Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Page 1

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A HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT.

A Chilian Criminal Shot and Tied In a Bar with Bata and Snakes. The terrible punishments inflicted on criminals In Chili are now fortunately dons away with. How terrible these Densities were the following story, told by a correspondent from Concepcion, will show: Less than forty years ago a beautiful girl, whose parents were among the wealthiest citizens of Concepcion, married the son of another equally prominent family, and the pair settled down to housekeeping with flattering prospects of future happiness. For several months their course of true love ran smoothly enough, and then the demon jealousy took possession of the young wife whether on reasonable Sounds or not Ido not know. Among ese passionate, high-strung, irresponsible people the “green-eyed monster” plays a more desperate part than coldblooded Northerners can well understand, and the prisons are filled with his viotlms. The senora in question, mad with jealous rage, crept out of bed one night, heated a kettle of lard to the boiling point and deliberately poured it over the head of her sleeping husband. Of course he died, after a few hours of torture; and so did she, in a no less shooking manner. Though her father offered the whole of his wealth to save her life and the mother begged the Governor on her knees to inflict some less horrible punishment, the poor demented girl was dragged io “the hill of death,” or place of public executions, and shot; ana then her yet warm body was tied up In a sack, together with living rats and snakes, and sunk in the middle of the river.

A Sensible Mexican Law.

We are apt to look upon Mexioo as a poorly governed country, or, at any rate, as very far behind us in this respect. But in one of its provinces a law has been established whloh is certainly worthy the attention of our legislators. The Legislature of Sinaloa has reversed the order of things in the matter of assessments, and, instead of increasing a man’s taxes in proportion to his improvements, it gives relief where the Improvements are of value to the general public. Any one laying out a plantation with at least 500 rubber trees is to receive $1,000; and the benefit is not to stop there, for the increased value of the land, owing to the improvements, Is to be ignored by the assessors, under heavy penalties. This is a decided innovation, and seems a great improvement on our-plan of making the whole burden of taxation fall on those who spend money on improvements in which the neighbors participate, and reducing the taxes of those who keep property Idle and of little use to a minimum.

Cities Are Healthy.

The doctors occasionally make some pretty wild statements. An authority on the health of cities, for instance, says that If all the human race lived in cities like London, Paris or New York, mankind would become extinct in less than two oenturies. Such statements are the worst nonsense in the world, for as everybody knows the strongest, most athletio specimens of humanity are to be found in the cities, and during the oivll war it was commonly remarked that the men of regiments recruited in large cities could stand more fatigue than those reonjited In the country districts. City life may be more exhausting than oountry Uto, and the average length of life in the cities may be somewhat shorter, but everybody who has tried both knows perfectly well that city food is better prepared and more wholesome than that used in the country, while a regard for sanitation is dally making the condition of life in a large olty more conducive to longevity.

Fecundity of Flab.

It is said that probably about 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 codfish are taken from the sea annually around the shores of Newfoundland. But even that quantity seems small when we consider that the cod yields something like 3,500,000 eggs each season, and that even 8,000,0 u have been found in the roe of a single cod. Other fish, though not equa ing th«> cod, sre alsp wcmddrfQlly productive. A herring, six or seven ounces in weight, is provided with about 30,000,000. After making all reasonable allowances for the destruction of eggs and of the young it has been calculated that in three years a single pair of herrings would produce 154,0u0,n00. Buffon said that if a pair of herrings were left to breed and multiply undisturbed for a period of twenty years they would yield a fish bulk equal to the globe on which we live. The cod far surpasses the herring in fecundity. Were it not that vast numbers of the eggs are destroyed fish wpuld sp multiply' as tq. fljl the waters fcpmpletely.

Married After Fifty Tears.

