Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — Page 2

[ KITCHEN CABINETS! S H|||teL£2gSfes § z_ I\l rA I_Z~_3”^ * Call and »ee k® I. Ak 11 | them and be Illi ill I convinced we DQ VU.UU \ are selling all Lx v® ’*' kind* of Fur- (• and JJ ' r ' ' niture cheap- (• UIIU rs I er t) ian any ix S Upwards. *t±T (• •) MS , •) I BBlr I CALL SEE THEM AT i If UK Mk 111 Wil SIM i RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., APRIL 6, 1906. KBBOUBCU. LIABILITIES. Loan* $264,688 80 Capital Stocks3o,ooo 00 U. 8. and County Bond* 17,900 00 Surplus and Profit*. 14,934 21 Bank Building ... 8,000 00 Circulating Notes., 7,500 00 Ca*h and due from banks 94,084 87 Deposit*. 332,239 43 $384,673 67 $384,673 67 DI R ECTORS. A. PARKISON. JOHN M. WASSON. E, L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vlce-Pre*ident. Cashier. JAMBS T. RANDLE. GEO. E. HURRAY. Farm loans o specially ft snare 01 Your Paironaae is solicited.

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I TELEPHONE, No. 58. Everything in the Fuel and Feed I Line at the lowest prices. Corn, Hay and Oats bought at highest market prices. A share of your patronage is solicited J. E. BISLOSKY

L & V. Special #7OO Top Buggy THjSKm Just a vehicle which Rives pertere Mttstaction; that’s what we X' X j \KjH build, using only llrst-claw materials and perfect fintah; every X Vi / P nrt warranted to tie free from detects. < Kir years of experience \ WAittM hare taught u« how to build a popular and sulwtantial vehicle juMuim st the lowest cost and the prices that wv aek du not carry any ■>'(lW Profits *®r the middlemen. This velilcle is trimmed in all wool J. bialy cloth, green or blue, brown or wine, fffhiarteSEKwd*-. , —. paint nd to null the purcl taser, lias wo<ilfac«l L.t- head Unmg.grain leather <iuat tert and back jIMK. . X / stays with heavy rubber roof, back curtain, \ I /\ \ side curtains and •tonn apron, thousand I f\ / " ll| e axle., screwed run ulie. le, Fren.li . tempered Eliptle springs, sanitary spring I 11 —ltecfe~x<ai - J cushions and buck, and Is inualiy sold m l j the dealer's market at double this price. If V'"'?/II X</a\W / APvSc you vant a substantial, well finished vehi- \ //YA X7IW Ti //SvylW F de don't overlook this bargain. Every ton / K YJf \ \ / \/ / \A/ I \ buggy furnished try us is complete ait u I XW7 I \jr Xg \ shafts, storm apron,wbtnforced boot and Quick shifting shaft couplers: securely ■ crated, delivered f.o.b. ears Middletown, . _ Ohio, we secure the lowest possible ft eight rate* for oar customers. Catalogue* sent, and freight rate* quoted upon application. Kefsrvasast First NaUsnal Bank, Middletown. Okie. rubber tires Stuju. Terms.—We will ship vehicle to anyone who sends fll.no with order, and oollort the balance Through their nearest bank or express office, upon delivery of signed B. I. If yon ITlrtde ttilr! and’s f eels Uwbes IT*"’ ** »« sure to Mate width of track, as S feet S Inolies Muiftctirk by TIE UMI VHSIQKLE BU6BT CO.. Middletown, Ohls.

OUR FOURTH OF JULY BOY.

He started out early, our dear little boy, With seventeen pack* and a nice cannon toy, A platol for cape and torpedoea galore. And a hundred and forty-nine pinwheels or more. We hired a man just to watch him at play And to follow hi* footaepa around ail the day, Ten times in the morning be saved the dear's life. But was blown up himself and sent home to his wife. And at night when they brought what was left of our boy. Our anguish was tempered by small graine of joy, For he said, as the powder was picked from his eye, "I wish 'at to-morrow was Fourth o' July. Then the doctor came round at our urgent request And tacked on the limbs where they fitted the best, But the kid only said, “I'd be willin' to die Every day if 'twas only the Fourth of July.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. From our Special Correspondent: With the Pure Food Bill and the Rate Bill both agreed to, Congress has adjourned. The last day of the session saw a crowd at the White House, people with belated requests, most of which it was impossible to grant or even lay before the President, and scores of senators and representatives wishing to pay their final calls. Congressmen were decidedly ready to congratulate themselves on the amount of work that had been accomplished but as a matter of fact, the most that was done was to arrive at a number of compromises on important pieces of legislation. The one thing in which the White House had its way was the settlement of the Panama Canal problem. That this was settled at all was a victory since the railroad interests wanted to keep the matter in the air and if possible prevent action for another session. The Rate Bill was a dicided compromise. The pipeline amendment was knocked out and Senator Tillman, in charge of the bill, would not even sign the final report. The Pure Food Bill was robbed of the most of its good features by the insistence of the patent medicine firms and the various special interests all of which feared to be exposed by the searchlight of publicity. The Department of Agriculture expresses the hope that some good may be accomplished by the bill as it stands on the theory that any sort of Federal legislation is better than a lot of conflicting state laws combined with the situation presented by many states that have no food laws at all.

