Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1907 — Page 2

gsk Your wn Doctor If he tells you to take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral for your severe cough or bronchial* trouble, then take it. If he has I anything better, then take that. We have great confidence in this medicine. So will you,* when you once know it. The best kind of a testimonial—- “ Sold for over sixty years.” A UsdebyJ. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. Jm Also manufacturers of JmM 9 SARSAPARILLA. / JiljerS HAIR S VIGOR. * We have no aeeretsl We publish the formula* of all our medicines. Keep the bowels open with one of Ayer’s Pills at bedtime, Just one.

JASPER coir DM u. bibcock, mm lie imian, SI.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Loan Oieni.ce Ti.i.ho.ii j Ornoa *'• ( SiaiOBNCB. Stl. Offiolsl Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Entered at the Post-oflice at Rensselaer, lud as second olass matter. Offlea on Van Ranasetaar Street, SATURDAY, MARCH lt», 1907.

Republican papers and Republican politicians say that the late session of congress was “efficient,” Well, what did it do? From December to March it devoted its time to salary grab measures, subsidy grafts and to the expenditure of a billion dollars of the public money. ' Seven Republican congressmen from Indiana voted for the ship subsidy steal. The two Indiana senators, Beveridge and Hernenway, voted for it, The ship subsidy proposition is merely a new form of thievery. It would have been passed if it had not been for the solid Democratic opposition. And even then it was only by holding the senate floor and talking against time that the steal was prevented. Some time ago the justly famed Abe Martin remarked that the militia ought to be called out to disperse the Legislature. At the conclusion of the session Abe made the following sage and truthful observation: If any plain people hev been benefitted by th’ two thousand-dollar-a-day Sixty-Fifth General Assembly, it must o’ been thet apple woman thet sets by th’ elevator in th’ State House.’’

The people of Indiana should romembor these names: James E Watson, Jesse Overstreet, Edgar D. Crumpacker, James Foster, John C. Chaney, George Cromer, Abraham Lincoln Brick. They are the names of Republican congressmen from Indiana and they all voted for the attempted ship subsidy graft. This graft consisted in taking money out oi the public treasury and giving it to the ship trust. Every one of the above named men knew that the people of this State and of all the other states were opposed to the proposition. Every one of them and every other man who voted for this iniquity is unfit to be a member of the American Congress.

The legislature whioh has just expired commanded the services of the following Republicans: One governor, one lieutenant governor, one speaker, fifty-three representatives, thirty-seven senators, one secretary and assistant secretary of the Senate, one sergeant-at-arms and one assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Senate, one clerk and one assistant clerk of the House, 125 subordinate clerks, doorkeepers, stenographers, janitors, a total of 223. Assisting were all the committees of both House and Senate, each with a Republican ohairman. Further assisting the above aggregation were three

Republican daily newspapers published in Indianapolis. To oppose the above force was a little but valiant company of fortyseven Democratic representatives tatives and thirteen Democratic senators —a total of sixty. It is easy to see where the responsibility for the miserable failures of the session must be placed.

A BILLION SPENT IN THREE MONTHS.

The Fifty-ninth congress is d-ad, but the evil it did lives after it. It was the "Two Billion Dollfti ” congress. It spent approximutely that much of the people’s money. The last session, beginning Dec. 3 and ending March 4 a brief period of three months — appropriated $919,948,679 for the fiscal year 1908. This is an increase of $40,359,494 over the appropriations made for the current fiscal year and $57,266,192 over the appropriations for the fiscal year 1899, made at the first regular session of the Fifty-fifth congress*, which covered substantially the entire expenses of the military and naval establishments on account of the war with Spain. But it appears from a statement prepared by Congressman Livingston, the ranking Democratic member of the house appropriations committee, that the expendi- j tures for 1908 will be $75,000 greater than the above figures show and that there will be a great deficit. Mr. Livingston says: "Enormous as are these appropriations for the next fiscal year, there should be added to them the further sums of $25,000,000 on account of contracts authorized in the naval bill for additional warships and for which no sums whatever are yet appropriated, and the sum of $49,829,349 for contracts authorized in the river and harbor appropriation bill, in addition to the appropriations made in that act. These sums, added to the total apparent appropriations of the session, make the tremendous sum of $994,778,028.63, carried either in direct appropriations or authorizations at this session of congress, establishing a new record for federal appropriations approaching the prodigious sum of $1,000,000,000 for a single session of congress. “The highest estimates placed on the probable revenues of the government from all sources during the coming fiscal year indicate that they will be at least $100,000,000 below the appropriations and authorizations for expenditures chargeable to the session of congress just closing. “The increase for the army over last year is #6,718,117.67. Increase for the navy over last year, $21,367,000, with the authorization for two new ships. Increases for fortifications, $1,844,000. Increase for pensions, $5,691,000. If thiß military spirit and extravagance is to continue, the ways and means committee had better get busy and provide a large increase in the revenues.’’

