Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — Page 4

m nin mm. 1 1 bibcob, aiioi bp muau. ▼■“"‘•I" | ait. Offlalal Democratic Paper of Jasper County. •1.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rate* made known on application Bnterod at the Poet-oSlee at Hen**elaer, Ind. a* second elan matter. Office on Van Ransssiaar Street, North of Murray’s Store.

Of Interest to Advertisers. An ex mlnatlon ol the latest lacue of the American Newspaper Directary, the recognized authority an circulation ratlec* e« new»peper» In the U. S. and Canada, reveal* the fact that In Indiana THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT bae a higher circulation rating than I* accorded to any ether paper published in Jasper County.

THE GLADIATORIAL COMBAT IN AMERICA.

Chicago Examiner: We rejoice to see that at last one clergyman has had the courage to protest against the strange frenzy of animalism in which oar colleges and universities are indulging, i Everything that Dr. Gunsaulus says on thiq subject is perfectly true. One of the sweetest and most welcome days of th& year has been degraded by our college sports into a day for the apotheatics of mere brute strength. We no longer observe Thanksgiving Day to give thanks, to gather in family reunions and enjoy good cheer and kindliness, but to see squads of young men from our seats of learning try to break one another’s ribs and heads. There has come to be no other significance to the day. The President of the United States and the Governor of the state might as well omit their annual proclamations. Nobody heeds them. It is a curious commentary on human affairs that the institutions that are supposed to do most for human advancement and improvement are responsible for this distinct backward step. Without the support of the colleges and universities “the American bull fight” would quickly disappear. Dr. Gunsaulus might have gone further and condemned the entire Bystem of athletics as practiced in these institutions. He might have condemned the idea of having students pummel and pound one another in public for the gratification of spectators. He might have condemned Buch a scene as most revolting to any conception of civilization and absolutely irreconcilable with any tenet of Christianity. What must be the effect upon youthful minds of this constant adulation of mere physical strength as the summit of human glory? What must be the effect of steadily inculcating the idea that life is a battle-ground and only that man wins honor in it that gouges and punches and batters his way to the front? This truly appalling doctrine, that there is nothing in life worth while but material success, and that it

makes no difference how that success is gained—what will be the effect of upholding and maintaining that doctrine year after year? We have no need in this country to glorify the creed of the strong arm and the ethics of might. We have seen in the black and monstrous performance at Panama what’ this 6ort, of thing means for a nation. If the universities of America are to be of any avail for righteousness they will have to set their faces resolutely against the whole Bpirit of brutality and barbarism that finds its natural expression at home in the football field and abroad at Panama. There is not a thoughtful educator in America that does not know in bis heart that these words are perfectly true. There is not one that has not seen in the daily con-

duct of the young men nnder him the reflex of the degrading influence of the gladiatorial combats in which they permit their students to engage. There is not one that would not be glad to stop the whole dreadful business if he could. And the reason they do not stop it is as bad as the thing itself. They do not stop it because supremacy in brutal sports is the greatest advertisement a university can have. Each educator is, therefore, afraid that without the attraction of a successful football team young men will not enter his institution, the attendance will dwindle and his trustees will regard his administration as a failure. There is not a college president in the United State that does not) know that this statement is literally true. So that, in a practical analysis, what we maintain our colleges and universities for, is not the training of youth in the ways of knowledge, but to afford popular apeotacles like those of the Roman arena. To what instinct in mankind these exhibitions appeal we can tell without referring to Roman history. We have taken no account here of the list of maimed and killed that rounds each year’s record of American college football. Bat we should like to ask some college president if in his judgment all the trophies, all the victories ever won on all the football fields in the world are worth one young life crushed out iu this repulsive sport. We should like to ask him that, and be pleased to print his reply, The Indianapolis News has favored football in its editorial columns until a few days ago, when it “about faces” and comes out against the game. Two Indianapolis boys have died as a result of injuries received this season and another was so badly hurt at Paris, 111., on Thanksgiving that it was thought he would not

THE PUBLIC HAS AN INSATIABLE APPETITE TO LEARN SOMETHING Call it curiosity, or whatever you please, people never get enough of learning something. Have you ever prepared an advertisement for the express purpose of telling something? Try it, and you’ll have the task of success half accomplished. The remaining half is to print it where it will be not only read, but believed. The en)ery bveeK. Democrat will supply that. It tells the people mor6 of what is going on in Jasper County than any other newspaper, and carries with it the influence naturally attaching thereto. News that tells something, and advertising that tells something, compose the Democrat every week. Success is with its regular advertisers.

