Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The “Powers” in China are sullenly watching one another, each with a hand at his hip pocket. If the republican administration is to take credit for the big crops in Kansas and Nebraska and the famine and pestilence abroad which creates a foreign demand for American cereals, the Indiana farmer should hold it responsible for the total wheat failure here and the continued rains which have ruined millions of bushels of oats. Those contemplating moving from one township to another must remember that should they move after September the 6th they lose their votes. If they move from one precinet to another after October 6th they lose their vote. To be a legal voter one must have resided in the state six mouths, in the township sixty days and in the precinct thirty days. The election this year comes on Tuesday, November 6th. Ry adding our great and good friend, the Sultan of Sulu, in full dress —plug hat and paper collar—accompanied by a portion of his harem, to “Teddy” Roosevelt’s rough riders’ caravan, our republican friends would cause the enemy to precipitately gallop to cover, and would further furnish a living demonstration of the excellent quality of the citizens acquired at the small sum of §IO.OOO per annum. This is offered merely as a suggestion.

An item says the Sultan of Turkey, out of an income of $30,000,000 annually, spends §7,500,000 in clothing his harem. Our own great anil good friend, the Sultan of Sulu, draws but $250 per month out of the United States treasury, or §3,(XX) per annum. He is in no condition to rival his namesake of Turkey in dressing his concubines. However, the superb raiment of our Sultan is said to consist of a paper collar and a plug hat. If he dresses his harem—but then, what if he does; he is the making of an elegant American citizen. Those republicans who are selling their produce for the same or a little less than they did a few years ago and have to pay a dollar for 15| pounds of sugar, against 22 to 24 pounds then, and 3i cents a pound for nails and barbed wire, a raise of more than fifty per cent, and everything else they consume increased in the same proportion, with war taxes to the right of them and heavy local taxes to the left of them, will smile sardonically at reading in the republican press of how thej’ have prospered under the beneficient reign of William I.

Instead of making a trip to the swamp lands of Stark count}’ to ascertain the means necessary for the relief of the citizens whose land is overflowed by the Kankakee river. Attorney-General Taylor will recommend to Governor Mount the appointment of a competent civil engineer to visit the territory and make a report of the conditions which will be submitted to the next legislature with such suggestions as may be deemed necessary. The citizens want a ditch but the attorney general thinks the widening of the channel of the river will remedy the existing evils.—lndianapolis Sentinel. According to the Kokomo Dispatch. Rev. Chas. S. Davisson, a Baptist minister at Wolcott, became so enamoured with one of the “sisters" nt the session of th,e Baptist Association at Kokomo recently as to cause considerable gossip. The woman in the case is Mrs. M. W. Dillon, the wife of a Carroll county farmer residing near Camden. The suspicions of the fanner were, aroused some time ago, when the Rev. Davisson was pastor of the Baptist church at Camden, and when his wife signified her intention of attending the Kokomo meeting Mr. Dillon, ■knowing that Davisson would also be there, employed officers to keep an eye on the couple. The, evidence obtained is said to be of a most incriminating character and Mr. Dillon will seek relief from his faithless spouse in the divorce courts.