Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — Page 2

..Seeing is Helie'Ving•• Regardless of so-called 50 per cent, reduction sales our prices are still below the /j/ / lul prices of others. Ajrrl/K LD. ; Inspect our line of WOMEN’S SHOES 111 I and CHILDREN’S V II U L. V IhI?' \ and convince yourself that >— the above heading is true. " <X Every Day is Bargain Day With Us. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. Same Room aa Occupied By Jeasen’a Jewelry Store.

STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER. IND., MARCH 14. 1905. RBBOUHCBS. A LIABILITIBB. Lpnnz*225.367 36 Capital Stock» 30,000 ts) U. 8. and County Bonds... 28.100 00 Surplus and Profit! 15,724 39 Bank Building 7.000 00 Circulation— 7.500 00 Cash and due from banka 70,809 06 Depoaite .. 276,052 03 *329,276 42 *329,276 42 DIRECTORS. A. ParkUon, John M. Wasson, E. L. Hollingsworth, President. Vice-President. Cashier. Janies T. Randle. Geo. E. Hurray. fora Ms 1 swim I sirne oi Yw Mwoge is sum.

Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CARE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OR OLD ONES—TO GROW RICH? Do you want to know about rich farming lands, fertile, well located, on a Trunk Line Railroad, which will produce two, three or four crops from the same field each year? Land now to be had at from $3.0 > to $5.00 an acre which will be worth from $30.00 to $150.00 within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (6) short weeks? Of places where truck growing and fruit rai«'Tg yield enormous returns each year? Of a land where you can live out of doors every day in the year? Of opportunities for establishing profitable manufactir ng industries; of rich mineral locations, and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me. I will gladly advise -yon fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY.

Ransom Rounty, North An Introduction. — We will introduce to yon in a few words the famous Red River Valley, the great bread basket of the world, the land that will make your fortune. We have selected this field for our work, because we can give you more for your money, than in any other part of the United States. The world talks about the enormous grain fields of this region, in the heart of the American continent where we sup* ply humanity with bread. The fertility of our soil cannot be surpassed. Our climate is beautiful and makes people strong and healthy. Our railroad facilities and markets are good. Our beef cattle fattened on native grass sell at top prices. Our winters have very little snow and permit stock to graze out of doors at any time. Our people are progressive, energetic and intelligent. Our school system is recognized as one of the best in the West. We have many churches of all denominations. We have rural free delivery and country telephones. Our country roads are excellent. Our land can be bought at the present time at from S2O to $35 per acre, but the people are moving west in large numbers, and are settling this country fast. It will be but a few years and the bargains will begone, land will soon sell from $75 to S3OO per acre, This has been the case in all the older states and it will be so here. Remember the wise words of the great Horace Greeley, when he said, “Go west, young man, go west and grow up with the country.” Since the landing of the Pilgrims, the people have been pushing west. Your forefathers cleared the forest and built homes, which have become valuable. Why do you hesitate to profit by their experience? Take advantage of the opportunity, shake the dust from your feet, and seize your last chance to get a home cheap. Nature has made this beautiful country for you to live in, and we ask you to come and look it over, get a home and be happy. We will now appeal to your good judgment and ask you to sell your small farm; or if you have a few thousand in cash to come out to where you can get from 1 to 5 acres for the cost of one in the East. It will be a pleasant trip for you to take, we will treat you right and give you a square deal. We will be pleased to have you look us up. The Improved Farm Land Company, LISBON, NORTH DAKOTA.

“POLITICAL” ECONOMY.

