Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1906 — Page 2

IS IT WORTH WHILE? He worshipped golden idols and the shining dollar mark Lured him on through days of sunshine and through evening shadows dark. Piling millions bis ambition, he reached out for golden store, And each dollar that he garnered made him reach and grab for more. Thousands toiled to make him profit, sweat to make him rich and great. Till he owned a fortune equal to the riches of a state. —Then, worn out iu chasing money he laid down and quickly died, And he couldn’t take it witli him when he crossed the Great Divide. a Friends of early days forgotten he for golden eagles chased. And the friendships men should covet were by greed for gain displaced. To broad acres rich and fertile he could read his title clear; At his nod great rulers cowered and their subjects quaked with fear, When he spoke the millions listened, for he ruled with golden sway. And be added to his million* ey’rv moment of the day. But at last Death sent its summons and cut down his golden pride, And he left his wealth behird him when he crossed the Great Divide. What is life if it be given to pursuit of yellow gold? Can a life that's ruled by money any of its joys behold? Friendship that is worth .the having is not bought like merchandise, And the richest joys of living are not bound by golden ties. What shall profit him who gaineth fortune's greatest, richest goal if in gaining lie doeth forfeit through eternity his soul ? Don’t waste life in piling dollars till the light of love they hide, Kor you can not take them with you when you cross the Groat Divide.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. From our special correspondent: Unless the unexpected happens, the anti-joint statehood campaign is not only dead but beyond resurrection. The insurrectionary force of the House is broken beyond reconstruction and the insurgent leaders are now devoting their lime to telling how it happened, which is not so important as the fact that it has hajjpened. Of course there is a chance that the Senate may take up the fight and secure an amendment of the House bill but that is not considered probable. The measure is a party measure, as has been previously pointed out, and it is not any more likely that the Senate will break lines on the measure than that the House would, As the, case now stands, the hill will in all liklihood go through the Senate unchanged and there will be an addition of four Democratic Senators to the party ranks. But this is not so bail from the Republican standpoint as though the measure had been passed by h Democratic congress and there had been eight Democratic Senators addtd. The one thing that is sure is that there will be tin immense appreciation of property values in the two new states as soon as they attain statehood as was the case with Nevada So anyone who has money had better get busy in the real estate business, even if they have to sell out to avoid fall in values after the states have been in the Union a little while. There is no liklihood that the territories will be any better or any worse off with statehood than without it. t t T The deatii of Gen. Joe Wheeler was received in Washington with genuine regret, and the decision immediately arrived at to bury him in Arlington with all the honors that could be paid to a deceased Union general is not surprising There was never anything better calculated to show that the Civil War was over than the alacrity with which the old Confederates and the sons of Confederates went into the war with Spain. Of course Gen Wheeler, as one of the most noted cavalry commanders of the south, was watched with particular interest An account may be given by a man who saw him through ail of the Cuban campaign. He says: “Gen. Wheeler was not only a good commander, but he had the experience and the faculty of looking after his men and seeing that bis command was in shape for whatever work it was called on to do. In the climate of Cuba, this was an important factor. The best command in the world could be knocked out in two days by dysentery and malaria if the men were not forced to fake care of themselves, and Gen. Wheeler had just the sort of field experience to drive this principle home on his subaltern officers and man. 1 do not know positively whether the story is true about his calling the Spaniards "Yankees” in the heat of battle, but 1 was up near the front the evening after the first tight and the story was going round then and was being so heartily laughed over by the men that it certainly originated on the spot whether it was true or not. It was just after the American

forces had cleaned out Kettle Hill and Gen. Wheeler’s cavalry command, which never saw a horse after they left Tampa, had come up over the crest that the old General is reported to have shouted so that all heard him, “We’ve got the Yanks going boys. Give ’em hell.” They did. General Wheeler lived at the dront with his command to the surrender of Santiago and fought it out on the spot with the tropical malaria which was a good deal worse than the Spaniards. There is no question at all that he wanted to get killed in the Santiago campaign and die with his boots on. But though he took all sorts of chances on getting shot, there was never a bullet touched him. He remarked resignedly one afternoon that he supposed he was too small to gethit by such damned poor marksmen as they had over there, referring of course to the Spanish lines.” There will be a whole nation to mourn the passing of the good little general, and it will be a fitting mark of affection to pay that he shall rest in the national cemetery. t t t The outcome of the rate bill is still doubtful. The measure has not passed either the House or Senate and there is going to be a fine old row in conference after it does. The House bill, as is generally known, is more radical than the Senate’s, and there has been a suggestion that when the bill goes to conference that the House will stand out for the adoption, in principle, of its measure and force the Senate to the wall. This suggestion is almost untenable. The Senate is not used to giving way to the House and the Elkins and Foraker bills are so much more lenient and have so many more loopholes in them of which the railroad companies might take advantage, that it is not likely the Senate will submit seeing itself shelved and the House measure passed in its entirety. It is said that the House measure is more in accordance with the President’s ideas than is the Senate’s, but then as is known, this is not likely to interfere with the Senate to any great extent.

