Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Page 5

it iiiFE" in, (North Side of Public Square) RENSSELAER, IND. At the close of its business on the Bth day of ’ February. 1900. RESOURCES. Loans and Discounts.4loß,7ol4o Overdrafts........ 730.14 U. 8. Bofids and Securities on hand. 1400.00 Due from Banks and Bankers 34.957.17 Banking House 5,585-00 Current Expenses3,oß.l3 Currency 3,096.00 Specie., 1,48740 Cash Items 8.913.13 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock paid in $85,000.00 Surplus Fund 1,000.00 Discount, Exchange and Interest... 7,581.68 Individual Deposits on demand 105,045.85 Individual Deposits ou time 23,345.14 o , $161,972.07 State ojr Indiana, ) Jasper County. ) I, Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Cashier of the Commercial State Bank of Rensselaer, Indiana, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. Emmet L. Hoixingswokth. Subscribed and sworn to before j SeAl ( me, this 14th day of February,l9oo. ' ’ James H. Chapman, Notary Public. My commission expiree August 28,1902. Money On Farms AT 5 PER CENT. A special fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial "payments any interest paying time. Call on or write, Commercial State Bank, No. Side Pub. Square, Rensselaer, Ind. THE LEADING INDIANA NEWSPAPER - THE IBM SHL (Established 1823.) doiij, Silina inijMy ijiiims. THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, in its several editions, continues to occupy the position it has so long held of The Leading Indiana Newspaper. It is the oldest and most widely read journal published in the State. Iterates of subscription are the lowest. t THE SENTINEL is a member of the Associ ated Press and its telegraph columns are the fullest and most comprehensive of any Indiana papers. Its cress reports are supplemented by Special Washington dis- ' patches, covering very fully all matters of Indiana interest, and by reports from its special correspondents at every county seat in Indiana. The market reports of The Indianapolis Sentinel are complete and accurate. THE SENTINEL, pays special attention to Indiana News and covers the ground fully. Indiana readers will find more news of interest to them in The Sentinel than in any Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis or Louisville newspaper. THE SENTINEL, although Democratic in politics, publishes all the news fully and mpartially and always treats its political . opponents with fairness.

TERIS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily, one year <O.OO Sunday, one year . 2.00 Weekly, one year 50 When Grip attack* you take Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine to drive it away. If s up to the People. Less than a year remains in which to gather facts, and information that will influence your vote for the next president of the United States. That grievous wrongs have been committed, and grave errors allowed to exist without effort at correction, is evidenced by the speech, writings, and comments of emifient statesmen and jurists; congressmen and leading men of business; professors and clergymen in every state. Party affiliations have been ignored in the outcry against thrusting aside the safeguards of our fathers and rushing pell-mell into the affairs of Europe. The situation is a deplorable one if not alarming; as is also our domestic affairs dominated by gigantic Trusts. The evils are not of spontaneous growth! They are the result of years of labor and expenditure of millions of dollars! Beginning with the displacement of American silver for English gold, the cunning of England’s diplomacy in shaping the destiny of our Republic is apparent to any ordinary observer seeking the true inwardness of events. The Cincinnati Enquirer has frequently called attention to each and every move as it was transpiring, and during the campaign of 1900 will present its readers with a truthful array of facts that will be extremely interesting and startling. No fair-minded American, be he Republican, Democrat or of other political faith, can afford at this critical time to ignore the truth. Partisan prejudice, with the Trusts as dictators, is a far more degrading slavery than that which existed previous to the Civil War of’6l-64. Trusts in the United States alone have a representative capital greater than all the gold and silver in. the world. These will spend many more, millions of dollars to suppress truth and facts, and mislead all who fail to look beyond their plausible deceptions. Read the Enquirer and you will be able to discern the truth and combat falsehood. A victory for Trusts and the McKinley Administration in 1900 will end the era of greatest good to greatest number. Watch carefully the Cincinnati Enquirer. cUs* Hoosier Poultry Powder Sold by A. F. Long.

ANIMALS REDISCOVERED.