111 In the same way the meat inspection law was a clear lay-down to the packing interests. In spite of the exposure of the endless injury to trade that the packers forced on themselves by their refusal to submit to the warnings of the Executive, they have managed to rid the inspection law of what were to them some of the most objectionable features. Worst of all they shouldered the expense of the inspection on the government. They have done a very good job of work for themselves, whatever may be thought of its moral aspect or its effect on the public. t t t As for the various investigations and exposures that have taken and are still taking place, their affect has been more moral than actual. The prosecution against the Standard Oil Company have been undertaken with the express announcement by the Attorney General that it would be impossible to convict any of the higher officials of the company. And so long as these go unscathed, it is a safe bet that the methods of the corporations will not be much changed.

111 In the last hours of the session Senator Tillman made a final attack on the pipe-line amendment and paid back in a measure some of the things be had suffered earlier in the rate fight when the so called “Allison Amendment” was accepted He said that the Allison Amendment was the place where the Big Stick and the Pitchfork had parted company. He wanted to do something for the people and to break down the monopoly the Standard Oil Company had fastened on the country, but he said that he had been left alone on the tiring line and that all the threats of what was immediately to be done to it at some future date when the prosecutions instituted by the Department of Justice were coripleted. Thus, he said, the farce went on, the people were fooled and the promise was always of what was to be done tomorrow, while there was never any accomplishment to show for the work to-day. t t t

In connection with the oil prosecutions, it may be said that the most of the final cabinet meeting last weeK was devoted to considering the subject. Attorney General Moody arrived early at the White House with a bundle of documents that were understood to bear on the case. This was not the first conference during the week, either. There was a meeting on Thursday when the Attorney General presented his assistant, Mr. Purdy, and the special counsel that bad been engaged, Messrs. Morrison and Kellogg. The special counsel will be occupied chiefly in working up the case for the Department of Justice to determine how far the Standard Oil Company has violated the letter of the law. There are many important instances where the company has made the law work to their own benefit and to the detriment of the consumer and the independent operator. But for these cases they cannot be touched, t t t The navy department has not yet acted on the resignation of Capt. Robert Wynne, son of the Consul General at London. The court martial that tried young Wynne for insubordination in the Marine Corps, ordered his dismissal. but this was suspended by the President to allow him a chance to resign. This well meant clemency for Mr, Wynne, the father is a close friend of the President, went for naught, as young Capt. Wynne telegraphed his resignation without even waiting to hear of the President’s order, evidently hoping to beat his dismissal to the department.

THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS.

[Theme read at the Newton Township commencement by Miss Christenia Flock, aged 18.[J In studying this selection the aim is to arrive at its fullest meaning, so as to apply it to our own lives. The theme of this selection is soul growth in which we have a struggle of the soul to realize itself. The struggle between what the self and what it desires to be with alternating periods of freedom and bondage finds free expression in the life process of the Nautilus. The soul, the same as the Nautilus findsits resting place in humanity, but is continually seeking a higher plane or level, and continually passing out of the old into the new.

The Nautilus, in order to reach a fuller and more perfect existence, has to break loose from the narrow bounds of its shell and build another shell, which in time will become like the same part that it has just cast off. And thus we have the universal between the Nautilus and humanity through the voice of humanity. Man can be spoken of the same as the “frail tenant” shapes his growing shell; year after year it struggles on from bondage to freedom, from real to ideal and from freedom back to bondage again, showing in its growth the truth that when one act of advancement has been made, when they rise to a higher plane, they then see some other great thing or some other level that is still beyond. Here we may notice the intensity of grasp which the latter part of the fourth topic refers us to It can can be seen here that beyond a great plane, beyond a great act, there can be seen a greater thing to be accomplished and thus it is the same all through life.

