Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1889 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel

VOLUME XIII

THE DEMOCRATIC SEHTIR >IMGOEAT 1C NAWfefAPitK. P UfiLlfe HEI > EVE RY Fi JD AY, SY Jas. "Vi. Mcll w bn l ITES 0? SUBSCIIPTIOSI. . TS ivertlsing :R,at«s. . - ear 88» 0° f ua«. vai, 40®’ conuau, m s 0 () o »4i . io M> ?l«renot. added to foregoing price if . irsß»»ents are set to occupy more than *> « el ®4 < y*ar at equitable rates Bußiatsb •*!«» months; ? “>• three Wished sU^®/ r flr2i publication 10 ce»W B K«.‘°PubnAu 3 n P U.«rc.ner . e.»t.» quarterly (one®in t 'r rM) of extra chargeToapf the * dv^r r r ’AXns eot resident ’'AdA-ertißements for pe u d {or in ad . of Jasper county, must be r»* than *“” i7 “ 4 ’ u ‘ rte ' l ’ n advance when larger.

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yyM. W- 'WA*SON, aito kNETOffice up Stair., in Leopold's RENSSEL.VER w W-HARTSELL, M D WOMffiOPATRIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSALAFr/ - * Diseases a. Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’t New Blook. Remdeuce at Makeever House. July 11. 18?4- , a loughridcb. victor b. loughkidge J, H, LOUGH RID GE & SON, Physicians and. Sargeons. Mee ta the new Leopold B.o*, Boor, second door right-hand side of hall. Ten per cent, interest will bo added to all gXunts running unsettled longer than three months. Tlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN -Physician & Surgeon Rensselaer, Ind. runs promptly attended. Wi 11 give special attee tion to the treatment of Chronie Diseases. ty|ARY E. JACKSON, M.D., PHYSICIAN SURGEON. Special attention given to diseases of women and children Office on Front street, corner of Angelica. 12..24. ■ -■ Ximbi Dwicgivs, F. J, Sears. Vai., Seib, Presideat. Vic-President. Cashier CITI ZFNS’ST ATEBANK BENSSKi.aEJ w Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing i terest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Moneyloaned on farms <t lowest rates and on moa l avorable terms. «.88 ZZ

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, MARCH 29 1889

THE SCHOOL BOOK LAW.

Indianapolis Sentinel: It appears that tr-e liea of the schoolbook trust irw r‘<ij<’>nal col ~ umns of the Journal did not ter—minnte at the adjournment of rhe legislature. The lien is still in force, as evidenced by the following editorial paragraph m the Journal of vesterd. v:

The : sell 'ol b ok j law is practically inoperative, in that it does not require local school boards to adopt the n; w books nor provide any means of putting them into the hand-: o£ the people. School boards, teacher and people may continue to use old boohs, if they choose to do so, and no doubt many will.

Tie school book law is not “practically inoperative,” much as the trust and its hired organ wo’d like t» have it so. It does explicitly require the adoption of the new books by local school authorities, it does provide for putting

tba books .n the hands of the people. The law provides for the making of a contract by the state board of education for furnishing t-xt-books to the people, and m kes it the duty of the governor to issue his proclamation announcing that such cantract has been made.— Sec. 7 is as f Hows:

When such proclamation shall have been duly issued, it shall be the duty of the trustees of each and every school corporation in the state, within thirty days thereafter, and at such other times as hooks may be needed for use in the public schools of their respective corporations, to certify to the county superintendent of their respective counties the number of school text books provided for in such contract required by children for use in the schools of their several school corporations Such county superintendents shall, forthwith, make such requisitions for books as the schools in the said several couuties.may require upon the st .te’Buperintendent of public instruction, and the said state superintendent of public instruction shall immediately thereafter make requisitions for said books upon the contractor, who shall, within ninety days, ship the books so ordered directly to the county superintendents of the several counties of this state. Upon the receipt of such books i' shall be the duty of such county school gup rintendents to immediately notify all the school trustees of all the school corporations of their counties of the receipt of such books.

It shall then be the duty of such school trustees to immediately procure and take charge and cus tody of ah the books assigned to their several school corporations, receipting therefor to the said county school superintendent; and upon the receipt of such books by said school trustees, they shall furnish them on demand to the school patrons, or school children of their respective corporations at the price fixed therefor by the contract entered into between said board of commissioners and said contractor; and it shall be the duty of such school officers to sell such books for cash only; and if thev shall sell or dispose cf any books other than f®r the cash price thereof, they shall be held personally liable, and liable upon their official bonder the price of such book or books.