Some forty million deficit will stare ns in tbe face. This year, 'tie thou*ht, if Congreesmen keep up their awful pace; Which even they will now admit io really pretty tough— Hence, we begin to hear about finance schemes in the rough. 'Tie plain enough we live beyond our income nowadays, And so to change this state of things they must consider ways. And these must be of such a kind as no way to arrest The course of our prosperity, or take from trade its zest. A growing nation, like to ours, eats heartily. To fork In nutriment's daily need—They can't cut off the pork I • So they must find some other means to stop the carping jaw. And, Incidentally, reduce the trials of Mr. Shaw. Eureka I 'Tie a simple thing involving no dis* tress, Or departmental scrimping ways, or load on business. Just adding to our taxes is the way to cure our ills, For everything is lovely while the people pay the bills.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip ot the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: The indictment of the cotton grafters in the Department of Agriculture seems to be an approaching possibility. In view of the fact that it is reported Holmes made half a million out of his crookedness, it would seem that a trial of some sort is in order. It is quite likely that the Secretary of Agriculture would have been satisfied with Holmes’ dismissal from the service, but he has been prodded by the Executive; and the acting Attorney General and the Attorney for the District of Columbia have been in ponderous conference and now “think” they may be able to proceed with a criminal prosecution that may include more people than Holmes. A Washington broker who knows the ins and outs of the cotton market, said in an interview today that if he had had the advance information in Holmes posession, he could have made a million for himself in the market and given another million to his informant. He added with an unctous smile that of course he would not have been guilty of any such crookedness, but the possibilities open to Holmes are patent from his statement and it is probable that public opinion if nothing else will force a criminal prosecution of the case.

One of the results of the cotton leak has been a reorganization of the Agricultural Department as far as the statistics are concerned. The preparation of the crop reports are to be placed in the hands of a board. As soon as the returns from the field come in, they will be locked up in a vault by the Assistant Secretary, who will be the chairman of the board. On a given day he will hand the reports to the other members of the board who will be four division chiefs and let them figure averages. An average will then be taken of their averages and the report issued. The work will be done in an inaide room of the Department and Secretary Wilson is responsible for the assurance that a leak of any sort will be “absolutely impossoble.” The late Statistician Mr. Hyde has been giving that same sort of assurance for at least five years past. Possibly, however, the Secretary’s assurance will be more assuring. t t t

The government is on the point of opening bids for the importation of the Cooly laborers to the Isthmus to work on the Canal that will be built sometime with the permission of the Cbagres River and the trans-continental railways. There will be between 5,000 and 10,000 able bodied coolies, Hindus and the like, landed by the contractors on the Isthmus, The laborers will be selected in their homes and shipped to the Isthmus by the contractor. He is expected to make his profit out of the transportation of the laborers, which ought to assure the laborers of palatial accommodations en route. The deal will be shorn of any semblance of servitude by the comedy of each laborer coming up to the pay shed and asking in a wondering tone whether the builders of the canal can give him a job. The probabilities are that after being brought three or four thousand miles for that particular purpose that a job will be found for him, and he will thereupon make an individual contract with the goverment. After his contract term is over, if he is not dead in the meantime, which is a probability also, he will be returned to China or wherever he came from by the contractor, that is if be does not imigrate to the United States by way of the Texas

border. The chances of Chinese importation over that border are large and the remuneration is fully proportionate to the risks. t t t China has sent an identical note to the powers on the subject of Manchuria. No one cares particularly what China says on tbe subject of Manchuria but the note has arrived in Wahington and has been forwarded to the President at Oyster Bay. China declares she will not be bound by any agreement entered into by Russia and Japan at the coming peace conference that does not recognize her sovereign rights in Manchuria. This is chiefly interesting from the fact that Japan has loudly proclaimed that she did not intend to do anything with Manchuria but return it to China. China’s note seems to indicate a lack of faith in Japan’s assurances and it is just possible that if any result is reached at all by tbe Russian and Japanese envoys at Portsmouth it may be of such a nature as to awaken the fears of all the powers, including the United States that have the territorial integrity of China at heart. Chinese diplomacy is not usually asleep at a critical juncture, and it is just possible that she may have gotten a hint of the proposed Japanese terms before anyone else outside of Japan. t t t The will of the late Secretary Hay has been submitted for probate in tbe District court. It is a short document and with tbe exception of three personal bequests, leaves the whole of the estate to Mrs. Hay. The amount involved is said to be well over a million dollars.

