Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Page 1

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Frank Foltz. Charles G. Spitle Harfy R. Korrie. FOLTZ, SPITLER & HUBBLE, (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) Law, M Estits, kim 41ttracU Si Loans. *** Only sot of Abstract Books in the County. RBNSBBLA.EB, • - INDIANA. "illlJlHliil IIOIBK, attorneys-at-law, KENSSXLAEB, - INDIANA. fff Office seoond floor of Leopold’s Block, come/ Washington andVanßens. selaer stieots. Paotice in all the oonrts, purchase, so) 1 and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer 8., L. & " Association and Rensselaer Water, Light and Power Company. C. W. Hanley. 7* J * Hnnt JETanley Sc Hant, Law, Realty, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Rooms 5 and 6 Forsythe Block, Rensselaer, Indiana, Wm. B. Austin , LAWYER AND INVESTMENT BROKER, ATTOBNEY FOE THE L N-A & C. Ry.. AND RENSSEXiAER W L &p. Company. SGTOffice < ver Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer - Indiana James W- 13onth.it, ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW & NOTARY PUBLIC. ter Office, front room up-stalrs over Fendig’s store, Rensselaer. Indiana

R. S. 13Wiggins, COUNSELOB-AT-LAW. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I have recovered my health end a < ain entered upon the practice of law. Call and see me. Office in Makefever’s bank building. J. L, Duvall, ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW. All business of the profession thoroughly and oarelully executed. Money to loan on almost any terms- Real Estate bought and sold Collections promptly attended to, and abstracts car. ful y prepared. First door east of P. 0. Us stairs Charles E. Mills, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Rensselaer, Indiana, ensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared, Titles examined. . IST Farm loans negotiated at lowest rates. Offioe up stairs in Odd Fellows Hall. Ira W. Yeoman, Attornev-at Law, Real Ealata and Cnl leotlnß Agent, Remington, Ind.

I. B. Washburn. E. C t English. "W aslxbxxx-n Sc English w livsioiau ß & Surgoeus Rensselaer irui. Dr. Washburn will give speoial attention to diseases of Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat nd Chionlc Diseases. '*Dr. English will give special attention o surgery in all departments, and Gen I Leopold s Corner Block, over £llia & Murray’s. Telephone 48. VT W JAartseU^M* lloiiiffopatliir Fhjnlcian & Surgeon. Beusselaer, ilnd. *ar chronic Diseases a Specialty. Office in Makeover’s New Block. C. E. Powells "M!- I>. 9 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Will be at offioe from 2 to 3 p. m., Sundays. Calls promptly attended, _ Office over Commercial btate Bank. bSSS4 «>• Wook Dora of •okool ’ > °Offioa phono 60. BwidttC pboM » v22n13 John Makeevek, Jay Williams, President. Cashier. Parmers ? Bankj * , r Indiana, Eonsselaer, Eeeoeive Deposits, Buy and Sell Exehonge, Collections made and promptly remitted. j. W. Horton, Dentist. diseases of Tee h and Gums oareAU diseases d Growlls a epe Office ov«r lost Office. Benssel vei, Ind ana a. jr. knight, Painter —AND — Paper Hanger. ggrOnly the Best work done. ATIBFA CTION GUAR ANT’D! Bensselaer. Indiana

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WRIGHT, *W Undertaker & embalmeß KCNBBELABB - - IKDI/Ji Calls promptly responded to day ornight. Addison Pabkison President Geo. K. Hollingsworth, Vice President. Emmet I. Hollingswieth, Cashier, THE (?OMMERGML J^T/ITE BANK OF BENbSKLAEB. ind. Directors: Addison Parkison, James T. Randle, John M. V> asson, Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a genera) Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. At the old stand of the Citizens’ S t ate Bank

ALFMoCOI, T. ). fIcCOY. 4. K. tfOFKIIfS, President. Cashier. Ais’t Cashier A.McCoy & Co.’s BARK, RENSSE AER a . IND. 11l est Mill Jasper Comity / ESTABLISHED 1854. Transacts a General Banking Bu ness, Buys Notes and Loans Money on L< i>g or Short Time on Personal orße i Estate Security. Fair and Liberal Treatment is Promised to All. Foreign Exchange Bought and Sol j Interest Paid on Time Deposits YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLeCITED. O Patrons Having Valuable Papers May Deposit Them for Safe Keeping.*®* HUGH L. GAMBLE, City Engineer, Maps and Blue Prints OF uni id nun. LAND DRAINAGE, Map Work and Platting a Specialty Rensselaer Ind. Office. Room No. 7, Forsythe Building HOTEL; o==- MAEEIVEB F. BRUNER, Proprietor. The only Hotel in the City with Office &nd Sample Rooms on First Floor, ■BSTRates $2 00 per Day. Have r nr dwn Rus for the conveyance of passengers to and from trains

