Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Page 6

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and Oeneral Gossip of the National Capitol. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: Imitation is the sincerest flattery. Remembering that Abraham Lincoln was on the south balcony of the White House when he received the announcement of his renomination, President Roosevelt walked out upon the south balcony to receive the news of his nomination at Chicago as the tenth successor of the distinguished rail splitter. There his most intimate friends found him clothed and in his right mind. When, five minutes later, newspaper men crowded round him he said, "Now, boys, remember that this is Executive Session,” meaning of course that the natural and reasonable exhilerations of the occasion were not to be too literally reported. Thereupon he quite laid aside the little Bhow of dignity which he has sometimes found it expedient to assume, gave and took barter and badinage, and became for a short time a boy among the boys. Whatever else may be said about the President, it is conceded that he is a natural man with no trivial affectations. He was much gratified at the assurance that it was the firet time in the country’s history when a candidate for President and Vice President received every vote of a nominating convention. I called yesterday on Congressman Cowherd, running the Democratic National campaign from the Riggs House, to hear what he had to say about the Republican platform. "What has become of the party’s courage?” he asked. “On some of the greatest questions its tongue is paralyzed. Isn’t the labor situation conspicuously before the country? The platform says not a word about it. What is going to be done with the Philippines? The Republican platform does not lisp a syllable. Has the tariff ceased to be an issue? The platform makes no promise about it except that it will be diminished or increased whenever its political guardian thinks fit. Of the gross postoffice corruption it merely says ‘Our administration of the great departments of the goverment has been 'honest.’ The subject of statehood is not mentioned in the platform, although four inchoate states with a million and a half population are knocking loudly at the door. Is that an attractive platform?” t t t The forty Filipinos have come and gone. They have been hailed and lunched by the President, effusively greeted by his subordinates, lifted to the top of the monument and carried through public buildings, and have hastened to other cities. I inquired his impressions from.Major-General Birney, 6on of that James G. Birney who made the free-soil run for President in 1884, and only survivor of four brothers who fought in the Union army. He said "They looked about like the same number of intelligent persons from our states on an excursion to the capital for pleasure and instruction. If they are representatives of their people, we owe more respect t 6 the Filipinos than we have yet shown. If the President of the fair at St. Louis would devise a plan tb make our people acquainted with these men instead of exhibiting a lot of savage Iggorrotes at the Pike, he would acquire much merit. A score of Digger Indians caught in the Bad Lands of the West would

represent our native population as well as those Iggorrotes represent the Filipinos.” I asked: “What did you think of their speeches?” “They were respectable,” he said, “but not remarkable for originality or force. They were what would be expected of guests whose bills were paid by their entertainers and who would naturally avoid unpleasant topics. They were as polite as Spaniards.” “Don’t you suppose their reports will do good in the archipelago?” I asked. “Perhaps,” he answered, “by giving the people there more definite ideas of the exteut, power, wealth, and industrial resources of this country. I don’t know that the reports will make them more friendly „to us. They don’t fight us as they did. Chains don’t hurt so ranch when they are worn smooth. But no subjugated nation loves its masters. The Boers and Hindoos do [not love the British; nor do the Finns love the Russians, or the Filipinos the Americans. Warships and rapid fire guns maintain what is called peace. No Filipino rebels unless he has made his will, but the spirit that demands independence is there-and would blaze up if a favorable occasion offered. Without battleships and Gatlings they are helpless; but if a powerful nation should offer them such facilities of defense and offense, I think they would rise in rebellion from the north end of Luzon to the southern corner of the Sula possessions. If Japan, for instance, shall be victorious over Russia, what will be likely to happen? 1 don’t know; but it is a question worth thinking about, while we are execrating Russia and calling down curses on the head of the Czar.”

t t t Cortelyou’s Department of Commerce and Labor is trying to find out which one of its officials are directly responsible for the General Slocum holocaust in the East River. There is no disguising the fact that the blame rests directly upon some of Cortelyou’s inspectors. But when they are punished, if such a consummation can be hoped for, some blame will still rest upon Congress itself. The most astounding revelations in connection with it is the provision of law which pays inspectors according to the number of steamboats they are able to certify to having examined in a year! Of course this is a direct incentive to carelessness and utter recklessness. It offers a premium for perjury and a prize for neglect of duty. Under this law inspectors who do not inspect are paid three times as much as those who do, on the sole condition that they are ready and expert liars. What kind of Congressmen were they who enacted such a law? t t t At the beginning of the school vacation this week a murmur goes through the city protesting against such a short school year. Allowing for holidays, national and optional, school is held only about one-half of the days in the year. At this there is an indignant remonstrance rising. It is felt that children have their feet in the road altogether too much and that the sympathy for overworked students has been altogether overdone. No other workiiig people in the world have so many holidays in the year with pay as the schoolteachers, and it is strongly felt that the children are running too

much and studying too little. A revolution in this matter is at hand. A great mark down in clothing, shoes, wash dress goods, etc. at Chicago Bargain Store.

