Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1902 — Page 3

Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, Thb Dmeocrat. It gives all the news. farms mm. BY Dalton Hinchman REAL ESTATE AGENT, Vernon, Ind. No. 270. Farm of 140 acres, 2 miles of pood railroad town of 400 inhabitants; a twostory frame house of 8 rooms; frame barn 54x00, all in pood shape; tine orchard; farm well watered; 40 acres in timber, farm lays nice and nice roads to town; 70 acres more can po with the 140 if purchaser wishes it. Price S2O per acre. No. 278. Farm of 34214 acres; frame house of 5 rooms, pood frame barn, a fine young orchard, 100 acres in timber, balance in good state of cultivation, a line stock farm as well as a good grain farm, it is a well watered farm and lays nice; 21*4 miles of railroad town. Price S2O per acre, one-half cash, good time on balance at 6 per cent, secured by first mortgage. No. 270. Farm of 200 acres; frame house of B rooms, large frame barn, ice house and other out-buildings; farm is well watered, lays nice, well fenced; 3 miles east or west to railroad towns on J. M. & 1., B. & O. S. W. or Big Four. Price S2O-per acre. No. 280. Fatm of 700 acres; said farm has threedwtllings, two good barns; three good orchards; this farm can be put into 3or 4 good farms; part of farm is rolling, but is not bad, most of it level and smooth; 3 miles of a good railroad town. 14 miles of Madison. Indiana. Price S2O per acre, two-third 9 cash, balance on good time at 8 per cent, secured by first mortgage on said farm. No. 281. Farm of 100 acres; 5 miles of good K. K. town of population of 400. Nice frame cottage of 0 rooms, large frame barn, fine orchards of all kinds of fruit, farm lays nice, in good neighborhood. Church and school close to said farm, Price $2,200. Correspondence Solicited. References: Judge Willard New, fcx-Judge T. C. Batchelor, First National Bank. Merchants; S. \V. Storey. N. DeVersy. Jacob Foebel, Thomas & Son, Wagner Bros. & Co., Nelson A Son. J. H. Maguire & Co., W. M. Nabr. Herbert Goff and Wagner's plow factory. Anyone tbat wishes to look over the county, would be pleased to show them whether they wished to buy or not. Where to Locate? WHY IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BYfHE . . LOUISVILLE and NASHVILLE RAILROAD —THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, —IN—KENTUCKEY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the I'nited Suves to make "big money" by reason of the abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms. Timber and Stone. Iron and Coal. Labor - Everything! Free sites, financial assistance, and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and farms at SI.OO per acre and upwards. and 500.000 acres in West Florida that can be taken gratis under the U. S. Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District will make enormous profits. Hall fare excuralona the flrtt and third Tuesdays ol each month. Let us know what you want and we will tell you where and how to get it—but don't delay, as the country is tilling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all info:illation free. Address. R. J. WEMYSS Uenrrsl Immigration and Industrial Agent, LOUISVILLE, KY. , > We promptly obtain U. 8. and Foreign 5 < 1 Bend model, sketch or photo of invention for r <' free report on patentability. For free book, f tenpr TR APE-MARKS jr { "graft* REVIVO restores VITALITY PSUEN’CTBC lIBM JBI JL>TT iroduceetboaboverouultaln 30days. Itacta overfill It and quick It Cures when all others tall, ’oungmen will regain tholr loot manhood, and old leu wIH recover tholr youthful vigor by using lEVIVO. It quickly and surely restores Nerroueten. Loet Vitality, Impotency. Nightly Emissions, oet Power. Falling Memory, Wastlna Dlsesseo.and 0 effects of self-abuse or excess a • Indiscretion, rhleh unfits ono for study, business or marriigs. It tot only cures by starting at tho seat of dihosso. but • agreat nerve (onto and blood builder, bringng back the pink glow to polo cheeks and r» to ring the fire of youth, ft wards off Insanity md Consumption. Insist on having KEVIVO. no ♦her. It can be carried In vest pocket. By mall 11.00 per jacks*-, or nix for SS.OO, wlthupoel 4vo written gnarantes to cure or refund he money. Advice and circular free. Address tOYAL ’ For sale in Rensselaeo by J, A. Larih Irnggist. Horris’ English Worm Powder Warrant'd to core any rase of Worms in flonas Cattls, Shsep or Dogs, also Pin Worms In Coils Prise. Ms. per beat Sold by A. F. Long.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Portion of Labor. i As in a former cannibalistic age, 1 lie biggest giants with the heaviest clubs became chiefs of their tribes, ami to vaunt their power and glut their pride, decorated their caves with the emptied skulls and cleanly gnawed bones of their victims, just so our own monopolistic giants with the crushing clubs of combination beat down anil reduce to ibare bones the labor of to-day, glutting their greed upon its flesh, its blood, its marrow and its brain. True, their caves arc gilded now and we call them not cannibals, but millionaires. But the primal instinct of man, civilized but unregenerated, remains the same; the cruelty Is but refined; the greed is but further-reaching. So the problem is not a new one in our time or in our age. The self defense of labor against tho cruel power Created iii the accumulation of its own product, is as old as organized greed. Only the American mind has been slow to learn the world-wide truth that social misery comes more from inequality of privileges regarding property than from inequality of political rights. At last we are being forced to recognize tiie fact that with our long boasted security of political equality, the same misery that wearies life under the despotisms of Europe is being fastened upon us. The long blindness originated in the teachings and training of past generations. Our fathers, having braved tho perils of unknown seas an 1 iiv«>d through the privations of a howling wilderness, that they might believe in and utter aloud, without fear or restraint, certain religious maxims, came in time to believe that there was a political gospel, somewhat akin to their theological creed, in which national salvation could be assured by simply uttering from time to time, certain glittering generalities or political abstractions. So we came to be a race of political phrase-eaters. Epigrams that have been passed down to us canned ami labelled, we bolt down without inspection or test. To maxims and proverbs—such, for instance, as "Government of tlie people, by the people and for tin* people. “All men are created equal,” ad infinitum —we look for our sole political and social sustenance. To this fools’ paradise we have been greatly helped by the happy circumstances attending the early conquest of our continent. The deep rich soil of our wide domain, which offered free homes to the industrious, saved us for a time, from the fierce competition that crowds the hungry masses down and gives to organized greed its great advantage. Failing to comprehend from what we gained our prosperity, we attributed all the good we enjoyed to our free institutions,” as we proudly called then?, and blindly proceeded to cut from under our good fortune the very foundation of our advantage. We donated whole territories of our precious domain to corporations until the surplus land is practically exhausted. and now, with the same conditions that have so long afflicted Europe, wc begin to wonder that our “free iiisiiefb tions” seem to have lost their charm! They talk of “prosperity,” but even that is “made by a trust" and its production may be curtailed at will. The ballot fails to bring just remuneration for toil. While hundreds hoard, millions work and want. Starvation presses Its skinny face against the pane where plenty wastefully feasts. It asks for crumbs a*d gets a laugli of scorn. And we say the reason those things are, is that organized wealth buys from our lawmakers their manhood. Let us not he too sure that is the real reason. First, let us lie sure that wealtli has not bought our own manhood, without paying the price. Labor is sovereign, not in theory alone, but in very truth, and all the ills It bears are borne through tolerance. Could Lalior feel its wrongs and know Its rights and net In wisdom and force, it could weave a rope of ballots that would bind Its giant tyrant hand and foot.-—Des Moines News. Helps to Trust Prosperity. The President In one of his New Hampshire speeches on prosperity told his hearers that "all the government can do Is to create conditions under which prosperity can come. If the Individual citizen lneks the thrift, the energy, the power and tho mind to work no laws will make him prosperous.” Our paternal government, for example, so "creating conditions” for the steel trust through the Dlugley tariff that it lias charged and got sll a ton more for rails in this market than In England, and other steel products in proportion. By the same law the beef combine Is put In a position where it need fear no outside competition and can charge monopoly prices at home while sidling lower to London In competition with meat from South America and Canada.—Now York World. Htute of Chronic Unrest.. Without Justifying tho conduct of the coal miners or denouncing the conduct of the operators, one fart remains conspicuous, from which the public

is at liberty to shape its own minor premise and conclusion. There is no other single Industry in which there is so much friction between the employer and the employed ns in the mining of anthracite coal. There are no other employers In the country who are so frequently in a state of war with their employes. The significance of this can not be overlook'd in considering the merits of the controversy. Detroit Free Press. Here’s Anothsr Lesson. 1 A trust has been formed for the manufacture of agricultural machinery. The promoters and stockholders are cheerful and hopeful. This news item is one of the little facts upon which their cheefulness is based: "Following the International Harvester Company’s public declaration that economy in the manufacture and distribution of agricultural machinery was the motive for effecting the $120,000,000 merger, several of the Chicago companies in tlie combine have Issued letters to them agents throughout the country ordering a reduction of about tlirec-fourths in the number of employes representing them in the field. The other companies in the combine are preparing to follow their example. Ten thousand men in all are expected to lose their jobs.” The above condensed and official dispatch tells a cheerful story for the trust owners. As soon as the trust gets going the owners will be able to discharge ten thousand men. The earnings of those ten thousand men will go into the pockets of those who formed the trust. The increased price Of goods will also go to the profits of the trust owners. It is very nice to own a trust —but what about the ten thousand men to be discharged? These ten thousand men—a large majority of them at least—are anjong those who shouted for trusts and prosperity in the last two general elections.'' Now they can sympathize with the drummers who also shouted for prosperity and who have since been discharged, thousands at a time, by trust formations. —Chicago American. Demand for Tariff Reform. Of course, conventional resolutions such as those in the Republican platform can not bring about tariff changes, but such resolutions, which are entirely at odds with the wishes of the political machine of the Republican party, would not be adopted unless there was a strongly pronounced feeling on the part of the people whom the delegates to these conventions represent; hence It becomes evident that if the Republican majority in Congress refuses to act it runs the risk of placing in the possession of the Democrats the best possible issue with- which to win a sweeping victory In IQm»4 —Boston Herald. None of the Public's Business. Apropos of Abram S. Hewitt's defense of the anthracite barons. It lhay confidently be asserted that if these silent gentlemen had supposed they were acting from high civic motives, they would long ago have been anxious to tell the public so. But they have refused, and still refuse, to make any statement or to enter Into any discussion, assuming and asserting that It was no business of the public how they manage tholr business. All of the country may suffer because of the dispute, but it Is none of Its business what the barons do!—lndianapolis News. Hanna’s Idea of Trusts. Senator Hanna's declaration that there are no monopolies save those which are protected by patents invites research. Possibly he does not include (he beef packing industry among monopolies, and perhaps, again, the proprietors of the slaughter houses have found some means of copyrighting the cow. Senator Hanna's expressions of opinion on this subject have been fre- | queut and consistent and no doubt are i the result of Investigations which go j beyond the popular interpretation of tlie word "trust.”—Bangor Commercial. Workingmen and Politics. Every once in a while someone advises workingmen to “keep out of politics.” When It means that their trade organizations should keep out of politics the advice is helpful, but there is no reason under the sun why workingmen as individuals ami as members I of well-defined political parties should keep out of politics. Nobody Is more vitally Interested In politics than workingmen.- St. Paul Ulobe. To Moke the Trusts Behove. The best way to make the trusts boha ve themselves is to put them in competition with the world. The best way to make them arrogant Is by a protective turiff to give them an ex'cluslve market. Let tho Democratic party make Its light on this Issue and It will stand on solid ground.—Richmond Times. Executives, Too, Must Fight. President ltoosevelt may be reminded that while It Is the duty of n soldier to fight, It Is also the duty of an executive to tight lawbreakers. If lie would put In more time fighting trusts and less talking about a strenuous life, he would come nearer earning his sul* ary.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

ENGLAND’S GREAT MAN.

Lord Kitchener Looked Upon aa a Modern Ulysses. Lord Herbert Kitchener, the man who was at the head of the British army when the Boer war cainc to an end, is regarded by many as the strongest man in England.. Kitchener comes back to London with the British public still feeling that it is in his debt. There has been Considerable dissatisfaction over the fact that instead of a half-million being voted to him by Parliament lie received but half that sum, and that instead of an jarldom, such as was bestowed upon Lord Roberts, he was given a beggarly viseountey and a raise in rank from that of lieutenant general to that of. general. The last-named is a big advancement as far ns material benefit is concerned, the difference in pay being (lie raise from $27 to $39 a day. However, Kitchener has looked the matter in the face with great equanimity, knowing that with the public dissatisfied with his reward delay would only make it greater. Herbert Kitchener is a man who has

LORD KITCHENER.

risen in the army faster than any other man ever did except Wellington. Within six years, be lias come up. almost "by main strength." from a list of officers, most of whom seemed to stand no better chance than himself, to be the general commanding the army. The fact that he has advanced so rapidly is taken to mean that here at last is the man of all others to reform tho war office, which lias been a job too much for either Wolseley or Roberts. Kitchener is absolutely impervious to criticism—at least, apparently so—and lie is also completely regardless of the feelings of anybody, high or low, as long ns it seems to him that anything needs to be done. Neither Roberts nor Wolseley. lias made progress in tho war office, and the public fully expects Kitchener to make the feathers fiy. He will do it, too, if, in his judgment, such a thing will help matters.

ST. LOUIS’ BIG SCANDAL,

Doodling City Officials Had an Oath* hound Organization. St. Louis appears at last to have got to the bottom of its celebrated “boodle" scandal. The person who noted as “business agent” for the corruptionists in the municipal assembly has told what he knows to a grand jury. 'Pile “business agent” asserts that eighteen members of the municipal assembly made it a business to sell their votes. The corporation which desired an important ordinance simply informed tlie “business agent,” placed a large sum of money in a safety deposit vault aud gave the agent the key to the vault. "We did not look upon what we did as a serious crime,” says the agent, “as it had gone on so long without interruption that it was not regarded by those who participated in it as morally wrong." Eighteen members of the gang in the house of delegates have lieon indicted as a result of a confession by the "business agent" of the grafting combine, J. K. Murrell, a member of the house of delegates and of the gang of nineteen members who sold legislation. 11 is disclosures have created the greatest sensation in the history of the city. Murrell has been a fugitive in Mexico. He made a determined effort to secure a promise from the prosecutor to let him off if he would return and confess, but this the attorney declined to listen to. Then Murrell came bark and surrendered unconditionally. He went before the grand jury and when that body had heard h>s story in all its details indictments and warrants were issued for tho members of the gang. It developed tbat an oath was administered to each of the nineteen members of the combine whose identity was disclosed by the confession of .1. K. Murrell. The following excerpt front this oath contains the penalty of the obligation; And I do solemnly agree t lint. In case I should reveal the fact that any person In this eotublue Ims received money, l hereby permit and authorize other members of this com I lint to tnke the forfeit of my life In such manner as they may deem proper, and thut m.v throat limy be cut, my tongue torn out and my body cast into the Mississippi Itlver. Murrell confessed that the gang was formally organized, met in a committee room adjoining the house of delegate* chamber, and there planned their deal*. The sole purpose of the combination, ho said, was to control and sell legislation. He confessed he was named to solicit a price for a franchise for the Suburban Street Railway, that he made the deal with l’hilip Stock, the company’s lobbyist; that $75,000 was secured and deposited in a sufety vault in the Lincoln Trust Company’s bank, and that he held the key. For a series of lighting bills Murrell said the combine, through Charles F. Kelly, secured $47,-500, each member being paid $2,500 in currency at the home of Julius Lehmann in his presence. Murrell recited all of the details to the grand Jurors. 1 William Hall, nged 19, was drowned at Cottonwood Falls, Kan., in the Cottonwood river. The river was high and he decided to wade in and got beyond his depth. His brother-in-law and his wife were standing on the bank and saw him go down. Tbos. A. Roue, father of Harry Rone, who wns assistant United Htates district attorney for Kansas till last January, was killed in Wichita. His foot caught on one rail of the Banta Fe trark. lit tripped and struck bis head on the •U# ralL

SENATOR PLATT PREDICTS END OF MINERS’ STRIKE.

SENATOR PLATT.

Senator Thomas C. Platt declared in the most positive terms in New York the other night that the coal strike would be settled Within two weeks. “How will it be settled? Will there be arbitration or will an agreement be reached between tlie miners and the operators?” was asked. “I cannot tell you how it will be settled,” Senator Platt replied, “but there will be no coal sold at $lO a ton this winter. It will surely be settled at the longest within two weeks from this time.” Senator Platt declined to tell why lie was so confident that the strike was nearing its end, but he spoke as a man who had no doubt in his own mind that what he said would prove to be true.

DEATH OF EDWARD EGGLESTON.

Antlior of "The Hooaier Pclioolma9ter,” Passes A way. Edward Eggleston, the noted author of many popular works of American History and of fiction, died suddenly at his home, Joshua’s Rock, Lake George, N. Y. He was in his sixty-fifth year. Dr. Eggleston was born in Vevay, Ind., on the 10th of December, 15.",7, and received his early education in the country school of the neighborhood, and later at a school for boys in Amelia County, Ya.

EDWARD EGGLESTON.

He entered the Methodist ministry in 1857, and for twenty-two years was connected with the church as preacher and editor, but resigned in 1879 to devote himself entirely to literature. His most widely known books are “The Hoo.sier Schoolmaster,” “The Hoosior Schoolboy,” "The End of the World,” “The Mystery of Metropolisville,” "The Graysons,” “The Faith Doctor* and “Tiie Transit of Civilization from England to America.” Dr. Eggleston was married twice, his first wife being Miss Elizabeth Schneider, who died twelve years ago. llis second wife and three of his daughters survive him, the daughters being Mrs. Eiizabetii Seeley, Blanche aud AHegra Eggleston.

GIBBONS GREATLY IMPROVED.

Physician Says Cardinal’s Complete Recovery Is Assured. Cardinal Gibbous, the noted prelate who was recently stricken at his- home in Baltimore and whose condition for a time caused serious apprehension, has so far recovered as to be up and about in

CARDINAL GIBBONS.

his room nttciidiug to liis correspondence. His physician reports that the cardinal’s complete recovery from his recent attack of nephritis within a short time is raaii red.

Kills a Ward Politician.

“Larry” Munion, a St. Ijottis politician, while resisting arrest, was shot and killed by Policeman Thomas O’iloarn. Manion and several other men were creating a disturbance in a saloon and the officer was called in to quel) it. Manion attacked O'Hearn and the shooting followed. Anton Christiansen; a carpenter employed in South Omaha, shot and killed his wife in llicir rooms nt the Montgomery Hotel, of which the woman was proprietress. He acknowledged his deed and said it was the result of domestic dif•ficuUles. William J. Bryan will devote nil of October to the campaign in Nebraska. He will make but few speeches outside that State this fall, Seattle was selected an the city in which will be held the next session of Qie trails-Mississippi congress in 1903.

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Queer Tilings Found in El wood Worn* mi's Stomach—Cliitgtnran Must Stand Trial—Oldest Convict Dies—Engineer Goes Insane. Strange conditions were discovered when surgeons examined the stomach of Mrs. Susan A. Spaulding of Elwood during an operation which had been expected to result in the removal of a tumor. Instead of n tumor tho surgeons found the following encysted in tiie walls of the stomao(i: Bunch of uigar cane fiber resembling a cow's etui, ball of masticated thread the size of a bird’s egg. piece of shoe string seven indies long with a knot in one end. Mrs. Spaulding was unusually fond of sugar l ane when she was a child and she used to chew large quantities of it. She has iiad a h»bit of biting off thread and chewing the ends while sewing. Bhe is 57 years old. She has been treated for fifteen years for cancer of the stomach. Engineer Becomes Insane. William Slago of Fort Wayne, who was at the throttle of rlu- Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive which a few days ago struck a little girl named Kline in Marshall County, has become insane. Slago has become the victim of the delusion that his own daughter, who is the same age as the Kline child, was the victim, and that —her body lias been' carried to the graveyard. Siago is one of the best known passenger engineers in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. Thirty-four Years in Cell. William Lee, the oldest convict in point of years of confinement in the western prison, died at the age of 50 years. He was convicted when 22 years of age for murder, near Lafayette. His conviction was secured on circumstantial evidence and he had always protested his innocence. He had a petition for pardon before every Governor from the time of Hovey and always lived with the hope that he might be fated to spend the last years of his life outside the walls. Must Answer for Murder. n Stewart Miller, aged 02, a prominent Walker township land owner, who was shot by his son-in-law, Rolla Cliugman, in a quarrel over domestic affairs, died from his wounds. Mrs. Miller and a son. George A. Miller, who were wounded by the same shot tbat killed Stewart Miller, have about recovered. Clingmar was released on bond, but is again in jail, held for premeditated murder. His plea is self-defense. He has retained Congressman Watson as his cotinsel. Negro Murders His Employer. Matthew Alexander, a negro stableman in the employ of Thomas Burke at Terre Haute, went into the latter's sleeping room and when Mrs. Burke arose in bed at seeing hint slashed her in the face with a razor. Burke, awakenesT “by the commotion, turned in bed and the negro cut his throat, killing him instantly. The negro fied. He had been in Burke's employ for five years and bad been drinking for a few days. State Items of Interest. .T. K. Hartman and wife celebrated their golden wedding at Rosedale. Fire caused a loss of $12,000 at Strickland's store in Kokomo. Covered by insurance. General store of John Hacker of Kreps was destroyed by tire. Loss -$3,000, small insurance. J a UK's- Skinner, bailiff of the Wayne County Circuit Court for thirty-four years, lias resigned. Thieves ransacked A. Kelli’s jewelry store at Conuersvillo and carried off SIOO worth of goods] At Frahkton Mrs. Nora Adams. 23, committed suicide by taking pnris green. She quarreled with her husband. Clive Bannister, aged 20, son of a Liberty township farmer, was crushed to death by a log he was unloading at Wabash. Walter L. Payton of Mount t Hive was instantly kilhsl at Rockledge quarries at Bedford by a large slab of stone falling upon him. Lawrence county council ordered built at once a SIO,OOO jail, to be of stone, on account of the many recent esoaiies from the old building. Mart Collier was declared sane by a formal court of inquiry at Bedford, and will have to stand trial on the charge of poisoning a family. George A. Bell, treasurer of the malleable iron works, fell dead in his office at Ma rion while at work Tuesday. Heart disease is given as the cause of his death. A rear-end freight wreck occurred at Irogausport on the Pan-Handle Railroad. Conductor William Gay was killed iutrtantly and Fireman <>. I’. Murray lost a leg. Night A gen t Callahan fired at and drove away two burglars who denvutded the valuables in the Adams Express office at the Pennsylvania station in Logansport. Financial and domestic troubles caused Isaiah Vernon, a traveling salesman for the Doering Harvesting Machine Company, to commit suicide by shooting nt Logan sport. Peter Barnes, nged 48 years, connected with'the Valparaiso College for sixteen years, committed suicide by banging himself in a coal shed. His wife found his body while looking for hint to come to dinner. Andrew Hays, 22 years of age, a weaßhy Marlon farmer, took his own life by hanging himself jn his barn. He wns recently marrie<r to a charming young woman, seemed to be happy and no cause is known for his act. Ambrose Nichols, who broke jail nt Bedford, was arrested at Washington and locked in jail at Mitchell, but escaped again by prying open a door with n crowbar. I.urge tumor on the back of Benjamin Rae of Bentonville broke of its own accord, and eight gallons of liquid flowed out, thus relieving him of eighty pound* of surplus weight. at Liberty destroyed W. A. Bo»dick’s furniture house and liadly damaged Phare’s drug store, Michael & Co.’s grocery aml Berth & Ron’s hardware •tore. Los* SIB,OOO, Insured.