Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1890 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XIV

Wt DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL. DSMCePATIC NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED EVERY FaJDaY, B* J Jas. W. McEwen, ATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Oxs Year Three months..... u Laws of Newspapers. Excspt at the option of the publisher no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Aiv nerson who reeeives or taKes a newspaper ftom a post-office.wnetherhehas ordered K or not, er whether It is in his name or another s. Is held in law to be a subscriber and is responsible for the pay. t If subscribers move t 3 other places without notlMnu th. publisher, and the papers are sear H“ fonne? direction they ar. held lesponstble. The coasts have decided that subscribers, in arrears, who refuse’to take papers from the postoffice, or removing and leaving them un cal*e for. Is prima facie evidene • of intention ilfisun. and maybe d«a i with in the ciirainal courts. If anv person orders his paper discontinue, he must pay all arrearages or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made’and iollest the whole amount whether the P*P er taken f-om the office or not. There can be no legal discontinnanee mtil payment is made in full.

THE NTEW RENRRELAER, IND. Q. S.DALE, Proprietor. MORDECAI f. chilcote. Attorney -at-Law r««rBSKi>AKB, - - • " Indiana OwLAtiiss lin fchs Oosrts of Jasper and ad**nnntias. Makes collections a speOfflon on aorth side of Washington •pposite Court House- vin SJMCNr. THOMPSON. DAVID J. THOMPSON Attorney-at« Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, •nsssDAKB, ■ • Indiana Prastisein all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstracter particular attention to paying taxjHßtofe and leasing lands. v2n *3 IF H. H. GRAHAM,, • ATTOmNEY-AT-LAW, Rxxbdela.tr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time Se ft J t ’ o^ ; l^ t . erert ’ JAMES W. DOUTHIT, WTOBNEYSAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, ■r office in rear room over Hemphill A Honan’s store, Rensselaer, Ind. SdwmP. Hammond. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind en second floor of Leopold’s Block,.corner °^Siras B ington and Vanßensselaer streets. B Avetin purchases, sells and losses JP?e B and dea.s liable fcfSWuments.

IRA W. YEOMAN, attorney at Law, NOTART PUBLIC Real Estate and ColtecW W REMINGTON, INDIANA, WIU practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. J VICTOR E. LOUGHRIDGE ■ J, HLOUGHRIDGE & SON, Khvai clans and Surgeons. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, W second door right-hand side of hall. «en per cent, interest will be added to all MBounts running unsettled longer than gee months. Tlnl DR. L B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Renuelaer, Ind. miu promptly attended. Will give special atten tton to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. W. HARTSELL, M D HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WOhronlc Diseases a Specialty.-JH OPTICS, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House, July 11,1884. Sum Dwioonrs, F. J. Sbabs, Vai. Skib, President. Vic«-Preeident. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK BENBSBLAEJ VD DOES A GENERAL BANKING BU8INB88; Certificates bearing 1 >terest issued; Exchange boueht and sold;‘Moneyloaned on farms at lowest rates and on mosfavorable terms Rgan. 8. 88. joint Makeever JatWiijjams. Pres.dent. vashfe FARMERS’ BANK, BP“Oppos iUPublic RENBBBLAER, .... INDIANA Reco.ve Dsposits Buy and Soli Exehanoe Collections made and promptly remittal. Money Loaned. Do a general BansAlgMtN,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. APRIL 4. 1890.

WHAT IT COSTS.

The editor of the Wh ite County Democrat, who is also County Su p erini endent, thus pertinently remarks on the cost of introducing the new school books selected and contracted for, under the law, by the State Board of Education: Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co-, have issued another circular containing statements from Superintendent Machan, LaGrange Co.; Supt. Caulkins, Tippecanoe Co.; bupt Warren, Jasper Co.; and others, in Lich it is sought to show that the ost of selling the new school books exceeds the amount saved in price. It is a little singular that the book true 1 ’ should publish statements from such superintendents only as are known to be hostile to the new law, and it is still more singular that those superintendents report that it cost their counties more money to have the law violated than it did other counties to have it enforced. F r instance, Supi. Machan, of Lao Grange county, now undercharges of having receive, bribes from Henneberry & Donahue of Chicago and other book firms and supply men, reports that it cost his county sl3l to sell SIOB worth of books. Suet. Caulkins reports a cost of $590 for selling $1,200 worth of books. The able bodied Supt. of -rasper county sold $44 worth and it cost his county $l3B. Other County Superintendents furnish additional statements of a costly nature, but in every case the Oou ity Superintendent who furnishes them failed to carry out the law by introducing the new books. Poor Caulkins of Tippecanoe county, already overworked, was compelled t® put in 22| days extra the first three months the law was in force and then did not succeed in selling many books. Had Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. sought information from other superintendent-' who have performed their duties according to law, the circular now before us would present a different aspect and tell a different tale. In this county, for instance, the total, cost of and selling oVer $ ,000 worth of books and reporting sales, together with the cost of complete record books, blanks, &c., is less than S3OO, while the saving m price on the books sold, as compared with the cost of tne same number and kind of the trust books, is $2,600. For the next four years the cost of selling will be still less, as the books are well introduced and all the records and blanks for that length of time are on hands. Van Antwern, Bragg & G’o. don’t want such reports, however, hence they rely upon such information as they know can be furnished by school officers who endeavored to make the new law unpopular by making it inoperative and expensive. The Van Antwerp school book monopoly seem determined not to yield even to the mandate of the supreme court of this state. In a recent circular, referred to in the above, and sent broadcast over the state since the courl has rendered its opinion in favor of the law, we find the following report from our superintendent Warren:

Amount of requisition, $2,667 65 Sales for the first three * months, 44 38 EXPENSES. Superintendent’s service, $lB 00 Trustees’ services, 60*00 Record books, etc., 60 00 Total, $l3B 00 The book trust then, in scored lines, adds the following comment: In this case it will be noticed that it cost more than three times as much as has been realized from the sale of the books. As has been well said by the county superintendent of Whits

•‘A FIBM ADKEBEWOE TO CO ARE CT FRIWOTPLES.”

the sole object of the book trust, republican superintendents and trustees where “it cost their couik ties more money to have the law violated than it did other counties tojhave it enforced,” is “to make the new law unpopular by making it inoperative and expensive.” And this is precisely what the republican county superintendent and trustees, backed by the ‘Republican,’ in the interest of Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., have been doing The school book law was entitled to strict obedience from school officers until repealed or declared void. It they had done their duty between two and three thousand dollars would have been sav*d . to the school patrons of Jasper county. The school book monopolies <ire taking great interest in the election which comes off throughout the state next Monday. They desire the elejtion of republican trustees in Jasper county, and expect of them, if successful, Ufo retention of superintendent barren The official who premeditatedly violates law he is sworn to. observe and enforce is not w rthy the suffrage of the people.

Chicago and Milwaukee Go Democratic.

Chicago, April 1. —The democrats made a clean sweep of all the offices in the three principal township elections held here to-day. The majorities vary from 200 to 4,500. The outgoing south town offieesholders are all republicans, and the north town|the same, with one exception. The west town officials were democratic and that party continues to contool. In the annexed towns the republicans maintain their lead by a narrow margin. Besides the fight for township tickets, candidates for city aldermanic honors contested at the polls. Complete returns shot tly before midnight showed decided democratic gains among the aldermen. The new board will be d mocratic, Standing 34 democrats to 31 republicans, with two independent democrats and one independent republican.

Milwaukee, April I.—The dem-, oerats elect George “ (bad boy) Peek mayor and their entire ticket by 5,000 majority. JJhe interest in the elections in Missouri, April Ist, eentered in the workings of the Australian system, this being the first election under the new law. Dispatches from various cities state that the system worked satisfactory to the majority of th 3 vot >rs, and was very successful in other respects. It will be remembered that the agents of the school book trust, including several prominent educators, declared before the legislature that the publishers made less than 5 per cent, profit. As the trust has announced its purpose of making a horizontal reduction of 25 per cei t in the price of school books after May 1, it is evident that the agents of the trust either deceived their friends, the republican members of the legislature, or they intend to sell their books 20 per cent, below cost. There is no doubt that this cut is c. ue to the Indiana school book law. But even with this reduction, the peonle of Illinois, Ohio and other trust-ridden states w.ll be compelled to pay 33 per cent, more for school books than their Indi ana neighbors.

Baron itowse, the joking Irish judge who died the other day, once told an American that it was better to have a small career in Ireland than a great one in England, because in Ireland when one said tansy things people understood

them, and that made life worth living. We now have the most complete, stock of shoes, of the best brands and styles, and most of them were bought at a clearance sale at onehalf price. Chicago Bargain Store.

The Philadelphia Press makes the statement that “coal-miners” wages in Germany have advanced 40 per cent in the last two years, just as English miners’ wages have advanced 35 per cent.” One company in the Ruhr territory publishes a scale of wages ranging from sl.lO to $1.19 per day. How is that for pauper labor? Less than two years ago the statement was made and not denied that miners in Pennsylvania were working for 60 to 80 cents a day. How long will it be before German mine operators will import pauper labor from tariff-bless-ed Pennsylvania under contract? Stocks, prices, terms are the big three in making and holding trade. Stockstalk! Prices win! Terms, one price for cash, show the secret of tow prices at.the Chicago Bargain Store.

\ According to high republican authority the whole num her of hands employed in producing thearticles “protected” by the McKinley bill is 1,777,000. If the tariff increased the wages of these employes 20 cents a day each on the average it would help them to the extent of less than $110,000,000 a year each. But the tariff costs the people more than twice that sum for revenue and more than five times the same sum for protection every year. But, what is even more io the purpose, the census shows that wages are lower in the protected than in the unprotected industries, in which about twelve out of every thirteen workers in the country are employed.

