Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI

THE OLD AND THE NEW.

•To chua* in the Tax Law Relative te Real Kstate Aueisment Mach has been said about the increase of taxes on real estate on account of the Dew tax law. It is true that the assessment of real estate throughout the state waß increased, but the law did not do it. With the exception of six words the section in the new law relating to the assessment of real estate is similar to the old law. The provision of the new law reads as follows: Real property shall be valued by the assessor as follows: Lands and the improvements and buildings thereon, or affixed thereto shall be valued at their full, true cash value, estimated at the price they would bring at a fair, voluntary private sale [not a forced or sheriff’s sale] taking into consideration the fertility of the soil, the vicinity of the same to railroads, macadamised roads, clay roads, gravel roads and turnpike roads, state or county roads, cities, towns, villages, navigable rivers, water privileges on the same, or in the vicinity of the same, the location of the route of any canal or canals, with any, other local advantages of situation. In-lots and out-lots in all towns, cities or villages, with the improvements thereon or affixed thereto, shall be valued at their full cash Value, as aforesaid, taking into consideration all the local advantages upon actual view of the premises. All lands and lots shall also be listed at such valuation, without taking into consideration any improvements, and this valuation, as well as the valuation with the improvemenW'.thall be set down in a proper column to be left for that purpose.

Following is the provision of the old law in the assessment of lands: * Real property shall be valued by the assessor as follows: Lands and the improvements and buildings thereon or affixed thereto shall be valued at tnelr full fair cash value, estimated at the price they would bring at a fair voluntary sale, taking into consideration the fertility of the soil, the vicinity of the same to railroads, macadamized roads, clay roads, gravel roads, turnpike roads, state or county roads, cities, towns, villages, navigable rivers, Water privileges on the same or in the vicinity of the same, the locarion of the route of any canal or canals, with any other local advantages of situation. Inlots and ovt-lots in all towns, cities or villages with the improvements theresn or affixed thereto, shall be valued at their full fair cash value as aforesaid, taking into consideration all the local advantages, upon actual view of the premises. All lands and lots shall also be listed at such valuation, without taking into consideration any improvements; and this valuation with the improvements, shall be set down in a proper column to be left for that purpose. It will be seen that the two sections are identical, with the exception of the words included in brackets in the new law—“not a forced or sheriff's sale.” All lands and improvements are assessed by the township assessors. Under the old law they took an oath to assess lands “rt their full truecash value.” Under the new law they subscribe to the same oath. However, heretofore one assessor wcmld appraise the land in his township at one-third its value, while the assessor of the adjoining towhship placed the full value on the real estate of his own township. By the same process the average value of lauds in one county was fixed at |ls per acre, while in the next county the rate was $25 per acre. It was these inequalities that created a public sentiment in favor of an honest assessment. The assessor hacked by ‘*tis public sentiment complied with the law that has in reality been in force since 1881, and assessed lands and improvements “at their full true cash value.” In many cases Republican assessors, to make the law obnoxious, valued real estate too high. They and not the tax law should be held responsible. *

A Tariff Query.

Remarkably enough, the only exports from the United States that have materially increased in volume and value, except wheat and com, since the McKinley tariff went into operation are the manufactures of iron and steel. These are the manufactures, too, that next to woolen fabrics are covered with the heaviest protective duties. Yet, while thus heavily protected at home, they are able to compete successfully with the rival manufactures of Europe in all the open and free markets of the world. If farm implements of every description, steam engines, saws and tools and other products of the skill and industry of American workers in iron and steel defy competition in foreign lands by reason of their superiority, why should they be hedged about by enormous protective duties in the home market ? Is this because it is feared by legislative wisdom that American consumers' are not as good judges of the qualities of iron and steel products as are the consumers of Australia, Canada and Mexico, and that if the duties should be reduced the markets of this country would be ‘flooded” with European manufactures of inferior workmanship ? If this be not the reason, there can be no other motive for this policy than the spoliation of the masses of the American people for the profit of a favored few.—-Philadel-phia Record.

That Balance of Trade.

Under the present administration the balance of trade in favor of America has been during the last twelve months SIBO,000,000. The free trade theorists would have given thrice that sum to Europe.— New York Recorder. The balance of trade has been in our favor during the last twelve months for two reasonis—the failure of the wheat crop in Europe last year and the unprecedented yield of cotton and wheat in this country. Without the cotton export to a free trade market the balance of trade would be against us nearly erury _ ....

