Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — Page 5

“In the Sweat of Thy Face Shalt Thou Eat Bread”.... That was the old rule, but now wise people make the dollar sweat lor them, while they sit idly by and eat pie. You plant in the spring time and take chances on even getting your seed back; while four-fold is joyfully received. In the great modern enterprises there are opportunities of reaping a thousand fold and have your money work while you sleep. More money lias been made in Southern California in OIL during the last six months, than will be made on the. farms in the same region in 2 years. The Piru Consolidated Oil Co. “ own 640 acres of the cream of the oil fields. I Only a small capital stock, and it is all treas- - ury stock, not a dollar of promoters’ stock. All the stock not sold remains in the treasury ; for the benefit of all the stock holders. ; Only sufficient stock Is offered for sale tol put down the first well. After that, the first ; well we believe will develop the balance of the ; land and pay dividends. The par value of; stock is $lO per share, Now offered for ; $2.50 per share. Not a share has been or I will.be sold for less. This is a reliable business ! opportunity, conducted by business men of ! . strict integrity. No salaried officers. Every ; dollar of stockholder’s money goes into devel- ; opment work. ; Elias Strong, your old townsman, is the com- ! pany’s treasurer, and one of the directors; no ! further guarantee is needed of the character of ! the company. ! For further information address ; The Piru Consolidated Oil Co., : 206*4 So. Broadway, Los Angeles, ('al. H ’n?°G AN PM^ LL, t S ’ Pres -

What F Will Bryan’s f Plurality be in Indiana? f

SI,OOO IN PRIZES to 76 subscribers to THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL who come nearest guessing the plurality Indiana will give Bryan over McKinley.

Th* publisher* of Th* Indiana Stat* Bantlnel will award seventy-six prises to seventy-six subscribers, who at any time before th* close of th* poll* Tuesday, Nov. 8, correctly estimate or oom* nearest doing so, Bryan and Stevenson'* plurality over McKinley and Roosevelt in Indiana. First prises3oo.oo Second prise.... 300.00 Third prise 100.00 Fourth pria* TS.OO Fifth prise 80.00 Sixth pria* 38.00 6 prises of sls each TS.OO B prises of $lO each , 60.00 10 prises of $8 eaeh 60.00 23 prises of $2 each 60.00 26 prises of $1 each 85.00 1,000.00

NOTE—The result will be decided from the vote cast for the head of tfie democratic electoral ticket. If the unexpected should happen and Mr. Bryan not carry the state,, then the lowest plurality guess, or the one nearest the result, will get the prise. Where two or more guesses are the same, the first one received will be awarded the prise. Guessers should be careful to write name and address plainly, and also state whether they are an old or new subscriber.

76 Guesses SI,OOO T# The Winners

Wells* Hoosier Poultry Powder Makw Hyns Lay, euro* Cbolsra, Gapaa and Soap, and kaape Sold by A. F. Long.

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Morris* English Worm Powder Sold by A. F. Long.

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DO YOU WANT TO BUY OK SELL A EARM? IF SO, VISIT HONAN’S REAL ESTATE AGENCY. 320 acres in Newton Township. 5 miles from city, best farm of its size in Jasper Co.; price SSO per acre. •80 acres in Milroy Township, 8 miles from city, good house, barn, wind-pump, orchard, etc. Price $42 per acre, 160 acres in Jordan Township, well drained, good house and barn, orchard, best land in tp.; S4O per acre. • 80 acres In Marion Township, in prime state of cultivation, young bearing orchard, all thoroughly tiled, good house and barn, 6 miles from city, good roads all the year round; $55 per acre. 1 ‘ ' 40 acres in Walker Township, good barp. orchard and small fruits; $22 per acre. 100 acres in Marion Township, 5 miles from town, best farm in the County for the price, 00 acres in cultivation, Price S2B per acre. _203 acresjust outside corporation line, every foot in cultivation, thorougly tiled, good houses and outbuildings, admitted to be the beat body of land In the County. Price SIOO per acre. 100 acres in Jordan Township, good improved farm, well drained and fenced, dirt cheap at S4O per acre. 80 acres in Jordan Township, good black loam, entire farm can be cultivated, a bargain at $42 an acre. ———— 20 acres fine timber land in Milroy Township, cheap at $23 per acre. 60 acres in Marion Township, 5 miles from city. 10 acres timber, good house and new bam.good well, all drained, price $35 per acre. 8o acres in Gilliam Township, 00 acres'in cultivation, 12 acres of the best timber in township, house, barn, good orchard. Price S4O an acre. For particulars call on or write