Get a ton of “Hot Stuff.” Branch’s genuine Pittsburg coal at the Rensselaer Feed Store. Wanted: I —soo bushels of oats, and 10 to 15 tons of oats straw, at the new coal, wood and feed yard, on Front street. J. E. Bislosky. Bronze Turrets: Several toms and hens; pure bred Mammoth Bronze. Prices reasonable. R-F-D-3 A. C. Pancoast, ’Phone 510 A. Rensselaer, Ind, WANTED. 1.000 bushels good corn and 500 bushels oats. Will pay above market price. A. L. Branch, at Rensselaer Feed Store. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Horses for sale or trade fcr oattle or bogs. Apply at Springer Ranch, Kniman, Ind. Mark Ott, Foreman. Young people wanted to learn telegraphy. Railroad and telegraph companies need operators badly. Total cost, six months’ course at our school, tuition (telegraphy and ’ typewriting), board and room, s9l; this can be reduced. Catalogue free. Dodge's Institute, Monroe St., Valparaiso, Indiana.

16b 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 tile for you. Write for particulars. B. F. Gaines & Co. Hanley, Assa. Save Your Eyes by Wearing Diamond Lenses. None genuine without trade mark on e-very 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. Vick’s fruit store, next door to express office, Rensselaer, Ind.

FARM LOANS 4 1-2 PER CENT. I have a limited amount of money to loan on good farms, in large sums, at 4| per cent, interest, payable semi-annually, with partial payment privileges. Call, write, or telephone No. ,35, without delay. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Rensselaer, Ind, At First National Bank,

BLEEDING UNCLE SAM

Grafting Still Flourishes In the Departments. HOW THE PEOPLE ABE PLUNDEBED Extraordinary Difference In Prices Paid For Supplies For the Government Offices—A Lour Lease of Power Has Given Rise to Lax Management and Extravagance. That as fast as one graft is found out and abolished there are two others at work plundering the people is shown by the purchase of supplies for the government offices. When the scandal in the postoffice department exposed such Republican rottenness many people fondly imagined that since some of tho grafters were punished all the grafting and extravagance were abolished. But, although there has been improvement in the postoffice department, the price now being paid for supplies in the other departments shows grafting or gross ignorance. As red tape is a supposed necessity in a government office, every department buys a large quantity, but the price varies according to the propensities of the purchasing agent. The war department paid $1.42 for a dozen spools, while the state department paid $2.25. For oilers for the typewriters the navy department paid 25 cents a dozen, while the interior department paid sl.lO per dozen. For foolscap paper the postoffice department paid GVi cents a pound, while the navy department paid 992-100 cents a pound. For quart bottles of writing fluid the postoffice department paid $1.30 a dozen, while the department of justice paid $4.50 a dozen. For small bottles of mucilage the postoffice paid 'Bl cents a dozen, while the war department paid $1.95. For quart bottles of mucilage there was even more disparity, for while the postoffice department paid $1.65 the department of agriculture paid $3, and the department of justice paid $3.83. For tracing cloth thirty-six inches wide, twenty yards in each roll, the war department paid $4.90 a roll, while all the other departments paid as high as $6.14 a roll for the same article sold by the same firm. There is an interesting variety of prices in the table for copying ink. The postofflce department paid $1.70 a dozen quart bottles; tho navy department, $5.76; treasury. $2.10; commerce and labor. $3.85; agriculture, $4; the interior, $2.82, and the department of justice, with its usual high price, $5.88. For red ink the postoffice paid 24 cents for one dozen two ounce bottles; the tfar department, 70 cents; the navy department, GO cents, and the agriculj tural department, 23 cents. It will be noticed that the postoffice : department, where the scandals caused a shakeup and a new office was created to purchase all the supplies used, the prices now are the lowest and presumably reasonable. But what can be said of the buyers of all the other departments, who are paying so much more, In many cases double? From the department of justice, which appears to be tHe most extravagant or the greatest grafter, down to the department of agriculture, which has been under suspicion for some time, there is evident need of business supervision, for the price paid for some articles is more than the same could be bought for at retail. Under a Republican administration Uncle Sam is bled at every pore, whethor it Is millions for armor plate or thousands on ink and mucilage. A long lease of power breeds extravagance and grafting, and what is needed is a Democratic congress to Investigate all the departments of the government. for It is almost Impossible for a i party In power to reform itself that relies upon graft for its campaign funds.

