Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1898 — Page 4

JOT COUNTY DM. 1.1. MMM, EDITOR Ml WBLISHER. Entered at the Poet-office at Renseelaer, Ind. ae second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: ONE YEAR 9UBO &X MOJJTHS.. Me THREE MONTHS - 3Sc. Payable ia Advance. Advertltinr rates made known on application omen oa Vaa Rensselaer Street, First Door; North al Bills A Murray's Stare. /

State Ticket.

SAMUEL RALSTON, I SecreUry of State. | JOHN W. MINOR, 1 Auditor of State. | JOHN G. M’NUTT, Attorney General. 3 HENRY WARRUM. Clerk of Supreme Court. W. B. SINCLAIR. Superintendent Public Instruction. ! JAMBS S. GUTHRIE, State Statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, ‘ State Geologist. < K 1 JUDGES OP SUPREME COURT. LEONARD J. HACKNEY, Second District, f JAMES M’CABE, Third District. | TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, Fourth District. JUDGES OP APPELLATE COURT. EDWIN TAYLOR, First District. C.J. KOLLMEYER, Second District. } EDGAR A. BROWN, Third District. | WILLIAM 8. DIVEN, Fourth District. JOHONNEB KOPELKE. Fifth District. ‘ For Congress, JOHN ROSS, of Tippecanoe County. For Representative, DAVID H. YEOMAN, of Jasper County.

The County Ticket.

For County Clerk, JOHN F. MAJOH, of Carpenter Township. For County Auditor, GEORGE O. STEMBEL, of Wheatficld Township. For County Treasurer, MARION I. ADAMS, of Marion Township, For County Sheriff, WILLIAM C. HUSTON, of Milroy Township, For County Surveyor, DAVID B. GARRIOT, of Union Township. For County Coroner, DR P. J. POTHUISJB, of Carpenter Township. Commissioner Ist District, FRANK M. HERSHMAN. Commissioner tod District, LUCIUS STRONG.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

We are reguested to annouoc* that Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, will be a candidate for tbe nomination for Prosecuting Attorney of this the Thirtieth Judicial District, subject to the decision of the Democratic Judicial convention which meets at Goodland, July aa.

Judicial Convention. The Democrats of the 30th Judicial district will meet in delegate convention at Goodland, Indiana, on Friday, July 22, 1898, at I'jOO o’clock, p. m. and nominate a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney to be voted for at the November election, 1898. The apportionment will be one delegate, for each 100 votes and fraction over 60 votes cast for B. F. Shively, for Governor, in 1896. Jasper county will be entitled to 14 delegates. Dawson Smith, Chm. Benton Co. D. W. Shields, Chm. Jasper Co. W. D. Martin, Chm. Newton Co.

Notice. All democrats of Jasper county, who attend the Democratic Judicial convention at Goodland, Ind., of July 22, 1898, will be entitled to act as delegates and participate in casting the vote .of the county. David W. Shields, Chm, John P. Walters, Sec. Dr. J. W. Horton, .Graduate of the Haskell school of prosthetic denistry, is established in the new brick, first door west of post All operations pergiven to the painless extraction of teeth by the nse of gas and local

INTRODUCTORY.

I In assuming charge of The Democrat we wish to say a few irords as to its future policy and so the people of Renseelaer and j Jasper county in general. We liave located here to make a living [lor ourselves and to undertake to [Live the democrats an up-to-date ■county paper. We ask and exfpect the hearty support of all who I are opposed to ring rule, extrava- 1 gance in the administration of public affairs and to exborbitant taxation. It will be our earnest endeavor in return to give the people a good paper and to tell the truth about all matters of public importance, and to always stand up for right and justice. We shall work earnestly for the upbuilding of Jasper county and of Rensselaer, its county seat, but will always oppose the upbuilding of the latter at county expense. We have come here with the intention of making Rensselaer our] permanent abiding place, and] hope to so conduct ourselves and] our paper as to merit the respect ] and support of its people. While a stranger to a greater part of the people of and northern Jasper we are not unknown to those of the southern part of the cdbnty, having been in charge of the Remington for several years, and we have no hesitancy in referring to them if you wish to j know more of our past history.

The Democrat had secured a very neat subscription list under the able management of Mr. D. W. Shields, but we hope ere another year rolls around to more than double the number of its subscribers. We ask the help of every reader in our endeavor to spread the gospel of democracy and wise and economical government in Jasper county. Politically the paper will be as heretofore thoroughly democratic, and we shall endeavor to keep in harmony with masses in the great principles, of the democratic party in all local and national matters.

Hawaiia now belongs to the United States, niggers, illiteracy, sugar kings and all. -

The people are fast learning that the new war revenue law implys a tax and that the consumer pays it

The Democrat is for a wise and economical administration in all public affairs, both local and national.

No, you republicans of the “inner circle” can’t fool the people of Jasper county again. They want a change and will get it.

The supreme court has declared copstitutional the law extending the terms of township trustees to the general election of 1900.

The Hon. E. D. Crumpacker will retire to private life after the November election. Almost his entire party is arrayed against him.

Mr. Crumpacker thinks Tom Reed is a greater man than McKinley. This belief seems to be shared only by Ed and Tom themselves. *■

Let the democrats nominate a good man for prosecuting attorney aud he will go in with a whoop. The people have had enough of Chizum.

Rensselaer laid it all over her neighboring towns on one thing the 4th. Old Glory floated from a three hundred and fifty dollar flag pole.

Let’s see, the contract price for that new court house was $89,180, and now our republican friends say it will cost complete $154,000. Weren’t those commissioners great financiers? And now comes the Indianapolis News and asserts that the Dingley tariff law was not enacted to provide revenue, only as a sec-

F. E. BABCOCK.

landary consideration. Ye Gods! j Hut our., republican friends can Icfawl out of an, awful small bole. ' r. -'v=,"r,as.; 1 .,. i..' \ _ lOf all the blamefool notions of hat notorious and odoriferous ward of commissioners the chop)ing down of the handsome shade rees in the court house yard will itand well up to the head. 1 It is very evident to a majority lof the voters of jasper county [that we need a change in the ad[ministration of county affairs. It [is not good to giye any party too pong a lease of office.

While the editor of The Demorat is not now nor never has been dentified in any way whatever rith the populists, we will say to ur brethren of the press in Renei elaer that there are some worse flings than being a populist. ■m' 555 I ■* * • I The county commissioners are fmaking a grand stand play for a [little popularity in the cement [walk and coping matter about the inew court house, in fact seem a little overzealous in trying to conE’ nce the people that they are lookg carefully after their interests.

We’ve an idea the people who tood about in the sun here the Ith would have gladly welcomed >ack the cool shade of the court louse yard; in fact would have oregone the pleasure of an “unobitructed view” of the expensive tew court house to have sat under the shady maples destroyed by the kithless hand of an unscrupulous Republican board of county comhissioners.

The Democrat of last week ita ted that the comer stone for the lew court house could be bought, quarried out and rough dressed, at |1.35 per cubic foot. This was |n error. The writer has bought pousands of feet of this stone, [nd the price is 35 cents per ctibic loot. We have also finished up

housands of feet of it, and we will enture to say that any stone cuter in Indiana would have gladly

furnished the same stone to the county for SIOO. It cost the taxpayers $486.

Rensselaer’s republican editors are trying to popularize the; acts of that extravagant board of commissioners in various ways, and never let an opportunity pass of stating that “some one was here from somewhere” and “went through the new court house, admired it very much and thought it was well worth every dollar of its cost,” etc. People often admire things, gentlemen, which common sense and reason tell them are beyond their means, and in ninety-nine cases

out of a hundred the people who say it is worth all it cost know no more about what a building of the kind should cost than a republican does about the tariff question.

The Dingley Law a Failure.

Indianapolis New* (Republican.) It seems clear that the government will have to rely largely on its internal revenue for the means with which to prosecute the war, for the reports, so far as they have been made up, indicate that the Dingley tariff bill will not yield much, if any, larger returns from customs duties than those yieldedj by the Wilson bill. For the'fiscal year ending with June, 1895, during practically the whole of which the Wilson law was in force, the amount derived from customs was $152,158,617; for the year ending with June, 1896, during the whole of which the Wilson law jrraa in force, the amount was $160,021,751; and in the next year, 1897, which was also under the Wilson law, the customs receipts rose to $176,554,126—some portion of this large sum, of course being due to the heavy importations made in advance of the passage of the Dingley tariff, which became a law in July, 1897. The Dingley law has therefore, been in operation almost the whole of the present fiscal year, which ended with June; and the customs receipts for the year will probably be a little less than . ; A- . <" . v' > ' ' ’ ,•

