Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1901 — Page 6

m coir OMIT. F.l. BUBGOCK, EDITOR 118 PUBLISHER. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Catered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. ■*—- as second class matter. —— TERRS OF SUBSCRIPTIONt ONE YEAR SI.OO SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable In Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellle & Murray’s Store.

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Jasper County

Jasper is the second largest county in Indiana. having an area of 670 square miles. Population of Jasper County. 14,202; Population of Rensselaer, the County Seat, 2,265. Jasper county has gained 8,107 in population since 1800; Rensselaer gained 800. Fine farming and stock raising county. Corn, Oats, Wheat and Hay are principal crops. Onion. Sugar Beet and stock growing largely in Northern portion of County. Fine Lubricating Oil is also found in northern portion and hundreds of wells are now producing while Others are being put down. Price of land ranges from $25 to SSO per acre in northern part of county, to SOS to SIOO per acre in central and southern portion.

Petty stealing is regarded as a lynching offense in California. Manilla papers plense copy. We must not forget that the American dag now covers a limited number of slaves and some hundreds of “plural wives" in Sulu. Now why doesn’t Mr. Morgan buy China, pay the indemnity and have himself chosen Emperor? This would solve things so nicely. It would be advisable if Justice Brown would tell us whether the part of the Constitution that forbids slavery, follows the flag to Sulu. Just as General Blood has utterly exterminated the Boers, they turn up and slay some 174 Britishers. They are evidently lively ghosts. By dispensing with the services of twenty-four chaplains, King Edward VII, in his efforts to economize will pretty soon be forced to do his own praying. General Grant Bays we are justified in taking the Philippines because they are rich beyond compare. That’s what every successful thief has said of his booty. Judging from the later reports from South Africa there are a few fighting Boers left in the field. And yet it was only a few days ago that Sir Alfred Milner wa6 made a peer.

The mid-summer meeting of the Indiana democratic editorial association will be held at Logansport, Thursday and Friday, July 11 and 12, with headquarters at Murdock hotel. The appellants brief in the case of Charles R. Weatherhogg, vs. board of commissioners of Jasper county, for extra services as architect on the new court house, was filed in the supreme court last Friday. It has been recently decided by an Indianapolis judge that it is no offense to open a Jackpot with a counterfeit coin. Wait until the trick is worked on him and he will not hesitate to change his decision. The Taft Commission has formally extended free trade to the island of Jolo under the so-called “treaty” made by General Bates with the Sultan. We had imagined that treaties had to be ratified by the Senate.

Can the recent decision of the Supreme Court long stand? Can it even command respect? Decided one way hv the vote of one man and decided the other way by the vote of the same man, whose reasoning was not sustained in either case, even by those who concurred in his conclusions, must it not fall to pieces when the later cases come to be decided? The Knox Crescent, Starke county's second democratic paper, established a little more than one year ago, has been sold to R. S. Wellock of Delphi, who will issue it on neutral lines hereafter. There was really no call for a second democratic paper in Starke county, and the Crescent had practically no democratic support. The Starke County Democrat amply covers the field and is one of the best county papers in northern Indiana.

If the coasts of the United States include Porto Rico, as the Supreme Court says they do, they must include the Philippines. But Spain is entitled to the same privileges out there for ten years that the United States is. Hence —but you can draw the conclusion for yourselvea. If the United States is really entitled to free trade with the Philippines, as seems to be the case under the Supreme Court’s decision, then Spain is also entitled to it under the terms of the treaty. As Spain’s trade is double that of the United States the decision will cost Uncle Sam a pretty penny.

THE TEST OF DEMOCRACY.

