Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1916 — Page 2

A. D. Babcock Asks Aid In Starting Museum.

I very much desire to add the following list of articles to the Goodland Museum: An ox yoke and bows complete: an old fashioned grain sickle; a pair of candle snuffers; an old powder horn and shot pouch and powder flask: a half dozen stone axes and some arrow points. I wish all the editors in northwest Indiana who know me and are friendly with me will copy this item and assist me in obtaining these articles. I am trying to establish a museum that will be a sort of education to a future generation. —A. D. Babcock, Goodland, Ind. .

New Suits Filed.

Jacob Ochs, Jr., vs. Win. Zimmerman for $5,000 damages for libel. .Mark J. Schroor vs. Clint lirown, foreclosure of lien on automobile. Demand $34.19 and sls attorney fees.

r —-" W" —• ' ** V IoS/Ja i HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS. FOR GOVERNOR Jamea P. Goodrich, of Winchester. FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR (Long Term) Harry 8. New, of Indianapolis. FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR (Short Term) Jam— E. Watson, of Rushville. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Edgar D. Bush, of Salem. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE Ed Jackson, of New Castle. FOR AUDITOR OF STATE Otto L. Klauss, of Evansville. FOR TREASURER OF STATE Uz McMurtrie, of Marlon. FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL Ele Stansbury, of Williamsport. REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT Will H. Adams, of Wabash. FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT Horace Ellla, of Vincennes. FOR STATE STATISTICIAN Henry A. Roberts, of Carmel. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, SECOND DISTRICT David A. Myers, of Greensburg. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, THIRD district Lawson M. Harvey, of Indianapolis. FOR APPELLATE JUDGE, NORTHERN DIVISION E. A. Dausman, of Goshen. FOR APPELLATE JU DGE, SOUTHERN DIVISION J - Ira C. Batman, of Bloomington. For Representative in Congress WILL R. WOOD. For Joint Representative WILLIAM L. WOOD. For Prosecuting Attorney REUBEN HESS. For County Clerk, JESSE NICHOLS. For County Treasurer CHARLES V. MAY. For County Recorder GEORGE W. SCOTT. For County Sheriff BEN D. McCOLLY. ' For County Surveyor ED NESBITT. For County Coroner Dr C. E.JOHNSON. • - For County Commissioner Ist District HENRY W. MARBLE. For County Commissioner 2nd District D- S. MAKEEVER.

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLE RY. *K3rMKKA.KB TDOI TIILI In effect October 3, 1915. SOUTHBOUND. ' Louisville and French Lick No. 8 ...11:10 p n Chicago and the west, Indianapolis. CinHnnaH and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. No. 35 1:38 a n „■ Indianapolis and Cincinnati No. 5 10:55 a n Louisville and French Lick No. 87 ...,.11:17 a no Indianapolis and Cincinnati No. 83 -.". ii;iv ..s . i P ns Ind’pl is, Cincinnati and French Lick No. 89 5:50 p tt Lafayette and Michigan City No. 31 7:81 p m Indianapolis and Lafayette NORTHBOUNDNo. 86 Chicago 4:51 a w No. 4 Chicago ......... 5 .-01 ano No. 40 Chic, (accom.) .....7:80 a m No. 82 Chicago 10:36 a m No. 88 Chicago 2:51 p m No. 6 Chicago 8:81 p m No. 80 Chicago 6:50 p nc For tickets and further information call ea W. H. BEAM. Ageat.

The Yellow Bus Rensselaer-Remington Bus Line Schedule 2 TRIPS DAILY ’ , Lv. Rensselaer , 7:45 am Ar. Remington 8:80 am Dv. Remington 9:10 am Ar. Rensselaer .....9:55 am Dr. Rensselaer .....4:00 pm Ar. Remington 4:45 pm Dr. Remington ...... 5:15 pm Ar. Rensselaer 6:00 pm FARB 75c EACH WAY. BILLY FRYE, Prop. * / •* --L ~~• '

IN MIDSEASON FORM.