Marbles 1 ct. per dozen. Pins 1 ct. per paper. Carpet tacks 1 ct. per paper. Clothes pins 1 ct. per dozen. Chicago Bargain Stare. Philadelphia Times: A surplus strictly means “something left over.” Shortly it will be something over theleft. The Chicago Bargain Store is the pione- rjof low prices and deserves much credit and a share of the trade of every citizen of Jasper county. Boston Herald: So far eight postoffices have been named after Clarkson, five after Wanamaker, four alter Harrison, one after Morton, one after Dudley, one after Halford, and one after McGinty. Such is fame! The Chinese in San Jose, Cal., lease property from a white man for twelve months in the year, and charge their tenants for thirteen montns, there being thirteen months in the Ch’nese year. New York Herald: Mr. Allison is a man of sense He aees that the two-story and French roof tariff business is played out, so to speak, and that his party will go to speedy ruin unless it goes to low tariff duties. But can Mr. Allison swing the grand old party around bj the tail? That is just now the most interesting question in our home politics

Accessories to the Eldredge Sewing Machine can be procured of Mrs. <Tas WkM&Ewein

Remarkable Time Place.

i jeweler at Suiaun, Cal, haa made a dock that will run 480 daya without winding a second timet

SEEN IN A DREAM.

IMB tUxliM ftw&k 9t VUuafr fk WM drMt-mskinf la LewhiA •• carna into poaaenl* of a gold SB OM pW wMb a hole in It This she stowed m a curiosity to her friend*. At that time she had a little niece 9 rean oid, daughter of Jonathan F. Tra-ak, now the wife of Leman Butler, trader in Mount Vernon. The little coin Lizzie once showed to her niece Addie when she was a very small girl, tolling her that she would give it to her when she was old enough to take care of it Lizzie died twelve year* ago. In her possession was a lady’s wallet with several compartment®. This wallet her mother used until her death seven years ago. Then J ames, a brother o! Lizzie, had it and it has been in constant use over since, cither by him or his wife. The little gold coin was never seen Of ter Lizzie’s death or before for several ye'ars by her friends, and its whereabouts was not known, and in fact its existence had passed from their memory. A few days ago Mrs. Butler made her parents a visit, topping with them •everal night®, While there, says the Augusta (Mo.) Jfew Age, she dreamed that she saw her Aunt Lizzie’s wallet, and that it was faced with green and in a certain compartment she found the little gold •pin which she saw so many years ago. Oto tolling her mother her dream she was interned that Lizzie did have a wallet which answered her description, flpd that her Uncle James had it. The wallet Addie had never seen. She then visited her uncle and told her dream io h6r aunt, who laughed at the Idea of anything being in it other than what she and her husband had placed there. But on Addie’s earnest solicitation she produced it, and as soon at Addie law it she exclaimed. * 'That is the same wallet that I saw in my dream,” and pointed out the compart meat that held the treasure. She then took a needle, and running it to the bottom she drew forth a newspaper; and in it was, indeed, a gold quarter With a hole in it, wrapped, no»doubt, by the hand of her aunt at least twelve rears before, where it had lain all this Ume, without the knowledge us any One until Addie’s dream caused it to be Woaght forth.

Go to the great clearance sale of clothing at ridiculously low prices to make room for a complete n.-w stock that will be here m a short time to fill the 40 feet new addition now being built on the rear of the Chicago Fargajn Store.

HOW JAMRACH WAS FOOLED.

He Thought He Was Buying the Great" eat Curiosity That Ever Jamrach, the celebrated London dealer in itrange animals, picks up many bargains from the mates and stewards of the vast fleet that sails of steams into the Thames on every tide from the four quarters of the globe. But sometimes he gets picked up himself. A few years ago Rd bought for a few shillings a very rare and there* tore valuable animal from a mate, just in from, say, New Guinea. Presently the mate saw his venture in the “Zoo” . with a great gaping crowd about its cage, and learned that the society rW a small fortune for the curiosity. •TUdx him,” Bays the mate. So the next voyage he returned with the very rarest curiosity ever seen in or out of London docka •‘Hullo,” says Jamrach, fairly excited, “what do you call that now?” “Dunne,” says tb» mate, indifferently. “Looks like a bald squirrel,” says Jamraoh, and thO mate said him not nay, for certainly it did look like the baldest possibS squirrel, and of the queerest color, too, “sort of no color at all,” as Jamrack put it Well in three minutes Jamrach had bought that rare animal for 60 guineas down, and in three hours ha was back on the dock raging at th* mate laughing loud a’ the far end of a long hawser. “You've sold foe a shaved rah” shouted Jamrach. “I just have,” laughed,the uaato ‘ ‘Shfp’l doctor chloroformed him for fto and (hip’s barber shaved him for a glass of beer. Anything else in our Uno this corning?”

Mountain of Clam Shells.

A mountain of clam shells has been discovered about three mileß east of Mount Vernon, Va. ltis\>ver ria hundred feet high and has a surface of soil nearly a foot thick. Underneath this clam shells abound to the level depth. There are trees growing on the mountain which show an age, judging by the rings about the heart, Of from 150 to 200 years.

NUMBER 11