A Great Pull With Congress.

Does the Pennsylvania railroad own congress? Is asked by a Washington paper. That corporation is supposed to have had a great pull with the Republican majority of the lust six congresses and has managed to have laws passed donating to it large sums of money, land aud other valuable considerations without any apparent return for the same. If the report is verified that the Pennsylvania and its allied railroads will distribute no more free passes to the legislators it Is probable that the Republican majority of congress will not be so liberal in the future, but on general principles the railroad will still have a lien on them. A Republican congressman without a free pass is a rara avis, but as there are other railroads paralleling the “Pennsy” that have not yet decided on the pass reform it will be difficult to discover one of those rare birds roosting around the capitol of the nation.

"Parrots” the Better Word.

Speaker Cannon an<l his brother stand patters should be called stand parrots, for they keep on repeating the same old jargon about “the tariff must be revised by its friends," “let well enough alone,” “the foreigner pays the tax,” etc. The last statement is not so popular with the stand parrots as It once was, since the people have discovered that the tariff protected trusts sell cheaper to the foreigners than to us.

Concerning Bosses.

Boss Odell of New York accuses President Roosevelt of “trying to be a boss.” Not only “trying to be.” but Is the boss, ns Odell knows full well, Tho Republican party can’t get along without Itosses, and tt Is some satisfaction to know that th 6 new boss is a vast Improvement on the old one, but, better still, to ignore would be bosses, as the Democrats do.

mi win < * Weare Wholesale dealers in Poultry, Produce ' > I ■ Raw Furs. Located on Cullen street, north of * » < ’ the Makeever Hotel. If you have stoqk ot tbit * > < ’ kind give us a call. 4 ( |: MOSES ATLASS’ SONS, § ;> J. O. CLINE, Mgr. •: STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., AUGUST as, 1903. BESOUKCM. LIABILITIES. Loans $233,979 85 Capital Stocks 30,000 00 U. S. and County Bonds... 15,500 00 Surplus and Profits 18.598 92 Bank Building 8,000 00 Circulating Notes., 7.500 00 Cash andduefrom banks 115,587 50 Deposits 316.918 23 $373,047 15 $373,017 15 DI R ECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vice-President. Cashier. JAMES T. RANDLE, GEO. E. HURRAY. Form loons o soecloiiy . 1 Sim 01 Your raw is Solicited. (Gill W, Wood id ted Ydfd j <> HcfVing Opened new yards on Front street, north of Washington, will <’ <[ always keep on hand a full line of Coal, <’ Wood and Feed. Highest market price < > paid for Grain of all kinds. All deliveries promptly made. Satisfaction S <► guaranteed GIVE ME YOUR NEXT ORDER. | J. E. BISLOSKY, Prop. TELEPHONE, No. 58. <[ MB.] From now until the arrival of our spring goods, PRICES are secondary considerations at FENDIG'S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE Lowest legitimate prices are now displaced by tremendous slaughter prices. Remember That Seeing is Believing And inspect our goods before you purchase. FENDIG’S EXCLUSIVE SHOE STORE. . Same room as occupied by Jessen the Jeweler.

fmeis’ Miiluql ® met issocioifc _ Of Benton. White and Jasper Counties, KKI’HKSESTED UY MARION I. ADAMS, RENSSELAER. IND. I isurance in force Dec. 81. 1804. $1,895,559.32. Increase for year 1004. $199,796.56.