An oldman came to Jefferson, Ga., worn and bent, and began to make inquiries for some of the older families of the place. He said that he had left there in 1837, being then eighteen, and had never b fore returned. The cause of his departure was the preference shown by Jessie Carmichael for a young neighbor named Edward Toomer. He went into the new country of Ohio, married, raised a large family, and became one of the patriarch of his section. Lately his wife died, and a great desire came over him to see the people whom he had known in youth. The old man was told that the girl whom fie had loved was nbw Toomer’s widow. He at once went to see her and tne next day tfiey were married.

He Got What He Asked For.

An Englishman, thinking to have a joke at an Irishman’s expense, walked into his (the Irishman’s) shop one day, when he found Pat busily engaged behind tfie counter. “Pat,"said the Englishman, “I want a yard of meat. ” Pfit looked at him, and without making any remark walked over to a barrel whiofi was concealed under the counter, and ploklng out three pig’s feet, laid them on the oounter. “Hallo, Pat,” said the astonished Englishman, “what does this mean?” “Ooh," says Pat, “didn't ye ask me for a yard of mate, and ain’t there three feat in a yard any day?"

One Fool Lees.

A saw days ago at Hennessy, O. T., a reeaat convert to Christian Science, who had been told that under sufficient faith be could pick up a rattlesnake . harmlessly, made the test. The snake astaaed its fangs in the man’s arm and the wound proved fatal in a couple o* hours, despite the prayers of his fellow believers. There is one fool less on

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A BURGLAR’S ADVICE.

He Tells Women What to Do In Case of a Midnight Visitation* “The best way for a woman to do if she woke up and found a man at work in her room,” said a skilled burglar to a reporter, one day this week, “would be to keep very still and pretend she was still sleeping, or, if he knew that she had seen him, to obey his orders and xeep still. If he thought she had submitted he wouldn’t watch her so hard, and it would give her time to think what to do. There’s one thing, though, that would be bad for a woman. If a burglar left her room by the door she ought to listen to his footstep or watch the light o’ his lantern, an’ she don’t want to get out o’ bed or move until he is well out of hearing. A man who goes out that way will always stop when he has gone a few feet from the door where a woman is, and, if he hears her jump out of bed at once, lip suspects what she’s up to, and would then escape by the nearest window and’ be out of reach, or else he would go back an' make it dangerous for her. She wants ter be ounnin.' Then she can catch him. “A woman with a gun ain’t much count. The best protection a woman in a house alone can have is a little, nasty whiffet of a dog—one o’ them blaok beasts that yell at everything and won’t make friends with a feller till he has seen him 500 times. He barks at everything. Then a baby! I’d rather meet a dozen men than run against a little baby. The kid always cries. *

Dentists at the Exposition.

The dentists of the world are going to hold a congress at Chicago during the World's Fair. They had one at the Paris Exposition, and it was so successful that they deoided to have another next year at which It is expected 3,000 American practitioners will be present, and 500 to 800 from foreign countries. No congress could be more appropriate for America’s great celebration, for dentistry is a thoroughly characteristic product of American genius and skill. Its sessions will be held in the splendid new Memorial Art Palace, on the shore of Lake Michigan, near the center of Chicago. This building will contain two large audience rooms, with a seating capacity of about 3,000 eaoh. The official languages of the congress will be English, French, German and Spanish, and in the published transactions, which will probably make two large volumes, the papers will be printed in the language in which they are read.

Rabbit’s Foot Philosophy.

His size, weight, color of hair and eyes—even his intellect—No; but his heart, yes. What would a man do without playthings? A rainy day is a shadow across happiness. Blue skies look like out-doors. The rattlesnake is no flatterer. Listen to the winds; they -are either fresh or salt, if you can but imagine it. The universality of God’s wisdom, like’all other rules, has its exceptions. Men degrade bread into poisoh when they pervert the natural uses of grains into liquor. Tact is genius, but genius is often devoid of it, —Arkansaw Traveler.

What to Try.

Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrh in the head. Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup if you want to make it palatable. Try a cloth, wrung out in cqjd water, put about the neok at night for a sore throat. Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Tiy a saturated solution of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) in diarrheal troubles; give freely. Try a newspaper over your chest, be neath your coat, as a chest protector in extremely cold weather. Health Monthly.

