Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — Page 4

UM COOHTY Mil. F. I. BABCOCK. [QITOR MO PUBLISHER. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as secdnd class matter. TERMS OF MUIISCIIII’TIONi ONE YEAR fl.oo SIX MONTHS s<>c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable i n Ad rance. Advertising rate* made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. Notice To Advertisers. All n;iti< <■«•*>( a business character, Including wants, for sale, to retit, lost, etc., will be published lit THE Oemo< hat at the rate of one cent per word tor c-adi insertion No advertising will !»• accepted for less titan 10 ■cents. Cards of thanks will be published for 35 cgntjL antL-ixaplulkdUL-ol _cmidiJencc-forJ Si.oo. '

Jasper County

Jasper is the second largest county in Indiana. having an area of 570 square miles. Population of Jasper Colipty. 14,292; Population of Rensselaer, the County Seat, 2.255. Jasper county has gained 3.107 in population since 18V0; Rensselaer gained 800. Fine ..t*.rininfi-atid.rxLuuk-T4iaurg-i.q.HHUy T .-4 B : 4rfn,.Uat»,. Wheat and Huy are principal crops. (Inion. Sugar Beet and »tmk giowing largely' in Northern portion of County. Fine Lubricating Oil is als > 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, tn $«5 to SIOO per acre in central and southern portion.

The Seventh National Bank of New York has gone republican. Thanks, but wed just as soon fire cracker didn't follow the •lag. Minister Conger is going back to China. It. is a great pity. He would do much better in a smaller place. Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan and the American jockeys are running a close race for popularity in England. Hardly had llai idh gotten over the rheumatism before he was attacked with McKissonitis. What will the poor man have next? The trouble in this country is not so much with the mobs that lynch, as with the court's that acquit guilty men on technicalites. Mend the latter and the former will disappear. It seems that the foreshadowed change in the Pension Commissionership arose and set -in Kansas. The President, it is said, has no intention of making anychange and the whole thing is a G A. R. ( pipe dream. >?yenator Jones says that the decision of the Supreme court, far from settling the colonial question, has just opened it. It was a decision on the other side, that would have marked an end; this decision marks only a beginning.

From and after July 1 most of the stamp taxes now in force will be repealed, including those on -batik checks, sight drafts, promissory notes, telegraph messages, receipts, deeds, mortgages, leases, bonds and several other instruments of like character.

Perliaps it is all right that trusts should bleed the people of the United States so as to be able to sell below cost to foreigners, but if the Republican party really "tries to carry the next electiqn on thia subject, it will find out something of much importance to itself. Secretary Gage is certainly unfortunate in chosing his times for tariff reprisals. Just when Europe is trying to muster up its courage to declare commercial war against us, he provokes one of our best friends twice in succession •and takes a side swipe at another, ■which has taken no voice in the talk against us.

Now, it is argued, tliat Porto Rico must not be granted free trade with the United States until she has proved by six months experience, that her revenues will take the place of the tariff in paying expenses. .Incidentally, this •will bring us to next December, •when Congress meets and can repeal the law permitting free trade with the island. It is said that Tom McCoy aspires to run against Crumpacker for congressional honors. How we would love to work for Tom. It would be history repeating itself if McCoy should defeat Crumpacker. But the longest hickory «lm club soaking in the smoke "houses of leading politicians in this pa rt of the country is waiting for Mr. McCoy for the part he (took in the nomination of Crumwacker the first time.—Fowler leader (rep.)

Attorney General Taylor thinks the minimum wage law of 20cents per hobr on public work is unconstitutional, but, until so held by the supreme court, the law must be obeyed. The Winamac Democrat Journal and the Winamac Republican copied our recent remarks concerning the Winamac Bridge Co., being invited to submit bids at the next bridge letting in this I county, and the former adds: j “The Winamac Bridge company I will build your bridges for" less ! money while giving your better work and better material than the county ever paid to any company in the combine.” The parties who recently bought <mt R. MrTfdi er wood's Noblesville Democrat have caused the latter gentleman’s arrest, charging fraud, in that the subscription lists were 1 padded. Mr. Isherwood gave bond and the case will come up at I the next term of court in Hamilton county. Isherwood is a hustler, and built up the Democrat wonderfully during the time he was at its helm. It is probable his successors could not keep up the pace set by him and found business dropping off, hence their kick. Construction Comtni ssio ne r Burton sold the Mosier ditch again last Saturday, and as he exacted a forfeit of SSOO from each bidder he will likely have no trouble in completing the contract and getting the work going this 'time. The ditch was bidden in bj’ four parties. Wilis A* Son, C. H. Steinberg, B. J. Moore and C. I). Herring each getting a portion of the | work. Moore got nearly all the' stone work, and \VH4s A Soti the remainder of it. The dirt work ' averaged about six and one-half cents per cubic yard, ami the i stone work about eighty cents, I Mr. Burton expects to enter into I contract and bond for the work within a very lew days, and as the! supreme court dismissed the ap- i peal of the remonstrators a few I days ago, as we are informed, there seems to be nothing to prevent the work going ahead, though! it is probable that the contractors 1 will be given a year in which j to finish it, Mr. Burton saying! that while he wants to ‘get it done soon as possible he wants to! be fair with all concerned, con-! tractors as well as others. —Pulas-1 ki County Democrat.

