Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1902 — Page 7

HORSE BILLS. The Democrat would remind the owners of stable horses that it is fully prepared to turn out folders, cams or large horse bills on short notice and at very reasonable prices. The best selection of | horse cuts in the county. Give ; us a call if wanting anything in j this line. • H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. iERIMNMY. Crown, Bar and Bridgs HkR \ Work. Teeth Without t Plates, Without Pain. /TVX .. i. W. HORTON .. 16 YEARS IN RENSSELAER. Teeth Carefully stopped with sold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. orrioi orpoaira court housi. Where to Locate? WHY IN TMC TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE . . LOUISVILLE i and NASHVILLE RAILROAD THE— Great Central Southern Trunk Line, KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, WHERE—. Farmers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speculators, and Money-Lenders Iwill find the greatest chances in the United States 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 ar.d 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 5 will make enormous profits. Half fare excursions the first and third | Tuesdays of each month. I 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 filling up rapidly. Printed matter, maps and all lnfotmation free. Address. R. J. WEMYSS Oeneral Immigration and Industrial Agent. LOUISVILLE, KY. Jllf. TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. 8. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer James H. Chapman Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer J.C. Thrawls Fire Chief ..C. B. Steward COVNCILMRN. Ist ward Henry Wood. Fred Phillips ltd ward W. S. Parks, B. F. Ferguson 8d ward J. C. McColly, Peter \\ asson COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk John F. Major Sheriff .....Abram G. Hardy Auditor W. <J. Babcock Treasurer R. A. Parkison. I Recorder Robert B. Porter Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton Assessor John R. Phillips (COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Way mire fird District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. ’ TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Joseph Stewart Hanging Grove | John Ryau Glliam Lewis Shrier Walker Ellas Arnold Berkley Charles M. Blue Marion Jdbn Bill Jordan Geo. M. Wilcox, .Newton i 8. L. Luos.... Keener | Thomas F. Maloney Kankakee J Stephen D. Clark Wheuttield 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 Wheattleld JUDICIAL. • Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting attorney John D. Sink Terms of Court.- Second Monday in February, April, September and November. tw REVIVO restores VITALITY I ot nuraon nmamr prodaoes the above reoolta In SO days. It sots powerfully and quickly. Cures whan all oUsrs fxlL joang man will ragain their lost manhood, and old *>«n will recorsr their youthful vigor by using REVIVO. It quloklyendsurslyrestoresNerroue paaa. Los* Vitality, Impoteacy. Nightly Emissions. Lost Power. Falling Memory. West Ins Diseases, end all effects of self-abase or excess and Indiscretion which unfits one for study, business or marriage. It hot only cures by starting at tbs seat of disease, but la a greet nerve tenia and Meed builder, bringlag back the pink glow to pole cheeks and re Mo ring the fire es youth, ft wards eff fMMlty and Consumption. Insist on baring REVIVO, no other. It can be carried lb rest packet. By mall. E 1.00 par package, or six tor •ft .00. with m peel •tee written guarantee to rare or lofaod the Msey. Advice end circular free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE For sale In Rensselaer by J. A. Larsh druggist. PLENTY OF EGGS And no sick chlcksos whore Wells’ Hooetw Peeltry Powder Is usod. Cures Cholsra, Osew end ' *»•». Easts gonltry healthy. I*rlre, MeseS. Sold by A. F. Long.

ALLIES ARE WARNED.

UNCLE SAM CAUTIONS GERMANY AND BRITAIN. Official Note Sent to the Two European Powers Advising Them that This Country Has an Eye on Their Doings in Venezuela. Notice has been served by the United States on Great Britain and Germany that it “must not be understood as giving Its consent to any extension of the international right of a peaceful blockade.” This, in effect, is u notice that the United States will not permit the two European nations to take any action looking to war on Venezuela. In fact, a Washington dispatch says, it may be a precursor of interference by the United Stutes to prevent actual hostilities. The right of all nations to collect their debts is recognized by all governments, but the United States does not assent to the proposition that so far as this continent is concerned European nations can proceed to actual hostilities without notice. In other words, this government will not stand by and see Germany and Great Britain punish Venezuela for the nonpayment of its debts, especially when assurances were repeatedly given that the only means resorted to would be a “peaceful blockade.” This government will not consent to those two nations going beyond the limits of a peaceful blockade in collecting its claim. In official circles an extremely bad effect was produced by the sinking of the Venezuelan fleet by Great Britain and Germany. An extremely serious situation is now presented by the joint bom-