THE DEMOCRATIC SENTINEL

A HOME MARKET

Not Essential to the Prosperity of Our Farmers. Farms Untilled Where Factories Exist in Profusion. Congressman Warner Tells Why Farming Sees Not Pay—Protection Has Depopulated the Country In the Manufacturing States of New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Here, let us say, as a farmer, located on a bit ofwtnd one hundred miles away from the nearest city. That city is his market. There are farmers all about him; he cannot sell t» them either his staple products or the occasional surplus or fruit or garden stuff which unusually good seasons may bring upon his hands. The cost of transportation is so much taken from his profits. Here steps in the protectionist. There is in this region, say, a stream capable of abundant water power. “Let ns put a woolen mill here,” the protectionist urges; “let us agree to pay something more than we pay now for woolen stuffs, and so make it an object for some one to come here and start a manufactory. Hundreds of hands will be employed; the railway will be put through ! We will build up a town right in the midst of our farms and have a market at our very doors. Good prices then for everything.” It is done; the mill is built, the railway is laid, the town grows np. And the farmer—what of ’him? Strange to say, we presently find him getting poorer. Where is the mistake ? It is just here —in the agreement to “pay something more than we pay now” for manufactured goods. In the protectionist’s theory that “something more” is pnt away in a quiet comer; in the actual practice it comes out and plays the mischief. If the farmers in this locality want a woolen mill, those in that locality want a cotton mill, and those in the next county an iron furnace, and so on. The result is that the farmers pay everywhere “something more” for everything they buy. But this is not all. The promise of higher prices for wheat in the “home market” calls for scrutiny. The appeal, sifted down, comes to this : “Pension a number of com consumers to come and buy of you. Subsidize an army of artisans to settle at the farm gate. Pay them for making goods at a loss, and out of their profits they will purchase your abundance.” Wher« Hat* the Home Market Gone? This, however, is not the worst. It is but fair to admit that though the protectionist was always at fault and the farmer never helped by “protection,” yet that, in fac,t, the farmer did once have the ‘ ‘home market” for which he bargained—paltry as might be the whistle for which he had paid so dear. But nowadays there is no such thing as a “home market’' for any considerable portion of his produce. The farmer in the Genesee valley not merely sees the trains run past him to Rochester, laden j with flour rolled in Minneapolis from Dakota wheat, but uses the same flour in his own household, and his village ! butcher sells fresh meat from beeves | killed at Kansas City. No manufacturing town dreams nowadays of looking to the locality about it for any supplies, except only the cheapest part of its “garden truck.” The labor markets of the world are open to the American manufacturer, who thus has free trade in the one tiring he buys most of —labor. He lives in a laud where transport facilities are so developed that he need not depend upon the locality about him—and he does not in a locality whose surplus of food products is so great that their first price-fixing markets are found at Liverpool, a free trade city, and so he gets them, too/ at free trade rates. The American farmer has sold his birthright and has lost his pottage to boot. What the American farmer most needs is a home market in which he can purchase his supplies as cheaply as his competitors purchase theirs, and if he can not secure this, then he should have the poor privilege of making his purchase where he is compelled to make his sales, and be permitted to bring his goods home without being compelled to pay unreasonable taxes and fines for carrying on legitimate business. But as to the “home market” fallacy, no logic is half so remorseless and resistless as that of experience. It has be«n worked out thoroughly under ideal circumstances, the characteristic nature of which no one can question. Before the war no states were more thriving in agriculture than New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. And they earliest of all developed their manufactures, and throughout their length and breadth built factories of “protected” industries on every hand. There never was a farming population more alert to exploit a home market; there never were manufacturers better pleased to create such a market if it could he so created. What is the result? New York Worst of AIL Worst of all, however, and most characteristic, is the situation in New Yetk state. The most populous of any m the Union and once the first in agriculture, surpassed by no other in fertility, her Geneeee valley was the granary of the and supplied our expert trade long before Minnesota was a state, or Dakota had a name. Her Orange county

