Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — Page 5

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Directory. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Win. H. Coover Sheriff Nate J. Reed Auditor Henry B. Murray Treasurer.. .....Jesse C. Gwiu Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor V........Myrt B. Price Coroner Truitt P. Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Haliecb 2nd District Simeon A. Dowell 3rd District Frederick Waymire Commissioner's court—First Mondays in March, June, September and December. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor. Thomas J. McCoy Marshal Thomas McGowan Clerk Schuyler C. Irwiu Treasurer C. C. Starr Attorney C. E. Mills Civil Engineer H. L. Grumble Fire Chief Edgar M. Parcels COCNCIEMEN. Ist ward M. B. Alter. F. B. Meyers 2nd ward John Eger, C. G. Spitler 3rd ward Win. H. Beam, J. R. Right 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. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Robert 8. Drake Hanging Grove A. Prevo.. Gillum John F. Pettit.... Walker Su muel R. Nichols Barkley JamesD. Babcock .Marion Marcus W. Reed Jordan Jackson Freeland Newton C. C. Bierma ‘ Keener J.C. Knupke Kankakee Albert S. Keene Wlieatiieki John A. Lamborn ......Carpenter George W. Caster..... ."MUroy B. D.Comer Union TOWN OS CITY A. Beasley Remington M. F. Chileote....'. Rensselaer Edward T. Biggs Wheatfiei Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Reuse iXT

CHURCHES. First Baptist —Preaching every two weeksat 10:45 a. m; and 7 p, m; Sunday school at 9:30: B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Sunday: prayer meeting 7p. in Rev. V'. Fritt*. pastor. Free Baptist— One service every Sunday morning and evening, alternately. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. A. C. P. meets Sunday, 8:80 P. M. Rey. D. A. Tucker, pastor. Christian— Comer Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching, 10:45 and 8:00; Sundayschool 9:80; J. Y. P. S. C. E.. 2:30; S. Y: P. S. C. E., 0:30; Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30. H. N. Shepherd, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society meets every rt eduesday afternoon by appointment. Presbykrian— Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching, 10:45 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:30; Y. r. S. O. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday 7:30; Ladies' Industrial Societymeets 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 0: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:80 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 Elia. Preaching 10:46 and 7:80; Sunday school 9:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30; Ladies' Society meets every Wednesday afternoon by appointment -4Pev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Catholic Church— St Augustine's- Comer Division and Snsan. Services 7:30 and 10:30 a. m. Sunday school 11:30 p. m. Rev. Edward Jacobs, pastor.

LODGES AND SOCIETIES. Masonic—Prairie Lodge, No. 136, A. F. and A. M. t meets first and third Monday sos each month. jTM. Wasson, W. M.; W. J. Imes, Sec’y. Evening Star Chapter—No. 141,0. E. S.. meets first and third Wednesdays of each Maude Spider, W. M.; Hattie DowCatholic Order Forresters—Willard Court, No. 418, meets every first and third Sunday of the month at 8 p. m. J. M. Healy Sec’y; Peter Hcrdeman, Chief Ranger, Odd Fellows— lroquois Lodge, No. 144, 1. O. O. F., meets every Thursday, Bruce White, N. G.; S. C. Irwin, Sec’y. Rensselaer Encampment— No. aoi. I. O. O. F., meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. S. C. Irwin, C P., John Vannatta. scribe. Rensselaer Rebskah Degree Lodge— No. 846. ni-ets first and third Fridays of each month. Miss Gertrude Robinson,N, G.; Mrs. Laura Shields, Sec’y. I. O. op Foresters —Court Jasper, No. 1703, 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. K. Tyner, Commander; F. W. Cissei, Record Keeper. Pythian— Rensselaer Lodge No. 83, Knights of Pythias, meets every Tuesday,C. W. Hanley, C. Cf.: N. W. Reeve, K. of R. A S. Rensselaer Temple, Rathbone Sisters,No. 47, meets 3d and 4th Wednesday, every month. Mrs. G. K. Murray, M. E. C. Mrs. O. A. Yeoman, M. of R. C. Grand Army.— Rensselaer Post Nor©*- G. A. R. meets every Friday night. D.TB. Yeoman Post« oinmander, J. M. Wasson, Ariju- , tant. -.a" Rensselaer Women’s Rblisp- Corps—meets every Monday evening. Mr*. J. Q. Alter, President; Mrs. Hattie Reynolds, Sec’y. Holly Council.—No, 7. Daughters of Liberty meets 8d and 4th Mondays. Gertrude Hopkins. Counsellor; Nellie Mom, Recording Secretary. MUM • A,,, , , ,1.1 ■ mm. - «.»nil —■«-I m. . t .8 ; RMd by A. F. Long. * J* ...

IN AN OLD FRENCH TOWN.