WHITE HOUSE OF VENEZUELA.

bardnient of Puerto Cabello. Officials In Washington frankly admit that as- 1 fairs in Venezuela have assumed propor- I tions beyond what the United States had ■

HARBOR OF PUERTO CABELLO, SHOWING U. S. CONSULATE.

expected or had been led to expect by Germany and Great Britain. Castro’s Forts Destroyed. For three-quarters of an hour Saturday evening the German cruiser Vineta and the British cruiser Charyhdis united lu a bombardment of Fort Solano Hnd the Castle Libertador, the chief harbor defense of Puerto Cabello. After reducing the forts to ruin, dismantling the shore batteries, wounding two Venezuelan soldiers, and making a prisoner of their commanding officer, the allies took possession of the castle, and then, leaving the dismantled fortitieations, the war ships put back to La Guayra. The Venezuelan garrison made only a feeble resistance to the superior power of the cruisers’ big guns. This summary action by the cotnmnnders of the British and German war ships hnd its provocation in the seizure and pillaging the previous Wednesday of a British tramp steamship lying in the harbor of Puerto Cabello by a rabble, which subjected her captain and crew to arrest and other indignities. Forts Were Old-Fashioned. The entrnnee to the inside harbor at Puerto Cabello is through a narrow channel not more than a few hundred feet wide. To the left of the channel ns one enters the harbor, situated on a low sand spit, is the fortress which wns bombarded by the Geriunn and British cruisers. It is on old-fashioned structure, which was rebuilt iti the eighteenth century. Its sides are comparatively low and would offer poor resistance to modern shells. The Venezuelan govermnnt had no modern cannon there. The custom house at Puerto Cabello Is situated oil the right or mainland side of the channel. It is n long, two-story brick building and contains, Leahies executive offices, large warehouses. Steamers discharging at Puerto Caliello tie up immediately iu front of the custom house. The town itself is flat and stretches from the water front inland to the base of the hills, u distance of two or three miles. The outside harbor at Puerto Cabello is hardly more than a large bay, offering comparatively little protection to shipping. The inside harbor is secure and quite commodious. The geographical conformation of the country causes a fenr that unless Castro’s people rise and overthrow him, substituting an administration which is willing to treat with the blockading tamers, the settlement of the difficulty will be indefinitely postponed. Blockade a Big Taak. A prolonged blockade .would be a glgnntlc undertaking. Venezuela has, with Its many indentations and irregularities. a const line of nearly 1,500 miles. To guard this, effectively by steam launches, as the Joint fleet has proposed, would require a monstrous mosquito fleet. Even with such n fleet, enterprising blockade runners would speedily find loopholes, and by repeated successes would, under the rules of war, force the United States and other neutral powers to declars the blockade void. .

THE GIBRALTAR OF THE CARIBBEAN.

Venezuela’s vital statistics give these figures: Area. 593,943 square miles; population, 2,000,<JO0; yearly imports, mostly from Britain, $8,457,977; exports, mostly to Britain, $17,902,257; total debt, $38,000,000, mostly due to British and German investors; total yearly revenue, $0,500,000; total yearly expenditures, $9,000,000, showing a steady annual deficit of $2.500,001). It is to be seen that a blockade actually destroying Venezuela's commerce cannot help the Anglo-German investors in the long run. The duties collected on $8,500,000 of imports will certainly not pay the arrears of interest, to say nothing of the large cost of blockading. There is much point in the London Post’s remark that it is not worth Germany’s and Great Britain's while “to spend millions in coercing a country which cannot be annexed and is likely to prove bankrupt.” Criticise Own Envovs. The conduct of the British and German commanders is severely censured by all the European colonies in Venezuela. Alfred Blohm. the banker, who went