MONEY’S NOT EVERYTHING.

Goodland Herald: After all, there are other things valuable besides money. So far as some people are concerned they would be just as well off with an income of S6OO per year as $6,000, for their economical ideas make them hoard their money for the mere'satisfaction of having the dollars, never apparently realizing the fact that money itself, unless used to purchase the comforts and even some of the luxuries of life, is as valueless as the rocks in the streets. It isn’t the money that makes a sensible person better off; it is the things that money will enable him to possess. You can philosophize on life, and what constitutes true happiness, all you please, yet the cold fact remains that the man certain of three meals a day, with good health and no crepe on his doors, has solved the problem. He will enjoy life as well, live as long and probably die happier if he worked for his living than if he had a healthy bank deposit to draw interest bn or be wiped out by his agent in trust. Some of you “rich men” who lost a few of your dollars should learn to think upon the proposition of what makes life worth the living. Go home and kiss your wives and children and learn, before years of bitter experience teaches it to you, the lessou that money is not essential to happiness or greatness.

OBITUARY.

B. W. Harrington, who died at his home near Demotte June 21, 1904, was born in Muskingum Co., Ohio, June 21, 1835, making him, at the date of his death, 60 years old. He leaves to mourn his loss four children, one sister and one brother. He came to Jasper Co., in June, 1855, which has ever since been his home. He was married Nov. 28, 1858, to Susana Burgett. a (laughter of George Burgett, who was one of the very earliest pioneers of Jasper county. He settled with his father on a tract of land adjoining the little village of Virgie. This part of our county was at that time a part of Walker township, but after the organization of Keener it was embraced by that township. Later on it became and still is a part of Union township. He was one among the first to hold the office of township trustee in Keener township, and at one time was the candidate of his party for county commissioner from the Ist district, and although the county went overwhelmingly republican he was beaten by i. D. Dunn by only seven votes. He was kind in disposition, generous to a fault, honest, careful, and discreet; and as far as the writer knows was without an enemy in all the wide world. He made no pretensions, but simply lived a life that was a poem of grandeur and beauty. Interment was made in the Prater cemetery the following Thursday, in the presence of a large concourse of his' friends and neighbors who had known and loved him so long. One counter full Ladies’ Black and Misses Tan Oxfords, only 50c per pair, was $1.50 to $2.00 a pair, at Chicago Bargain Store.

NEW SHORT STORIES

T»ti of Chofoetor. « At the close of one, of .the most. Important bearings on the charges brought by the Bar association against George Alfred Lamb to disbar him on account of his connection with the famous Peter Power suit against the Northern Securities company Mr. Lamb told a story to some of his friends. His counsel, J. Rider Cady, bad just examined DeLancey Nicoll, Samsel Untermyer and J. S. Auerbach, who had given testimony as to the defendant’s reputation that was highly creditable to him. “At a county fair,” said Mr. Lamb, “a boy once asked a farmer for a job. “‘Waal,’ said the farmer, taking a glance at the lad and aeeing that he looked strong, ‘meet me at the entrance to the grounds at 4:30 and bring your character with yer.’ “So at 4:30 the boy was there waiting. “ ‘Waal,’ said the faruqer, ‘have yer got yer character?’ “ ‘Nope,’ was the reply, ‘but I’ve got yours. I won’t come.*” Weather Instincts. From olden times weather wisdom has been attributed to many animals. Thus in Virgil’s First Georgic we And: Looking to the sky A heifer snuffed the air with nostrils wide. Or chattering swallows flew around the lake, Or the frogs croaked In mud their ancient plaint. The ant from secret cell her egg had borne: An army large of rooks, with clamor hoarse, Their crowded pennons flapped. • • • Then, too, the unlucky crow, with a full voice. Calls for the shower. This for the most part is in singular accord with modern observation. Among other popularly accept&l indications of rain are pigs that are restless or carry straws, cats that wash their faces, colts that roll upon the grass, donkeys that bray, toads that crawl at evening, sheep and cattle that huddle together before a storm, black slugs that venture into the open, bees that stay at home, fish that bite readily and peacocks that scream.—London Standard.

Stopped a Leak With Sawdust.

To stop the leakage of a boat by the use of sawdust appears at the first suggestion ridiculous. It is a method, however, employed by backwoodsmen of the Adirondack region. One day a party having considerable baggage discovered upon loading it into a scow at the end of one of the regular “carries” that the boat leaked badly. To delay for repairs would occasion considerable annoyance, and without repairs to proceed seemed impossible. At this juncture one of the guides said: "I think I can fix IL Just unloau the boat again.” This was done, and then the guide brought from a sawmill near the spot a quantity of sawdust. This he sprinkled thickly upon the water on either side of the boat. “Now,” continued he, “load up again.” This was done, and when the weight again sank the boat the Influx of water through the sides and bottom sucked in the sawdust, which finally accumulated in the crevices, swelled, under the action of the water and actually stopped the leakage.

A Child’s Order.

The little girl hail been in the habit of going to the kitchen with her mother when the orders were given to the market man who came around every morning. Sometimes she has been even allowed to give the orders herself after her mother has made out the list. Her mother rather encouraged the child in taking an interest in the marketing. It seemed to indicate that some day she might become a notable housewife. One afternoon the little girl’s mother happened to be in the kitchen when the market man delivered the goods ordered that morning. He brought in two large baskets, and she was a bit surprised at the size and number of the parcels. “What’s all this, Tom?" she asked the boy. “Half a bushel of eating apples, ma’am, two pounds of mixed candy, half a pound of figs, a pound of English walnuts, a pound of raisins and a can of maple sirup.” “But I didn’t order all that stuff.” “No, ma’am, but the little girl did. She come back Just after you left the kitchen this morning and said, ‘Tom, here’s some more things you can bring,’ and then called off that list I s’posed you wanted ’em, ma’am.” Chicago Tribune.

Painted Beauties.

It Is related of President Hadley of Yale that he presided at a dinner given by an art club man in the main gallery of the art school at the university and In consideration of the fact that the wives of the diners were present considered it his duty to hand out a □umber of “rhetorical bouquets.” One of them somewhat astonished hla auditors. With a sweeping gesture he indicated the works of art with which the room was adorned and said, “What need have we of all these painted beauties on the wall when so many are gathered here tonight around this festive board?”

A Neat Retort.

Reginald C. Vanderbilt Is to have a road built for him by the town of Portsmouth, R. 1., where his farm is situated. The authorities are to bear half the expense and Vanderbilt the other half. One of the cooncllmen in speaking of the road’s construction said to Mr. Vanderbilt. “Something unusual. Is It not for a town to build a road to wealth V “Not entirely so.” responded. Mr. Vanderbilt “You are building part of the road from wealth.”

THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK North Side of Public Square RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Loans Money on all kinds of Good So- DIRECTORS, eiirlty, on CITY PROPERTY and on A p * rkUw, p re ,i«ient. FARMS at Lowest Rates, Pays Interest ... Jena m. weeeee. on Savings, Pays Taxes and Makes In- vice-Preddent. vestments for customers and others and June, T. Randle, sol cits Personal Interviews, with ai view a«o. e. flurray. to Business, promising every favor oon- e. L. Holiingaworth, slstent with Safe Banking. Co»ni«r. I .-i *•.. a 'ji ifc, . | FARn LOANS A specialty! | T*KBTHB WABASH « TO < The World’s Greatest Fair i ST. LOUIS j April 30--December 31. < WHY? ! RFCAIISF It is the only line landing passengers over its own rails I at main entrance of grounds, where It has erected a 850,000 ( Passenger Station, and maintains in connection therewith j a Bureau of Information for the accommodation of its patrons. It has * Fast Express SHUTTLE TRAIN SERVICE between Union Station and ( Grounds, with a capacity of 25,000 Passengers per hour, J YOU ARE SAFE IN TRAVELING VIA THE WABASH I SUPERIOR EQL IPMENT-Wide Vestibuled Coaches. Chair Cars. Diners and Sleepers. ( LINE LAID WITH 85 POUND STEEL RAILS. ( EVERY TRAIN PROTECTED BY THE BLOCK SYSTEM. | $50,000,000 EXPOSITION I Comprising 50 State and Territory Buildings. 00 Foreign Buildings. , 500 DISTINCT BUILDINGS COVERING 1.240 ACRES. WHY GO ABROAD? | When you can at your own door, at the Louis'ana Purchase Exposition, enjoy I the advantages and pleasures of a “TOUR OF THE WORLD?” I Low rates and Liberal Limits shown elsewhere in paper. * Write nearest WABASH Agent or THOS. FOLLEN, P. & T. A., Lafayette. Ind. 1 C.S. CRANE. Gen. Pass. & Tkt.'Agt. t Lou,- Mo * H. V. P. TAYLOR, Ass tGen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.j Lou,s ’ wo> ,

