Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — Page 8

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) r Gen. Miles is still piling up evidence, official and unofficial, that the beef furnished oijr soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico, was unfit to eat. He has already about convinced everybody, except the members of the administration, and of the War Investigating Commission, that his charge was true, but they seem determined to stick to it that the beef was good. * * * Senator Butler, in presenting a resolution of the North Carolina legislature for the election of Senators, by vote of the people, called attention to this being the twentyfourt legislature to adopt such a resolution, and said that a constitutional amendment ought to be at once adopted, citing the several existing deadlocks and scandals in legislatures as au argument in its favor. * * * Within the last week, Mr. McKinley has been personally harshly criticised in both House and Senate, and‘in each body one of his critics was a republican. In the House, Representatives Jerry Simpson, and .Johnson, of Ind., jumped on him for boyring to public opinion, right or wrong; and in the Senate, Senators Gorman and Hoar gave him fits for declining to furnish the Seunte with copies of the instructions given to the Peace Commissioners. * ** Anti-Imperialistic sentiment will have full swing in the Senate this week, as nearly every Senator who opposes and who has not already spoken against imperialism, has given notice of intention to speak. The treaty of Pqace will be voted upon Feb. 6th, and the chances favor its ratification because nothing would be gained by rejecting it. A motion to reconsider would be made by one of its friends, and it would require a majority to table it. That majority its opponents have not. So, if it were rejected Feb. 6, all Mr. McKinley would have to do would be to call an extra session of the Senate, in March, when it would be promptly ratified. # * * Secretary Alger put another slight upon General Miles in connection with the finding of the Eagan court-martial. The army regulations provide that the finding of a court-martial shall be forwarded to the Secretary of War through the commanding general of the army, but Alger instructed the Judge Advocate to ignore Miles and hand the finding to him directly, and it was done. While nobody outside the Court and officials can swear what the verdict was, everybody is certain that it was guilty, and that the sentence was dismissal from the army. In handling this verdict, Mr. McKinley would better be careful or he will sign his own political death warrant; the people have decided that Eagan should be punished, and if Mr. McKinley exercises his authority to shield him, he will find that he may have the punishment to bear himself. * * * Senator Gorman has never posed as au alarmist, but he never fears to speak the truth because it may be alarming. Just before the Senate passed the regular pension appropriation bill, which carries $145,000,000, Mr. Gorman made a speech, calling attention to the fact that although it was estimated that the war with Spain would add 60,000 names to the pension roll, unless our troops were recalled from the tropics before the sickly season, no provision, whatever, had been made in the bill for the increase. Mr. Gorman concluded with this significant prediction: “Within three years from this date, the pension roll will amount to $166,000,000. If you add to that the cost of maintaining your army (one thousand dollars a man), the American republic will in the year 1900, expend more for its army and pensioners than any other nation on the face of the earth. That is a fact, which the American people will have to face, and they ought to know now, in advanoe, what is coming to them, if the schemes and projects which are being forced upon us are carried out.” * • * The attempt of the republioans to get democratic support for the Hull bill, which will be voted upon tomorrow, by amending it so as to make any increase of the regular army above 50,000, discretionary with the President, was not a success. It made no real change. The democrats proved by their votes for the first war appropriation* that they were not afraid to trust the President, but that did not change the principle of the party against the concentration

of authority in the hands of one man. Such concentration does no harm if the right man exercises the authority, but who can say when the wrong man will come along? The change was not made for effect in the House, where partisanship will put the bill through, but in the Senate, where its fate will be very much in doubt, unless the support of Senators, who are now inclined to oppose it can be secured. The subterfuge was so palpable that Representative Loud of California, a republican, made a hot speech against it, plainly telling his party associates that they could not hope to catch suckers with such a bare hook.

CORRESPONDENCE

BLACKFORD. —Very cold weather. —Roads getting smooth again. —Lora Frazee is on the sick list, a victim of the grip. —Chester Caster is some better at the present writing. —Jesse Jenkins has bought himself another driving horse. Miss Manda Burns.visited Mrs. Lizzie and Alice Jenkins last Sunday. —Bowman Switzer, who had a runaway a few days ago, is reported some better. —William Florence has an increase in bis family. It is a girl, born Jan. 25. —Robert Randle and Levi Renicker of Rensselaer, were seen on Blackford streets Tuesday. —Rev. Morgan of Francesville, is holding protracted meeting at the Goodhope church, commencing Feb. L —Notice:—The young men who spent the night m the Burnstown school house and took the pupils' pencils a few weeks ago, had better return them without delay. Fair warning. —The box social at Sandridge school house Friday, Jan. 27, was a grand success. The boxes sold readily and the prizes went at high prices. In all $21.65 was taken in. The proceeds to help the widow of the late Oscar Abbott.

