Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1890 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

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THE NEW M|a|k|e|e|v|eTOo|uJs]e[])' RENSSELAER. IND. Q, S. DALE, Propriet > r mordecai f. chelcote. Attorney-at-Law BNNSSELAEB. - - . - INDIANA Practices lin the Courts of Jasper and adenine counties. Makes collections a specialty 5 Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOMPSON AttOrney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Bbnsselaeb, - - Indiana Practicein all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor We pay pirtteular attention to paying tax?selling and leasiag lands. V2n4g W, H. B. GRAHAM, ’ ’ • attorney-at-law, Rbbsdbdatb, Indiana. Money to loan on long JAMES W. DOUTHIT, attorneys at-law and notary public, AS" Office in rear room over Hemphill & Honan’s store, Rensselaer, Ind. Bdwin P. Hammond. WOlmam B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, attorney - at-l aw, Rensselaer, Ind nAr? on second floor of Leopold’s Block, corn© ® A of Washington and Vanßensselaer streets. William 8./tvstin purchases, sells and leases „SS“..w. ‘-JXS 1 ’ instruments. 3 IRA W. YEOMAN,

Attorney at Law, notary PUBLIC Real Estate ani Collecting Agent* REMINGTON, INDIANA. Will practice in all the Courts of Newtoa Beaton and Jasper counties. . H LOUGHRIDGE. . VICTOR E. LOUGHBIBGE ’ Jx H. LOUGHRIDGE & SON, Physicians and Surgeons. ■> Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall. Ten per cent. Interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longed than scree months. DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon Renueiaer, Ind. flails promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. TV W. HARTSEIX, M D HOMOEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN * SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. WChronic Diseases a Specialty. JEJ OJTICE, in Makeever’u New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1864. Simki Dwisems, V. J. Sears, Vai.. Sbib,' President. Vlcs-President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK BENSSELABK/ nb Bobs a general banking business: Certificates bearing iaterest issued; Exchange bought and sold; Money loaned on forms A lowest rates and on mos J avorable terms RJan. 8.88. > t*hn Makeever Jay Williams. Pres-dent. vaehfc ’’ARMERS’ BANK, , EF*Oppos ItcPublic SELAER, .... INDIAN* — 1 - «< .ve Dfxpot.te Buy and Soil Tx*r«.‘. C>>Hect!ons made and promptly rennu ui. Money Loaned. Do a genera! Buos • Ing Bcsinoes,

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY JULY 11. 1890.

Bio. Ingram, of tho Winamac Democratic Journal, recently visited this place, and while here favored us with a pleasant call. In his paper of last week he thus details his visit to

RENSSELAER.

Ourself and better-half visited Rev. and Mrs. T. F. Drake, at Rensselaer, the first of the week. We left Winamac on Saturday after the convention had nominated its most excellent ticket, and went to Linden, Montgomery county, via Logansport and Reynolds, reaching Linden Sunday morning at one o’clock. Here we found Mrs. Ingrim and Johnnie, who had been visiting for two weeks with Mrs. M. E. Drake. Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock we boarded one of the Monon’s popular fast trains and reached Rensselaer at 4:30 p. m. We were met at the depot by Bro. Drake and his wife, who had a carriage in waiting, and driven to the residencefof Miss Cordelia Mons nett’s (ye editor’s cousin )|where our party received a most cordial welcome. After tea, which was followed by a most interesting review of our family’s history on the Rinnear side, we were conveyed to the Makeev er hotel, where Mr. and Mrs. Drake find their pleasant home (the brick parsonage as Bro. Drake calls'it). This hotel is kept by Mr. 01 Dale, formerly of Monticello, and to 4 say that i itj is one of the best hotels in northern Indiana is saying no more than it deserves. Sunday evening Bro. Drake conducted services in the fine new Methodist church, of which he is pastor. This edifice was recently completed at a cost of nearly SB,OOO, and is a beautiful building, both m exterior and in* terior finish. It has stained glass windows; is heated with a furnace, and it will seat about 500 people. A beautiful memorial window adorns one end of the church, which was placed there by Miss Cordelia in honor of the memory of her mother —the late Mrs. Mary Delamer Kinnear Monnett. Miss Monnett is a member of the Methodist church, and gave S6OO toward building its fine house of worship. On Monday morning Bro. Drake drove us out to St. Joseph’s normal school, for Indian boys, which is local ed a short distance from Rensselaer. Here we were conducted directly to the school room, where Rev. B. Florian Hahn, the urbane and talented superintendent, greeted and welcomed us. The reverend gentleman was en* gaged in hearing class recitations from the Indian boys. They are mostly half*breeds, and represent several tribes. The number present was 41. They seem to be bright, intelligent boys, and the brief examination to which Fath r Hahn subjected the pupils showed them to be quite proficient, ‘Where is Winamac?’ asked he. Qrickly jcame the answer, “In Indiana.”--In what county? ‘Pulaski ’ Then he questioned +he boys about the battle of Tippecanoe, and in conclusion asked them if it was good that General Harrison defeated the Indians in that engagement? I istantly there was a chorus of “noes” from a score or more of ‘little Injun boys.’ The Indians devote a portion of their time to cultivating the adjacent farm, and are reported to be faithful and industrious. We also visited the site of tho new Catholic college, a short distance from the Indian school. Here we fonnd our good old friend, Mr. Frank Vurpillat of Winamac, who has the contract for building the college. The foundation is

