Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1909 — Page 2

RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY. Th* Friday Imu« is the Kagnlar weekly Edition. HEALEY tt CLARK, Publishers. SUBSCBIPTIOW BATES. Dally, by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week. By Mail, $3.75 a year. Semi-Weekly, In advance, Tear $1.60. Friday, November 2G, 1909.

Notice to the Public.

Having bought Mr. C. W. Coen’s interest in the grain and coal firm of Coen & we embark in the same business as their successor. Perhaps a word of introduction as a new firm and a forward look as to the , new firm’s policy is not amiss in these columns. First of all we wish to thank all our friends for the liberal patronage they have given us in the past, and hope to so conduct the business in the future as to merit the patronage of all our old, together with many new customers. We shall continue to pay the highest market price for your grain, and shall treat all our patrons as liberally and courteously as possible. Our facilities for handling your grain of every kind are most ample. You will find our stock of coal is most complete and the best we can buy. For the past four years we have handled, almost exclusively, a brand of hard coal which has given universal satisfaction and which is the best coal on the market, in the judgment of Mr. Coen, who, by the way, has been engaged in the business longer, has handled more coal, and tried more kinds than any other dealer Rensselaer has ever had. This coal we shall handle exclusively in the future. We are handling four of the best varieties of cook stove coals we can find. Our stock contains also all the favorite heating stove and furnace coals from the best Indiana to Genuine West Virginia Smokeless. Hence our policy shall be to enlarge our grain and coal business by keeping abreast of the times in our line and furnishing a maximum of service and accommodation to all our patrons. We again thank you for the business you have already given us and also, for that we know you will give us in the future. J. L. BRADY.

BIG PUBLIC SALE. * As William S. Newberry is going to move to Illinois, and as a part of the property is owned jointly, and as a means of disposing of the same, we the undersigned, will offer at public sale, at the present residence of Mr. Newberry, on the Arthur H. Hopkins farm, 1 mile southeast of Virgie, 3% miles southwest bf Kniman and .12 miles from Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a. m., on Thursday, Dec. 2, 1909. 3 head of Horses—Consisting of 1 black horse, 9 years old; 1 black horse, 10 years old; horse, 14 years old. 35 head of Cattle—Consisting of 12 milch cows; 5 heifers, 2 years old; 5 heifers, 1 year old; 11 spring calves; 1 Jersey bull, 3 years old; 1 registered Polled Durham bull, 3 years old. 13 head "of Hogs—Consisting of 4 Poland China brood sows, 2 years old; 1 shoat, 1 year old; 8 pigs, 6 months old. Implements, Wagons, Etc.—Consisting of corn planters, riding plows, walking plows, harrows, riding cultivators, walking cultivators, mowers, discs, hay rakes, hay racks, binders, farm wagons, DeLavel cream separator, feed grinder, iron kettle, barrel cart, lard press, hay in barn, millet and cow peas mixed, corn in crib, corn in shock, work harness and other articles. Also some household furniture. Terms—ss and under, cash in hand; on sums over $5 a credit of 12 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security, without Interest if paid when due, but if not paid at maturity, 8 per cent interest from date; 6 per cent off for cash on sums over $5. No property to be removed from premises until terms of sale are complied with. WM. S. NEWBERRY ARTHUR H. HOPKINS Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on grounds.

Mr. A. F. Ixmg is pleased to announce that be will continue the agency for ZEMO, the best known remedy for the treatment of eczema, pimples, dandruff, ring worm, prickley heat, tetter, hives or any other form of skin or scalp disease. Last year Zemo made some remarkable cures of chronic cases of skin diseases, and Mr. A. F. Long says ZEMO gives the best results of any remedy be has ever sold for the prompt relief and positive cure of any form of skin or scalpr disease. ZEMO ts a clean, vegetable liquid for external use, pleasant and agreeable to use. Can be used freely on Infants. z It Is by the goodness of God that in o*ir country we have those three unspeakably precious things, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and tbe prudence never to practice either of them. Butter Wrappers for sale at Tbe Republican Office.

CIVIL MARRIAGE.