COSTS NOTHING UNLESS CURED.

Liberal Way in Which ni-o-na Stom. Tablets are Sold by B. P. Fendig. If a friend should tell you that he would pay the doctor’s bill for you unless you were cured, would it not impress you with his physician’s skill? It is in this way that B. F. Fendig sells Mi-o-na stomach tablets, for he guarantees to refund the money if Miona does not cure. Use Mi-o-na stomach tablets if you have any of the following symptoms: backache, headache, sleeplessness, nausea, distress after eating, speck before the eyes, despondency, nervousness, loss of appetite, dizziness, pains in the side and limbs, or gulping up of undigested food, and you will soon be cured and able to eat a hearty meal without fear of pain or distress. Mi-o-na costs but 60c a box. nothing if it does not cure. B, F, Fendig is the local distributor. Every day is red letter day at our Btore as we give you better goods for less money than any other firms in our city. Duvall & Lundy.

BUY A FARM AND STOP PAYING RENT.

I have listed for sale 25000 acres of choice farming land in Jasper county for cash or on terms to suit purchaser. T. M. Callahan, Newland, Ind.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and Oeneral Gossip of the National Capital. m Special Correspondence to The Democrat. Every southern state will, be interested in the decision rendered last week by the Department of Justice anent the North Carolina immigration case. It will be remembered that recently the state appropriated a considerable amount of money to which was added more by private subrcrip tion, and the state Commissioner of immigration was sent abroad, bringing back a whole shipload of immigrants who were landed at Charleston instead of at some northern port and were promptly welcomed and employed as soon as they landed. There was some question at the time whether the state had not violated the alien contract labor law in bringing the immigrants to this country, for the passage of most of them was prepaid. The case was referred to the Department of Justice at the time and it decided that under the law an individual state could do what a private employer could not do, in the way of assisting foreign immigrants to its borders. But under the new law, a decision has been rendered that cuts off part of the state’s privilege. The department decided last week that a state might spend money in advertising abroad and might do what it wanted in drumming up immigrant traffic, but it could not pay the passage of aliens to this country as had been done in the North Carolina case. This will operate as something of a drawback in getting other shiploads of foreigners direct to the South, but it is not likely to stem the tide of immigration if it can be once induced to set that way.

Hearings were continued last week on what has been known as the “car stake case” before the interstate Commerce Commission. The railroads all over the country have been transporting much of the billions of feet of lumber carried annually on flat ears, and to do this it has been necessary to place stakes along the sides of the cars to keep the lumber in place, The railroads have forced the shippers to thus equip the cars in accordance with the rules of the Master Car Builders Association. It seems like a little matter, the cpst of equipping a car being only $4. But in the aggregate it costs the lumbermen of the country about $6,000,000 a year. They claim that there should be properly equipped cars with permanent stakes furnished by the railroad companies and a number of iron stakes, folding stakes, *and the like have been patented. The lumbermen claim that some of these will serve the purpose, but the railroads insist that the problem has not yet been solved, and that it remains for some inventive genius to perfect a stake that will answer the call when a flat car is loaded with lumber and will be out of the way when the car is wanted for something else. The commission has taken the case under advisement, and it' has not yet been decided who shall foot the bill for equipping the cars.