■*” —-r —■ —’frwyw $160,000,000, or smaller than for any year of the preceding three. Going back three years further we find that the customs receipts for the years ending with Juue, 1892, 1893 and 1894, respectively, were; $177,336,944, $203,142,670 aid $131,807,758, all these yeaTs being under the McKinley law. Thus beginning with 1892 there has been only one fiscal year in which; the revenue from customs was smaller than in the year just closed; that year being 1894, in which imports were held back to get the benefit of the lower duties of the Wilson bill, which was passed in August, 1894. It is, of course, possible that the situation may improve, but it must be confessed that the outlook for much revenue from’customs is not encouraging. The returns for June, after the law had been in force almost a year, were only abont $14,500,000, which is slightly less than the average monthly receipts from customs during the preceding fiscal year. The truth is that, on its customs side, the Dingley bill was not intended to be a revenue producer except secondarily. Its main object was protection* ■'

MESSAGES OF TRIUMPH.

Bow Famous Sailors and Goaorals Em Anaouaood Thai? Victor!**. Caesar—"Veni, vedi, vidP* (I came; I conquered.) Sobieski—‘“I came; I saw; God conquered.” Turenne (announcing the victory of Dunen over the Spaniards)—"The enemy came; was beaten; I am tired; good night” Gen. Suwarsow (to Catherine of Russia) —"Hurrahl Prague. Strwarrow." Catherine (to Suwanw) —"Bravo, field marshal. Catherine.” In these terms Suwarrow received his promotion. Sir Charles Napier (after Hyderabad and the capture of Scinde) — “Peocavi. I have Scinde.* In the dawn of the day which was to eee the battle of Meanee he said; "If I survive I shall soon be with those I love; if I fall I shall soon be with thoce I have loved." Dewey—“We have taken Manila; am caring for the enemy's nek and wounded." Gen. Dee&ix (to Naudeoo at Marengo)—"The battle ia lost, but there ia time to gain another." Henry Iv. of France (at 1vry,1590) —“lf the flag fail you rally to my white plume. You shall always find it in the paths of honor and victory." Lawrenoe—“Don't give up the ship!" Paul Jonee—"l have not yet begun to fight!" Marshal MacMahoo (after the capture of the Malakoff by the French during the siege of Sebastopol)-—"J*y suis; ry reete. (I am here. I remain here.) Sebastiani (after the massacre of the Poles in Warsaw during the Insurrection of 1830) —"Order reigns in Warsaw." rk ' ; S

Here Are some other pithy short sayings about war that are appropriate at present: Gen. John Stark—*We must whip tbe redcoats or Molly Stark's a widow." Famgut—“Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead!"

Demosthenes —“l man that runs Sway may fight again.’* (Demosthenes had been charged with cowardice in throwing away hia shield at the battle of Chevonea, 838 B. C.) Marshal Saxe—“We are like cloaks —one thinks of us only when it nuns.” (Said of the soldier after peace was declared.) Alexander the Great (to his disaffected #Gl<Jiers)-V‘Go home and leave Alexander to conquer the world alone.” Washington—“ln peace prepare sot war.” Wellington—“A great country can have no snch thing as a little war.” Marechal Ney—“Glory is not to be divided.” Marshal Lannes—“No one but a poltroon will boa st that he never knew fear”—N. Y. World.

His Threat

Tm going to the front,” declared the bald-headed old man. “Please don’t, papa, dear,” cried hia pretty daughter. But he went, and that night sat in the front row at the big spectacular play—N. Y. Journal.

As Uncomfortable Mistake.

The Circassian—My, hut it must be awful to beso thin! The Skeleton—You just bet! I went home loaded last nieht and nut myself in the cane rack.—??. Y. Jour-

ADMIRAL SAMPSON.

.«v 1 V:- \-x: ■ UIYM US -m «fw £l Admiral Sflinpsoii bßs b66u ooqqp © -j ice in this connectionhas been such, as a member of the bureau of ordnance, that he htuf become with the minutest details of construction, armor, guns and engines. It is no exaggeration to say that he oould personally make any naval gun or repair any engine or electrical device on his ships. His mind goes always to first principles—* 0001, analytical Aind, that wastes no time over unessentials. His great ranee of information comes rather from sheer force of intellectual endowment than from any laborious process of acquirement, for he has never been known as a student in the commonly accented sense of that word. His breadth of mind was admirably, and to naval minds most startlingly shown, when more thoroughly to familiarise himself with an important branch of his profession he applied for service in the bureau of ordnance under Commander Folger, who was much his junior in rank, and had served as first lieutenant of the "Swatara" under his oommand. Admiral Sampson ia a man of striking personal appearance, offing clearcut features, slender, above the medium height, slow and deliberate both in movement and speech, not given to inany words. He is too much absorbed in his profession and the mental processes which give him his seeming intuitive knowledge of its manifold complexities to be what ia called sociable, but he is always just and considerate to his subordinates and watchful over the welfare of his crews.