Retains the Old World Wars of Csnturiss Ago. The very name of tbe hotel at which the traveler alights will help to foster the illusion that he has pnt not only miles, but centuries, between himself and his ordinary surroundings. Its sign, de la Haute Mere Dieu or de Tlrnage, carries him back to the days when men relied for safety in their journeys rather on the hand of an unseen Protector than on the latest sanitary patent of Jennings. So, too, the names of the streets serve to strengthen the same impression. Here he can sip honey with the Bourdon Hanc, caper with the Chevree qui dancent, caracole on his destrier by the side of the Quatre fils d’Aymon, hunt Huguenots in the Rue des Renards, or make the best of both worlds with the Chapeaux Violettes. The houses that rise on either side of these quaintly-named and tortuous streets are in keeping with the oldvcrld atmosphere. They belong to every age and every style. Here is one with high-pitched roof and timbered front, its three stories jutting out one above the other, like an inverted staircase. Another, decorated with the broken escutcheon of some noble family, fascinates the passer-by with the grotesque figures into which its joists are carved, or that grimace from the gable-ends. On the door of a third, huge nails trace mysterious hieroglyphs, some Protestant’s confession of faith, or 6ome Leaguer’s curse on Henri Quatre. A fourth, of less ambitious type, bears upon its front the symbols of a burgher’s noblesse de la cloche. A fifth, standing back a few paces from the street, with a stone-paved courtyard, where pigeons are wooing with all the formal courtesies of Sir Charles Grandison,.has an iron gateway, worked in the style of Louis XV., with marvelous interlaced branches, the masterpiece of some unknown Jean Lamour.—Nineteenth Century.

A TOPSY TURVY LAND.

That Is the Western View of an Eastern Country. The law of the Japanese is that of inversion—at least it seem 6 so to us. Viewing things from an oriental standpoint, we would probably think our present way of life the topsyturvy way and pity ourselves for shortsightedness and foolishness, as they do now. In Japan white is mourning both for men and women, while women indicate their age by their costume. The Japanese has no foundation for his Louse, but instead the roof is ballasted, that being considered a better safeguard against the violent storms. After-dinner speeches are made before dinner, and probably no custom shows the innate good breeding of the Japanese more than this last. Think of the belated guests of such a custom were ours! Think of the speeches thrown to the air! Some of the Japanese symbols are interesting and deserve recognition, so popular are their works of art in cur homes., Look closely at Japanese screen, panel, kimono, fan, and you will find the inevitable cherry blossom, the national flower; the plum, which signifies sweetness of heart; the pine, the strength of Vigorous old age; a woman under a roof, charming symbol of content. The obliqueness of the Japanese eyelid, which comes before one always in speaking of anything Japanese, is caused, it is said, by their living in high latitude, a protection of nature accorded, too, to many animals.—N. Y. Herald.

APPLIANCE FOR LIBRARIES.

Something New Adopted by Public Library of Chicago. The Chicago public library boasts not only the mo6t modern of steel stacks, but the delivery of the books and their transfer from one part of the building to the other is accomplished by a most ingenious system of electric dumb waiters. If these waiters merely ascended in a vertical direction they would ecarcely attract attention; but the fact that they go round corners and upstairs; through storage rooms on different floors, and through windows to different wings of the building, makes them very interesting. The vertical elevators are arranged so that a pointer placed at any particular floor on a dial will cause th 6 electric dumb waiter noiselessly to ascend to that point. The second carrier is for the purpose of conveying all the books that are collected in the substations of the city from the stock rooms, where they are collected, to the lower delivery room, from which pint they are again distributed. It i« estimated that this apparatus will handle 10,000 to 12,000 books per day. Previously it was necessary to haul the hooks about the building in boxeg. ■ r;

Records the Winks.

Experiments have been going on with an ingenious machine which shuts over a man's eye so that the eyelid as it winks opens and closes a chronograph. So far the quickest wink oft record i» abont a sixth of a second.

THE FARMER AND THE FARM.

[Address by Lee E. Gluebrook before foe Jasper County Farmers’ Institute.] It is well for us Occasionally at these, meetings to stop and con* eider who we are that the state is so mindful jof us. Excepting teachers ours is the only profession that receives instruction at the public’s expense. Are we worthy of this recognition? Do we give adequate returns to society and to the state for the time and money that is spent in onr behalf, and do we properly avail ourselves of these* opportunities of instruction that are so gratuitously offered us? To answer these questions we have taken for our subject “The Farmer and the Farm,” or,’more properly, the farmer and his work. Now, if there be qne calling in life more honorable, more useful than others it is the pursuit of the farmer. In placing him first in the long list of useful callings in civilized life, we do it not because we hold an humble position in the ranks of this numerous and worthy class, but we thus place him because he by nature and the works of his own hands actually stands first.