Ambassador Bryce called on Secretary Root last week and went over with him the general situation between Great Britain and this country where there are still a number of rough edges to be smoothed by diplomacy. Some of the most pressing things however are the matters between this country and Canada, the Great Lakes Fisheries, the reciprocal tariff, and the New Foundland Shore question. These matters it is understood were not touched on in the conference, and will be allowed to go over till the approaching visit of the new ambassador, to Earl Grey in Canada, when the wishes of the Canadian government can be expressed and the ambassador can come back to Washington with a clear notion of what basis of settlement will be acceptable to Great Britain’s most important colony. t t t One of the last things that Congress failed to do was to include in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill any money for continuing the work of black sand investigation that the Geological survey has had on hand for some years. This has proved a most important work in the west, and arrangements had been made to bring the bulk of the apparatus east and establish part of it at the Jamestown Exposition, and the rest at Chapel Hill, N. C., where the same work was to be done for the eastern states that had already been done for the west. The students of the state university at Chapel Hill were to have done much of the actual work under the direction of 1 the scientists of the Burvey, and

THE 99 CENT RACKET STORE A SQUARE DEAL FOR EVERYRODY. WSjfHAT is the policy that has built up our government of to-day. That policy is good enough for us—we believe in a square deal to everybody, and we believe that it has been the building up principally, of the 99-Cent Racket Store of to-day. All we ask is a square deal, the same we tr)’ to give to everybody. This is our Seventh Year in business in Rensselaer, and if you are not a customer of ours, it is high time that you jumped into the Band Wagon and become one of the many satisfied customers which we now have. You will find something new here all the time. Bargains which it will be impossible for us to quote on paper—Close Outs, Odds and Ends of this and that article at less than manufacturer's'prices. Come in, be up-to-date, hear the Merry Music of our Clerks wrapping up packages, and take notice how we do the business. You will “Get a Square Deal.” •

Our Shoe Deparfm't Hn 'Ve shull cull your special I ■ youths', boys’ and ehiiattention to. We cnrry us dren’s and have them at large a stock of shoes as f** least from 15 to 25 percent any dealer in the city, und ~cheaper than most dealers, we guaarantee our shoes tc te V. rvAlMorUnU, us a cull, let us exgive entire satisfaction, oi * firFMT the merits of our we will see that you get '< MUtm I . goods; try themt see how squuredeal if you buy them they compare with the back .milt.. l, >ou an Shoe Co., largest inanu- 1* g aTTijBBBW dissatisfied with. You will fucturers of shoes in the 11*1 ~ bless the day that welcomes world, is back of us, you a Pair of Hamilton-Brown know what that means. T * AM “*"* shoes to your feet. Tom Murray, the great Chicago merchant, handles these shoes, which shows he knows a good thiag when he sees it in leather.

OUR SPRING GOODS are arriving daily, we have added four new stock patterns in English semi porcelain, the finest dinner ware in the world, and you can buy one piece or 100 as you wish. Beautitu! patterns to select from; let us sell you those dishes when you start up housekeeping. EMBROIDERY, LACES, ALLOVERS. as fine a line as you will find in a city of 20.G00. RIBBONS AND LACE COLLARS, fancy Neckwear, Jewelry, Rings, Waist Sets, Buckles. Belts —we handle iu large quantities. LADIES'SKIRTS, Wrappers, Suubonnets, Underwear, Hosiery, A tine line.

Save the tickets you get with every purchase —they are valuable. When your purchases amount to $5. $lO, sls or $25 you can get lovely pictures, beautiful rugs, fine china, and hundreds of other premiums, which shows that it pays to trade with us. You not only get a “square deal” but a little besides when you trade with the 99 Cent Racket Store. E. V. RANSFORD, Rensselaer, Ind.

