Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

John Hull has once more played Santa Claus for the Boers. Ex-County Clerk Williams (republican) it is alleged is short between £2OOO and SISOOO in fees and funds paid into the office.— Win-aniae-Democrat-Journal. For Mark Hanna’s snke it is to l>e hoped that the friends of his shipping bill have not been talking the matter over with their constituents during the holidays. An Indiana widow has collected $4,000 from the sheriff’s bondsmen because her husband was taken from that officer and lynched by a mob. This is likely to discourage lynching in Indiana. The London papers having put forth their diurnal prognostication declaring that Kitchiner had DoWet surrounded. The latter has returned his weekly answer by capturing Several hundred more Britisher;;. The legislature will lie asked for an appropriation for a monument to be erected on the Tippecanoe battlefield. Congressman Crmnpackei las introduced a bill in congress it-king the government to assi.'t in paying the cost of same. We hr.vc been expecting some new excuse by the Administration for net surrendering the control Cuba, as it is pledged to do, and are not surprised by the discover}’ of enormous foreign claims that will be pressed as soon as theisland is freed. If it hadn’t been this, something else would have been dug up. A Baltimorecollege has ascertained that common salt is the elixer of life and even a dead heart • can be made to beat by a liberal application of it. We advise the doubtful young man to take a package wilh him when he goes to eall on his sweetheart. If he can’t touch her heart he may yet use it to catch her -—if she isn’t to old a birth The New England papers are advising the negroes to immigrate to the north, ‘ where white and black are equal before the law." Negroes who acoept this advice and go north will find that the mechanical trades tlmt are open to them in the south are closed in the north. No skilled trades union wid permit a negro to work in competition with it. This is a cold fa-I. One of the chief reasons for the Republicans trying to violate the Constitution in its colonial policy was the ft ;,r ot immigration from the Philippines. Now, however, it has been demonstrated that natives of the tropics do not emigrate to the northerly countries. 1 mmigiTc k.n to the l idled States from the tropics in the last ten years ha b en less than one per cent of <!ie total immigration. Some o .'a ctions as to Republican met hoi. > are aroused by the passng * <»f i e bill putting Mr. Hontcde. of Maine, on the retired list ■ ! ti i* mivv on the ground Hud in- \>a . practically insane. V t. Mr Doutclle has been elected to CongiVfo. since his affliction mnnifts’ed itself, an election, which, in that case, was manifestly iilce.nl. How, then, can he resign an i hire to which he is not entitled ami why should not his Democratic opponent be entitled to his ? t at v Wednesday was the most memorable day in the financial history of the Lnited States. A larger amount was distributed by the corporations in dividends and interest than has ever been paid out before on one day in this or any other country, the amount was $175,(X U,OOO, or about twelve dollars to every family in the l nitod States. If you feel in your pocket in vain for your sl2 don’t be afraid that iis lost. Perhaps it got into the pocket of John D. Rockefeller’