Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1899 — Page 5

I nil 1? mnhm pim i epi ■L 0 DUonOu UvLLLUL srsiasr.sssg* stt " in commercial department actual EatabUeted LBST. Incorporated 1894. business from the start, in the shorthand department the student has the free use pf the typewriter on CF.HHK. F. STOSSTIEISTER. a attendance is expected during the coming year it ■kaMaaaw. . Busimkss Mahabir. wifi be to your advantage to arrange with us at once. It you do not intend to enter before Sept. Ist, , or even Nov. Ist. write us at once • and we will look after your interest. . RMttatflnrt tartfinaimao Mtom In Hnrthom inti Hundreds of our graduates are hold“luEM ilffil to ffilaliOi WJiOJ 111 ml lllw II I MU. ing good positions. 1 *^>l—, HALL’S BUSINESS COLLEGE. Cor. Broadway and Sixth St. f " LOGANSPORT, INDIANA. <

DR. JACQUES DESSLER, OPTICAL SPECIALIST. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. I fade-gnat pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and the surnoandinir country that I have located here in the Arcade building, above the DayBght Clothing House, as an Optical Specialist. My thorough experience in the gHufiwiowt with the help at the latest improved instruments, leads me tn hope that 1 shall be able to give my patients full satisfaction, and can promise with responsabihtsr that every cse will be treated with special care. Hoping that the peopht of Eknsaelaer and surrounding country will give me a trial, 1 am, very respectfiiny ywursk DR. JACQUES DESSLER, Optical Specialiit. 3OIPCE—I desire to call your attention to the fact that eyes can be examined with.the same accuracy at night as at day time. Examination free.

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Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Win. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor... Henry B.Murray Treasurer .....Jesse C. Gwin Recorderßobert B. Porter SurveyorC.Myrt B. Price CoronerTruitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor.... John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Way mire Commissioner's court—First Mondays in March, June, September and December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwin TreasurerC. C. Starr AttorneyC. E. Mills Civil EngineerH. L. Grumble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels COUN OILMEN. Ist ward.. M. B. Alter, F. B. Meyers 2nd ward John Eger, C. G. Spitler 3rd ward Wm. H. Beam, J. R. Kight JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney Albert E. Chizum Terms of Court.—First Monday in January; Third Monday in March; First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TBtSTKKS. TOWNSHIPS. Robert S. Drake Hanging Grove A. W. PrevoGillam John F. Pettit Walker Samuel R. Nicholsßarkley James D. Babcock Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland.. Newton C. C. BiertnaKeener J. C. KaupkeKankakee Albert S. KeeneWheatfield John A. LamboruCarpenter George W. Caster Milroy B. D. Comer Union TOWN OK CITY A. Beasleyßemington M. F. Chilcote...Rensselaer Edward T. BiggsWheat tis! Louis H. Hamilton. Co. Suptßens 3=? i.er

