Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1906 — Page 7

It Takes Nerve Everything depends upon your nerves. It is nerve force that causes the brain to direct the motion .Of your body; it is nerve force that causes your heart to pulsate, and send the blood through your veins; it is nerve force that causes your stomach to digest food, .your kidneys to filter the blood, and the liver to secrete bile. In fact, nerve force is the power that runs your body, so if you feel worn-out, irritable, nervous, cannot sleep, or eat well, have pain or misery anywhere, your nerves s are weak, and your system rundown. To restore this vitality take Dr. Miles’ Nervine which will strengthen and build up the nerves. You cannot be healthy without strong nerves. "For eighteen years Br. Miles' Nervine and Anti-Fain PIUs have been my close companions. Early in married life, while raising children, my nerves became all worn-out—could not sleep: had no appetite; indigestion very 'bad, and had such awful dissy spells. Then I began using Dr. Miles’ Nervine, and at once I began to improve,. and soon found myself in perfect health.” MRS. S. L. YOUNG, 124 Pittsburg St., New Castle, Pa. Dr. Miles’ Nervine Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If It falls, he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Naaarc Aid *• Fruit Trees. A Pennsylvanian states that be has never used commercial fertilizers in an apple, orchard. If the ground is too poor to produce apples, nothing is better than barnyard manure, which answers every purpose for a mulch or for enriching the ground. In planting an apple orchard the ground should be farmed every year for about ten years, growing such crops as potatoes, truck, etc., so that the ground will get manure as often as the crops will require It, and that will be sufficient for the growth of the apple trees and fruit. After that time the land may be seeded down and occasionally farmed and manured sufficiently to keep the land in a fertile condition. Better Work With Separator*. While the merits of the farm separator are quite generally understood, dairymen in many instances fail to properly appreciate that it is invariably applicable to their own individual conditions and that to every one separating cream from milk it offers a means of better and more satisfactory results. The advantages of the farm separator over the gravity system are too numerous to give a full or extended enumeration, but those o*! most importance are more perfect separation, greater value of skim milk, saving of time and labor, saving of ice and a better quality of butter. American Cultivator. * The Mo4en Pereheron. The modern Pereheron stands sixteen hands high and over, weighs from 1,700 to 2,200 pounds and is white, gray or black in color. He has an intelligent head of a type peculiar to the breed, rather small ears and eyes, short, strongly muscled neck; strong, well laid shoulders and chest; a plump, rotund body; strong back, heavy quarters and somewhat drooping croup. He usually is low down and blocky, on short, clean legs, devoid of feather, and has well shaped, sound hoofs. -A. S. Alexander in American Cultivator. Br«cdl*g Ewe Larthu. Old sheep men have long considered It a bad practice to breed ewe lambs so t£ey will lamb after they arrive at one year of age. They usually disappoint their owner, and they lose growth In consequence. The ewe should have her first lamb when she Is about two years old. At that time she has obtained her growth and is much more liable to do well. A flock of sheep is the best helper In keeping up the condition of land without extra expense. Sail Charcoal Per Hoc*. Hogs should be allowed free access to a mixture of charcoal and salt, more especially so from the time they are started on green corn and right through the feeding period until they are marketed. This Is a matter that Is recommended so much that its great importance is sometimes uot believed in by farmers. Tlils mixture seems to satisfy a craving thnt Is incidental to a corn ration. Above all don’t 1* afraid to give the liogs a little salt. The Scrub Mnlllon. * Too many scrub horses are raised. The long talked of colt crop that was to flood the market falls to materialize. For several seasons past this colt crop has been threatened. Imt the prognosticators are unable to make good. If all the horses now seeking market were' what buyers required, tlje crop would be worth far more money. The evil agent la the scrub stallion, and be ought to be retired.