The democracy this year has established a proud record. It has invented more campaign claptrap than ever before has been devised. Facing the unending volleys of criticism against the blunders of this administration in all fields, the democratic apologists have been forced to resort to bunk. We are given the bunk assurance •that it was Wilson who “kept us out of war”—the same struggle which war-surrounded Switzerland has avoided, the same from which Sweden and Denmark and Norway and Holland and Spain have escaped, even without a Wilson to guide them. We are given the bunk assurance that, although our whole increase in trade is traced directly to munitions and temporary trade with belligerents, our current prosperity is “not due to the war.” The masters of bunk tell us that the democratic tariff is not a fatal poison, although their own figures show the demoralization of our foreign and domestic trade which followed immediately in the trail of that tariff act. The champion claptrap barkers try to scare the timorous by saying that “a vote for Hughes is a vote for war,” and the accompanying bunvote for peace.” They resort to falsification in order to “prove” tihat Mr. Hughes is a foe of organized labor, forgetting that organized labor leaders have indorsed him heartily. A recital of all cases of democratic bunk would, curiously, require almost exactly the amount of type space used bv the democratic—campaign handbook. . -..—. _ <

Gaine Looked “Queer;” What Do They Mean?

The following paragraph was taken from the Ham mopd Times in _which a comment is made on the Rensse-laer-East Chicago game of last Saturday by Captain Gavit, of the Hamj mond high School foam, In which he states that the game played here looked queer. What Mr. Gavit means by queer, we do not know: - “Lake county’s hopes for first rating in northern Indiana high school football this year rests solely with Hammond. Gary and East Chicago have boon defeated by teams that they can easily vanquish in return games but alibis do not count in the final standing.” When Morwconosed out Gary by a touchdown she did not beat the same team that ran up 92 points against Logansport last Saturday. Gary has improved 20 per cent in a week and has struck her stride. This doesn’t change the Morocco score, however. Driving Rensselaer down the field before her, East Chicago last Saturday by a series of fumbles at critical times. The scout sent down to Rensselaer by -Hammond pronounced the game ‘queer.’ ” *

Candidate Hughes Cheered By Iowa Throngs.

Charles E. Hughes, facing a friendly audience, sprinkled with hecklers, Tuesday night replied in answer to a question as to whether he would repeal the Adamson bill if elected president, that a surrender could not be repealed. Ms. Hughes was asked what he would have done to have averted the threatened railroad strike. “If arbitration had been refused/’ Mr. Hughes replied, TL should have gone right to the American people, stated the facts and put the responsibility where it belonged. “I should at the same time,” Mr. Hughes continued, “have secured a commission of inquiry so impartial, so fair, as to command the respect of the entire country and directing public opini n to that end, there is no group of men, in the United Stat es that would have dared hold up the instrumentalities of commerce if that were done.” The heckling was attended by the utmost confusion. The # audience, which had cheered and applauded loudly in the earlier parts of the Hughes address, apparently was incensed at the interruptions and there Acere- many cries of “put drim out.” As the nominee replied to each question the audience cheered its approval. ' 1

Doctors Sell Babies For $5 Each, Charge.

Edwardsville, 111., Oct. 17.—Babies taken from institutions and hospitals are being sold by St. Louis physicians for $5 each, according to charges made today by Mrs. Sophia De Muth, police matron of Alton. Sne said she had given the prosecuting attorney evidence for submission to the grand jury. “I know of four cases in Madison county, Illinois, so far,” she said. “In two cases I have receipts signed by the physicians for the money.”

RENSSELAER MARKETS.

>orn —80c. Oats—43c. Wheat—sl.4s. Kye—sl.ls. Springs—l4c. Hens—l3c. Eggs—2Bc. Butterfat—34 %c. Turkeys—lßc. Roosters—6c. Ducks—llc. Gvess—loc.