CHURCHES. First Baptist—Preaching every two weeks, at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. m: Sunday school at 0:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p. m Rev. V. Fritts, pastor. Free Baptist—One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. P. meets Sunday, 0:30 P. M. Rev. D. A. Tucker, pastor. Christian—Comer Van Rensselaer, and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school 0:30; J. Y. P. S. C. E.. 2:30; S. Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. H. N. Shepherd, pastor. Ladies’ Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment PrXSßyerian—Comer Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday school 0:30; Y. P. S. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies’ Industrial Society meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. Rev. C. D. Jeffries. Pastor. Methodist E.—Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League Sunday 6; Tuesday 7; Junior League 2:30 alternate Sunday; Prayer meeting, Thursday at 7. Rev. H. M. Middleton. Pastor. Ladiei’ Aid Society every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Church of God—Corner Harrison and Elza. Preaching 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30; Ladies’ Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Catholic Church—St. Augustine's. Corner Division and Susan. Services 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:80 p. m. Rev. Edward Jacobs, pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge, No. 126, A.F. and A. M., meets first and third Monday s of each month. J. M. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. lines, Sec’y. Evening Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E.S., meet-i first and third Wednesdays of each month. Maude Spitler, W. M.; Hattie Dowler, Sec’y. Catholic Order Forresters—Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; Peter Hordeman, Chief Ranger. Odd Fellows— Iroquois Lodge, No. 144,1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday. Bruce White, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment—No. 201, I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. S. C. Irwin, C. P., John Vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rebekah Degree Lodge— No. 346. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Gertrude Robinson,N, G.; Mrs. Laura Shields, Sec’y. I. O. of Foresters—Court Jasper, No. 1708, Independent Order of Foresters, meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff, C. D. H. C. R; R. P. Johnson, R. Maccabees—Rensselaer Tent, No. 184. Kr O. T. M. Meets Wednesday evening. C. E. Tyner, Commander; F. W. Cissei, Record Keeper. Pythian—Rensselaer Lodge No. 82, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday, C. W. Hanley, C. C.i N. W Reeve. K. of ft! Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,— No. 47, meets 2d and 4th ' Wednesday, every month, Mrs. G- E. Murray, M. E. C. Mrs. O. A. Yeoman, M. of R. C. Grand Army;—Rensselaer Post No. 84 G. A. R. meets every Friday night. D. H. Yeoman Post Commander, J. M. Wasson, Adju.tant. Rensselaer Women's Relief Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mrs. J. Q. Alter, President; Mrs. Hattie Reynolds, Sec’y. \ ...... ... ' Holly Council.—No. 7. Daughters of Liberty meets 2d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Moss, Recording Secretary. j English Stable Liniment . ' : Sold by A. F. Long.

Monte* English Stable Powder SOW by A- F. Long.

WASHINGTON LEITER.

(From our regular correspondent.) Senator Sullivan, of Miss., made his maiden speech in favor of the Nicaragua Canal Bill, of Senator Morgan’s, which is to be voted on this week. Senator Pasco, of Fla., also made a speech in favor of the bill, which is certain to be passed by the Senate. * * * Senator Allen thinks the right sort of an investigation of the war could be made by a committee of five Senators, no more than two of whom shall be members of the same political party, and he embodied his idea in a resolution which he offered in the Senate, and which is now before the Military Committee. • ♦ A delegation from the National Civil Service League threw away some time by appearing before the House Census committee, to advocate the placing of the Census Bureau employes under the Civil Service Rules. Congress is hungry for the patronage of the Census Bureau, and no power on earth could make it give up its expected feast on official pap, even if there were any real advantage in having the Census Bureau employes put under the Civil Service Rules. * ♦ * A funeral is always sad, but a funeral in the Capitol always seems sadderlhan if it were held elsewhere. Two weeks ago funeral services were held in the Senate Chamber over the remains of the late Senator Moi rill; to-day, in the House of Representatives, over the remains of the late Representative Dingley, of Maine. Mr. Dingley resembled Mr. Morrill in some respects; he was always a partisan, but never aroused any personal animosity on the part of his opponents. * * * Representative Berry, of Ky., in a speech on the Naval bill, took occasion to administer some sharp and deserved raps at the Navy Department clique, which has so persistently tried to deprive Schley of the credit due him for the destruction of Cervera’s fleet, in order that it might be given to Sampson. Mr. Berry said: “There is no doubt in the minds of the American people who is entitled to the credit of that victory. But there are people who are trying to steal away from Schley, the credit he won on the 3d day of July, 1898.” • * • Senator McLaurin, of S. C., made a strong speech against colonization and imperialism by this government, in which he referred to the change of position on the part of those Senators who are willing to control colonies without allowing the ignorant natives to vote. He was referring to Senator Platt’s speech, when he said: “The Senator from Connecticut has most amply vindicated the South, perhaps unintentionally, but we thank him the more heartily for his complete announcement of the divine right of the Caucasion to govern the inferior races.” * • * The anti-imperialism Senators supported the motion of Senator Berry to consider the treaty of Peace in open executive sessions of the Senate, but they couldn’t carry it. The treaty will be considered in the usual way. An attempt is to be made to put the Senate on record, either by an amendment to the treaty or a resolution, against the permanent ownership of the Philippines by the U. S., before the treaty is voted upon. There are also two resolutions pending, one offered by Senator Bacon, of Ga., and one by Senator Hoar, of Mass., providing for immediate recognition of the independence of the Present Philippine government, having a hearing on the treaty. • * • Secretary Alger is offering as great an insult to the the country, by protecting Commissary General Eagan, as Eagan offered to Gen. Miles, by his blackguardism in calling him numerous kinds of a liar, in his testimony before the War Investigators. If Alger thinks that the people will allow this disgraceful affair to end with Eagan’s revision of his testimony, he will find himself much mistaken. Eagan deserves punishment, just as Alger does, and if they don’t get it, so much the worse will it be in the end for the administration. There can be no reasonable excuse for any man accustomed to the association of gentlemen, descending to the use of billingsgate, no matter how great the provocation. In this particular case, Eagan knew that the administration had done everything possible to humiliate

