Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — Page 6

1 99 c Racket Store wwMH^ , M'w , M , y'i**wi#»»«*w».rww'iH^.>Wi/M , K'w'wWk/ , K , n , M , M , «Vw*Muws/ , »<*i/ , k^<s^M , wn(»w*»iHiM,« ( «,fi»«in^i»yv»^< , w , ( > Great Sacrifice Sale ? ON SCHOOL SUPPLIES, Tablets, and everything needed at this time of year. We have a stock unsurpassed for \* QUALITY, VARIETY and CHEAPNESS, and we defy all competition to duplicate j! the same goods for less money than we are selling them for. If you have been paying «* fancy prices it is time you cut it out and buy your Tablets, Pencils and Stationery at the J» 99 Cent Racket Store, the store made famous by selling you the same goods for less money j! or more and better goods for same money. «\ We will quote a few Cracker Jacks for you to crack. There are not many, but while they last they are yours at the prices below : J >

Any box paper in store, lots worth as high as 35c per box, for this sale, only 10c Box paper worth 10c,now 5c High grade ink tablets, for this sale, 0n1y.... 8c The finest ink tablet in state. For this sale. 5c Pencil tablet, the largest manufactured; we will sell at only 5c Pencil tablets others get 5c for, we will sell 2 for 5c Pencil tablets, the largest ever made to sell for a penny. Per dozen.... 10c Pencil pads from lc up Slates, 5x 7, 0n1y.,,... 3c “ 7x 9, “ 5c “ Bxlo, “ 7c “ 10x12, “ 10c Pencils, common, 2 for.. lc Pencils, lead,with rubber tip, only lc Pencils others get 5c for 2c Pencils others get 10c for 5c Red and blue pencils... 4c Slate pencils 2 for lc

This sale stnrts on August 20th mid lasts ns long as we have the goods in stock. Do not wait, but take advantage of same while you can. Do not forget that the Racket Store Is in the Mukeever Building, two doors west of the First National Bank, opposite the Court House, mid that all parties that are telling you that the Racket Store has gone out of business are liars from the first water. Do not be deceived by such, but come and see for yourselves that we handle more goods than ever, and they are the best that money can buy. No old shoddy or shelf-worn goods, but new and up-to-date. Our fall goods are now arriving, and we are slaughtering prices on everything in every line we handle to make room. Do not miss this sale, but come in and see for yourselves. E. V. Ransford, Prop., of the 99c. Racket Store North Side Square, Rensselaer, Ind.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capitol. Special Correspond ence to The Democrat: Congressman Cowherd, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, has returned from New York to headquarters in this city, and has again tackled the business of the campaign. He got some money on his trip—enough to enable him to double the number of girls engaged in directing envelopes and sending off documents. There are fourteen different kinds of enclosures —speeches, statistics, and various data adapted to various localities, as indicated by the specific requests of state committees. It is still doubtful whether the Congressional committee will move its headquarters to New York to join the National Committee at its headquarters, Fifth Avenue and 35th street. It is felt that the business of both committees coidd be thus managed, more economically and expeditiously, but in any event some rooms will be retained at the Riggs House, here, and all documents will be franked from this city. The Congressional Committee is making a dead set on forty districts in the country now represented in Congress by Republicans who were elected by small majorities or under conditions which it is now believed can be overcome. Two years ago the Democratic Committee, by an expenditure of lets thm $20,000, made a clear gain of eighteen members on the previous Congress; and it is now believed by astute and experienced Democrats that an expenditure of $200,000 for speakers and documents would overturn Congress in November and give us a majority. I asked Congressman Cowherd if there was to be a consolidation of the committees in New York, and he merely said: “I don’t know.” But he probably wants to go to the metropolis, for “Old Money Bags” lives there. t t t Some prominent Democrats here who have been in exalted office and may be again, are warmly enthusiastic over Mr. Davis’ speech of acceptance at the White Sulphur Springs but express some fear that Congressman Williams’ speech of notification was too delicate to be generally understood. Such objections have been accus-