Two Important Finis of Interest to the Naturalists. Every one who is solicitouelor the preservation and protection of vanishing bird fauna will hear with interest of the rediscovery near Invercargill cf Mantell’a notornis, . the large, flightless gallinuls of New Zealand. Little more than 50 years have elapsed since the firjt bones of this creature were sent to England, and determined by Prof. Owen to belong to a bird of the rail family, of which we have in Britain seven examples; four of them, the landrail, the water rail, the coot and the moor hen, being generally familiar, while the other three are more or less frequent visitors to our islands. As<the imperfect skull on which Owen based his opinion was clearly fossil, it was believed that the bird was extinct, but within two years a couple of skins were aent to England by Walter Mantell, son of the eminent paleontologist, and in 1850 the father had the satisfaction of bringing before the Zoological society the results of his son’s finds, which are now to be seen in the bird gallery of the Natural History museum. From these specimens visitors may see what- the notornis was like; while, in addition to illustration in Sir Walter Bullen’s “Birds of New Zealand,” which appeals to ornithologists, there have been published figures of the birds in books intended for the general public. Unfortunately, the bones of these two examples were not preserved, so that our national collection is without a skeleton, though there is one, the skull of which is imperfect, in Dresden, and another in Dunedin museum. The rediscovery of the bird may perhaps give rise to hopes, scarcely likely to be realized, of the retention of this form for some time longer in the New Zealand avifauna. From the nature of the case it seems hardly possible to adopt measures of protection for the few stragglers that may yet survive, though the legislators and scientific men at the antipodes should be able to take such measures as will insure the utilization to the full of all material that may come to hand.

From South America comes-still stranger news—the confirmation of the long rumored discovery of a living representative of the gigantic ground sloth. Some years ago a collector named Ramon Lista reported to Dr. Amcghino, of Buenos Ayres, that he had shot at a mysterious animal in the interior of Santa Crux, in the southern portion of the Argentine territory. According to his description, the animal in size and.'shape resembled a pankolin—the scaly ant eater of the old world—but was without scales and covered with reddish hair. He was confident that he had hit the creatu/e, which was proof against his bullet, and disappeared in the thick brushwood, where long and careful search proved ineffectual. The collector was known to be a competent naturalist, a good observer and a trustworthy man. Nevertheless, the tale seemed so extraordinary that Dr. Ameghino felt sure that Lista had been in some way mistaken. Yet the correctness of his observations has now been completely vindicated, for some remains of an animal shot by Indians in Patagonia have recently been sent to Dr. Ameghino, and these, in his opinion, put the existence of this x creature, heretofore unknown to science, beyond doubt. The skin has no scales, but imbedded in it are bony plates comparable to those of the mylodon, one of the gigantic ground sloths which, too bulky to be ahoreul, procured their food by supporting themselves on the hind limbs and tail and tearing down the branches of trees. The larger forms, which rivaled the .elephant in size, became, extinct in the pleistocene period, but in tertiary times a smaller form seems to have existed. Justice has at last been done to the memory of Lista, who died in exploring the Pilcomayo, for in naming this important find Neomylodon Listai Dr. Ameghino has at once expressed his opinion as to its relationship and commemorated the only naturalist who has seen the animal in the flesh. —London Standard.

Ruined by Extravagance.

The other day there was admitted I to a public hospital in Vienna a poor- 1 half-starved patient, who proved to be Baroness de Bailion. Her father, Baron de Baillon, was 15 years ago a leader in Austrian aristocratic circles, and afterwards held a high official position in the prov- , inces. He lived beyond bis means, ! so that, on his death, his only daugh-| ter was left destitute. She became a governess, then a seamstress, finally a domestic servant in a poor tradesman's house.

BREVITIES OF FUN.

Happy Thought. —“Does your father understand German?” “No.” “Then I’ll ask him for you in German.”—Clevelahd Plain Dealer. Grace-»-“Yes, I’ve broken off the engagement with Charlie.” Nell—- “ Why?” Grace—“ His rich uncle suddenly got well.”—Syracuse Herald. Willie—“ Young feller downstairs to see you, sis.” lister—“Why,how do you know, Willie?” Willie—“ ’Cause he asked if pop was in.”—Philadelphia North American. Weary Walker—“Dat’s a" mighty short stump yer smokin’.” Dusty Rhodes—“ Yep; I like ’em dat way. Yer don’t have ter draw der smoke so far.”—Philadelphia Record.