Provided, That any patron or pupil of any school or schools, other than the public schools, and also any child between the ages of six tod twenty-one years of age, or the parent, guardian or teacher of such child, shall have the right to purchase and receive the books, and at the prices he ein named, by payment of the cash price thereof to the school superintendent of any county in this state; and it is hereby made his duty to make requisition upon the contractor of

any and all books so ordered and paid for by any such person cr pers ns. And provided further that nothing in this act shall operate to p -event the state board of education, boards of school trustees or boards of school commissioners devising means and making arrangements for the sale, exchange or other disposition es such books as may be ow ed by the pupils of the schools under their charge at the time of tiie adoption of books under the provision of this act. Sec. 10 provides that countysuperintendents shall give a bond for th i faithful performance of all the duties imposed upon them by

this aet, and that failure io execute such bond within thirty days from the appearance of t&e governor’s proclamation shall operate to vacate their offices.

The school book ring has keen making desperate efforts to find some defect in this law which will render it inoperative. They will do their best, by the peculiar ‘‘arguments,” in the use of which they are so highly skillet, to convince the local school bo *rds that they can violate the la v with impunity. But the local officials who attempt this will get themselves into trouble. The law will be enforced, the Cincinnati robbers and their newspaper organ to the contrary notwithstanding.

THE UNWRITTEN WORK.

Disciples of Ananias Meet and Exchange Stories—Sorters on Mud. Indianapolis News: The meeting of the Ananias held last evening was unusually interesting. — Patrolman Mathey was taken into full membership and instructed in the unwiitten work. “Talking about muddy streets,” said Detective Sorters, touching a match to a piece of tarred rope he ha been smoking, “these streets ain’t nothin’ to the streets down in Cairo. When I was selling tickets for a side show to a circus we played in Cairo,” (Mr. Sorters pronounced it Kiro) “1 was walking down the street looking for a free lunch stand wnen I stumbled agaimt a silk hat on the side walk. It rolled away and there was a man’s head. ‘Hello,’ says I, ‘what you doin’ there?’ ‘Stuck in the mud,’ says he. ‘Pretty deep down there, eh?< says I. ‘Don’t say a w rd,’ says he, ‘1 am standing cn a street car, and I don’t know what’s under that.’ ”

“Driving a wagon ain’t very swift,” said Jim Bradley, ex-Cap-tain of the Patrol Squad, “because you can’t niake the wagon go fast enough. A year or so ago I was up at Soo Saint Man —vou know where that is—ice-boating. Uh!

that’s the dandv, and you must not ferget that the ice yocks (yachts) are swift, One day the wind was blowing great guns and a party of us concluded we would take a glide or two. The sails were full ard the boat wa > driving over the ice as if it was strung on wires and the hug hawser that it creaked and twisted. One of the party slipped off the boat, and as he did so the hawser parted. Whizz, whirr, bang, the boat was gone. — We looked around to see where the mau was who had stepped off, and found we had traveled one hundred and sixty-five miles just while we were turning around. — That s really the fastest ride we ever took.” “Last summer I was down on Shannon’s Lake on a little fishing excursion,” said Patrolman Boylan, with a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes. “I hadn’t much luck until abctat4 o’cloc , when I got a tremendous bite. Isa v that 1 had booked a good OA.e, to • the water was lashed into a foam by the frantic efforts of the fish to get away.

I saw I could not get the fish out alone, so I tied the line around a tree, went to a farmer’s house, got a horse and cause back. I had to pull that fish out of water by horse power.”

DRIVING PIGS TO CLOVER.

A New Craze Which Wise Men Denounce But Engage in Inordinately . A perplexity which promises to become as wide-spread a craze as the famous “fifteen puzzle” will in all probability soon reach Rensselaer. It is called “Pigs in Clover” and its great and controlling object which drives many to dis.raetion is to get those pigs ou’ of the clover and into the pen ’here all respectable pig. belong. The toy is a circular box within which are two circular “fences” including a covered “pen.” The gate of the outer fence is opposite the closed part of the inner and that cf the inner is opposite the closed part of the outer. That is, the gates of the two fences are is a line but not opposite. The entrance of the pen is plac -d in the same way, with reference to the inner fence. The gates are large enough to admit one of the “pigs” These are four marbles of different colors The pigs are to be driven to their pen by tipping the box to various angles and allowing them to roll about. After the pigs are safely inside the first fence the real difficulty begins. While rolling one p'g inside the second gate, all thre > of the others may roll k and out of gate number one, and while attending these stray perkers the fourth pig may roll to joL his brethren. The trouble in getting the pigs into the pen is of course tw.ee as great as that of getting them inside the second fence.