Miles, and doubtless thought that his abuse of him would increase his popularity with the Alger crowd. Instead of Alger promptly ordering Eagan under arrest, to be court-martialed for language and conduct unbecoming a soldier and a gentlemen, he had the nerve to say that Mr. McKinley’s promise of protection to all witnesses made it impossible to arrest him, and to come forward with the revised testimony idea. Congress is fairly bubbling over, but is waiting to see whether the administration intends to do anything; Gen. Miles is also patiently waiting on the administration, and is said to have some additional facts about the bad beef furnished our soldiers, which may be made public later on.

Letter From John Hayes.

Ft. Barrancas, Fla. Jan. 6,1899. Batteries H. and L, Ist Arrillery. We are now at Ft. Barrancas. This post is situated in the western part of Florida, about nine miles west of Pensacola, one of the largest seaport towns in the south. Just south of us, about a mile, is the Pensacola Bay, which lies between us and Fort Pickens, where we spent the hot months of July and August. Fort Pickens is situated on the extreme western end of Santa Rosa Island. It is a much stronger fort than Fort Barrancas. In case of a serious battle we would be sent there. There was a detachment of twenty men from each battery remained there when we left for this place. There has been no bad sickness in the camp yet, although we were quarintined a few days thinking that there was yellow fever at Pensacola, but it proved to be a mistake. We are school now and schooling on gunnery, preparing for the examination which will be held in the spring of the year. Captain Harris, First Lieut. Martin, Second Lieut. Tanner, are the commissioned officers of H. Battery and Capt. Marsh, First Lieut. Smith and Second Lieut. Kelton are the commissioned officers of L. Battery. They seem to be all very nice men. It is very warm down here now Everything is as green and nice as they were last summed , It doesn’t seem like winter to me, not being used to the south.

We have, been expecting to move to Cuba or San Francisco for a long while but we can’t tell when we will go. Some of the boys are being discharged out of the two Batteries now , and they are recruiting the Batteries up to keep them to full strength. A few of the boys are very anxious to get out of the army on account of the hard times which they see, but we are faring better since we left Ft. Pickens. It is a’wonder that some of us hadn’t died while there, but there wasn’t a one died. One of the boys composed a short poem about Ft. Pickens which is about right. It is as follows:

You can talk about your calaboose. Poorhouse and county jail. And speak about your penitentiary. Reform school and old-time nigger sale; And think about your electric chair. The gallows, the devil, (or the dickens); But none of these are in it! J ust Come down and see Fort Pickens. There’s the Gulf, the Bay—in fact There's water all around it— "■, And darn me if 1 can see how Uncle Sam ever found it; And why he claimed it when he did. Is a problem I’ve been working at; But I’ll never find the answer, for There's no base, rail, or anything like that. There's just this plain old island, A mile or more from main land. And four-hundred home-sick soldiers A dwelling in the sand. Eating slum and hard-tack, and a Working hard of nights Killing sand-fleas and iizzards. And scratching mdbquito bites. You dare not go to sleep. But simply wait for bugle calls— For the penalty is for every absent man One day a rollin’ cannon balls— And if the inspector comes around And finds your tent not clean. He will put you in the lock-up— Or the guard house, (I mean). And when you have served your time. And have been released from this pen You can scrub up your old muskit And fall in line again; And of Sunday’s, how your mouth Will water, waiting for 12 o'clock to come. A thinking of the big dinner of flam burger steak and slum. And when the grab is given out and We're sitting on the ground. Everything is quiet and You’d scarcely hear a sound. Until the spell is broken by some “Rooky,” long and slim. Who thinks that there’s something else That justly comes to hint. How quickly he will leave his seat. And “double time” for the ktycben door. And say, “Mister ginme ‘seconds;’ them Was ‘firsts' that I had before." And while this “Rooky" is in the kitchen A pleadin’ for more grab. You will hear some otberfellow holler, “i’ll give two onions for a ‘spud’ And when this great big meal is over and We’ve picked the “tater peelin’s” np. Then well wash our dinner dishes. (I mean tin pan and cup), Then we'll our rifles down Just to clean them up a while. For we know what's a comin Its “Recruits, fall in! single file.”