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS. I have for sale some Mammoth Bronze Turkey Toms that are tine. Call and see them or write; 2| miles east of Rensselaer. A. F. Shesler. Estray Taken Up:—Came to my place, occupied by Lud Clark in Milroy tp, a black cow. Owner can have same by proving ownership and paying advertising charges aud for feeding. Fred Saltwell. Farm For Sale: 155 acres, ten miles northwest of Rensselaer; 85 acres under cultivation, balance wood and pasture land; has five room house, barn, hay shed, drilled well, tank in barn lot, fine orchard and vineyard, etc. Price s4l per acre. John Karr, Rensselaer, Ind. Advertise in The Democrat

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NJOTICB TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Thomas Murphy, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term, 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirsand legatees of Thomas Murphy, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear lu the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 19th day of February, 1906. being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Edward P. Honan, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved: and the-heirsof said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in Baid Court on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. Edwabd P. Honan, Administrator, NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Frank Philippi- deceased, In the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term. 19t6'. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Frank Philippi, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the 19th day ot February, 1906. being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Eliza Philippi, administratrix of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final settlement account shoald not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and 811 others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said court on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. Eliza Philippi, Admistratrix. N OTICE TO NON-R ESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, 1 Jasper County, j In the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term, 1900. Angus D. Washburn. ) vs. J- Complaint No. 6988 Louise S. Buckles, et al.) Now comes the plaintiff, by Hume L. Sammons his attorney, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that said defendants. Louise S. Buckles, Elizabeth Lindsey. Cora McVey, Josinah Yost, Rebecca B. McCray. Horace M. Johnson, Collins, widow of Erasmus B. Collins, deceased; the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees of Erasmus B. Collins, deceased; the unkown heirs, legatees and devirees of Collins, widow ot Erasmus IL Collins, deceased, are non-residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants. that unless they be and appear on the 20 th day of the February terin of the Jasper Circuit Court, to-wit. on the Bth day of March. 1906, at the Court House, in Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heartland determined tn their absence. In Witness Whereof, 1 hereunto set my , , hand and affix the seal of said Court, ■ SEAL > at Rensselaer. Ind., this 12th day’ of ' January. A. D., 1906, C. C. WARNER, Clerk. By JEAN McFARLAND, Deputy.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. State of Indiana. ) County of Jasper. J “ In the Jasper Circuit Court, February Term, 19u6. Jacob M.Lesh ) vs. [- Complaint No 6987. George W. Daniels, et al. ) Now comes the plaintiff, by Baughman & Williams, his attorneys, and files his complaint herein, together witn an affidavit that the defendants, George W. Daniels, and Mrs. Daniels, whose first name is unknown, wife of George W. Daniels, and Mrs. Daniels, who-e first name is unknown, widow of said George W. Daniels; William Smith, and Mrs. Smith, whose first name is unknown. wife of William Smith, and Mrs. Smith, whose first name is unknown, widow of said William Smith; John Smith, and .Mrs. Smith, whose first name is unknown, wife of said John Smith, and Mrs. Smith, whose first name is unknown, widow of said John Smith; Jacob Smith, and Mrs. Smith, whose first name is unknown, wife ot Jacob Smith : and Mrs. Smith, w hose first name is unknown, widow of said Jacob Smith; Emily Smith; Martha Jane Smith; Philip Snyder, and Mrs. Snyder, whose first name is unknown, wife of Philip Snyder, and Mrs. Snyder, whose first name is unknown, widow of said Philip Snyder: Charles Snyder, and Susan Snyder, his wife, and Susan Snyder widow of said Charles Snyder, and Mrs. —— Snyder, whose first namr is unknown. wife of Charles Snyder, and Mrs. - Snyder, whose first name is unknown, widow of said Charles Binder; Nathan Siberling, and Catherine Siberling, his wife, and Catherine Siberling, widow of said Nathan Siberling. and airs. Siberling. whose first name is unknown, wile of Nathan Siberling. and Mrs. Siberling, whose first r ame is unknown, widow ot said Nathan Siberling: Delila Call, and George W. Call, husband of Delila Call, and George W. Call, widower of said Delila Call: and all of the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, grantees, administrators, executors, guardians, successors and assigns, and all the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, grantees, administrators, executors, guard ians, successors and assigns of the unknown heirs, devisees, legatees, grantees, administrators, guardians, successors and assigns of each and every of the above named defendants. are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants. that unless they be and appear on Thursday. March Bth, 1906, being the 23d day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the second Monday of February, A. D., 1006, at the Court Bouse in Rensselaer In said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same wtll be heard and determined in their absence. In Witness Whereof. I hereunto set my , . hand and affix the Seal of said • SEAL .- Court, at Rensselaer this 9th day of • —•—January. A. D. 1906. C. C. WARNER, Clerk. Baughman & Williams, Attys.

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