Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1904 — Page 2

Attention! Company K ! . . ' <1 ‘ ■ p" ■, Carpets, Capts, Carpels! Linoleums, Linoleums, Linoleums! Largest Stock, Latest Styles, Lowest Prices. Also a Complete Lina of Furniture. BIBHIHHHHiHHMHHfIHHHfIHIHHfIHfIHHiHHHHIHIHHMHIHHIHHfIBHIHfIfI JAY W. WILLIAMS, The Furniture and Carpet Dealer, Rensselaer, Ind.

I« LINDS DRIHD.

READY FOR THE PLOW.

1 am prepared to sell the richest soil In the United States, drained, irrigated and ready for the plow, in tracts to suit the purchaser, at an ■ exceedingly low price. The title Is perfect, the drainage system adequate, aud if irrigation is desired, it is inexpensive. Not a dollar need be paid to us until the land is ready for occupancy. Liberal terms of payment can be arranged. The land Is situated forty-five miles west of the City of New Orleans on the Southern Pacific Railroad, in a •jommunity of Northern farmers, and is suitable for the cultivation of any crop raised in the South. For centuries this land has been known as Marsh Land and the drainage dt it was considered a very difficult problem. But the Government dam recently constructed at the source of the Bayou La Fourche, has reduced the flow of water in the Bayou to a point which has made the drainage of the land a very simple problem. For over rixty years, land in this Immediate vicinity has been in a high state of cultivation. Fine ffoads are maintained and the residents have all the advantages of the old and more thickly settled portions of the country. There is no better soil in the United States for the cultivation of corn, rice, cotton, sugar cane, alfalfa, onion 3. potatoes and garden vegetables. I am selling this land, drained ready for. the plow, with facilities for Irrigation if desired. No better investment tksn fertile, productive real estate can Ik- found. The low price asked for this land, gives the purchaser an opportunity of making an immediate profit on his Investment It gives him the opportunity of securing a desirable home and at the same time an Investment which will increase In value tenfold within five years. For maps and terms, address O. W. Crawford, Manager, 501 Carleton Building, St. Louis. Ma

Can You Boat This.

36 , in. Water Color Window cS hades 20c 36 in. Water Color Window Shades 25c Mattresses, $1.75 up. Furniture of all kinds at rocKbotiom prices. Call awl be convinced. Bringham & Thornburg, i Furniture dealers, Nowels Block.

5 PER CENT LOANS.

’We can positively make you « loan on better terms than you can procure elsewhere. No “red tape.” Commission lowest. No extras. Funds unlimited. See os before borrowing or renewing an old loan and we will save yon money. IRWIN & IRWIN. I. O. O, F. Building.

Tourist Cars to Los Angeles Wew Service via the St. Pmul and Union Pacific Line. Experienced travelers, who know how to travel comfortably and wave money, select tourist sleeping •cars for their trips across the contfiaent. The St. Paul and Union Pacific Line offers daily tonrist <car service from Chicago to San J&ancisco. Tourist cars for Los .Angeles leave Chicago on Mon«4ays and Saturdays. Berth rate rillithe way only $7. Folder free. X). C. Mobdough, Traveling Passenger Agent, 12 Oarew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio. >

THE DECLINE IN CARD PLAYINQ. Saturday Evening Post.

Cards seem to be going through much the same experience as drink. Time was when drink and cards were under the ban cheifly because they were thought to be wicked. But in spite of this widespread belief and crusades based upon it and prosecuted fervently, drink and cards grew in favor. Then came the commercial attack on drink. As soon as scores of the large employers and hundreds of smaller ones began to weed out the drinkers, the drinking habit began to decline —and will continue to decline.

The new attack upon cards is intellectual. Influential people who are intellectual, or are striving to be, or are striving to appear to be are frowning upon cards as “an absurd waste of time,” as childish and wearisome and fit only for the empty-headed. As there is obvious sense in this criticism, and as public opinion is what the leaders make it, the card-playing mania which had possession of the women and the men a few years ago is abating with gratifying speed. It is a silly way to pass any part of an i at least brief life.

"CAUSE AND EFFECT.”

Goodland Herald.

A Judge of the Chicago Courts recently said: “You may ransack the pigeonholes all over the city and country and look over such annual reports that are made up, but they will not tell half the truth. Not only are the saloons of Chicago responsible for the cost of the police force, the fifteen justice courts, Bridewell, but also the criminal courts, the county jail, a great portion of the Joliet State Prison, the long list of murder trials, the Coroner’s office, the morgue, the poor house, the reform school and road houses. In fact, go anywhere you please and you will find invariably that whiskey is at the root of evil. The gambling houses, the bad houses of the city are the direct out-growth of boon companions of drink. Of all the prostitutes of Chicego, the downfall of most every one can be traced to drunkenness on the part of their parents, husbands or on their own part. Of all the boys in the reform school at Pontiac and in the various reformatories about the city 95 per cent are the children of parents who died through drink, or became criminals through the same cause. Of the insane or demented cases disposed of here in the court every Thursday, a moderate estimate is 90 per cent is caused by aloohol. I saw estimated the other day that there is 10,000 destitute boys in Chicago who are not confined at all, but are running at large. I think that is a small estimate. Men are sent to jail for drunkenness, and what becomes of their families? The county jail and poor houses provides for them. It is a direct expense to the community. Generally speaking these families go to destruction. The boys turn out to be thieves and the girls and the mothers resort to the slums.”

Tragedy Averted. “Jtwt In the nick of time our little boy wu saved.” writes Bits. W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Ohio. “Pnenmnis had played sad havoc with hint and a terrible cough set In besides. Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. Klng’a New Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved. He’s now sound, and well.” ■ very body ought to know, its the only sure cure for Coughs, Colda and all lnng diseases. Guaranteed by A. 9. Long, Druggist, Price 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottles free. Come to The Democrat office for horse bills.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: Work is being crowded along so fast in Congress that it seems as if adjournment might possibly come a week or so before the Ist of May. The appropriation bills that have not already passed are passing, without such opposition as will cause much delay. Several bills in the interest of the labor unions are on the calendar and some are reported from committees. But there is little probability that any will pass this year. The service pension bill will now be withdrawn, for this session at least, in view of the action of the Commissioner of Pensions in so interpreting the law as to grant old age pensions to veterans of 62 without regard to disability. The . Post office appropriation bill has been before the House this week, and has again been the storm centre. The minority leader, John S. Williams, (Miss.,) declared that the Post-Office department was rotten from turret to foundation stone and the Republicans were trying to reorganize it in an appropriation bill. He said that only one division of the department had been investigated, and that only partially, while other divisions were equally corrupt. Mr. Payne, the Republican leader, and General Grover threw such Explanation as they could into the discussion, and Mr. Overstreet, (Rep., Ind.) the unhappy father of the report, declared that nothing in particular was the matter and nobody injured. Mr, Williams came back with the charge that pnblic moneys had been repeatedly diverted to illegal uses in contempt of law, that buildings had been rented, fuel bought, and clerks appointed and promoted in defiance of Civil Service regulations. “These officials,” he declared vehemently, “violate the laws whenever they please and grant favors to their friends whenever they please, and tell you cooly that it was because of a construction pat upon the law by somebody, God only knows who.” Joseph L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, who has been almost two months sick and confined to his bed, was dragged out Thursday and Friday and given a roasting in the third degree by the McCall Committee appointed to investigate him and his famous report. He explained that he had been disabled from service for several weeks and that he did not make and was not responsible for the report that had been sent to Congress. The most of it was the work of First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne. At the same time he defended the report in general terms, said there bad been improper clerk-hire allowances in offices, and that various measures had been forwarded at the earnest request of Congressmen. He bad cited some cases and said a hundred other similar cases coaid be cited. He was asked whether the report came directly from the hands of the Postmaster General, or whether some other official was consulted. He said he had been told, bnt did not know. He was asked by Mr. Bartlett of Georgia whether any suggestion had come from the president. Before it oonld be answered, Mr. Burton of Ohio interposed an objection to "any such question being asked,” and it was ruled ont by the committee.

The American Bed Cross Society is rent in. twain. Definite

chargee of mismanagement were yeaterdav filed against Clara Barton and her cortene of friends by a large majority of the directors, — an eminent and honorable body of citizens. They found that not less than $715,000 have been collected and that no part of it was ever received or disbursed by the Treasurer, and that the accounts, if aoconnts were kept, have never been audited. There have been no public reports of receipts or expenditures. Money paid in has been used for anything that the President wished to ase it for, without consultation with the directors. It is charged that the charter of the society has been grossly and repeatedly violated. Miss Barton has now to show why reorganization should not take place in the public interest. t t t The “World’s Fair Industry” continues to prosper. Congress has given $5,000,000 to St. Louis and “lent” her $5,000,000 more; it has smiled productively on propositions to celebrate Forefathers’ Day in Massachusetts, Lewis and Clark’s Day in Portland, Oregon, and Daniel Boone’s Day in Louisville, and yesterday Congressmen went to Jamestown, Virginia, to view the site of the proposed Pocahontas Exposition in 1907. The sum of $500,000 has been appropriated to the Portland show, as a starter.

