Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — Page 5

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. lew, Abstrscts, Real Estate, Loans. Will practice to all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA Judson J. Hunt, - » in, mods, mm and Real we. RENSSELAER, IND. » Office up-stairs In Odd Fellows annex, opposite court house. Wm. fl. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, Law, Loans. and Real Estate. i Loans on farms and City property, personal security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and rent farms and city property. Farm and city fire insurance. Attorneys for American Building. Loan and Savings Association, Office over Chicago Department Store, RKNSSELAKR, IND. J. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. V Collections, Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows' Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

U. M. Baughman. Geo. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Farm Loons, nuts and insurance. Loans on improved Farm Lands and City Property a specialty. Collections and Notary work promptly attended to. Office over First National Bank, Phono No. 329. Rensselaer, Indiana „ANK YOLTS. e. a. SV'TbSS. MASSY «. KUSSII Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books In the County • RENSSELAER, IND. B. F, Ferguson Geo, E. Hershman D. M. Ferguson FERGUSON, HERSHMAN 8 FERGUSON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in all courts. Will give careful attention to any and all kinds of legal business intrusted to us. Office west of Public Square, down stairs. Phone No. 31. RENBBEI,AEK, - INDIANA.

N. Littlefield, t Real Estate Dealer. Immigration agent for Manitoba and Western Colonization Company; 50,000 acres in the famous Red Ri v er Valley. Office in I. O. O. F. building. . Opp. Court house. Rensselaer, Ind. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, ... Indiana. Law. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office over Imes' Millinery store. Rensselaer. Ornoi Pmonb 177. dttioiNei Pnonii 111. W. W. MERRILL, M. D. Eclectic pnm end Sum, RENSSELAER. - - INDIANA. Chronic Diseases a Specialty. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store H. O. Harris, E. T. Harris, C. H. Mills, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Ex* change Bought and Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates. Farm Loans made at 5 per cent. We Solicit a Share of Your Business. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wasson, Vtce-Preß. E. L. Hollingsworth. Cashier. euoo.sao. to th. susim... or tmi oommmokl STATS SANK. Opened March 2d, 1002, at the old location, NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; deposits received, payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security. Drafts on all cities at home and abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 per cent farm loans. Your business solicited.

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AN INSIDE VIEW OP SOME PRE. TENTIOUS MEN.

When but a very little boy I bad a little drum, And oft I wondered to myself from whence sneb music come, “Metbinks," says I, “there surley is some wondrous works Inside." And so I got my hammer out and in that drum I pried. Alas! I only ruined the drum and won a load of woe— New, honestly, my friends, have you not often found it so? You see a man who poses great and struts the streets around. But when you get a closer view you find him empty sound. I had a little dolly once—’twas early childhood's day— And with that little dolly I loved oft to sit and play. “Methinks,” said I, “this doll’s Insides some wondrous things contain.”— I opened it—Alas! I found sawdust for heart and brain. A hollow mockery it was—my heart was grieved and sore, But since that time the sawdust side has shown up more and more. I’ve seen some men the world called great until aud inside view Showed only sawdust. Hasn't it, good friends, occurred to you? I think'twas eighteen ninety-six some captains of finance Stood up before the public gaze aDd never lost a chance * To talk about the honor of our nation strong and great ADd say upon their shoulders broad they bore the country's fate. They posed as saviours of the state and with glib pen and toDgue On “honesiy” and such like words a thousand changes rung. But since that time we've looked iDside and found nought else but craft— They were not (Hied with honesty, but with sawdust of graft. My drum gave forth a noisy sound—but it was empty quite. My doll was plump, and pretty, too—'twas sawdust met my sight. I heard the Chauncey M. Depews, McCurdys and McCalls. Stand forth to shout their honesty upod the outer walls. And for a time 1 really thought they were the nation’s pride— Alas! I found but empty sound and raw sawdust inside. And human drums of hollow sound, and sawdust dollies, too. Are being opened .day bvday—and we don’t like the view. —The Commoner.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and Oeneral Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: It looks as though the Panama appropriation- bill will have a stormy time ahead of it in the Senate. It was conceded that it would be passed by the House with considerable speed, but even at that there was $5,500,000 cut from the amount and all of the members who had a spite either against the measure or against the President took opportunity to vent it. There were some very caustic things said about the payroll of the Commission, some of which were true and some exaggerated for party and personal ends. A good deal ofcapital was made out of referring to the SIO,OOO "press agent” of the Commission. Now it is quite true that Mr. Bishop, who is thus designated, is probably overpaid; he is really the secretary of the Commission and why he should be always spoken of as the “press agent” merely because he usually gives out the newspaper statments is a little hard to see. There was some criticism also of the other SIO,OOO men, W. D. Ross, the purchasing agent, and E. S. Benson, the auditor. Whether these are both good men it will be possible to judge by experience. If they are, they probably are not ever paid. The purchasing agent is one of the most important officials under the Commission. He has much more than any other OD6 man to do, keeping supplies of all sorts up to standard and his opportunities for graft, if he is dishonest, are limitless. The auditor is almost equally important, and under the government system of book-keeping, he is likely to earn his salary whatever it is. If these two men are well paid, there will be less temptation for them to look for money on the outside, and if SIO,OOO each will keep them honest in a tropical atmosphere, which is redolent of graft, the Commission may be spending money wisely in giving them good salaries. ttt