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

ST iTE TICKET. SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Secretary of State. JOHN W. MINOR, Auditor of State. G. M’NUTT, Attorney General. HENRY WARRUM, Clerk of Supreme Court* W. B. SINCLAIR, Superintendent Public Instruction* JAMES S. GUTHRIE, State Statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, State Geologist, JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT. LEONARD J. HACKNEY, Second District. JAMES M'CABE, Third District. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, Fourth District. JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT. EDWIN TAYLOR, First District. p. J. KOLLMEYER, Second District. EDGAR A. DROWN, Third District. WILLIAM S. DIVEN. Fourth Distriot. JOHANNA HOPE LICE, WiltU DUtriot. DISTBICX TICKETS TENTH DISTBICT For CongreM—JOHN BOSS of I ippecanoe County For Circuit Prosecutor, lEA W. YEOMAN. For Join Bepres ntalive Lake-Jasper DAVID H YEOMAN, of Jasper County COUNIY - * Cerk-r-JOHN F. MAJOR, r Auditor - GEORGE O. STE/dBEL. For Treasurer MAh lON I ADAMS. For Sheriff—WM. O. HUSTOIn. F r Surveyor DATID E. GABBIOTT. For Coronor—P. F. POTHUSJE, Commissioner, Fiist District— F M. H'ERSHMAN. Commissioner, Second District - LUCIUS STBONG.

“THE CONTINUANCE OP THE PRESENT GOLD STANDARD IN THE UNITED STATES IS NECESSARY TO THE SUPREMACY OP England’s commerci’l dominion oyer the world.*— London (England) Ttmes.

Rensselaer Jasper County, Indiana Saturday October 15 £B9B

FINANCIAL SYSTEM.