Cola, 700-acre farm at Dennison, r"i Clark Co., 111., on Vandalia R. R. 240 acres fine blue grass pasture, 60a fine meadow, 55a orchard, all bearing. 60a of timber land. Good house and out buildings. Barn large enough to feed 100 cattle. Running water year around. Fine prospects for coal, splendid coal mines within 2 1 i miles of farm. Price fSO per acre if purchased within 90 days. Terms to suit purchaser, Harhy B. Dcuaney, care Dulaney Natl Bauk. Marshall, 111. Wanted: A full-blood red Shorthorn bull, yearling preferred. W. H. Ritchey. Rensselaer, Ind RENSSELAER CITY BUS LINE. Hotel Nowols House. St. Joseph’s College. Thomas Owen, owner, driver. Meets all trains, carries passengers and transfers baggage to any part of the city. Call on Tom’s bus for dances. Phones —No. 186, livery barn, and 239 residence, Rensselaer Ind. MONEY ON FARMS. A special fund io loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Call at THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. For Sale: —Lots 10 and 11, block 17, Weston’s Second addtion to Rensselaer. Enquire of E. P. Honan, Rensselaer, or W. E. Harry, Brook, Ind. ts. The McCoy Bank Failure Will not hinder or delay us in the making of farm loans at 5 per cent interest on terms best known. See us if you desire anything of the kind. Baughman & Williams, Attorneys and Loan Agents. Phone 329. A CONTINUAL STRAIN. Many men and women are conatantly subjected to what they commonly term "a continual strain” because of some financial or family trouble. It wears and distresses them both mentally and physically, affecting their nerves badly, and bringing on liver and kidney ailments, with the attendant evils of constipstion, loss of appeUte, sleeplessness, low vitality and despondency. They cannot, as a rule, get rid of this “continual strain,” but they can remedy -Its health-destroying effects by taking frequent doses of Green's August Flower. It tones up tbe liver, stimulates the kidneys, insures healthy bodily functions, gives vim and spirit to one’s whole being, and eventually dispels tbe. physical fir mental distress caused by that “continual strain.” Trial bottle of August Flower, 35c: regular size, 75c. At Long's drag store. PLENTY OF E66S And so sick chickens when Wells' Hooeier Fnl try Powder le used. Cures Cholera, Oeeee sue Bony. Keeps poultry healthy. Price, SS reset* Sold by A. F. Long.

Ml 111 C DEALER IN ( J wvvww C lie 11. Bill 11 j CBilfll. { / *" ' 1 / l RENSSELAER IND. J MAN WANTED We want a man in this locality to sell the world renowned WHEELER & WILSON, the only sewing machine so far in advance of all others that with it the dealer can readily overcome all competition. It is backed by a reputation of 50 years unparalleled success and thousands of the first machines made are still giving their owners faithful service. We prefer a man with experience in some kind of canvassing (but this is not absolutely necessary) and who can procure a horse and wagon. To such person we can offer exceptional inducements. We do not sell our machines to catalogue houses or department stores. We furnish them to our authorized agents only and protect them in their sale. This is a splendid opportunity for some energetic man to establish himself in a good permanent business. When answering, please give full information regarding yourself, age, previous occupation, etc. ADDRESS Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. 73-74 Wabash Ave., Chicago, HI. Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure A Specific tor Dintemper, Coughs. Cold*. Hence* PiiokKje,udall Catarrhal dieeaaeeof lioriea. l#f. sl.ss |W sOWBt Sold by A. b. Long.