It has rained all day and now it Is getting dark. The avenue Is wet and Sticky with mud and the wind is howling through the branches of the trees. From the little brightly illuminated church comes the sound of organ and singing. Marius is sitting at his desk in the little eottage opposite the church and In spite of the wind and drizzle outside he has not closed his window. It seems to him he needs storm and cold and the weather outside agrees with his state of mind. He and Ingra, who is at present in Finnen to learn housekeeping in his uncle's home so that she may know how to make both ends meet with his annual income of 4,000 crowns—he and Ingra have decided to marry. They want a civil marriage. It is so simple, so easy, so human and so delightfully unconventional and modern. The quarrel with his mother, father, sisters, aunts had been hard enough. They had threatened to disinherit him and told him he was on the road to perdition. The father had ordered him to move out of the little cottage he had rented from him at a bargain. His mother and sisters had come to him without the angry father’s knowledge and had implored him on their knees. The aunts had wept and cried over the telephone and in their letters. But (hls-^and—and Ingra’s conviction none of them had been able to shake, and in the end the family had had to give in. “We cannot take upon us the responsibility of driving him still farther into the arms of crime,” the mother had said io the father .and the father, who remembered how, in his boyhood, he had stolen apples in the neighbor’s garden and made faces at an old woman, replied: “I suppose it Is the unfortunate inheritance from me. Let us save him by love and patience.” In front of Marius, on the desk, was the printed blank informing the minister that he desired to leave the state church. He himself had gone to the sexton to get it. “I want to leave the state church.” he had said to the sexton and had hoped to see an expression of pain or sorrow come into the old man’s face, but instead this inferior . -materialfhinded person had said to him with his most amiable smile: “With the greatest of pleasure, young man.” Then he had given him the blank which was to be filled out and he bowed him to the door as if the whole thing was a common, everyday affair. For the fifth time he picked up the blank and read it over aloud As he had done the other times, he stopped when he had come to this point, laid down the’ paper and thought: “I wonder what these privileges may be.” Of course, he did not know what these privileges were, but to give them up—for Ingra’s sake, who .was after all, only a woman and not as firm in her convictions as he. He had been a free-thinker ever since the minister had confirmed him in that church—but women —they are more—more changeable than we men and he must take that into consideration. Nonsense! Nonsense! Nonsense! When Inga stood shoulder to shoulder with hint, she, too, would feel strong. Privileges' He looked sarcastically toward the old church door. After all, one must let the people keep their religion. Religion has its value ,the people must believe. He picked up his pen, dipped it energetically in the ink-well, as a man does when there is no reason why he should hesitate', and ran his eyes over the paper: “I give up all” — Just then a cold gust of wind struck his face and he shivered. He turned around furious, picked up the pen or cc more with trembling hand, and while beads of cold perspiration came on his forehead he wrote his name in a hand which looked strange and unfamiliar to himself. "Now it is done,” he said aloud and thought at the same moment of a schoolmate he had long ago forgotten. What was the matter with him? Oh, now he remembered—he had forged a note.

He placed the paper in an envelope, wrote the address outside in Jarge, impudent letters, blew out the lamp, took his hat and went quickly outside. A moment later he heard the letter drop in the empty letter box on the corner of the road There was a policeman on the sidewalk, who stared at him. He wondered if he knew already. Oh, nonsense, it was no bomb, only a letter. Nevertheless, he went towards the light in front of the church door. He stopped and looked in. How amusing ,It was to look ift these people. The tramp was inside listening to the sermon. The tears ran down his bloated face. Marius suddenly heard a crash, a terrible crash as of a bomb exploding. He tore oft his hat and ran in end sat down next to the tramp and felt like a pariah, an ostracized person. (During the last hymn the man was seized with a violent attack of weeping and had to struggle hard not to bn rat out sobbing himself. He remained until the service was over, resting his elbows on his knees, just like the other. "Are you, too, going- to get married In the court house T* he whlopeied to tbe tramp. "No,*’ the other replied. "I shall never marry.*’—Julius Blanks.

HARDER THAN THE DIAMOND.