Mining a Sunken Forest.

Thp q is q sunken forest of white cedar on the ooast of New Jersey whicn has been continuously “mined” for itvaluable timber for more than eight years. The curious indus .ry of diegin.' for these sunken logs is carried on by the people of Denmsville, a village which was brought into existence solely thiough the wealth of the buried timbe • in its vicinity. Over this Sunken forest trees of large size are now growing, an I in many instances the growing timber is cut away in order to get at the 'more valuable logs which lie only three or four feet beneath the surface. It la believed that they were sunk by an earthquake. ' ■ •'

Ashamed of Her Opium Trade.

England is ashamed of her opium trade in India, but don’t know how to give it up. The House of Commons last year passed a resolution that “the system by which the Indian opium revenue is raised io morally indefensible,” but when this year a delegation representing i early a 1 the great religious bodies in England asked the Government to suppress the traffic, which is the curse of China, the delegation met with an acknowledgment that all they had to say against the traffic was true, but that there was no other way to raise the $19,000,000 which the taxation of opium yields annually in India.

Three Calico Dresses to Hoot.

Near Raleigh the other day a most remarkable double wedding occurred. Ham \Vaters and Waterson Blankenship were neighbors and fell in love with each other’s wives. One of the couples eloped but came back in a short time and the men had a bitter quarrel, but the women patched up a peace, and then, being even more desirous of a change than the men, proposed that they swap husbands. This struck the men favorably and divorces were secured. Then the swap was made, Mrs. Blankenship giving Mrs. Waters three calico dresses to boot. The double wedding was a very enjoyable affair.

Assumes Every Hue.

One of the most striking of the arboreal growths of California is the madrona tree, the bark of which is as changeable as the oolors of a kaleidoscope. Not like the red-wood giant does it rear its head high above the other trees of the forest, although when having full growing room it attains a great size, but its bark is constantly chancing in color, at times gi\ing out all the hues of the rainbow. The young trees are most beautiful, and even the gnarled monarchs of time, by shedding heir bark, assume all the beauty and splendor of the younger species.

RENSSELAER IASPEK COUNT f. INDIANA FRIDAY. JAMJAR? (>1893

BEGONE. DULL CARE.

When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around.—Yonkers Gazette. i The sharper understands other people pretty yell, but he often has to give himself djp.—Binghamton Republican. "I GEv your views,” said the Sheriff as he proceeded to seize the photographer’s stock in trade. —Buffalo Enquirer. A carpenter may be a first-class boarder and yet be very far from finding favor in the eyes of his landlady.—Lowell Mall. Whom the gods love die young. The rest become boy preachers or organize into young men’s political dubs.—Detroit Free Press. There is compensation for “that head” in the thought that swelling the Internal revenue Is a patriotic act— Indianapolis Journal. If the United States is ever again compelled to let loose the dogs of war, it can be sure of having on hand a fine pack of West Pointers.—Baltimore American. There is a girl in the London workhouse who speaks a language which nobody oan understand. What a perfeot railway brakeman she would make!— Boston Transcript. Why Is It that a man will wait for one cent In change from a newsboy and then turn around and give a case waiter ten cents for handing him a toothpick?— Philadelphia Times. In the school of military instruction: Officer—What is the powder that this summer has been introduced In nearly all the armies? Recruit—lnsect powder.—Fliegende Blatter.

ATCHISON PECULIARITIES.

An Atchison woman grows younger every year by taking a oold water bath twioe a day. An Atchison woman claims that quinine will cure anything, and proved it recently by curing the toothache with It. There is not one member of a South Atchison family who can kill a chicken. The father is more tender-hearted than any of the others. An Atchison girl is in great demand for assisting at serving refreshments at this time of ihe year. She knows of forty-nine ways to serve oranges. An Atchison man made a life-long friend to-day. He met the laziest man in town on the streets and warned him in a friendly way that he was working too hard. The equal suffragists in Kansas begin to insist at an early age upon having 'heir rights. An Atchison 3-year-old girl recently cried herself into spasms because her brother had more pockets than she had. An Atchison woman has joined four different churches in town, eaoh one on probation, and in each instance she has failed to show up when the time rolled around for entering into full membership. Joining churches is her fad.— Atchison Globe.