One thing is certain, and that is that the appropriation bill for the Canal will have to go through in time for the end of December payroll or else the workers will have to wait for. their money. There is enough money to the commissions account to meet bills up to the 15th of this month. But beyond that there will be a deficit. The canal is going to cost a great many millions and it will be worth it, whatever it costs. So Congress had just as well appropriate th.e money cheerfully since this country is committed to the enterprise. There will be a great many oritioisms made as the work progresses. But they cannot effect the ultimate outcome and Congress cannot prevent the ultimate success of the project by niggardliness, though it can hamper it.

One of the warehousemen’s association meeting, here last week will appeal to every one who has to face the problem of the increasing cost of foodstuffs without a corresponding increase of salary. They have petitioned the (Government for a federal cold storage plant. This will necessitate an appropriation of $1,000,000 and the plan may or may not be well worked out. But the idea is to throw the government in between the people and the feed trust which uses the cold storage plant to enhance prices. Practically every article of human food is now subject to the cold storage method of preservation and it iB the ability to keep anything from eggs to beefsteak for a year without spoiling that enables the Beef TruslTwEicb handles a great many things beside beef, to dictate prices both to the producer and the consumer. It is most likely that the government cold storage idea will never come to anything, but it is a writhing of the worm in an effort to turn. Possibly by the time the country is reduced to meat once a week as a luxury there will be some better idea than the government cold storage plant turn up and stand a better show of passing. t t t It developes that there are more roads to fame and competence than being born in Ohio, graduating from Harvard or having served in the Rough Riders. It is rumored that the President is about to appoint “Bat” Masterson his personal bodyguard in place of Mr. Tyree, made United States Marshal of West Virginia. There is no indication that the President is threatened with any particularly pressing danger or that he is more than commonly nervous. But he does love a man who is light on the trigger. Masterson, the famous ex-sheriff of Dodge City, only recently came to New York to accept the post Marshal there. But he has recently had a couple of conferences with the President and it is more thftn possible that he will be picked to succeed Tyree. “Bat” always was a handy man with a gun, but he was decidedly on the square and he held down the delicate and difficult post of sheriff in the days when it was said that there was “no law west of Omaha and no God west of Dodge City.” The chances are that if he becomes a special secret service man he will never have to crook a finger on a trigger. But he is a man who has proved his ability to do that when required, and the President has an especial fondness for a man who is deft in that direction

WHERE DEAR OLD MOTHER WAS.

The other day we had occasion to call at the home of a young lady who has had access to all the advantages of life and found her sitting in the parlor dressed in a lot of that fluffy stuff, singing in a rich, sweet voice, “Take me Back to Dear Old Mother.” We stepped out into the kitchen and found the “dear old mother” with her sleeves rolled up above her elbows working like sin to get the washing done, watching the bread that was'in the oven and Keeping tab on two or three dirty urchins she hadn’t time to clean up that morning. That girl can parse a Latin phrase as long as from here to the school house. She couldn’t bake a biscuit you could eat to save your life. But she seemed happy.—Exchange.

ONLY FIVE MORE DAYS.

But five more days remain to secure votes for that elegant S3OO Chase Piano The Democrat will give to the most popular Church, Sunday School or Lodge in Jasper county as determined by the votes handed in before 6 o’clock p. m., Thursday, Dec. 21, and it behooves the friends of the various contesting organizations to secure every vote they possibly can. Just one new subscriber or one renewal, even, may be the means of landing this very desirable Christmas prize. See to it that you secure every vote possible, then you will feel that you have done all you could do, even though some one else has done just a little better. Remember 10 votes with each dollar paid on subscription by an old subscriber, whether arrearages or advance subscription, and 20 votes for each new subscriber paying one year in advance; 50 votes for each new subscriber paying two years in advance. Get busy, , ' The Democrat and Bryan’s Commoner or Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer each a full year for only $1.60. The Democrat makes clubbing rates on any newspaper or magazine published in the United States or Canada, and can save you money on same. Call and get prices.

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Tower of Babel. The exact date of the building of “Nimrod’s Folly,” as the Chaldeans say In alluding to the Scriptural tower of Babel (the Armenians speak of it as the Tower of the Confusion of Tongues), or the height to which it penetrated the rarefied atmosphere of the oriental plaius will perhaps never be known. The date of the laying of the foundation of the famous structure Is usually set at 2247 years before Christ, or In the year of the flood, 101. The expression of the sacred historian that its top was to “reach unto heaven” Is now generally set down as a strong Hebrew phrase denoting a very lofty tower, but not necessarily meaning one that would reach to the abiding place of the Lord and his hosts. Proof that this Is probable may be found imseveral places in holy writ. The walls of the city of Canaan are described by Moses in similar phraseology. The spies sent out by bim returned and reported that the cities of that country were great and were “walled up to heaven.” Fish aa a Brain Food. There are many men of many minds and mau3' fish of many kinds. Therefore there must be a fish adapted to each particular mind. For instance, for the schoolmaster we should prescribe whale and for his pupils blubber. For the critic, carp. For the soldier, swordfish and pike. For the office seeker, plaice. For a shoemaker, sole. For a carpenter, sawfish. For a smoker, pipefish and whiff. For a blacksmith, bellowfish. For lean persons, chub. For a sculptor, sculpin, of course. For a cheese manufacturer, smelt’. For the basso singer of a minstrel troupe, black bass. For a sea captain, skipper. For dwarfs, minnows. Then there Is the archflsh for archers, the drumfish for drummers, the pilotfish for pilots, the. skate for skaters and the houndflsh for hunters. Game of Hornet Chasers. Divide any number of players into two camps—the chasers and the hornets. Place a mark or target either on a fence or on top of a pole to represent a hive. Each hornet has a tennis ball with which he seeks to hit the hive, around which the chasers are grouped, armed with bats to w T ard off the balls. Every ball driven back from the hive “counts a point for The chasers. A bali touching the hive indirectly, even after it has been touched by a chaser, is good and counts for the hornets. The hive is attacked and defended by the right and left hand alternately, as the umpire commands. The side first making fifteen points wins, after which parts are changed, the hornets becoming chasers and vice versa. This gaipe can be played in the house by using soft balls and battledoors.

For Children’s Party. FrtSn water color paper cut and decorate Noah’s arks three or four Inches long and on the back of these paste an envelope to contain the Invitations. Inclose the whole in a large envelope for mailing, says the Woman's Home Companion. The invitation may designate the kind of animal each guest is expected to represent or that may be left to the Individual choice, merely asking them to come to the party in costume. These costumes are to be as simple as possible, only expressing some characteristic feature of the animal. To represent the elephant a loose domino of gray muslin may be used and a close fitting cap with huge flapping ears attached. For the lion a tawny colored domino with n fluffy ruche for the neck and shoulders made of tissue paper fringe. Pmilr of Numerals. Example; Prefix five to frozen water and get an evil habit. Take V as the Roman numeral for five and add it to ice, which is frozen water, and you have vice. In this puzzle only Roman—that is, letter numerals—can be used. Prefix 50 to a point of the compass and get the smallest. Prefix 100 to rough and get in a rough state. Prefix 500 to a relation and get to check by fear. Prefix 1 to “to scold” and get angry. Prefix 5 to a beverage and get a valley. + Answers: L-east, C-rude, D-aunt, I-rate, V-ale. A Remarkable Panic. Tell a friend to write the figures 1, 2,3, 4,5, 6, 7 and oon a piece of paper and to point out the figure which he considers the worst formed In the line. Mentally multiply the figure to which he points by 9 and tell him to multiply his line of figures by the result. Thus if he points to 5 tell him to multiply 12,345,079 by 45. The result will surprise both of you.

The Littles. There was a little woman, And she had a little cat That had a little saucer And slept on a little mat. The little woman's little cat Caught a tiny little mouse And tossed the little fellow > Right through the little houw. > The little woman came In And stood on a little chair; She gave a little scream And said a little prayer. Then that little, little cat 7 Took that little, little mouM Right between his little teeth And left that little house. , Down Jumped the little woman ; And ran to her little door. There she saw her little cat. But the little mouse no morel

STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER. IND., AIKRIST a S ; 1905. resources. liabilities. Loans... $233,979 65 Capital Stock $ 30,000 00 U.S. and County Bonds . 15,500 00 Surplus and Profits 18,59*92 Bank Building B,noo 00 Circulating' Notes., 7.500 00 Cash and due from banks 115,567 50 Deposits 316.948 23 $373,047 15 $373,047 15 4 DIRECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON, E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vice-President. Cesbler. JAMES T. RANDLE. OEO. E. nURRAY. Form logos o specialty a score 01 your Paironoae is SUM

mis mill SUSHI IS HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL WINTER SPECIALTIES.