’ THE EVENING REPUBLICAN. RENSSELAER. IND. I

40 YEAR OLD SUIT OVER COTTON TAX

$88,000,000 INVOLVED WOULD BE REFUND TO SOUTHERNERS WHO HAD PAID ASSESSMENT ,/ EIGHT JUDGES COULD NOE AGREE Bill Introduced to Have Court of Claims Take Up the Original Case Memphis, Tenn.—A suit brought by a Memphis man who died 40 years ago may yet prove to be the basts of i refund to Southerners of something like $88,000,000 which the Federal Government obtained through a tax on cotton during and for a few years afer the Civil War. Congressman Clark of Florida has introduced a bill in congress instructing the United States Supreme court io decide the question of validity of >he claims. It provides that the ease of Farrington against Saunders be referred to ,he court of claims witb instructions •c hear and determine the case and to pronounce judgment upon the law and facts, first it may be carried to (he highest tribunal, where the constitutionality of the act may be determined. The ease of Farrington vs. Saunlers went once to the Supreme court from this city. It was brought by William M. Farrington against Rolf S. Saunders, internal revenue collector, :o test the validity of the cotton tax. Saunders won in he circuit court in 1867, and upon its hearing in the United States Supreme court eight justices gat. Four of these favored affirmmce of the flower court and four favo'reff reveiFSilV which division result(d in an affirmance of the lower court. A record of the case appears only in one book, a recover of briefs, volume 216. No written statement of the four Justices who held for the constitutionality of the act appears. All there are contained in this volume are the pleadings, the arguments of the attorneys ind a statement of the court's findings. It is not often that the Supreme court of the United Staes changes its mind, but it does happen, and some lawyers and statesmen who have followed (he policies of the Supreme court believe that if the cotton tax, which was pronounced legal and contitutional 40 years ago, could again l>e passed upon the court would reerse its former decision, a favorable decision is obtained Clark believes hat an appropriation will follow as a matter of course, as in the refund of (he direct land tax. The appropriation made by-Congress to pay many southern claims included in the omnibus bill show the tendency of the Government to make restitution for wrongs committed half a century ago.

DIES AS COURT AWARDS VERDICT

ndianapolis Man Succumbs at Exact Minute Jury Signs Award Indianapolis, Ind. —At the exact ninute a jury in Superior Court was signing a verdict for $22,000 in favor of the Redwine Brewster Agency, of which John B. Redwine was- the found r and one of the principle stockhold■rs, Redwine died at the Indiana iome Hospital in ignorance of the mount of the verdict. ~ Because of his worry, however, ovr the outcome of the suit, and the fact that Judge Moll, court officials, attorneys and jury had spent several days in his room at the hospital hearing his testimony, he believed that a verdict had been returned in favor of bis company about a week ago. Redwine had been ill for more than a year. His condition was such that he could not leave his bed, and as his testimony was very important the jury went to him. When he became too weak to continue his testimony the jury would take a recess until he rested. The case was against the Hartford Life Insurance Company and the Missouri State Life Insurance Company, which now handles the Indiana business of the Hartford. The RedwineBrewster Agency represented the Hartford from 1900 to 1909, when its contract was cancelled by the company. The company charged the contract was worth about $40,000 to $50,000, and sued for that amount. Because of Red'wine’s illness the case was continued from time to time.

THIS BOY BORN WITHOUT ARMS

Writes Plain b and with Hencn Heio Between Toes ' Ellenboro, N. C.—Normey Tipton, of Fingerville, S. C., who was born in* Mitchell county, N. C., 23 years ago differs from other young men because of the unfortunate act that he was born without arms. A little stub where his right arm should begin presents a foot -about two inches long, with two small toes with nails. Another stub, on his left side,., is a' hand with two fingers. The hand is about three and one half inches long. On a photograph presented to the writer, .the young man wrote his name and addres» with a pencil, held between hl.toes. The writing 1* bold and perfect!' tegibte. >

