Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1900 — Page 7

Rensselaer Bargain Store. Just received===A new line of Stoves, $3.00 to $40.00. A nice line of Guns. Shells loaded to order on short notice. Bring your old guns and get them full choked. TOBACCO TAGS WANTED. C. E. HERSHMAN, NEAK THE DEPOT.

USSR DENTAL SC|ENCE - \ v Has "reached its highest point in our office. We have | f conquered pain and anxiety. W'e have assured our pa- f ' tientstliat our methods and prices are in keeping with / ( dental progress. Confidence has been the keyn<*te of \ ? / our success. If we work for you once we're sure of get- < ''J ting all your work, as well as the dentalwork of your V f g relatives and friends. Our dental work co ts little, wears V P office upstairs ? well, and is guaranteed to bethe bestthat n.oneycan buy. \ ) IN HORTON BL’K / S /-HKS” COVKT \ XW. HORTON, Dentist. S CThe Rensselaer Steam LaundryT! i Telephone2ls. PORTER & CHAMBERLAIN Propr’s, 111 | Office at George W. Golf's. Jjj |i Good work, prompt service, close attention to details, improved in machinery, expert help, ere making The Rensselaer Steam j}) jl Laundrt one of the best in Northern Indiana. Our constant jjj !) aim is to give our patrons work that cannot be excelled. ' ill f (I Our... f .inens, - Our [Remington, (Spec- -Quick order work. Motion, ji !•!*»•• Lace Curtain wort. c **' Hose Lawn j: ( b Woolens without shrinking, Mt. Ayr. Fair Otzks. jij We have an expert laundryman from Cincinnati with us now. jjj I RENSSELAER STEAH LAUNDRY. If

TOMIP TRUSTEES’ CJK Mitroy Township. Wra. T Smith, trustee of Milroy township, fives notice that he will lie at his residence in aid township on the Second and Fourth aturdays of cacti month for tire purose of transacting tow nship business-; and usiness relatmtrto making contracts orpaylg claims will t*e done on such designated ay. W.M. T. Smith. Trustee. Hanging Grove TownshipJoseph Stew art. tr istee of Hanging Grove iwnship. gives notice that he will be at his sidence in said to«nship on Friday of each eek for the purt“t *e of transacting township isiness; and business relating to mtracts or paying claims will lie done on ch designated dav. Joseph Stewart. Trustee. Jordan Township. fohn Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives tice that he will tie at his residence in said vnship on the Second and Fourth Saturdays each month for the pnrpose cf transacting enship business; and business relating piaking contracts or paying claims will be tie on such designated day. John Bill. Trustee.

STONEBACK, BRTIST M PHOTOGRAPHER mets yf M Canmeis 60. SI.OO. Pictures enlarged in pastelle. water colors and crayon. Buttons and Pins. Cuff Buttons. Hat and Tie Pins —Picture Frames. PAVILION GALLERY. Holiday Rates. i account o! the Christmas New Year’s Holidays the in Route will sell special exon tickets to C. P. A. territory s, Dec. 22, 23, 24, 25, 31, and st, 1901, at one and one-third [or the round trips. Jdents at Educational Instils on certificate of the ipal officer of colleges, sems and universities, tickets ie sold on the closing day or liately preceding; good reg upon date of reopening of , not later than January Nth, artistic job piloting at ib'.e prices, o- tl .ir ii i; BAT. . Thompson will sell Un n Union township, in tract*, terms to sui those desinnu ior raise - took. Sec or I i H. P. TlloMl Sr»N, ■ Re’i'Sclaer, Ind

