—Livery bam and all the stock, buggies, carriages, etc. Inquire of Mrs. M. H. Hemphill or Jack Hoyes. z FOR SALE—2S acres of land, five miles northwest of Rensselaer, in Newton topnship. This is a choice piece of land, improved, located near head of Iroquois dredge, and a bar•in at $75 per acre cash price. For fall particulars write to Mrs. J. G. Gibbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada. TSep.tf. FOR SALE —125 cords of wood. First class, 4 foot length. Delivered any place In the city. C. Kellner, phone 64. FOR SALE —Pure bred Shorthorn bulls; one excellent two-year old and two yearlings. Jesse Eldridge, phone 62. ts

FOR RENT. FOR RENT —The George R. Smith, house and barn, near ball park, until May Ist. Mrs. Mary E. Drake, phone 423. n. 16 FOR RENT—Fann. T. W. Grant FOR RENT —9 room house. S. M. Laßue. , WANTED. WANTED —Plain sewing and shirt waist making to do. Will go to house and sew. Call' phone 520 A. Isabel 1 Richmond, Rensselaer. WANTED —50 girls to work in overall factory. National Union scale of wages. L. C. Lyons, Sect, Brook, Ind. Dec. 7. WANTED —20 poultry pickers. B. S. Fendig. MONEY—If you are in more than a hurry call on B. F. Ferguson for farm loans. He has placed over $16,000 within the last ten days. V LOST. LOS little Jersey Red pig about 2 Aionths old. Information to fi. C. Irwin, Phone 399.

TAKEN UP. ESTRAYEDOR TAKEN. From my farm near Surrey, Nov. a sorrel, white faced colt wearing a sorrel, white faced col wearing web halter. A liberal reward offered for information as to their whereabouts. C. L. PARKS, R. D. No. 3, Rensselaer, Ind. Taken'* UP Two ~ stray horses were taken up by me at my farm last Sunday, Nov. 10, Fred Karch, Wheatfield, Ind. FOUND FOUND A black hog, weighing about ISO pounds, has 4 white feet and white spot on side. Inquire of John Kohler, % mile west of court house, south side of town. MISCELLANEOUS. MONEY TO LOAN—insurance Co. money on first farm mortgage security. Inquire of E. P. Honan. lo.tf DR. J. H. HANSON, VETERNARY SURGEON—Now at Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harris Bank Building. Phone 443. OEM CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE, Quincy. HL 30 teachers, 1.400 student*, lino.ooo School Building. Shorthand and t vpewrttlng. Bookkeeping, etc <8 p. - illustrated Catalogue free. D. L M<«jM»*linan, Preet. Lock Bat 58. Quin-, in Seed!

RIGHT TIME TO SLEEP.

Beet Health Enjoyed by Those Who Retire Early. Perfect health demands not only a fixed amount of sleep, but the observance of regular habits, says Dr. John D. Quackenbos. And perfect sleep for man can be obtained only at night, as suggested by the rythmical succession of light and darkness. There is point to the old proverb, “An hour’s Iseep before midnight is worth two after.” Those who are in the habit of turning night into day realize this to then cost. The hour.before midnight that is worth two after is from 11 to 12. And inasmuch as the human system is more below par at 3 a. m. than at any other period in the 24 hours, sleep should cover at least two hours on each side of this time. When life is at. stake in the crises of acute disease nurses are instructed to begin nperial stimulation at midnight and to continue It until 6 In the morning, in the hope that flagging energies may be sustained through this period of sis preme depression.

English University Spirit

Until the middle of the nineteenth century England had only three universities —Oxford, Cambridge and Durham —but the time is soon coming when every large city on John Bull’s island will want a university of its own. London already has one, and so has Birmingham, to say nothing oi those of Manchester and Liverpool Leeds has joined the dance, and *atest Of all, comes Sheffield, which opened Ito university recently, Tb> new buildings have cost $1,000,000. And so things change, even in England, and these rapid transformations are bound to alter the aristocratic character of the English universities. In fact, those institutions seem bound to assmue a most democratic air. No longer is university education to be put on a high shelf where only a few rich young gentlemen at Oxford and Cam bridge can reach it, but, precisely as in America, it will soon be accessible to the sons of the middle classes and the poor, who can still live at home while taking their lectures at the university. —Boston Transcript

The Jews and the Japanese.

