Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1901 — Page 6

i W "W J E wish to inform our patronsand the geni. ▼ ▼ eral public that we have succeeded in i getting a first class upholsterer and re- ■ ~"pair man and we are now in a position to i do all kinds of new and repair work in that line, also that we are prepared to do all kinds of painting and decorating, picture framing and pasteling. We are here to stay and bound to give satisfaction. Try • nnuun i v U 8 y° u Bee ; UUNNtLLT that w ® ca ? you. Work called BROS. for and delivered. I Phone 203 A ! RENBBFLAER U : INDIANA W

Sample Buggy For Sale. We have secured a specially constructed buggy from the Tripp Bros.. High Grade factory, and not needing it, will sell the same at $65.00 cash. It is their regular SBO.OO job and they, wishing to introduce their work in this locality, offered us an SBO.OO buggy at a very low price, advising us to sell it at $65.00 cash or $70.00 payable in bankable notes, and in this manner advertising their work. That it is a special piece of work is an absolute fact, as it has taken five weeks to make it up. It h\ guaranteed one year. G. M. Wilcox & Son, Surrey, Ind. For Sale or Trade; Good two story 8-room house, good barn, J acre of ground, three blocks rom court house. Will sell cheap or trade for piece of land located mot more than 5 miles of town. J. T. Lamson, Rensselaer, Ind. 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. Cows For Sale. 200 milkers and springers; always on hand. Sold on one year’s time. Sam Yeoman Irwin & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and commission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. Sidney Jr. 16248. Standard and Registered. 'Phis handsome trotting stallion will be in Rensselaer Wednesday of each week, and longer if necessary, until July 1, at Jerry Schofield’s brick livery barn. Farmers and breeders please call and see this horse before breeding your mares. I defy competition. Georoe Jessen, Owner and Manager. Come to The Democrat office for mounting boa rd.

5 PER CENT. MONEY. Money to burn. We know you bate to Btnell the smoke. Stock up your farms while there is money in live stock and save taxes on 5700.00 every year. Takes 36 hours at the longest to make the most difficult loans. Don’t have to know (he language of your great grandmother. Abstracts always on hand. No red tape. Chilcote & Parkison. MONON EXCURSION RATES. For the Pnn-American Exposition, ticket* on sale <l*ll/ during the Exposition with limit of IS day*, 118.90 for the round trip. Ticket* on Mie Tuesday* only. during the month of May, with limit of 5 day*. 515.20 round trip. Through Ticket* will not bo told only via Delphi or Lafayette. —O—•1 00 for the round trip to Logansport. May 18. 14, IS. good returning to May 18, G. A. R. Meeting. —O'St.4o round trip to Indianapoil*. May 28. 29. —o 83.30 to Indianapoil*. May 20 and 21. I. O. O. F. Grund Ixxlge Meeting. W. U. Rbam. Agt. jqOTICK OF APPOINTMENT. State of Indiana, I R , County of Jasper. | Notice I* hereby given.that the undersigned ha* been appointed by the Clerk of the Jaal>er Circuit Court. admlni«trator of the estate *«f Eb Morri*, deceased, late of Jasper county, Indiana. Said estate Is supposed to be solv. •ent. Judson J. Hunt. Adni'r. Morris’ English Worm Powder sar Sold by A. F. Long.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

PROTECTIVE TARIFF MUST GO. | Near the close of the last Congress the chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, J. W. Babcock, introduced a bill to abolish the tariff on iron and steel. This was just after the formation of the steel trust was announced. This apparent lapse of Mr. Babcock from the dogma of protection caused considerable talk and lie was interviewed by the newspapers. In one 1 of these interviews he is reported to | have said;—“lt was to forestall similar action by a Democrat.” No action was itaken by the committee to whom the bill was referred, Mr. Babcock evidently did not expect it, he was merely playing to the galleries, in fact his bill did not abolish the duty on iron and steel, it merely pretended, to. It provided for the repeal of the iron schedule, *>tit did not repeal or change section 193, which provides for an advalorem duty of 45 per cent on iron and steel not specifically provided for in the act. The steel trust would doubtless be quite satisfied with this 45 per cent tariff. Two or three Democrats at the first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress had introduced bills repealing all duties on trust articles, but the committee on ways and means never considered thejn, the Republican majority bei»g opposed to such action. Mr. Babcock, therefore, did not forestall the Democrats, who are pledged by their national platform against trusts and the Dingley tariff and will certainly introduce a bill to that end when the Fifty-seventh Congress assembles. This will again try the faith of those Republicans who feel that the trusts should be curbed. If the steel trust is to be legislated against why not the sugar trust, the tin trust and the hundred and one other trusts and combines. But to do this would require nearly every schedule of the tariff law to be repealed and the whole fabric of protection would be wiped out. This would leave the Republican party with but imperialism as a living issue and with the greatest source of its campaign funds cut off without a countervailing fountain to draw’ from. A large itajorfty of the Republican Senators and Representatives have received and are receiving favors from the trusts, combines and corporations, many of them are owmed by the trusts and relief to the people from them is unlikely and almost Impossible.