RENSSELAER lASPEB COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY JUNE 10 1892

gave the name to the first standard brands of butter, and her Herkimer county did the same for cheese—all this long before the war. Of late, her old great city lias become greater till in population it now approaches 2,000,000. Brooklyn, her second city, has grown to 1,000,000 from a quarter of that number. Buffalo, at, the western end, numbers 250,000; Rochester, 150,060; Albany, 100,000, and Syracuse and Troy, 75,000 each, while there are numerous others from 20,000 to 50,000. She has meanwhile become by far the greatest manufacturing state in the Union. Every one of her large towns is a manufacturing center, and throughout the state, close to every one of the old farming centers, extensive factories, mills and workshops have assured to the farmer whatever advantages the best possible “home market” can give. Not merely this, but the state as a whole has increased iq wealth with unexampled steadiness and rapidity. Since the war the vineyard interest has become an enormous one in her lake region; she has become the first of the northern states in fruit culture; her old rich farming localities are today better worked and more fruitful than ever, and her farming population not decreasing as a whole. There can be no question as to the prosperity of the state of New York; there can. be equally little that a great share of that prosperity is due to her farmers. Do they share it?

The Tribune’s Testimony. The following is published in the New York Tribune, the great home market organ: “State Assessors Ellis, Wood and Williams are making their annual visitation to the several counties selected for this year’s inspection. Each year they look into the condition of affairs in half the counties, so that it makes their visits to each county once every two years. Saturday they looked into Albany County, tomorrow they will visit Schenectady. “ ‘We find a general depreciation in the value of farm lands,” said Assessor Wood. ‘We have visited fourteen counties —Monroe, Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Chenango, Broome, Delaware, Sullivan, Franklin, Clinton, Es«ex, Washington, Warren and Albany counties. In all we find the same condition of affairs. City property is increasing in valne, while farming property is growing less and less valuable. I can not see any way for it to improve, and in a few years you will see more tenant farmers than anything else. I don’t see how these insurance companies that have advanced money will get out whole. , No one wants to buy farm lands here. They can’t get their money out of them. Most of the farms were bought about war times, when big prices were paid. In Washington county I had an illustration of the receding value of farming land. A man took a mortgage for SIO,OOO on a farm just after the war. He has held it ever since, and today will take SB,OOO for the entire farm, after foreclosing the mortgage. “ ‘The reasons for this state of affairs are many. In the first place, the farmer here can’t compete with the farmer in the west. There is very little grain raised within our borders now: potatoes don’t bring any price; butter is selling in the dairy district for fourteen cents a pound, and ocher products are equally low. This is goxi for the consumer, but bad for the producer. A few years ago western butter was not wanted; today it gets the cream of the trade in New York city. In a few years you will see the present owners of farms in many instances tenants on them.

‘The cities are prospering though. New York city has added about $50,000,000 property to its real value the past year; Brooklyn has Ridded between $20,000,000 and $30,000,000 to its real property; Buffalo has increased $5,000,000; Rochester between $2,000,000. and $3,000,000, and Albany and Syracuse sl,000,000 each.’ ” The Homo Market Club. But there'is one point further. As the home market is to be a benefit to the farmers, of course it is the farmers who have organized the Home Market club, of Boston, which is doing so much just new to uphold this beneficent system of protection. But the fact is that it is the manufacturers who are doing it. not the farmers at all. It is as if the people of the Cannibal islands should organize a missionary immigration society as a wire and easy way of getting a meat supply. The home market theory may be briefly stated as follows ; If you farmers will only give ns manufacturers enough money to enable ns to go into business, and will consent to pay prices high enough to make it possible for us to continue our business at extraordinary profits, we will agree to buy what we need—what we must have from some source—from you at low and steadily diminishing prices—if we can’t get them cheaper elsewhere. That is all there is to it.

JOHN DEWITT WARNER.

Railroads and corporations all over the state are evading the new tax law, sod are testing the constitutionality of foe increased rate. This is the same law that the Republican press over the state have been howling themselves hearse, in trying to make the masses of the people believe that the farmer was the one who suffered the increase. We don’t know of any railroad company that is fighting a law that injures the farmer.—Winchester Democrat.

“A FIRM ADHERENCE TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

TARIFF PARAGRAPHS.

The price of wheat in 1864 in New York was; lowest, $1.75 a bushel; highest, $2.75. The subscription price of the Rockville Republican that year was the same as now—sl.so a year. Threefourths of a bushel of wheat would therefore pay a year’s subscription then, while for some years back it has taken two bushels to pay a year's subscription to a paper that eooly asserts that everything the fanner raises will buy more now than at any previous period in our history. The taxpaying power of wheat shows a still greater difference when compared with “free trade times.” In 1854 a bushel of wheat would pay local taxes in Adams township on $285; now a bushel will pay on considerably less than sloo.—Rockville Tribune.