William Jennings Bryan, in discussing the decision of the supreme court in the insular cases, says: The decision in effect declares that the people are not the source in power; it defends taxation without representation and denies that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed. It assails the foundation of the republic and does so on the ground of -expediency. * • * This decision, like the Dred Scott decision, raises a political issue which must be settled by the people. The supreme court has joined with the president and congress in an attempt to change the form of our government, but there yet remains an appeal to the people. Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina, in his letter to the governor of that state, published Sunday, says: The recent decision of the supreme court promulgating the damnable doctrine that this republic, whose bedrock principle is the "consent of the governed,” can acquire, by conquest or purchase, territories and peoples, to be controlled and taxed without representation “through congressional absolutism” must be met and exposed and plans must be laid for a battle to the death of the lovers of democracy and liberty against this heresy. Mr. Bryan is right. Senator Tillman is right. Their words are the words of the highest patriotism, and will find an echo in the heart of every man, whatever his past political affiliations, who believes in the Brinciples of Magna Charta, the ►eclaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights, and in a Government of the People, by the People and for the People. Whatever doubt any citizen may have entertained that the McKinley administration, acting under the dictation of the money lords, has deliberately adopted a revolutionary policy and program contrary to the principles upon which this government was founded, and subversive of liberty, justice and inalienable rights of man, is swept away by the monstrous decision of the supreme court in these cases. The decision leaves but one issue before the American people. There will be but one issue until it is settled for all time. The Kansas City convention rightfully declared this issue “paramount." So it was in 1900. In 1901 it is not only the paramount issue, it is the only issue which the American people can afford to seriously consider. Until t(jis supreme issue is disposed of all questions of financial or econmic policy must be regarded as puerile and insignificant. Until it is disposed of there can be but two political parties in this country one the party of free government, that is to say, the democratic party; the other the party of imperialism, miscalled the republican party. Every man who stands with those great jurists and patriots. Fuller, Harlan, Peckham and Brewer, and is ready to do battle for the immortal principles which they asserted in the dissenting opinions in the insular cases, is a democrat, whether he believes in protection or free trade, monometallism, subsides or income tax, or what you will. Measured by this supreme test Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, David B. Hill and Adini Stevenson, Richard 01ney and William J. Stone. Melville W. Fuller and Charles A. Towne, John G. Carlisle and David Turple, are all democrats. However these men may have disagreed upon questions of finance and taxation, they are of one mind upon the supreme question presented by thd McKiniey-Hanna program of revolution and imperialism, which has just been busstained by a bare majority of the supreme court, in defiance of precedent, reason and every accepted i rule of constitutional construction. It is the duty of these men, and of all who, like them, believe in constitutional liberty and in free government to drop all other questions and unite in a supreme struggle to rescue the republic from the fate which threatens it if the constitution is to become the dead letter which the supreme court, itself the creature of the constitution, would make it.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Everybody reads The Democrat.

The Wm. Fowler Cattle Test.

To Everett Haitead, Acme Food Agt., N. W T . Ind. Dear Sir:—l divided and fed 104 head of cattle as follows: — 52 head of cattle not fed Acme food weighed Jan. 22, 1901. .57,010 lb 52 “ “ Feb. 17, 1901..59,810 lb 52 “ “ “ “ “ » “ Mar. 10, 1901..62,220 lb 52 head of battle fed Acme food weighed Jan. 22, 1901..56,720 lb 52 “ “ « Feb. 17,1901..60,880 lb 52 “ “ “ “ “ “ “ Mar. 10,1901..63,110 lb I had feed the cattle corn for about 60 days prior to the time 1 commenced feeding the food, and when I divided I think they were fairly divided, but I fed the food to the lightest cattle and fed both bunches the same amount of corn daily, therefore showing a better assimilation and digestion and net gain of nearly \ lb per head daily more on the Acme Food fed cattle. W. C. Compton, Earl Park, Ind.

The supreme court on Wednesday bended down another taxferret decision which is of especial interest to Jasper county just at this time. In the case carried up from this connty and decided in favor of the county it was held by those fighting the investigation that the court only ruled on only one point of the question at issue, and that if the investigation was again continued, delay at least could once more be occasioned by taking the matter into the courts on another proposition. The decision just handed down, however, seems to pretty thoroughly cover the matter in all its phases. The case was taken up from Howard county. The opinion is by Judge Dowling, and holds:

1. Sec. 5,780, R. S. 1881, authorizing a board of commissioners to employ persons to render additional services In case of indispensable public necessity to be found board and entered of record, is constitutional. 2. Such provisions of said section were not repealed by the fee and salary law of 180). 3. Where the reasons for employing experts to search for and collect money due thecounty were stated in a proposition submitted by them, and the proposition was made a part of the record of proceedings of the board of commissioners, followed by a recital that it would be to the interest of the county to accept the same, and that an indispensable public necessity existed for the employment of experts to do work that was enumerated, the facts constituting the necessity were sufficiently found and entered of record. 4. Said sec. 5,780 was within the title of the act of which it formed a part, and is constitutional. 5. A board of commissioners has power to employ experts for such purpose aside from the provisions of said section. 6. Searching the records as experts to discover moneys due the county was not the personal duty of the commissioners. 7. One-half of the sums collected was not necessarily' unreasonable compensation, where the collections were small and the labor of collecting was great.

McVicker’s Theatre.