live. Perhaps these “accidents” have caused the change of front in the News. Below we copy an editorial from a late issue of that paper. The probable death of another Indianapolis boy as the result of a football accident again emphasizes the deadly character of the game. Serious accidents in playing it have become too frequent for more than passing mention. Besides this, we have the word of an expert, the president of the Footballers’ Hospital in London, that our training for this game is such as to prove a detriment in after life, and that our manner of playing it, which is for the purpose of winning exclusively, rather than sport for sport’s sake, all have the tendency to bring the game to a condition in which it will break of its own weight if it be not reformed. The tendency to play it merely to win, instead of regarding the sport itself as of most account, is a tendency toward professionalism. Amateurism, the doing of a thing for the love of it, is the bar and dividing line that keeps sports sweet. As soon as desire to win gets so fierce as to obscure this and to involve in its pursuits a recklessness to life and limb, which appears to be the stage that football is attaining, there must be reform for the sake of the game, if we wish to preserve it as an honorable sport. On the more serious side, but a part of it, is the necessity of a

modification of the rale* that will obviate the great risks that attend the game as it is. To put before oar yonth for emulation a sport so framed that it can not be engaged in except at the constant risk of life and limb, is more than foolish. It tends to lower, and not to elevate. Courage is not inculated by that sort of thing, but a hardened sense of recklessness that is at war with the finest qualities of courage. Another football season ought not to begin without important modifications in the methods of the game. Grover Cleveland has positively declined to ever become again the nominee of the democratic party. The refusal was unnecessary. We are glad to see such papers as the Chicago Examiner, Chronicle and Indianapolis News falling in line with The Democrat on football. John Alexander Dewie, (Elijah 11, the Restorer, etc.) head of Zion City, has been declared a bankrupt, and a receiver has taken charge of Zion City and its bank. The seizure is made by order of the Federal court. W. R. Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, Chicago American and San Franoisoo Examiner, will launch still another paper at Los Angeles, Cali., next Monday. The new paper will be known as “Hearst’s Examiner.” The football season which closed last week was the most disastrous season ever known to this “sport” as more deaths resulted than during any previous year since the game was established in America. Hundreds of pUyers were also crippled for life while a still greater number were ternporarially disabled with broken arms, legs, noses, etc., etc. Which is it? Has the people of Indiana always been honest or are they now conscienceless? A dispatch from Washington reads: “It is still a subject of remark at the treasury department that In-

diana does not contribute to the department’s conscience fund. Day by day the year through men and women send in money, sometimes in small amounts and sometimes in large amounts, in envelopes marked “for the conscience fund” but none ever comes from the Hoosier state. The officials often remark that it seems strange that the state is never represented iu the contributions.”—Republican Exchange. Well, yes. When w*e contemplate the Heath’s, Neeley’s, Rathbone’s, Tyner’s, Miller's, John’s, et al, all of whom are from the g. o. p., ranks of Hoosierdom, we are constrained to believe that the Indiana office-holders and politicians are so scrupulously honest (?) that the “conscience fund” never receives any contributions from Indiana.

See advertisement next week. Greatest display of holiday goods ever shown in town. Chicago Bargain Store. TO TRADE. Good five room house and feed mill, making corn meal, rye and buckwheat flour, with all necessary fixtures, in good, near by town. Will trade clear for clear property in this City. G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind. Office over Murray's Store. For fine commercial job printing come to The Democrat offioe