Metallic Tantalum Drawn Into Wire or Rolled Into Sheets. [ That nothing is harder in nature than a diamond and that a diamond alone can cut a diamond, le a popular belief of long standing, says an exchange. Yet thqre Is something, harder. A new substance has made Its apearance which, If It cun be obtained in sufficient quantity, will probably replace the diamond alike In the operations of drill boring and in the lapidary’s workshop, for it is harder than diamond; so hard, in fact, that the only effect produced by a diamond drill, worked day and night for three days on a sheet of the substance one twenty-fifth of an inch thick, with a speed of 5,000 revolutions a minute, was a slight dint In the sheet and the wearing out of tne diamond. This substance is pure metallic tantalum. Tantalum is not a common metal, yet it is also not of the rarest, its existence was discovered more than a century ago. , Pure tantalum was first prepared by Dr, Bolton. One of hL methods Is to fuse the double fluoride Of potassium and tantalum with metallic potassium in an elctric furnace in vacuc bi t he seems to prefer a much simplex electrical method. Making up the oxide wdth a filament, exactly like that of a Nernst Incandescent lamp, he places it in a globe connected to an air pump and turns on the current. The oxide is decomposed and th© oxygen being gradually removed by the pump the filament is reduced to the metallic state. ’ Tantalum differs from all other known substances In combining extreme hardness with extreme ductility. When red hot It Is easily rolled into bars and sheets drawn into wire. It is scarcely affected by the oxygen of the air, even at red heat, and not at all at ordinary temperature, and tne strongest acids fail to dissolve it; nor does it amalgamaLg, with mercury. It melts only at the highest attainable temperatures and is therefore 'well fitted to serve for filaments in incandescent lamps, being much stronger than carbon. A pound or it will make 20,000 lamps, and these require exectly half as much power to light them as do carbon filaments giving the same brilliancy. If it can only be produced in sufficient quantity, tanta,um should prove a most useful metal. it~wl7r"furnleh better boring tools than the diamond drill and cheaper electric lights than carbon, while the possible uses ot a plate or a wire harder than diamond and yet tough and strong, a-e almost infinite, for every other hard substance is brittle, and this fact has hampered the engineer for centuries.

An Old Roman Town.

A quaint looking house is to be found at Rlbchester, near Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Ribchester 1,800 years ago was an important Roman city. It was conected with the network of military ways wh.ch Agricola and his followers formed through Britain. Under the name of Rigodunum it was the principal port of tne Mersey, and wlnessed the coming ot many Roman war galleys and trading vessels. Modem discoveries go to show that it was also a place of extensive manufacture; one of its products in those days being the curiously heavy red this used for flooring purposes in Roman buildings. Bronze ornaments were also apparently wonted there. Some years ago the remains of what waj> evidently a large public bath' were found, alto the tesselated floor ot what in its time must have been a villa. Altars, statues, coins, implements, otc., have been found in qualities in the neighborhood, the discoveries all going to show the importance of the place during the Roman occupation ot Britain. After the Romans left it Rlgodunum, or Rlbchjster, gradually degenerated. Ihe Saxons made a little* trading town of it, using in the bt tiding of their dwellings much of the material left in the Romai ruins. Tut it did not flourish, and was more and more deserted until it became a mere village that gained something of a reputation in later years as a haunt for smugglers. Some of the old buildings still remaining bear distinct traces of the various occuj ants the place has had. Roman tiles sad bricks have been worked into wt ed, altered, and added to by Saxon, Norman and Tudor builders in succession.

Sand as Writing Paper.

"We have all seen sand used as blotting paper,” said a 'school director, "but In New England I saw it used as writing paper. "Sand was the original blotting paper. White and clean, it was Kept in a cruet, like a salt cr-.et, and shaken out on the wet writing through the perforated top. "There art affected people—the kind of people who write with (.uill pent —who still use sand as a blotter. But I thought that as a writing paper it had disappeared forever. "Recently I vjeittl a country school hi New Hampshire. On tbe master's desk sat a box, three feet square, filled with sand Tne children came, one at a time, to ;be box. and with a pointed stick by way of pen they wrote. As each child 'finished he smoothed out his writing, leaving the sand smooth for the next comer. "This odd sdbne carted me back to the days when paper was so scarce, when slatee were so scarce, that sand was used t» the schools to write on —the day* of my grandfather and great-grandfather. ” Wbite pine lumber costa today five times as much tn this country as It east la iaa.

There is a Difference f " Between Wagons A cheap wagon looks about as good as a Studebaker when it is new, —but it won’t compare with a Studebaker after several years wear; And what is more, The chances are that what you have paid on it for repairs, added to the original cost, would be more than we would ask for a new The cheap wagon is “played out” in a few years, *— — But, The Studebaker will be practically as good as new. The prudent farmer buys the wagon that will do his work well and wear well. He buys a Studebaker. We Sell and Guarantee the Studebaker Wagon CA DABC DT Q wagons, buggies, farm • /A « IxUDLK l□« IMPLEMENTS. / A THE STATE BANK OF RENSSELAER. Corner Washington and Van Rensselaer Street. OPENED FOB BUSINESS JUMB Ist, 1904. DIRECTORS. JOHN EGEB, President, DELOS THOMPSON, Cashier, LUCIUS STRONG, GRANVILLE MOODY. JAMES H. CHAPMAN. DOES GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Loans money on all kinds of approved security. Buys notes, pays interest on savings, pays taxes for customers and others. This bank will be glad to extend every favor to its customers consistent with safe banking principles. Telephone 42.