APHORISMS.

A good conscience is a good sleeper. It is only great men who love work better than play. The first man to denounoe gossip is the man who is the subject of it. A man never outlives those who have seen him make a fool of himself. The world is full of ghosts. Did you ever stop to think that you are a ghost to some one? Thebe can be nothing said greater to the credit of a man than that he never laused any woman trouble. A man spends his life in preparing himself for troubles, and forgets his preparations when trouble conies. How easy it is to plan out a path to pursue, and how hard it is lollop it when you start out op yo ( ur jpprney. If have a single friend on earth, i o matter how humble or insignificant he may be, strive to keep his confidence. Don’t be too profuse in your thanks to the man who lets you have your own way. He may be doing it to cure you of a folly. A man was never so rich or powerful that he had friends who would care for his children, if he should become suddenly poor.

ABOUT LIBRARIES.

The Pomona (Cal.) public library has lost fiut ope book in three years. Of seven hundred ) oya and girls who drew books from the library of the College Settlement In Rlvington street, New York, last year only two had American parents, Mbs. Isabel Poland Rankin, daughter of the late Luke P. Poland, has given. to the town of Morristown, Vt., one thousand dollars toward a library which is being established there. The records of the New Haven Public Library show that there were four thousand less books drawn last year than the year previous, the decrease being almost wholly in the field of fiction. A sensible memorial will be that dedicated to Wilkie Collins. It will consist of a small library of choice fiction, to be presented to the “People’s Palace” in London. Fifteen hundred dollars bas already been raised for this purpose. Some one has been interviewing a country book-seller in England with an extended business and learned from him that while the ladies are reading a moro serious line of hooks, Arnold, Froude and Lang, the men are taking to novel-reading with a vengeance.

French Funerals.

There are nine classes or grades of funerals, the most expensive of which costs, nominally, 8,000 francs, and the ninth a few francs only. The seventh, which is usually chosen by the working people, can be had for about sls. The hearse is decorated with cotton fringe, and there is no mourning carriage, though one can be had for 22 francs. The religious servloe costs In addition $4. Few persons avail themselves of the eighth and ninth grades, which cost almost nothing, preferring either the semi-gratnitous funeral or that entirely gratuitous, which present nearly the same external signs of luxury, and to the public eye are quite ae creditable.— San Francisco Chronicle.

Down In Florida last week two alligators engaged In a conflict on a nv*r bank that lasted for nearly an hour

•‘A FIRM 4.D KNOB TO CORRECT PRIMTOI LBS.”

WORDS OF THE WISE.

Tears art sometimes equal in weight e words.—Ovid. Things ill acquired are as badly expended.—Plautus. I prefer silent prudenoe to loquacious folly.—Oloero. Hypocrisy is the homage whioh vice renders to virtue.—Rochefoucauld, i Labor rids of three great evils—4»k- ---( someness, vioe and poverty.—Voltaire. The man who is most Mow in promising is the most sure to keep his werd.— | Idem. Rbvenob is always the pleasure of little, weak, and narrow minds.—Juvenal. He avoids many laoonvenienoes who does not appear to nottea them.— ; Seneca. 1 Where pleasure is eagerly pursued, the greatest virtues will lose them power. —Cicero. Liberty oonsists in the power of doing that whioh is permitted by the law. —Cicero. Patience makes that more tolerable which is impossible to prevent or remove.—Horace. Consolation, when Improperly administered, does but irritate tee afllotion. —Rousseau. An evil at its birth is easily crushed, but it grows and strengthens by enduranee. —Cicero. A wise man thinks before he apeak*, but a fool speaks and the* thinks of what he has been saying. French proverb. An evil saver differs from eh evil doer only In the want of opportunity—or. the difference is but slight between a calumniator and an assassin.—Quintilian. The reputation of a man is like bis shadow; it sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him; it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size.—Frenoh proverb.

CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

In Denmark the lighthouses are supplied with oil to still the waves in a storm. The Czar of Russia Is reported to have presented the Stanford University, In California, with a complete collection of Russian and Siberian minerals. A well down 165 feet deep at Spencer, lowa, has a current of cold water rushing from it with great foroe. It will raise a man sitting qn a board placed over the mouth of ihe pipe. A woman in Oxford County, Me., took her husband’s overcoat containing a s3do roll of bills, and used it to cover up her plants. Missing his garment he instituted a searoh and found it in the garden. A female temperance lecturer visited 7aldosta, Ga., the other day, She pub.ishod a pamphlet setting forth the horrible effects of Intemperance, and exemplified them in person by getting on a rousing drunk. In Darmstadt and other large German cities pot plants are given to school children who live in tenements. Usually three of ihe same size are given with printed directions how to care for them. At the end of a year exhibitions are held and prizes awarded. A tramp detected at Port Jervis, N. Y., in the act of attaching to the trucks of a railroad car a novel contrlvanoe for stealing a ride, volunteered the information that, seated on 'the contrlvanoe, he had journeyed over 1,500 miles. It was constructed something on the order of a swing.

UP IN SPRY YANKEEDOM.

A vein of quartz gold was recently uncovered at Craftsbury, Vt. Two new mica mines have been lately opened at North Groton, N. H. Deeb are reported to be rapidly Increasing in numbers in Central and Northern Vermont. A boy of ten and a girl of twelve in one of the public schools at Portland, Me., are subjects of a good deal of curiosity, as both are as bald as billiard balls. One of the curiosities of Nashua, N. H., is a twin tree made up of a maple and an elm, which have grown together at a point about ten feet from the ground. A Vebmont men suggests that the birtfiplace of Gen. Stannard, near 8t Albans, be turned Into a memorial park in honor of Gen. Stannard, the hero of Gettysburg. At North Adams, Maas., the other day, a couple who were united in marriage in church before the regular service, went at once into the eholr and assisted in the singing.

CUT IT SHORT.

If it is unnecessary to say a thing, why say it? What is the necessity, the cruel necessity, for the unnecessary thing? “I will not stop to enlarge, "observes the preacher, and then he stops, and onlarge is no name for It. “It goes without saying,” remarks the editor, and then for fear it will not go, says it over and over again for a column of two. “Tell me not in mournful numbers," sings the poet, and straightway informs himself in many unhilarious stanzas of the very things he did not want to know. “I deem it entirely unnecessary to combat the gentleman’s views," says the orator, and, so saying, goes on to combat them till some rude person cries “rats!” “It is altogether needless to enter on any argument to sustain this proposition,” says the learned judge, and forthwith enters on one of great length and intense dullness.

THE MERRY GO ROUND.

The farmer has oaws for alarm when he sees the crows hovering over his cornfield.—Lowell Courier. Thebe are plenty of people who go to base-ball games too late to get a seat who are honest, and yet they will stand watohing.—Yonkers Gazette. Philadelphia Is proud just because there are now five baby lions, two baby . bears and one baby buffalo in its “Zoo," ail born in captivity, which is Philadelphia^—Boston Transcript. The speed with which planting is done at the West indicates that they have got sowing machines there that srs s long way ahead of Singer and tho rest.—Boston Commercial Bulletin.