“My daughter is married to an Italian count!” boasted one. “My daughter, sir,” replied the other, “is married to a Kentucky colonel!” And both were very proud.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. “Papa,” said Young Fogg, “does our party have leaders?” “Certainly, my son. How could it expect to win without them?” “Does the other party have leaders?” “No, my son; only bosses.”—Boston Transcript. Son—“l hope, governor, that when I attain to your years I’ll know more than you do.” Father—“l’ll go you one better, my dear boy, and hope that when you reach my age you’ll know as much as you think you know now.”—Boston Courier.

“That man was very complimentary of you; I suppose he gave you agood tip?” said the proprietor of the restaurant to the waiter. “No; that’s the trouble, replied the waiter; “he had nothing but praise for my service.”—Yonkers Statesman.

HOW THE CAT WAS CREATED.

Curious Italian Legend Explaining the Origin of Miss Puss. I send you a translation I have made of an Italian legend of how the cat was created, written by Antonio De Nino. Many are the proverbs about cats in the Abruzzi. St. Francis de Paula performed so many miracles that the devil was made ill with envy. Once he entered the cell of St. Francis in the shape of a grand nobleman with a box full of heavy gold pieces. “Here, Francis,” said he, “take these, don’t remain in this miserable hovel, enjoy life; it is strewn, with roses, why do you collect all the thorns?” St. Francis, without more ado, raised his hand and made the sign of the cross, whereupon the fine gentleman disappeared amid clouds of sulphur smoke. Another tinTe the devil led lovely damsels, barefooted and lightly clothed, into the cell of the saint, and then queens and empresses of glorious beauty, covered with jewels and wrapped in mantles of gold tissue. But St. Francis stood there like a log of wood, and at last made the sign of the cross, when everything disappeared. The devil was furious. “I must find some way to make this stolid fellow lose patience.”

After much thought he rubbed his hands with delight. He created mice, • and they multiplied by thousands in i the wink of an eye. The cell of St. Francis was filled by them, and he tried iff vain to drive them out with his hands and feet. But as he drove them out qf the door they swarmed in at the window, and when he closed both door and window they crept up through holes in the brick floor or dropped down through cracks in the ceiling. Then they clambered up the j saint's tunic, made beds in his straw •mattress, played pranks in his provi- 1 sion basket, and were generally offen- j sive. At last St. Francis, after recit-! ing a fervent prayer, burst out laugh- ; ing. The mice were beginning to at-! tadk him in thousands, when a beauti- ■ ful little cat was created in the sleeve of his tunic. So he cried to the mice: i “I implore you to stop and go your ; ways or you will repent it.” The mice answered by pushing their noses against the bare skin of the saint, as though they wartyd to pierce through him, so he drew the beautiful little cat out of his sleeve, and it sprang at the mice blessed with such a miraculous hunger that it swallowed two at a time of the big ones, and three or four of the little ones. St. Francis hoped they would have been exterminated, and rushed to stop up a hole in the ceiling (he had already shut the ' door and the window), but he was not quick enough. A pair of mice managed to escape, and thus we have those tiresome mice all over the world. St. Francis then uttered another prayer, and bis beautiful little cat was granted a companion. They multiplied exceedingly, and have always been favorites with devout old ladies because they are a creation of St. Francis.— ; London Spectator. \ '

THE SALTPETER MAN.

Crown Officer Heartily Hated in England —A Galling Tyranny. At St. Peter’s, Durham, John Haward, saltpeter man, was burned in 1602. Unless he were of extremely amiable character, we fear there would •be few who lamented his death, if there were no immediate prospect of his being succeeded by some one more despotic and exacting than himself. The saltpeter man of the first half of the seventeenth century was hated even more, if that be possible, than the “window peeper” of those more recent days when light was subject to heavy taxation. Before the importation of saltpeter from abroad, as an important ingredient in the manufacture of gunpowder, it was a Crown monopoly, and agents, popularly known as saltpeter men were sent all over the country to seek for it in stables, pigeon cotes, pigsties, and,indeed, in almost all other places the soil of which was supposed to be impregnated with animal matter. The injury these men did, says the London Athenaeum, and the irritation they caused by digging up floors and pulling down fences was great; no householder was free from their visits, which were rendered especially odious from their being empowered to impress carts and horses for the purpose of carrying away the mineral and the utensils employed in its manufacture. This galling tyranny—though, of cotffse, not to be compared with things of far greater moment — was, no doubt, oneof the factors in the national irritation which made the civil war possible. The monopoly was put an end to by parliament in 1656. It was revived in a somewhat modified form during the struggle between the northern and southern states of America. In the confederacy the scarcity of saltpeter was so serious that Jefferson Davis has told us that men

were sent about the country to obtain the material from caves, old tobacco houses and cellars. Whether these persons had the legal power of forcible entry we do not know. During a time of such great disorganization it is probable that the rights of owners would he but little respected when they clashed with what was deemed a public necessity.