to La Guayra and saw the commanders of the British and Gorman cruisers, said that he did not hesitate on meeting Charge von l’ilgrim-Baltazzi on board tiie German cruiser Vineta to tell him that the conduct of the German legation in this question had been shameful, and that the matter could have been arranged if Herr von Pilgrim had only seen President Castro, who, like the German colony, was ignorant of Germany’s designs. The enlistment of Venezuelan soldiers continues. Two thousand men from the environs of Zarncas nnd Valencia came into this city to-day. The entire Argentine, Cuban and Chll inn colonics have offered their servicer, to President Castro to defend Venezuela. Strange ns it may appear, a compara-

CUSTOM HOUSE AT LA GUAYRA.

tively large number of Germans who | live in the interior of the country have volunteered to hear arms In defense of this country against their fntherlnmL Brief News Items. A lew Russian orthodox church has been consecrated iu New York City. Congressman Cheater I. Long is to move from Medicine Lodge to Hutchinson, Knn. The street car men of Houston, Texas, went out on a strike to enforce a demand for $2 for nine hours’ work, O. B. Frederick of Ht. Joseph, a brukontan oti the Chicago Great Western, wns crushed to death at Conception, Mo. The Inndlng of the Pilgrim fathers was celebrated by the Society of Mayflower Desceudents in Wnsnington at ita third annual banquet. Augustus E. Lines of New Ilnven, Conn., has bequeathed SSO.(KX) to the Yale law school for the support of a professorship of testamentary law. James Colly was acquitted by a at Oakalooaa, Kan., at the charge of killing hia brother-in-law, Frank Himmona. The verdict wna a popular ona.

STATE OF WAR EXISTS.

This Is Balfour's Statement in the House of Commons. In the House of Commons Wednesday Premier Balfour said there was no such thing as n "pacific blockade.” A state

of war actually existed with Venezuela. he declared. Mr. Balfour added that the blockade would be carried out with as little inconvenience to neutrals as possible. The premier also said the operations were reluctantly undertaken, not to recover debits, but after a long and patient delay to recover compensation for ns“saults cm British subjects and the

A. J. BALFOUR.

seizure of British vessels. “The blockade will be carried out by Great Britain and Germany along different parts of the coast,” said the premier, "and though the two fleets will have the same objects they will not act as one force. We never had any intention of landing troops in Venezuela or of occupying territory even temporarily. We do not think it desirable on either military or other grounds. All the conditions governing such a blockade have been considered carefully and will be published in due time for the information of neutrals. The government is most anxious that these operations, the necessity for which we deeply regret, should be as little inconvenient to neutrals as they can possibly be made. No difftreiiee wlTl be made between the vessels of the various neutral powers.”

BIG TANGLE GROWS.

Many Nations Now Mixing in Venezuelan Affair. “Each nation that joins in the coercion of Venezuela adds just so much to the difficulties and complications .of the situation.” This statement was made by a Washington official with reference to the notices served by Italy that she has joined the concerted action of Germany and Great Britain. Spain nnd Belgium have traveled an far along the same road as to notify President Castro that when a settlement is made with the other?, their claims also must be considered, and it is reported thnt Holland und Denmark will tnks similar steps. Castro has said plainly thnt of all the great powers of the world, only France and the United States have refrained from attacking him. In view of this, self-interest on the pnrt of the United States might easily be alleged, the hy-

pothesis being that this country is now holding aloof nnd suppressing the importance of its own claims that eventually it tuny become a preferred creditor. As regnrdod by the administration no violation as the Monroe doctrine has yet occurred, hut there is danger thnt. with the majority of Kuropcnn powers struggling to extort money nnd sntinfnctio’i out of Venezuela, the insolence of combined strength will lend to some yvert net. Then it will be n question whether the United States enn enforce that policy against such odds. The position of France in much the same, since up to the time that force wns employed by Germany nnd Grent liritnin, her claims were in n fair way of being satisfactorily settled. James K. A. Gibbs, aged 73, the Inventor of the Wilcox A Gibbs sewing machine and other Inventions, died st his home at Pnphinc, Rockbridge County, Va. The Burlington Hnilmad Company has given all its employes to understand that each dend train robber will be worth sl,* 000 Lu the man who kills him.