This is sheep-shearing time and we are momentarily expecting the Delphi Journal to explain to the sheep-raisers of Carroll county why it is that the McKinley increase of the tariff on wool did not increasejthe price of wool. We feel confident The Journal will spit on its hands and tackle the question lief ore the season is over, if it does not do it immediately, and that is why we are holding our breath. We know it will not let the inviting opportunity pass, It is true, the price of wool has actually gone down under the McKinley bill, but we don’t expect The Journal to say anything about that. It will only explain why it did not go up.—Delphi Times.

Every Democratic state convention, so far, has recognized the tariff as the leading and absorbing issue for the coming campaign. And just so it is with Republican conventions. A more clearly defined issue was never accepted in the history of the country. The Republicans are compelled, too, to accept and pretend to vindicate the most extreme jihase oi prohibitory tariff taxations—even McKinleyism—or abandon their organization. Like “the old man of the sea” on the aching shoulders of Sinbab, McKinleyism is a deep set barnacle that can not be scraped off without sinking the ship. —Noble County Democrat. Republican papers set) dire havoc threatening the prosperity of the country because a slight increase has been made in the state tax, but they nave nothing to say of increases of federal taxation. The state taxes in Miami county are not one-thirthieth as much as the sums collected for federal purposes. Peru Sentinel. Under the old law the tariff on tin plate was $2.15, whereas it is now $4.75, or $2.60 in advance. Recently The Democrat showed that the price to the tinner had advanced $2.25. Does not this plainly show that the tariff steal keeps just behind the tariff rate?—Franklin County Democrat.

There is a very general desire to know where is the laboring man whose wages have been advanced since the McKinley bill became a law. On the other hand it is very evident that the purchasing power of the poor man’s dollar has been impaired.—Daviess County Democrat.

The persistent attempt of the McKinleyite to naturalize an imported sheet of iron dipped in imported tin by imported workmen is as ridiculous as the attempt of a New York dude to be an Englishman.—Madison Herald. It is at last conceeded, even by the most rabid protectionist, that the tariff is a tax and that the foreigner don’t pay it. Experience is a dear school, you know.—Frankfort Crescent. The presidential campaign will center on tariff reform, and the Democratic party has already taken the road that leads to glory.—Ripley Journal.

Republican Lies Refuted.

On Defloration day a number of political orators in the Mate charged that the last two Democratic legislatures hail neglected the soldiers’ orphan home at Knigbtstown. The legislature journals and acts of the sessions of 1889 and 1891 show that the most liberal appropriations were made for the maintenance, extension and repairs of that institution. In 1889 the following expenditures were authorized by the legislature : Maintenance $ 72,000 Office salaries 3,599 Additional building and repairs.... 48,541 The session Of 1891 appropriated for Maintenance $ 95,000 Current repairs 2,000 Salaries of officers 38,000 Reading room 200 Assembly hall 13,000 Extension of hospital 3,000 Six additional cottages 18,000 Additional workshop 6,000 Two additional school rooms 5,000 Repair of farm cottages 500 Complete dining room 1,000 Water works 2,000 Electric lights 3,000 Sewerage 8,000 Gronnd and gymnasium 1,500 Library and reading room 3,000 Conn uued expenses 2,000 Total $314,040 Tariff Diagrams. In 1858 when a tariff for revenue only prevailed American vessels carried 73 per cent. of onr foreign trade. In 1891 under the McKinley high tariff only 11 per cent. of our exports and imports was carried by American ships.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Governor, CLAUDE MATTHEWS, VergHlton LleC tenant Governor, MORTIMER NYK. LaPorte. Secretary of Slate, WILLIAM H. MYERS, Madison. Auditor of State, JOHN O. HENDERONM Howard. Treasurer.of State, ALBERT GALL, Marion. Attorney General, A LON 7, A G. SMITH, JenniugH. Reporter of Supreme Court, SIDNEY R. MOON, Fulton. Superintendent of l’ublie. Instruction. lIERVEY I), VtiHIES, Johnson. State Statistician. WILLIAM A. PBELK. Ju„ Marion. Supreme Judge, Second District, JEPTIIA 1) NEW, Jouuiuts. Supren Third District, JAM c s McD a BE, Warren. Supreme judge, Fi Hi District. TIMOTHY E. HOW i ltl), St. Joseph. f Appellate Judge, First District., GEORGE L. REINHARDT, Spencer. Appellate Judge, Second Dis’itct, FRANK E. GAVKN, Decatur. Appellate Judge Third District, THEODORE I>. DAVIS, Hamilton. Appellate Judge, Fourth District, OKDANDO J. LOT/,, Delaware. Appellate Judge, Fifth District, GEORGE E. ROSS, Gass. For Next United States Senator, DAVID TUItPIE.