Are the Japanese the lost ten tribes of Israel? The Jewish World revives this old theory, remarking that it was probably inevitable that they should be sought iri the Japanese in view of the fact that the museums of Japan contain numerous engravings purporting to show the landing of Jews in Nippon. One of the pictures cited is said to show a procession in which tae ark is discernible and In which thr priests wear hats of biblical pattern. Another depicts Solomon In the act of receiving gifts from the queen of Sheba, while —and this is regarded as the most conclusive of all—the founder of Japan’s dynasty of 126 emperors bore the same name (Osea) as the last king of Israel (Hoshea), his contemporary.

Eskimos Still Live In Stone Age.

The Eskimos of Arctic Alaska are still in the stone age.. The manufacture of arrows and spear heads, from flint is a living industry. Stone lamps, stone hammers and chisels, and to some extent stone knives are still inordinary use among them. Fish lines and nets and bird snares are still made of whalebone, sinew and rawhide. Arrows spears, nets and traps are used in hunting, although improved breechloading arms are being introduced among them and will soon supersede, for the larger game, their own more primitive weapons.

A Sovereign Who Is Punctual.

All men agree in the abstract that “punctuality is the soul of business,” but few act up to the maxim with the strictness of the king of the Belgians. Wherever or however he may travel whether the visit be of business, pleasure or ceremony, he is punctual, not only to the hour, but to the minute—it might almost be said to the second. And yet his majesty is never seen to consult a watch. But his familiars know that his habit of passing bis hand along his flowing bead is only a device for glancing at a small watch which he wears fastened to his wrist.

Versatile Young Man.

In the situation wanted column of a London newspaper 'this advertisement appeared recently: “I do not know everything, but I will undertake anything, anywhere, any time. I know American from pork yards to the hub of culture, Australia from Kauri to Bottletree; the Continent taught ms French, German and other things; familiar with all stocks, deeds and lawyers’ genial .ways, can draw and plan to scale; reviewers say I can write; 35 and tough.”

Belgium’s Town of Fools.

Gheel, in Belgium, Is a town of fools. Imbeciles are sent there as to an asylum, but, instead of being shut up and deprived of the pleasures of liberty, they are allowed to enjoy themselves like reasonable beings.

Immigrants Change Names.

Many immigrants change their names upon arivihg in this country on account of the difficulty they find in getting them spelled properly. Many in New York accept the names of streets as their surnames. '

World’s Supply of Eiderdown.

Iceland produces most of the world’s supply of eiderdown, the annual sale amounting to something over 7,000 pounds. Most of this is shipped to Copenhagen, and commands from $2.41 to |2.50 a pound. In the army of the Haytien republic chairs are provided for the use of sentries when on duty.

JOE MILLER

By J. A. LLOYD

Joe Miller, on a summer morn, Near the roadside hoed his corn. His rimless hat exposed a cheek He hadn’t shaved for near a week. Whistling, he’d hoe and never stop, As he thought of weeds and growing crop. , He glanced at the hillside near the wood. Where, old and brown, his cabin stood. The whistling ceased; a vague unrest Sprang up beneath his ragged vest. Ann Smith came riding by that way, Driving the deacon’s "one-hoss shay.** Her fingers decked with many rings, Her head with bangs and other things. She stopped her horse on seeing Joe, And, in a loud voice, Cried: "Hello!" 'Tm dry’s a fish. Can you spare a mug Of water from your little jug 7” Joe took his jug from ’neath a board And filled for her an old brown gourd. He blushed as he gave it, and stole ■ % glance At his tattered shirt and his ragged pants, ’ While through a hole in worn-out shoe His toes Stuaß nut an inch or two. "Thanks!" And her voice had a tender touch; ' “I didn’t think I could drink so much.**