Man in his primitive and perfect state was a tiller of the soil, a farmer; to dress and to keep the garden was his first work. From the fall to this very day the farmer has ever been active in good works. Turn where e’er we may, and upon every side our eyes with gladness behold the many and the mighty changes his busy hands have wrought. To him more than to all others is this earth indebted for its cultivated fields, its beautiful meadows, its orchards and gardens, fruits and flowers, its many grains and grasses; indeed almost every good and useful thing the earth sends forth at the touch of human toil comes to us from the hands of the farmer. Aside from being the greatest producer of the necessaries of life he stands first as a citizen. Among the farmers we find less violations of law, considering their numbers than in any other class. Such a thing as riot, the farmers’ armed resistance to regular Constituted authority, or the farmers’ trust or combine in unlawlul restraint of trade are things yet to be heard of in this country. The nnture of the farmer's calling is such that he of necessity must lead a quiet, secluded life. Thus living, he, of course, has not the time nor the opportunity to make of himself a fomenter of strifes, a busy- ; body, a disturber of the peace. So 1 the state finds itself at but little exi petise in keeping him obedient to its laws or in supporting him in i its penal and benevolent institutions.

Again the farmer, feeding and I clothing the world, feeds and ! clothes himself, thus he is a bur den to no one, lives at the expense |of no one. While in other pursuits i men are living upon the misfortunes of their fellows, upon their brothers’ strifes, upon the ignorance of their kind; while others may lie planning to mislead, striving to get something for nothing, drawing pay for pretended service, peddling useless wares, dealing in futures, living by mean tricks and turns; the sturdy patient farmer plows and sows, reaps and garners, bears heat and cold, wet and dry, labors on and on, year in and year out giving value received for all he has and making better every Eiece of work his toil-scarred ands do touch. Agriculture, we find, has ever been a peacifying, civilizing pursuit, a calling that always makes the most desirable of citizens, therefore a pursuit that by all honest endeavors should be encouraged. In times of peace the fdimer more than all others contributes to the content, prosperity and happiness of the people; in times of war he has ever been our nation’s main stay. Not only in times of peace by his manual labor and general good behavior as a citizen, and in times of war by his bravery and general usefulness as a soldier, does the farmer prove his worth, but in the councils of the nation, in the various departments of the goyernmeut he has been called to fill, he has ever shown that honesty, industry,rand capability which he exhibits in every day life upon the farm.

< From the farm came Washington. Jefferson, Webal •*, Oaf, i Lincoln and many others of like I worth and fame, but these few imI mortal names are enough to show | that farm life and farm training do not untit men for makers and executors of their country’s laws, but, on the contrary, are really conducive to their fitness for these important places. Now, a calling so useful, so honorable, we have said, should be encouraged. It should, if possible, be made the most attractive, the most remunerative of all pursuits. The opposite of this we too often think is true. With all the mod-

em improvements in agricultural machinery, with so much of the heavy work of the farm made light, it does seem as if we should be better satisfied with onr calling than onr fathers were. Bat are we? While comforts and con-, veniences have mnltiplied in farm life they have also increased in other pursuits, increased faster and to a greater extent than in our own, we think, so, in comparing our lot with theirs, we are too apt to think more of their life and labor arid less of our own . We are sorry ■to say farm life does not furnish that opportunity for getting up and along in the world that it really once dith The road to wealth and fame does not lead by the cornfield, across the meadow and through the woodland so much as we would like to have it, so mnch as we think it justly should. No, the farmer does not command the attention and respect that men of many other callings less honorable and less useful often command. Known to be forbearing, quiet and peaceable the farmer is often put upon, neglected and abused for these very virtues.

Now, while farmers should not give up their good habits, too much neglect their farm affairs, too much busy themselves in other yet it might be well for them if they would be a little .less forbearing and quiet. It would be well if they, would look a little more into some matters that are not directly connected with their farm work and learn'how it is that others with lesls means, less ability and much less labor often manage to live so easier and better than they. •

With all the boast of the farmer’s independence, with all the pretty stories of his flocks and herds, his fruits and grains, his happy, healthful, quiet home, yet he lives n life of toil, trials and many defeats. He seems to be the servant of all. He is at the mercy of countless ills. The price of his products is set by the buyer, the cost of his purchases is what the seller chooses to charge. The wind and the rain, the frost and drouth, insects and blights, things seen and unseen, known and unknown, prey upon his crops. ,His stock sicken and die, his soil washes and wears, his improvements decay, noxious weeds invade his fields, everything that he has demands his constant care. No work in which he ever engages Comes to.an ultimate and complete end, for his work, like woman’s work, is never done. With all the improvements in farm machinery, with centuries of experience in farm work much of it still has to be done by “main strength and awkwardness.” Much of it is still dirty, tiresomfc and distasteful to even the strongest and most industrious.

