Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1909 — Page 8

Classified Column. FOR SALE. ■ FOR SALE—A good residence, well located. A bargain to close an estate. C. W. Coen, executor. FOR SALE —A Davis cream separator, which ought to be as good as it ever was. Took it in on a new DeLaval. sl6 cash. B. D. Comer. FOR SALE —"Don’t Spit on the Floor" Placards, 9%x15 inches, at 10c each, at this office FOR SALE —20,000 feet of oak lumber for farm or cribs; 2,000 oak posts; 20,000 feet of bridge timber. Inquire of Fred Phillips. FOR SALE—2S acres of land, five Skiles northwest of Rensselaer, in Newton topnship. This is a choice piece of land, improved, located near bead of Iroquois dredge, and a barbin at $75 per acre cash price. For toll particulars write to Mrs. J. G. Gibbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada. 78ep.tf.

FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Jan. Ist, a new 6-room cottage, with bath, hot and cold water, pantry, closet, etc. Opposite' my residence on Rusten street A. Leopold, Phone 33, or inquire at office of Moses Leopold. FOR RENT —Five roomed house, well located. Ellen J. Sayler or Arthur H. Hopkins. ts FOR RENT —100 acre faUh In corn belt Newton county, Ind., well fenced and good buildings. Write owner, giving good reference, etc. G. K. Wentworth, 234 LaSalle St, Chicago, 111. Jan 4 FOR RENT—9 room house, barn; • lots. Gus Yeoman, R. D. No. 3, or inquire of Charles Battleday, who has key. nv.lTtf FOR RENT—Rooms or flats over Republican office. Heat light and water furnished. Inquire at Republican office. WANTED. WANTED —A dining room girl at once. Makeever Hotel. WANTED —More milk customers. M. J. Thornton. WANTED —Job on a farm. Address Alva Simpson, Box 150, Rensselaer, Ind. 26dec. WANTED —Sewing by the day. Address "T” this office and party will call on you. ■ WANTED —Work on farm by year.Address T. K., Box 54, Rensselaer. dl4. LOST. LOST—SS bill; between D. M. Worland’s furniture store and my residence. Finder will please leave at this office or return to Mrs. Linnie Gant LOST —A male shepard and Scotch collie dog; color brown and white; about 6 months old; responds to the name of Gyp; black leather strap on neck. Information to telephone 134. LOST —About 10 days ago, from the Kurrie farm where Mack Sullivan lives, a red male hog with some black spots on it; weight about 120 pounds. Information may be left at Foltz & Spitler’s office or telephone BOIL

FOUND. FOUND —A nice fur collar. Owner may apply to Mrs. Linnie Gant STRAYED. Strayed from Jay W. Stockton’s pasture, 3Vi miles west of Rensselaer, one steer, with slit in left ear, and a crop in lower side of right ear. Any information will be gladly received as to its whereabouts, and paid for trouble. Phone 5278 or R. F. D. No. 3, Box 4. MISCELLANEOUS. MONEY TO LOAN—lnsurance 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 445. HORSE BLANKET BARGAINS. Put your horses In condition for your sale. Good blankets will do it I will sell you a good stable blanket at a reduced price. Uamlmo MATT WORDEN. Do you want your cows to give more milk? Feed them Buffalo Gluten Feed. For sale by Maines & Hamilton. — •' .Cloaks Vi and Vi off to close' out. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

THE CANDLESTICKS.

The candlesticks —there were two of them, and they were really fine specimens of old Sheffield plate—stood on a mahogany sideboard that was certainly out of proportion in size to the cottage parlor it half filled. But as a monument to the industry of Mrs. Barber,, and the women of hep house for several past generations, its high state of polish served an admirable purpose, and as a support to the candlesticks it could not have been improved upon. Together they shared the envious respect of the village, but to Mrs. Barber herself the candlesticks were always “the thing.’’ “Mahogany furniture’s well enough,” she would say, feigning a carelessness in appreciation she hardly felt “but it takes a sight of elbow grease to make it look anything particular and as for dusting, sometimes I feel like clearing the whole lot of old sticks out for what they’d fetch to save the dusting, for Dad and me don’t sit in this room once in a blue moon—Dad, he can’t a-bear it. What is it now? YOu gets up extry early and gives the place a sweep out and a rub round, and you dusts the bits of chlney and things and opens the door to let in enough of God’s fresh air to liven it up and make it smell sweet and wholesome, and come a dusty day and the bicycles a-passing and a wagon or two, and by night the dust is a-lying on everything fit to make you cry. •