Power of the United States to Make Its Own. On May 96, 1898, Hon. John F. Shafroth of Colorado delivered a speech in the house of representatives in Washington which will more than pay the friends of free coinage to read. Mr. Shafroth gives a freshness to a subject which has been discussed from the beginning of the government, bat with supreme energy sinoe 1873, when by fraudulent legislation it was (jlscontinned. Since that date arguments, logic, statistics, statesmanship of the highest order have been continuously arrayed against the legislative fraud in the hope of reinstating silver in Its constitutional rights at the mints, and the battle is still on and ths friends of silver are as defiant and as aggressive as ever. The free coinage issue, at the ratio of 16 to 1, is perennial, undying and nnoeas* ing, and will continue to challenge the best thought of the nation. While, throngh the perpetration of a fraud, error is on the throne and truth on the scaffold, it will require time, patience, loyalty to the right and the indomitable courage of oonviotion to make trnth and error ehange plaoes; but as certain as the eternal years of God axe pledged to the triumph of trnth, so certainly will victory at last bud and bloom on the “thorny stem of time.” The aajjfih of Mr. Shafroth is well oalonlatK^ n i inspire the friends of free ooinagJ^j van ‘ i courage. The faots he groupjfgj. pJji resents may not be new, and tjj r)of J,aments by whioh he enforces therm an ‘be along old lines of thought, but/ . srtbeless, their presentation is i g as and the reasoning cogent, an/ a i /> a campaign dooument, the sjJjjq is worthy of recognition in ign literature. A Flood of Silver. gold standard advocates have Jti snt to frighten the American people / pitt sorts of bogies, scarecrows, . fori dins, etc.. tgeanvihee them that free npany I all the nations of d shoAtfch to unload their silver bullion, .<-roin, silver spoons, ladles, teapots, buttons and trinkets of every description upon the United States to have it ooined into dollars. The speaker quotes Mr. Secretary Gage as saying there is now in the country gold ooin to the amonnt of $096,000,000, and that free coinage of silver would banish it from circulation. This is ons of the gold standard goblins, but supposing it to be true, rather than a baseless fabrication, it would as Mr. Shafroth points out create a demand for $690,000,000 of silver coin, or $9.94 per capita. Now, suppose that each inhabitant of the United States had $9.94 in his or her possession constitutional money of the government, would it be a Source of danger? Would it be in the nature of a home wrecking faotor—would it shut up mines, close down factory and forge and prove an industrial calamity? Grouping the population into families of five, each family would have $49.70. Would that make the home gloomy? Would that amount of silver ooin create despondenoy and despair ? Mr. Shafroth effectually disposes of the silver flood bogy. He shows that there is not more than $25,000,000 silver bullion in the world outside of the United States, and that, since 1878, no one has sought to hoard silver bullion, because prices of the artiole have steadily declined since that date. He then proceeds to show that the country cannot be flooded with silver from the arts, that is, from manufactured silver, and in support of the proposition points out that the cost of workmanship, in molding, polishing, gilding and carving and pther Q?namenlations makes such silver now more valuable than coin or bullion, and that a man would be an idiot who would ooin into dollars something that was worth more in the shape of a work of art. The speaker is equally strong in showing that Europe would not dump its silver ooin upon the United States. “There is,” he says, “a great quantity of silver in the form of ooine existing in Europe. It is said that they are of the value in our money of $1,500,000,000, but the man who says that these coins will come to this oountry in the event that we open our mints to the free coinage of silver is either ignorant of or ignores one important fact—that is, that the coins of Europe are in circulation upon a gold valuation, just like our sib yer dollars in this oountry are now ln circulation upon a gold valuation. What would you think of the man who would take a United States silver dollar to our mint as soon as it was opea to free coinage and have it coined into another dollar?” Again, says Mr. Shafroth, in his a** gument relating to the flood of silver whioh causes the howlings of the gold Standard advocates. The ratio at which coins are in circulation in Europe is 15>£ to 1, whioh makes the coinage value of silver in Europe SI.BB an ounoe, whereas in this country the ratio is 10 to 1, whioh makes the coinage value of silver $1.29 an bunoe. The man holding European coins would lose not only the freight and insurance in bringing those coins to this oountry, but also would lose 4 cents on each ounce of silver coins that he brings. Those Europeans may not be so intelligent and bright as are the Amerioans, but they know enough not to lose 4 cents on each ounce of ooins they import to us. Thus it is clear that silver coins in circulation in Europe would not be brought to our mints. But the gold standard advocates see another goblin, or a dozen of them representing free silver countries, such ns phina, Mexico: Siam, straits settlements, Central and- South American states, Persia, Tripoli and Japan. Omitting Persia, Siam, the straits settlements, an Asiatic country, and Tripoli, We have Mexico with silver amounting to $55,000,000 or $4.54 per capita; Central American states with $12,000,000 of Silver, or $2.14 per capita; South American states with $80,000,000 of silver, or .83 per capita, and China with $700,r

W B Sinclair, Democratic c andidate for superintendent of pub lie instruction was m thecityyes terf‘ay and gave the Sentinel a call He reports prospects of Democrat ic success very encouraging. Frank Gant laments the loss of twenty fine turkiee, and will prob*. ably bring the thief to time

“A FIBH ADHEBEKOK TC OOBSaCT PSINCIPLBS.”