Farm Insurance. :: —:: i TheHomelnsuranceGo. i ;! ~ New York ‘ < > u ri ■ > Insures Against Loss by Fire, Lightning, Wind-Storms and Tornadoes < ’ o On the Installment, Cash or Single Note Plan. < > ik ' ’ ;; INSURE IN THE “HOME" GET THE BEST. IT’S THE CHEAPEST. JI :: . •:: ;; R. D. THOMPSON, Agent, Rensselaer, Indiana. J ’ Farm Loans 5 Cent | < ► _______ -<: <» NO EXTBA EXPENSE POB EXAMINING LAND, ABSTRACT, OB <► <► - PBEFABXMO-PAPEBS. < > 1 “ Special arrangements made whereby you can obtain money same ’ ' • day you apply, option given of partial payments. Private funds to loan ’ ' * on City Property, Chattel Mortgage, Second Mortgage, Beal Estate, and 1 * Personal Security on favorable terms. ~ ' ~ ' * Sale Notes purchased for private investors. Write or call and see 1 * me before selling your notes, making a new loan, or renewing present , ’ ' ’ -loan. ~ ABSTRACTS CAREFULLY PREPARED J [ t James H. Chapman, R 'iZd“n.*' U i Mrt Ready now, J o ; J ’ May be, to turn your attention to the choosing of your Xmas J ! J Photos. You want the best yonr money can buy, and we want you < < > to have it. It’s here. You can chose In a few minutes the Just-right < ' ■ thing. We now have in the latest styles of cards, and of course you < * ’ know the work we guarantee. J ; [ H. F. PARKER, J < ► Photographer. J

PIONEER Meat - Market J. EIGELSBACH, Proprietor. Beef, Pork and Veal MUTTON, SAUSAGE, BOLOGNA At Lowest Prices. The Highest Market Price Paid for Hides aad Tallow. BOTICE or IDMDriSTIJITIOM. Notice Is hereby riven that the undersigned has qualified in the Circuit Court of Jasper county, State of Indiana, as executrix of the will of George W. Andrus, late of Jasper county, deceased. <-• Said estate is supposed to be solvent HORTENCIA 8. ANDRUS, Executrix. November Sth. ISOS. A. H. Hopkins' attorney for executrix. N.IS-IS-IS.

dfifMeat Market ROTH BROS. Shop first door east of Odd Fellows' building. Everything fresh and clean. Fresh and salt meats, bologna, etc. Please give ns a call and we will guarantee to give yon satisfaction. None bnt good cnttle killed. Remember the place. Highest market price paid for hides and tallow. Farm Loans. V 1 Any amount Our rates are lowest Terms most liberal. Loans closed promptly. No appraisers required. No extra charges and no “red tape.” Give us your application and save time and money. ntwiN * irwin, Rensselaer, lad. Odd Fellows’ Building.

maxes you iook M M just splendid Why have some photographs taken in and it justice, never fear. We take pride in our ‘ <J Photographs. " trlfw The better we can make you I<^ok In them, the more we ,ike ft- And E you’ll be as Mpl proud of them as we are ’ Sit for U 8 Wg and you’ll not 'V x hide the finished R £ j pictures away. 1 You won’t be al- - R lowed to either M once your friends get a glimpse of them. They’ll all want one and will insist on getting it. Sharp Studio, ' Near the Bridge, Rensselaer, Ind. SELF Against securing poor quality Building Material by placing your orders with us. We handle only High-Grade Building Material, and can prove this to your entire satisfaction hy giving us a trial. Flimsy Building Material is dear at any price. You get the best from us at fair prices. Let us Quote You Estimates. RENSSELAER LUMBER CU.

Farm Loans. If you have a loan on you FARM, and want to renew it learn onr terms. We still have some money to loan at Five percent and reasonable commission. With partial payment privileges. No undue delay when title-is good. If you desire a loan now or in the near future make appUeatlon at once before rates are advanced. Call telephone or write First National Bank North Side Public Square. RENSSELAER, IND. Wood & Kresler's; 5 CHAIR Barber Shop ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦; The Largest and Finest In Jasper County. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Go there for a fine smooth shave and fashloqpble hair cut ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Boot Black Stand in Connection.

* MILROY TOWNSHIP. The undersigned, trustee of Milroy township, will attend to official business at his residence on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Persons having business with mo will govern themselves accordingly. Poet office address. Remington, Ind. OEQ L. PARKS. '' ' S