Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — Page 5

B ? a to be yours when you get mmdeof one of ourfaultieesly laun- .< 2 coIOT and finifh are £q Ji£ 7 There are no frayed edges or torn T- ' Sgjff I button holes to annoy you from 4 Ew i a “y wor k done at this up-to-date '*■' A ■ laundry. IK IBHBIIBKI LaFayette, Indiana. -<-?S' t; .•'• '-SuJ *' •• ’ I C. H. VICK, Agt., Rensselaer, Ind. y ~ ! 5 DR. JACQUES DESSLER, II OPTICAL SPECIALIST. " . RENSSELAER. ” - INDIANA. I take great pleasure in announcing to the people of Rensselaer and the surrounding country that I have located here in the Arcade building. above the Daylight Clothing House, as an Optical Specialist. My thorough experience in the profession, with the help of the latest improved instruments, leads me to hope that I shall be able to give my patients full satisfaction, and can promise with responsibility that every case will be treated with special care. Hoping that the people of Rensselaer and surrounding country will give me a trial. I am, very retoectfully yours,- BR. JACQUES DBSSLER. Outlet «>nldbl NOTICE—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. arO EVERY WOMAN ImMliaamnsaAiaiaHahKmanthly.faguiaUng usediatee. Only hasmtam gat I thepaimtdrngishsaM toreo*. Hyou wan»tbsbma,gs» Sf‘(A Dr. Peal’s Psnafrsfal HBs < \ X ThsyM«*NaqA,sßieanaeartrtßtaaaaßlt.ThegaaaNa(lMtaM4MMar«m» * "Mi, saataaywbaaabtLMu Aft Sam . *»>t— B. F. FENDIG. Druggist, Re wiser, lad. /■- WHEN IN DOUBT, TRY TheytoeMosd Aetestafyeav STRONG Q * < tßtlll ’ fifiKx. _flfc ri r or to the whole being. Ail drains and losses are properly cured, their condition often worries them into Insan.ty, Consumptitm or’ Death UKSbRhSsy Mailed sealed. Price*, per box; 6 boxes, with iron-clad legal guarantee to cure or refund tin wRKwEeA money, feoa. Send for bee book. Address, B. F. FENDIG. Druggist, Rimiilrii, IML x.’. jySSk. /avy? L/m V - 1 Iff ’ll BpSTiV? i — < ’ -A aUIiDII Ik y‘“ ■JHL ,rr ; <’**' ' 4r ..-4k; : < L. S. RENICKER, Local Agt. for Denig mnais. Mm. ta. ftimte. J ’ ; BIRDER TWINE. ETC. ’ ■iam mb uiD. ouhs hmh. i iksesix.”" ■***:

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

fFrom our regular correspondent.) The administration has not datkhofeestly with the country in i regard to the volunteers in the Philippines. It has given out one thing about bringing home these men, who have worked and fought bo continuously that many of them are now unfit for duty, when it knew that another thing was to be : doae. It has told the country that Gen. Otis has been ordered to send the volunteers home as fast as transportation could be secured for them, when Otis had really been instructed to keep the volunteers as long as he needed them and could make them appear to stay willingly. This has been suspected for some time, but when \ two transports left Manila for San . Francisco last week/with only sick and wounded men aboard, and two more with no soldiers aboard, it became a certainty. It is now privately acknowledged by membersofthe adnfinistration that it had, from the first, been the intention of Otis to keep the volunteers until the Filipinos surrendered, and that bluff about bringing them home as fast as vessels could ibe made available was thrown out because it was thought that the surrender would occur before there would be any opportunity to send them home. A government of the people can never add to its strength or popularity by deceiving the people. Every such deception is an impugnment of the patriotism of the people. The disappointment felt in administration circles over the failure of the expected surrender of Aguinaldo to materialize is so acute that it cannot be hidden, and officials who have been so gfib for several weeks past, in predicting the speedy finish of Aguinaldo. cannot now be coaxed to talk about the probabilities over thereat all. • • a Mr. McKinley still holds to his policy of rewarding the gold democrats for making him President. The census plum given to Ohio was the appointment of Gen. Americus V. Rice, by direct order of Mr. McKinley, .to be purchasing agent of the Census Bureau. : Hon. E. L Russell, President of fte Mobile and Ohio Railroad, who is visiting Washington, thinks the chances for the promotion ~of Hon. John M. Allen (“Private John Allen of Tupelo”) from the House ;o the Senate are and he has circulated among the people of Mississippi sufficiently to be weß posted. He said: “The people of bis state appreciating Mr. Allen's merit and long and useful career in the House, mean to proaaote him, and in so doing, they will honor themselves.” • * * Admiral Schley has accepted an i invitation from ex-Senator Man- : demon to pay him a visit, at his i Nebraska borne, and will leave for I the West at once. He will probI ably take advantage of the opportunity, while in that section, to visit a number of other Western points, to which he has been cordially invited. »* * * If the idea of a popular subscription tef buy a Washington home for Admiral Dewey is as well re- : eeived all over the country as it baa been in Washington, enough money is likely to be subscribed ■to buy him a whole town, instead lof a single house Dewey has notified the Navy Department that i he will leave Manila in a few days, i and will get to the U. S. in about four months, which indicates his i intention to make the homeward voygga in a very leisurely manner, as the trip could easily be made inride <rf two months. His friends say that the Admiral wishes to give himself a chance to get good and strong and the cool weather of fall to arrive before he tackles the ovations which he knows await him in this country. Dewey is a long-headed chap. • * * Ex-Representative Hartman, of Montana, who voluntarily retired from Congress at the close of the last session. is in Washingtou. He says the wish was father to the story that the silver republicans of his section were not friendly to the re-nomination of Col. Bryan, and that Col. Bryan has taken exactly the right position towards those who bolted the Chicago con venation; that the silver republicans who bolted McKinley ’s nomina-1 lion and platform and supported Bryan would have just as much right to attempt to dictate to the republicans as the gold democrats have to dictate to the democrats. Continning he said: ‘ I would as soon think of going to Mark Hanna for information as to democipira, as They are both supporters of the same interests, advocates of the