E. P. HONAN,

Tell your neighbor to take The Democrat for all county news. Coffee Co. (Tenn.,) Lands. 45 acres 7 miles from Manchester, level, good house, -big double barn, good orchard, located on public road, 35 acres in cultivation. Price SSOO. 156 acres 3J4 miles from Manchaster, on y, mile from railroad station. 60 ares in cultivation, large young bearing orchard, all kinds of small fruit, good, large frame house, large new barn, never failing well; this is one of the best improved farms in Coffee county, fawner is a cripple and wants "to quit work. A bargain at SISOO. 52H» acres 2 miles from Manchester, small frame house, some fruit trees, 10 acres fenced. 25 acres cleared, will sell or trade for Jasper county real estate. Price S7OO. Eor further particulars, address D. W.Shields, Manchester, Tenn. ; . Nonce oi iDDOinimem 01 wnisiroior. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, as Administrator of the estate of Ephraim Fleming, deceased, late of Jasper County, Indiana. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. William L. Nowels. Hanley & Hunt, Atty's.

Conditions. Any subscriber, old or new, is entitled to one guess on payment of 60 cents—one year's subscrip-tion-received at this office before the dose of polls on election day—Tuesday, Nov. 6, IfiOO. The name of subscriber remitting the money will be recorded with the figure* of his guess. The receipt of money, aa well as his estimate of Bryan and Stevenson's plurality over McKinley and Roosevelt tn Indiana, will be acknowledged, and should be laid aside by him until the official vote of Indiana shall have been ascertained, when the names of prise-taker* will be duly announced tn these columns. If your subscription is not paid tn advance pay it now and participate In this great distribution of actual money. If your, subscription is paid In advance, send us 60 cents for another year and give a guess. You stand a chance of getting 1300 for 60 cents, and If you do not hit a prise you have your money's worth in The Indiana State Sentinel, the greatest family newspaper tn the West Send in your 50 cents with your guess at once. Your judgment is as likely to be correct at this time as it is the day before election. Be careful to date your guesses, and remember you can have as many guesses as you take subscriptions to The Indiana State Sentinel.

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A Visit to the Oil Field.

We spent several days last week in the oil field of Jasper county in company with H. D. Hixley of Utica, New York, who owns 700 acres of land in this county. He put down 4 wells on his 160 acre tract in Walker township. Well No. 2 wasvery satisfactory. Well No. 4. was a good showing, but neither can be estimated until tested by pumping, which he will do as soon as arrangements can be made. We visited the “gusher’’ in section 13, in Kankakee township, on the farm of M. 8. Rodgers. This well has not been tested by pumping- The manner in which it flows is not a fair test of the power of the well as to the amount of oil it would produce under pressure. The oil now is simmering out at the top of a 53 inch casing, by the aid of natural gas, into a tank. Oil was found at 137 feet below the surface on August 21 and on August 28 the owner had filled 4 barrels. Quite a quantity had flowed on the ground, considerable was in the tank and many gallons had been carried away by visitors. When this well is under pressure it is thought that it will flow a barrel of oil in a very few minutes. There is no question but what this is a splendid well and will produce a large quantity of oil. This indicates a very promising district and the owner can justly feel proud. More wells will be made in the near future. The Byrd Sindicate has a good, well developed district in Northern Gillam; has a very efficient power plant with a large number of wells hooked up. They were pumping 14 wells the day we were there from which they were getting several barrels of oil daily. We would consider it a conservative estimate when we say that there is now more than 3,000 barrels of oil in sight in this district and a tine prospect for thousands more. Several hundred barrels have been shipped out and more would have gone, but from the fact that Tt has to be carted to the railroad, a distance of 7 miles.

Rensselaer, Ind.