•00,000 of silver, or $2.08 per capita, and Japan with $84,000,000 of silver, or $3.08 per capita of population. In the countries named it is estimated there is $981,000,000 of silver in circulation, on an average of $2.59 per capita, one of the political divisions named having but 83 oents per capita. This being the condition, does anyone not engaged in the soareorow business apprehend a flood of silver from any one of the countries named. An Abundance of Silver. The gold standard advocates, (and in using the term “gold standard advocates” reference is made to the leaders and managers of the Republican party), such, for instance, as Senator Fairbanks and the lesser lights of the party in Indiana, who wonld have the people believe that in an abnndanoe of silver dollars the oountry would suffer the direst calamities. But common sense comes to the rescue of all reflecting men and the goldbugs are asked to name a nation that became bankrupt with anabnndance of silver, bullion or ooin. They are asked to name an individual, or firm, or corporation whose affair ever went into the hands of a receiver because of an abundanoe of silver assets. When did a farmer forfeit his farm owing to the fact that he had a surplus of silver coin? “No nation,” says Mr. Shafroth, “was ever injured by its people having an abundance of the precious metals, and instead of being a detriment, it would produce the greatest era of prosperity in the history of this oountry.” Nevertheless, the enemies of free coinage have for years sought to frighten the people with the bugbear that no greater disaster ooold befall the country and the people than to have an abundance of Silver dollars. But the people have discovered that the flood of silver predicted by goldbugs has not arrived—and they are anxious to welcome it to their business houses, factories and shops and to their homes. They demand the free and unlimited coinage of ailypr at the ratio of 10 to 1, and are not to be stampeded by any of the bugaboos upon which the goldbugs have relied to obscure their schemes. How Millions of Silver Dollars Could Be Used. Mr. Shafroth points out how millions more of silver dollars could be used by the people in promoting their interests. He says: “There are in existeDoe $846,000,000 of credit money, called United States notes, the existence of every dollar of which.is due to the fact that we have not enough circulating medium without those notes. Every dollar of those notes could be retired by the substitution of the silver dollar or the silver certificate, and thus there would be a demand whioh the government could create for $846,000,000 more of silver. “But these are not all the powers of our government. There are in existence $231,441,686 of national bank notes. The only exouse for their existence is the faot that they are absolutely needed as a circulating medium. Every dollar of that credit money could be retired and silver or silver certificates substituted in plaoe.” Here we have it dearly demonstrated that should the government coin 777,441,680 additional dollars, and issue silver certificates to that amount, we should simply retire the greenback and national bank notes, and substitute silver certificates, based upon that number of coined dollars held for their redemption. But where suoh eminently wise and Statesmanlike propositions are made, the goldbugs display another hobgoblin and repeat their platitudes abont a flow pf silver, ete., and with special emphasis assert that the United States does not possess the power and resources required to establish bimetallism, preferring to the Power and Wealth of the United States, Mr. Shafroth epitomizes the facts by saying our population of 75,000,000 is equal to 700,000,000 of the average of the balance of the world—that our wealth in 1890 was $62,000,000,000, against $291,580,000,000, or 37 per cent of the wealth of all the nations of the earth. The United States operates about onehalf of the railroad mileage of the world and the freight transported by them Was in 1892 845,000,000 tons, against 1,348,000,000 tons carried by all the railroads of tjhe world, or more that 59 per oent. The steam power of the United States is 14,400,000 horse power, or more than one-third of the world’s steam power- T’h® carrying power es vessels used in lake and river traffic in the United States is 9,300,000 tons, or onefifth of the carrying power of the world on the high seae. Of the world’s total production of cotton, 18,330,000 bales of 400 pounds each, in 1896, the United States produced 10,236,000 bales, or ten thirteenths, and in 1897, three-fourths pf the world’s crop. The United States jirodnoes more than one-third of all the grain products of the world, the prodnot for 1896 being 8,633,180,000 bushels, Against 9,900,000,000 bushels of other countries. We produce more than onefourth of the pigiron of the world, onethird of the steel, more than one-half of the copper of the world, while iu ooal we produced in 1893 198,000,000 tons, against §00,000,000 tons of all other countries. Mr. Shafroth continues the comparison in which the United States steadily rises in overmastering wealth, power and resources, and stands confessedly in the van of the nations of the earth. Why Parade Such Pacts t But why make these astounding disclosures of wealth resources and power of the United States if they do not deepen and rivit the convictions, that we are capable of determining for our- | selves, all measures whatsoever relating to the welfare of the nation, and the free coinage ot silver is a measure of such vital importance that it is scarcely less than treason to consult any other nation upon the f&ce of the earth as to the polioy we should persue in financial affairs. In all other matters the United States is proud of its prestige, defiant and independent, but when it comes to shaping our financial poliev the goldbug managers of the Republican party are ready and willing to surrender their country and all of I its vast interests to the dictation of foreign powers and acquiesce in snch humiliations as they choose to impose. But the purpose of the goldbugs to reduce silver to redeemable money in gold coin, is preposterous beyond measure, and is not likely to succeed in the United States, and the battle for the right will proceed.