DUNNVILLE.

—Roads are getting good. —Mr. and Mrs. Wilmington are on the sick list. —Charlie Brown went to Kankakee City, to work. —Jessie Collinß and Charlie Sands are on the sick list. —Miss Myrtie DeArmond is working for Mrs. Wilmington. —Kniman newß were absent last week. What is the matter? Sick? —King Grip is carrying almost the entire community in his monstrous grip. —Rev. Tharp preached at this place Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night. —The carp, with the help of the human family* arc removing the ice from the river. —Miss Jessie White entertained a number of young folks at her home last Sunday. —Messrs. Olda Vandercar and Charlie Sands, spent Sunday at Mr. Vanoustrand’s —William Fitzgerald, who has been visiting his parents in Illinois, returned to-day. —Uncle Henry Coffin is laid up with the rheumatism. Job’s boils and rheumatism go hand in hand. —The apron Social at Miss Netta Collins’ school, Jan. 28, was a grand success, financially speaking. Amount cleared sls. One apron sold for $2.85. —The question for debate at the Oak Grove literary and debateing society next Friday evening is: “Resolved, that the Pen is Mightier than the Sword.”

SHARON.

—Weather cool and pleasant —The grippe is still making the rounds. —Bruce Hardy was a caller on the south side last Sunday. —J. Harris was a business caller in Remington last Tuesday. —Mrs. Joseph Schenrich is numbered among the sick at present. * —Quite a number from here attended the Irelan sale last week, south of town. —The Baptist church people §sve a social last night at the Lone tar school house, three miles northeast of here.

—Henry Stein of Joliet, HL, is visiting his brother, Bernard Stein, south of town. —Mr. Wuertuer, of Rensselaer, visited his sister, Mrs. Ed. May, south of Sharon, last Sunday. —Miss C. Brown, of Rensselaer, attended the box social and spent a couple of days with Leah Knox. —The revival services at the Green school house, south of here, have closed with 30 additions to the church. —John Harris has again rented the Knipple farm and will remain a citizen of Sharon for another year at least. —G. G. Garrison is suffering from the effects of a crushed foot caused by a heavy load of corn passing over it. —Mr. Stewart Ward, an old and highly respected citizen living two miles west of Sharon, is lying at death's door and chances for recovery are doubtful at this writing. —The box supper given at Lawndale school last Friday night was a decided success and the amount realized was $lB. Miss Pearl MaGee received the prize for the most popular lady and Chase Burns for the laziest man. —Mrs. Grant Daley died at the family home in Sharon last Saturday evening after lingering several months with that dreaded disease consumption. Mrs.. Daley was a most estimable lady and leaves a large host of friends to mourn her loss. The family have the sympaty of the entire community. The remains were taken to Ohio, her former home, for interment.

NORTH BARKLEY.

—Everybody and his best girl has the grip. —Geo. Fanson will move to Wheatfield this week. —Miss Belle Seitz did shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. —B. J. Gifford was seen in this vicinity a few days last week. —Otis Beedy and Billy Guthera hauled wood to Wheatfield Tuesday. —L. B. Hewitt’s baby, who has the scarlet fever, is not expected to live. —John Gaffey was was called to Chicago Sunday by telegram, his brother being near death. —Samuel Pass has rented his place out and will move on one of B. J. Gifford’s farms, on the east side. —Mr. T. M. Callahan is tending office in place of Charlie Evans, who is in Lebanon, Boone county, this week. —John Keith is the champion foot-racer in this vicinity. For further particulars inquire of BilKe Guthrie. —Dave Black and. Sam Scott have returned from their trip to Missouri. They were well pleased with the country.