Our sweet Billy Owen is for Blaine, Its “dog eat dog”, at Minneapolis. G. W. Gauthihr, the furniture man, is enjoying a visit from his father. Mrs. Willis McColly ad daughter Mary are visiting friends in Momence. Miss Ida Chilcote is visiting friends in Michigan. Thomas Thompson is a looker-on inMinneapolis. Misses Carrie Stackhouse and Blanohe Loughridge are visiting a sister of Miss S., in Chicago. Clerk Coover will oooupy Mrs. J. 0. porter’s teneineut property, Newton’s addition.

GOOD LOOKS. Goo J looks are more than skin deep dep uding mon the healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the Liver ,»o inactive, you have a Bilious Look; if vour stomach be disordered you have a Dyspeptic Look, aud if jlour Kidneys be affected you have a Pinched Look. Secure good health and you will have good looks. Electric Bitters is the great alterative and Tonic acta directly on these vital organs. Cures Pimples. Blotches, Boils and giv a a good complexion. Sold at Meyer’s Drugstore. 50c. per bottl e * An all day basket meeting will be held at the Christian church, Barkley township, next Sunday, June 12. All invited. Children s Day will be observed at th® First Baptist church next Bundav morn" ing. Everybody invited. Bring in y oa r contributions.

B. E. Utz will preaoh at the Christian tabernacle next Sunday morning and evening. Subjects: “Consecrationand Concentration.’’ The evening subjeot especially for the young people. Special Childrens’ Day Services will be held at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. The children are expected to be,all present by 10:40 a. m. Preparations are being made to make it a pleasant and profitable occasion for them. The evening servicos will be under the auspices of the Sunday School.

Commissioners Court isinseisionwitn Messrs. Watson and Querry on deck. Mr. Tabor is on the sick list. Circuit Court is in session. The dock, et is light. There will be no grand jury this term, and the pettit is oalled for the last week. Mr. Dr. Deming and son are enroute home from Florida. The health of moth, or and son requires frequent stops. They had reached Chattanooga, Tennessee, at last accounts. Monday evening Inst the Rensselaer band effected a reorganization with the f o’lowing membership. John Healy, leader, J. A. Hubertz, L. F. Hopkins, Ludd Hopkins, George Hopkins, Jay Zimmerman, B. K Zimmerman. O. H. Vick, Charles W. Rfioales and Charles Morlan.

Still More Low Rates.

REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTIO N. The Monon Route will s«ll tickets to Fort Wayne and return, occasion of Republican State Convention, at one fare for the round trip. Tickets sold June 27th and 28th, and good returning until June 29th. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONNENTION. For the Democratic National Convention, tickets to Chicago and return, at one fare for round trip. Sold from June 16th to 20th, and good returning until July Bth. PROHIBITION NATIONAL CONVENTION. For the Prohibition National Convention, tickets to Cincinnati and return, one fare for round trip. Tickets sold June 29th and 30th, and good returning until July 6th.

as' A. McCoy & Co. are prepared to furnish loans on farms at as low rates and on as favorable terms as can be obtained. Call and see us before making your arrangements. 3

I. O. O. F. DECORATION.

Tuesday. Juno 14,1892, willbeobserved by i he Odd Fellows of Rensselaer iu deoorating the graves of deceased brethren with appropriate ceremonies. All Odd Fellows and their families uro invited to be present and assist in ( ommemorat ing the virtue* of departed brothers and friends. The following program has t een arranged: Ist. All members of tho Order, including the Daughters of Rebeckah, will assemble at the I. O. O. F. Hall at 12 o’clock m. sharp, at which place dinner and refreshments will bo served. 2d. At 1 o’clock the procession will form in the public square and proceed to

the Cemetery. 3d. Musio. 4th. Invooatiou—Rev. H. V. Weaver. sth. Music. (ith. Address—Rev. I, I. Gorby. 7th. Musio—Band. Bth. Impromptu spoeohes. 9th. Music by band and decoration of graveß, after which pretension will reform and march baok to hall. * t By prder of Com turf tee.

