Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — Page 2

..Seeing is Regardless of so-called 50 per cent, reduction sales our prices are still below the /J/ / ifil prices of others. Inspect our line of wolf's SHOES if "C and CHILDREN’S V II V 1- V Mr* 1 and convince yourself that x—the above heading is true. >“ ■ * Every Day is Bargain Day With Us. X Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. Same Room as Occupied By Josssn'* J• w® try St or*. ! I ; STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., MARCH 14. 190 s. HBBOL’HCM. LIABILITIES. Loans $225,367 86 Capital Stocks3o.ooo 00 U. 8. and County Bonds .. 26,100 00 Surplus and Profits 15,724 39 Bank Building ... 7,000 00 Circulation 7,500 00 Cash and due from banks 70,609 06 Deposits. 276,052 03 1329,276 42 $829,276 42 DIRECTORS. A. Pirk Ison. John M. Wasson, E. L. Hollingsworth, President. Vice-President. Cashier. Janies T. Randle. Geo. B. Hurray. Form loons 0 soeciaiij 1M 01 Your Mono is soncneo. Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CAKE TO KNOW OF THE MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT NOW GOING ON IN The Great Central South? OF INNUMERABLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG MEN OK 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 13.0 >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-’ng 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 •you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, Genoral Immigration and Induatrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE, KY. I Vote .Vour Coupons I On page three of this issue of The Demo- s crat we make public what we term a Popularity Voting Contest. It is our intention to conduct this contest on a fair and square basis and every k vote that is sent in to be voted so the Church, s p Sunday School Lodge or Club wi Ibe correctly t $ and honestly counted for the one voted for. We 5 £ wish to state that the prize offered by us is J J worth every cent of $300.00 and that the 5 J CHASE Piano, manufactured by the Starr j Piano, Co., which we are giving away, can not £ be purchased of any dealer in the state of Indiana, J or any other state, or of the manufacturer, J for one cent less than $300.00. 2 To clearly show that the prize we are offer- 7 J ing is of the value we claim for it, we have pro- J 3 cured from the Starr Piano Co., a written guar5} antee which shows the full value to be worth the selling price of $300.00, and to be of the very £ best of workmanship and fully warranted for a term of five years. There will be no outside £ people connected with this contest, and at no J J time will we allow any person to say that we £ have a scheme or chance game, or anything of that sort, for there is no chance or scheme connected in any way shape or form. It is merely a popularity voting contest between the many different Churches, Sunday Schools, Lodges and Clubs in our field. All votes are to be sent addressed to I Jasper County Democrat | * Rensselaer, Ind. s 8 ? t PILES MY SPECIALTY Write today about your trouble and I will tall you how I cure mats, pbocxitxb, STOMACH, LIVIB, AMP BOWEL TROUBLES ■ HATH SPIMT OS YUS* AS A SPECIALIST. You could ret well if you knew how, and your unwillingness to learn i 1" ***** th> * yUxnde In your Way. Will you UXM or will you continue to BUPP It MT"FREE BOOK." with testimonials. 9. M. AVU», M. », IMpL B, M PHAJUBOBM fcTMMMT, CRDOAQO, XU. 1

POOR MAN.

Beane in the coffee and dirt in the fruit, Peas in the pepper and epice: Sand in ths sugar, and plenty to boot: Chips in the flaked oats and rice. Beef doctored plenty with formaldehyde, Boracic acid and dopai “Smokes” made of cabbage, our woolen goods “snide,” Germs of disease in the soap. Dope in our catsupand paper in shoes, Yams in the pumpkins for pies; Cottonseed olive oil, poison in boose, Ptomaine in potted bam lies. Horseradish made out of turnips by day. Butter from tallow at night: Stone made of cement, and bricks without 'clay, Bread with vile alum made light. Strawberry jam made of timothy seeds, Quince preserves doped with glucose; Blackberry wine made of juices of weeds, Jellies—well, nobody knows. Fortunes built up on rank poison and gall, Offices won by deep craft: Clothing and medicine, food—in fact, all Subjects for greed and for graft. Paper soles tacked on shoes that we wear, Shoddy in all of our clothes; Nothing seems now to be made on the square— Craze for adulterants grows. Quarter-sawed oak desks are made out of pine, Cotton wove into our silks; Babies are fed till they mournfully whine On rank formaldehyde milk Poisoned at birth and then poisoned to death, Poisoned at morn and at eve, Lungs filled with poison at every breath, Everything made to deceive. Victims of greed from tbe cradle to tomb, Round us the trust arms entwine; Poisoned to death—and above us will bloom Wreaths of the rank poison vine. Bryan's Commoner.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: The story of graft in the federal departments here is spreading worse than yellow fever. It is stated that the charges sprung on the Geological Survey will necessitate a thorough probing of that bureau and that the mere connection of some officials with a mining paper in tbe west, while admittedly improper will not be the moat serious thing that will be unearthed. The charges against the weather Bureau are stated in on equally well-founded partisan evidence to be “entirely absurd” and “capable of full substantiation.” It is likely that both bureaus will receive the attention of the Keep Commission and bow much remains bidden, is a matter of the future. ' There remains yet the Navy, War and State Departments to be caught in the drag net and then the round of the departments will be complete. To be sure the State Deparment had a little scandal of its own some time back, but the charges in the Bowen-Loomis case were dismissed as unfounded and it has been considered a rather unsafe thing to criticise high state Department officials since then. It is quite possible, however, that if a investigation of the department were made some queer things might be turned up in the line of “visits to inspect consulates,” and other relics of previous administrations. This is only thrown out as a suggestion. Tbe Army and navy bare been singularly free from serious scandals, that of Capt Carter, being tbe only time an Engineer officer was ever known to go wrong, while tbe chances for graft in the navy are limited so far as tbe actual service is concerned though there are some phases of warship construction that might stand looking into. t t t The investigation in the Agricultural Department has taken a rest for the time being. Ex-Stat-istician Hyde has announced his intention of returning from England and this is taken as an evidence of his ignorance and honesty. He was severely censured by his friends in Washington for running away on the very eve of the investigation, and it was believed to be at tbe personal instigation of tbe Secretary of Agriculture that be decided to return. A clever man would hardly have put himself in such a position for criticism and a knowingly dishonest one would have stayed abroad once he got safely there. Meantime Secretary Wilson has announced bis intention to forego a vacation this summer and to stay at home and clean up tbe investigation business. There is comparatively little of tbe summer left for such a large job. It has apparently been proved by outside evidence that there was nothing wrong in the Bureau of Animal Industry in connection with the meat label business, but there will probably be a number of dieageeable things unearthed when it comes to investigating the whole of the meat subject in the department. It is claimed by some of the smaller competitors of the Beef Trust that they could not get meat inspectors assigned to their plants by the Department and were therefore prevented from