completed and the corner stone will be laid with imposing ceremonies on Sunday next. The new college will be 65 by 158 feet, five stories high and two towers. This was our first visit to Rens s?laer since 1866, when we accompanied a delegation from Winamac and Francesville to that place to hear Hon. David fur pie, hen a enhdidate for congress and now IStates senator, address the nut’tit tide. And smug that del n ation we remember that Major Li > !i cmiid nni took ** . ■_ , . ..i : '

•‘A FIBM ADHERENCE TO COBBECT PRINCIPLES.’

over a load with his four-horse team. Rensselaer has greatly improved since then, and is now a beautiful little city, with many elegant residences on spacious grounds, fine public buildings, flowing artesian wells, the Iroquois river, an electric light plant, &c. It was our pleasure to meet Bro. McEwen of the Sentinel and Bro. Marshall of the Republican. Ths latter gsntleman had just returned from Washington City, and had not yet quite recovere 1 from the •effects of Brer Harrison’s icy reception of the Hoosier republican editors. He has a large and welL equipped office, and we are glad to know that he manages by industry and economy to keep the wolf from the door, ind genial old Mack! May he live to see J asper county reliably democratic. Our old friend, Dr. 1. B. Washburn, son of Hon. M. L. Washburn of Pulaski county and treasurer of Jasper county, gave us a happy greeting. The Doctor informed us that he expects soon ta make his annual visit to his venerable father. It was our good fortune to make the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Makeever, than whom a more agreeable couple does not live. ****** The best improved harvester & binder manufactured can be inspected at C. A. Roberts’ implement house, Rensselaer Ind.— Come and see if I have not told the truth once, as you all know it is . hard for implement men to do this. Yours, C. A. Roberts.

WHEATF ELD ITEMS.

Items scarce. Farmers are taking advantage of favorable weather ar.d getting their corn-in good condition. The harvesting of rye is about complt ted. Samuel Clark, er., one of the oldest residents of the county, is suffering from kidney disease. Mrs. Langdon near this place, is just getting over a seveie attack of hemorrhage of the bowels. It is supposed that one of the most extensive Faw suits ever tried before a jus'ice in the county was that of Smilev vs. Hollett, before Justice Spriggs, where the plaintiff sued the defendant for possession of a farm and for damages. The case was continued from the 4th to the 24th of June There were 38 witnesses in attendance, and the trial lasted three days. The jury, composed of six as good men as there is in the county, was eighteen minutes in coming to the conclusion that the plaintiff had not established his complaint, and rendered a verdict for the defendant. Holleck and Graves for pl’ff, Marshall and Bowman for def’t. Mr . Tyler, late proprietor of the Melser house, has removed with his family to DeMotte. <

One of Alston Nichols’ sons has been having a severe tussle with scarlet fever. Dr. Bowman in attendance. J. A. Hollett is stepping high, and all because its a girl at his house. Mother and baby doing well. Wheatfield. For a Studebaker wagon, the world’s best, §o to C. A. Roberts. “Protecting” the Farmers.— “The McKinley bill cuts off the sale by Western and Northern farmers of $32,000,000 worth of farm products annually to Canada. It wo’d be difficult for farmers to see how they are benefitted by that It is done m pursuance of the bar* barons and unenlighten’d idea pervading the jmcKinley bill that com m.jrce is a public evil and sho’d be suppressed.”- Bep. Fx.

Notice is hereby given that from this date drayage will be charged on lumber to any point within the corporation limits at the rate of 15 cts. per load, orpart of load. F. Wolfe & Co. Nowels & Robinson. Rensselaer, Ind., June 12,1890. 1

TAKE NOTICE.

If there* is a farmer in Jasper county that wants the best mowing machine on the earth you can find it at C. A. Roberts’ implement house, who guarantees that any boy twelve years old can lift the cutter bar. Any man can raise the bar without touching the lever with his hands. Call and ses if this is not a fact. The machine is sold on its merits. No cheap, shabby good , but the best. What you see, you know; and what you read and hear, there is to be allowance made for. Thanking you for past favors, I remain Yours, Respectfully,

SHAKEY’S PIECE.

A very fat and good natured but extremely dull German boy, writes a correspondent of the Companion, was a pupil in a school I tiught in a country neighborhood some years ago. The lad’s name was Jakey Seifert, but his mother, who came with him on the first day, called him “Shakey,” and (as “Shakey” ht was known from that time forward. He proved to be as dull as he was good-natured; in fact, although he was ten ye&rs old, be was still unable to read. He would come to me with his finger on a letter in his old blue spelling book, and ask: “Vot letter vos dot?” “Why, Jak-iy,” I would say, ‘you surely know your letters. “Think a moment.” Scratching his shock of mousecolored hair, while his round, red assumed an air of comical perplexity, Jakey would reply: “Yes, I know ’em, und I do dink, butdey gets so meexed in my mind, und de more I dink und dink, de more meexed dey va^.” Poor little J akey! Wk at could Ido but pity his mental capacity and patiently try to bring order into the “meexed” candition of his mind?