She spoke of the grass, of a coming storm, The potato bug and the army-worm. .Then Joe forgot his ragged clothes, His rimless hat and projecting toes, And sat on the fence, while a bashful grin Bat on his features long and thin; While she explained *twaa leap-year then, And women might make love to men. How a husband she would like to find, One who’d be good and true and kind; One who would work and well provide For a woman's wants and a woman's pride. "You know I am not old," said she; "I'm pretty, too, as you can see. "You need a wife to bake your bread. To cook, to mend —now will you wed?” Through Joe's anatomy a thrill Of pleasure passed: "Perhaps I will. I-hardly know what's best to do; I need a wife and money, too. Your offer I will bear In mind, And if no better one I find, When you call again, if anxious still To have me wed, perhaps I will." The deacon’s daughter rode away In an angry mood in the one-hose shay, And, looking back with heart forlorn. She saw Joe Miller hoeing corn. "The ugly thing, with his crownless hat And dirty clothes, all torn at that; Were no other man on this earthly ball I wouldn’t have him now at all." Joo got a wife as time went by. And built a house two stories high. For his wife was rich, but cross and old. And, alas for Joe! a horrid scold. No children came to deaden strifo Or bring a sunshine to their life. Oft by his firelight poor Joe Would watch a picture come- and go. Again Ann Smith on leap-year day Drove by in the deacon's one-hoss shay.

Once more he hears a sweet voice say: "Will you wed me, Joe, some happy dayF* He closed his eyes and gave a groan To think the chance away he’d thrown. "If I had not said, on that fatal day, 'Perhaps I will* when she rode away. It fill* my heart with sorrow still. That I did not say: ‘Of course I will/ “ And poor Joe sighed with secret pain While wishing he were free again. Ann married a blacksmith, people say. To show her spite at Joe’s delay. Bh* chose the plan of Roosevelt. For a dozen kids In her cabin dwelt. And oft a* she rode in the one-hose shay Bhe thought of that fatal leap-year day. She saw Joe Miller sitting still. And heard the words: "Perhaps I wiU.** Alas for the maid! Alas for Joe! That cruel Fate should servo them so. Oh, pity them both, and pity them all Whom marriage bonds do thus enthrall. For of all sad words of tongue or quill. The saddest are these: "Perhaps I will.” Ah, well, with them all a fond hope stays Deeply buried from human gaze. A divorce at last may bring them weal. With it a chance for a “squarer deal."

THE RISE AND FALL OF ARMIES.

The Latest to Accompli ah Something Holds the World’s Attention. Just at present the Japanese army is the cynosure of all military eyes. It is the latest army to do something, and for that reason, if for no other, holds the world’s attention. Interest rather than study is what it provokes now. The study will <x>me later, .when we know more than we do today of the quality of its work and can parcel out how much of the Japanese success was due to superior fighting power and how much to overwhelming preponderance of numbers on its side. There is no reflection on the courage of an army in its winning by strategy. Only ’ a brave army can be trusted by a strategist. At to concentrating superior numbers on thefoe, that is what organization is for. So far as we now know, the ITapanese organization admirably served its purpose, but the actual value of the Japanese army as a whole depends for ascertainment on fuller information than we now possess. We have heard little or nothing from the vanquished. We need the Russian account before we can make up our minds as to the degree of facility with which the victors achieved their successes.—Boston Transcript.

Changes In Locomotives.

When one looks at the fleet, powerful locomotives of today, one can but smile when he remembers that they are the direct progeny of the little IqcomotiveS that were the astonishment of America 75 years ago, says Leroy Scott In the American Illustrated Magazine. The Best Friend made its trial trips in the autumn months of 1830 on a railroad that ran out of Charleston, S. C. One day, the next year, while the engineer was* attending to some freight (for the engineer Of that time was also the train crew) the fireman, a negro, became annoyed at the buzzling steam that escaped through the safety valve. He first tried to cure the nuisance, by holding the valve down with his hand, but the steam pressure was stronger than his arm. Then he sat down on the lever of the valve. That was better; the steam devil quieted. The negro was content for a few minutes'—then came the explosion, and the negro and the Best Friend were wrecks.

When Winding Your Watch.