UNCLE SAM TO OUTWIT COUNTERFEITERS’ SKILL

Criminals Such Expert Photo-Engrav-era That Changes May Be Made *■ in Faper Money. Denver, Colo.—That important and radical changes are to be made in the paper used and the > printing of currency by the government is predicted 1 by W. H. Moran, assistant chief of the United States secret service. The unusual activity of counterfeiters has moved the treasury department to new efforts, and a sys.em is being devised that it is believed will reduce counterfeiting to a minimum. “The silk threads in our certificates,*’ says Mr. Moran, are entirely misleading to the general public. The average person holds the idea that the government has a secret process of manufacturing the paper on which bank notes are printed, whereas it is merely a distinctive precess. A note may not appear just right, and when it shows the silk threads the public takes it for granted that it Is good." The existence of more than two hundred different varieties of bairn notes is pointed out by Mr. Moran as a condition that makes the raising of these certificates an oasv matter by counterfeiters. The public cannot be expected to;carry dll these forms of notes ip mind, he says, and as a result I one, two, five and ten dollar cert if i--1 cates are being raised to higher deI nomination quite generally. Mr. Moran expects to see a new paper adopted by the government soon that will make counterfeiting more difficult, and at the same time enable the public more ~readily to “protect It self. He also expects that the two hundred or more different types of banknotes will be reduced to possibly one of each denomination, eliminating a big part of the chance of their being “raised.” The increased activity of counterfeiters is attributed to improvements constantly being made in photo engraving processes. The art has advanced, says Ml. Moran, to the point where duplication is a science that many crooks bavip mastered A case cited—ls,that of James S. Vertress, arrested for the wholesale distribution of $lO and S2O gold .ertitlcates in Denver and vicinity. Vqrtress was captured in Pennslyvania thru the efforts of Ais stant Chief Moran. Vertress attended a photographers school and took a cou:z<* in engraving before establishing a counterfeiting plant in an isolated .nountain district in Kentucky.

AGREES TO FIVE BILLIONS IN GOLD

Expert Chemist Promises to do This At One Tenth Cost of the Real Stuff Lewistown, Pa.—To manufacture $5,000,000,000 in gold,bullion, at an expense of about ten bents or a trifle more on the dollar is the dream of Rudolph M. Hunter, inventor, scientist and patent attorney of Philadelphia. This money is to go to the big banking concern of J. P. Morgan & Company and, according to the plans, made by Hunter, is to be made for the purpose of relieving the increasing scarcity of gold metal, due to the fact that the supply is shrinking right along owing to It being diverted into lines of manufacture. When this large amount of coin is made from baser metals, the* plans of the United States Assay & Metal Company, of which Hunter will be at the head, provide hat the formula be forgotten. Mr. Hunter is one of the greatest scientists of the United States. He Is the original inventor and patentee of the alternating transforming accumulator system of electric railways, electric brakes, multiple controllers and a number of other high class inventions. These patents have netted him many thousands of dollars. While the claim of Hun ter causes much skepticism among some classes his standing as a scientist and Inventor causes men well up in the scientific world to place much reliance In his claim. Hunter says that they expect to make $5,000,000,000 in gold bullion then forget the secret formula, as to continue to manufacture the precious stuff would cause a world panic by destroying the medium of world exchange.

HER HOME WAS MOVING VAN

Woman Asking for Divorce Says They Moved 21 Times in 4 Years Memphis, Tenn.—“ Our home was a moving van. My husband evidently thought it was cheaper to move than to pay rent.’’ That is the argument advanced by Mrs. Nellie Bather before Chancellor Heiskell in support of her petition for divorce. Specifying Mrs. Rather said they had moved 21 times and maybe 22, within four years. The husband testifying on that charge, said that he might have moved as often as claimed, but that it was done because of the undesirable residences selected by his wife.

MISSOURI HEN LAYS A LEMON?

It Resembles One, at Least, In Shape and Color Grant City, Mo—A freak egg that was on exhibition here for several days has been sent to the Missouri University for examination and classification. The egg is the property pf .Grover Asher and was found in one of the hen’s nests when he was gathering eggs. The egg strongly resembles a lemon in shape and color. It has no shell and is pliable.