Porter & Wishard have disposed of their stock of groceries to La Rue .Bros. Mr. Porter will enter the bank of Makeever & Wiilliams. Mr Wishard will accept a position in the store of A Leopold Rev and Mrs Fritts, Miss Frank Porter and Mrs C B Steward at tended jthe Missionary Baptist Asso ciation at Peru Ihis week

M’KINLEY AND ALGER

LATTER’S MANAGEMENT OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT Productive of Cyclones of National Indignation—Reasons Why the President Appointed Him Secretary of War, Knowing the Record Tliat Lt on Pile Against General Alger Now Xn the Archives of the Government. The management of the war d epart ment, under the official control of Secretary Alger, has been productive of cyclones of national indignation such as the country never before experienced. To shield General Alger a heartless clique, aided by a subsidized press, has been engaged in extenuating the criminal blunders of the war department. The facts set forth embody a series of horrors which have become more appalling the more the misguided friends of Alger have sought to obscure them. The idiotic subterfuge, that the arraignment of Alger and the war department, originated in malice, a par* pose to make political capital out of conditions whioh have shocked the country from center to circumference, has had the effect to still further intensify the universal conviction, that thousands of lives and untold sufferings have resulted from ignorance, neglect, red tape, stupidity, cupidity and tlfe general demoralization of the war department. In this connection an appeal is made to history to show that General Alger ought not to have boon •! >de secretary of war. He v i a the civil war, and, u. . ;arge, was subjected to arraig ament before a couvtmartial which sentenced him to be discharged from the army, or, in other words, “reoommended” that he should be discharged from the army. The faot stands as a part of Alger’s army record. This one black and “damned spot” has not been expunged, and those who constituted the court and rendered the verdict refuse to change it or intimate that it was - less than just. President McKinley knew all the facts. The records were at his command, and yet he took the responsibility of placing this man with a tarnished military record, this man whom a courtmartial recommended should be discharged from the army of the United States, and plaoed him where he could once more commit still graver offenses, and extort from the high court of publio opinion the verdict that he ought never to have been made secretary of war and that he ought to be dismissed from the offioe. President McKinley is alone responsible for the appointment of General Alger as secretary of war. The mere faot that the senate confirmed the appointment cuts no figure in the shameful business, and it is but justice to say that whatever wrongs have been committed by the war department under Alger’s administration McKinley is jointly responsible, in faot, primarily responsible, because, with his eyes wide open, and with Alger’s leopard record before him, he placed him in command of the department. In investigations relating to great crimes one supreme purpose ou the part of courts, attorneys and the people is to find a motive for their commission, ana the quest is seldom abortive, hence the query: What was MoKinley’s motive in selecting Alger to be his secretary of war ? There is not the remotest probability that McKinley will ever disclose his reason for an aot that to others is utterly inexplicable. Nevertheless, the people will investigate as best they may and arrive at such conclusions as surface indications make plausible. General Alger is reputed to be a man of large wealth. To eleot McKinley president required a corruption fund of astounding proportions, running ttp into the millions, The oolossal knaves who solicted the funds with whioh to debauch the election of 1896, had to appeal to men of large wealth, and to seoure contributions was required to pledge rewards, Some were secured by the promise of rewards through the operations of a high protective tariff, by which all the money subscribed to debauch the nation Would be retwued to them by a robber tariff, such as the Dingley law. Others were promised contracts by which they might rob the government, others by appointment of favorites to fat But in the case of Alger, if he subscribed liberally, as he doubtlesg did, what could Mark Hanna promise him that would induce him to bleed freely ? He was living, and was distained to die With a blotched military record and a damaging verdict attached to it. And he was doubtless promised as a reward, for his contribution, the office of secretary of war. In that position he would outrank the military officers who had reoommended his dismissal from the American army—a disgrace he had been required to wear for many years. He seoured the coveted boon, and when the war opened with Spain, began to exhibit his incapacity which finally resulted in suoh a multitude of horrors as to defy exaggeration. He stemmed the tide and faoed the storm as long as he could. The miserable twaddle about “yellow journalism” and “irresponsible newspaper reports” failed to meet the demand, The recitation of stale history about sufferings in other wars, historic and prehistoric, instead of being apologies for the horrors Which the war with Spain presented, only intensified the nation’s detestation of Alger’s administration of the war department, in which McKinley and Alger are jointly responsible. If Alger is responsible for toe acts of inoompetent subordinates, McKinley is equally responsible for the appointment of an incompetent secretary or war, who is his subordinate, If it is affirmed that Alger should have aDOoiuted oomoetent