In his annual report Auditor of State Henderson speaks l ighlvof the new tax law, as the result* of its first year’s opelations prod aim it **t once the most equitable and soundest tax measure Indi ana has ever known.” The burthen Of taxation, he says, was fairly end equitably borne, tax dodging was not only a diare pntable but losing business, and under the powerful search-light of the new law property sequestration was both a dangerous and diffioult thing. In this connection the following oecur 8 in the report: Never before in the annals of the state has corporate wealth been compelled to bear its juat share of the publio burden.— To-day the dollar of the rich man, of the bank, of aggregated oapital, is compelled to contribute to the public treasury equally with the dollar of the humblest citizen. The new tax law iB founded on the sound dootrine of honest fu 1 vain#* appraisement. One dollar is taxed at one hundred cents, whether it be invested in lands, prod ots, bank oapital, factories or luxuries. Under the benißn ministration of this measure millions upon millions of property heretofore sequestered have been plac, don the tax duplic.de. To more fully emphasize the difference between the old law and the new I submit the following appraisements, whioh show a total increase of values of $397,581,651 in favor of the new law:

KIND OF PROPERTY. 1890. 1891. INCREASE. Value of 1 nds, $308,173,414 $450,186,112 $142,012,698 Value of improvements on lands, 69,102,918 > 79,351,475 10,242,557 Value of lan s and improvements, 377,276,632 529,537,587 152,261,255 Value of lots, 76,585,557 140,902,950 64,316,493 Valne of improvements or lots, 98,591,500 128,160,886 29,669,186 Velue of lots and impr >vements, 176,661,412 269,062,736 92,401,424 Value of personal property, 236,831.676 293.745,534 56,913,858 Valve of railroad property, 66,206,295 161,039,169 94,832,874 Value of telegraph property, 698,672 1,871,012 1,172,340 Total, 857,674, 38J j 1,255,256,038 i $397,581,651

It will be observed that corporation property shows the hugest rate of increase —telegraph jumping from $608,672 to sl.871,012, and railroad values from $86,206,• 295 to $161,030,169. A twelve-cent levy under the last year of the old law raised $1,049,209-14, w tie the same levy under the first year of the new law would have raised $1,506,307.24. The levy of 1891 of 72 oentt for state and 6 c ents for benevolent institutions yielded $2,259,460.86. Instead of an annual defioit of half a millton dolls rs under the old regime we now have a net surplus of that amou< t.— Insread of honoring money to pay interest on the public debt as was done under the old order of things, we now provide for our inte-est and have p. handsome surplus besides. A numbtr of the largei rallroa i corporations »ro resisting the new tax.law, and tbbs temporally withholding from the state snd tne conn ies thousands upon thousands of revenue. In every instance where trial bns been bad in the lower courts the state has won, and there is little doubt but ti e law will be upheld by the supreme court. The state board of tax commissioners and the attorney-general are leaving not Sing undone to protect the state's infests and to enforce the collection of these taxes.

The public debt is given at sß,*. 880,615.12, of which ¥.846,615.12 is foreign nnd 8484,000 domestic. Of this sum the temporary interest loan l>uds, dat d April 1, 1888, ggregutiug 8840,000,faildue April 1,1893. The temporary iuterest ioau bonds, dcited April 1,1889, aggregating 13110,000, fall due April !, 1894. in 1895 bonds of the tate amounting to 81,685,000 become due. The Auditor says on this topic: If the present general aeeembly m ikes no extraordinary appropriations there will be snffioient moneys in the general fund to pay the bonds due in 181*3 and 1894. I respectfully suggest that the general assembly ot 1893 authorise by enactment the payment of the temporary interest loan i ondi of $370,000, due April 1, 1894. Though another general assembly will have |in'evened before the maturing of the h>l,6bs,i>oo due in March and April, 1895. y 11 suggest that this legislature makeprovisions for the payment or refunding of this part ot the public debt also, so that the finance board may not be pinched for a time. 1 SCHOOL TAX LEVY. In regard to the school tax levy the report shows: There is now laid 16 oen<s ou SIOO for state i.ohool purposes. Under ibe present appraisement this levy produces in round numbers $2,008,409 Under the old assessment this levyraisedfl 372,279, and this amount was adeqnnte and highly satisfactory. The lew remaining the same there is raised annually under the new tax law $636,130 more than the old law produced. Now, there never weS a need ar a demand for a larger school revenue, and this oxcess of more than half a million of dollars is just so mueh unnecess rly taken from the people. It is a burden that should be lifted from the shoulders of the taxpayers T’m ecessary taxation is unju-ttaxation.” ' If the levy for state school purposes reduced 5 cents we should t hen raise $1,380,781 schoo revenue, which it $8,502 more thin was raised under the old law. I therefore suggest that the state sohoot levy be recuced from 16 to 11 cents on SIOO thus giving the counties $8,502 more school revenue than they ever received befoie, and at the same time lessening tee burden of taxation 5 cents on SIOO, or an aggregate annual reduction ol $636,130. '