6000 MEN PUSH RELIGIOUS ORDER

FIRST OF NEW STONEMAN FELLOWSHIP LGRI MAGES FROM PHILADELPHIA TESTS THE RAILROAD FACILITIES Train Movement Also Made to Show The Pennsylvania's Ability to Handle Soldiers Pittsburg, Pa. When the Rev. H C. Stoneman an Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, led approximately 6000 members of the Stonenien Fei lowship, organized by him about a year ago and which is named in his honor, "Stonemen,” to Pittsburg to form a similar fellowship here, it was a unique and impressive' religious enterprise. The excursion was also expected to De a demonstration of the facility with which the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. could move soldiers- in the event of. a. hurry call from the War Department. The Stvnemen, whose distinctive creed is the brotherhood of man and who call every man whom they meet 'brother/’ came to establish the order here, and in this they succeeded to au extent that enrolled several thousand? The original plans contemplated oc* cupancy of all the Protestant pulpitain the city, but when it was reported that it was a fraternity in which the conferring of degrees played a pirt and that the first degree could be conferred only by an Episcopalian clergyman, some of the other Protestant ministers withdrew from cooperation and declined to yield their pulpits to the visitors, claiming that the denom inational limitation prevented formal countenancing of the organization. One of the visitors holding an official position in the brotherhood denied the report in this language. ‘‘lt is not true. I will not deny it officially, but it is not true. We Stonemen do not deny these stories. We have no quarrel with ministers or anyone .else. If the ministers oppose us, that is up to them.” Music is a conspicuous and effective element in the invasion. There was the Stone band of 100 members, an orchestra of 50 and several ward organization bands, and between them they kept the music going almost continuously during their stay of one day.

The founder of the fellowship came here with the expectation of enrolling 20,000 men,-which was not realized by far, yet the outcome was not the least discouraging to the idea of these big pilgrimages, which are already sched pled for Buffalo and other cities in the east, to' be ext c., tied later to other sections of the country. Speaking o£ the membership expected here, Dr Stoneman said: - _ “When we consider that 70 per cenl of that 20,000 are without a church heme and in no way affiliated with thuich organizations we can understand the importance of our pilgrimages. We have received 24,000 applications in Pittsburg. We shall make a pilgrimage to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. Brotherhoods are to be estab'ished in those cities and in others throughout the country as fast as the work can be handled.” The trains were all composed of 10 c< aches, with a baggage car in the center of each fitted up as a commissary, to show that troops could be fed in a similar manner while being rush ed over long stretches of country. These cars carried sandwiches, coffee urns, cakes and soft drinks. Every man aboard, even the crews, was a stoneman and all wore straw hats.

CHARLOTTE RUSSES FOR DOGS

Order Amazes Hotel Waiter, but Is Carried out New Yerk—The Prince and Princess Paul Troubetzkoy arrived at the Hotel Majestic, bringing with them two Siberian bloodhounds. The dogs weie quartered in a specially fitted up kenneb in the basement of the hotel. Just after (he Prince and Princess had partaken of breakfast served in their rooms, /the Troubetzkoy valet called up the dining room by phone and ordered two dozen charlotte russes. “Shall we serve them in the rooms?” asked the head waiter. "Oh, my no,’’ came back the valet’s voice: “Take them to the bloodhounds In the basement. They always have a dozen apiece every day. They are v iry fond of sweets and charlotte russe is their favorite.” The prince’s order was carrie d out as quickly as waiters could be found with courage enough to undertake the task.

FISHING FOR DOLLAR BILLS

Boy Hooks One From Stream; Marly Others Wellsboro, Pa. —Two boys of this place, Brown and Seely, went fishing for suckers in a stream near town. Brown thought he had a bite and when he pulled out his line had something on the hook4hat he took for a lizard. Holding the hook up to bis ey“ he found he had booked a dollar bill. Now the stream is alive with fisher meh trying to hook dollar bills. . .- - ■ - i-