The old superstitious belief that you will change your luck if you ’ stop winding your watch at night and wind it in the morning may hive some slight basis in fact, according to a jeweler, who says that the morning is the proper time to do the winding. This is not, only because the hour of rising is for the average man much more regular than that for retiring but even the soberest and most orderly of men are apt to relax and prone to carelessness at bedtime, when more or less worn by the wear and tear of the day. In this condition the winding is apt to be done in a jerky, irregular sort of way. or too far or not far enough. “Nine people ou£ of ten wina their watenes on going to bed,” said the jeweler; “but if they would do it when they get up, at some regular point in the process of making their toilet, they would do it much better.” —Philadelphia Record.

Insurance for. Pigs.

A scheme tor the co-operative insurance of pigs has been started in Wiltshire, the idea being to strengthen by amalgamation, the hundred or more pig insurance clubs which already ex-. Ist in the country, and to form new pig clubs in villages which are the source of some Qf our best breakfast bacon. The new association, which is to be known a$ the Wiltshire Pig Insurance and Provident Association, is to be, registered Hfiddr‘the friendly societies act. —London Express.• . ,2'

Red Hair and Baldness.

An eminent man of science has recently declared that red-haired people are far less apt to grow bald than those with other colored hair. The average crop on the head of a red-haired person is only 20,200 hairs. Ordinary dark hair is far finer, and over three dark hairs take up the space <4 one red* one; 105,000 are about the average. But fair-haired people are still better off; 140,000 to 160,000 are quite a common number of hairs on the scalp of a fair-haired man or woman.

Uses for the Kite.

The kite, that toy ana delight of boyhood, has very practical uses. In engineering it is employed to carry liner across deep chasms, thus supplying a means, of carrying heavier cables, and by their use in turn, parts of the sustaining frame of the structure during its erection. Kites are also used to cary life lines across a line of surf and breakers for the purpose of removing the passengers of stranded vessels.

Filtering Tobacco Smoke.

Users of tobacco should, according to a German investigator, filter the smoke from their pipes through cotton soakeo in ferric salts. By this process the fumes of the essential oil, of the hydrogen sulphide, the cyanhydric acid and about half the nicotine and its products of decomposition are got rid of, yvhile the smoke is not deprived of Ms aroma. e

Savants for Conductors.

Conductors on the German state railways must hereaft-'r be able to speak both English and French besides their own language. These who fall to pass the examination will be discharged, if the educational requirements for conductors in Germany are made much more rigid none can qualify for the positions but the professors of Heidelberg and Bonn.—Four Track News. .

Automobile Livery I Cars for hire at all hours of day or night. Re- ; liable cars and competent drivers. We will ! make of carrying to and from parties and dances. G’fOe Us a Call. Rates ; Rensselaer Garage

Professional Cards

DR. E. C, ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON Night and day calls given pompt abtention. Residence phone, IM.OfBI phone, 177. Rensselaer, Ind.

Dr.I.M. WASHBURN PHYSICIAN AND SVRDW>W. Make* a Specialty of Diseases of tha fcym. Rensselaer, Indiana.

DR. F. A. TURFLER OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Room ’ Successfully treats both acute and chronic diseases. Spinal curvature* •

DR. E. N. LOY Successor to Dr. W. W. HarteeU. Occupying his old office In the Willis— Block HOMEOPATHIST OFFICE PHONE » Residence College Avenue, Phon* 16$. Rensselaer, Indiana.

J. F. Irwin 8. C. Irwta IRWIN&IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. I per cent term loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ block. Rensselaer, Indiana

ARTHUR H. HOPKINS Law, Loans, and Real Estate Loans on terms and city property, peraonal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, eoU and rent terms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Offlos over Chicago Bargain Store. ItenMelatf*, TiWllaw

E. P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Loans, Abstracts, Insurance sM Real Estate. Will practice In all the courts. An business attended to wttk promptness and dispatch. Rensselaer. Indiana

CHAS. M. SANDS LAW, COLLECTIONS, ABSTRACTS Office Room 1, t O. C. F. Bld*. Phone. Office 140 z , Rensselaer; uid.