Real Estate Transfers,

Edward T. Biggs, adm., to George Hoehn, Nov. 4.1807. pt 10-33-5,4.56 acres, Kanka ee, administrator’s deed. Christian Drenth to Wm. B. Austin, Jan. 35, ne 31-31-7, nw nw 33-83-7’ Keener, $350. Cornelius Bierma to W. B. Austin. Jan. 35, ne 31-83-7, nwnw 33-33-7. Keener, quit claim deed. sl. Martha Foster to Jacob D. Rich, Jan. 38. Its 10. sH 11.13.13.14.15. bl 31, Weston’s add., Rensselaer. $3,000. Wm. H. Barney to James R. Gilld, Trustee Dec. 9, wV4 ne, nwse, nl-2 nw 3-80-5, 185 acres, Gillam. trust deed, $1,604. y W. B. Austin et a! to Orris Gard. Jan. 35, Its 7,8, bl 1, Its 1,3, bl BA. L. McDonald's add,. DeMotte. SSOO. Orris Gard to W. B. Austin, Jan. 37, sl-3 ne 25-31-7, Union, 80 acres, $2,000. Lawrence B. Sayler to Patrick Smith and Chase W. Kelly, Jan. 33, pt It 1, bl 1, Riverside Park, Rensselaer, 75. * W. B. Austin et alto Robert Michael, Jan, 38. It 6. bl 1. Its 1.13, bl 11, Rensselaer, $5,000 Robert Michael to Wm. B. Austin et al, Jan. 38. wl-3 se, el-3 sw pt sw ne $7-38-7, Jordan, 10 acres, $6,800. Robert Michael, et al. to Hannah F. Iliff. Jan. 11,1894, nl-1 sw ne, se sw ne 37-38-7, Jordan, 30 acres, quit claim deed, sl. Hannah E. Iliff to Robert Michael, Jan. 38, pt aw ne 87-38-7,10 acres, Jordan, quit claim deedsl. B. F. Sried to Anna Schertx, Jan. 30, ae 17-37-7,160 acres. Carpenter $7,000. William B. Austin to Washington S. AL. Aaso. Dec. 18,1898, ne se 3-81-5, Walker, SBOO. Thomas Parker to Sadie E. Norris, Jan, 37, pt It 8, Thompson’s add, Rensselasr, S7OO. Omer A. Brown et si to Micah B. Halstead, Jan. 11, wl-3 nw 7-39-7, sw, sw sw 0-30-7, 00 acres, Newton, $4,300. John N. Brown to Mich B. Halstead, Jan. 80 same lands as above, $35. q. c. d. ,~ Hiram Day et al to Nancy A. Towers, Jan. 37. wends Its 11-14, bl 86. Weston's 3d add. Rensaselaer, SBSO. JohnE. Hollett to Farnum R. Cnrtis, Jan. 88. pt It 4, bl 11. Remington. $350. , Rensselaer Land A Imp. Co* to Kmgrald A. Aldrich, Jab. 81, Us 1-3, bl 15, Weston’s add. Rensselaer. sloo. • John W. Davis to Harry R. Kurrie, Jan. 24, se aw 33-33-5, Kankakee. $450. Harry R. Kurrie to Thomas Thompson, Feb. 3, same lands aa above, SSOO.

COMMUNICATED.

Wnti Mora Oravel Roads (MK. If there is one thing more than gravel roads wanted in Jasper county, it is more gravel roads. Every year more ana. more new lands are 'opened up to farming, better tillage and better drainage. Every year is increasing the amount of farm products that have to be delivered at the various shipping stations in the county, hence this great demand for better roads. Union township in her road work the past year or two has set an example that the older and more wealthy townships of the county might do well to follow “Nubbin Ridgers” and “perpetual wood-haulers/’ as many are pleased to call them, yet they are showing in their road work more publicspiritedness than any other people in the county. They have by donation last year built miles of gravel road, and are still, when the weather will allow, pushing the good work along. Most every man seems willing to do his part, feeling that in building good roads he is working for himself. If we could get some of the enterprising spirit of Nubbin Ridge south of town, the mud-hole between Rensselaer and Remington would soon be transformed into a smooth gravel road. While Barkley township (right on Wall street) has been wading mud hub deep six months in the year, and while Rensselaer and Remington have been cursing the bottomless pit in Jordan tp., poor Nubbin Ridge Union has got a hustle on her and by donation and taxation has built a good gravel road from Burk’s Bridge to Aix,.and cross-roads for two miles or more leading to Parr and Fair Oaks. Gravel roads can be built cheaply in Jasper county if the people will go at it in the right spirit. We want no hoggishness in the matter, no counting of little red pennies or fearing that if we give a day’s -work on the road we will not live a thousand years to get the full benefit of it. Good roads are what everybody likes, want and need. Then let everybody be willing to do their part in making them and they will be made. *** -