it is believed yet that an immense amount of good will be done this country all along the Appalachian range by furnishing a method whereby the gold deposits of low grade that undoubtedly exist all through the foot hills can be worked at a profit besides extracting many other rare and useful minerals at a minimum of expanse. As the case stands, however, the work will have to be done by the state of North Carolina, and residents of the other states in the south who want samples of mineral deposits examined will have to send them to the state university and pay the state for doing the work. t tt Just a little malicious fun was indulged in at the Navy department last week on the announcement of the release from active service of Jas'. B. Connolly, the literary friend of the President, who shipped two months ago as a yeoman on the battle ship Alabama to accumulate “local color” and do for the American navy in a literary way what Kipling has already done for the British Army. Mr. Connolly is a promising young author and has written some good sea stories, principally of the New England coast. This scheme of putting him in close touch with the navy and allowing him to write warship stories was well conceived. But the trouble was that it was heralded a little too much through the press, and the sailors "got next” before Mr. Connolly ever set foot on the deck of the Alabama. They resented being studied at dose range even by h high olass word painter, and they gave Mr. Connolly suoh a markedly oold welcome that he decided to end his cruise at the end of two months. How muoh begot in the way of material in that time is not known, but it is to be feared that it was not enough to send him echoing down the corridors of time as the Kipling of the Ameri-

can Navy. Real life studies such as Kipling was able to make of Tommy Atkins are usually the rel suit of a happy combination of accidental circumstances and are not brought about by premeditated official action, however well intended.

ALL KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.

In no business does experience count for more to both the dealer and the customer than in the implement business. Experience enables the dealer to know the value of goods. He can see at a glance whether they are artistio and will please a discriminating customer; in a word, whether they will satisfy buyers by giving first-class service. The same experience enables him to BUY RIGHT. Then he can SELL RIGHT. It is his larger experience, coupled with his thorough knowledge of the business, that has made C. A. Roberts, the Front street buggy man, so deservedly popular with the discriminating buyers of sightly vehicles. He served his time in a carnage shop way back in the 60s, when an apprentice had to know his business before be could begin work for himself. He put in seventeen years of his life building and repairing wagons and carriages, and can make every piece in them. He began to sell implements in 1882, and every customer gets the benefit of this long experience every time be shows an article. That is worth something, isn’t it? He sells Studebaker and Page Bros’. Carriages and Buggies, and there are no better, and he has some other makes and Btyles. Studebaker Wagons, he claims, there are none so good. SUCCESS Return Apron or Litchfield Endloss Apron MANURE SPREADERS. They are both all right. McCormick Binders and Mowers. YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, and Grain King Shoveling Boards, and there are more of

SHIRT WAISTS—We shall have a finer line of Ladles'Shirt Waists than ever before and at prices that will save you money. Beautiful, nobby, up-to-date patterns and styles, from 49 cents up. LACE CURTAINS, Portieres, Stand Covers, Dresser Scarfs, Bed Spreads, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels—ln great variety. HARNESS SUPPLIES, Hardware, Tinware, Woodenware. Enamelware, Cobbler Sets, devices. TOILET SOAPS, Toilet Papers, Lamp Chimneys, Mantles for Gasoline Lamps. • MEN'S PANTS, Overalls, Coats, Jumpers, Underwear, Hosiery,Shirts, Work uud Fancy in a great variety at prices from 49c up. TRUNKS, Suit Cases, Hand Bags—Everything needed for the traveler.

them sold than any other make. You are going to need some of these articles this year, and you will always regret it if you do not go and see Roberts and see his goods before you buy. Paste this in your hat so you won’t forget to go. He will do the rest when you land. Don’t forget the place on Front street and the name. C. A. Roberts, the Buggy Man.

Leave your order at Duvall & Lundy’s for a tailor made suit. Fob Exchange— Two hundred and forty acres in Michigan, near county seat; price sl2 per acre; clear. Will deal for equity in Indiana farm; will deal all or part and one first mortgage of S3OO and three lots in Illinois. Clara A. Martin, Milan, Ind. Four foot and block wood for sale in quantities to suit. ’Phone 524-D. C. H. Leavel.

Bad Breath. A well-known physidan, whc undoubtedly knows, declares that bad breath has broken off more matches than bad temper. § There are ardent lovers who must sometimes wish their sweethearts presented sweeter mouths to be kissed. Good teeth cannot prevent bad breath when the stomach is disordered. The best cure for bad breath is a cleansing out of the , body by use of Lane’s Family Medicine the tonic laxative. is a herb medicineT sold in 25c.«. and’soc. packages by druggists and it is saving more doctors Dills than any .other medicine, has )It “cures headache, backache, and skin diseases. *“