Even in thinking of the puzzle one in .oluntarily begins to speculate on its solution. It has all the fascination of a difficult thing which seems simple All classes in New York are working themselves into irritation over it Doctors, lawyeis, merchants and chiefs are turning their attention from graver matt»rs to engage in the all-abserving occupation of pig driving. It is one of those puzzles that one will call a “fool thing” and +hen spend hours in solving. By the way would it not he an interesting economical problem to some ambitious social student to calculate the effect of one of these “fool” puzzles upon the productive capacity of a community which spends an almost incalculable am’t of time in its solution?

A youth, undergoing examin atian a few days since for admission to one of the Government departments, found himself confronted with the question, “What is the distance from the ear tn to the aun ?’ Not having the exact number of miles witnhim, he wrote in reply: “I » m unable to state accurately, but don’t believe the sun is near enough to interfere with a proper performance of my du iea if I get this clerkship.”

Fred Grant’s Appointment We can not call to mind anything (Joxonel Grant ever did for himself, for the Republican party, or the country that is worth naention--ng to his renown »r credit. His life was almost bagun as a ward of the Government, and he is still with us with an undiminished appetite for the good things es life. * * [Lafayette Journal.

Judge Claypool’s Resignation. —Judge Claypool is doubtless correct in the conclusion that it was his duty as a democrat to resign the office. If there was the slightest reason to believe that the trials would be permitted by Judge Woods to be fairly condw ted it would have been Judge Claypool’s pl air duty to have continued to hold the office until his successor was appointed. But as the whole business was to terminate in a farce he did not propose to be the victim of it. Let the republicans

have the full responsibility of the whole disgraceful business for they have richly earned whatever credit or infamy may attach to the subsequent proceedings in these bribery cases. #*#### With Miller as att irnyy-general of the United States and 'edge Woods on the federal bene, of Indiana, of course there will be no furthei steps to reach Dudley or to Dunish any of those actually indicted, and Judge Claypool had no stomach for playing a serious role in what he sees in advance is only intended to be a farce. Judge Claypool is no low comedian. — Evansville Courier.

The Newest Spring Styles are occupying every lady’s attention at this season. “Pet rson’s Magazine” for April offers so great a variety of charming designs, that there is something to suit every taste. The double fashion-plate gives several effective and striking costumes; an ,T there are, besides, numerous illustrations of garmei ts for house ami street wear,— By the aid of “Peterson,” any lady can furnish herself and herchildr« n with a new spring wardrobe at much less expense than in any other way. Its fashions are always the newest and most reliable, and • every other department is equally well maintained. This number is especially rich m good stories and fine illvetrations. Terms: T#o Dollars a year. Address Peterson’s Magazine, Philadelphia, Pa. All persons having cattle to let in pasture for the season of 1889, will find it to their interest to address us at this place. David w. Shields & Bro. Rensselaer, Ind., March, 89.

PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will offer at Public Sale, at the resideuee of W. C. McCord, ..even mile southeast of Rensselaer, J asper county, Indiana, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., Thursday, April 4th, 1889, the folkwi. g described property, to-wit: One Horse; 24 head oi cattle, consisting of Cows, Heifers, Steers, Calves, and 1 Bull; 1 Mowing Machine; IRake; 1 Wagon; 1 Buggy. Terms of Sale —Nine months credit on all sums of §5 and over, bankable note payable at A. McCoy & Co’s Bank, without interest if paid when due; if not paid when due to draw 8 per ce:t. interest from date. Sums under $5 cashin hand. J ohn I. McCord, C. C. McCord, E. J. McCord. Personal. Mr N. H. Frohliclistein, ul Mobile Ala., writes: I tike great pleasure in recommending Er. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, having used it for a severe attack of Bronchitis and Ca’iui' It gave me instant ren lief and entirely cured me and I have not been afflicted since. I also beg to state that I bad tried other reme dies w iih no food result. Have ale usod Elcctic Bitters and Dj King New Life Pills, both of which Ica recommend. Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, is sold on a positive guarantee. Tila! Bottles free at F. B.Mever’ Drugstore. IE 21 1. Would you acquire the acoomp lished art of Drawing, then be enrolled as a scholar in the school being organized by Mr. Miller, whose ability to instruct is acknowledged by all who know him. A Safe Investment. Is one which is guaranteed to bring you satisfactory results, or in case of failure a return if purchase price.— On this safe plan you can buy from our advert s d Druggist, a bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. It is guaranteed to bring relief in every eas*. when used far any affection of Throa*. Ltrngs or Chest, such as Consumption, Inflammatioa of Lungs. Bronchitis, Asthma, Wheopiag Oougb, Croup, etc., ate. It is pleasant aad agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can always be depended upon. Trial bottles free a F. B. Moyer’s Drug store. 1

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