Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — Page 2
The R fa^teJ,iP ubliCi i n HEALEY k CLARK, • .< * - . . ■ Publishers i The Friday Issue Is the Regular Weekly Edition. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Rally, by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week. > •” • - - By Mall, $8.75 a Year. Semi-Weekly, In advance, Year $1.50. Friday, August 27, 1909.
HARD WINTER BEFORE US.
We woul not presume to butt into the prerogatives of the weather prognosticators in this vicinity, and other re—lie—able sources, but have you not noticed very unusual signs of severe winter ahead of us? Notice a few: Pick up a this year’s pup by the nap of the neck, and though you can see but a glint of his eyes, lie never whimpers. This is because his hide is so thick in preparation. Other years he’d howl like a coyote if you did the same. Ask any butcher to explain the increased thickness of this year’s calf’s hides. Run your fingers through the fleece of a this year’s lamb. Any this year’s chicken that expects to go through this winter, has feathers down its legs. We are not a Hicks in reading weather signs, but any fool —though he run, may read the foregoing and draw conclusions without the goose bone which as yet is only in the embryo state.
If you work for a man, in Heaven’s name work for him. If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If' put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must villify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your hearts content. But as long as you are a part of the institution do not condemn it. If you do, you are loosening the tendrils that hold you to the institution, and by the first high wind that comes along, you will be uprooted and blown away, and probably you will never know why.
To continuously relate or harp on one’s troubles will drive visitors from any home. No one cares to hear constant repetitions of troubles or a rehashing of unpleasant happenings of the past. Let the dead past bury its dead. The present is full enough of current trouble, without being loaded down with the past. People who carry their trouble on their faces, their lips, and actions, drive away many friends who fire of listening and seek more cheerful company.
Autos are great temperance teachers, as none can manage a jag and a buzz wagon at the same time.
John D. Rockefeller doesn’t believe in quarreling with his bread and butter. This is shown by the courteous treatment which he shows to consumers of liis products. Rensselaer automobilists, as well as those in other cities, have often noticed with surprise the difference that is shown them by drivers of Standard Oil wagons. Whenever an oil wagon meets an automobile the first driver will invariably turn out and clear the road to the latter. It has happened so many times that it cannot be called merely concidental. One man has explained it after this fashion. “John D. realizes that the autos are among his best patrons and so this great capitalist has given instructions to his octopus to show automobiles the greatest respect; All along those great tentacles the word has been passed along. If you don’t believe it, watch the next oil wagon you pass while riding in an auto.”
A firm of Boston publishers not long ago offered a prize for the best definition of the word “success.” The prize was finally awarded to a lady, a resident of Lincoln, Neb., who wrote the following classic definition: “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his nicli and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than,he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; whq has always looked for the best in others, and given the best he had; whose life is an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.”
Harry Thaw lias been sent back to Mattewan and the people of this great land will rejoice beyond all measure if he is kept there, so that their eyes will not be called upon to see stories of the shameless case in the newspapers. Now if they could only deport the “Angel Child” Evelyn, all will be well. o— The yellow legged chicken seeks the darkest corners of the barn these days, if he is a wise bird, for the -whistle of the thresher’s engine betokens the arrival of a hungry crew whom the farmer’s wife feeds on the fat of the land. Ah me! would I were a thresher man. o ' Soon will be the time when the kid eats green apples and sings “Nearer My God to Thee.” Better watch him—funerals are expensive affairs, and, then again, you have been to some expense in raising him. o Now that President Taft has taken up the tariff, will he, like the fellow who caught the bear, call loudly for some one to help him let the blame critter go 1 * o Matters political seem to be getting rather mixed as to what constitutes a Democrat or Republican in these strenuous days of tariff revision. o It is not what a man gets that makes him rich—it is what he manages to hang onto. "" | T o Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it. o % The only man who never made a mistake died when he was a boy.
LOYALTY.
OUR TALES OF WOE.
CAN’T CARRY BOTH.
Young Woman’s Devotion To Murderer Is Marvelous.
Michigan City Neute. From Jeffersonville comes a story of a woman’s devotion for a man behind prison bars. The woman in question is Miss Mary Watkins, a school teacher^at Memphis, and the young fellow whom she holds so dear is Fred Wilson, Jr., serving a life sentence here for murder. Miss Watkins is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daily Watkins, who reside near Jeffersonville. She gave up her school that she might come here and be near young Wilson, who is serving life with his father, both of whom were convicted for murder committed last June. Miss Watkins is making her home with Mrs. Wilson, wife and mother of the two Wilson men. The devotion of Miss Watkins was brought out in a letter she wrote to County Superintendent of Schools S. L. Scott, relative to a sum of money that is owing her for services rendered as a teacher.