Senator Newland advocates the establisnment of a permanently vacant zone through the Mall from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, with a width of 800 feet between buildings. On both sides of this space public buildings may be erected. The Senator seems not to know what citizens of Washington know perfectly well, that this central park called the Mall (generally mispronounced Maul) is not fit for public buildings of any kind. Several have been placed there, but the number ought not to be added to, as it recently was in the new Post Office building, merely because real estate owners wanted to sell their lots. In every freshet or season of flood tide the whole Mall is snbmergedT More than once in this decade the water of the Potomac has stood five feet deep on the site of the Post Office department, and boats have been rowed along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capital to Market Space. Government buildings ought always to be erected on high ground on the squares around the Capitol or the White House, or out Sixteenth Street, or on Judiciary Square. The whole movement to cover the depressed Mall with expensive government palaces has its origin and its support in local speculators in real state.

Personal: General Miles has been summoned home; Mrs. Miles i s critically ill * * Representative Thompson of Alabama is down with pneumonia * * Gout has at last released its shackles and the Postmaster General is ont again * * Secretary Moody is making speeches in New England * * The Senate played a mock game of Jai Allai in executive session while considering the conduct of General Wood in Cuba. His Nomination as Major General was confirmed on Friday.

Notice to Telephone Subscribers. The Jasper County Telephone Company will offer, commencing March Ist, 1904, the following rates for farmers’ lines connected with the Rensselaer exchange: First —Service on grounded lines, ten subscribers to a line, at One Dollar ($1.00) per month. On these lines all telephones will ring when any one ritigs. These lines will give satisfactory service to those who are willing to pnt up with the annoyance of having their telephone bells ring often; and will give service to those desiring it at a cheaper price than has heretofore been charged. Second —Full metallic semi-se-lective lines, ten subscribers to a line, only one-half of the telephones ringing when Central rings end no telephone ringing when subscriber rings, at One Dollar and Fifty Cents ($1.50) per month.

Third —Contracts will be taken on a basis of five cents (6c) per call for out-going oalls; this rate per message applying to all telephones and all toll stations in Jasper county reached by this company’s lines; the subscriber guaranteeing at least twenty messages per month. This is for full metallic, semi-selective lines, with a limit of ten snbsoribers to a line. Further particulars regarding these rates will be furnished by any representative of the company. The Jasper County Telephone Company. Bead The Democrat for news.

We Risk It

Druggists Who doll Dr. Miles' Nervine Agree, If It Fails, To Refund Cost. Of ooura. we reimburse the druggist. Tou know him, and trust him. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is medicine for your nerves.

It cures diseases of the Internal organs, by giving tons to the nerves which make these organs work. .. It Is a novel theory—not of anatomy, but of treatment; first discovered by Dr. Miles, and since made use of by many wide-awake physicians, who appreciate its value In treating the sick. If you are sick, ws offer you a way to bo made well—Dr. Miles’ Nervine. This medicine Is a scientific cure for nerve disorders, such as Neuralgia, Headache, Loss of Memory. Sleeplessness, Spasms, Backache, St. Vitus* Dance, Epilepsy or Fits, Nervous Prostration, etc.

By toning up the nerves, Ik*. Miles’ Restorative Nervine will also cure those diseases of the Internal organs due to a disordered nervous system. Some of these are: Indigestion, Bilious Headache, Kidney Trouble, Chronlo Constipation, Dropsy, Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc.