“Pot your teeis together. stand erect!*’ And “raise your left elbow!” Now “Port arms! Charge bayonets!” “Wake up. there; don’t be so slow!” After this has continued for Three hours or more And you’re had a callin'down and Takin’ “cussin's” by the score— Then you'll think you've got A plenty of this here soldier life. And wish you were up in Indiana, a lirin.’ with your “wife." And. as for me. I'm a cornin' . Just as soon as I get able: I only wish that I was right There now. a “chinnin." daddy's table. It is the truth, Ft. Pickens is very hard to beat for living, but I can stand a few months longer although there are better places that I would like just as well. Yonrs Truly John G. Hayes.

COMMUNICATED.

No sane man will claim that a contractor can make SB,OOO off of so small a contract as the gravel roads of Marion if a just and equitable contract had been drawn. The contract shows on the face of it that it was devoid of equity and justice to the taxpayer. The constitution of the U. S. guarantees one’s property as sacred and can only be taken by a just and equitable tax for the common defense and mutual protection. An unreasonable tax is confiscation. A tax to pay a rate higher than an equitable one is confiscation of the people’s property unjustly extorted from them by a tyrannical Board of Commissioners who are usurping the functions of a just law and the mandates of the AllSeeing eye. Such a contract is a travesty on the honesty and justice of their public acts and especially so since the latest outrage against Union by the county Board, solely dictated, we believe, by certain tax dodgers who reside in Rensselaer. By comparison we can see the unjustness of the contract in all its hideousness. One contract working against Union and the other the tax-payers of Marion and the laborers who made the gravel roads. The laborer who actually did the work and made the roads didn't make enough money to pay their board bills and horse feed in Rensselaer. Many of the men whom we personally conversed with made from $1.25 to $1.50 a day with teams, though working hard all day, while the fatted contractor riding in a covered carriage, smoking fine cigars, bossing his men, netted SB,OOO on the contract, or, in other words, doing no labor himself made SB,OOO off of the men’s labor who were employed to do the work. We believe if there is a man who deserves all the proceeds of a contract it is the man , who performs the labor instead of a professional contractor, who, like a drone, does no labor himself but lives off the community in which he resides.

Law is a rule of action —a guide to go by. Law is founded upon justice, and why not Mr. Board meet out justice to the poor laborer and give him the contract by hiring him direct and pay him all of the proceeds of the contract, if a just one, so as to enable him to make a decent living for self and family, instead of giving it to a damnable contractor who generally treats his men with silent contempt? The Hon. Board could have hired men directly, paid $4.00 a day for man and team, and made and completed the roads for less than one-half what the contractor did it for. Sir, Mr. Editor we have not the gift of language at our command to depict our contempt and derision for such dishonorable and questionable transactions against the administration of a just law and the rights of private property. It is the crowning infamy of the 19th century and the free republic in which we live, and we need not expect anything any better when we blindly follow our political boss and “vote ’er straight” without considering the fitness of the candidate for the position he seeks. Who is responsible for sneb travesty of justice? Ask the preacher who goes into the pulpit and condones or takes no notice of such questionable methods and who tirades against those who abhor and detest such matters, while singing the glad refrain, Sound money, Imperialism and Reform. He may tell you to ask the lawyer, money-broker, note-shaver, moneylender and interest-taker, who boldly and openly steal the hardearned money of the producing classes by taking advantage of their necessity and charging a ruinous and confiscating rate of interest for money loaned while denying to them a just and equitable stipend for services rendered. Why is crime, infidelity and pauperism increasing at a greater ratio than education and civilization? Ask Jthe preacher who demands as high as $50,000 a year to preach Jehova’s salvation to men. He may tell you why. Ask the lawyer whose fee for two hours service may be from SI,OOO to