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HONAN'S AQENCY. City Property For Sale. 10 acres Inside city limits, finest land in she 1 state, you** orchard and shade trees«treet -an j 2 sides, ideal market garden. Price $2,000. House and corner lot 1 block from Court ; House, most beautiful location in the crtv. a ; bargain at S2A>OO. I New house and barn; orchard and 81* acre* of ground in imall fruits, ideal place for market garden, inside city limits, south of railroad cost *O.OOO. will sell at $4,000. F'or particulars call or wrfle. K- P. Honan. Rensselaer, ind. Krai Estate Transfers. Albert K. Kirk to W. T. Kight, Nov. 23. pt it 12. Parr. *OO. William S. N'uss et al to Sarah M. Snow, iiept. 7. e4ne ne 0-30-0, 20 acres. Union SSOO. Janies F. Hickman to Elmer F. Emery. Nov. 28, ne 4-27-7. pt nw 4-27-7. Carpenter. SO,BOO. l<la A. Handle to Simon P. Hefflev. Nov. 21. ne 9-38-5. e 1 * nw 8-29-s,e‘» se uw uw 8-29-5. Hanging (irove. sl3 475 tieorge Ketchmark to t ieorge I. Morgan, Nov. 1). el* sw 21-32-5. w l , se 21-32-5. 100 acres. Kankakee, *4,08). I- tieorge L. Morgan, to Samuel M. Laßue, Nov. 14, wig 8e 21-32-5, lOOacres, Kanka ee. $5,000. \\ illiani King to James Herman King. July 14. uml 1 , It 5. 35-7. 54.80 acres Marion 4150. Jennie M Thompson et al to Paul Schultz. Nov. 30. sw ne 20-31-7, 40 acres. Union. s4ou. William B. Austin to Minnie Meyers. Nov. 14. 1t5,b14. Keu-selaer. Beniamin Magee's add. S7OO. Myrtle I. Pierson to Jacob Marshall. Jan. 18. pt nt» se 2-31-7. Union, *475. Jacob Marshall to Kay D. Thompson. Nov. 30. pt li4 se 2-81-7, Union. sls. q. c. d. lohn W Hannon to KiyC inrad. Nov. 30. Its 11, 12. Maunon's add. Dunnville. $35. Ora Hushong to Vamuel Newman, et al pt ** 37-32-7, 40 acres. Carpenter. $1,500. John C. Carmichael to George J. Newman. Nov. 14, Its 14, 15. hi 29. Weston's Sec. add. Rensselaer. J 750. Sheriff Jasper county to Millie A. Maiov. £*°vJ?7* 5^ 8W 31-32-&, Kankakee, $791.18, Sheriff s deed. James 8. Richardson to Nancy J. Davidson. Woo' * W * e ® w lß ' 3oo, B acreß - L’nion, Thomas Vermillion to Warren Springer. Woo' " W 81 ‘ 89 ' 8 ’ 100 acr “- Wheatfleltl. W. B. Austin to Otilla Norgor Dec 8, It 5. $1 odo. A ,n & F “ ,ton * add - Rensselaer. GOOD AJDVICE. Ihe most miserable beings in the world are those suffering from Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than seventy-five per cent, of the people in the United States are afflicted with these two diseases and their effects; such as Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Habitual Costiveness, Palpitation ot the Heart, Heart Burn, WaterSiash, Gnawing and Hurn-P.iins at P>. ot iheSton. <h. Yellow Nkin, C> (tel Tongue and i a hl. 1 ir in nitl . imii'jk op i Food alter Ea id, ,i,, etc Go to rtim drug. ; , I UM • ow. / S • 's. si ri rein ve , i. ' a *en a t nze M'pai. . h. it lAug. A whole ni'inioiiii old for a nickel at I’m i >bmocrat office.

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THE BOOKS WE USED TO READ

I do„love readin,' that’s a fact; Dad used ter say it took A pull as strong’s a steer's ter get my nose out of a book; .nights till after 10 ter finish up a tale. And see the hero married and the, villain jugged in jail. But lately, I dunno how 'tis, 1 never seem ter find r —» The sort of yarns I love, because they're all a diff'rent kind; Seems if ttie authors nowadays had sorter gone ter seed. Why don’t they write some stories like the kind we used ter read? Yer 'member them old yarns? Gee Whiz! Sas’l wan’t they someth! 1 ' prime? The hero was a Duke or Lord, yer bet yer, every' time: ” And he was mighty handsome," but most I giuerallv pore. And had a thievin’ uncle who was rich as «11 out door.