“Lovers’ Lane,” the summer attraction at McVicker's Theatre, Chicago, has proved itself as delightful a play as its name indicates. All of the charm of idyllic country town life is revealed in the piece. It smells of the fragrant blossoms of spring and shows pictures of orchards in the bloom of May and again when October has changed the green to browns and yellows and rich red apples hang in profusion from the branches of the trees. Under the shade of these trees a drama is enacted in which delicious comedy follows heart-touching pathos in such quick succession laughter echoes the sound of sobs. The play is brimful of quaint characters and the situations are, many of them, side splitting in their power if producing mirth. One of the most charming ’personages of recent dramatic literature is Simplicity Johnson, the charity girl whom Mr. Singleton, the minister, befriends and watches over. Simplicity, or Simple, as the reverend gentleman calls her, is a little waif of 11 years and her sorrows and joys fill the hearts of those who see her. Her simple pathos when she finds the minister, whom she adores and hopes to marry when “she is big,” has given his heart to Miss Larkin,* the art student from New York, is one of the sweetest touches in the play. Simple loves to play with the boys; she climbs trees; she is not averse to a game of marbles; and in other ways she shocks the j prim prudery of Miss Mealy, the I village school mistress. She is I Baid to be the “most punished! child in school” and this is true, for though Simplicity will not lie nor steal and always takes the part of the weak, she likes to see a good fight and she is always independent and ready with her tongue to answer her teacher. But she has stanch friends in the minister and Miss Larkin and they see her through her troubles. Mr. Wm. A. Brady has given “Lovers Lane” a fine production and the company is one of the best which has come to the west in several seasons.

Didn’t Marry For Monty

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A NOBLE NAME.

A great responsibility is restin' on my head. I worry 'bout it through the day an' nights when I’m in bed; Last week a baby bov to darter Idy’s household came, An’they've left it to his gn-n’pap fer t‘ pick him out a name. I’ve been a-readin’ histories, biographies an’ sich, To tind the names of fellers that were either great errich; I see they varied quite a bit from first t’ last; but, still. The most succcessful of ’em bore the good ol’ name of “Bill." Now Mandy’s hoppin’ mad at me. an’Js set her foot down flat, Our little gran’son ’s got to have a better name ’n that! I tell her Cowper, Hazlitt. Allingham an' Chillingworth, Congreve. Blackstone an' Shakespeare bore the name of Bill from birth T' honored age; while Aytoun, Bryant, Dunbar an’ Dunlap, Cartwright an’ Caxton, never thought it much of a mishap That they was christened it; an’ so. let them tind fault as will, I’m more an' more determined that I'll call the baby "Bill.” Bill Sherman done good fight'n’, and Bill Evarts soared in speech; I reckon Bill Lloyd Garrison was somet ing of a peach! Bill Howells does fine writin’. but the only books fer me Are those turned out some years ago by old Bill Thackeray! I cannot help but feel, somehow, that name has got a charm— I’ve worn it 00 years myself, it ain’t done me no harm! So, though to Mandy it may be a mighty bitter pill, The little chap at Idy’s house I’m goin’ t' christen "Bill!” —Puck.

K. of P. Decoration Day.

Decoration Day service of the order of Knights of Pythias will beoDserved at VVeston’s cemetery in Rensselarer on Tuesday, June 11th, 1901. Tuesday following the second Sunday in June of each year, having been sec apart as Memorial Day of the order of Knights of Pythias, Rensselaer Lodge No. 82, announces to the public generally that on Tuesday, the 11th day of June, 1901, the Knights of Pythias will convene at Weston’s Cemetery in tne city of Rensselaer at 1:30 o’clock p. m. to pay a tribute of respect to departed worth, and to devote a portion of the afternoon to the memory of their departed brothers. They have buried in Weston’s cemetary eleven brothers of the order namely: Benjamin Tuteur, Leslie Grant, George M. Robiuson, Ludd Hopkins, James C. Morgan, Victor E. Loughridge, James f. Watson, Robert Phillips, Elzie Phillips, Jack Leatherman, and Bruce Pumphrey, and at the Crocket grave yard one, Carl Maichow.

If any of the families or friends of the departed brothers desire to co operate with us in the decoration of the graves of their loved ones they may send to the Knights of Pythias Hall any flowers or floral pieces with directions, and the proper distribution oi such flowers or floral pieces will be made, at th' grave yard. The Knights will gather about the graves of their departed brothers to bring back to memory the love they bore them in life and to cherish their memories. The ceremonies will be conducted in accordance with our established customs, assisted by the Rathbone Sisters. The Citizens Cornet Band will be in attendance. A short speech will be made at the stand. Let every one, old and young, of every creed, religion or benevolent organization, attend and bear witness, and thus learn to dnow how bright the memory of our departed brothers bloom in the garden of our affections. All members of the order will meet at Castle Hall at one o’clock P. M. without fail.