The legislature organized yesterday- Now let Judge T’uro e succeed himself in the U. •S. B.

Sue Prießt, of Chicago, visited Rensselaer friends the other day. For the nicest thing in watches, for presents, go to Clarke’s. January term Circuit court is in session. Fourteen different kinds of bee loungeß, at Williams’ Charley LUioads is ‘dickering’ for the Moroco . Courier. For the latest designs in jewelly go to Clarke’s A young Democrat ut i’om Randle’s, Barkley township, Wedresday night. Bee those nice nice writing desss at Williams’. Mm Dr. Deming and sou have goae to spend the winter m Biloxi, Mississippi.

Ladies silver watch and silver ohatetetes tor, 99 50 at Clarke’s. Waner k Bhead have moved into their naw, commodious and handsome store room. Oak Rockers from $1 50 to 98, at Williams’. A twin daughter of Martin Cook of Fowlar, formerly of this place, died in that oity Friday oi last week, aged about 3 years and 6 months. For Christmas presents our silk handkerohiefs are exceedingly nice Porter & Wishard

In the parlors of th Corner house, Rensselaer, Arthur N. Bailey and Miss Flora V. Bayler were married by Rev. Hawk-ns, Wed* nesday afternoon or last week. Ladies' and gents’ chains, the finest lines, at Clarice's. At the New Year dinner given nt the Makeever House, last Bunday, Dr. J. H- Loughridge and Alf McCoy were present, ench rigged out in a new suit of elothes, paid for by the latter on an election guess. A pair of our fine slippers wo’d be more appreciated as a Christo mas present than any other article you could buy for the money. Porter & Wishard. The L., N. A. & C. is now laid with steel rails from Monon to Wanatah, aLd in e rly spring steel r ils will be ext nded to Micffignn City. For Christmas presents see our leautiful line of silk hand I erchiefs and extra tine facinators set together wioh silk Porter & Wishard. The Pullma i company is build, ing two tvvelve-Bection cars for the Monon, to be run brtween Indianapolis and Chicago, and two to be run between Louisville and Chicago.

WINTER REBOBTS OF THE SOUTH. Jacksonville nud Ttimpa, Fla., and other South Atlantic and Gulf const resorts can be re died with but one orange of cars from Chicago air . that tit Louisville or Cincinnati wnere the Mouon makes close connection the L. & N. and Q. and C. Vestibule trains, running through to Florida. The Monon’s day trains are now all equipped with beautiful new Parlor and Dining cars, while Ps night trains are made up of Smoking Cars, Uay Coaches, and Pull.ian and Compartment Sleepers, lighted by electricity from head** light to bindermost sle. per. The Monon has gradually fought its way to the front, making extensiv' improvements in its roadbed a**d service, until toeday it is the boat equipped* line from Chi* cago to the South, offering its patrons fa ilities and accommodations second to none in the world, and at rates lower than ever before.

Last Tuesday, in Chicago, MrsElias Gingeric'i had an operation performed for Ovarian tumor, the fluid in which would have weighed nearly fiftv pounds. Mr. Frajk Webber, of Rongselaer, is visiting in Hammond. Chrisde Vick Uas add.d a groceiy department to his restaurant establishment. Earl Reynolds spent Sunday with h:s m ther and friends in Bensse uer. Jow is the lime for holiday pictures. Older in time. A nice fimilv group is the most approprint- picture made. We are es pecially prepared now for groups, all sizes up to 14x17. Williams’ A r t Studio. John is now landlord of a hotel at Fair O ki. Ex-sheriff lue Las been employed as traveling salesman tor the grocery house of John A. man, Chicago. fi Go and see tha-su seßd gold watches, at Clarke’s.