GREAT DAM IS DEDICATED.

Zatxaense Reservoir of the Nile Opened —Marks Great Achievement. The great Assouan dam—boon for Egypt and one of the most wonderful achievements of man—was dedicated Wednesday. The Duke of Connaught laid the last stone of the immense reservoir in the presence of a party of Englishmen and Egyptians. The Assouan dam and the Assiout barrage are monuments to British engineering skill and progressive -policy. These great works, which have cost between $100,000,900 H nd $125,000,000, will systematize irrigation, impart security to crops and stability to harvests, and widen the area of Nile lands under cultivation. The Assouan dam is one and onefourth miles long and will hold the water 347.0 feet above the level of the Mediterranean. The dam is pierced by 180 openings, each twenty-three feet high and seven feet wide, Each sluice is fitted with steel gates, adjustable at will, so as to enable the water to go in and out. An idea of the immensity of the labor involved in the construction may be obtained from the fact that the foundations of some of the sluices go seventy-five feet below the ordinary rock surface. The annual flood, with its fertilized silt and soil, already has passed, and the sluices of the Assouan dam are now closed for the storage of water until the Ist of Mari'h. The sluices will then be opened gradually, and for four months there will be a good head of water in ihe Treery irrigating canal for the use of cultivators. The scarcity of. water caused by the low Nile will be avoided, and a great increase in the agricultural resources of the English will he brought about. The Nile will he held up by a dam 100 feet thick at the base and the valley above it will he flooded for fifty miles. The experts are making a striking comparison. They calculate that the reservoir will hold water enough for a year's full supply for every town and village in the United Kingdom. The engineering works also include an open weir or barrage at Assiout, a long way down the Nile, by which the distribution of the water from the great .reservoir is secured over a largo area.

CONDITIONS IN THE MINES.

Evidence Presented to the Commission Unfolds a Dark Picture. At last the coal strike commission lias come to the important phase of its investigation which relates to the actual living and working conditions of the miners. The evidence thus Car presented unfolds the picture of the miner's daily life, and undeniably the picture is a dark one. Judging from the facts related on the witness stand, the traditional stories

THE ASSOUAN DAM. SHOWING 5 OF THE 108 SLUICE GATES.

as to the hardship and deprivation endured by the men who work underground have not been exaggerations. One after another, workingmen in the employ of the anthracite operators have come forward to describe n daily routine of hardship. A miner of the Marklc company, which is supposed to lie one of the best conducted of the mining corporations, told of his eviction by the company for failing to pay rent during the strike. Ilis sick wife, who was evicted with him. is dead as a result of the process and her mother, a centenarian, is dangerously ill. A \\ idow whose husband had been killed in ti e mines told how Hie witli the help of her two boys had worked thirteen years to pay off a rent bill due the company. The sons were not paid in cash, their earnings being kept by the company to apply on the debt. These are but special features of a story of hazardous work, scanty earnings and heavy overcharges for the mining supplies furnished by the employing companies. Testimony offered by the superintendents of public schools wns to the effect that nearly a third of the children in the mining region do not attend school. These plain stories of what appears to be commonplace experience in some parts of the coal fields have their value nnd they will have their weight with the commission. That body is not composed of sentimentalists and will not be likely to disregard the many industrial, economic and commercial factors involved In the management of a great industry. It will, however, be forced to’take cognizance of the plain fact ttint there is a minimum standard of living conditions and that when human beings are required to live below that standard the law of common humanity demands attention first of nil. Clearly, in tin l opinion of the'Chicago News, the limit has been passed in the case of many of the anthracite miners.

DATES OF STATE FAIRS FIXED.