He loved a beaucheaus damsel, name er "Lady Eunesteen," Her “raven locks" and "fawn-like" eyes beat all was ever seen; He chased her through five? hundred long, thick pages, one by one. ttat all the time jer felt phim-.sure fee'd bag her when 'was done. Them there was eobbersf few. that lived in caves all Hwed withhold And piled with kags er •di'motis, jiest as full as they ooudd hold. And there was ghosts that lrnßg around some rnoxlered chap’s remai*s And used teasshay round at dank and howl and clack their obrins. Yer .’memhar when yer read them tales, upstairs at night, al«ne. How every sep'rate hair ’d izskink when them<thingß fetoked a groaz.? But ghostsrin these new-fangled books ain’t nawthtn' more -why, pshaw! Yer'd jes'-soon poke'em in the iribs and ask ’em far a chaw, Tne heromowadays-don’t swear by his dead father* bones Ter havesome caitiffs blood. He ain’t no Duke, his name is Jone«. The Ireirtine, she riles a wluw 1 as bold as cwr wnz. And. dost era 1 they both talk jest like reel folks that's ltuan' does. Oh!give me back sane Austtrc ! Hey? Or okl.'SylvanusiCobb! j He wa* itlie boy-«Sylvanus was—yer bet he knew his job! Consarncfhesc modern chaps, J say, and all tlmr tiresome fireed! I’d like do git a novel of the ifcind we used ter jead. —Puck.

CURRENT COMMENT.

These is apparently a disposition to scuttle Mr. Harms's ship subsidy bill.— Richmond (Ya.) Hews. Mark Hanna evidently regards himself as ifke umpire of the p his Cummercial^Appeal. Rumors are unreliable, but it should not be forgotten that .Aguinaldo must die sometime*. -Milwaukee Sentinel. On the whole, we fancy that Mr. Hanna will #et his way, as he generally manages to in the iong run.-—Washing-ton Timt*. By the way, what ihas become of the frosecuuam of Ratfibone and Neely? )o they siillknnw too much?— itkfianapolis Sentinel. Before he writes histaext message. President McKinley should do some work for a short story syndicate.—Memphis Com-mercial-Appeal. Sir Alfred Milner graphically describes the situation in South Africa as hat-tug “all the horror with none of the dignity of war.”—New Y ork World. When the President becomes an Emperor it is to be presumed his annual message will be published in serial form.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. If Mr. Lease is divorced from Mary Elizabeth he will have a chance to move that he be restored to the position of head of a househ jld. Denver News. Nobody seen s to know where the Prestd-nt’s Thanksgiving turkey came from, but nobody thinks it was sent fiom Lorto Rico.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The poisonous beer scare in England is causing Hon. John G, Wooly to reflect that he overlooked a good thing in the way of a campaign roorback.—Denver Republican. Mr. McKinley could hardly be expected to hud much fault with the condition of a country that Had just re-elected him by an overwhelming majority.—Detroit Free Press. Some one should inform the Filipinos of McKinley's re-election. Up to date there are no surrenders worth mentioning, and General McArthur is tired of his job. —Denver News.

Secretary Root's recommendation of an army force-of about 100,000 men is not extravagant, provided we are to adhere to our policy in the Philippines.— Brooklyn Citizen. As Mr. McKinley has caused an overproduction of corn, he should now devise some means to raise the price or to preserve the grain until there is more demand for it.—Baltimore World. Young Mr, Phillips may imagine that he has had something to do with fiftycent corn, but as sure as eggs are eggs the Hon. William McKinley will blandly appropriate the credit therefor.—-Chicago Chronicle. Mr. McKinley thinks that peace and good government in the Philippines under our sovereignty were also setßfcd by the election. Alas, no such news has come from the seat of war.—NewYork Evening Post.

And now we are told that Cuba's independence is to be “delayed/ Of course it is. Mr. McKinley never intended to keep faith with Cubans, and if he has his way China never will attain independence.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Hon. Mary Ellen Lease has sued Mrs. Lease's husband for divorce on the grounds of desertion. Yet Mrs Lease's hi'aAtand was at home attending to the drugstore and minding the children all P'e time.—New York Evening Sun. No one can rcuionahly hope for good health unless his bowels move once each day. When this is not attended to, disorders of the stomach r.rise, biliousness. headache dyspepsia and piles soon follow. It you wish to avoid these ailments keep your bowels regular by taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver I ibleis "when required I'hev are so <• .» '.u .k ■ ai.ti hum and gentle in eo ct. loi sale by V. Lars'.

UNDER FIRE.

The Apologist Man and the CowPuncher In Close Quarters. As promised, we will give our readers the “proceedings” bofore the board of commissioners last week when they took up the matter of “examining” The Democrat’s bill for printing the ballots for the late election, or, rather, went through the form, as the whole thing was a farce. They intended to cut it in the middle, anyway, so that in order to get a reasonable price for the printing. -we-would tatnssin pell eel to take the j matter into the courts. Of course. I this would cost Jasper county considerable and she would lose in the end, but the dear people paid the bill and—anything to make trouble for The Democrat.

Well, the Apologist editor and his pard, the Old Man of the Sea, were o*ts hand. We showed the difference in the work over former years and what other’ counties charged for the same work. We were interrupted several times by the Apologist man who showed by his every action that nothing wohIM please him better than to haw the claim refused altogether, simply because it was presented by a democrat We stated that two years ago, when the county bafilot was owe-half smaller and the township ballot of scarcely no importance whatever, that this selfsame Apologist man charged and was paid $72 for the work. Here Marshall broke in and said we were mistaken, that the publishing o<f the notioe of election was included in that bill. We questioned him a little here: Q. Are you sure of this, Mr. Marshall? A. Yes. Q. Will you make oath that it was? A I will.

“Well,” re remarked, “this is easily settled,” and we called for the original claim as filled. This was brought in as was aiko his ’96 dinim. We tread off aloud the ’9B claim and found it as we had stated. (Tfee Journal published the notice of election that year.) Then we stated the amount of Marshall’s election printing bill for '96, when no township ballots were used at all, SB4. Here Marshall broke in again by saying that not all of this was for ballots, that he printed some instruction cards. We knew this and it was that particular item in the bill which we wished to show up, so we read off the bill aloud. The item referred to was “500 instruction cards, English and German, Bc. each, $40.” We again Questioned Mr. Marshall: Q. Did you print those instruction cards Mr. Marshall? A: Y es. Q. Are you positive that you printed them? A. \Y-ell,e-er, no, not exactly. Q As a matter of fact you simply bought them already printed, did youqafc? A. \ -es. (fie was becoming quite nervous.) Q And sold them to Jasper county? A. I DECLINE TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS THAT DO NOT APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE PRINTING OF THE 1900 BALLOTS. What we wanted to show was this: These big instruction cards were probably bought by the magnanimous Mr. Marshnll for about 5c each, or sls for the whole 500 lie being in the printing trade anti therefore being given the usual discount allowed by the big stationery houses “the trade”— nnd the extra $25 was his charges for acting as purchasing agent. This year when paper was much higher than in 1896* these cards were bought direct from W. B. Burford, who never forgets to charge counties the top figure, and they cost but sc. each or $25 for the whole 500. There were also several other charges of Marshall's we wished to expose.

Two or three times Marshall had attempted to switch off attention to himself by pushing the cowpuncher forward, and remarked that he would like to hear from the sage of the Barnacle, or words to that effect. The whole proceeding was amusing, and we enjoyed it thoroughly. You have no doubt seen in vaudeville plays a couple of old duffers who were about to do something which they were n little timid about attempting, for fear they would get the worst of it, and each trying to get the other rt) tnke the lead. This was about the condition of Marshall and his j>ard. The cow-puncher did not open his mouth until Marshall closed up like an oy—lobster and declined to be interviewed further, when he was questioned as follows: , , Air. Hal leek: Well, we are ready to listen to what Mr. McEwan has > say. What do you think it was

worth to print those ballots, Mr. McEwan ? The cow-puncher (pompously and with an air, of much learning) “I think that SSO would be a good big price. Had I been asked to print them I had intended to make tin l price $50.” This was amusing as every person present knew that McEwan could no more have done the job than could the man in the moon. Perhaps, though, his old pard, Marshall, ejected to do the work for him. Here wo broke in: Mr. Mc-Ewau,-havo-you ever printed any j since the taking effect of I the Australian ballot system, j A. “No, but in 1852 (it might have been 1492; we won’t be posi- | five about this. But it was one of j those two dates) I printed”— -

(The audiblesmiles of the august commissioners and the two or three spectatorsdrowned a part of the cow-puncher’s reply, and only the latter part whs caught) “but 1 think that the county ought to be treated exactly as we treat our business men in the way of public printing.” The writer: We cordially agree with you in the latter statement, Mr. McEwan, hut one question further: 111 1892, when the Australian ballot law first took effect in this state, the law required the publication of the tickets in the two party papers at the county seat, did it not? A. Yes.