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? . : -.;-====•■= . T~.y —— Do you want to knowr 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 raismg 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 manufacturing industries; of rich mineral locations,and splendid business openings. If you want to know the details of any or of all these write me.JI will gladly advise you fully and truthfully. Q. A. PARK, General Immigration and tnduatrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE KY.

TO FRIENDS OF THE DEMOCRAT. <s2* ~ Instruct your attorneys to bring legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and do ns a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointmentas administrator, executor or guardian, survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc., the clients themselves control, and attorneys will take them to the paper you desire, for publication, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish. Save Your Eyes by Wearing Diamond Lenses. None genuine without trade mark on every lens. Absolutely clear and free from every defect. Accurately ground and centered, used from minute crystal pebbles, have no equal, being the most perfect lens made. I control the sale of these lenses in Jasper and Newton counties. Dr. Chas. Vick, Eyesight Specialist. Office in C. H. V ick’s fruit store, next door to express office, Rensselaer, Ind. • Winter Tourist Rates Via Wabash. Very low Tourist rates to points in Mississippi, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, Florida, Alabama and North Carolina, also to Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, and to points in Mexico, Cuba and Panama. Tickets on sale daily to April 30th. Final limit June Ist. For further information call on or address. ‘,££xThos. Follen, P. & T. A., rjgpjEte fe*. Lafayette, Ind. MONON EXCURSION RATES. $3.95 for the round trip to Chicago, Dec. 16, 17, 18.19; return limit Dec. 24. $1.60 for the roundtrlp to Chicago, Dec. 30, returning to Dec. 38. International Live S;ock Exposition. W. H. Beam, Agt.

Wool Lined Shoes and Slippers for Ladies In All Styles. Men’s Felt Shoes, Men’s wooi-Lined Shoes, Leggings, Arctics, Felt Boots, Socks and Overs. In Short, anything you* want in Winter Wear* can be found here. T'RV VS OftCE. j

Big Public Sale. The undersigned having bought all the livestock, machinery and other property of Lewis Elijah, will offer the same at public on Monday, December 18,1905, Commencing at 10 o'clock, a. m„ at the residence of Lewis Elijah, on what is known as the old Lewis Davisson farm, tea miles due north of Rensselaer, on gravel road, five miles south of Knitnan, five miles east of Fair Oaks, and five miles west of Gifford, the following property, to-wit: 16 HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES, consisting of 1 Gray Mure seven years old. wt. I. raised colt last year; t Gray Mure eightyears old. wt. 1,100, raised colt last year; A Brown Horse eight yrs. j® seven years old. wt. years old. wt. 1.150; 1 bun Mare eight years Colt, coming four years old. wt. 1,300: 1 Brown Horse ten years old. wt. 1000; 1 span Coach Mnres, coming three years old; 1 Dark Gray Mare, coming three years old; 1 Dun Mare, coining two years old; 1 Dark Brown Hohe, coming two years old; 2 Colts, coming one year old; (all colts well bred and good size;) 1 span Mules eight years old, well broke and gentle, wt. 2,200. 5 HEAD OF GOOD COWS, consisting of 1 Jersey: 2 Black Holsteins, and 2 Shorthorns; some giving milk, and ail to be fresh soon. FARMING IMPLEMENTS. Etc., consisting of two Kiditig Cultivators with Gopher attachments; two Walking Cultivators with Gopher attachments; two Check Row Corn Planters; two three-section Harrows; one new Rock Island Disk, one John Deere Disk, iu good condition; one StuJebaker Broud Tire Wagon complete; one good Broad Tire Wagon ; four sets of Double Farm Harness; one two-seuted Extensoin Top Carriage, nearly new; and other articles too numerous to mention. Tkkms—Twelve mouths credit without interest on approved security, or 7 percent, off for cash on snips over 15; sums of $5 and under cash. GEO. F. MEYERS. Fhed Phillips, » J. F. Pettet. . \ A * loneers. C. G. Spitlek, Clerk. Hot Lunch on the Grounds. I have n number of Barred Plymouth Cockerels and Pekin Ducks for sale; all are extra fine. For prices call on or address, Thomas Reed, R. F. D. Remington, Ind. Independent ’phone, 2 on 79.