The question of tariff revision at the coming session of Congress is retiring further into the background as the leaders of the two houses intended it should. There must be some legislation to meet the growing deficit of the Treasury, but it probably will be of a makeshift character, such as a reimposition of the Spanish war taxes or an increase of the tax on beer. The threats of the administration seems to have had no other effect on the “stand patters’’ than to make them stand patter. The talk of buying isthmisian canal supplies abroad was intended as a scare for the protected manufacturers but while it showed up plainly enough the need for tariff revision, it was without any other effect and will be used most cheerfully by the opposition as campaign ammunition when the issue of tariff reduction can be postponed no longer by the Republican leaders in Congress.

160 Acres Free! Walk, Write or Telegraph.

In the best spring wheat belt in the world, in the clear sunshine where health is improved, Then waste no time; if you cannot come and look for yourself, have the locator of government land to file for you. Write for particulars. B. F. Gaines & Co. Hanley, Assa.

Binder Twine at 9 cents a pound, guaranteed to be as good as others ask from 11 to 12 cents for, at John Eger’s.

FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY.

An Unsurpassed Program for the Season Opening August is. Aug. 12, Old Soldiers and S. S. day. Aug. 13, Father Vaughn day, Aug 14, Scientific day. Aug. 15, Dr Driver day. Aug, 16 Gov. Hanly day. Aug. 17, Athletic day. Aug. 18, Farmers day. Aug. 19, Gov. La Follette day. Aug. 20, Dr. Spurgeon day. Aug. 21, Prof. Krebs day. Aug. 22, Elias Day’s day. Aug. 23, Childrena’ day.. Aug. 24, G. R. Wendling day. Aug. 25, Stockho’ders day. Aug. 26, Rally day. Aug. 27, Closing day.

NEW LOCAL MONON TRAINS.

The Monon will July 30 pot on a new local train between Lafayette and Michigan City. Connection will be made at Monon with train No. 32, which leaves Indianapolis at 7 o’clock in the morning, and arrival at Michigan City will be at 1 p. m. The south-bound train will leave Michigan City about noon, and arrive at Indianapolis at 4:50. A new local train will also be put on between Lafayette and Bloomington, leaving Lafayette in the morning. There has been a great demand for this train, which will give the main line a local train between Lafayette and Bloomington in each direction, and will give Indianapolis people opportunity to go to Bloomington in the morning and return in the evening.—lndianapolis paper.

OCEEBIBm Here’s your good health—--4| HMw In Madison Brew. A good appetite and a taste that’s just right, Refreshing, strength-giving—a tonic for you. Madison Tafel Beer I Midi Tb* J V In Wood and Bottles Sold Everywhere \ I XI Ask the man behind the bar—ls he doesn't know, write to the I Jul wL Company « Madison* Indiana I

♦Do You Know?] ♦ Our new sheds are completed 4 ▼ which increases the storage ca- 4 ♦ pacity of our plant to the extent | of giving us ample room all un- 1 X der cover to store our large ▲ stock of Lumber, Shingles, &c? d That we have the best and most T complete stock in the county? ♦ Our prices are as reasonable as 4 ▼ good grades and fair treatment 1 will allow ? A That we want a chance to dem- 4 ♦ onstrate the above facts to you ? ♦ Rensselaer Lumber Co. | X >444 >444 AAAA a AA4A AAAA AAAAI ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ “

SHRUNK TWENTX-SIX BUSHELS.