same financial policy, and brother opponents of the producing and wage-earning classes of the U. 8.” Mr. Hartman thinks that if the election was this year, instead of next, there would be no doubt of the tickets being headed by Bryan and McKinley again, and expects that will be anyway. Speaking of next year’s democratic platform, he said:, “The three most prominent features in the platform, in my judgement* will be, first, its declaration on the money question, which will include a reaffimation of the Chicago platform, a declaration for independent bimetallism, against the retirement of the greenbacks, against interestbearing bonds, and against transferring to the banks the right to issue or control the issue of paper money; second, a strong declaration againsts trusts, and third, an-ti-imperialism,”

COMMUNICATED.

That Su-Dollar-a-Busbel Orasa Seed. ' ■ Mr. Editor: Owing to the fact that the sl4 a bushel Kentucky blue grass has not come up good in the court house yard, and this being a prosperity year with a prosperity administration in power, national, state, county and municipal, the writer would suggest that a crop of “prosperity weed” be sown on the court house yard. This will be a constant reminder tg those members of the g. o. p. who insist that we have prosperity in season and out — when the g. o. p. is in power. *

Unequal Assessments.

The methods of the assessors in assessing real estate in Marion township and Rensselaer are made painfully apparent by one example. There is some land lying against the north corporation line on the west side of the gravel road which has been sold for not less than SIOO per acre, and the nearest parcel of five acres is held at $1,500, or S3OO per acre. This land is assessed at S3O per acre for taxation! Just across this imaginary line lays some vacant lots overgrown with high weeds. They, or most of them, belong to« David H. Yeoman. They are assessed at S2OO per acre, or six and two-thirds as much as land belonging to one of the court house ring. No one will dispute the proposition that Mr. Yeoman’s lands are not assessed any too high. Granting this proposition, what must be said of the assessment of the court house ring member’s real estate? xx

The Politician's Creed.

I believe in the almighty dollar, the maker of place and power, and in the party, which, conceived in the hearts of the people, born of their votes, suffered to exist for a time under the direction of men who were such fools as to use their power for the benefit of the people instead of themselves, was nearly killed by corruption but instead of dying and being buried was attached to a galvanic battery called the “machine,” which now keeps it going and to which it now and forever belongs. I believe in the political boss, who is a child of the devil, who ascends to the throne of political power, sits at the right of all officials and from there rewards his fronds and punishes his enemies; who is shrewd enough to fool the people, expert enough to secure the money for his purposes, adroit enough to control officials without the people knowing it, wily enough to use political power for the good of his pals, and tricky enough to rob the treasury without being caught at it. I believe in politics without religion, in the communion of politicians, the forgiveness of their sins by the people, the political death of all patriots, the everlasting life of the “machine” and that the government of the country should be left to the professional politician. **♦

Temperance Meeting.