"My brother had nervous prostration, and was not expected to live. I prevailed upon him to try Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine, and now he has fully recovered. You remember I wrote you how it saved my life a few years ago. when I had nervous trouble. I preach its merits to everyone.”—REV. M, D. MYERS. Corfectionvllle, lowa. -rivy rip Write us and we will mail I JElIiXi you a Free Trial Package of Dr. Miles’ Antl-Paln Pills, the New, Scientific Remedy for Pain. Also Symptom Blank for our Specialist to diagnose your case and tell you what Is wrong and how to right it. Absolutely Free. Address: DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., LABORATORIES, ELKHART, IND,

Commissioners' Allowances,

W L Lewis, advance Burns ditch 21 00 S R Nichols, postage, Treas’. office 4 14 “ “ salary •* “ 200 00 Chas Morlan, janitor court bouse. 45 00 “ “ laundry court house 86 Nim Hopkins, assessing Marion Tp 3 12 60 J H. Long, assessing Marion Tp 88 00 Hiram Day, expense oounty jail 188 00 Rush A Warren, expense heating plant 84 50 J W Williams, expense poor farm 4 25 S R Nichols, Assignee, labor poor farm. 17 10 A L Branch, fuel court house 212 76 do expense poor farm 20 82 Victoria Coal Mining Co., fuel oourt hs.. 87 15 Jno R Philips, per diem Co Assessor . 102 00 H J Kannal, expense poor farm 6 00 W A Richmond, labor poor farm 2 00 Jno Makeever, wood poor farm 8 00 Donnelley Lumber Co. Expense Co. jail 12 55 M H Hemphill, expense Comr Court 2 00 Ray D Thompson, ex Coroner’s Inquest 500 W J Wright, expense Coroner’s Inquest 900 Ernest Morlan, expense poor farm 8 35 Chas N Brown, witness Coroner’s Inq _ 1 35 Ma Kruger, “ “ “ _ 135 Hugo Remninaz •• ’* “ 1 25 Mary Oolezel ” ” “ ... 1 35 Dr. W J Solt ” “ “ _ 540 W R Willets, allotting ditches 75 8 R Nichols, Assignee, labor poor farm 8 96 M B Price, expense Surveyor’s office.... 75 do *• *• “ „ 80 do postage Surveyor's office.. 890 do expense Surveyor’r office 25 do ditch work 60 00 Levi Miller, allotting ditches... 1 60 X M Washburn, M. D, sal sec’y Bd Health 53 00 do “ ... 8* Wallace Bros, expense heating plant — 7 00 Jno K Phillips, postage Co Assessor 8 00 I Tuteur, expense county farm 80 24 do ” court nouse 125 Scott Valve Co', pump, boiler house 212 00 J C Gwin A 00. expense boiler house.. 15 90 do expense poor farm „ 6s 73 Coen A Brady, expense poor farm 28 67 ■I H Perkins, expense poor farm 3 20 Chas Robinson, labor poor farm 5 50 J W Freshour, expense poor farm 75 Wm Brown, labor poor farm 22 00 Bruner A Merry Tel Co., tel rent for Co 10 50 Benj. Harris, Hazelet ditch 66 00 A L Berkley, Corner’s Inquest 25 00 W J Wright, Corner’s Inquest 7 80 Ray D Thompson, Corner's inquest 8 50 Robert Parker, gravel road repairs 840 83 Wm Simons, Marion Tp gravel road rep 18 OO Joseph Groom, “ “ *’ - 15 00 Clarence Maxwell “ “ ” . 80 00 Jesse Nichols, “ ” “ - 24 00 D E Leah “ “ “ . 21 00 T M Burns, Assignee Keener Tp gvl rd 21 75 Ancel Woodworth, Marion Tp gravel rd 45 00 T H Potts, Marion Tp gravel road 88 76 True Woodworth, Marlon Tp gravel rd 88 76 Henry Lewis, Marion Tp gravel road 6 00 Marion I Adams. Marion Tp gravel road 640 Louis Wildberg, expense pr farm (cunt) 11 86

Loans on Land. - , I*— 2 We make our own inspections; no delay, no 2 extra expense; interest 5 per cent. Loans on City Property and on Personal security also. 3 Call, write or telephone No. 35. \ The First National Bank g RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i'a' j!'Murray] X Will, until permanently located, make X his headquarters in Lee Jessup’s carpen- a ter shop on the corner of Washington 2 and Weston streets. All work in the J ♦Heating and Plumbing J T ggggg^— 4 Y line promptly attended to. My best ref 1 J erences will be to have you interview ( the people I have done work for. I will ( gladly quote you rock-bottom prices on ( X Wood or Galvanized Stock Tanks, Pumps, , Z Windmills, Etc. ▲ Kindly seeking a part of your patronage, ♦ Bell ’Phone 233. _ a a a!' a Jk

