Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1905 — Page 2

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER, IND.. AUCIUST 1905. KEBOUBCEB. LIABILITIES. Loan* $233,979 65 Capital Stock. ... *?9 , 522S U. 8. and Comity Bouds 15,5(10 00 Surplmi and Profit* 93 Bank Building 8,000 00 Circulating Note*.,. 7.500 00 Cash and due From banks 115,567 50 Deposits - 316.948 23 1373,047 15 $373,047 15 DIRECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINOSWORTH, President. Vlca-Presldent. Caabler. JAMES T. RANDLE, QEO. E. nURRAV. fn loons n speciom....... »Shore oi roui Paironoge is soiicnea. |

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Are You Interested in the South? DO YOU CAKE TO KNOW OK 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 he had at from 13.0) to $5.00 an acre which will be wo£th from $30,00 to $150.00 ■within 10 years? About stock raising where the extreme of winter feeding is but six (0) short weeks? Of places where truck (trowing and fruit rai»‘ag 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.ll will gladly advise ■you fully and truthfully. G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co. LOUISVILLE KY.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and (Jeneral Gossip of the National Capital. One of the most bitter attacks ever made in the Senate upon the President was delivered by Senator Tillman last week It dealt particularly with the Santo Domingo treaty ati’d in general with what Mr Tillman termed “the usurpation of authority” by the executive. The President was warmly defended by Spooner and the result was »hat might be termed a drawn battle with no results except to show that the President and some of his policies have warm opponents in the south. Senator Tillman said that he would admit the President was a patriotic man from his own point of view but that when he ouce conceived an ideH. he did not let law, precedent nor the constitution stand in the way of carrying it out. As to the Santo Domingo treaty, Senator Tillman said that the President simply waited till he got Congress off his hands and then went to work carrying out his pet idea as to the solution of the Santo Domingan trouble, To this Senator Spooner replied that the Senate had left the President in an embarrassing position by adjourning without acting on the Santo Domingo treaty and that the President had nothing to do but to lake the matter into his own hands. Senator Spooner said that when the trouble reached an acute stage an Italian warship had appeared on the scene and it was only the presence of American warships that had prevented other powers from sending warships too aud following the lead that Italy had attempted of looking out for their own interests United States had held the custom houses, said he, there hud been no revolution and very little talk of one. If the Senate did not act on the treaty, the money that had been collected and was now in safe keeping for the creditor

nations would become the property of Santo Domingo, while the powers Would be left to look after their debts and their interests as be6t they could. It was altogether an unpleasant and unseemly squabble and there was little outcome to it except that it, if anything, deepened the breach between the Senate and the Executive. It is a question whether the cause of the Santo Domingan treaty Inis been held or hurt by the incident. That can only be told when the measure comes before the Senate in executive session. But it has at least made clear that the United States up to date has been acting in prefec'tly good faith toward the creditor nations and if the matter is not legislated on during the present session, the President will at least have cleared his skirts and the responsibility will rest on the Senate in not having taken advantage of the order that lie has maintained in Santo Domingo. ,t t t Insular business is well to the fore. The bids for the 1,000 miles of railway in the Philippines have been opened and while tho successful bidders have not yet been Hnuounced,it is shown 4hat there is capital ready and waiting to carry out tho whole scheme of railway extension. Col. Edwards, the Chief of the Insular Bureau, has said that one of the most j pressing needs of tho Philippines | was for h good system of railway ! and highway communication and j this is practically assured. There j are several classes of bids for the I work and one of them at least is from an English corporation which wants to put in almost half of the total mileage One of the other firms bidding while nominally American is really international in character and if its bid is accepted will doubtless get a large part of the money from England. Whether it will be wise to accept this foreign helping ' hand or not is a question, hut it is

significant that foregin countries think well enough of the stable government now operating in the Islands to be willing to put their money there. It may be remarked too that the bids are onder the thirty year guarantee which would mean that the American government for more than a generation would stand sponsor to the undertaking, a thing it would not <be likely to do if there was any chance of the American flag being hauled down and the Islands vacated by the United States. That iB really the most significant fact that was developed by the transaction. t t t The Philippines also consumed most of the day before the Ways and Means Committee of the House. The beet sugar men of the Northwest had a hearing* in which W. S. Humphrey spoke lengthily against the lowering of the Philippine duty on sugar. He said that it would kill the beet sugar industry in this country. The Philippines, he said, produced 6,000.000 tons more of sugar than this country consumed and that if the tariff wall were broken down, the whole of this flood would be let loose on the American market. He was asked whether the bulk of the Philippines sugar would not as heretofore go to China and Japan, neither 6f which were parties to the Brussels sugar convention. But he replied that it would not as the most of the sugar sent from the Philippines to China was refined in factories on English ground and would be excluded on the ground of undue preference by the United States. Whatever the effect on the beet sugar industry of the cane sugar industry of the south undoubtedly would he wipe out.

The old question of reducing the southern representation on account of the disfranchisement of some of the negroes in the south, was again brought up last week by Mr. Bennett of New York, the north always taking the lead in settling the negro problem, which it is very easy to do, being further from the scene of action. Mr. Bennett’s bill provides for the reduction of southern representation from 386 to 351 and would divide the reduction as follows: Alabama from 1) to 5, Arkansas from 7 to 5, Florida from 3 to 2, Georgia from 11 to 6, Louisiana from 7 to 4, Mississippi from 8 to 3, North Carolina from 10 to 7, South Carolina from 7to 3, Tennessee from 10 to 8, Texas from 16 to 13, and Yiriginia from 10 to 7. It is not likely however, with the press of other legislation, that the bill will get very serious consideration. An arm-load of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Subscriptions taken for newspapers and magazines at Cox’s news-stand.

I have a number of Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Pekin Ducks for sale; all are extra fine. For prices call on or address, Thomas Heed, R. F. D. Remington, Ind. Independent ’phone, 2 on 7'J.

Dr. Chas. Vick, Eye Specialist. This is an age of Specialists. | more benefit to Humanity than to do many things huc! none equal to the best. We limit our practice on the eye to the errors of refraction, of which we have made a special study for over thirty years. Office in C. H. Vick’s fruit store, next door to express Rensselaer, Ind. Cuban Land. I am not a land agent, but I can tell you where 1 bought land last year that has already increased in value 150 per cent. This is because thousands of Americans are investing there, building railroads, sugarmills, saw-mills, and other things necessary to develop a new and fertile country. Land that Is producing SSO to $75 clear profit per acre yearly in sugar cane. Land that is producing $750 per acre net profit yearly in ordinary cocoanuts. Land that is producing SIOO per acre yearly in oranges, lemons, pineapples and bananas. Land where rich grass grows higher than a horse's back, and on Whiclp-cattle fatten with no other food, ready for trie block. Land with a perfect climate, cooler in summer than it i» in Indiana, with no frosts, and plenty of rainfall. Richer land than you ever saw. unless you have been there. Land covered with forests of great commercial value, such as mahogany, sabicou, juiqui, etc. 1 Can introduce you to a man who makes a practice of hacking these statements up with Ills pocket-boog—lie will give any responsible party his certified check for S3OO, and If this party should, upon investigation, find uny of these statements untrue, lie shall go to the hank and get his S3OO, which pays his expenses and leaves 150 for his time; but if everything is as represented lie shall hand the check back, and he will buy land, all he can pay for. just like I did, This won’t last always, and “the early bird,” etc. Parties going to Cuba every month. If you want to know more, aee me. or write. Rensselaer. Ind. E. J. WILCOX.

A Dream’s Fulfillment

The Rector’s Christmas Charity and What Came of It.

By SALLY CHAMBERLIN

TCopyright, 1904, by Sally Chamberlin.] BANG! Bang! Bang! John Hare jumped from his warm bed into his dressing gown and slippers, switched on the electric light and was on the lower floor swinging wide the heavy, massive door before his eyes were fairly open. Through the blackness of the outer night peered the hard and forbidding faces of two roughly clad men. The taller man stated in gruff toues that his baby was dying and his wife wanted the child baptized. In less than five minutes the young rector was dressed and back to the men, whom he had left sitting in the hall, and the three started out. The trip to the outskirts of the city through dark and strange streets was anything but pleasant. Finally reaching a little low cottage, set quite apart ?

IN ONE PLACE SAT A GIRLISH FIGURE.

from any other dwellings and lighted by one small lamp which sent its rays through the narrow window, he followed the men through the door into a barely furnished room. On a cot in the corner lay a child, small and wasted, marked with death's stamp, and beside her sat the weeping mother. Some strange mystery haunted the room. What were these poverty stricken people trying to conceal'.' The clergyman shook off the feeling and opened his prayer hook at the baptismal service. Having performed his mission, accompanied by the two mem he was passing a clump of trees on his way home when one of them stopped suddenly and, pulling a long bladed knife from his pocket, flashed it before the young rector’s face aud instantly pointed it toward his heart. lie uttered a piercing shriek. ****••• “Ugh!” said John Hare as the sound of his own voice wakened him and he sat up in bed. "What an ugly nightmare!” Then, with a look at his watch, “It is high time I was up anyway, with fifty parochial visits before me. I must make sure that not a single family has a cheerless Christmas tomorrow.” His eye caught the picture of a girl’s face, gentle eyed, yet cheery, hanging in a frame on his wall. “And if there’s any persuasion in John Hare's poor eloquence he won't have a cheerless nor a lonely Christmas the next 25th ! of December.”

This young rector had come to Spottsfleld, a rising manufacturing city, three years before, after serving as curate in a large city parish. He had transformed his new congregation from a disgruntled, quarreling community composed of a few rich and many poor to a great family interested in each other and respecting his Christlike principles. And incidentally his strict resolution for a busy bachelorhood had been somewhat disturbed by a pair of Interested, laughing eyes which belonged to the daughter of a factory owner. Tills energetic, but rather shy, young woman was famed and loved among the poor and sick of Spottsfleld for her gentle und unpretentious way of helping when and where she was needed. Though of different faiths, she and John Hare met often while on excursions of mercy. He had seen her, too, at beta father’s home, where he was popular as a dinner guest because of his appreclatlou of a good cigar and his broad, forceful views on Christianity. As he dressed that morning before the festive holiday he realized that the human heart cannot be denied its. sustenance one heating in touch and sympathy with it—and that one fair girl had woven her charms about him so completely that he could no longer refrain from telling her of it, even though of late she had rather seemed to avoid him when he crossed her path and was even chary of her conversation when he dined at her house. During the long busy day she was constantly brought to his mind ip the homes he visited. A forlorn old woman told of the coming of Miss Ruth with yarn for the next year’s knitting and a box of sweets. A grateful mother told of the nights Miss Ruth had

stayed and nursed the baby back to life. In the poorer homes be beard ,of the baskets of Christmas goodies she had brought, with toys aud warm mittens for the children. It was 10 o’clock before the rector had finished the day’s task, and when he reached home he threw himself, quite worn out. on the couch in the library. Not ten minutes seemed to have elapsed when the sound "Rr-r-r-r!” through his sleep wakened him suddenly to the realization that some one was ringing the bell with the evident intention of rousing the entire household, and as he stepped into the hall to open the door he was amazed to see the hands on the old fashioned clock pointing to 1. “Sir, we’ve come to get Mr. Hare. The baby’s dying, and my wife wants a minister,” announced one of the two men who stood on the step facing the tired rector. The memory of his vivid nightmare had not recurred to him since the morning, but at the words “baby’s dying” it it all flashed before his mind, and he hesitated an instant with some misgivings. Quickly pulling himself together and throwing off the vision, he exclaimed : “I’m Mr. Hare. Where is your baby?” In a harsh voice the larger of the two men mentioned the outskirts of the city, where the houses were small and low and widely scattered. Again pushing aside the warning of his apparition, the rector incased himself in warm overcoat and arctics and, locking the door behind him, bade the men lead the way. For several blocks an occasional house showed lights from top to bottom or a stray light in the soccnd story gave evidence that an eager youngster was awake examining Santa Claus' gifts. Then the houses became dark, and the three men trudged on through the gently falling snow. Hare’s questions received but curt, abrupt answers, while the memory of his grewsome dream grew clearer with each step of the long dark walk till he reached the Identical cottage of his nightmare, with one light shining through the window. A suggestion of cold perspiration stood on his forehead and a shiver ran down his spine as he thought of the sinister group and the suspicious and foreboding glances of the men in that dim scene which he had passed through before so realistically. Entering the house behind the larger man, he looked instantly toward the corner for the cot and the child. They were there! The thin face of the child showed the same pallor of death, but the mother was not In the chair beside the bed. In her place sat a girlish figure, holding a vial in her delicate fingers. “Thank you so much for coming,” said a soft voice, and the Ituth of his day dreams lifted her eyes to his with a wistful, shy glance of comfort and relief. “The mother never would have beeu consoled for her neglect in not having had her child baptized, and I felt so sure J you would come, even though it was at this late hour.” So the dying baby received the blessing of the church, and as the sun rose between two distant hills the child passed into its Saviour's arms. Two hearts were peaceful from a souse of finished duty. Unconsciously radiant with joy at being together, the man and the girl passed from the low roofed cottage into the clear frosty air of the blue canopied earth with its fresh carpeting of pure white snow. A Christmas happiness such as they had never known before illuminated the world for these two alone in the snow clad woods.

It was some time before the young rector felt inclined to speak, aud then it was to recount his nightmare with its realistic reproduction up to the point where he had found her beside the dying child. “And the knife aimed at your heart —that must have been a dreudful dream!” John Hare paused, holding her with his strong magnetic gaze. “The knife is in your hand. If you cannot love me, your ‘No’ will he the deathblow to my hopes aud ambitious.” She smiled up into his eyes and held out both hands. “See—there is no knife.”

Eight Millions For Toys.

The real amount of cash money paid out in the United States alone for toys that on Christmas morning gladden the hearts of American children is conservatively estimated at $*,000,000. This means about 00 cents apiece for the something like 18,000,000 of five to twelve year old children. The children of no other country on the globe have anything like so lavish an average amount of money expended for toys for them, not even the children of Germany—Germany, the home of toymaking and toy giving. Verily, indeed, the lot of the American child has been cast in the richest sort of clover when It comes to toy getting and not a few other things In the bargain.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

Jumping at a Conclusion.

Tommy—Santa Claus is coming to dinner tonight. Elsie—Oh! How do you know?

Tommy—Ma told me n white haired old gentleman was coming and we’d have to be very good*

Christmas the Real Turkey Day.

Christmas, not Thanksgiving, is tho real turkey day. Last Christmas Uncle Sam’s nephews and nieces took care of about 1,500,(XX) more turkeys than they did on Thanksgiving.

Devonshire’s Yule Log.

In Devonshire the Yule log is known as the Ashton fagot. The fagot is compoaed of a bundle of ash sticks bound with nine bands of the same wood.

I.'.lil.'lilliilfil* « > v Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect Feb. 5,1905. South Bound. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily).... ..10:55a. m. No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2KMp. m. No. 89—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:05 p.m. No. 35—Cincinnati " (duiiyi. .11:30 p. m •No. 45—Local freight 12:54 p. m' No.3l—Fast Mail 4:49 a. m* North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily); 4:30 a.m. No. 36 Cincinnati Express (daily).. 4:49 a. m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32-Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:30 p.m. 'No.3o—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. tNo.3B—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p.m. ♦No. 46—Local freight 9:55 a.m. •Daily except Suuday. (Sunday only, No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for pas«engers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Motion. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., Ah H. McDorl, President and Gen. M’g'r, Chas. U. Rockwell, Traffic M'g’r, CHIOAOO. W. H. Beau. Agent. Rensselaer. I. I. & I. RAILROAD. In Eilect May 29, 1904. Stations In Jabpku Co. | West East am pm am pm Shelby. Mail and Exp. ..9.10 5:16 9:50 4:48 DeMotte, “ •• ...8:56 5:u3 10:05 5:03 Kersey. " " ...8:54 5:00 10KI7 5:05 Wheatfield, “ “ ...8:43 4:47 10:18 5:15 Dunnville, “ " ...8:35 4:38 10:26 5:22 GEO. L. FORESTER, D. P. A., SOUTH BEND, IND.