MODERN OLIVE OIL.

The Machine Process Not So Satisfactory aa the Old System. Improvement in processes does not always spell progress, it appears, as the introduction of machinery in the olive districts of Italy has caused an increase of the quantity of oil produced, but a reduction of quality as far as the best grades are concerned. A typical province is Taranto, where machinery has effected very considerables changes in the olive oil. Under the old system three or more distinct qualities of oil were produced, the olives being passed and repassed several times through handworked presses, each time producing an oil of poorer quality. When no more oil could be extracted in this way, the “sansa,” or “grounds,” was treated with sulphuric acid to produce an inferior oil, which is used in the manufacture of soap. The introduction ofthe hydraulic press, however, has done away with these distinctive grades; a larger quantity of oil is produced, but the quality, taken as a whole, deteriorates and the higher class of eating oil can only be obtained by repeated filtration/Though the oil produced in this way is excellent in color and appearance, after continual straining it loses much of its flavor and lacks the fruity taste which distinguishes the best oil produced by the old method of extrac-tion.-—Merchants’ Review.

A Woman House-Hunter.

House hunting is not a very pleasant occupation even at the best of times; and % bright and clever young woman has hit upon the novel way of increasing her income by relieving ladies in search of new habitations of this disagreeable but very necessary work. The difficulty which she herself experienced in seeking the desired kind of domicile is said to have given her the idea. She makes arrangements with the estate agents, and hunts houses on commission. Besides, she receives a fee of five shillings from the family for whom she finds the house. All that is necessary is to give her explicit instructions as to what is required, and if such a place is to be found within the limits of the stipulated area she finds it.

Sterilized Bank Notes.

The Savings bank in Brussels has recently adopted a process of sterilizing all bank notes which pass through its hands. The money is exposed for several hours to the vapor of formalin.

DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE.

Romance of One of Indiana’s Strange Characters. Frank Henlig, whose life reads like a Bertha M. Clay romance, resides near Hecla, Ind., and lives on a penny a year. He is, probably, the most iftique character in Indiana. Henlig was a member of one of the most prominent families in New York in the antebellum days, and graduated at one of the eastern colleges. He fell in love with a Miss Van Wyck, probably of the now noted family, and they became engaged. He went to the war, and, when he returned, found his love married to another man. He came -near losing his mind, and has never been the same man since. He gathered together all he had and began an aimless journey over the country. He came near covering the world. His money began to dwindle, and finally gave out. He then began to ride freight cars. Twenty years ago he was taken off a freight train at Hecla. He was a very sick man, and it was some months before he was able to stand on his feet He never forgot his benefactors. Although he disappeared for several years, he finally came back and settled in a little old loghouse in the woods. It was set aside for him, and he made it his home. He did not wish to become a charge on the public, so he conceived an idea of levying a tribute of one cent per year on all who would give it. He now covers most of the northeastern Indiana counties, annually getting his one penny. It is claimed that the tribute money now amounts to S3OO per year. He has saved a considerable portion, and, it is claimed, has some money loaned out. He pays for everything he gets. —Commercial Tribune.

FRANCIS

The Dominating Influence of the Emperor of Austria. It is the rarest kind of tribute to personal worth that Francis Joseph should stand out after these 50 troublous years as the one point of agreement that is common to all his peoples. Much of his authority is due to the great tragedies of his life; much also to the racial wranglings and cliques that by a process of exhaustion have lifted the monarchy above party influence into a position of determinating influence; but more to the character of the emperor himself. It was many years before the real nature of that character could make itself known. Education and surroundings had made Francis Joseph a bigot and an autocrat. The collapse of the Hungarian revolt was followed by ten years of pitiless reaction. The church and the army were summoned to make authority, the German language, and the German bureaucracy paramount among 30,000,000 aliens of Slav, Ural-Altaic and Latin extraction. Such an attempt spelt absolutism iirtts crudest form. The Austrian empire of 40 years ago was in all its essentials a medieval state.