But there are other troubles for the protectionists. The State Department and tlie diplomats have become interested in the tariff discussion. The countervailing duties on Russian beet sugar has been met by that country with a large increase of duty on American goods, so that door is closing against us. Germany and France are also said to be intending retaliatory measures, and even many of the English politicians are talking the same way. Then we have the colonial tariff question that must be settled and our new possessions may soon be supplying us with sugar and some kinds of tobacco. Free sugar from Puerto Rico and the Philippines would cut off the revenue from that source, wipe out the American sugar plantations, and free tobacco would ruin the protected Connecticut wrapper grower. The whole tariff Is a complicated but frail structure, and, like the children's house of cards, a finger or a breath will cause a wreck. When you have local politics, loot and diplomacy, all taking a hand, and inherited faith in the doctrine, they have taught their rank and file to worship, to beware of, one cannot envy our Republican friends the job of tariff revision they must soon enter upon. The Democratic plan of tariff for revenue will have to be adopted sooner or later.

President McKinley Congratu'atcd. The administration, finding It impossible any longer to ignore the repeated reports of the awful conditions existing in the Philippines, is at last taking notice of the matter. President McKinley, we congratulate you, says the Chicago New Voice, upon the evidence that our efforts to arouse you to an appreciation of the enormities that are perpetrated In your name in the Philippine Islands are bearing fruit. According to cable dispatches from Manila, General MacArthur sent to you on Saturday last, pre sumnbly at your request, a report upon the “saloons and the social evil’’ in the Philippine Islands. It requires no very considerable conjecture to understand why such a report was requested at this time. Concerning the character of the report which your General lias rendered, there is no public. Information at the time that wo write. We presume it to be not nt all Improbable that, following the example of the Taft commission, he will begin ids report with a denial of the charges which we have made, aud conclude it with an admission that the charges are correct. Still It Is possible, that the report may contain nothing but the denial. Its character will, perhaps, be largely Influenced by the character of the request for Information which you have made. We will frankly admit, Mr. President, that we have very little confidence that you will obtain, or can obtain, accurate reports of the conditions in Manila, although, as compared with us, you have great advantage's for getting Information. Every cablegram

which we have received from Manila or sent to that city has cost us $2.41 per word. Yours cost you nothing, and we help pay for them. But your representatives at Manila have not dealt fairly witli you in the past, and there is reason to believe will not deal fairly with you in the future, until they become convinced that you really desire the facts. Still, Mr. President, we encourage you to keep on asking for reports from Manila. If your generals and commissioners there do not tell you the truth, we will correct their statements, and, as in the past, give you the real facts, a little tardily, perhaps, but correct when you get them. If, upon the other hand, your representatives should conclude to give you the truth, their report will drive you to action; so that, in any event, sooner or later you must and will change the conditions that now exist under your government in the Philippine islands, and abolish and forever forbid the open disregard of civilized Christian standards of morality now practiced by your representatives. Yes, Mr. McKinley, we congratulate you. The indications are hopeful for the regeneration of your Philippine government. Possibly you do not feel in the mood, as yet, to fully appreciate our efforts; but sooner or later you will discover that we really are your friends in this matter and have been laboring to save you and the nation from the results of your mistakes.