Charles W. Bridges President of the Capital City Fence Company, Indianapolis, Ind., visited Rensselaer this week This company presents new features in the fonco line, having un iron post, with gray iron base which sorews in the ground. The most ornamental and substantial fouou yet presented for Lawn, Cemetery and Field Fences, at lowor prioes

ALL FREE. Those who have used Dr. King’s Now Discovery know its vulue. and those who have not have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and got a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and and uddress to H. E. liuoklun & Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills Free, as well as a oopy of Guide to Health and Household Instructor, Free. All of which is guaranteed to do you good and oost you nothing, at Meyer's Drugstore. I. Tom Bums has hm new livery establishment iu full operation. New Barn, New Rigs, Everything Now, and good Horses, it will bo nig aim to guarautoo satisfaction to his jv irons. Tho American Eagle must be a gay old bird—ho is bald. If you don’t want to bo bald, use Hall’s Hair Uenewer, and yon won’t lie. Try it. *- Lewis Hunt occupies what is known as tho liisseudou property. Saisnparilla belongs to tho srnilax family of plants, and is found very genorally over the American continent; but the variety that is riohest in medicinal properties Is the Honduras root, of whieh the fa. mous Ayer’s Sarsutiarllla is made. A box-older tree on Cullen street, nearly opposite the Makeever House, was struck by lightning Monday evening.— Tbo top of the tree was knocked into smithereens and tue trunk totally stripped of bark Janies Norris has moved into his new home.

A box of Ayer’s Pills hug saved many a fit of sickness. When a remedy does not happen to be within reach, people arc liable to negleot slight eilments, and, of course, if serious illness follows they have to suffer the consequences. “A stitoh in time saves nine.”

A CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION. A convention of the W. C. T. Unions of Jasper County will be held in Rensselaer Friday, Jnne 24th, beginning at 10 o'olock a. m. The object is the organization of a County Union l'or the better consolidation of effort in extending the reform work of the W. C. T U. iu the county. The progr m will consist in the forenonof a< o secretion service and Biblereading; reports of local Unions and greetings from fraternal delegates. In the afternoon of discussions of the W. C. T. U, methods of work and the organization of the County Union; in the evening addresses by Miss Lodie li, Reed, Htale Cor. Sec’y who will hove charge of the Convention, and others. All members of W. 0. T. Unions in the conntyjaredelegates. Cherches and other Temperance sooietiee are invited to send fraternal delegates. The public is cordially invited to attend all the meetings. LODIE E. REED, Sec’y Dep’t Airs. J. R Nichols, Organization. Pres’t. Advertised LETTERhMrs. F. M. Lewis, Mr. Georgo F. Robinson. Persons for letters in the above list will please say they are advertised. Ed. Rhoades. Mrs. Mary 8., mother of Geo. Hoover Kays, deceased, has been awarded the life policy by the courts.

Dunngthe week our Republican friends, with few exceptions, have been loud deep and bitter in their dennneiation of the “treachery” of the “magnetic” man from Maine, and we think not without juet cause. We have always thought there was m re selfishness and treachery than magnetism in Blaine's composition —in fact could never see where the “magnetic” quality came in.

PATTON IS A WORKER. In a write up of the Indiana delegation in Congress, Hon. Dan McDonald says in his Plymouth Democrat: “David H. Patton, of Remington, representing the Ten h district, is a Kentuekian by birth, now fifty-five years old. He was a eoldier durincr the late wai, attaining the rank of colonel. He studied medicine and graduated at the Ch cago Medical oollege. He never held any politioal office until elected to the present congress over Wm. D. Owen, republican. He is a large man, long, full beard, nearly gray, -rears glasses, is industrious aud careful in the discharge of his duties, and looks earefully after th® .nterests of his constituents,"

TRUSTEE'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that I will be a£ my office at John A. Knowlton’s, in Joidun township, 01 the Fourth, Saturday o-' each month for the transaction of business connected with tb i duties of Trustee. JAMES H. CARE, Trustee Jordan Township Miss Susie Parker will start to-morrow for Buffalo, New York, on a visit to her oousin, Mrs Mattie Rinehart. Miss Nellie Hopkins will visit friends iu HeMotte, to-morrow. The iron fence is being plaoed in position on the publio/square. Read attentively the article on first page relative to the assessment law. James G , Mrs. Janies G. and James G. Blaine, jr ~ who is a chip Irom the old block, are rusticating in Boston.