! - A calling engaging so much of i human toil and care, a pursuit regulated so much by climate and soft, governed so much by physical conditions, and dependent so much | upon human knowledge and skill should lie one thst- engages the tiumght and interests.of our wisest ami best men. How to make lighter the burdens of life for the farmer, how to increase his knowledge and profits, how to make him better acquainted and better satisfied .with his work is a subject worthy of the attention of us all. The farmer’s lot can and will be made better, he as well as others will year by year add to his knowledge and profit by his experience. The world is moving and the farmer, though a little slower than we like, is going along with it. In the great march of civilization the various callings of men advance upon parallel roads. Not all even and abreast, however. Some are far in the van, some move along briskly up near the head, while others from checks, hinderances and unequal chances are held far in the rear. To this class belongs the farmer. It is for us to. increase our knowledge by every means in our power, maintain our rights and interests wherever and whenever assailed. JButnn guarding our interests and in opposing our foes we should not forget that our own shortcomings often work us countless ills. f We, as a class, it is §pid by some are noted for our grumbling, famous for our stupidity and distinguished for our gullibility. There is really more truth in this than we like to acknowledge. Many of the things of which we complain we ourselves may be the authors of; many of the-traps-in which we are frequently caught are partly of our own setting. We rely too much on pur muscle and too little bn our brains. We do not bring to our calling that knowledge, training, close mental application and searching study that fit men for many other pursuits. Men are supposed to be bom farmers—anybody can follow the plow, handle the hoe or feed the pigs.. Any one can manages farm.

These are mistaken ideas. In this great day the fanner should be the most variously informed man in the land. He is, or should be, an artisan, a merchant, a veternarian, a naturalist, a chemist, a lawyer, a statesman and a philosopher. The success of his business is more or less dependent upon every branch of human learning, more so than any other calling in life perhaps. Now, while we, as farmers, may have much of which to justly complain, yet we find our greatest enemies in our own ignorance, prejudice and self-conceit. We can* if we will, know more. If not too conceited, we can gather knowledge from the experience of others. We can learn more of our own work by learning more of the works of others. Books, papers and lectures upon farm work and farm products are upon every hand. Colleges for the education of farmers within ensy reach of all. We have but to take advantage of the means of education that are all about us and our condition as a class*will be greatly improved. Farmers must learn to get closer togethqp, act more together, learn to think more of their calling, | more of themselves and more of each other. But to do this they need not turn enemies of every other laudable pursuit, for this world is wide and needy. Here we have room for all, need of all and work for all who honestly toil with either baud or brain.

ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Good correspondence Stationery cheap at The Democrat office. We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat. 100 envelopes with your name and address neatly printed thereon for only 50 cents, at The Democrat office. If you have for sale a farm, house and lot, or any other property of a salable nature, try advertising it in The Democrat. The postoffice matter is still sh/ouded in mystery, and many a knowing one is scratching his head and wonderig what is the matter with the Major. Mrs. Fred L. Chileote and daughters, from Albany, are visiting th# former’s mother, Mrs. J. H. Kinney. Uncle Reese Goddard's serious condition hastened their coming. . The bill introduced by Mr. Hall j of Fowler, separating Benton counIty from the 30th judicial district and attacuirig it on to the 21st, passed the House Thursday by a i-vote of 50 to 25.

Reason F. Goddard has been seriously ill for some days. At last accounts erysipelas—serious attacks of which he has experienced before—seems to have developed and his condition is considered quite critical. In the Newton county syat war, a fight in the House on the adoption of the committees’ report took place Thursday, when the minority report favoring removal was defeated by a vote of 31 years to 58 nays. Snnator O’Connor of White lias introduced the original bill in the senate. Abe Stone, Frank Poitwood, and Fred Liston spent Thursday night in jail. These boys have been in the habit of hanging on moving trains, and were arrested as they with others jumped off the passenger train going west Thursday afternoon. They were on trial as we go to press.

Mr. Aughsberger, a< farmer preacher residing one-half mile south of Union school house, Jordan tp., was killed while driving across the railroad track, by a Panhandle switch engine at Goodland last Tuesday noon, his body being ground to fragments and scattered along the track for a distance of five hundred feet. Meager particulars have been learned here. The phenominal growth of The Democrat Bince the election is a source of gratification to its friends, and of astonishment and dismay to its enemies. It has been the aim of its management to secure ten new subscribers for every (lay Abe convened himself in special session. The Democrat is coming down the home stretch like a quarter horse, while the cloud of dust, has long since hid Abo from view. The Democrat numbers among its enthusiastic readers the most intelligent and progressive people in the county, irrespective of party, and has the largest country circulation by odds of any paper published in Jasper county.

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