He was grateful for my kindness and one day, when I had told him for perhats the twentieth time that “s” was not ‘ q, ’ he gave his head a whack with his spelling book and seid, savagely: “I bet I vill make you mind dot dis time!” We were goiug to close the term with a little exhibition at the school bouse in the evening. Nearly all the boys and girls were to have short recitations or parts in dialogues, while others would sing or read essays. Jakey had not been able to attend school the last week of the term, but he appeared at the exhibition, and early in the evening came up to me, his round face ail aglow with excit' ment. “Teacher, O teacher,” he said, “I has a pi°ice I vould like to speak, too. I has been a veek learning it.” “Very well, Jakey,” I said, “you shall speak your piece,” and when several boys of about his own age had spoken, I called: “Jakey Seifert.”

He came quickly forward and stepped upon the stage, a comical picture of overgrown boyhood and childish excitement His fat body was clad in a bright pink calico waist and round his neck was a huge embroidered white collar, such as used to be worn by our great-grandmothers. His face was as shiny as soap and water could make it. After a jerky little bow, Jakey commenced: “Mary had von leedle lamb.” Then he stopped short, and be* gan twitching at his trouser legs with the thumb and finger of either hand. “Mary had von leedle lamb.” He stopped again, and fell to twisting around on one leg. His lips moved rapidly, but no sound came from them. Some of the older boys began to laugh. Then Jakey cried out: . ‘‘You need not geegle like dot It vas ;o —Mary d’d has von leedle lamb! It Mays so in de book I” Everybody laughed at this, and Jakey, recovering his good nature,

C. A. ROBERTS.

said, in a comically loud and shrill voice: “1 cannot dink how it vas In boetry. It vas meexed in my mind, but it vas like dis: Mary had a leedle lamb. It vent io school mit her, vich de teacher did not like. De children dey did all holler and yell. Dot made de teacher mad. He yoost got after dot lamb. I bet you dotvas gootfun. I vish I vas dere to see it. He made de lamb get oud. I vould laugh to see dot. “Ven de lamb vas oud it vould not go avay. it stfiy.'d ’round going ‘ba-a-a-a!” dill Mary did come oud, und den it run up to her yoost so glad as never vas De lamb did love Mary because she vas shentle mid it. 1 like dot lamb story. Good-by!” Jakey’s recitation was the success of the evening, and his face shone with pride as he took his seat amid shouts of laughter and applause. —Youth’s Companion. A good qualify of binding twine, prices reasonable, at C. A. Roberts’. Cll and inspect jt.

Protectionist Advice.

The American Economist, the organ of the Chinese Wall tariffites, insists that “farmers should as far as possible diversify their products and develop their raw material into more perfect forms.” In illustration it shows that a bushel of corn delivered at the seaboard is wo r th only 50 cents, whereas if it is converted into 124 pounds of pork it will be worth $1,25 or into*.23 pounds of starch it will bring $1,38 or into four gallons of whiskey it will realize $6. The Cleveland .Plaindealer says that the lesson of this statement by the Ameri: an Economist is that instead of shipping 50 cents worth of corn to the seaboard farmers should coi vert it into $6 worth of whiskey. Then, we suppose, the home market theory will come into play, and to carry it to its logical conclusion the farmer will get drunk on his own whiskey and so forget the mortgage on his’eornfield. ‘ Go to C. A. Roberts for a fine line of buggies, carts and spring wagons.

A Great Similarity

There is a marked resemblance in the careers of Grover Cleveland and Robert E. Pattison. They are both sons of poor and hardworking clergymen; early in life they were thrown or their own resources with others to provide for, they both educated themselves, studied law, and entering politics achieved high positions in republican cities and made their mark by splendid administration of fiscal affairs and aggressive fight against jobs and jobbe s. Then, in 1882, on the same day they were elected governors of the two great states of the Union, in both cases overcoming large republican ma > jorities at the preceding election, h e believe Pattison will be again governor of Pennsylvania with Cleveland as president of the United States. —Pittsburgh Post.

Mr. Blaine’s reciprocity letter is a mine of nuggets for the tariff reformer. It is good protectionist doctrine that the effect of a tariff is to cheapen everything, and it is equally sound protection to affirm that all duties are paid by the exporter and not by the consumer. Mr. Blaine does not believe in either of these doctrines. This is what he says: “Nearly all the articles we export to our neigobors are subject to heavy customs taxes; heavy, in many cases, as to prow hibit their Consumption by the masses of the people.” If this does not mean that the effect of a tariff is to increase the cost of articles to the consumer, it has no meaning at all. This is good tariff reform doctrine confirmed by high protection authority.—Springfield Republican. We commend the views of Mr. Blaine to the prayerful tion of the Rensselaer Republican end Monticello Herald.

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