Why Not Hanna? Mr. Bryan says in the .Commoner; Many people smile when Mark Hanna is suggested as the possible Republican nominee in 1904, but there is no real occasion for these smiles. The fact is that Mark Hanna is the best possible representative of the Republican party as at present constituted. His ideas are entirely out of harmony with the Ideal of the founders of the Republican party, and yet be has brought that party to his way of thinking. He has shattered traditional notions, lie has forced many Republican leaders into the background, and he is to-day the master of the Republican party. This is not exaggeration. It is statement of very apparent facts. Why should the Republicans hesitate to put forward the man most truly typical of modern Republicanism? Subsidy Unnecessary. The announcement that the English company, Vickers’ Sons & Maxim, will establish at Philadelphia a ship-building yard, to compete with the Cramps and other large ship building firms of this country. Is the most conclusive evidence that the susbsidy for ships as proposed in thp Hanna bill is unnecessary. The position taken by the Democratic members of the United States Senate, when the bill was under discussion, that this country could more than compete with England in the building of ships, both in quality and price, and that the payment of the vast subsidy proposed would be looting the treasury to enrich the ship owners, is thus early being verified.

Trickery Due to Tariffs. 1 he Canadian woolen manufacturers have their troubles. They are protected, as are the manufacturers in this country, by a stiff tariff rate, but they have discovered that German manufacturers have been getting the advantage of tlie preferential rate given to goods imported from Great Britain by having their goods shipped from British ports. The imposition of tariff duties is at the bottom of a great deal of trading wickedness undervaluation, smuggling, deception in trade-marks, etc.- Philadelphia Record. Babcock Mav Cause Trouble. Again we find Congressman Baltcock, of \\ isconsln, making himself unpopular at Republican headquarters by assuring Ins constituents that lie lias not abandoned the tight for a lower tariff on trust-made articles and the abolition of the duties on steel, tin plate and glass. If he keeps his word the next session of Congress will not be entirely dull and uninteresting. Minneapolis Times. Political Potpouri. Asa sop to the outraged feelings of the civil-service reformers for past delinquencies, President McKinley Is said to have promist'd to extend the service by Including laborers. The boasted “splendid diplomacy” of the administration on the Chinese question has so far, instead of opening the door to Chinn, closed Manchuria, which has been one of our main markets. The success of the Democrats at the spring elections In the larger cities was mainly brought about by their championship of municipal ownership, thus espousing the cause of the people, while the Republicans were favoring the corporations. The bulls and bears of Wall street are having one of the toughest struggles of their Ilves; millions are at stake every hour. It is well to remember that money is not manufactured In Wall street; every dollar won there must be lost by some one. It now appears that Editor Rice was deported from Manila for telling the truth about the scandalous doings of the Collector of the Port of Manila, for since his newspaper was suppressed and himself sent home the Collector has been transferred to Japan.

MODERATE COFFEE-DRINKING.

Medical Opinions *• to the Injariowoneas of ths Baverage. The inhabitants of tha United States consume annually, statistics show, 750,000,000 pounds of coffee, and as there are about 75,000,000 inhabitants, each of them has to his credit ten pounds in the course of the year. Notwithstanding this, a wave of fear sweeps over the country every little while, and the coffee drinkers lift up their voices and say: “Are we not harming our health with drinking so much coffee?” The subject has lately been discussed by a number of medical societies. Physicians are pretty generally agreed that the moderate consumption of coffee Is not injurious, and “moderate consumption” they define as one cup at breakfast, one at noon, and one In the evening. Coffee taken plain, without either cream or sugar, they say is less harmful than the sweetened cafe-au-lait, or milk coffee, which fermenting, is bad for the digestive organs. Smokers are better off with coffee than without it, as tobacco, being a narcotic, weakens the heart's action, while coffee, a stimulant, strengthens it, so that the heart of the smoking coffee drinker does not vary, as a rule, from the heart of him who has neither the one habit nor the other. The smoker who does not drink coffee has usually a weak heart. The disciples of the no-breakfast faith say that one cup of coffee between two cups of hot water in the morning is good for the health—Philadelphia Record.

Found Humor in a Storm.