The Anti-saloon League met Thursday evening, May 11th. A good crowd was present. Bro. Fritz, explained how the “army canteen” originated, how congress Sassed a law abolishing it, and ow Alger and Greggs as public officials schemed and succeeded in making it non-effective. Now, I unerstand the object of the Anti-saloon League is to get good men elected to office —under the smirching and corrupting system, good men stand aloof. Some people claim that McKinley is a man of high Christian character, yet as commander-in-chief, he is like Foraker of Ohio, “neither for nor fomist the saloon,” but more like some of our Rensselaer citizens, afraid of losing s plum from the public basket, if he should take sides against the wrongdoers. Mr. Huston from Pennsylvania,

beincr present, was called on for a few He stated the money in silver dollars spent in this country for drink would make a pile 1,a60 miles high. Also gave the key not! as a remedy: “If people would vote as they pray.” R. 8. Dwiggins admiitted a great truth, that our government was drunk. The little folks done well, also Sheppard’s singeis, also Miss Dora English as organist. xx

Jennings County Letter.

Mr. Editor: —We receive regularly, the best county paper published in the state, The Jasper County Democrat, which stands boldly out for the people and justice and right in all things. Well, we promised to write you a letter as soon as we became somewhat acquainted with the country. First, we say that wo don’t have any windy weather outside of occasional breezes in the evening, and when it rains, it rains a shower and quits. This is the first time in 16 years that the writer has plowed and planted corn, and-theground all the time being in good working condition—no mud nor water to contend with. The country, where we live, is level and the soil is a mullato clay which will produce all kinds of grain and grass. Clover and blue grass seem to be a natural product of this country. The wheat prospect is immense. You don’t find any spots in the wheat or grass fields here, but thick and heavy all over. The land here is free from rock and only an occasional walnut or popular stump in the fields. But poke roots and briars and spice brush have had a considerable way of their own in some fields. Nearly all the land is worked with a disk—the disk has taken the place of the breaking plow. Considerable plowing for corn here is did with one horse and a right-handed bar shovel plow. I will give you a sample farmer. Mr. Nobe, my neighbor, has 300 acres of land, 2ao cleared. He sowed 4 acres of oats and will put out 7 acres acres of corn. He has one cow, five sheep, two hogs and three horses. This leaves the farm to briars, poke root and pawpaw bushes. I have 45 acres for corn and we have had what we call a fine time to plow and plant, and no hard work about it. It is well said that the people of southern Indiana are a slow, easy going people. No better neighbors ever lived than we have here. There is lots of land for sale here, at $lO to S2O per acre. The first question you ask is what kind of land is it? It is level, mullato clay soil. Some of it is old sage grass fields that have been abandoned —not worn out—but the low price of farm products and the expense of running a farm was above the profit, so the owners just went to one-horse farming. This land is near the railroad and in sight of Butlerville and North Vernon. One farm with a new house and 60 acres in a fine state of cultivation and joining my farm, sold last week at $7 per acre, part on time. This is a first-class grain country, and a better grass country than this, I never saw in all my travels. You have a June grass in Jasper you call blue grass, but come down and see a regular Kentucky blue-grass pasture and you never will say Jasper county is grass and cattle country rtny When u mftn plows this soil and farms it as we do up north, he gets big pay for his labor. It is a land that holds the richness you put on it and don’t leach away. Neither is this land underlaid with a hardpan, but 12 to 18 feet to gravel. We will have lots of fruit of all kinds. We have 190 fruit trees of different varieties. This land plows easy and works up in fine order with a harrow. We live onefourth mile from the B. O. & 8. W. R. R., which runs thirteen passenger trains each way, every twelve hours—so we don’t get lonesome. ,1 have seen but one colored man since our arrival here. Well, you ask, is it hotter than Jasper? I say, no, but the nights are warmer and every morning a big dew which makes the leaves and grass sticky, like rosin weed, is noticed. Vegetation grows very fast and grass comes on by the lath of March. You will find more old men here than in any plage I ever lived. Most all these people are those good old-time folks we have heard of. My family is all well jileased. Son Mahlon won’t go to see. He says Jennings county good enough. If any of you Jasperities want* good farm at a low price, write to E. C. Davis, Butlerville, Ipd., enclosing stamp. I will close by saying, Bro. Babcock, keep up the fight till the nngster has been retired and th* officers become the people’s honest servants.

REV. PETER HINDS.

Butlerville, Ind., May 8,1899. 1