using tbe Department’s certificate label and put at a disadvantage especially in the export trade where such a label is a necessity. At the same time Dr. Salmon, the head of tbe Bureau of Animal Industry, states that he was not given money enough to pay the meat inspectors, that the business of his bureau is now running $6,000 to SB,OOO a month -over its limit and if there is not some radical action taken by Congress he will not be able to carry on the inspection work next year. t t t That is just where tbe hitch has come between tbe executive departments and Congress, and promises to raise considerable trouble at the coming session. The action of the bureau of Animal Industry in running ahead of its appropriation is only a sample of what is going on very largely in all tbe departments. 11 is a practice bitterly resented by tbe legislative branch of tbe government and is one bound to cause trouble when the appropriation bills come up at the impending session. t t t The supporters of the administration are still busily explaining the attitude of the executive toward tbe coming reciprocity conference. This is very sore subject both at the White House, temporarily installed at Oyster Bay, and in the various departments where the members of the cabinet preside. The fact is that the administration while pledged to reciprocity and tariff revision, has been badly snubbed by Congress on the subject of reciprocity treaties and is afraid of getting tangled up with an unofficial deministation that however much it may believe and assert itself to be strictly non-partizan, is likely to develop a strong political bias before tbe last vote of thanks is rendered. The country decidedly needs both a scaling down of the tariff walls and a sensible arrangement with foreign countries on which reciprocity treaties could be negotiated. The matter is being delayed and put off and probably will not be touched till as late as possible in the coming session. But the movements of foreign countries in tbe line of discriminating duties makes it imperative that the situation shall be met in the near future, and it is simply a question of whether tbe highly protected interests will allow congress to make the necessary concessions or whether the country is going to be plunged into a commercial war with the rest of the world that will prove quite as costly in the end as the armed fight in the far east has been. t t t Japan has notified this government, unofficially of course, that she will do her utmost to discourage laborers from going to Panama. The same sort of resistance has been met in Italy and China, the other two countries where it was intended to advertise for laborers, and it looks now as though this country were going to be thrown back on tbe native labor supply for digging tbe big ditch between tbe two oceans.

THE MARCH OF A NEW IDEA.

It is announced that Victoria, the last of the Australian States to grant full suffrage to women, has at length accorded it. This is a fresh illustration of the tendency of a new idea to run through a series of neighboring communities, as the measles will run through a whole family when one child catches it. New Zealand led off by giving women the full ballot in 1893. South Australia did so in 1895, West Australia in 1900, and New South Wales in 1902. In 1903 Tasmania and Queenland followed, like sheep over a wall; and the last remaining Australian State, Victoria, has now fallen into line. A similar series has been observable with principal suffrage in Great Britain. In 1869 that right was granted to the women of England; in 1881 of Scotland; and in 1898, with practically no opposition, the women of Ireland were given a vote for all officers except members of Parliment. The course of events in our own country has been much the same. The first American State to grant full suffrage to women was Wyoming, in 1869, and the three other States that have since followed the example all lie close to Wyoming, in a solid block, and all bordering upon one another. Equal suffrage evidently does not lead to the dreadful results prophesied by its opponents, or we should not find that the communities nearest to those where it prevails are the dues which successively adopt it. Alice Stone Blackwell. The Democrat handles Farm Leases, Mortgages, and Deeds other legal blanks.