The well known as the Gifford well is a great one. While it does not flow, it has been tested by pumping and one can see 700 barrels of fine oil in tanks which it has produced, this is a proof of its value as a producer. One is amazed when standing by this well and beholding at least, $4,000 worth of oil produced from a 5| inch hole in what has been known for the last Century as “scrub land’’ in “swampy” Jasper. The St. Joe people have a splendid power plant in this district, many fine wells and a long list of leases in the county. They are pushers and will make a great show in the near future. Our friend, Capt. Snyder of Monticello, has a mammoth well on his 11-acre tract. He is now building a tank and will soon have tested his well by pumping. The indications are that a large quantity of oil run to waste before the well was plugged. There are many other individual wells in this locality which show flow of oil and drilling is going on all the time. The fact that there is oil in paying quantities in this district is now established beyond a doubt and the way foreign capital is taking hold of this enterprise is substantial evidence that men of experience and business ability are pushing it, and great results may be reported any day. Many reports get in circulation of 300 and 400 barrel wells. Sucji reports are false and are circulated to mislead some and to disgust others whom the facts would do much good. It can be determined what a well produces only by pumping it for a reasonable time. The flowing feature is more often spasmodic than permanent, and one desiring to invest should not rely upon such statements but go and see and make personal investigation. We found the managers of these companies and persons interested in this enterprise very accomodating ipid pleasant gentlemen. There is a feature of permanency aliout this business which will impress one as soon as he becomes familiar with the facts. The question is often asked: How much oil is there? How long will the well hold out? Such questions cannot, be answered. The same questions have been asked of other localities less promising than this, which have been for years and are now holding up and producing in paying quantities. There is no known reason, or visable signs to indicate that this district will not produce oil for years, and abundantly remunerate the investor. It is very evident that the people of Jasper county do not realize the wealth which lies beneath them, while

strangers do.

We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat.

At Oberammergau.

Under date of August 18, from Berlin, Germany, Dr. J. H. Honan writes his brother Attorney E. P. Honan of this city, an interesting letter from which' wo are permitted to copy the following account of the former’s impressions of the great Passion Play as produced by the humble peasants at Oberammergau: * * * I left Pans Thursday, Aug. 9, at 10 p. m.; went through to Strasbury and Munich where I met Liebe. We stayed all night at Munich; went up Saturday morning to Oberammergau to see The Passion Play. You may have read the scathing criticism by some cynic in the Harper's Weekly on this play, saying it was a money-making scheme, etc., etc. I want to say to you, my dear brother, I have never seen anything so realistic in my life and I have perhaps seen as good talent in different parts of the world as the chump who wrote that article. There is positively no acting about it, everything is so realistic that one forgets that it is only a stage he is looking at. To think, a lot of untutured peasants, without the alluring and deceptive rays of the footlights, without paint or powder, wig or make-up of any kind, can hold a most critical audience almost spellbound from early mom until dewy eve is to me most marvelous. The auditorium is covered, but the stage has only the blue canopy of heaven fora covering, embelished by the beautiful mountains as a back ground. We entered at 8 a. m., and, with only a sh >rt pause for luncheon was kept with rivited attention until nearly 6p. m. We visited the Christus In his home, the John in his wood-carving shop, Judas, Mary and Magdeline in their homes and was received with the truest simplicity and courtesy. We received all their autographs and held pleasant conversations with all. I positively saw more true, zealous Christianity in two days in Oberammergau than I have seen in all of Europe. The costumes are all made in the village, notwithstanding reports to the contrary. Aside from two chorus masters and one music teacher, all were born in the village, and only about i-iooper eent. have ever been as far as Munich. The three gentlemen mentioned above live and have lived there a number of years, but were not born there. We stopped with an old Rabbi who has taken part now for fifty years, begining when he was eight years old. The Magdeline, when not on the stage, waits on the table at her father's little inn. The Christus is a stove-maker, but most of the male population are woodcarvers. At the time when the people of Judea gather and Pilate releases Barabbas, there are over 700 people on the stage. The tableaus are simpiy superb, with nothing but the sunlight to beautify them and every one seems to live the very thing they are representing. It seems sacreligeous to call this a performance, but I will say each presentation means a house filled to its capacity, which is about 4.070 (seating) all on one floor. There has been to date more than one hundred thousand people witnessed the play this year. People of all creeds -and without any, are unanimous in their praises. The people who have seen the best talent of the world are loudest in their praises.