Wants aa Investigation. Ed. Democrat: —Never in the history of our state was there such* wide-spread complaint of misman-* agement in county affairs. Scarcely a week passes but what I see in my daily paper the unearthing of &>urt house frauds somewhere in Indiana. So common are these frauds that the state legislature is now, on recommendation of the governor and other leading citizens, trying to pass laws for their suppression. Let any fair-minded man take the reports of the state auditor and the state statistician and see the different costs of county government and he can but come to the conclusion that there is something “out of joint” in many places. As an example of the cost of county government in different counties, Governor Mount in his message gives a county with a little over 32,000 inhabitants spending five times more for county government than a county of over 70,000 inhabitants. Honest county management is carried on in many counties of the state under our present system of county government With honest capable men it can be done. The system is not so bad; it is dishonest officials that are making the tronble. By the state reports I have in my possession I find that these counties where frauds have been exposed are paying proportionately much less for county government than we are paying here in Jasper. It is not the low-taxed counties that have led to this demand for reform in county management, but it is the high-taxed counties; the comparison of the high-taxed that has led the governor and state legislature to demand reform in county government. Our’s being one of the very highest-taxed counties in the state, it is but natural for many of onr people to think that frauds could be uncovered in our court house. A subscription should be started and money raised to set experts to work on the county records. OUr people are taxed higher than many people who are bow getting some of tneir dishonest officials pretty well on the road to the penitentiary. Why should we sit idly by while other oounties with less tax are making county officials disgorge thousands of dollars almost every day? The Bpirit of reform is in the air. Investigation and exposure are going on in fully one-third of the nine-two connties of the state. Onr people should be up and doing. Start a subscription and

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EXCHANGE EXCHOES.

Sol Conn, through the agency of McKinney & Burton, sold his Cranberry Marsh farm consisting of 360 acres in Franklin township to George Hosmer of Rensselaer, one day last week.—Winamac Republican.

There is much ado about county and township reform. We do not need so much county and township reform as we do a strict observance of the laws already on the statute books. Men chosen for their fitness and capability instead of ward-heeling and dirty work and reform is well begun. Reform should begin at the primary.—Oxford Tribune. John Veatch was in Fowler Wednesday. He landed in Morocco in 1861. He came from the heavens we think. That there were bills issued bearing the title of Great American Bank of Morocco, he said was true, but that there ever existed a bank there was untrue. Some men came over from Rensselaer in 1857 and gave Uncle Johnny Murphy SIOO in gold and instructed him that if any bills were ever presented for redemption to pay them with it, but no bills were ever presented. We have printed some mighty good stories about that bank and was getting ready to print some more.—Fowler Leader.

Joe Stndebaker, the Flora school teacher, has adopted a system that may be brought into general use in the schools throughout the state. He thinks the chief duty of schools is to teach good citizenship. He says most schools are tyrannies while the purpose is to teach democracy. He is trying to do away with tyrannv and bring about miniature self-government. He says of his methods: “The schoolboy is the miniature citizen. He learns to do by doing. Then why not have him hold office and in school life as he will when he grows up? This is the purpose in self-government in schools; to train the child for usefulness in after life. We hold an election every month and pupils vote by ballot for their tribune, whose duty it is to look after and hear the petty annoyances of those under him. Thus I have only to seek information from the tribune, and then the cases are taken up and disposed of as in any court”'—Delphi Times.

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Grin Grip’s Deadly March Deals Mil nufl Midi lo ini. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Louisville Terrorized by the Awful Scourge. All tne Orest Centers of Population Affected. The depressing effects of the present epidemic of Grip are apparent everywhere. Teachers, clerks, business men, mechanics laborers, street car drivers, school children, police officers and even the doctors all furnish victims by the hundreds. No remedy, yet discovered can show results equal to Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine. It quickly overcomes the excessive exhaustion, invigorates the appetite and assists nature to throw off the deadly microbes from the system. In times of epidemic like the present it should be taken as a preventative of disease. “Grip had left me a physical wreck; weak, helpless and miserable. I could not eat; could not sleep; could not gain any strength, and had nervous prostration of the worst kind. Our home physician could not help me and I commenced using Dr. Miles' Nervine. The first night’s sleep that I had had in four months came as the result of two first doses. When I had taken two bottles I felt better than I had before in years, and continued to improve until I was entirely cured.” Alldrugßists are authorized to sell Dr. Mile*' Nervine on a guarantee,that first bottle benefits or money refunded. Be sure and get Dr. MUes’Nervine. Booklet on heart and Nerves sent free. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. I have private funds to loan on real estate at low rates for any length of time. Funds are always on hands and there is no delay—no examination of land, no sending papers east—absolutely no red tape. Wny do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for yonr money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates. Funds always on hand* W. B,AUBTIN. A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. When in Rensselaer put your team up at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts