Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1902 — Page 4

JISPER -CODHTT HI. f. t. BUBCDCK, tDITOH HMD PUBIIgBtB. lon# Di«t*nc« Tilimonii i Owe*. 118. ( Rixoinci, >ll. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. SI.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. an second class matter. Office on Van Renaeeiaer Street, North of Murray’e Store. Notice To Advertisers. All notloes of a business character, including wants, for sale, to rent, lost, etc., will be pnblished in The Democrat at the rate of one cent per word for each Insertion. No advertising will be accepted for less than 10 cents. Cards of thanks will be published for ascents and resolutions of condolence for SI.OO.

Yea, “Honest Abe” was vindicated—by the saloonkeepers, bummers and whiskey soaks. A Union tp., farmer informs us that “Honest Abe” and a Rensselaer saloonkeeper were in his vicinity last Sunday fixing voters for Halleck, “because Allen was a prohibitionist.” The Democrat has a clean Tecord in the defeat of the local ticket—it told the truth. And that its statements were relied upon was evidenced by the hundreds of honest republicans who voted against the bad men on their ticket. As usual in an off year, the democrats here suffered by the stay-at-home vote. , The total vote cast in the county was 3,328, against 3,705 in 1900. Of this number the democrats cast 1310, a loss of 270 over 1900, and the republicans 1918, a loss of only 175. It is to be hoped that two years hence the saloonß of Rensselner and the bummer element which they can usually be depended upon to influence to vote for the bummers on the republican ticket will be relegated to their proper place. The better element of all parties should unite and wipe this curse to decent politics and clean, honorable candidates from our own midst. Probably the most affective card played by “Honest Abe” et al. in the local campaign just closed was the alleged placing of goodly sums of money with the saloon-keepers and enlisting saloonkeeper Reason M. Dunn of DeMotte in their service and sending him over the county to array the saloonjelemont on their side. In the second precinct of Marion tp., it was evident that from twenty to thirty “whiskey democrats"'(V) scratched their ticket for Hanley, Abo and Nichols in that precinct alone. The few farmers over the county who were induced to do this we fear will pay dearly for it in the way of high taxes and a bum administration of public business. For some roason known only to “Honest Abe” and his cohorts they have utterly failed to comply with tho law in regard to changing or dividing up Precinct No. 2 in Marion township. The law makes it the duty of the board of commissioners to divide up a precinct whenever 250 or more votes are cast therein, and in this precinct 271 votes were cast for secretary of state four years ago. This year 294 votes were cast and several votersdid not get to the polls. As at present constituted it makes an enormous lot of work for the election board and causes many voters to wait in line a long time about tho voting place before getting au opportunity of entering thereto. This precinct should be divided up before another election takes place. _ While hundreds of the better element of the republican party voted the democratic county ticket in the hope of bettering the condition of things, nearly every gambler, whisky soak and bum in both parties were lined up for the bummers on the republican ticket. Only last week Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Parkison is alleged to have chaperoned “Honest Abe” about the saloons here and told them that they must support Abe, as the other fellow’ (Allen) was a prohibitionist and it would not do to have him elected. As a matter of fact Mr. Allen is not a prohibitionist except that he is not a drinking man. Were he on the board of commissioners he would have to do his duty as laid down the by statute. But the'reader can see to what depths of depravity the republican officials reeorted to in the campaign just closed, by this incident. t

NOT DISCOURAGING.

While the local democratic ticket was defeated, the hundreds of good, honest republicans whq voted a part of our ticket and did all in their power to elect good men to office, is sufficient proof that our statements regarding the shortcomings of the opposing republican candidates were correct. In behalf of the democratic candidates The Democrat desires to publicly jfliank these gentlemen for the support given our candidates and regrets, with them, that the united bummer element of both parties triumphed. While it is discouraging to some extent to have such an excellent ticket as that put out by the democrats defeated entirely, it is also encouraging to note that there is an increasing tendency among the better element of republicans to be more liberal in their views in selecting men to fill the local offices. * And this sentiment will certainly bear good fruit ere long. A number of the men elected are sure to prove so obnoxious to the better element of the people that the assistance of a greater number of republicans can be counted on next time to defeat the cotere of Rensselaer politicians who now have the republican party and the taxpayers of Jasper county by the throat. r The Cow-Puncher come out in true colors Tuesday and worked industrously for the republican county ticket. He tried to “fluence” Uncle James Knight, formerly of Barkley, but Uncle Jim wouldn’t “fluence worth a cent, and gave the Barnacle editor a good sound rattaning. There have been many remarkable features about the campaign just closed. The President and members of the cabinet have been most positive in their promises of reforms which the real leaders of the party oppose and oppose vigorously. Mr. Moody has, on several occasions, promised the immediate repeal of the duty on anthracite coal, while Hanna, Aldrich, Allison, et al, have protested that there must be no change in the sacred tariff schedules. Attorney General Knox has been promising the people that there would be additional legislation looking to the control of the trusts. The real leaders have said, half heartedly, that there would be a change in present statutes if it was demonstrated that such change was necessary, but Mr. Knox says unqualifiedly that such change is necessary and points out the instances where he has been unable to prosocute trusts because of th e inadequacy of tho law. The President has caused it to be mado known that he intends to rocommend a bi-partisan board to consider tariff revision while Senator Hanna has assured the people that they must “stand pat” and not permit any schedule to be revised. The Minnesota republicans have promised sweeping tariff reform and the eastern reform and the eastern republicans have urged the re-election of the party because such re-election would prevent tariff reform.

Stops the Cough and Works off the Cold.

Laxative Hromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold lu one day. No cure, no pay. Price, 38 cents. For Fruit trees, call on S. E. Yeoman, who represents the Hooker & Wyman nurseries of Rochester, N. Y. Every Saturday and evenings at D. M. Worland’s carriage store, east side of public square. ts.

BOX SOCIALS.

The Democrat will make a uniform charge of 25 cents for ordinary Box Social and supper announcements. Teachers will please bear this in mind and either remit the money with the notice or expect to pay for it after the social is*over.

New Lumber Yard In Rensselaer,

Where you can get all kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Plaster; also the celebrated alabastseent Wall Plaster. I solicit a share of your trade at my old stand. Respectfully,

Hiram DAY.

Thi* signature li on every box of the genuine Laxative Bromo-Quinine Taw*. the remedy thet cores • eeM la earn

CONDENSED STORIES.

John Habberton’s Prank and Its Lasting Effects. John llabberton, the author of “Helen’s Babies,” told at a dinner party recently an interesting story. “I am,” he began, “a cousin of the New York publishing family of the Harpers, and I worked for the Harpers in my youth, learning with them the printing business. Well, one day they gave me the manuscript of a book of Ruskin to set up. It was ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’ or ‘The Stones of Venice,’ I think. At any rate it contained a long passage in praise of the work done in the world by the great artists—by the poets, the sculptors, the musicians, the architects, the painters, and so on—and I, for mischief, changed one word in this passage. I substituted for ‘painters’ ‘printers.’ “Of course I thought the proofreader would catch the error. My idea was that wo should all have a little laugh at Ruskin’s eulogy of the printer along with such fine fellows as the musician and the poet and that then the types should be set right again. But somehow mv willful blunder missed the proofreader’s eye, and in that and every following edition for many years it appeared; hence thousands of Americana have admired the perception and the originality of Ituskin in praising so highly the work of the humble printer, thanks to me. I, by the way, didn’t discover how this error had endured till recently. I took up the volume, saw ‘printer' where ‘painteri should have been, and the memory of that youthful prank of mine came back to me. I wrote immediately to one of my Harper cousins, confessing all. His answer was a letter of three words—‘You young rascal 1’ I am not precisely a young rascal either,” Mr. llabberton concluded, smoothing his gray hair. Chaffing Mansfield. Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Mansfield met on Broadway. Said Mr. Hammerstein: “They tell me that ‘Monsieur Beaucaire’ is not dramatized from the novel, but was originally a play, and that the novel was written from that.” “True,” replied Mr. Mansfield, with his most literary bow and an amiable smile. “Why don’t you dramatize the book some time ?” queried Mr. Hamraerstein. “It would make quite a play.” Mr. Mansfield checked his bow and with a freezing glare stalked away.—New York Times. Not on the Books. Up in Representative Littlefield’s district lives a hiwyer who gets most of his law out of books and doesn’t know anything else, says the Washington Post. One day’ a man entered the attorney's office and wanted him to decide a question concerning the ownership of a calf. The book lawyer reached down several volumes and studiously searched the index. He couldn’t find the word “calf” anywhere. “There is no law on calves,” was his wise decision, and so he did not settle the question. Then the Flute Man Played. Mr. Fred Eustis, musical director of the Frank Daniels company, tells of a rehearsal of the orchestra in a

"YOU'RE NO GOOD, AND YOU CAN'T PLAY.

small town, lie tried hard to bring the rural musicians into line and succeeded fairly well except with the man who played the flute. Finally Mr. Eustis became desperate and exclaimed : “Look here, my friend, you stay out of this. You’re no good, and you can’t play.” The flute man calmly looked up and made reply: “If I don’t play) you don’t. I’m the mayor of tnc town, and I won’t Sive you a license.”—Chicago Inter cean. '

NEW YORKS BIG BUILDINGS.

When Sir Edmund Barton, premier of the Australian commonwealth, was in New York, he looked at the tall buildings and heard about the subways and tunnels with a very doubtful expression. “You’ll find that so much tunneling, combined with such high buiidings, will make a lot of trouble for you,” he said to an American friend. “They're learning that in London now. It is said that the foundations of St. Paul’s cathedral have been weakened by the tunnels.” “Strangers are all doubtful about the solidity of our high buildings,” was the response. “When Prince Chen drove up Broadway the other dav, lie looked at the tall buildings anil smiled. A gentleman who sat in fiis carriage asked through an interpreter if the prince would tell just what he was thinking about”— “I’ll bet that I know what he was thinking about,” said Sir Edmund. “He was thinking what a fine mark they would make for a shell.” “No. He said that he was wondering when those buildings would fall down and w’hat we would all do when they did faft.” “Ha, ha!” laughed Sir Edmund. “How true it is that language was made in order to conceal thought.” —New York Times.

Your Share of Money.

Have you $28.66? If you have not, you are 6hort your per capita share of the money circulation of the United States, and some one has what would be coming to you if the money that is in circulation were equally divided. This statement is made without reservation, on the authority of the latest report of the treasury department. Another thing; you are entitled to 7 cents more than you were one year ago, according to this same re{>ort, even though there has been alowed for an increase of 113,000 in the population, for in that same time there has been an increase of ipore than $65,000,000 in the money in circulation. So, you see, you are better off than you were a year ago —if you get your dues. In fact, you are getting better off all of the time. What has happened since 1879? The population lias increased 58 per cent, and the money in circulation has increased 176 per cent, and more than onehalf of that increase in circulation has been in gold or in gold certificates.—New York Herald.

The Paris Critics.

An amusing bit of gossip comes from Paris by way of the London Era, which says that the Paris theatrical managers are at daggers drawn with the critics. Last year the managers quit issuing invitations to the latter to the “repetition generale,” or dress rehearsals, and now they have decided to give no free tickets to the press for first performances. The Paris theaters have not been doing well this year, and the bad business is ascribed to the critics, the entrepreneurs threatening to attack the scribes in the law courts. “If a journalist writes down a play,” says one of the Paris managers, “we shall proceed against him in the law courts. If a newspaper were to publish an article stating that X.’s cognac was undrinkable, the journalist who wrote the article and the newspaper in which it appeared would both lie sued for damages. Our case, as we consider it, is precisely similar.”

A New Armor Plate.

It has long been known that ordinary wrought iron can be converted into high grade steel without melting the iron by simply placing carbon in contact with the metal at a red heat. The carbon is absorbed by tho iron, and the latter is thus transformed into steel. The ordinary cementation process, by which much of the steel used in cutlery is made, is an example of this process. It is now reported, however, that Lieutenant Davis of the United States navy has adopted an electrical method of the same sort for case hardening armor plates. The plates are acted on while hot by high tension electric currents through large carbon anodes, from which the particles of carbon are carried into the metal. It is said that the surface of a plate can be rendered harder by five hours of such treatment than by any other known method. There great saving in time ns well as mqtal.

Predicted Her Own Death.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence of Royerton, Ind., aged ninety-nine years, died recently at the minute she predicted she would die. A fortnight before her death Mrs. Lawrence told her children she would die Sept. 10. While her children were watching at her bedside on that day she said, “In fifteen minutes I shall die.” And exactly at the expiration of that time she died. Her father died at the age of 109 years.

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CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlau Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer J. C. Thrawls Fire Chief C. B. Steward COUNCILMAN. Ist ward...TT7. ... Henry Wood. Fred Phillips 2d ward W. S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 3d ward J. C. McColly, Peter Wasson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk John F. Major Sheriff Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. C, Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkisou. Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Prioe Coroner ■.. .Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OP EDUCATION. TBUBTKSS. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove John Ryan Glllam Lewis Shrier Walker Elias Arnold Barkley Charles M. Blue Marlon John Bill ...Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox Newton S. L. Luce Keener Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee Stephen D. Clark Wheat field Albert J. Bellows Carpenter William T. Smith Milroy Barney D. Comer Union Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensselaer G. K. Hollingsworth Rensselaer George Hesse Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Simon P. Thompson Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES’ CARDS. Milroy Township. Wm. T. Smith, trustee* of Milroy township, gives notice that he will be at his residence In Bald township on the First and third Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. Wm. T. Smith, Trustee. Jordan Township, John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at his residence in said township on the Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month for the purpose of transacting township business; and business relating to making contracts or paying claims will be done on such designated day. John Bill, Trustee. Tell your neighbor to subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. It gives all the news. Morris' English Stable Liniment Mm. Na»srks«Sa Sold by A. F. Long.