HANGING GROVE.
Marion Sands was in Rensselaer Sunday. Miss Vera Lefler is taking a week’s vacation. Chas. Stultz is layed up from work with a bruised hand. Jos. Willits is out in South Dakota on a prospecting trip. Miss Cora Tyler helped Mrs. Ford last week'with her work. Sheriff Shirer, of Rensselaer, called on Geo. Johnson Wednesday. George Johnson and wife called on Clyde Fulk and mother Sunday. Joseph Willits’ are entertaining company from Lafayette this week. John Seifers, of Mt. Carmel, visited his sister, Mrs. James Tyler., Thursday.
Miss Kate Maxwell visited friends in Hanging Grove Monday and Tuesday.
Misses Hazel Drake and Lizzie Hooker took dinner with Mrs. Mary E. Lowe Tuesday. C. W. Bussell and family visited with S. B. Holmes and family, west of
Rensselaer, Sunday. Mrs. Etta Jennings, of Oxford, came home with her sister, Mrs. Geo. Bond, for a few days’ visit. Geo. Johnson began to go lame early Tuesday. On Monday he had bad luck; traded horses. Miss Sarah Holmes, of Rensselaer, assisted Mrs. C. W. Bussell in cooking for threshers last week. Misses Bertha and Francis Lowe, of spent Saturday night and Sunday with Robert Drake and family. Mrs. James Dean and son, of Indianapolis, are visiting with her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Karr, and family. Mr. and Mbs. R. L. Bussell and daughter, Lucile, visited with Wm. R. Whittaker and family, of Rensselaer, Sunday. A While threshing rye a few days ago Hoy Rishling got a beard in his eye, and it was necessary to have the doctor remove it.
Joseph Stewart and wife went to Paulding county, Ohio, to attend a reunion of the Stewart family. • They will be gone a week. J. E. Tillet, of Francesville, a brother of Mrs. Mary Parker and Mrs. P. T. Robinson, died Monday night, after a long sickness. R. O. Johns went to Kersey‘Wednesday morning to do some repair work on one of the railroad engines. Oren Peregrine worked in the shop during his absence. James Tyler rounded up nine rattlesnakes in an oats field last Friday, on the old Stiers farm, and without anything about him to cure a bite. He went after them with a pitch fork and came out first best. Jim hofds.the banner thus far for rattlesnake killing, but he didn’t save the rattles. If you see a rattlesnake in your summer peregrinations do not run to the faithful flask. Modern science declares that those who recovered through its agency in the past must have owed their lives to a lively imagination, as the remedy is without merit. What will be the next excuse for us to keep a little flask.
By order of the mayor Fort Wayne was dry Sunday. The effort to make saloon keepers there obey the law and their determination to break it, shows the poor regard bar keepers have for the promises so fulsomely made a few inonthß ago when there was prospect of altogether driving them out of business. A broken mirror was cut in a small square, and cardboard placed back of it. The edges were finished with red passe-partout and it made a hqpdy sharing mirror.
BUCKSKIN BEN’S WILD WEST SHOWS.
Big Attraction at Abe Tippecanoe County Fair. Buckskin Ben’s famous wild west and dpg and pony shows, with his novelty wild west band made up of cowboys and cowgirls, will arrive In Lafayette on Sunday, August 29 and everything put in readiness for their owning of the Tippecanoe county fair. The show carries tents, seats, lighting effects, and everything per<o. " taining to a first class road show of this character. There are about fifty people, forty horses, and a number pf trained dogs, ponies and monkeys. The acts are all clean, refined and suitable for ladies and children as well as men. The acts will consist of trained horses, dogs, ponies and monkeys, bucking bronchos, fancy and trick rifle shots, cowboy and cowgirl riders and ropers, rope throwing and spinning, and other novel and up-to-date features, including all the best and latest ideas in the line of wild west shows, and the show is calculated to entertain and please all classes and all ages.
One of the features of the outfit is the camp and sleeping quarters of the show, as Buckskin Ben claims to have the nicest camp of any traveling show and the public is invited to visit and inspect the same at any time.
Buckskin Ben desires it to be understood that he does not countenance a lot of greasy and dirty Indians and cowboys, and a lot of stale acts, but that his entire show is clean, refined and up-to-date.
In addition Buckskin Ben’s wild west and dog and pony show, the fair management will introduce to the public the Nat Nazarro troupe of electrifying acrobats, this being their first appearance in America, also the famaus Japanese troupe, the Ishikawa brothers and Loughlin’s collection of trained dogs. Professor Gall’s balloon will go up every day at 4 o’clock. All this in edition to the fourteen big harness races and the stock parade and many other features to interest and entertain the people should make this the banner fair of all years.
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