GRAVEYARD OF ATLANTIC IS OFF BERMUDA GROUP

St. George’s Harbor Sinister Refugs—- - Shores are Littered With Wrecks of 111-Fated Ships St. George, Bermuda Islands —St George’s harbor bears a sinister reputation as ’‘the. graveyard of the Atlantic,” and Its shores present a scene of melancholy and desolation not of* ten equaled in her array of abandoned, rotting ships of all nations, nearly all of which in times past brought cargoes from far and wldd. Every year the fleet of decaying hulks, their ravaged and yawning Keefes and sideg growing more delaptaated with the wear and tear of time, receives reinforcements In fresh victims. Such wholesale blight, such vast and hopeless dissolution, has a most depressing effect upon the beholder. The dismal scene, with gulls circling like vultures overhead, seems like death and despair personified—the end of all things. Bermuda’s cordon of knifelike coral reefs, extending twenty miles off shore on all sides, yearly proves the undoing of many unfortunate confused skippers, who by a slight deflection from their course stumble upon this deadly pitfail unguarded In mld-Atlan-tic. Each ancient ruin recalls to the native thrilling incidents of fearful gales shipwrecks and destruction, while the disintegration jf years has obliterated beneath the harbor the last remnants oi yet other fine ships that hare found their last resting place here In past ages. Only a few blackened ribs showing at low tide tell the story of the Amerleaß fufi-riggeff sh 1 p George ~H. War-” ren, built at East Boston in 1864. Soon after being launched she was placed under German colors as a protection from confederate men of war, being renamed Ida. Under this and Norwegian ownership she continued for the greater part of her career. In 1900 she got into trouble at Bermuda and was purchased by new new owners there wha wished to replace her under the. American flag. Legal complications arose, however, and as a final result the Ida, instead of resuming the cargo trade, was burned for junk. In the upper end of the harbor are the remains of the one time Boston bark Lillian, built at Harrington, Maine, ip 1873, and sold to New York men shortly after she stranded on the reefs in 1908 while inward bound with eoal. After being f’oated into smooth water It was found that the terrible battering had unfitted her for further use and she was beached and stripped. The destructive powers of these coral reefs were never better evidenced than in the ruination of the fine steel Lark Filippo Denegrl, bound from Montevideo to New York witb a cargo of bones. She went to her doom some ten miles off shore. Wrecking tugs succeeded eventually in bringing her into St. George’a still white of side apd symmetrical of spar, only eighteen years old, but actually fitted for littlejpiore than the junk shop. She ended her days in lightering coal in about the harbor.

MAN FROM WEST SHOCKS MILWAUKEE HOTEL CLERK

Hell, He Tells His Skeptics is on the Union Pacific, Sixty Miles From Paradise Milwaukee, Wis—He was a short, man, mild mannered, and had a pleasat the Hotel Maryland when he reg istered, “Paul M. Fredericks, Hell.' “You hadenotta do that,” protested the clerk. “Don’t pull that hell stuff hero.’’ “But there’s where I come- from," spoke Fredericks. “Hell’s in North Dakota.” “Tell us some more,’’ Fredericks was asked by Manager F. B. Sweeney. “Well, Hell (sometimes spelled Hell) is sixty miles from Paradise,” explained Fredericks to the consternation of his hearers, “and we have some fine country. You see you ro to Hell on the U. P., on the Mott branch, seven miles east of Elgin. Paradise Is inland, and the only wdy that you can get there Is by stage, and you can only go to Paradise three times a week from Morristown, ,S. D. Both of the 1 owns are in Morton county, in southwestern North Dakota.” "How large are the towns?” asked ehe of the auditors. "We’ve got it all over Paradise; Hell’s more than twice as large,’ replied Fredericks "Why we have three churches in Hell now, while they only have one in Paradise. “Bill Hell is postmaster at Hell and Dick Hell does most of the driving; he has a fine livery business. "Over in Paradise there is not much doing. They have a woman handle the mails there, Eva Welnrlch. “Do you like Milwaukee?” Fredericks was asked. "Well, yes; Milwaukee is ’iveller than Hell and much larger. I think I’ll stay a while.”

MONSTER EGG IS EXHIBITED

Lenflth Is 8 1-2 Inches; Welflhs One and One Quarter Pounds r North Adams, Mass.—A monster egg may be seen In one of the show windows of Riley & Co., Park street, The egg was laid by a thoroughbred single comb Rhode Island Red hen owned by Arthur Partridge of East Renfrew. The egg is eight aud one half inches In circumference and weighs one and one quarter pounds.