“But the candlesticks, they shine so easy it’s a real pleasure to clean ’em. Made of something they puts more value to than silver, they are, so they tells me now. My old mother died thinking ’em silver and in my young days there was nothing at all set above silver excepting gold. But things are different since I was a gal, and perhaps I’ve done my share or changing, too, for I don’t so much care what they’re called, though it’s enough to make my old mother turn in her grave after all these years. But it seems they’re worth a fine lot of money, whatever they be. They’re for my boy. When I’m gone and his father’s gone, the candlesticks will be his and he can do as be likes with ’em then. I can’t say about that; but I shan’t be here to have a hand in it, and, as for me selling of ’em, I’m trinklng my old mother’d get up from churchyard to haunt me if I were to sell the candlesticks as she set such store by. Nor I wouldn’t rob my son, as the only one left of eight to follow me. Born he was when all the rest was a-lying in their graves and long after I’d give away their bits of clothes and, if I’m anyhow silly like over him, you must excuse me, but part with the candlesticks I couldn’t. And for the money”—the old face would sadden an<J she would pause in her long tale to slowly, monotonously shake her gray head—“we all knows as money is mighty little good tc some. They can’t help it—likely they’re made so —but money melts when they touch it like butter melts in the sun, and precious little good done to anyone. But the candlesticks —well, well, I means to keep ’em, let folks worrit eved so. My Jim can do as he likes when I’ve give ’ em a last cleaning—l’m thinking he won’t want what they’ll fetch less when he’s old than when he’s young, and when he’s old I shan’t be here to screw him out a few shillings now and again when things are tightish. Not that I have n’t felt tempted to sell ’em and done with it,’’ she would add, in self-de-fense.

Yet, one day the sideboard stood bare, robbed of its ornaments; but not after all, because some treasureseeker had gained his desire and carried them off, and not because of the present necessities of Jim. “I was fair sick of being worrited, and I couldn’t stand It a day longer,” Mrs. Barber said in explanation; “so I’ve just put ’em away, and there they’ll be now till I be took off, and then frightened at the temptation to part with them pressing more closely on her with the growth of Jim’s needs or whether her simple statement covered the whole situation, it is hard to say, but at any rate, the candlestick lay in banishment in a box under her bed. All the old flannel petticoats she could spare helped to wedge them in and keep them from “scratching,” and any further "worriting” on the part of straying treasure-seekers was successfully put an end to. How she filled up the time she had been accustomed to spend on cleaning them she did not say. For she no longer cleaned them; the fact that the box containing them was carefully nailed down and labeled “For my dere son Jim" prevented that. During that summer Jim paid the old couple a flying visit —seedy, out-at-elbows Jim, lacking even a touch of his mother’s cherry, long-spoken good nature or bls father’s independence of spirit Mrs. Barber told half the village that his first words had been "Why, hallo, mother, where are your precious candlesticks?” and seemed to find Inexhaustible humor and cleverness in the remark. “My old mother, she’d have been fair pleased,” she added, "for she set no end of store by the candlesticks.” Mr. Barjber, who looked as if he might well live another 20 years, making light of the accomplishment, died quite unexpectedly during the extreme

cold of the following winter, and then the old woman lived on in the Cottage alone, growing a little more bent and worn with every mbntli, a changed rthd drooping figure pitiful to see. But people said it was not her husband’s unlooked for death that had wrought the sudden alteration in her; that it had begun before that happened. There were some who professed to set apart a day in fheir memories I when Mrs. Barber withered without warning, yet with no signs of definite disease. Frail and broken as she was, she lived for several years and every year Jim paid her the accustomed flying visit. “Youiß like the candlesticks when I’m gone, Jimmy,’’ she would say, her faded eyes shifting uneasily about the room, out of the window, anywhere but on her son, and her thin voice breaking a little. “You’ll be able to sell ’em if you’re a-wanting to, and I shan’t be minding either.’’ Jim would doggedly try to turn the current of her thoughts but it was never any good for more than a minute at a time. And then, one day, Jim Barber, a careless but not. un-loving son, knelt at his mother’s bedside and she dying. “Get out the box, Jimmy,” she whispered; “let me just look on the box once again, my dear.” He had to set the box on a chair and even then she could not see it, but she could still lift a wasted hand to feel its rough deal lid and fumble for the label nailed there. ”1 put ’em away, Jimmy, to save me from being everlastingly a-worrited, five years ago come harvesting. I wrapped ’em up and I nailed ’em down, and I put your name on top, so as there shouldn’t be no chance of. anyon’s mistaking who they belonged to in case* of me being took sudden. Five years ago I done it, Jimmy—and it ain’t been undone since.” “Mother—mother, I —God forgive me for a cowardly—” “Jimmy, dear heart, hush. Your old mother, she spoilt you, silly like, but she done it for love only. Eight little graves in the churchyard, ana you, as healthy a babe as ever I see, sent to me when I’d give away all their little clotheses and dried my eyes and settled down to live long of Dad for the rest of my days without any little ones to light the way for us and keep our hearts from cooling, and then you come—And your way is harder now, Jimmy, because I spoilt you. They always said I did —Dad, he said so, too, and it was none of liis work —but I did it for love. All the love left over from the others and all your own I give you—it’s yours now, Jimmy—and, lad, let it help you when I’m gone. Be a good lad, it can’t never be too late, my dear—and don’t punish your old mother forever and ever for what she’s done. 1 won’t ask you to promise, Jimmy—promises are mighty easy brokeh — but try, dear lad;, just keep on trying.” She paused, and moved her hand from her son’s grasp to top ch the box once more. “The candlesticks have always been the same as your own, Jimmy, and the box hasn’t been opened once these five years.’’ She did not die just then, but those were the last words she was given breath to speak. And those wdrds were a lie —God help her. For the box had been opened twice, as Jim Barber knew. Once when, alone he opened it to steal the candlesticks; and once when, alone also, his mother opened it to verify her suspicion of the theft. —L. Parry Truscott.

HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP

R. S. Drake sawed wood Tuesday.

Mrs. C. R. Templeton Is visiting friends at Frankfort this week. Mrs. Ola Randle spent Christmas with Mrs Belle Dodd at Lee. Mr. and Mrs. James Lefler and G. C. Petree were in Rensselaer Tuesday. Mrs. Geo. Stalker was at Valparaiso a few days this week on business. James Lefler helped Will Walters butcher his summer meat Wednesday. Miss Kate Maxwell spent Tuesday night and Wednesday with Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Moulds and family. John and Henry Clausen, of Chebanse, 111., visited a part of this week with Chas. Erb and family. Robert and Eva Johns went to Lafayette Monday evening for a few days* visit with relatives during their holiday vacation. A brother of J. H. Montz, of Ford county, 111., is here for a week’s visit It has been nearly six years since they have seen each other. Mrs. Oscar Howe and two children, Berle and Donald, went to Lawrence, Kans., last week to visit her mother, Mrs. Wm. Hefkln. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. McCoy and son Pierce, of Marlon, came up Friday morning for a day or , two visit with Geo. McCoy and Reed McCoy. Mrs. Chas. Stultz has been quite sick for the past two weeks, but is much better at this writing, and is able tb be about again. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong re-

turned home Saturday night from Michigan City, where they had been, visiting the former’s parents. Shold the weather continue and a big snow fall without a thawout until spring, the muddy roads will be of short duration, as In the spring of ’OS. • , Mr. and Mrs. M. Rin gelsen and little daughter, Millie, returned home Monday evening from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Wilkins at Hobart. / M. L. Ford went to Newman, 111., last Thursday for a visit with his parents and other relatives. Ed Cook is doing Mr. Ford’s feeding while he is gone. Mrs. C. W. Bussell and three children, Elvin, Florence and Ella, went to Lafayette Saturday evening for a visit over Sunday with her brother, Wm. Long. Pearl Ross, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ross, has been suffering the past few days with a severe sore throat, which seems to be almost tonsilltis. Mr. and Mrs. John Brand, of Monon, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brannen and Clarence Montz, of Monticello, and Anna Montz, of Chicago, spent Christmas day with J. H. Montz and family here. The ladies of the Parker M. E. church are planning to serve lunch at H. N. Moulds’ sale, Jan. 7th. Each family interested are requested to bring well filled baskets of eatables, pies, sandwitches, etc. The Bowman families are packing their goods z preparatory to moving down near Ashgrove. Mr. Karr, who has been living near the Osborne school house since last fall, will occupy the farm vacated by Geo. Bowman. R. C. McDonald gave his right eye a close call with a liair of scissors Monday while cutting a string wrapp d about a bolt of calico. In pulling on-the string the scissors gave way unexpectedly, striking him just above the eye with the sharp point. The Christmas tree at McCoysburg was quite a success, a large crowd was present to hear the little children display their talent. Many nice presents were given to friends. The crowd was the largest that has filled the school house for a number of years. Santa Claus at the Fair View school Christmas tree last Thursday came near getting badly burned. He appeared on the scene all covered with cotton snowflakes, the cotton caught fire from the candles and almost Instantly Santa’s clothing was ablaze, but the flames we v e quickly smothered out, without any serious injury to Santa Clause. The McCoysburg Sunday school held their annual election of officers for the ensuing year. The following persons were elected: Supt., J. H. Montz; Asst., Ray Bussell; Secy, and Treas., Kate Maxwell; organist,,Edna Lefler; teachers, Reed McCoy, Edna Lefler, Mrs. Grace Porter, Kate Maxwell and Vera Lefler; janitor, Willie Montz; librarians, Blanche Porter and Till e Ringeisen. /

When Mr. Moulds sells out and moves away, which will be soon, Hanging Grove will lose another one of her highly esteemed families. Mr. and Mrs. Moulds have been very active Sunday school workers for several years, and their absene will be keenly felt at Parker. Geo. Potts has been elected to succeed Mr. Moulds as superintendent and it is hoped the Interest will be kept up. Earl Crowder, a thrifty young man of our township, is now regular fireman on trains 39 and 40 between Lafayette and Chicago, he is on duty one day and off the next. Earl began working on the road two or three years ago, and has stuck close to his work ever since—first as a student, then extra and so on, always at his post when called for duty. He now has a good position with an excellent chance for promotion.