The elements were all on a toot last Sunday. As the day grew old the storm grew more violent. It seemed to favor this office with steady attention. The sign blew dowm like a feather from a flying goose. The wind howled like a jaglfled demon. I thought of Galveston. Then I battened down the hatches, tied myself to the big press and allowed resignation to spread Itself slowly over my benign or ten countenance. After that I rested easier. The lurid flashes of nature’s electriclight plant revealed ever and anon the jolemnlty of the occasion. The rain descended in long sheets of active moisture, and I knew that somewhere rainmakers were working overtime. The office sprang a leak abaft the first smokestack, and I thought of Noah, but It did me no good; nothing In the building would pair, not even my hosiery. The storm increased In virulence and the roar on my tin-slated hurricane deck was like Niagara. The bulldog howled as though praying In Galilee, while the mice which have been stealing my paper all summer came out of their holes, and with tears in their eyes begged my forgiveness. Take it all In all, It was the wettest storm this town has had for many moons, and It has made soft water a drug In the market.—New Denver, B. O-, Ledger.

A Fearful Struggle.

“There goes a man who Is having a fearful struggle with his appetite.” “What, that clean-cut, healthy-look-Ing chap over there?” “That’s the one.” “Why, he doesn’t look like a slave to any appetite.” “He is, though, and he’s having an awful time of It. He grits his teeth, and succeeds In subduing It for a whole day, maybe, but the very next It conquers him, and he’s just as bad off as ever.” “What Is it—whisky?" “Oh, no! He never drinks.” “Morphine?” “No, Indeed.” “Well, what is that has such a hold on him?” “His appetite, I told you.” “For food?” “Certainly.” “Well, what’s the matter with It? Why has he any struggle over It?” “Why, he says that if he could only go without eating for about a month he could get the girl he's engaged to a present as elaborate as she expects.” —Harper’s Bazar. To ride one’s hobby-horse around the dining table, to the confusion of one’s hostess.

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Power of Growing Vegetation.

The power of growing vegetables, plants, trees, etc., Is something wonderful. At Ceoeriac, Honduras, a concrete church, 18x26 feet and built of solid granitoid walls, three feet in thickness, has been moved eighteen inches since 1879 by the growth of a blue gum tree. The Fungi Journal tells of a mushroom that lifted a London paving stone which weighed 500 pounds, and which was wedged in on all sides by other stones; and of a common cow pumpkin which almost overturned a fence. When the above instances of the wonderful power of growing vegetation were first published, experts at the Agricultural Department’s ground, Washington, D. 0., were directed to make experiments. They did so and found that the force of a growing pumpkin, of the “Yankee” variety, was sufficient to lift two aad one-half tons, providing the weight is so placed as not to interfere with the growth or natural development of the vegetable.

From Death’s Door.

Hillsdale, 111., April 29th—Much Interest has been aroused here over the case of William Marks, who has been In a dying condition for several months with an apparently incurable Kidney Disease. The leading physicians of this place had pronounced his case a hopeless one. and others from Port Byron, Geneseo, and Davenport, la., had attended him. and In a consultation decided that he could not live. In desperation, his nephew inquired of Mr. L. F. Giles, a local druggist, as to a last resort. Mr. Giles suggested Dodd’s Kidney 4 Pills, a remedy which had just been Introduced here. The results were marvelous. Mr. Marks Immediately began to Improve, and within a few weeks was able to be up and about, completely cured. His cure Is the talk of the neighbor hood, and Is considered nothing short of a miracle. There appears to be no doubt that thh new remedy, Dodd’s Kidney Pills, will cure any case of Kidney Disease, for the more malignant forms, such as Bright’s Disease, Diabetes, and Dropsy yield readily to its remarkable influ ence. These forms of Chronic Kidney Disease have hitherto been considered Incurable, and have baffled all medical skill, and yet, this new remedy has cured every single case In which it has been used, In this neighborhood. The doctors themselves are amazed at the wonderful work Dodd’s Kidney Pills are accomplishing in Rock Island County.

Curious Funeral in England.

A curious story is told in the British war office. Some years ago a workman was engaged in casting metal for the manufacture of ordnance at the Woolwich arsenal when he lost his balance and fell into a huge caldron containing twelve tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat, and, of course, the unfortunate man was utterly consumed in an instant. The War Department authorities held a conference and decided not to profane the dead by using the steel in the manufacture of ordnance, and the enormous mass of metal was actually interred and a Church of England clergyman read the burial service over it.