SIO,OOO, sanctioned by a tyrannical law. He may tell you why. Ask a certain preacher who lives in Rensselaer, who has refused to preach for less than S4O a sermon, who has charged as high as 1431 per centum for money loaned! He may tell you why. Ask “Honjest Abe” Halleck why the men I who made the gravel roads in Marion didn’t get enough money ‘ to pay their board bills and hors© ! feed in Rensselaer. He may tell j you why. Justice and equity demand that when a laborer is em- ■ ployed to do public work, and it is 1 worth so much to do it, he is enj titled in morals and equity to th© whole proceeds of said work. But our Honorable Board denies I this and gives the work to a con—i tractor at quadruple its worthißy monopolizing public work in i the hands of contractors we directly force the laborer through a ruinous competition to get the job to work for a price so low it is impossible'for him to decently feed and clothe himself and family, , much less to give them a fairly good education. Education, rightly given,-is the guarantee of the perpetuity of our free institutions as well as the hope of our race and nation. The so called cultured elite of our modern cities are frantically tirading against the unrest and unbelief of our whole moral and social fabric the world over, I which is universally permeated from its center to its circumference with stoicism, Dreyfusism, anarchism, socialism, infidelism and populism as against sound money, imperialism, and reform. What, sir, Mr, cultured citizen, is the cause for all of the ism’s from stallotism to pauperism ? sir, it is the silent and universal enroachment the world over of capital and modern combinations of capital against labor and labor’s productions as well as the inherent rights of man. Our past is secure but what of the future? To give us our choice which we believe would secure our future as a nation among the nations of the earth, we would rather take the ism’s from stoicism to populism interspersed with honesty, equity and justice and administered with sound business principles in public as well as private life, by far, than the principal of sound money, imperialism and reform with all that it implies.

We have suffered ourselves to be diverted somewhat from our original purpose in these letters, but our only motive is to try and defend the material and lawful interests of Union as an integral part of Jasper county, as well a& to condemn the unbusinesslike and dishonest methods that pervade in the settlement of public business, in Jasper county. By the courtesy of the trustee of Union we find that it will cost the people of Union about S4OO to make that road passable at all times which is wholly situated in. Marion. We are credibly informed that the Hon. Board are solely to blame for Union beingcompelled to go to the expense of S4OO to maintain a road wholly in. Marion’s borders. We suppose. “Honest Abe” has it in for Union, now, for the fight we made against him in his recent election, but rest assured “Honest Abe,” Union, is after your scalp and we surely will get it if you ever have the 1 misfortune to be nominated again for office. Yes, you compelled us, “Honest Abe,” to expend S4OO on Marion townships's road or still wade through mud, water and ice from two to three months of each ' year, but we concluded to fix it though it costs us about 49 square j yds. of our gentlemanly instinct to do it. We also will invite the attention ■ of the superintendent, through the : Hon. Board, to the gravel road in Marion commencing at the south approach to Burk’s bridge, thence running due south about 100 feet, with the view of repairing same in order to avoid the mud, water and ice. While we were going to Rensselaer last Monday we were compelled to force our team to go through water and ice from 12 to 14 inches deep or turn about and. drive from three to five miles out of a direct line to get to that place. Frank J, Gant, Kniman, Jan. 18,1899.

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50/ Money... /q When you want mon—- * ey you want it cheap./ I have negotiated a loan at the very low rate of 5 per cent, interest. Call on me and procure * loan at a low rate of interest. I also have a special fund of i $15,000 to loan on either city rar farm property, for any length of time, interest low. Loans can be closed immediately. Call at oncau James H.’Chapmam.