Nutionat Association Holds Annual Meeting in Chicago. The National Association of Fairs und Exhibitions mot at the Union Stock Y'ards in Chicago and decided the time As holding the State fairs in 1903 ns follows: Missouri—Ang. 17 to 22. lowa—Aug. 24 to 29. New York—Ang. 24 to 29. Minnesota —Aug. 81 to Sept 5. Ohio—Aug. 31 to Sept. 5. Wisconsin —Sept. 7 to 12. Nebraska —Sept. 7 to 12. Indiana—Sept. 14 to 19. Kansas —Sept. 14 to 19. Illinois—Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. Texas —Sept. 28 to Oct. 3. St. Louis fair—Oct. 5 to 10.

Southerners Honor Grant and Lincoln.

Survivors of Company C, Thirteenth Virginia regiment. of the Confederate army, are ruining fund* for the erection of n monument In Richmond, Va., to Gen. Grant. While in Virginia thia expression of good will la made mnnifeat, in Mississippi a portrait of Lincoln ia to tie placed in the Miaaiaaippi Hall of Fama.

MRS. R. B. MOLINEUX, WHO, IT IS SAID, WILL SEEK A DIVORCE.

MRS. ROLAND IS. MOLINEUX.

Mrs. Roland B. Molineux. according: to the press dispatches, is at Sioux Falls,. 8. I)., acquiring a residence, preparatory: to securing a divorce from the New Yorker, who was recently acquitted of a poisoning charge. She refuses to reveal the grounds of her action for divorce, and says: "I have said, and repeat, that I have been martyred, and that I feel that I aui fully justified in seeking freedom. Beyond that' 1 will not elaborate. I nm> now through talking forever.”

FOOTBALL’S DEADLY WORK.

The List of Victim* Higher than Ever This Season. A list of the accidents resulting from football during the season of 1902. which lias just drawn to a close, shows that tho game has claimed more victims this season than ever before. Carefully compiled reports fynm all sections of the country place the number who have died ns a result of injuries received on the gridiron at fifteen. More than 100 minor hurts have been recorded, ranging all the way from concussion of the brain and insanity. down the list through injured spines, crushed skulls, broken legs and arms, to such smaller matters as broken ear Jrumr and the tearing loose of ribs. The casualties were, fnr the greater part, confined to the smaller and less experienced teams, as the indiscriminate and often fatal piling up of players is most common to those who are not well

acquainted with the game. And, on the other hand, the big elevens do not play their hardest until a long period of training and hardening has been gone through. No account has boon taken of the lesser hurts, such ns sprains and bruises. These were so common on every team that they seldom found their way into print. It is likely that hardly a member of any eleven has not been under the care of the trainer at one time or another during the season, laid up with trouble sufficient to bring out his name in the “among thus# injured,” had the injury, come as the result of # fire.

The Comic Side of The News

It is a mistake to think that “reiehstag” is German for “rough house.” It will be a lucky anti-trust bill that comes out of the committee of Congress with its stinger intact. Corner lots in Medicine Ilat are hardly at a premium these days; in fact, they arc away below zero. Strong nnd Yohe have returned to New York, but ns yet the fumigation officials have done nothing about it. If the isthmus of Panama is so nnheaithful it may be necessary to boil tho* water in the new ship canal before using it. Dr. Lorenz is different from some other physicians with whom you may have a casual acquaintance, lie refused a. ? 10.000 fee. Next yenor when the furnters visit the fat stock show in Chicago it is to behoped that the town will not burn so many of them. Perhaps when science has advanced n little farther we shall be able to harnessMount I’elee and make it do the greater part of the world’s work. Congress could well alford to adjourn* for a day out of respect for the memory of Tom Reed, for he showed it how to* keep from wasting time. By observing closely the case of Vervesueia the Sultan of Turkey can see what ’he would) experience if it were equally safe for creditors to go guunnig for him. About 500.000 in London nr* idle and looking fo/work. This is a year in which England could use something like n Boer war to employ its surplus population. Macaroni wheat can be grown her* successfully, according to the Secretary of Agriculture. What sport it would bo for the Kansas breezes playfully to skip through the long holes! Assistant Postmaster General Maddca will probably have the members of the Court of Appeals arrested for leze majesty for reversing one of hie decisions in rigard to second-class mail matter.