PUBLIC SALE Having decided to lease our big stock farm in Milroy township, Jasper county, Indiana, we will offer at public auction at said farm, 7 miles Southeast of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 o’clock a. m., on Tuesday, Dec. 8,1903, All of my Standard Bred Horses, also cattle, bogs and farm implements, in fact, make a clean sale of all my personal property on said premises. A glance at the list below will convince horsemen of the desirable quality of my stock, Nine Head of STANDARD BRED Horses MBf NO. 1. WILKES ABDALLAH, 4645 (Stan. Re*.) Seal brown, 18 hand*high, weight 1400, bred by B. P. Pepper of Frankfort, Ky., sired by Onward, 2:2514- Ist dam, Janet, by Woodford Abdallah. 2nd dam by Doaipban, and *o on. For farther information see catalogue. NO. 2. HIGHLAND BEAUTY, (Re*. Buie 6.) Standard bay mare in foal to Wilke* AbdaUah. Sired by Robert McGregor, record, 2:17)1.16 hand* high, weight 1200. The sire of Creeoeus, record of 1:5994, (trotter); Bonnie McGregor, 2:1374; Bari McGregor, 2:2114. Ist dam, Mrytle, by Norman D, son of Alex Norman, sire of Lulu, 2:1414. 2nd dam. Lizzie, by Norman, sire of the dam of Fannie Robinson, 2:2014; Norman Medium, 2:20, etc., etc. 3rd dam by Morgan Horse. NO. 3. BLOISE POLLOCK, (stan. Reg.) Bay mare 7 years, 16 hands high, weight 1200, In foal to Wilkea Abdallah, sired by Bllerton 11,129. Ist dam, Highland Beauty, by Robert McGregor, 2:17H, the sire of Cresceus, 1:5914. 2nd dam. Myrtle, by Norman D, son of Alex Norman, sire of Lulu, 2:1414. 3rd dam, Lizzie, by Norman, sire of the dams of Fannie Robinson, 2:2014; Norman Medium, 2:20, etc., etc. 4th dam by Morgan Horse. NO. 4. MILDRED E, (Standard). Sorrel mare 6 years old, weight about 1150, in foal to Wilkes Abdallah, sired by Hill Boy 114,271), record 2:2774, trial 2:13. Ist dam. Highland Beauty by Robert McGregor, 2:17)4, sire of Creeoeus, 1:5994. 2nd dam, Myrtle, by Norman D. bob of Alex Norman, sire of Lulu, 2:M!4, 3rd dam, Lizzie, by Norman, sire of the dams of Fannie Robinson, 2i2094; Norman Medium, 2 AO, etc., etc. 4th dam, by Morgan Horse; one of the best mare* we have. NO. 5. DOCTOR CHARLEY, (standard). Bay stallion, coming three years. Sired by Wilkes Abdallah (4045). Ist dam, Mildred E, by Hill Boy, 2:2774.. 2nd dam, Highland Beauty by Robert McGregor, 2:17)4; sire of Cresoeus, IrfS994. 3rd dam, Myrtle, by Norman D, son of Alex Norman, sire of Lulu, 2:14944th dam, Lizzie, by Norman, sire of the dams of Fannie Robinson, 2:2034; Norman Medium, 2 AO, etc., etc. sth dam by Morgan Horse. NO. 6. SATTIB S, (standard). Bay Alley, coming two years. Sired by Wilkes Abdallah (4645), son of Onward, 2 £574. Ist dam, Bloise Pollock, by Bllerton (11.129), by Eagle Bird, 2 21. 2nd dam, Highland Beauty, by Robert McGregor, 2:17H; sire of Cresoeus, 1A994- 3rd dam, Myrtle, by Norman D, son of Alex Norman, sire of Lulu, 2:14)4 ■ 4th dam. Lizzie, by Norman, sire of dams of Fannie Robinson, 2:20)4; Norman Medium, 2.80, etc., etc. sth dam by Morgan Horse. NO. 7. EMMA H. Shire. Roan work mare, in foal to Picard, shire stallion, weight 1.400. NO. 8. KATE. Blue roan work mare, in foal to Cleveland, weight about 1,200. NO. 9. LENA, Roan work mare, in foal to Cleveland, weight about 1,400, also two other horses. COWS—l4cows, be fresh soon. Seven calves. One bull (red Poll Durham.) HOGS—I 4 O. I. C. and Poland China brood tows, 3boars, Poland China and O. I. C. and 70 small shoats, weight about 60 pounds each. FARM MACHINERY, BTC—One new Buckeye mower,2 walking cultivators. 2 plows 1 corn planter, 80 rods wire, one Fraser speed cart. 3 wagons, several sets harness, steam cooker, corn shelter, stoves, chickens, gasoliuestove and other articles too numerous to mention. TERMS OF SALE—Twelve months credit on approved security. 8 per centoff for cash. Sale will positively take place, rain or shine, under big tent. Free lunch for everybody. For further information send for catalogue. 1 ..1... 1,1 1 Mr if 11 rrjm 1 FRED A. PHILLIPS, Auetioneer - - • B, F. FERGUSON, Clerk T. M. HIBLER & SON Rensselaer, ind. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK North Side of Public Square RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Loans Monay on all klnda of Good Se- DIRECTORS, eurlty, on CITY PROPERTY and on A. Parklsosr FARMS at Lowest Rates, Faya Interest M on Savings, Pays Taxes and Makes In- ° Vice-President, vestments for customers and others and p T —. x. Randle, solicits Personal Interviews, with a view Oeo. E. nurray. to Business, promising every favor con- e. L. Hollingsworth« slstent with Safa Banking. Cartier. FARfI LOANS A SPECIALTY.