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[WOOD! WOOD!! WOOD!! f Those of our pataons who have promised us wood will confer a great favor if they will bring it right along. The pupils of Putts’ school presented their teacher, Miss Katie Shields, with a gold ring, Christ - mas. Emblem charms, atClaike’s. Spencer Yick, accompanied, by T. P. Brown, Chicago, visited friends in Rensselaer during the holidays. If you expect to make your fath er, hußbam , son or best fellow a nice Christmas Dissent call and see our fine line of slippers. Porter & Wishard. Prices and good* guaranteed at Clarke’s.

Lewis Hunt is visiting Mends in Rensselaer and vicinity. Winamac “Democrat-Journal”: The Democrat-Journal of April 9, 1892, oontnined the following “Cleveland” editorial:

“Nearly all the democratic ex - changes received at the DemocratJournal oifioa have declared for Cleveland. Among those we can recall to mind arv the following: Indianapolis Daily (Sentinel, Evansville Daily Courier, Logans* port Pharos, Delphi Times, White County Democrat, RenssalaerSentinel, Goshen Democrat, Plymouth Demoorat, Laporte Argus, Va’pa* raiso Messenger, Starke County Ledger, Tipton Times, Benton Review and Lake County News.’’ Besides the good work done by the above papers in helping to Bwing Indiana into linn for Cleveland, those named from the Tenth district should receive proper recognition for their effective labors in behalf cf the Hon. Thomas Hammond, who was elected congiossmaniu a republican district and over the ablest and most popular man in the republican rankß. And this reminds that gentle** man recalled a conversation had with us four years ago when the result favored Harrison. In response to the proposition that it delegated Mr. Cleveland to private ife forever, we replied that the methods *f the opposition to insui e his defeat were calculated to endear him to the people as a leader, and that he was our first choice Ser the presidency n 1898,

Jay Williams Ins filled his ware rooms with a handsome and exs ensive stock of goods especially :ov the holiday hade. Call and see them. Miss Jessie Bartoo rnak-s a spa cialty of children’s pictures the World’s F?ir Pavilion. Give her a call

NEWTMEATjCHARkETTJ - jm Hi wh , A. C. BUBHEX, ProPßikto* Located op|)o»lle the public squuro. Kvery thlBK lr*sb *ud clean. BWh and suit meats, game, po;l'ry, ate., constantly on hanu. l’ma.s Klve UR a cal! and we will -rdaraateo to givs yon «atl«factiou. Bcnmnber the place. vlin4s. w. L DOUGLAS S 3 SHOE oen/iPAien. And other specialties lor i Th Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys and JK Misses ere the wmmm Best in the World. OH l ™r*J See descriptive advertise WK 1 ment w *>lch will appear in VB I this paper. Mpli Take no Substitute, but on having W. L. DOUGLAS’ SHOES,with name and price stamped on ■■■BBMBHHI bottom. Sold by

WE WANT YOU to act as our agent. We furnish an expensive outtlt and all you need free. It costs nothing to try the business. We will treat you well, and help you to earn tap times ordinary wages. Both, Rexes of all ages can live at home and work fn, spare time, or all the time. Any one any where* can earn a great deal of money. Many havemadeTwo Hundred Dollars a Month. Noslass of people In the world are making so math-, money without capital as those at work for us. Busines* pleasant, strictly honorable, and pays better titan. h'IL offered to Wnts. You; have a Gear neld, with no competition. equip you withj SSS2KWS. T&tittlßßS more money than will any other business. lim prove your prospects!- Why not? Yoseandoso. easily and surely at work for us. ReasonableIndustry only necessary for absolute success. 1 amphlet circular giving every particular is sent ""Tg.jg. Box No. 488, Portland, Me.