Holmes has also created an ideal development which mankind can never reach. The Nautilus, in leaving its past year’s dwelling for the new, has done what man can never, do, “He” builds up the “idle door,” stretches himself in his last found home and knows the old no more. The triumph here over the old life is complete. The soul can not close the door which leads from the lower to the higher life, but returns again to dwell and live in the same old shell. Holmes here discerns a point of likeness with the soul and the nautilus; both are trying to free themselves from the old shell and the old limitations. In both there is a constant growth to larger works and deeper and greater life. They both try to cast off the old, to leave the ont-grown shell, or the old shell, by life’s unresting sea, but as before there involves a difference. The nautilus builds each season a larger cell and lives in it, while man builds a larger cell, but returns back to the old. The nautilus gets it freedom, but man has to still carry his old shell with him. The imaginary and the embodiment each give freedom to the thought. The mind, in picturing the real and the ideal, the low and higher levels, can feel the bondage and freedom and the struggle between what the soul has and what it has not. Progression from the lower to the higher speaks and reveals itself

to man, ’ the nature of itself, and thus it can claim kinsmanehip to the soul. Its joys and sorrows are not as our own are, as we are more able to realize. Now picturing the Nautilus in its home, it is nearly a “ship,” for in beginning as the soul it has no message to impart, jt has no life, but represents the lowest plane of being, rising higher and higher in the scale of life until it reaches the topmost round of the ladder. Still keeping the picture in view, the “dim, dreaming life” cannot yet reveal the message of the writer. The “dreamer” is transformed into a toiler. It has changed from a passive to an active state and gradually takes on' the power to shape and form itself. Let us look at it now in its active life dwelling in its own constructions which it leaves and builds at its own will. Thus through the imaginary it can claim kinsmanship with the higher race rind stand face to face with the soul and through the deep ocean caves of thought can sing, “Build the more stately mansions, O my soul. As the swift seasons roll, Leave thy low-vaulted past, Let each new temple, nobler than the last. Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free. Leaving thine outgrown shell by Ute’s unresting sea!

CHRISTENIA FLOCH.

LIBRARY NEWS.

The following new books are now ready for circulation: < SOCIOLOGY. American Political Views, by Fiske. Tariff History of the United States, by Taussig. American Diplomacy, by Moore. Constitution, by Bryce. HISTORY. Greece to A. D. 14, by Shuckburgh. Essays, Historical and Literary, by Fiske, 2v. Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, by Fiske. New Hampshire, by Sanborn. Rhode Island, by Richman. Louisiana, by Phelps. Texas, by Garrison. —o— American publishers produced 7.000 different new books last year, 5,700 of them by American authors. This includes very few of the very cheap series of books, of which there were probably more than another 1,000 titles. These 7,000 new books also do not include new editions of old ones. A round thousand of all were novels. A good many of these navels were written by Englishmen in England, but Reprinted and copyrighted in this country. — o — Fiction list (continued.) Bridal March; Happy Boy— Bjornstjern. B. Black William; Princess of Thule—Sunnove Solbakken v Lorna Doone—Blackmore, R.D. C b eckers—Blossom, H. M. Tomorrow’s Tangle—Bonner, G. Gunnar —Bnyesen, H H. Women’s War; Breadwinners, —Brae me, C. M. Jane Eyre; Shirley; Villette, —Bronte, C.

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FOR MU AID EXCHANGE. By F-E, Martin, . . McCoysburg, Ind. . St” M 580 acres In Michigan, clear: will deal for equity in farm in Indiana; will deal 160 acres Ottilia. , Livery bam, horses and buggies and residence, $5,000; mortgage 1900; want equitv in small farm. $4,500 general stock and building; want small farm in Indiana. Will assume a small incumbrance, 80 acrea jn Missouri. good second bottom, good buildings; S4O per acre, clear, want small farm in Indiana. 5-room house and one vacant lot in Alexandria. Ind., and three lots in St. Elmo, Ill.; 40 acres in Reynolds county, Mo.; all clear, will deal for equity in Indiana farm. Saloon, buildings, fixtures, price $3,000, clear, want small farm or merchandise, $3,000 stock of general merchandise and residence $1,000; want small farm. Can use other property. Brick business building, two-story, and stock of general merchandise in a good Illinois town, $15,000, will deal for farm. SIB,OOO Clothing stock, will deal for clear business or residence property, This is a splendid stock and doing a splendid business. $3,000 modern residence,clear;ls4.soo hardware stock, clear, and $5,000 cash for a good farm. The farm must be O, K. SIO,OOO stock groceries: want farm of same value. This is in good Illinois town. S6,(XX) stock goods, 9-story building and fixtures $5,000. Want farm. $4,500 residence; $2,500 brick business room, and $5,000 in shoes and gents’ furnishings, Want farm, I have some splendid land In the Panhandle, Texas, at $lO per acre, one-fourth down and ten years' time at 6 per cent, on the balance, or you can pay any amount at any time and stop interest. This is fine black land and IsO K. Write for full description. This is the best cheap land I n the west. Now don't miss this chance of getting good land for less than it is worth. I have almost anything you may want to buy or trade for, so write me what you want, and what you have to trade, and I will fit you out. Call or write, F-E. MARTIN, McCoysburg, Ind.