mu We have anything you want in the Building line; we are selling about one carload of Lumber per day which speaks, well for our grades and our prices, and you can’t afford to buy elsewhere : : : : — ——— ■■ ■■■■■ ■ ■■■ , ■!- I ■■■■!!■! ■ it mi am in.

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Don’t Forgo! tko Nov Lnrtor Yard When you oan get ell kinds of Lumber, Lime, Hair, Brick, Cement and Piaster; also the celebrated alabastscent Wall Plaster. I solicit a snare of your trade at my old stand. Respectfully, Hiram Day. The Democrat, SI.OO per year. ' .k People’s Repair AND Shoeing Shop Bring in your bronchos and kicking horses and try the new Barcus horse stocks; the old reliable Ed. Moon is an expert with them. :::::: We do repair and wood work of all kinds and guarantee all work. First shop north of K. P. building at the old Hanson stand on Front street. J. W. Freshour, Proprietor. Halleck Phone No. 57. V ■■■ —/1 Mrs. Fred Unmth. rt T mm *mSSS^SS^ , "After my first b«by was bom I did ao4 seem to regain my strength although tha doctor gava me a tonic which ha considered very superior, but instead of getting fora week and m what It would dolor me. I did taka the madkiM and was very grateful to find my strength and health stowly returning. In two weeks! was out of tod and Inn month I waa able to taka up my anal duties. lam very enthusiastic la Hs praise.” Wine of Cardui reinforces the organs of generation for the ordeal of pregnancy and childbirth. It prevents mincarriage. No woman who takes Wine of Carani need fear the coming of tor chil<& If Mrs. Unrath had takas Wine of Cardoi before her baby cam* she would not have been weakned as ■he was. Her rapid recovery should commend this great remedy to every expectant mother. Wine of Cardtu regulates the menstrual flow. IWINE or CARDS APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE Notice is hereby given to the citizens of tbe village of Dunnviiie, and of Kankakee township, in Jasper county, Indians, that tbe undersigned, a male inhabitant of tbe State ol Indiana, over tbe age of twenty-one years, of good moral character and not in tbe babit of becoming intoxicated, and has been a continuous resident of said township over ninety days last past, and who is ana will be the actual owner and proprietor of said business, and will be auch if license be granted, will make application to the Board of Commissioners, of said county of Jasper, State of Indiana, at tbe December, 1903, term of said Com mission, ra’ Court, said term commercing on Monday, December 7, 1903. for a retail liqnor license empowering bim to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and other Intoxicating liquors in less quantities than a quart at a time, witb the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the premises where the same areaokl and aiser--1 ed. The precise location of. the premises wherein said applicant desires to conduct said retail liquor business, is the only room In the one story frame building situated on lot six (6), iu block five (5), hi the original plat of the town of Dunnviiie. in Kankakee township. Jasper county. Indiana, and the said room which is on the ground floor of said building, is more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the north-west corner of said lot in said town plat, and running thence east on the borth line of said lot thirty (30; feet, thence running south twenty (30) feet, thence running west, thirty (30) feet, thence running north twenty (30) feet to the >lsce of beginning. The said room fronts on Avenue A. which is a public street in said town, and has two ,2) glass windows and a panel glass door in the west e -> d thereof, and fronting on said avenue. a?id has two glass vindnws in the north side thereof and a panel g ass door in tbe east end thereof, and Is uineteen (19) feet bv tweutv-nine (39) fret by inside measurements That said described bar room is separate and apart from any other business of any kind or character and has no device* for amusement or music of any kind or character therein. That there is no partition or pa tltions therein and tbe said bar room can be securely closed aDd locked and admissioa , thereto at all times prevented, and is so arranged with glass windows and glass doors, so th it tne whole of said room may be viewed—from the sidewalk and street in front-ofirSrne. Said license will be asked for one year and said applicant will also ask for a permit to be granted bim to-sell cigars and tobacco in connection with said business 32-36 GEORGE BRETT. Morris’ English Stable Powder BnM by A. 9. Lna*