A reoeption was held by the W • R O for the soldier boys at homo on foilough, Saturday evening, and a general, good time was had Theodore George returned to his regiment, she 157th, Sunday. George M. Robinson F W Bedford and Lute Strong attended the state conference of Farmers’ Institute at Purdue University, this week

men, it Is equally, indeed, more important that McKinley should have appointed a competent secretary of war. In this, it is seen that the original blunder was made by the president. And thus it happens, that owing to MoKinley’s blander in appointing Alger secretary of war, horrors have followed horrors, as waves follow waves in a storm. A commission to Investigate these horrors has been appointed—McKinley ooold no longer withstand the pressure. The exasperation of the people had reached a white heat, and, after weeks of delay, it is possible that the real culprits will be whitewashed, while some obscure scapegoats will be found to sink beneath a burden of obloquy which should have been eternally fastened upon the backs of others. There is a disposition to shield McKinley, bnt the administration of the war department is a part of his administration. The faults are not all Alger’s, however incompetent he may be. He acted under the directions of the president. Of himself he could do nothing, and Washington letter writers for Repnblioan papers grow eloquent as they state toe instances in whioh Alger's recommendations were ignored by McKinley. The two men are indissolubly joined together, they are the Siamese twins of war—they must hang together —and, as the investigation proceeds, the more it will be seen that, as an incapable, McKinley is fully abreast of his secretary of war.

Stories By the Way.

Few Impromtu Speeches. A group of literary meo were dissussing the other div the rarity of spontaneous el quince of wit. “1 was at a dinner once in New York,” said one, "and was seated next to Col. Hay, who, you know, had been Lincoln’s secretary... Somebody making a speech ex* claimed: “ ‘ln genuine eloquence the words came hot from the heart. No n - ) bier speech was ever uttered in America than Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg, and I am assumed it was wholly spontaneous. He had not given it a thought before ho rose to speak.’ ” “ ‘While he was delivering it,’ said Gol Hay to me, aside, J‘l had the sis th copy of it in my pocket.’ ” “I, too, remember a dinner m New York,” said another, “at which all the foremost men in journalism and literature were present. The speech of tb© evening was made by George William Curtis. It sparkled with wit and a,pt allusions to tbfe men present, evidently inspired by the moment. Once he stopped, interrupting himself, and exclaimed. T see my friend, Judge D., looking at me doubtfu ly, but I must remind him that he too. .gung on with some brilliant raillery that brought down peals of laughter. As we lose to go out 1 said to the editor of a Boston paper: “ ‘ Who but Cui tis could pour out impromptu wit like that?’ “ ‘lmpromptu?’ said the newspa* per man, T nad proofs of all the speeches given to me this afternoon to send to Boston tonight. Let us look at his.’ We looked, and there it was, word for word, even to the T see my fiiend, Judge D., looking at me doutfully,* ete.”j^ “I fen jw Artemus Wa:d,” said a third man, “when he was a reporter on a Cleveland paper. One evening in tie office ha tola a story, apparently a mere trifle, the flash of a moment. “Browne,’ said the chief, ‘how can you say such clever things offhand?’ “‘Off-hand!’ muttered Browra. T told that to mvself fifteen tim|s this afternoon!’ Yen yea.s afterward I heard him tell the s*me sto* ry to a brilliant JLondon audience, without the alter at on of a comma.” “Even to make a good joke,” re marked a listener, ‘‘work apparently is needed as well as genius.” [Youth’s Companion. D. M. CeetiDg superintendent of public instruction, is planning for a general observation of Arbor Day October 28, by the public schools of the state ■ The governor, too, is interested, in ti e g neral ob-> servance ot the day. In his pioc lamation designating the date men tioned as Arbor Day, he refers to the destruction of the forests and requests not only the school chil dren, but the public generally to plnrft trees on that occasion and thus beautify their homes. A plea for the biids is also made in the proclamation. The schoolchildren are requested not only to plant trees, but 10 see to it that ichool premises are beautified in every way possible. The day will be a sort of holiday in the publie schools of the state, aud the planting of trees, the superintendent of public instruction believes, will be more moie general than ever before. The Republican ;;repe ts ro its reiders what it claims to be an exti act from a late speech of a fellow by the name of Beverid e. If corresily reported the author sim ply proclaims himself an idioti .‘dtmphool!” The Journal announces that it 10 going to dig into the management of a Democratic auditor and raise a stink Yon can’t do it, ‘Lei’— The admininistrations of ra w Yeoman, the very worthy Democratic candidate for Prosecutor* and the late H A Barkley were 0 k lfvoumeanE CNowels..he was a Greenbacker, You’re out!

