Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1915 — Importance of Bottom Facts. [ARTICLE]

Importance of Bottom Facts.

It is a trap into which many men easily fall to imagine that a new vocabulary means of necessity new facts. Quite a new vocabulary of religious teams has come into existence during recent years; we hear of “psychological states." “environment,” “Bub -consciousness” and the like. But it must not be forgotten that such terms are only points of view of things that are and have always been. The question is what are the bottom facts? That is what the preacher has to deal with. It would be well few preachers to pierce through the fence of. words and terms, and get once more to the realities of sin and salvation. Paul spoke of the wisdom of words as making the Cross of Christ of none effect. A return to plain, unadorned preaching, when speakers went straight to the conscience and brought it face to face with God, hi mors than ever needed.—-London Christian.

Parisian Sage, is an inexpensive home treatment that B. F. Fendig guarantees to remove dandruff, stop itching head and falling hair. One application makes the hair glossy, soft, and seem twice as abundant. Elper Kenton left this morning for his home near Mitchell, S. Dak., after spending some ten days with his daughter, Mrs. John Morgan, and meeting old friends. Mr. Kenton was one of the pioneers from Jasper county to the Mitchell district, having gone there twelve years ago. Worth McCarthy came home from Indiana University last evening for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. McCarthy. He was accompanied by a friend, Ray Kerr, of Lake Villa, 111., whom he had visited for a few days before coming here, . D. §. Alter, who moved back to his Union township farm this spring, was in town today. He is not farming the land himself but has rented it to Sail Norman. Nothing looks quite so good to Dave as Union township. Jim Neff and Henry Conn, two Remington who imbibed too freely of fire water, were fined $1 and costs there last Saturday, night and brought here to lay the total of $5.70 out at the jail. Today Neff was released, having found a friend to stay the fine, so that he could get-back to his old job of ditching. This has been an exceptionally good year for tramps. Since Jan. Ist, when Sheriff McColly took office, there have been admitted to the jail 116 persons, all but about a dozen of whom were tramps. The weather is still too chilly to .sleep in haystacks and stairways and tramps are being lodged at the rate of two or three each night. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Scott left this morning for Rochester, Minn.,, where Sirs. Scott will probably undergo a surgical operation. She has had trouble for about three years with the glands of her neck and last year a Chicago specialist* advised an operation but it was not performed. The glands, however, have continued to grow and it was decided to have the Mayo brothers examine the case and to accept their recommendation about an operation. They can not tell how long they will be absent, but from one to three weeks quite probably. Their little daughter, Genene, is staying with her aunt, Mrs. B. K. Zimmerman. We have all kinds of bulk and package garden seeds, and onion sets.

J OHN EGER.

Willette Hill, who is planning to take a repertoire company out on the 'road, playing during the spring months in Michigan and Wisconsin, went to Chicago this morning to pick' his company. Stewart Shafer, of Idaville, has invented a new appliance to be used on the cut-offs of automobiles. It is applied to the gasoline pipe at any place between the tank and the carburetor, not requiring any change in the structural arrangement of the machine. It will prevent the use of the machine without the owner’s knowledge and consent. The invention has received extensive mention in automobile papers and many firms are'anxious for the right to manufacture it. Over in the 13th district Congressman Barnhart did not forget to have a lot of government seed dispatched to his constituents and 450 pound packages of Sudan grass seed, 45 four-pound packages of Kansas grown alfalfa, 85 four-pound packets of improved soy beans and 90 fourpound packets of improved cowpeas were distributed. The acts of the recent general assembly when bound will, make a volume of 695 pages, not including the index. The acts two years ago contained 1,132 pages. The acts will be released by the printer about April 15th.

In the superior court, Room 1, at Hammond, Monday,- before Judge Reiter, certain of the petitioners in the Brown Dyke, No. 3, moved the court to strike out his minutes entered on March Bth dismissing the proceedings, because the petition was not properly verified. In support of their motion the Browns filed the affidavit of Attorney Belshaw that toe petition was originally filed in duplicate and that they had discovered toe duplicate and that it was properly attested by the notary seal. The judge upon examining the alleged duplicate called the attention of the petitioners to toe fact that the document was not signed by toe petitioneraror either of them and for that reason was not a* petition. So the ruling of the court was that the dismissal still stands and the Browns have prayed and will probably perfect ah appeal to toe supreme court. - This is the same levee case in which Attorneys Hubbell and' Halleck prosecuted an appeal to toe supreme court some two years ago in which the brief was printed in this office and toe case was reversed. If toe present decision of the .court is sustained on appeal toe dyke will be defeated, which will be a victory for the remonstrators.