An Important Decision.

i The appellate Court on Tuesday i banded down a decision on legal publications that is of great interest all over the state. Especially is this true of Jasper county, where attorneys have and still do publish legal notices in the practically obsolete Barnacle, for no other purpose apparently than to prevent the very intention of the law requiring publication—pubI licity. The ca«e decided was taken up from Tippecanoe county, where the lower court held such notice sufficient. In reversing the lower court the Appellate court held:-

1. The publication of notice of an applicant's intention to apply for a saloon license in a single issue of a newspaper published in a distant part of the county, of which paper not a single copy was received by or circulated in the township where the proposed saloon was to be located, except a copy sent to the applicant, was not a sufficient compliance with the law requiring notice of such an application to be given by publication, there being three newspapers published in the county of general circulation through such township, and the purpose and intention of the applicant in the paper that he did being to prevent the voters of such township from remonstrating against granting him a license. 2. Where the law requires notice it is always for the purpose of giving information to the interested parties. 3. Such a law as above stated, published in a newspaper having no circulation among the parties in interest, and which was chosen for the purpose of preventing them from receiving notice, was fraudulent in its purpose and design and therefore void.

Chicago Excursion, June 30.

Following ia tbe train schedule and round trip fare to Chicago for tbe Monon’s excursion, Sunday, June 30. Medaryville 7 47 a. nt. 81.U0 Eruiieefiyßle 8 01 “ 1.00 Mqpaffi X .8 80 “ i.oo Lee Ji 30 “ 1.00 MoOoysburg 8 35 •• ioo Pleasant Ridge 8 40 « .75 Rensselaer 8 48 “ .75 Surrey 857 •< .75 P«rr 9 02 •• .78 Fair Oaks ~..9 09 •' .75 Rose Lawn ..9 20 " .78 Thayer. 925 •• .75 Shelby 928 <• .75 Lowell 9 42 “ .80 Returning, special train will leave Chicago at 11:30 p. m., Sunday, June 30, 1901. On arrival of special train at Monon, a special will leave at once for Medaryville and Francesville.

Call at Long't drug store and get a tree sajnpie of Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are an elegant physic. They also improve the appetite, strengthen the digestion and regulate tbe liver and bowels. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect.

Second Month of “Lovers’ Lane.”

Hearty laughter is the accompaniment nightly given the presentations of the new Clyde Fitch play, “Lovers’ Lane,” now running at McVicker’s Theatre and well fnto its second month in Chicago. The fun of the play is fast and furious during several episodes and it is as wholesome and clean as it is good-natured. At that it does not offend the taste nor disturb the more serious portions of the story entwined in | the meshes of “Lovers’ Lane.” , Half a dozen spinsters and busy- , bodies, a superannuated deacon ■ of two and an “opr’y house” manai ger form the nucleus for the humor, while Simplicity Johnson, the | orphan girl, furnishes both fun I and pathos. The women of the ! village, formed intp'a “purity bfi-* grade” determined to wipe out vice in all its forms, and led by a woman modeled on Mrs. Carrie Nation, make for much hearty laughter, while the deacon, the store-keeper and Mr. Skilligcome in for their share of the comedy. Perhaps the most humorous incident in the piece is the coverii g of the poster showing two girls in tights. The women see this bill on the walls and Mrs Brown, the leader of the village society, takes the paste brush and puts a piece of blank paper over the offending poster. When the school children come out to play the fat boy sees this blank across the poster and pulls it off to see what is underneath. He is ashamed at the sight anil the audiences roar every night at his genuine ability. Wm A. Brady has staged “Lovers’ Lane” lavishly and beautifully, and the large patronage extended to the play is the result of this liberality.