The school board has recently ruled that children who are six, or who become six years old before Jan. 21, 1901, may enter school Sept. 10, 1900. No class for beginners will be formed after the opening of the first Semester. The compulsory law does not require a pupil to attend school unless he is six at the opening of the school year. Experience shows that unless children are physically strong, it is far better for them that they be over six rather than under six when they enter school. Fifth year pupils will be seated in room lof Building No. 1. Miss Lizzie Roberts is teacher of this grade. •Sixth year and sevefitK year pupils will be seated in Building No. 2, the former in room 5, the latter in room 7. Pupils promoted from eighth year to high school will please call at office of Supcrintedent to arrange their work before Monday Sept. 10.

Cows For Sale. 200 milkers and springers; always on hand. Sold on one year’s time. Sam Yeoman. Cured of Chronic Diarrhoea After Thirty Years of Suffering. "I suffered for thirty years with diar> rhoea and thought I was past being cured," says John S. HailoWay, of French Camp, Miss. "I had-spent so much time and money and suffered so much that 1 bad given up all hopes of recovety. 1 was so feeble iroin the effect of the diarrhoea that I co lid do no kind of labor, could not even travel, but by accident I was permitted to find a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and after taking several bottles I am entirely cured of that trouble. lam so pleased with the result that I am anxious that it be in reach of all who suffer as I have." For sale by J. A. Larsh,

B. F. F.

School Notes.

Docs the Baby Thrive If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother’s milk doesn’t nourish it, she needs SCOTT’S EMULSION. It supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requires Scott’s Emulsion Half a teaspoonful three or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a magical effect upon babies and children. A fifty-cent bottle will prove the truth of our statements. Should be taken in summer as well as winter. 50c. and SI.OO, all druggists. SCOTT & £OWNE, Chemists, New York.

Commissioners' Court.

The county commissioners mot in regular session Monday. Following is a part of the business transacted: tinned. Bridge petitions continued as follows: Carpenter, 1; Gillam, 2; Marion, I;•'Walker, 2; Jordan, 2; Newton, 1,--- * 8. O. Derby et al ditch petition: continued. C. W. Baker et al petition for gravel road in Gillam tp.: C. W. Baker filed his bond as supt. Bond approved and said Baker ordered toprdteed with the construction of the road. M. P. Comer et al petition for ditch; viewers given until Oct. 1, to file report. Bill of Art Metallic 4'onstruction Co., of $375 for furniture for recorder’s office, again continued. Liquor licenses granted to James Bilile of Remington, and Isiah Fisher of Kniman. S. R. Nichols et al presented petition for another railroad*election in Barkley township, signed by 174 petitioners, but 27 of whom were freeholders, and same was granted. Oct. 9, being set for the date of election. In matter of old railroad election petitions in Barkley, Jordan and Carpenter townships, all were dismissed at costs of petitioners. As the county has already paid j the costs in these elections it is difficult to see how the comI missioners expect to recover. Board adjourned for the term Wednesday afternoon. A complete report of the proceedings, including bills allowed, etc., will be given next week.

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. Why do you wait on insurance companies for 6 months for your money? I also loan money for short times at current bank rates Funds always on hand' W. B. Austin. Endured Death's Agonies. Only a roaring fire enabled J. M. Garrettson.of San Antonio, Tex., to lie down when attacked by Asthma, from which he suffered for years. He writes his misery was often so great that it seemed he endured the agonies of death; but Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption wholly cured him. This marvelous medicine is the only known cure for Asthma as well as Consumption, Coughs and Colds, and all Throat, Chest and Lung troubles. Price 50c and SI.OO. Guaranteed. Trial bottle free at Larsh's Drug Store. Cuts and Bruises Quickly Healed. Chamberlain's Pain Balm applied to a cut, bruise, burn, scald or like injury will instantly allay the pain and will heal the parts in less time than any other treatment. Unless the injury is very severe it will not leave a scar. Pain Balm also cures rheumatism, sprains, swellings and lameness. For salt* by J. A. Larsh. Hitch and feed Barn. / Having purchased the Masker hitch and feed barn, on North Cullen street, one block north of Makeever hotel, I wish to state.to the public t|iat horses and rigs left at my barn will have the best of care and attention. Same old prices. Frank King. Advertised Letters. List of unclaimed letters remaining in Rensselaer office: Chas. Burebach, Mrs. Mary Bill, Mira Dora Meyers, S, Morganstine, S. M. Vancleave. F. B. Meyer, P. M.