REPUBLICAN POLITICS

Struggle For Supremacy Is Already Inaugurated. . , ■.* " 1 EOOSEVELT STILL IN THE MHO ■ 'V Ssesties of the Third Term WUI Agate fart to Be Decld ed—President Working to Control Convention Republican Factional Fight* Lend Comfort to Democrats. It is ratber early to talk about tbe nomination of a president, tvhicb will not take place until nearly two years hence, for many things may happen in that time. The good political general, however, keeps his eye on the future and prepares to upset the plans of his opponents, and a glance at the probable Bepnblican nominee is of Importance to Democrats everywhere. There are at least nine receptive Republican candidates for the presidential nomination—namely, Taft* Fairbanks, Cannon, Root, Foraker, Cummins, La Follette, Knox and Spooner. Shaw was a candidate, but by this time must see that the renomination of Cummins for governor of lowa over the Shaw protest has eliminated him from the contest. Tbe repeated official denials that President Roosevelt will be a candidate must not be taken too seriously, for, although good faith with other Republican candidates will require that the president keep his word, his notable ambition to perpetuate his policies will perhaps urge him to use the administration forces to that end. It is possible, of course, that events may force the Republican national convention to nominate Mr. Roosevelt for a third term in spite of bis protest and he may consent to run, as he did for vice president in 1900, althougb-he had explicitly pledged numerous politicians that “he would not under any circumstances be a candidate” for tbe vice presidency. General Grosvenor, who was writing letters on the spot from Philadelphia in 1900 to & New York newspaper, said, "If he is nominated it will very soon be understood that tbe game has been one in which he himself has participated, either as an organizer or as consenting to the performance.” And Grosvenor added, “It will be said of him either that he is a dishonest man or else that he did not want the place.* Mr. Roosevelt accepted the vice presidential nomination and he may accept a third term; in fact he may now be working to that end. In the event that Mr. Roosevelt discovers that a third term would be unpopular he will at least want to perpetuate bis policies. Under those circumstances the two administration candidates are Taft and Root, and as the latter has a record that will not bear the intense inspection that always accompanies the candidature for president it would appear that Taft would then be tbe candidate pushed to the front by the administration. The reformers. La Follette and Cummins, are either through Jealousy or from being too strongly opposed to the railroads not acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt, judging from the fact that be has allowed the federal officials to oppose them. The other Republican candidates— Fairbanks, Cannon, Foraker, Knox and Spooner—are not in sympathy with the president's policies, and their chances for the nomination are handicapped by their well known corporation sympathies or either past or present retention as trust attorneys. The Repubiicau nomination for president, therefore, depends upon which of the two groups—the ins or the outs —can control the convention, and a desperate struggle for supremacy is already inaugurated. Tbe administration, with its patronage and horde of officials in every state, has a vast leverage to raise the necessary majority, and that the lever will be openly or secretly worked by the president is the general belief of Republican politicians. The Democrats can watch the Republican factional fight with Interest, knowing that, however It terminates, there will be sore spots that will work to their advantage.

Falling Prices of Farm Products.

The price of wheat and oats is still falling, and yet these cerealß are protected by the tariff, with 25 cents a bushel on wheat and 15 cents a bushel on oats. Hqw does the tariff protect the farmer when the price of his products is not increased thereby or even made stable and the cost of everything he buys is vastly Increased by the trusts and combines, which are fo# tered and protected by the tariff? Will tbe farmers vote to stand pat at the coming election, when they elect congressmen and members of tbe legislature who will elect senators? To vote for Republicans means to continue the tariff plundering; to vote for Democrats means tariff revision.

To Fight Speaker Cannon.

The labor leaders are determined to attack Speaker Cannon in bis own district, and they will have the hearty co-operation of the Democrats of Illinois. It is about time that the Republican congressional stand pat machine was broken up. Grosvenor has been retired and Dalzeil’s days are numbered if tbe people of Pittsburg vote as they talk.

Tired of Show.

The discussion in tbe lowa Republican newspapers of why Secretary Shaw was hissed at the late Republican convention can hardly lead to any conclusion other than the fact that a majority of the delegates to the convention are sick and tired of bia machine politics and his absurd platitudes about tbe sacred tariff.

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Head vs Philippine Government. General James F. Smith, who succeeds Henry C. Ide as governor general of the Philippines, has had eight years’ experience in the islands as soldier, jurist and administrator of the civil government He wen| to the Philippine* with the first expedition dispatched from this country as colonel of the First California volunteers. After having taken an active part in the campaign, both before and after the surrender of Manila, he was appointed civil governor of the island of Negros. Here be showed marked executive ability in managing affairs, and was promoted to be brigadier gen-

JAMES F. SMITH.