Slate pencils, wood covered, per dozen 10c Pen holders,common, 2 for lc Pen holders, red finish, Pen holders, best made.. 5c Colored crayons, per box lc Colored crayons in oil., lc Colored crayons, in oil.. 5c The finest pencil sharpener on earth. For this sale 5c Compass pencils, each.. 5c Rulers 2 for 5c Pencil and sharpeners for this sale at 5c 1 lb. writing paper 10c Composition books others get 10c for, we Bell 5c Envelopes others get 10c per package for, we shall sell for this sale 2 packages for 5c Memo, books, for the vest pocket, from lc up; the finest line in city to select from. Ink, per b0tt1e..,... 3 and 5c LePage’s gi ue, per bottle 8c

tomed to the slang-whang sledgehammer style of denunciation, and are startled by the sarcastic rapier thrusts of John Sharp. They would not appreciate poetry. E. P. Whipple says of this method of attack: “Irony is a condemnation conveyed in the form of a compliment; insinuating the most galling satire under the phraseology of panegyric; placing its victims naked on a bed of thorns covered with rose leaves; adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing and fretting and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensative and shrinking nerves of his mind, and smilingly pricking them with needles.” This is a fair definition of the machine-gun play indulged in by the little black-haired gentleman from Yazoo. It may be added that these who cannot comprehend that his purpose is ridicule when he flays alive the Republican pretentions, declaring that of course our forefathers ought to have had a good stiff tariff, if such a tariff is a blessing; that of course they ought not to have made a tea-pot of Boston harbor, if men have not a right to self-government, and when King George was simply treating us as we are treating the Filipinos; that of course the Puritans ought to have invited the Indians to participate in their town-meetings because one man is as good as another without regard to color or race; that of course, if Mr. Parker is elected it will be his duty to make laws by executive degree and usurp the functions of all the branches of the Government;—l say that if the average reader cannot understand the application of this verbal bombardmeut he must be scarsely able to understand anything. t t t General John Black former Pension Commissioner and now Civil Service Commissioner has stirred up a mare’s nest in Boston by declaring that the President’s decree giving pensions to all soldiers of the Civil War above the age of 62 years, “ought to be crystalized into law by act of Congress.” The Republican contention is that the Presidential decree is already good law, in that it simply defines a law already on the statute book, and that no meddling whatever by Congress can make it

Liquid glue, per bottle.. 5c Mucilage, per bottle.... 5c Colored inks, per bottle. 5c Photo paste, per bottle. 5c Gold paint, per bottle.. 5c Gold paint, per bottle.. 10c Floating gold paint, per bottle 25c Artists’ brushes, each... 5c Receipt books only 5c Playing cards,per pack. 10c Vertical school pens, 2 for lc Rubber bands, per gross, 10c Thumb tacks, per dozen 10c Pencil rubbers, each.... lc Pencil robbers, each.... 5c Stereoscopes, each.... 25-35 c Stereoscopic views, per dozen 25c Texas eye shields 25c Deed and cash boxes.... 49c Shelf paper 5c Crepe paper, all colors.. 5c Tissue paper, 2 for lc Shawl straps, each oc Shawl straps, each 10c Pencil boxes, with pencil pen-holder, ruler, slate pencil and key, all for 5c

any more solidified or crystalized. Gen. Black is in a position to know whether this contention is valid or not. Having been Pension Commissioner for four years, he now decides and publicly proclaims that it is not; that the President’s decree, under which millions of dollars have already been disbursed is not law, and cannot be until it is “crystalized.” It would be interesting to know what the President thinks of his officeholder in this connection. T t T Summer visitors to Washington are greatly surprised at the “improvements” in progress. A thirty-six inch railroad has been constructed straight across the plaza at the East front of the Capitol and carloads of earth are being whisked across from the site of the new marble palace being erected for the use of the members of the House, to the required fillings of the progressing Union station four squares north. “AU aboard for the Union Station site,” shouts the conductor, and the little “dinkey” engine puffs and pulls its trainload of dirt from southeast to northeast. Some 90,000 cubic yards of earth are to be excavated and removed. There is no regular time table as yet, but the schedule says “Every now and then.” The square from which the earth is taken is historic. Henry Clay lived there once. Thad Stevens owned and occupied a house that has just been torn down to make room for the new palace, when he was a member of the House, and when he was bo badly crippled that he could not walk or stand. “Boys,” he said to the two Irishmen who were carrying him from his home up the Capitol steps,“what shall I do when you are dead?” Judge Holt's sumptuous and spacious home a few doors down New Jersey Avenue has just been laid low. In this square lived Jean Davenport, the actress, widow of General Landor, and Mrs. Lippincott, best known as “Grace Greenwood.” Here lived Judge Springer, long a member of Congress from Illinois, and from a boarding house near by went John Randolph long ago to fight his duel with Clay. t t t The coroner’s jury has brought in a verdict of “Accidental and unavoidable” in the case of the small boat upset in the recent re-

gatta on tbe Potomac by whioh ten persons lost their lives. This in face of tbe fact that the law makes it the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to patrol the course at regattas and “enforce the rules.” Secretary Shaw makes excuse that he had no revenue cutter boat available at the time.

VALUABLE SAND DEPOSIT IN BARKLEY TOWNSHIP.

Geo. M. Cooper has a patch of an acre or so of white sand of a peculair quality on his farm in Barkley tp. (in sec. 15) and recently a sample of same was sent to the State Geologist for analysis, receiving the following reply: The sample of “sand” sent by you a day or two ago is infusorial earth, which is a very pare form of silica. It can be used for a number of purposes such as the manufacture of filters, polishing powder and scouring soaps. It is also used as a packing for boilers, steam pipes and safes, and is beginnmg to be used in some quantity for the making of fireproof building materials, such as solid and hollow bricks for partition walls, floors, etc. Five thousand six hundred and sixty-five tons were produced in the United States in 1902, their value, after grinding, being $53,244. Deposits of this infusorial earth, or tripoli, have been found in this state, in Jackson county, and an analysis of the material was printed in my report for 1899. I do not know whether it has been put to much use or not. If you are thinking of putting your deposits , on the market, I would advise you to have a chemical analysis of it made, as such an analysis is demanded by persons who use it. Very truly, W. S. Blatchle-y. Mr. Cooper has not tested the depth of the deposit, but there is enough of it no doubt to make it quite a valuable find if he can secure a market within a reasonable shipping distance.

Mr. Riley’s Building Operations.

It was announced not long ago that James Whitcomb Riley was investing a part of his fortune in a large apartment house in Indianapolis. Naturally, we at once became possessed of the Idea which presented itself to every one else who read the paragraph concerning Mr, Riley’s flat. We, therefore took our pen in hand to dash off the following lines: RILEY’S FLAT. I tell you what, it’s pleasant when a book of Riley's comes, For to press the leaves back gently and to hold ’em with your thumbs And fergit about your troubles, as you read aud laugh and cry. And to sort of git to feelin’, as you set there, by and by, That the world is mighty pleasant, with its grassy fields and brooks, And its coolin’, fragrant breezes and wholesome Riley books Full of poems'bout the children—little ones we used to know When we ran around barefooted, in the dear old long ago. And they tell us now that Riley—heaven bless him every day— Is so rich he’s buildin’ houses—puttin up a fiat, they say— One of these here big fine buildin’s where you stand down at the door. Talking through a spout to people that live on the upper floor; 'Lectric lights and all the fassets made of solid silver, too: Het by steam and built exactly like a palace, through and through, With the steps in front, most likely, made of marble—think of that!— Say, Jim, how about the children? Will you bar them from your flat? Ain’t it good, on winter’s even'n'stogit down a Riley book And imagine that you’re settin on the grass beside a brook? You can read and while you do it almost hear the water flow,; And the sweet old-fashioned roses that yon picked long, long ago. Sort of waft their fragrance to you from the gardens where they grew, When you galloped out barefooted in the mornin’s through the dew. And the children—you can hear ’em callin' back across the years. Shoutin’ out your boyhood’s nickname, as you bresh away the tears. Though he’s rich, the world still owes him more than it can ever pav. For the good that he has done it and the gloom he's drove away. With his lovin’ songs of childhood he has made us kinder men. Made us often turn from trouble to be youDg ourselves again; He has come and took us gently by the hands and led us down Through the fields to old Aunt Mary’s, led us out awav from town To tbe streams that still are flowin’ past the places where we sat — Say, Jim. how abont the children? Can folks have ’em in your flat? Before placing it before the public we deemed it best to submit tbe poem" to Mr. Riley for his inspection and -approval, and he has favored us with the following kindly message: This is a good poem. It is a poem that appeals to me. There Is. however, one serious thing wrong with it. lam not building a flat. Do not understand me as desiring to hold poets down to facts. I believe there should be imagination in poetry, and as far aa imagination is permitted to exhibit itself in this poem it is all right. Still I consider it my duty to explain that I am not building a flat and never have built one. But perhaps this is a matter of no conaeqnenee, anyway, [Chicago Record-Herald.]