HAJMSoSbEEbR Tbe Draught of Delight lADISON XXX ALB >etizer Tonic Food Drink DISON TAFEL BEER. ig, Refreshing, the Beer that is Beet tod and Bottles, SoMEverywbero Ask the Man behind the bar—ii he doesn't know, write to the Madison Brewing Cetnpgny, ♦Do You Know?! £ Our new sheds are completed 0 which increases the storage ca- • ♦ ▼ pacity of our plant to the extent ▼ I of giving us ample room all un- f X der cover to store our large X ▲ stock of Lumber, Shingles, &c? ▲ ▼ That we have the best and most ▼ complete stock in the county? A Our prices are as reasonable as A ♦ good grades and fair treatment ♦ will allow ? A That we want a chance to dem- A ♦ onstrate the above facts to you? ♦ : : ♦ Rensselaer Lumber Co. ♦ XAAAAAAAAAAA A A A A A ML A A aX ▼ ▼▼▼▼ ▼▼▼▼ ▼▼▼▼ ▼ ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ ▼

MONON ROUTE EXCURSIONS.

*36.50 round trip to Denver, Col., Aug. 11, 13 and 18; good returning to Sent 35. *11.60 round trip to Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 15,16 and 17. 86c round trip to Shelby, August 19: limit Aug. 30. *30.65 round trip to Denver, Col., Aug. 39 to Sept. 4. *68.80 round trip to Portland, Ore., June 1 to Oct. 15, going via any direct route, returning via San Francisco or Loe Angeles or vice versa; *57.80 going via any direct route, returning via same or any other direct route.

160 Acres Free! Walk, Write or Telegraph.

In tbe best spring wheat belt in tbe 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.

FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY.

An Unsurpassed Program for the Season Opening August ia. 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. LaFollette day. Aug. 20, Dr. Spurgeon day. Aug. 21, Prof. Krebs day. Aug. 22, Elias Day’s day. Aug. 23, Children*’ day. Aug. 24, G. R. Wendling day. Aug. 25, Stockho’ders day. Aug. 26, Rally day. Aug. 27, Closing day.

INDIANA STATE FAIR.

The prize list of thefifty-second annual Indiana State Fair is out and is being mailed to exhibitors and other interested parties. The date of tbe fair this year is September 11 to 15, and it will be held at Indianapolis as usual. The prize list has been revised and enlarged, and it shows that $30,000.00 will be awarded in prizes in all departments. The management will leave nothing undone to make thia the greatest fair in its history. The special free attractions will be announced later. Prize lists can be obtained by addressing tbe Secretary, Charles Downing, Room 14, State House, Indinianapolis. Entries will close September Ist. For Rent:— A desirable room for department store, also office rooms and basement at the corner of Washington and Front streets, Rensselaer, Indiana. Baughman & Williams.

FARM FOR "SALE. Half section of land, good buildings, well fenced, two good wells, two good wind pumps, and running water besides. A good stock farm and a good investment at the price. For price and terms see A. G W. Farmer, RR-4. Rensselaer, Ind.

Agent.

W. H. BEAM,

WAGON BOXES BEST MADE ONLY $15.00 REHSSEUER FEED STORE BTtAJVCAT “Prop. S. U. DOBBINS Ww 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. UY OF FICK IS WITH FERGUSOM, HER3HIAN & FERGUSON, Law and Real Katate. West Side Public Square, RENSSELAER, IND. Poland China Hogs FOR SALE OF EITHER SEX. Sows sired by (Ohio's Great 11 or) Wichita Cbiof.Captain Sun-bin-and Sure the Great, bred to ■ son of L. & W. and Sure Perfection 82028. Prices reasonable. J. F. FENWICK, R F. D. No. i, Goodland, Ind. > . GOOD ROADS can now b« A built within IM miles of Lafay- _ ette, Ind., at reasonable cost. •We I have over 2,000,000 yarda of hard, clean gravel for roads streets, foundations, bridges, ata, ble and feeding floors, water tanka, hog wallows, manure pita HMM • nd other purposes, ready for MOUSE* BUILT CIRCLR BLOCKS OP CONCRCTK FOR SILOS •TONS BLOCKS Diameter, IS feet coat leas than one- Height, 18. 24, 30 half those built of snd'kl f'eet Ofcnatural stone. Ity, 7b, 100, 12b and They are warm in IKtona. Will rewinter, cool in pay their cost in 24 summer. Do not months. need insurance, * Cint, or repair. Rent higher, sell quicker and < for centuries, CONCRETK STONK POSTS will not break, ■ rot or burn. Cost but little more than cedar. ■ The coming posts for farms and railroads. ■ Correspondence with Town Boards, Road ■ Officials. Contractors and Individuals sotlcited. Prices given on Gravel, Building Blocks, ■■ Silo Blocks or Fence Posts, deliveredat your ■ station. Samples shipped for inspection andßß testa. Write for circulars. Agents wasted. Special discounts to Lumber and Supplymen. aoßßgss LAFAYETTE BRAVEL AND CONCRETE CORead The Democrat for uews.