One of the most resourceful telegraph liars we have heard of lately has for some time been burdening the columns of an Indianapolis paper, under a Morocco date line. Here is one of his late effusions and we give it for what it is worth: William Smith, a farmer of this vicinity, made a test of the shrinkage of corn with the following result: He put 130 bushels, by weight, of corn of good quality in a crib eight feet above the ground, well protected against the ravages of rats and other harm. On July 1, nine months from the time he weighed it in, he weighed it out again and had 104 bushels, a loss of twenty.six bushels. The The corn, when put in the crib, was dry enough to shell readily.

Desirable City Property For Sale.

Desiring to close up my business affairs and remove from Jas per county, I will offer for sale at a very low price for cash, either in whole or in part the following property situated in the City of Rensselaer:— , ,

One brick house of eight rooms, two-story and cellar, barn and other out-buildings, all in good condition, on corner of two lots each 75x180 feet, iron fence around front, two good wells, one in bouse and one in barn, large cistern, lota of fruit of all kinds, a most desirable property located high and dry on the highest point of land in the city. One two.story frame residence of eight rooms, good neighborhood, all in good repair, two lots, cement walk on two sides, gravel street on one side, city water in bouse, barn and other, out-build-ings, .at desirable property at a low price. A neat six room cottage, nearly new, double floors and a splendid, well built property, one block of depot, on Main street, good well of water, 150 feet deep, summer kitchen, located on corner of five lots, cement walk in front. Two brick business rooms, now occupied, on- Main street north of depot, also six frame business rooms adjoining, all situated on three lots, good well of water, cement walks, etc. Also 34 vacant lots well located in different parts of the city, suitable for residence and business buildings. This property is all clear of incumbrance and is in good shape. For prices call on

DAVID NOWELS,

GET YOUR LAWN MOWER SHARPENED.

I have just set up in my shop a fine new machihe for sharpening lawn mowers. It does the work to perfection. We also grind all kinds of edge tools, and do saw filing. M. L. Hemphill.

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WAGON BOXES BEST MADE ONLY $15.00 BERSSEUER FEER STORE A.r. BUAACH’ "Prop.

S. U. DOBBINS

Live Stock and General Auctioneer and expert in handling a sale and getting you good prices and giving you satisfaction at a reasonable price. Come and see me. MY OFFJCE IS WITH FERGUBOM, HERSHiAN { FERGUSON, Law and Real Estate. West Side Public Square, RENSSELAER, IND.

Poland China Hogs FOR SALE OF EITHER SEX. Sown sired by (Ohio’s Great Ilog) Wichita Chief. Captain Sunshine •' and Sure Perfection the Great, bred to a eon of L. & W. and Sure Perfection 32020. Prices reasonable. J. F. FENWICK, R.F. D. No. 1. Goodland, Ind.

* GOOD ROAD* can now ba A f 4 > built within I*o miles of Lafay- — ette, Ind., at reasonable cost, swe li ■ have over 2,000,000 yards of hard, clean gravel for roads streets, walks, foundations, bridges, ataMRMMI ble and feeding floors, water .... . tanks, hog wallows, manure pits sale. MOUSKS SUILT OtRCLK SLOCKS OF CONCRETE FOR SILOS. •TONE BLOCKS Diameter, 10 feet, cost less than one- Height, 18, 24, 30 half those built of and 36 feet. Capacnatural stone. Ity, 75, 100, 125 and They are warm in IM) tons. Will rewinter, cool in pay their cost in 24 summer. Do not months. need insurance. paint, or repair.. Rant Hgber, sail quicker and last for centuries. CONCRETE STONE POSTS will not break. ■ rot or burn. Coat but little more than cedar. B The coming posts for farms and railroads. B Correspondence with Town Boards, Road B Officials. Contractors and Individuals solic- B ited. Prices given on Grsvel, Building Blocks, B Silo Blocks or Fence Posts, delivered at your B station. Samples shipped for Inspection and IB tests. Write for circulars. Agtnts vuuttd. Special discounts to Lumber and Supplymen. AMREBB LAFAYETTE ORAVEL AND CONCRETE CO.

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