For Sale:— A new, latest improved Jewett (No. 4) typewriter Apply at Democrat office.

ImatHHUB i CORNER OP WASHINGTON’4NO VAN fIENSSSUMKR STREETS. I ! DIRECTORS: jj John Eger, Pres. Delos Thompson, Cashier, ij Lucius Strong Granville Moody Warren Robinson [Does a general banking business, Loans Money on * all kinds of approved security; buys notes, pays in- j: terest on savings; pays taxes for customers and others. 5 * Ifiis Bank will tie Glad to Extend [very Favor to its customers consistent With i 5 Telephone 42. sale Booking Principles.

ABOUT LEGAL NOTICES. When you have a legal notice to be published instruct your attorneys to have such publication made in The Democrat. Our prices are at least as low as our competitors, and generally much lower, by reason of the compact form in which we place such notices. Notice of survey, notice of partition, notice of appointment as guardian, executor or administrator, notice of final settlement of estate, etc., are controlled by the clients themselves, and can be placed for publication in any paper in the county that the client desires to have such publication made. Please remember this and bring your notices to The Democrat. Wabash Specials. > NATIONAL EN AIIPMENT UNION VETERAN LEQION, JAMESTOWN. N. Y. Rate $13.75 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Sept. 11, 12 and 13th, limited to Sept, 19th. LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, MO., APRIL 30 TO DEC. «. Rate for 15 days $9.15, 60 days $9.55. Season tickets $11.45. On sale daily. Commencing May 17th and on every Tuesday and Thursday thereafter during the months of Aug. and Sept., a 7- day excursion ticket will be sold to St. Louis for $5.10. This ticket will not be good in parlor or sleeping cars. KNIOHTS TE/IPLAR AND ODD FELLOWS’ MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO. CAL., SEPT. Rate, direct route going and returning via Portland, $63.00. Liberal stop overs going and returning, final limit Oct. 15th. > URBANA. ILL., CHAUTAUQUA. Rate $3.35 for the round trip. Tickets on sale Aug. 29th. Round trip summer tourist rates to all summer resorts. Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, $30.95; Salt Lake City and OgdeD, Utah, $44.90; Petoskey, Mich., $17.00; Mackinac Island via steamer, $18.15; Boston, Mass., $38.00. Rates to other points on application. Round trip tickets limited to 15 days will also be sold to all summer tourist points in Michigan, South of Mackinac Island and north of Reed City, Mich., for one fare plus 50 cents, thus giving the business man, whose family is spending the summer at one of the many Mitchigan resorts an opportunity to visit them at a very low rate. Rates and conditions quoted above apply from Lafayette, Ind., and are subject to change. For detailed information, call on or address, THUS. FOLLEN, Passenger and Ticket Agent, Lafayette, Ind. WOOD AND posts for sale. I have 800 cords of 4-foot seasoned oak wood, price $2 per cord on ground; also 6,000 oak fence posts, at 5i cents each on ground; also a quantity of oak lumber, at my farm 7 miles northwest of Renssselaer, known as the old D. B. Nowels pasture. Amos Davisson. HOW’S THIS? We offer One HaDdred Dollar* Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cared by Hall’* Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENNEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, tbe undersigned, have known F. J. Chenney for tbe last 15 years, and believe him perfectly bonorahle in aU business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Waldin. Kinnan Sc Marvin, Wholesale Druggist,, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting direcUy upon tbe blood and mucous surf faces of tbe system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall’s Family PiUs for constipation. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