Bell Phone 131. Lafayette Phone 379. WABASH Arrival and departure of trains from Thc Lafayette Passenger Station Twelfth and Erie Streets In effect Sunday. November 19. 1905. GOING EAST. No. 2, ToledoA Pittsburg Ex, da..2:38 a.m No. 8. Buffalo Mail, daily 6:01 a.m No. *6. Mail and Express, daily 8:49 a.m No. 4. Continental Limited, daily..2:o7 p.m No. 00. Peru Ac., ex Sunday 7: 40 p.m GOING WEST. No. 51. Springfield Ac., ex. Sunday..7:oo a.m No. 9. Kansas City Fast Mail dailv.B:t3 a.m No. 1. Continental Limited, daily..2:lo p.m No. 5. Fast Mail, daily 7:51 p.m No. 3. Western Express, daily.... 11:58 a.m No. 8 does not run between Ft. Wayne and Detroit No. 2, Eastern Express daily, has through sleepers St. Louis to Boston; St. Louis to New York, and buffet sleeptr St. Louis to Toledo, Vestibuled free reclining chair car, St. Louis to Buffalo. Dieing car serving meals, No. 4, Continental Limited, dally, has through Pullman sleeper, St. Louii to New York and Boston. Coaches St. Louis to New York without change. Dining car serves meals. No. 8, Mail and Express, daily, has connection with sleeper at Toledo for New York and Boston via Lake Shore & Michigan Southern and New York Central K. R. No. 8. Through sleeper to New York City, via D. L. & VV. liy. Chair car to Buffalo free. Sleeper to Detroit and Buffalo. No. 1, Continental Limited,daily,same service as No. 4. No. 3, Western Express daily, has sleepers Toledo. Boston and New York to St. Louis; also 2 free reclining chair cars to St Louis, and St. Louis to Kansas City and Omaha. No. 6, Fast Mail, Coach Toledo to St. Louis. Does not carry baggage. No. 9. Coaches and chair cars to St. Louis, through sleeper and free reclining chair cars to Kansas City without change. Ocean steamship tickets sold to all parts of the world. C. S. CRANE. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent. H. V. P TAYLOR, Asst. tien. Pass, and Tkt. Agent. St. Louis. Mo. THUS. FOLLEN. P. & T. A.. Lafavette. Ind.

CITY, TOWNSHIP AND COUNTY DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H, S. Ellis Marshal Mel Abbott Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer —. James H. Chapman Attorney - - Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief C. B. Steward COL'XCII.MEN. Ist ward C. J. Dean, H. O. Harris id ward J. F. Irwin. C. G. Spitier 3d ward Richard Grow. J. Carmichael COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk . Charles C, Warner Sheriff . . John O'Connor Auditor J. N. Leatherman Treasurer - S. R. Nichols Recorder . J. W. Tilton Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools Louis H. Hamilton County Assessor John R. Phillips COMMISSIONEHS. Ist District Abraham Halleck 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District .Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. TRUSTEES. TOWNSHIPS. Washington Cook Hanging Grove Theodore Phillips Gillum Albert Bouk Walker Grant Davisson Barkley Charles F. Stackhouse Marion Charles K. Sage Jordan W. B. Yeoman . . Newton Henry Feldman Keener Charles Stalhaum Kankakee Robert A. Munnan Wheatfield Anson A. Fell Carpenter William C. Huston Milroy Harvey Davisson Union Louis H. Hamilton, Co. Supt Rensselaer K. C. English Rensselaer George Resse ..Remlngton Geo. O. Stemiiei Wheatfield JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney (). R. Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November.

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