Committee.

A Terrible Explosion

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Bales Lumber Company Lumber, Laih, Shingles, Doors, Windows, Sewer Pipe ( Flue Linings, Vitrified Brick, Hard and Soft Coal, Etc. Esiiiies Mii fumiM We want your order for one piece or a cargo. “Tell It to the Neighbors.” Rensselaer, - Ind. Office and Yards Opposite Monon Depot.

FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind No. 201. Three hundred acres. 220 a cultivated, 40a timber. 170 a bottom. Boa tiled, on pike, four wells, cistern and live water, two large barns, corn cribs, granaries, sheds and wagon scales, medium house, level, yielded from 40 to 7o bushels corn last year per acre. Price S3O per acre. No. 265. Two hundred and thirty acres, two houses -one five rooms, other two rooms, two orchards, two good barns, V* mile of church and school-Catholic, ik mile to pike road, timber 8o acres, lays well, price S2O per acre. No. 297. Farm of 317 a. house of four rooms, large barn, double corn crib 24x36 ft. 40a in timber, balance in cultivation, miles of R. R. town, good limestone soil, price SSOOO. half cash and good time on balance at 8 per cent. No. 278. Farm of 343(4 acres; frame house of 5 rooms, good frame barn, a fine young orctiard. 100 acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a fine stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered farm and lays nice; 2% miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 8 per cent secured by first mortgage. Farm of 158 acres. 114 story brick house of 6 rooms, a large barn and other outbuildings, a fine orchard, good water, 10 acres of timber, rest plow land, most rolling. Farm is in good repair. School % mile, church on corner of farm, 2 miles to R. R. town, 0 miles to Vernon. county-seat. Price $4500. Half cash, balance on time at 8 per cent. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New. Lx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & So". Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson & Son. J. H. Maguire & C’o.. W. M. Naur. Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the connty. would be pleased to show them whether tney wished to buy or not.

The Democrat can furnish printed or engraved calling or invitation cards on very short notice. We can make you dose prices on both classes of this work A nice top buggy with a written guarantee at S4O, at Cowgill & Worland’s. For Sale or Trade: Good two story 8-room house, good bnrn, 4 acre of ground, three blocks from court house. Will sell cheap or trade for piece of land located not more than 5 miles of town. J. T. Lamson, Rensselaer, Ind. Irwin & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property low rate of interest and commission and on nrore liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County.

Seven Yeare In Bed.

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Millinery Reduction.

On account of smnll rent, will sell all goods at a reduction. It will be an advantage to you to call and see my goods and learn prices before purchasing.

Mrs. Percupile.

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Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig's Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Hanley & Hunt, Law, ADstracts, loans and Real Estate. RENSSELAER, IND. Office up-stairs in Leopold block, first stairs west of Van Rensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The L. N. A. <$ C. Ry,,aud Rensselaer W. L. A P. Co. £&_Offiee over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. .SANK VOLTS. O. a. SrtTLSK. HAUNT N. KUNNIS. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracta and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books is the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Mordecai F. Chilcote, William H. Parkison Notary Public. Notary Public. Chilcote & Parkison, ATTORNEYS aT LAW. Law. Real Estate. Insurance. Abstracts and Loans. Attorneysfor the Chicago, Indianapolis A Louisville Railway Co. Will practice in all of the courts. Office over J. M akeever’s Hank, on Washington street. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

Moses Leopold, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND INSURANCE, Office over Ellis & Murray's Rensselaer, - - Indiana. J. F. Irwin H. C- Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTOR N E Y- AT- LA W. Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris. J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier,* Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities. Notes Discounted at current rates, Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. Vice President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square.) RENSSELAER, INI). The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DIBIOTOU. Addison Parklson. Q. E. Murray, Jas.T. Randle, John 11. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This hank is prepared to transact a general bnuklng busiueaa. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes Imught at current rates of Interest. A •hare of your patronage is solicited. Farm Loans at 5 par Cant Drs. I. B. & 1.31. Washburn, Physicians & Burgeons. Dr. I. H. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. He also tests syes for glasses. Orrics Tsismoss No. 4S. Risios.cs Pmoms No. It. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over lines' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Ornos Pmohs, ITT. Sisiosnos Tmo.i, lIS. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh's drug afore.