W anted —Agent to canvass Jasper county for fine established line of family medicines. Good inducements. Cash business. Address with references, Hard Medicine Co., Wooster, Ohio. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE, Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the First ward of the City of Rensselaer and Marion Township, in Jasper County, Indiana, that the undersigned, Conrad Kellner, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, and over the age of tweDty-one years and who has been and is of a good moral character, not in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors and who is and has been for more than ninety days last past a continuous resident of said city and township, and who is the actual owner and proprietor of the business for which a license is asked, will apply to the Board of commissioners of said Jasper county, Indiana, at their September term 1904, said term commencing on Monday September 5.1904, for a license for a period of one year to sell and barter spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, and all other intoxicating liquors in less quantity than a quart, and a less quantity than five gallons at a time, with the privilege of allowing and .permitting the same to be drank on the premises where sold, which said premises are described aB follows, to-wit; The front room, fronting and facing on Van Rensselaer street, in said city, which said room is on the ground floor and measures on the iuside thereof 19.10 feet fronting on said street, sixty (601 feet and two (2) inches deep, and contains one door and two windows in the easterly end fronting on said street, and one door in the westerly end thereof, aud one window in the westerly end thereof, and .one window in the northerly side thereof, of a one story brick building situated on lot number two (2) in block number three (3) in the original plat of said city, and is more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point on said Van Rensselaer street sixty-five (65) feet and six (6) inches northerly, 33 degrees and 10 minutes East from the south-easterly corner of said block number three (8); thence northerly parallel with said Van Rensselaer street and on the westerly side thereof, twenty-one (21) feet: thence westerly, 56 degrees and 50 min - utes west, sixty-one (61) feet and six (6) inches; thence southerly parallel with said Van Rensselaer street twenty-one (21) feet; thence easterly a distance of sixty-one (61) feet and six ;6) inches to the place of beginning. That said room has a glass front permitting a full view of the entire inside. That saia room is separate from any other kind of business whatever, and that no devices for amusement or music ot any kind or character is in said room, and that there is no partition or partitions in said room; that said room can be securely locked and admission thereto prevented; that said room is situated on the ground floor and fronts on Van Rensselaer street, a public street in said city, and is so arranged that the whole interior thereof can be viewed from the street during all hours when sales are prohibited by law. Said applicant also asks permission to sell tobacco aud cigars in said room in connection with the sale of liquors. CONRAD KELLNER. Application for license. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the First Ward of the City of Keosselaer and Marion Township, in Jasper County, Indiana, that the undersigned, Henry Hildebrand, a male inhabitant of the State of Indiana, and over the age of twenty-one years and has been ana is of good moral character, rot in the habit of becoming intoxicated, and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors and has been a continuous resident of said township for over ninety days last past, and that tbisapplicant is the actual owner and proprietor of said business and will be such if license be granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper county. Indiana, at their September term, 1904, said term commencing on Monday, September 5, 1904, for a license to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank on the following described premises, to-wit: The precise location of the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell and barter with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank thereon, is in the front and only room of a one-story brick building situate on land described by metes and bounds as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the southwesterly corner of block four (4), at the intersection of Washington and Front streets, in the original plat of the City of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, and running thence in a southerly direction along the easterly line of Front street in said Town a distance of one hundred and seventy-two (172) feet and three (3) inches, and from thence westerly on a line parallel with Washington street in said City fifty (50) feet to a point on the westerly line of Front street, in said City, to the southeasterly corner of the premises whereon Baid liquors are to be sold. Thence westerly on a line parallel with Washington street, in said City, fifty (50) feet, thence northerly on a line parallel with Front street, in said City, nineteen (19) feet and eight (8) inches, thence easterly on line and parallel with Washington street, in said City fifty (50) feet, thence southerly on the westerly line of Front street, in said City, nineteen (19) feet and eight 18) inches to the place of beginning. And the said room in said building in which he desires to sell is specifically by inside measurement described as follows: The said room is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide and twelve feet high, with three doors, one on the easterly end, one iu the southerly side aud one in the northerly side of said room, and two window's in the westerly end of said room and that said room has a. glass front. That the said described room is separate from any other business of any kind and no devices for amusement or music of any kind or character is in said room and that there is no partition or partitions in said room; that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereto prevented; that said room is situated on the ground floor and fronts on Front street in said City of Rensselaer and is so arranged with glass windows and glasa doors that the whole of aaid room maybe viewed from the said street. The said applicant will also at the time and place of applying for said license make a further request for die grant of a privilege to establish, maintain and run a lunch counter and supply those desiring with a full meal of all kinds of edibles and drinks in the above described room and in connection with the said sale of liquors, and will ask for the privilege of selling tobacco and cigars in connection therewith. Said license will be asked for the period of one year. HENRY HILDEBRAND. Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cara Sold by A. F. Lone.