Didn’t Marry For MoneyThe Boston man, who lately married i a sicklv ri ,h young woman, is happy ■ now, for he got Dr. King’s New Life i Pills, which restored her to peifect ’ health. Infallible for Jaundice, Bilious- ■ ness, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all i Liver and Stomach troubles. Gentle but i effective. Only 25 c al Long’s drug store.

For Sale, at (). K. Ritchey’s, some Poland China brood sows, farrow in September, wt. 200 to 250, sired by Royal Medium, a $225 hog; dam a 700 pound sow.

Have You Seen? The New Machinery at the Rensselaer Steam Laundry. It is the best and latest improved in the United States. No more pockets in open front shirts. Our New drop board Sbirt-Ironer matches every button hole perfectly and holds the neck band in perfect position while ironing. Do you realize you are working against your own city when you send to out of town Laundries and indirectly working against your own interests? We CLAIM THAT WITH OCR PRESENT EQUIPMENT AND MANAGEMENT oi R work is Equal to any Laundry in America. Our Motto: Perfect Satisfaction or no charges. We make a specialty of Lace Curtains. Send us your rag carpets, 5c a yard. Rates given on family washings. Office at G. W. Goff’s. Phone 66. Prompt work. Quick Delivery.

FARMS FOR SALE. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 291. Three hundred acres. 220 a cultivated, 40a timber, 170 a bottom, B<>a 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 cord 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, t, mile of church and school -Catholic. At ijiile to pike road, timber 6o acres, lays well, price S2O per acre. No. 297. Farm of 317 a, house of four rooms, large barn, double corn crib 24x86 ft. 40a in timber, balance in cultivation, 3t£ miles of R. R. town, limestone soil, price SSOOO, half cash and good time on balance at 6 per cent. No. 278. Farm of 343i4 acres; frame house of 5 rooms, good frame barn, a tine young orchard. toft acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a tine stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered ’ farm and lays nice; 2M miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 6 per cent secured by first mortgage. Farm of 156 acres, 1% story brick house of Orooms. 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 Is mile, church on corner of farm. 2 milesto R. R. town, 6 miles to Vernon, county-seat. Price $4500. Half cash, balance on time at 6 per cent. Correspondence Solicited. Rbfbrbncbs: Judge Willard New, Ex-Judge T. C. Batchelor. First National Bank. Merchants: S. W. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas A Son. Wagner Bros. 4 Co.. Nelson A Son, J. H. Maguire 4 Co., W. M. Naur, Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone that wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy er not.

Morrta-Bnpkh Worm PwOr WSFtoa, BBe. war bo* Sold by A. F. Long.

DECAY OF MINSTRELSY.

•« Old MUt ” Barlow Telia of the Daye That Are Gone By. One of the greatest minstrels who ever blacked his face was recently in Baltimore vnth the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” company at the Holliday Street theater. The old-timer is “Milt” Barlow, who plays the part of Uncle Tom in a manner which has gained him praise wherever he has appeared. Mr. Barlow is between 55 and 60 years old, smooth shaven, an agreeable talker and a “gentleman of the old school.” He was seen at the Hotel National, says the Baltimore Sun, and talked interestingly of his ex’pcriences-on the stage. He said:

•t ■ “Modern black face minstrelsy retains nothing of the old except the I name. In my day we had some 16 men in the company, each one of 1 whom was a specialist whose style , was familiar to the public. ■ were fond of their work and proud , of the stuff that they originated. The l result was that-while there was not so much quantity in our shows, they were all quality. A gentleman called upon me when I was in Baltimore some years ago and in talking over old times said he remembered that as soon as the posters of a well-known , minstrel company were put up the i people began to smile and engaged i their seats in advance. When they , saw the show the witticisms were imI pressed upon them and a smile would , Break out now end again for weeks .after as the memory of some especially good line flitted through the mind. Nowadays the~ minstrel posters lack the genuine comic character and are more like oil paintings, nor do the people have the same pleasant reminiscences of the visit.

I- “The downfall of minstrelsy began when Thatcher raised the number of | his company from 16 to 40. After | he set the pace the rest of us had !to follow suit or fall behind. Therfj feet of the increase of numbers was 1 to obtain quantity at the expense of ! quality.' In my day the salaries of our small shows came to a total nearly f<s large as that of the present large ones, and the consequence is that I you find a few artists surrounded by mediocre men whose shortcomings detract from the work of those who are better. “You see an octette get up and instead of the splendid volume of sound which you would expect from eight good singers you find that several of them are 'soldiering’ and that hardly more than half of them are really singing. Or you see 16 buck dancers . come out on the stage and in the enI tire collection there will not be more than two or three who can do more than the ordinary steps, and the really accomplished dancers have to tone down their work to suit that of their fellows.

‘‘Many of the present minstrels also have no conception of the real darky, and while they blacken their faces, they do nothing more to enact the character. Taken all together, the modern minstrel show is little more than a vaudeville performance and bears practically no resemblance to that which used to be seen. “A man who has not studied the negro cannot give a truthful picture of him on the stage. Naturally the negro is the funniest man in America to-day, but he does not realize it. I do not speak of the city darkies who have learned to read and write and cipher, but of the kind that were known to southerners before the war and are now rapidly dying out. “The negro is in many respects but an ape minus the tail, and in no way does he so resemble the ape as in his love of mimicry. If you watch a darky and he becomes aware of’that fact he immediately tries to act end becomes forced, without being in the least funny, but observe him when unrestrained and you see a character worthy of close attention of the best actors.”

First of the Vanderbilts

The first of the Vanderbilts in this country was Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt, a Holland farmer, who came to the new world in the first half of the seventeenth century, and who settled in the neighborhood of Brooklyn about 1650. As the name indicates, the family belonged originally to either the village of Bilt, a suburb of Utrecht, or the parish of Bilt, in Frisia.

Strange True Story.

At Painswick Churchyard, a pretty spot between Stroud and Gloucester, there are 99 yew trees. The hundredth always dies, though it has been planted many times. A local story says that “when the hundredth lives after it has been planted, th( world will coms to an end.”

Bales Lumber Company Lumber, Lath,'-Shingles, Doors, Windows, Sewer Pipe, Flue Vitrified Brick, Hard and Soft Coal, Etc.’ isiiMies Wiiin MM, We want your order for one piece or a cargo. “Tell It to the Neighbors.” Rensselaer, - Ind. - Office and Yards Qpposite Monon Depot.

DENTAL SCIENCE... C Has reached its highest point in our office. We have ? conquered pain and anxiety. We have assured our pa- ? tients that our methods and prices are in keeping with \ dental progress. Confidence has been the keynote of / our success. If we work for you once we’re sure of gettin & all your work, as well as the dental work of your ’ C relatives and friends. Our dental work co’t« little, wears office upstairs ( well, and is guaranteed to be the bestthat money can buy. IN ■HORTON BL'K } " J. W. HORTON, Dentist.

COWGILL XMLfiND Undertaking & Embalming. RENSSELAER, IND. ■■ Opposite Court House. ” e.sts.d. pu.l.c squ.r«. yy e carry a full line of Funeral Goods. . r7.‘“Zho«”’.’ Calls promptly answered, day or night.

For 1116 Season«l9ol me Trolling Brea siamon (STANDARD) WILKES ABDALLAH NO. 4645. Brown horse, 16-1 hands high, weighs 1300 pounds; bred by R. P. Pepper, Frankfort, Ky., owned by T. M. Hibler, Joliet. 111. Sired.by Onward, who has 144 in 2:30 and better and 100 prodneing sons and over 50 producing_daughters; he by the mighty Geo. Wilkes, with over 300 direct descendants in the 2:30 list. Wilkes Abdallah’s Ist dam is Jeannette, sired by Woodford Abdallah, he by Woodford Mambrino. 2:21‘/,, he by Mambrino Chief; 2nd dam is Japhet. sired by Bufford s Cripple; 3rd dam Doniphan, sired by Davy Crockett. NOTICE TO BREEDERS. Wilkes Abdallah will make the season at my farm, know n as “the old Cleveland Farm.” in Milroy Township, at sls to insure living foal. $25 for two owned by same party. He should be seen to be appreciated. He has size. legs, feet and disposition—all that go to make a first-class individual. I purchased him to use on njy owu mares, having seen his progeny and know him to be a number one breeder. He gets size, color and actors—which brings the long prices just now. and that kind are going higher every day. as good horses are wary scare. He will be found in charge of my agent. D. Art Whitney, at the farm, who will give you all desired information. T. M HIBLER, Owner. P. O. Address. Sharon. Ind. D. ART WHITNEY, Manager.

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