A B Kressler, medant to poor Oo (cant) 88 50 Mat L. Adams, Marlon tp gravel rd rep 413 boot! Bros. expense poor 8 80 Way mi re * King, expense poor farm. 28 06 K B Porter, salary County Recorder 88 24 do postage County Recorder.. 8 40 Ed Rhoades, expense court house.. 5 05 do expense poor farm.. 12 ho . W H Eger, expense poor farm 7 88 do expense court house 8 10 A G Hardy, sheriff's salary 108 88 A F Long, expense poor farm 1 75 W H Eger, expense jaiL 8 58 Jno R Vannata, expense poor, farm 8 15 Luella Phillips, labor poor farm 15 00 W arner Bros., expense poor farm.. 800 AG Hardy, exponas highways 5 06 * do expense highways 825 Chaa W Bussell, wolf scalp .1 10 00 Wm Burns, wolf 5ca1p...... 10 00 M B Price, surveyor on ditches 75 00 White A Marion, expense poor farm 6 60 Judson H Perkins, expense poor farm... 15 80 Charles Cain, labor poor farm 10 80 Phillip Blue, salary supt poor farm. 150 00 W A Brown, labor poor farm 22 00 Luella Phillips, labor poor farm 12 00 do ’* ” 12 00 Ed Rhoades, expense poor farm 7 56 Waymire A King, expense poor farm.—. 11 55 I John Eger, expense poor farm 112 88 • Tj JnoF Bruner, services truant officer A F Long, expense court house 81 20 I 8 B Jenkins, fireman boiler house / 86 00 I Geo E Marshall, public printing 386 I do printing del taxes. 88 00 I do printing Moffltt ditch 800 J Leslie Clark, public printing 100 /T James W McEwen, public printing 400 /I do “ “ 100 I L P Shlrer, Trustee, pr children in sch. 460 I City of Rensselaer, lighted hs and jaiL. 22 17 Geo L Morgan, fireman boiler house 8 08 J W Freshour, expense jail 2 50 O P Robinson, T ‘ court house 100 Chas W Platt, “ boiler house 200 City of Rensselaer, water to Apr 1,1904 87 60 Wnite & Marion, expense county jail— 40 City of Rensselaer, lights C H and jail— 22 75 W 8 Parks, expense court house 25 Ed D Rhoades, “ " 52 L H Hamilton, per diem Co, Supt - 108 00 Jas N Lea therm an, salary Co Auditor. 888 38 A G Hardy, sheriff, postage shff office... 200 do sheriff’s salary 850 80 Robt B Porter, salary Co Recorder 425 00 do postage Recorder's office _ 480 A Woodworth, Msrion Tp gvl road rep 800 Jesse Nichols, “ 600 Daniel Zeigler, " ” 150 Leslie County Supt 8 00 do County Asseesor'soffloe... 17 50 J F Major, salary as clerh .... 875 00 Leslie Clark, notice Tate A Kent dth bd 30 00 do supplies sheriff's office 11 50 do supplies And offl (con) 12 00 R W Marshall, county attorney 75 00 R A Parkinson, freight for county 40 Irwin & Irwin, Ins. Oonnty building 80 00 L H Hamilton, per diem county Supt £4 00 do postage Co Supt 4 38 v R W Spriggs, janitor teachers’ exam.... 200 G E Marshall, public printing 18 75 A G Hardy, sheriff's salary 877 75 W 8 Parks, freight Co. Assessor 50 Jay J Jonee, emergency Sac Bd Heelth.l 86 00 B F Fendig, expense Co jail 8 85 E J Murray, expense heating plant 6 88 L P Shlrer, trustee, poor children in sch 28 25 City of Rens, llghtaacourt house and jail 86 01 D 8 Makeever, allotting ditches 3 00 Ora Yeoman, •• " 6 00 Benj. Harris, advance Burn’s ditch 10 00 I Abraham Halleok, Com’r q'terly salary 56 25 I Frederick Waymire,; “ “ 56 25 I Chas T Denham, Com’r •* “ 58 25 I JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. And please remember The I Democrat office is especially “it” I when it comes to horse bills.

IOWMSBIPTRUSIEEB^GARD^ Jordan Township. John Bill, trustee of Jordan township, gives notice that he will be at bis 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. ! 1 Send model, sketch or photo erf Invention tor ’' <' free report on patentability. For free book, (^VWWWVWWWWWWt^V Morris’ English Stable Powder Sold by A. V. Long