Quaint Prayer of a Child.

A little girl in a Pennsylvania town, in saying her prayers the other night, was told to pray for her father and mother, who were both very ill, and for one of the servants, who had lost her husband. Bhe faithfully did as she was told and then, impressed with the dreary condition of things, added, on her own account: “And now, O God, take good care of yourself, for if anything should happen to you we would all go to pieces. Amen.”

The Cold Shoulder.

It was once customary in France, when a guest had remained too long, for the host to serve a cold shoulder of mutton instead of a hot roast This was the origin of the phrase, "to give the cold shoulder.”

A Poor Woman has just as much right to good health as a rich woman. Dr. Greene offers free of charge to every woman, the advice that leads to health and strength. Write to him at 3S W. 14th St., New York City, and toil him all about your weakness. The special advice of the discoverer of Dr. Greene’s Nervura oannot be bought for money, but it will be given to you free if you will write.

Indian Etiquette.

A teacher in an Indian school in MlchW gan writes as follows: “It Is very inter* esting to study these children, especially as we have them from four different! tribes, and I should very much like to write up my impressions, only that I can scarcely keep up with my work aa it is. These boys have a sense of humor. In my flag drill last Friday the partners were a boy and a girl, and where the lines intersect to form the cross I taught the boys to let their partners go first, and hgrd trouble I had to do it, too. After the exercises Isaac Crane came up to me and in his solemn way said, ‘Miss 8., in letting the girls pass in front of the boys you have struck at the root of an Indian national custom.* I said, *HoW| so, Isaac?* and he answered, ‘lt is the custom for the man to go first, carrying his dignity, and for the woman to follow, carrying everything else.’ "—Washington Star.

$100 Reward, $100.

The reader of this paper wtu be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded dlaaaaa that science has been able to cure in all Its atoms, and that Is Catarrh. HaU’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a eonstnutldnal treatment. HaU’s Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying tha foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in dolaj Its work. The proprietors have so much faith la Its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. HF*Bold by Drugtfste. 75c. -

Leaven as Insect Incubators.

The leaves of several plants often contract in a remarkable way to form lodging places for young insects to be hatched from eggs laid In the substance of the leaf. When an egg has been laid in a leaf <jf the chickweed it contracts into globular form. The 'juniper leaf sends oat a small globular body, or excrescence, while the leaf of the poplar puts forth a juice that dries Into a red globe.

If Coffee Poisons You.

ruins your digestion, makes you nervous and sallow complejdoned, keeps you awake nights and acts against your system generally, trv Graiu-O, the new food drink. It is made of pure selected grain and is healthful, nourishing and appetising. It has none of the bad effects of coffee, yet it is just as pleasant to the taste, and when properly prepared can’t be told from the finest coffees. Costs about % as much. It is a healthful table drink for the children and adults. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. 15 and 25c.

As the Pagans Did.

“There'll be big bargains at that firs sale to-day,” remarked Mrs. Schoppen at breakfast. “I think I'll run down there.” “The idea!” exclaimed her husband. “How paganish!” “What's paganish?” “Why, participating in burnt sacrifices.” —Philadelphia Press.

You Can Get Allen’s Foot-Ease FREE.

Write to-day to Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's FootEase, a powder to shake Into your shoes. It cures tired, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All druggists and shoe stores sell It. 23c.

Half a Million Members.

The French Legion of Honor is the biggest honor of merit. It numbers 500,000 members. I am sure Piso’s Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos. Robbins, Maple street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1900. It is estimated that there are about 400,000 Angora goats In the United States, and that our annual production of mohair is about 1,000,000 pounds. A Month's Test Free. If you have Dyspepsia, write Dr. Bhoop. Raclnc,Wia, Box 14*. tor six bottles of Dr. Shoop's Restorstirs. Ex. prase paid. Send no money. Pay 55.50 if cured. To protest too much. The obvious refutes doubt, and goodness needs no placard. Mrs. Wlnnlow'e BooTsnre Sravr for Children teething: cottons the sums, reoncec Inflammation, allaya pain, curat wind 00110. taoeete a bottle.