MOSES LEOFLD ATTORNEY AT LAW ABSTRACTS. REAL ESTATE, INBtJR ANCES. Up stairs, northwest corner Washing ton and Van Rensselaer Streets. Rensselaer, Indiana

Frank Foltz Charles G. Spitler FOLTZ & SPITLEB (Successors to Thompson & Bros.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW ,L<W. Reel Estate, Insurance, Attracts and Loans Only set of Abstract books in County.

W. H. PABKIBON ATTORNEY AT LAW Insurance, Law, Real Estate, Ab> ■gyet* and Loans. Attorney for the Chicago, Indianapolis A Louisvine Rail wto. Will practice in all of the Courts. Office in Forsythe Building on Washington street

H. L. BROWN DENTIST Own and Bridge-Work and Twtt Without Plates * Specialty. AD the latest method* in Dentistry. Oaa administered for painless extraction. Office over Larshrs Drug Store. J. W. HORTON GRADUATE OF PROSTHESIS Modem Service, Methods. Materials Opposite Court House Late Chickens Wanted. I want to buy all the small chickens from one to three weeks old in the country. A liberal price will be paid, according to size. J. H. HOLDEN, At Holden Chicken Farm, Rensselaer, Ind. n?.20 Four men were injured, two of them fatally, by the fall of a derrick at the new courthouse in Duluth, Minn.

* <• -I- -1- -1- * ♦ ♦ ♦ :: if You... i ' ‘ Have Any Doubt t But that the quality of ’ * our groceries is the high- ‘ * ~ est, and, quality consid- ~ ered, our prices right, •• let us dispel that doubt. •• ~ Just give us the chance ~ by calling No, 99 the next • • time you order groceries, •» f ( and we’ll do the rest. Quality is our Watch- ’* f word. T •• Try the‘Ferndell’line ♦ I of goods and you are I T bound to be pleased. , ▼ Don’t forget that we T X handle the finest bacon X on earth. ’ We pay the Highest T ■ Prices for Eggs X and Good Butter. ■ • The Reliable Grocers I mcfarland < son Don’t wear any kind and all kind of glasses and do your eyes barm when you can have your eyes tested by latest methods, by a permanently located and reliable Optometrist. Careful attention given in all examinations and all work guaranteed. Glasses from $2.00 Office over Long’s drug store. Appointments made by telephone No. 232. Registered and licensed on Stat* Board examination, also graduate of an Optical College. \

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Addison Parklson by Executors to Granville Moody, 1 Oct. 17, pt e% ne 1-29-6; 18.85 acres, Barkley. Executor’s deed, 11,131.00. Stephen H. Howe to Mathew Walin, Nov. 2, ne 4-28-5, 194.18 acres, Hanging Grove, $16,447.50. Caroline E. Heath heirs to Samuel Bowman, Sept. 5, It 2, bl 15, Remington, S2OO. Samuel Bowman to Ellsworth F. Heath, Oct. 26, It 2, bl 15, Remington, S2OO. Andrew Kohler et al to Cassius B. Wesner, nw nw 33-22-6, 40, WheatHeld, S6OO. Jacob Getz to Charles T. Putman, Oct 22, n ne 35-31-5, nw 35-31-5, sw ne 35-31-5, nw se 35-31-5, n ne sw 35-31-5, Gillam, $34,000. Wilton L. Barclay to Charles H. Gerstner, Sept. Is, sw ne 9-31-7, w se 9-31-7, e sw 9- 31-7, nw sw 9-81-7, nw 9-31*7, 400 acres, Keener, SIO,OOO. “Doan's Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent”— Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Open for Buiness. The new grocery and meat market is now open for business In the old post office building. A full line of Groceries, Fresh and Cured meats will be carried. The best grade of packing house fresh meats will be carried. Prompt delivery made to any part of the city. Phone 213. A. B. LOWMAN.

Notice, Box Ball Parlor! Commencing Monday, Nov. ICth, * coupon will be given out to each plkyer after each game up to nine o’clock Wednesday s night, Noy. 25. A prize of a nice Thanksgiving turkey will be given. Also 31.00 for high score each week. Watch the black board. . P. U FULLER 4k SON. MUSIC TEACHER Prof. Tripodl can accommodate a few more pupils on the piano or violin. At library every Saturday forenoon. decl4 Wabash county will be one of the first In Indiana to vote under the county local option law.