The change came when, as a result of the French and Prussian wars, constitutionalism took the place of autocracy and the “principle of nationality” was partly admitted. Her old rights of self-government were restored to Hungary, and the Austrian empire converted into the dual monarchy. The great sacrifice once made, other reforms came more easily. Austria has grown toward liberalism since 18G0 with a rapidity that no other country has equaled.—Harper’s Weekly.

AN OLD DUTCH CLOCK.

Rare Specimen, 150 Years Old, from the Cape of Good Hope. An interesting souvenir of the Dutch ascendency at the Cape is to come under the hammer at a sale at Chalfont Park, near Uxbridge. This is a rare and valuable "upright Dutch clock, which was formerly the property of a Dutch governor of the Cape of Good Hope. The clock is at least 150 years old, and stands nine feet high. It has a massive base and finely engraved solid silver face, part of the works, the pendulum, hinges, and the filigree enrichments being also of silver or silver gilt. The clock indicates the days of the week, the months,and the phases of the moon, and has an automatic silver ship moving across a marine view below the face. It is inscribed: “Johann Michael Junck, Cabo de Goed Hoop,” which may be the name of the maker and not of the original owner. Dutch clocks of similar age and ornamentation have long since become great rarities.—London Chronicle.

Godfather to Seventh Sone.

The German emperor stands godfather to all seventh sons born in Prussia.

ASH YOUR DOCTORI Ask your physician this question, “Wnat is the one great remedy for consumption?*' He will answer, “Cod-liver oil." Nine out of ten will answer the same way. Yet when persons have consumption they loathe all fatty foods, yet fat is necessary for their recovery and they cannot take plain codliver oil. The plain oil disturbs the stomach and takes away the appetite. The disagreeable fishy odor and taste make it almost unendurable. What is to be done? This question was answered when we first made SCOTTS EMULSION of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Although that was nearly twenty-five years i ago, yet it stands alone to- ? day th 2 one great remedy I for all affections of the throat and lungs. The bad taste and odor have been 'i taken away, the oil itself has been partly digested, and the most sen- : sitive stomach objects to it rarely. | Nat one in ten can take and digest : *hz plain oil Nine out of ten can take SCOTTS EMULSION and di- ; gest it That’s why it cures so I many cases of early consumption. Even in advanced cases it brings comfort and greatly prolongs life. Aoc. and si.oo, all druggists. • SCOT . & SOWN E, CliemUu, New York.

100 good envelopes with your return card printed thereon for only 50 cents, at this office. Shoes at less than manufactures’ wholesale prices. Chicago Bargain Store. You can get The Democrat, State Sentinel and Cincinnati Enquirer each a full year for only $1.85, cash in advance, if taken soon. The Democrat carries the largest and finest line of joo stock of any printing office in Jasper county and can furnish anything in this line in large or small quanties and on very short notice. FARM LOANS. Farm Loans at 5 per cent, interest ;commission 1 to 2 per cent, according to amount of loan and security. No need to pay 3 to 5 percent, commission. W. B. Austin, Rensselaer, Ind.

A COLONIAL NEWSPAPER.

Copy of a Sheet Published In 1770 1b Boston. A copy of one of the oldest newspapers in America has been lent to the Portland Press club. It is the Boston Gazette of May 12,1770, “containing the freshest advices, foreign and domestic.” A full account of the Boston massacre is printed in the four three-column pages. Its tone is iff harmony with the rebellious spirit of the times, against the unjust taxations of a despotic monarch. Bitter as the people seemed, however, they were not yet ready to throw off the yoke. They only wanted the right of selfI government. By a perusal of its editorial page it is seen that the men fought with the i pen even at that early date. One article is directed against a man who signed himself “Bostonian” in the Chronicle, another paper. In the same paper is published a resolution boycotting English goods, which had been passed by the townspeople. The names of persons who refused to abide by the agreement are published, and people warned against trading with them. A very graphic account of the Boston massacre is given, surrounded by broad black borders.—Portland Telegram.

Aimed Too High.

Shots from the pulpit usually pass over the heads of the sinners in ths front rows.—Chicago Daily News.

Morris' English Stable Liniment Price, 30©. Sold by A. F. Loor. r —— Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure PriM.aeo. «L«e MMSab Sold by A. F. Lon*.