I Historic Epigrams. “Remember ths M»ine.”.. Commodore Schley's signal to flying squadron. “You may fire when you are rea<* dy, Gridlev.”—Commodore Dewey at Manila. “Don’t cheer, boys, the poor devils are dying.”.. Captain Phillip of the Texas. “The Maine is avenged.”—Lieutenant Wainw ight, after the destruction of Cervera’s fleet. “Don’t mind me, boys; go on fighting.”.. Captain Allyn K. Capron, of the rou~h riders. “To hell with breakfast; let’s finish ’em now.”—Yankee gunner to Commodore Dewey. “Don’t get between my guns and the enemy.”—Commodore Dewey to Prince Henry, of Germany. “There mast be no more recalls; iron will break at last.”- Lieutenant Hobson to Admiral Sampson. “Take that for the Maine.”— Captain Sigsbee, as he fired a shot through the Spanish tor, edo boat Terror.

“We will make Spanish the court language of hades ”. .“Fighting Bob” Evans when war was declared “I’ve got them now, and they will never get home.”—Commodore Schley en guard at Santiago harbor. “The battle of Manila killed me, but I woul ido it again.”.. Captain Gridley, of the Olvmnia, on his deathbed. “Excuse me, sir; 1 have to report that the ship has been blown up and is sinking Bill Anthony, of the Maine. “Shafter isfightingjnct writing.” ..AdjutantGeneral OorbiD to Secretary Alger, when the latter asked for news from the front. “Afraid I’ll strain my guns at Jong range; I’ll close in.”.. Lieutenant Wainwright, of the Gloucester, in the flight with Cervera’s squadron. “Don’t hauj-per me with instructions; I am no r . afraid of the Spanish“fleet with my ship.”. .Captain Clark, of the Oregon, to the board of strategy. “Don’t swear, boys: shoot.”.. Colonel Wood to the rough riders. “My first duty to God and my country was to sink that Spanish battleship.”. .Captain Evans, of the lowa “War cannot be mads a safe business Lieutenant Commander Wainwright. “I preferred to clothe the nabjd, feed the hungry and succor tbs sick.”.. Capt. Evans, of the lowa. “This is the time for knowing, not thinking.”..Captain Sigsbee. . .St. Louis Republic.

PRESIDENT’S WAR

The New York Tribune, good Republican authority, says: “From beginning to end it has been the president’s war, and today it is the president’s viotory.” That settles it. Dewey, Sampson, Schley, Merritt, Shafter, Alger and Long are baok numbers. Only Major McKinley is to be recognized. The Tribune further says: “We do i»ot mean he (Major McKinley) sought tho war, or wished it or entered upon it with feelings other than «t reluctance and of detestation.” Right again, McKinley is no war horse. His “neok” is not “clothed with •Hinder,” and but for the Democratic party, the Cuban patriots would be still lying under Spanish rule. The Rothchilds proclaim that they have nothing to do with silver, that their transactions are all in gold. The same is equally true of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, the Wall street Shylock. These speculators in gold have no nse for silver, the money of the prodnoing classes, who rarely nf ever see a gold coin. When Major McKinley joins the ••inmemorable caravan” etc., there will be a chance for men like Whitelaw Reid, in writing his. epitaph, to say, “The oemetaries where lie buried the men who fought all the American wars from 1776 to 1898, do not contain as many heroes as this solitary grave.” In the United States, where every volunteer soldier is a sovereign citizen, there is no reason under heaven why they should not be treated by the government with as much consideration as the officers. In war the rifle is of more consequence than the sword. The nations of the earth unstintedly praise the American nation for the way it oonduoted War with Spain, and yet Whitelaw Reid says McKinley entered upon the war with “feelings of rSlnotanoe and detestation.” Admiral Sohley is a Democrat, and that is the reason the administration has tried to suppress him. and has kept him from maintaining his plaoe on the naval anil, Wiliam Rockefeller, a multi-million-aire Mid tax-dodger is fighting the New Jersey officials for a reduction of taxes. He is the feilow who refused to pay a poor tailor for mending his breeches. Dingley's protective tariff produced its first year a deficit of 198,248,108, but it put many millions in the pockets of the men who subscribed to Mark Hanna’s fund to elect McKinley. Genaral Joe Wheeler captured General Shafter during the war of the rebellion and sent him to I ibby prison. Now, thirty-six years later, Wheeler is serving under Shafter