Q. You made one of the publications in this county, did you not? A. Y-es. Q. Now regarding the publication of these ballots, did you “set up” the form of the state and national ballot? A. I think I did. Q. Are you sure you did? A. Quite p-positive Q. Will you make oath that you set up the former? A. N-o, but think I did. Q. Well, Mr McEwan, we ex- ! amined one of your papers only this morning in which the publica- • tion was made and find that it was "•plates.” No denial from the cow-puncher. Now, Mr. McEwan, those plates did not cost you to exceed $1.50 did they? A. Don’t re member. The witness was becoming very ! nervous. Q. Now, Mr. McEwan, you ! could place those plates in your I “forms” in ten minutes, could you not? Silence.

Q. Then, for the “form” of the county ballot you simply walked down the street a few steps (about 50 feet) to the office of your great and good friend, Mr. Marshall, of the Rensselaer Republican, who had the “form” all set up to print the ballots from and to “run” in his own paper, and borrowed his “form,” did you not? More silence, but a nervous twitching of the body. Q. You carried this “form" back to your den— )we wilfnot dignify it by using the word office) “locked’ the “form” up in your “chases,” with the state and national plate “form,” the whole proceeding not occupying more than twenty minutes, and "run” your papers off The next week you borrowed your good friend Marshall’s “form” of the county ticket again, locked it up in your forms and again run your “papers” off. Did the actual work on the publication of that complete ticket, require a halfhour's time? A. 1-1 don't know, (voice very weak, while Mr. Marshall’s creepy ! eyes were shifting uneasily.) Q. Do you remember what you charged Jasper county for making that publication two weeks, Mr. Me E wa it ?

A. X-o, I-I don’t remember. I (\ oice very weak and the witness about on the verge of collapse Murshnll paces to aud fro very nervously) , Q. \N ell, Mr. McEwan, you ! charged Jasper county and was paid $286.50. (More than his whole blamed outfit was worth.) You was not thinking then about treating the county the same as you would treat “our business men,” were you Mr. McEwan? Here his old {yard Marshall could contain himself no longer, and broke in wrathfully that the “publication referred to had nothing to dd with the printing of the 1900 ballots.”

We smiled, nnd cheerfully admitted that it had not except that we desired to show the old fraud’s love for Jasper county in treating it the same as he would treat “our business men.” As n matter of fact he would have jumped at the chance of Imposing of the G or 7 columns of “space” to any of “our business men” for as many dollars, no would have taken it nil “on in trade,” too. But his love foi J - per county was so strong I, charged it full legal rates ai. i $286,501 ,

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In this connection we wish tc state that we have since learned from reliable sources that tdte “plates ’of the state and nations*! 1 ballot were furnished him free by the state central committee, so hcwns not out a dollar, everr. fr>B' what he charged Jasper county $286.00 for. A nice specimen, this, to attempt to beat another out of an honest claim in which $25 h«l been expended for material aadl the services of paid printers for: three weeks!

The above allowance can b&’ found by any interested taxpayer" in Jasper county by referring to Commissioners’ Record No. page 502. in the auditor’s otfice. His old pard. Marshall, published! the notice of election, we believe,. in connection with the ballot publication in his paper, nnd he got* $515.50. A precious pair of old frauds these to go before the board of commissioners and tht*’ people of Jasper county and s»y that we want to rob the tn 'ayersby charging less for the v k ctf* printing the election ballots for" 1900 than almost anyother printer* in the whole charged* The “sour grapes” in their ease igaltogether too prominently shown? to need further comment, nnd had either one of them gotten the job the bill would have been muds heavier than was The Dem< >« uayV. We wanted to ask him about ft little notice that he published in '9B of graduation, which tin* other papers charged but $1.50 f<>r hut which lie charged nnd was paid >8.25 for. Also, about a lit.ib 1 ews notice that was mailed to aft the pnpprs in the county last s[ ring and which they volrntarilly published, and tint the cowpuncher put in a hill and was paid for said publication, somethings:' that no other paper in Rensselaer * did.

And right here we wish to state that the cow-puncher came mighty near violating the law when be filed a claim for voluntary set vices,. and the commissioners DID violate the law when they paid suefrt claim. „ Jim, the cow-puncher, wai*'. thoroughly exhausted nnd used* ap:, and we do not remember ot feist recovering during the entire examination. Nothing more of importance* was said and the needing fresh air badly, hi» odt pard asked that they be excn*« «. which Mr. Hnlleck gladly consented to, and they departed, After a few moments Vvt» al > ft t , room and returned to oui *k

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