BEWARE OF OINTMENTS FOR CATARRH THAT CONTAIN MERCURY, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do fs Vn fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken ternauy and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by Druggists. Price 75c per bottle. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.

Millar coffee has made many warm friends since our opening last spring. We want everybody to know of its njerlts, and next Saturday, January 2, fill have a demonstrator serve free coffee made from our 20c grade. Don’t fall to sample it Home Grocery. WE GIVE AWAY A CARYING SET AND CHAFING DISH ON NEW YEARS.

E. D. RHOADES & SON,

We sold over 35 dozen carnations Christmas and then did not. have enough to go around for the reason so many failed to telephone us their orders in time. Telephone your New Years orders early and oblige. THE KING FLORAL CO.

New Meat Market North Main Street We Are Now Running and Solicit Your Trade We will pay the Highest Market Prices for veal calves, hides, tallow, etc., and Fancy Prices for good fat cattle. tus-thu-fri JOE PUTTS, Phone 151

Automobile. Livery Cars for hire at all hours of day or night. Reliable cars and competent drivers. We will make a specialty of carrying to and from parties and dances. Gi-Ve Us a Call. Rates 'Reasonable. Rensselaer Garage

-Sain a fti n'Bagiww® j i li from the factory to Von Do middleman's Profit I take the City Profit and Cut It In Two and then Shave that some. By this system I have sold 53 Beautiful PIANOS In the last eighteen months. FRED F’HILLIF’S 1,000 Song Books Given Away

Nobody Spared.

KIDNEY TROUBLES ATTACK RENSSELAER ME N AN D WOMEN, OLD AND YOUNG. Kidney ills sieze young and old. Come quickly with little warning. Children suffer in their early years— Can’t control the kidney secretions. Girls are languid, nervous, suffer nain. Women worry, can’t do daily work. Men have lame and aching backs. The cure for man, woman, or child. Is to cure the cause—the kidneys. Doan’s Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys— Cure all forms of kidney suffering. Mrs. Andrew Brenner, 1821 Toledo Street, Logansport, Ind., says: "We think just as highly-of Doan’s Kidney Pills at this time as when we gave a statement recommending them in 1897, after they had cured our daughter of a very distressing case of kidney trouble. Her kidneys became weakened after a severe attack of typhoid fever and as a result, she endured much suffering. I had used Doan’s Kidney Pills with such good results that I decided to have my daughter try them and procured a box. They helped her greatly from the first and she steadily improved until completely cured. This cure took place in 1897 and as no recurrence of the trouble have taken place, I feel that I can recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills to other sufferers.” Plenty more proof like this from Rensselaer people. Call at B. F. Fendig’s drug store and ask what customers report For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name —Doan’s—and take no other. Three men were killed and two injured in a headon collision between Big Four freight trains, four* miles south of Knightstown Tuesday. The dead are Charles M. Fisk, engineer, Wabash; William Remley, fireman, Wabash; R. C. Auson, fireman, bash. The injured are John, Meye s, engineer, Wabash; E. Wilson, brakeman, North Vernon.

Permanently Located in Rensselaer for More Than Four Years. It has been my constant endeavor for more than four years to establish and maintain a reputation for carefully and accurately correcting refractive errors by using the correct lenses to correct the trouble found, giving perfect vision, relieving tired eyes, headaches and nervous trouble, which is a benefit to one’s general health. Inquire among those that have had attention of this kind and see who receives the credit for the benefit they have received. After satisfying yourself of this fact, you can find the office to have such trouble taken care of, over A. F. Long’s Drug Store on telephone 232. Dr. A. G. Catt, Optometrist, graduate of Optical College, also registered on State Board Examination. NOTICE. Rensselaer, Ind., Dec. 24, 1908. I will go on the above date to Piqua, Ohio, for an absence until January 2d, and wish to inform the public of my absence. Dr. E. N. LOY.

REMOVAL NOTICE. Dr. Rose Remmek, optical specialist; who has been located at Clarke’s jewelry store, has moved her office to the second floor of the Harris bank building, where she will have more room for the practice of optics. AU old patients, and any new ones suffering from eye discomforts are cordially invited to call. Phone 403. The Republican expects its carriers to be prompt and regular and alms to have evefy subscriber to the Evening Republican receive his paper on time. In order that subscribers may not miss the paper we wish they would call us by telephone promptly when the paper fails to put in an appearance. Call phone 151 and have your meats delivered.