eral of volunteers. Later be was collector of customs at Manila, and fi* 1901 was elevated to the insular supreme bench. ! He became vice governor general of the Philippines when Mr. Ide succeeded Luke E. Weight as head of the civil government. Governor General Smith is a native of California and is forty-seven years old. He is a prominent Catholic and accompanied William H. Taft to Rome when the latter visited the pope in relation to friars’ lands in tbe Philippines. Before going to the far east General Smite was a lawyer of prominence in San ,Francisco, and under Cleveland’s administration was deputy collector of that port. He is much respected by the Filipinos and is a firm believer in their future* under proper educational and industrial opportunities. . A Wlie Lawyer. Former Senator John M. Thurston of Nebraska, wbo was representing tee defense in a recent trial in one of the local courts, arose the other day to reply to the argument of .counsel for the government on a point of law. In deliberate and impressive fanner the attorney began a forceful presentation to tbe court. Before he had fairly launched his counter attack, however, he was Interrupted by the presiding justice, who said that was about to decide the question in favor of Senator Thurston. “In that case,” remarked Mr. resuming his seat at once, “I will make no speech to the court for fear of changing your honor’s opinion.” W«t«on of Indiana. Congressman James E. Watson of tee Sixth Indiana district, who recently was the recipient of a letter from President Roosevelt that is regarded as the opening gun of the congressional campaign, is serving his fifth term in the national house of representatives. Mr. Watson bears the distinction of being the man who first defeated “Watch Dog of the Treasury” Holman.

JAMES E. WATSON.

who for years was the great ‘‘objector” in the lower house of congress. Since Mr. Watson succeeded to the poift of party whip his work has been cut out for him, but the opinion is general that he haa made good in that arduous position. He Is tall, of medium build, with smooth face and! clear cut features, Indicating intelligence and per ception. He has a fine voice, a ready flow of language and la by nature somewhat of an orator. By profession Mr. Watson is a lawyer. A RevolatlonJFr Rrllr. Senator Bard of California was once conversing with a Jesuit brother at the Georgetown university, when he told this story illustrative of the fine humor of Archbishop Byan of Philadelphia: The archbishop had rebuked a priest for wearing a most disreputable looking tyit. “I would nob give this hat for twenty new ones,” said the priest. “It belonged to my father, who fell In the rising of ’^B.” “Ah," was Archbishop Ryan's retort, “evidently he fell on the batr

DEAR GEESE GET WISE

Discover That Protected Manufacturers Pluck Them. BREAKDOWN IN SILK INDUBTBY The Effort to Produce Cheap Goods Induce* Adulteration The American Woman Interested lu Tariff Reduction Her Luxuries Limited by Increased Cost of Necessities. The silk industry is not prospering iu spite of tariff duties on manufactured silk of 50 to 221.27 per cent Raw silk 4s free of duty, so there Is nothing lu the way of free raw materials. It appears that tee protected silk manufacturers have killed the goose, the great American woman goose, Who has heretofore laid the golden eggs for the benefit of the silk and other protected people. The anxiety of these dear geese of ours for tee bargain counter has Induced manufacturers to sacrifice quality aud to adulterate the silk to meet the demand for cheapness. The lovely geese, however, who easily bite the first time and often the second time at what Is on the face of it a great bargain, have at last discovered that forty-nine cent silk will not wear like that they used to pay 89 cents for, and therefore most of them no longer buy It. So cheap silk naturally went out of fashion, with the result that the manufacturers, the jobbers and many department stores are overstocked with shoddy silk goods which the wise geese refuse to lay down their golden eggs or their equivalent currency for. - There will still be a lot of these cheap silk dress goods sold, but most of them are dear at any price, for they do not wear or even look as good as wool or cotton fabrics at an equivalent price, which out dear geese have discovered to their cost. Now for the political side of the breakdown of a highly protected industry, aud this the dear geese who skirmish for bargains should carefully note. The enormous tariff rates, which allow our silk manufacturers to virtually control the home market because foreign manufacturers could not pay the tariff duties, which op the average are nearly as great as the original cost, has led to overproduction, and many of the smaller manufacturers have “gone under” in the keen competition to sell at any price. The surplus stock cannot be dumped In foreign markets, for the geese there appear to be wiser than those here and refuse to buy American silk of poor quality when they can get better goods at less price, for they have no such exorbitant tariff to force up prices and the competition of French and English manufacturers regulate prices to a reasonable basis and the cheap Japanese and China silks also compete. In this country such goods-must pay from 50 to 200 per cent duty, so of course but little is imported except of such quality and class as the American manufacturer does not make. There was, however, $31,822,055 of silk manufactures imported last year, and upon that there was $17,010,130 paid in tariff duties. There was also $01,054,830 of raw silk imported, upon which no duty was paid, but when this raw silk had been manufactured into dress gqods the price it was Bold to these dear geese of ours had increased to nearly $200,000,000, and at least $30,000,000 was extra profit on account of the tariff protection to the silk manufacturers. If we knew how many and how much each dear goose had purchased we could figure just how much tbe tariff on silk had cost her. It is safe to say, however, that on every dress piece of .imported silk more than half that is paid is tariff duty and on the cheap home manufactured silk uearly the same increased price is due to protection. In the present struggle to market their overstock this tariff profit is no doubt being disregarded, but when the surplus has been forced off at bargain prices aud tbe silk trade resumes its normal condition tbe manufacturers will resume their large profits anil those who were able to weather the storm will make up for losses now being encountered. This silk tariff is but one of the ways that the American woman is taxed bj* the tariff, and this only on an article of luxury, but nearly all necessities a rtf likewise taxed, and tee protected man ufacturers get increased profits, with but a small percentage going to Uncle Sam. No one knows better than the Amer lean housewife that the cost of living has advanced 48 per cent since 1897, when the present tariff law went into effect, and this great increase in the price of necessities cramps the amount that can be expended for luxuries of which silk is but one item. When the tariff is revised so that the enormous protection to trusts, combines and manufacturers is reduced or eliminated, while still retaining enough tariff duties to support the government, then the’ American woman will have more left to spend Tor gopd quality clothes instead of wearing herself out hunting bargains that are usually shoddy. ,

In Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania reformers, the Lincoln party and the Democrats have demanded of President Roosevelt that he keep his bands off and let them fight the Republican machine to a finish. If the president wants to help Penrose and the Republican ring let him take a hand. It is Time the people should find out Just where ho stands. • The workingmen of the country have at last discovered that the G. O. P. and Its tariff do not protect them, but have added to their burdens.

KITCHEN CABINETS f *• P - "•OOUMLL « SOM V CAU A.JSTD SEE THEM jKT jS ill' Finiiii it awi suit | RENSSELAER, INDIANA. i STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER, IND., SEPT. 4. 1906. KKSOUBCES. LIABILITIES. Loans $278,312 02 Capital Stock $30.000 00 U. S. aud County Bonds .. 15,900 00 Surplus and Profits 19,512:10 Bank Building 8,000 00 Circulating: Notes 7.500 00 Cash and due from banks 112,199 53 Deposits 357,399 25 $114,411 55 $414,411 55 DIRECTORS. A. PARKISON, JOHN M. WASSON. E. L. HOLLINQSWORTH, President. Vice-President. Cashier. JAMBS T. RANDLE, OEO. E. HURRAY. (on Ms o Mam i snare oi Tour Patronage is soiiciiea. IIBENSSELfIirLUMBERCaI (• “ U ~ (• (• (• •) •) (• (• 2 JC'VERYTHING in the 2 (• Building Material Line •) •) and at the Lowest Possible (di (0 Prices. Let us figure on your V bill before placing it elsewhere. \r — -i, ■— 2 •) (• (• •> •> <• <d» •) <| North oi Depot. t>i»>ihm no. 4. Rensselaer, Ind. | ; TELEPHONE. No. 58. ;► City | Everything in the Fuel and Feed I S Coal, I Line at the lowest pr ces. Corn, I f ; WOOd Hav and Oats bought at highest \ ► | FOOd market prices. A share of your J ► \ - patronage is solicited > Yard. ;> J. E. BISLOSKY ji Lll. Special #IOO Top Buggy I Just a vehicle which give, psrfos satisfaction; that’s wliat w# \ \\ build, using only tlrst-dnss materials and perfect flnish; every \ N\/| part warranted to be free from defects. Our years olexueiiMKW \ |\Y nave taught us how to litiUd a popular and substantial vehicle \ I / at the lowest cost, and the prices that wc ask do not carry any XI / proms lor the middlemen. Tills vehicle is trimmed in all wool body cloth, green or blue, brown or wine, puctedto nut Jiae woolfaced linyi wtthhSnvy rubber Twit. t«*k curtain! / \ \ elite eurtalna and storm apron, thousand /X \ ■ 1 Si mile axles, screwed rtm »heels, french X'JMHPPPPVRRHLi - \ tempersd Kllptlc springs, sanitary spring I 11 " J cushions and back, and is usually sold in I I *? I the dealer’s market at double this price. If Ohio. W s secure the lowest possible freight tales far cm customers. Catalogues tenL sad freight rales quoted upon application. tfsf»i ■asset First Itstlmsl Bank, Middletown. Hit MtulictanTby TIE LM I ItliWU BUM! CO., Middlelewn. Otis.