A man of reserve, of perfect selfpoeseaeion at all times and under all circumstances, he would approach such a problem aa the annihilation of the Spanish fleet with the same ooolnees and deliberation that he would an armor trial or the designing of a new gun; no detail would be too small to be overlooked, no possible contingency would be unprovided for.—N. Y.lndependent

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Domestic Animals That Die from Vari-

Among these normal, non-epidemie causes ox death many must be common both to wild and to domesticated species. "Distemper” among dogs and cats probably extends also to foxes, wolves and the wild felidae. Its course is often exactly like that of a wasting low fever, and animals die from it in exactly the same way as a human patient suffering from malaria or bilious fever, for the symptoms are not always the same. "Chill" kills dogs, often by and hones ana cows mainly by causing internal inflammation. Death ia then, rapid and painful, and takes place before emaciation of any kind is visible in the animal. Most domesticated animals, even cage birds, are liable to this cause of death; but we may assume that among wild animals, whose normal ooune of life does not expose them to overexertion or "draughts/* it is lese common. „

Among aged domesticated animals, or thoee which are obliged to take violent exercise, heart disease often causes sudden death. “Master Magrath’* died from this; so do the racing dogs of the Northumberland miners. Aged horses sometimes drop down dead when being gently ridden from the same cause. Most very old horses which have been turned out to grass to end their days in peace suffer in the end from forms of indigestion, which cause them to become so thin that their owners order them to be shot. A recent veterinary work ascribes this and many other equine maladies to decay or defects in the teeth due to age or accidents. In the same way old dogs become emaciated, even when carefully fed. But, like human beings, all the canine race, and most of the felidae andJbears, seem liable to forms of tnmor, and unless relieved by surgery or released by euthanasia; may meet their death after great misery and suffering. Nor should it be forgotten that virulent sore throat is often prevalent and fatal among animals, especially cats.—London Spectator. • ■ : ' '

Using the Thumb-Mark.

A very- remarkable-instance of the value of the “thumb-mark” method of identifying a criminal is recorded as having recently happened in Bengal. A prisoner had committed & murder wh&h seemed to leave no clew behind it whatever, but, in turning over the papers of his victim, he had by chance smudged an atlas with his thfimb. In Bengal they preserve an impression of the thumb of everyone who has been convicted of a crime, and the atlas was sent off inspection of experts, in the conviction of the criminal. . , w .inwin v

Fellowed His Advice

Zip—So he langhed at your ad-

L/ii COUNTY OFFICERS. fijijjkL* • • • Wm. 8. Coover a *'*»*.»•*».» .......... Nate J. Reed ■.♦pwgpr.,. Henry B.Murray Treasurer Jesse C. Gwin g*2® rdep * •• • • Robert B. Porter ®'“ pp ®s' or • Jokjj E- Alter E - K “"- 11M* r --:- F J? d « l|, hfc Waymlre March, June, September and Dseemberf' * “ CITY OFFICERS. . —• • • v_.... c. b! miS SSSnS!i r mJ*' L. Gramble Fire Chief ........Mdgmr M. Parcel* .tfjfKtor. F. B. Merer. JUDICIAL. waeaiiaiiß-iaKKftßa ‘g&g’r.i June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. „ *oy»««ur*. i ' *• • ■■Nangin* Grove W!tt=::dS ISBsSF®;— A Re.de. T °? K CTTT Lmiia H. Htutufum, Co/StlJ'. '