Wabash Spacial Bargains. SI.OO Lafayette to Fort Wayne and return Sunday, July Bth, Special train 8:05 a. m. SUMMER RATES TO WINONA LAKE, IND., VIA THE WABASH SYSTEM. Rate from Lafayette $3.85 limited to 15 days. $4.40 limited to return on or before October 31st. Tickets on sale daily from May 10th to September 30th. sl2 35 LAFAYETTE TO CHAUTAQUA LAKE. NEW YORK, VIA WABASH SYSTEM. Tickets on sale July 6th and July 27th. limited to August 7th and August 28th respectively. Through fast trainsftood connections. THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR SERVICE TO BOSTON. First-class rate $30.05; second-class $18.40 via Wabash. TRIPIE DAILY THROUGH PULLMAN SLEEPING CAR SERVICE TO NEW YORK, First-class rate $18.05; secona-ciass sl7 00 via Wabash. Both 'phones. ELKS TO DENVER. COLO., JULY 16-21. Sse what low rates the Wabash system offers • { Peru S2B 66 Lafayette..s26 50 Logansport 27 75 Attica. .. 25 85 Delphi 27 15 Danville . .25 00 Tickets on sale July 11 to 15. Limit August 20. Diverse routes nernilssable and stooovers granted. Tickets will be on sale at Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo to all surrounding points of interest at one fare for the round trip.

DIVERSE ROUTES PERMITTED ON WABASH TICKETS. All Wabash tickets reading from Ft. Wayne or points west of Fort Wayne ’<» Detroit or east will be honored at option of the passenger as follows: Directrail line: Detroit and Buffalo or Northern Steamship Co.ls steamers. Detroit to Buffalo: rail to Toledo and boat to Detroit. Tickets in opposite direction have same options. Meals and berth on steamers extra. Stopoversat Detroit and Niagara Fall* on all Through tickets. *lB.lO LAFAYETTE TO ATLANTIC CITT AND RETURN VIA WABASH SYSTEM. Also same rate to Ocean City. Sea Isle City and Cape May. New Jersey. Tickets on sale July 28th and limited to 15 days from date of sale - Stop-overs on return trip at Philadelphia. Niagara Falls and Detroit on tickets reading via those point*. SI.OO LAFAYETTE TO FORT WAYNE AND RETURN. Sunday. July Bth, via Wabash System, *pecial train will pass Lafayette at 8:05 a. m. and returning leave Fort Wayne al 7:80 p. m. Beautiful Robinson Patk at Fort Wayne ia now open to the public. THE “INDIANA ELK'S SPECIAL” TO DENVER, COL., VIA WABASH MISSOURI PACIFIC LINES. Thursday. July 13,1906, the Lafayette Elk* and their friend* will attach .their flrst-claes Pullman sleeper to this special train leaving Lafayette 1:55 p. m. running solid to Denver. A few hour* entertainment at Kansas City and Pueblo will be given the party, while a stopover of thirty-six hour* will be made at Colorado Spring* to visit "Garden of the Gods,” Manitou. Cheyenne Past. Pike* Peak, Cripple Creek and the great gold mine*. The Colorado Spring* Elka will entertain the guests of the Indiana Elk* special while in their city. There will be an opportunity of a life time to see the beauties of Colorado Spring*. A special dining car will be attached to train, all meals served ala carte. Railroad fare $28.50 for the round limit Aug. 20. Sleeping car rate, double berth *lO. The public I* cordially Invited to join the special. Give sleeping car orders early—space going rapidly. The Wabash offer* their patrons excellent free reclining chair cars as well as ladies' high back day coach service. Dally tourist sleeping coach service via the Wabash from St. Louis. "To answer questions is a pleasure.” Ask them. Address, THOS. FOLLEN. Lafayette, Ind. Pass. & Tick. Agt.

I’ll tell you a story that is said to be true, for it may be of use some time to you. ROBERTS AT ONES GOOD ALL That C. A. Roberts is selling Buggies is true. Call and see and I will show them to you. -