Number 40

For Salk .. A second-hand fool ball, Inquire at this office. Communion service at the Presbyterian church to morrow (Sun* day) morning. T. B. Day is visiting his sob Hiram, in this oity James Duvall of Illinois is vis itfng relatives in this city an vi cinitv Harry Bott, late foreman of the Republican, has accepted a posi tion with the W B On key O*. .at Hammopd Jasper Circuit Court, October term, convenes in Rensselaer next Monday. Postmaster Robinson and his sister, Mrs. Thos. Thompson, are taking treatment at West Baden Springs. A large stock of sohool shoes to select from. Call on Judge Hea v, r.be exclusive dealer. Chas. Daugherty of Hammond, a former resident of Rensselaer, was married one dny last week to a young lady of Bay City, Mioh. CiT A Cvookett and wife ha\e just returned from a visit with relatives and friends in Benton and Fountain counties

J udge Healy has a house of four rooms, in good condition, for rent. J udge Healy is ope ing cut an extensive new stock of Boots and Shoes, Rubbers of all kinds, school sL oes, etc , for the tall and winter trade, at the lowest prices. Dr. A F. Malloy, graduate of Cincinnati Medica College, has concluded to locate in Rensselaer. He has secured the rooms over Commercial State Bank, recently occupied by Dr, PowJl. Judge Healy has had longexpe rience in his line of trade He is an excellent judge of material and workmanship You will simply consult your own interest in mak ing your footgear purchases from him Milt. Roth, of the firm of Moon dy & Roth, and Miss Ollie, daughter of Perry Marlatt of Barkley iownship, were married Sunday evening last at the residence of Art W Cole, in Englewood, 111... Dr. Swift, of the Ist M. JB. church* that city, performed the Ceremony. Adyertised Letters: James H Alverson, Charles Beougbter, Rudolph Fisher, M & F Tniance, John E Millar, Miss Addie Myers, W B Peterson,Y W Shuck,Orva Thomas, Frank Van dren. Mrs Sissod, widow. R. S. Dwiggins, by request, wil 1 present a paper on the| Chinese question at the Ministerial Assoc ation to be held in the Mission*, ary Baptist church, Monday l*ex at 10 a. m. All areinyited. Notice to Taxpayers. The first Monday of November is the last day that taxes of 1897 can be paid without penalty attaching J* C. GWlN,Trea . John L. Duvall, who has been \*7" the office of James W. Douthit since January last, on Thuisdej evening for the Northern Indiana Normal ochool at Valparaiso, where he expects to graduate in the law department next June. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Whereas, our beloved fellow teacher and citizen, Ebwood W. Spriggs, answered the call of President McKinley for volunteers aud while in oamp willing and ready at any moment to go foith to battle in defense ot the honor of iii i native land was suddenly mustered out by the Great General; Therefore, we, the teachers of Keener township, tender this res* olution as an expression of our heartfelt sorrow and sympathy to his bereaved family, his only child, other relatives and many friends: Resolved, That El wood Spriggs was a most excell nt teacher alwavs kind and couiteous to both parents and pupils, beloved and id mired by his feilow laborers in -be educational field, and in his death we lose one of ou v most 68-* teemed associates. Bates Tucker, Earl M. Jeffries, Leslie A. Sayers, Committee. CHICAGO PEACE JUBILEE. Bigg, st event since the World’s i Fair. Grand military and civil p.irade % illuminations, fireworks' etc , etc The Monon Rou*e wil* ! sell tickets to Chicago from points within 250 miles, for one fare for round trip Tickets on sale October 17 and 18, and for tiains arriving not later than October 19. Good returning to Oct 22 inclusive. W. H. BEAM, Agant PRESIDENT McKINLEY AND W AR HEROES Wi'i attend theCLicago Peace Jubilee, October 18 and 19. Go and take your wife and children. One fare for the round trip. W. H*. BEAM, Agent.