Real Estate Transfers,

, “ b ' u AW.'^wa.£-,. , 5: John K. Stondt to Comstock & Coons Co., Junell, sH it 10, bl IS, Remington, S3OO. John A. Kent to Mn. Dora A. Hays, Jan. 8. 1897, It 15, bl 18, Fair Oak*. $lO. ' , Mary Elirabeth Wolf, Jane 18, It 15. bl 19, Fair Oaks, SIOO. Edward R. to Mary Elizabeth Wolf, June 16, Ita 19-aoTbl 18, Fair Oaks,sloo. t Carr ,°J Elizabeth Wolf, June 18, Ita 14-18, bl 197F‘h Oaks, S2O Carrol C. Kent to Cbaa. D. Malatt, June 7. It* 5-8, bl IS. Fair Oaks. SBO. ’ ' Henry H. Watson to Bamuel M. Laßue et MjJune 81, pt «w, 85-39-0,188 acres, $5,Samnel M. Laßue et al to Henry H. Watson, June ai, ltsia-18-14, bl 12, Rensselaer Weston’s add., $3,000. «Sa , A A oSS?; iS.? jsi&ifvz aR&.w«- , Henry Fisher to Mary M. Fisher, Nov. 22, W * l, Rensselaer Weston’s add.. $5,000. James Thatcher to NeUie J. Crawford, May 35, ne sw, 34-83-7, SI,OOO. Simon Phillips to Thomas Parker, May 98, pt aw ne 86-39-7,88 acres, SSO. Job V. Harrison to Thomas Parker, June 38, pt it 4, Rensselaer, pt 80-28-8, S2OO. STlrwter Hraly to John Healy, June 28, pt Ha 14-16, bl 8, Rensselaer, SI,OOO. . H jPorter et al, to John C. Porter, Aprils, wH. sw and ne, sw, 12-29-7, also ne, S’.&wtsrjASr”* “’ i ' - “*• -■ John C. Porter, April 28, to Hash W. Portland above deserlbed, 191 acres, Warren Robinson to Trustees Weston Cam- *■ Wm. B. Austin to B. J. Gifford, June 30th, south end, wH ae 4-30-4, 42.78 acres, $914.60. Wm.B. Moore to Trustees Weston CemeadT. Renaselaer Nwtoß op C,arh * August Hieisehwr to Trustees M. E. enurefa, Hopau. June 30, S7O. Rebecca A. Gibson to John L Duvall. June tA It 9,.bl 1, Renseelaer, Austin A Paxton’s add. 3SSO. John L. Duvall to Rehseea A. Gibson, same as above, 3340. - Albert 8. Alexander to Minnie Sehataiey, June 21, sw 29-32-4. 3298.71. q. e. d. Georare F. Bloom to Caroline A. Bloom, It* 3,4 10, 11, bl 5, Beminarton, 92.000. _ Auditor Jasper Co. to Alfred W. Hopkins, June 28, It 3. Wl. Wheetfleld, *2.12. 1.1. d. Same to. Same, June 38, wpteH *w sw, 27, 38. 7,9 acres, 386.42. 1.1. d. Same to same. Jane 28, It 8, bl 3, Wheat field, $8,41.1.1. d. Victoria Pierson, by J. C. C., to John F. McCord, et al. June 27, wtt, sw, pt, eH, se, 34-29-4,56 acres, decree. Fannis E. Orr, et al. by J. C- C. to Marion C. Spltier, June 17, ej<, ne„l9-31-6, 80 acres, decree. Sarah E. Adheret al, by J. C. C. to Sarah Aaher, June 27, wH, ae, pt, sw, 41-32-5, 134.29 acres, decree. Nancy B. Gasper eCal, by J. C. C. to Henrietta Huber, June 28, ne, nw, 34 and n V 4, sw, ne, 28-30-5,80 acres, decree, -- Caroline K. Peters to August gfelscher, May 14 pt, nw, 17-31-4,525. q.cT d. Sheriff Newton county to Anna Drake, June 29, pt, sw, 4-27-7, 40 acres, S2OO, sheriff’s deed.

Non Resident Notice [James W. Douthit and John Grieve, Att’ys for Plaintiff. The State of Indiana,) In the Jasper Circuit Jasper County, > Court, Oct. Term, 1898. Christopher Schroeder, ) „ - vs V Complaint No. 6610. Derothea Schroeder. ) . -Now cornea the Plaintiff, by James W. DoUthit and John Greve. his attorneys, and files his complaint herein, together with an amdavitthattbe defendant Derothea Schroeder is not a resident of the State of Indiana. NOTICS IS THEREFORE HEREBY GIVEN BAIdDef*NDANT, that unless she be and appear on thefirst day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the Third Monday of October A. D. 1898, at the Court House in the City of Rensselaer, in said County and State, ana answer or. demur to said complaint which is for a divorce, the same whereof"' 1 SEAL > hereunto set my hand and affix the 1 —' seal of said Court,at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 9nd day of July A. D. 1898. Wm. H. Coover, - ‘ Clerk. Douthit A Grieve, Att’ys. A nearly new Beering binder for safe. Call on or address Henry Hautbaum Virgie. Ind. Bicycles repaired at lowest prices.. A full line of bicycle sundries on hands for sale. , All kinds of wheels ordered. Give me a call. Chas. CftiOW. One.door west of Makeever House.