It is rumored on our streets that a pro - minent republican of Rensselaer nas written a letter to James Guano Blame which will oauee him to withdraw his name from before the Minneapolis convention. The Blaine and Harrison boomers are saying mighty hard things of these favorites. Monticello Herald: Mrs. Lucy Malohow and Miss Katie Shields of ltonsseluer are here on visit, the guests of Lewis lieprogle. Thu stiuggle now on between Blaine ana Harrison is disgraueful. It is a contest between the “Ins" and the “Outs.’— They urenot impelled by a single patriotic motive.

It is refreshing to turn from the squabble now going on between Blaine and Harrison at Minneapolis, to the patriotic letter oi Mr Cleveland in r. spouse to Gen. Bragg. In that ietter Mr. Cleveland insists t hat the Presidential office is one of tiemendous responsibility, so great, indued, that “the office should seek the man aud not man seek thooilioe;” that the people should determine the candidacy untraiumolud; that he was opposed to aotivo self-assertion on the part of any candidate. The badges worn by the Harrison men at, the Minneapolis convention were irnpor.eil from England Vive la Home Market

Negro delegates at Minneapolis neotn to prove an uncertain quantity. Telegrams . announce that many of them have their votes in the market, nnd the purchaser is mighty uncertain an to delivery should other buyers Intervene. To this ola sis relegated the balance of power; and to this degraded and debused element— ospeoi ally d Harrison or Blaine is winner—will the Keputdioun party be indebted for its candidate. Hie treachery of James Guano Blaine was rewarded by a vote that would provu humiliting to any other man. He, however we suppose, is so fully charged with muguctism that hu is uot susceptible of humiliation. The levy of looal taxes Ib made by the county and tpwnship officials. If your tax receipt shows an increase over that of last year place the responsibilty where it belongs—with tho county and township officers.

Ayer's Sarsaparilla Stands at tlio lioud of all blood niodiciims. This position it has secured by its intrinsic merit, Sustained by the opinion of leading physicians; and by the certificates of thousands who have successfully tested its remedial worth. No other medicine. so effectually CURES Scrofula, boils, pimples, rheumatism, catarrh, ami all other blood diseases. “ There can be no question as to the superiority of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla over all other blood-purifiers. If this was not the case, the demand for it, Instead of increasing yearly, would have oeased long ago, like so many other blood medicines I could name.”— K. L. Nickerson, Druggist, 75 Chelsea st., Charlestown, Mass. “ Two years ago I was troubled with saltrheum. It was all over my body, and nothing the doctors did for mo was of any avail. At lust I took four bottles of Ayer’a Sarsaparilla, and was completely cured. I can sincerely recommend It as a splendid blood-purifier.J. 8. Burt, Upper Keswick, New Brunswick. “My sister was afflicted with a severe case of 3 V SCROFULA Our doctor recommended Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as being the best blood blood-purifier within his experience. We gave her this medicine, and a complete cure was the result.” ' Wm. O. Jenkins, Deweese, Neb. “ When a boy I was troubled with a blood disease which manifested itself In sores on the legs, Ayer’s Sarsaparilla being recom-.j mended, I took a number of bottles, and was’ j cured. I have never since that time had a recurrence of the complaint.” —J. 0 , 't Thompson, Loved, Mass. “ I was cured «f Scrofula by tbe use of i Ayer’s BarsaparH».”-John C. Berry, Deer- I field, Mo. v* Ayer’s Sarsaparilla • riWism bt • • Dr. J. C. AYER & CO., Loved, Miss. Bold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles,

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE. In the matter of the Estate of David M. Nelson, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court,'June Term, 1892. Notice is hereby given, That the undersigned, as Administratrix of the Estate of David M Nelson, deceased, has presented and filed her aoconnt and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court, on the 20th day of June. 1892, at whioh time aIL persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said Court and show cause, if any there be, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. □And the heirs of said estate, and all others interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. I BENE R. NELSON. Wm, H. Coovsb, Clerk. June 3,1892. •

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