Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — Page 2

A Hair Dressing Nearly every one likes a fine hair dressing. Something to make the hair more manageable; to keep it from being too rough, or from splitting at the ends. Something, too, that will feed the hair at the same time, a regular hair-food. Well-fedhairwill be strong,and will remain where it belongs — on the head, not on the combi The beet kind of a testimonial “Soid tor over sixty years.” O. Ay«r 00., Low«ll, UaM. JM Also manufacturer, of /1 f SARSAPARILLA. flyers CHERRY PECTOBAL. |

m COORTY DEMOGRIT. f I.BIBCOCI. EDITOR lID PDBLISBER. Official Democratic Paper es Jaapar County. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind as second class matter. Offlea an Van Rensselaer Street, teas Oiaraaos Tsas»MO«se 1 Ornos *!• < Rssidsmos ail. SI.OO peA year, in advance. Advertising rates made known on application SATURDAY, AUGUST 24,1907.

Dr. A. R. Tucker of Noblesville, who bus been prominent in Grand Army circles in Indiana for many years, has announced his candidacy for Congress against Charles B. Landis. He made one race 10 years ago. Congressman Landis will seek the re->nomination and Harry Sheridan, of Frankfort, became a candidate a few weeks ago, making three in the raoe.

BURDENSOME PRICES.

A long-suffering-father, who has to provide shoes for twenty feet, writes thus: Will you please hammer away at the trusts that control the staples—meat, sugar, salt, coal, oil, etc? Let’s have unfettered competition in these at least, so that they shall get to the people at the smallest cost. I foot the bills for twenty feet, and so I observe how the leather trust will not let prices go down. And he refers to a Dun report, in which is the following: The feature has been the relatively better demand tor high-grade shoes, and all quotations are well maintained. Little improvement is noted in the demand for leather, but prices are sustained by the curtailmeut of production which has prevented accumulation, and tanners are confident that shoe shops can not defer action much longer. * * * A little increase is noted in the sale of hides, but the leading tanning interests stilt delay operations. While it is probable that a large order might baye obtained special prices, the small business of the week was transacted at former figures. We fear our friend does not understand the situation. There would be no sense in maintaining high prices for articles that nobody wants, or that few people want. If mouey is to be made, it must be out of necessities. This is recognized by our Government, which imposes monopoly duties on leather, wool and woolens, cotton goods, iron and steel, glass, tinplate, hides and leather, cattle, sugar, salt, oil, etc. Most of us have to have shoes, and so a duty of 25 per cent is levied on them. It is so with other things. The wage cost of manufacturing woolen goods is less than 20 percent of the total value of the product. The duty is supposed to compensate for the difference between the wage cost here and that abroad. A duty of 20 per cent would not only do that, but would pay the entire wage bill. Yet we maintain tariff taxes on woolens which ran from 80 and 100 per cent np. The “protection”—graft—thus is at least five times the total wage cost. This, of course, is because woolen clothes are necessities, Oil is another necessity, so we proteot the Standard Oil Company by a duty which is probably more than 100 per cent. Another difficulty which our correspondent ignores is that the President has told ns that there is no connection whatever between tariff duties and trusts. The two thingß, he has said, must be considered apart. And they are being so considered. Meanwhile we are attacking and “dissolving” trusts, and leaving

prices just as they were- As we have shown the pries of paper has ftdvanoed heavily since the paper trust was "dissolved.” The President apparently baa no quarrel with high prices, but only with tbs railroads and trusts. This is a faot of some importance. Another fact ia that the Republican leaders including the President, have decided that the tariff shall not be touched for some two or three years. There is to be no revision till after the presidential election. We ere glad to “hammer away at the trusts that control the staples,” and are specially glad that many others are engaged in tbe same ocoupation. Possibly the hammering may produce results after a time. But surely our friend who has to pay monopoly prices for shoes to cover twenty feet must understand that high prices are a blessing to a poor man—and that tbe Dingley tariff is the perfection of human wisdom, if not the product of divine inspiration.

Senator Foraker is at the present time beginning a formidable campaign in behalf of the tariff as it is. And there are other distinguished statesmen like Mr, Cannon who think that we should “let well enough alone.” The trouble with our friend is that he does not know when he is well off — does not know what "well enough” means. Let him think of |the vast earnings of the Standard Oil Company, of the wopderful showing lately made by the steel trust, of the great profits in the sugar business, and of the money there is in the beef business for somebody—and then let him reflect. Would he, simply that he might buy staples at a lower price, attack the whole principle of our tariff legislation, which is that necessaries should be highly taxed in order that the sellers of them may get high prices? Would he be bo rash as that?—lndianapolis News (Ind. Republican.)

FROM THE INDIANA SOIL.

Dlstlntive Hoosier Exhibits Will Be Shown at State Fair. At the Indiana State Fair, which opens at Indianapolis on September 9, the big exposition of agricultural products will be more distinctively a display of Hoosier examples of the soil than in any year since tbe fair was organized. The premium list for these products is extensive and with the exception of the corn show, the competition will be confined to Indiana growers. The premiums to be awarded on grain and seeds amounts to $437; vegetables, $217; potatoes, $116; root crops, $lO3. In the corn show, in which Indiana growers always fare well in the distribution of prizes, the awards amount to nearly S3OO. A feature of this department of the fair will be an elaborate display of about everything produced in Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Texis. One of the railroads of tbe southwest has, this summer, sent a special car through these states gathering up samples of farm products, especially in the horticultural line, and the exhibit will be at the Indiana Fair during the full five days. This display will not compete for prizes, but will be shown in the horticultural building, where the best growers of Indiana will hold their usual keen competition for ribbons. Tbe awards on fruits at the coming fair will amount to $735,

THE BACHELOR’S WAIL. These ntgtjtrare mighty hard oh :me. I have to entertain all day A lot of married men who’re free, Because their wives have gone away. And married men who’re left alone Ate worse than single men. by far; At least the ones that 1 have known. Have proved conclusively they are. A single man will homeward go At 1 a. m. or even 3; But when a man’s wife cannot know, A decent hour will uever do. He will not let yqp catch your car; He thinks with him you ought to stay The worst of night hawks really are] The men whose wives haye |:one away. All autumn and all winter through, He stays at home at night to read; But when he’s bid his wife adieu And for the summer he is freed, He turns unto his single friends, And keeps them out til break of day; | With him the evening never ends. At least while wifey is away. The summer may be full of theer, For many; but all single men Will gladly see it disappear, When they can settle down again. This single blessedness, I swear. Hat many joys in glad array; But, oh I bid you to beware Of married men with wives away, —Deteoit Free Press.

For Rent— Two farms, 320 acres each, three miles south of Kuiman, to some one who haß 2 or 3 teams and a large family; must be able to put in 50 acres of rye the fall. Address Mark Ott, Kniman, Ind., or Warren Springer, 197 8. Canal st., Chicago, 111.

With Tessa As Proxy.

By JEROME SPRAGUE

Copyrighted, 1907, by Homer Sprague,

“Tessa,” said Miss Mason, with decision, “you are not making that lied properly.” ... T essa, tucking In the sheet of the doll’s bed, raised limpid. Inquiring eyes. “I told you I wanted hospital corners.” Tessa wavered, curled a small red lip and overflowed. "Don’t cry—oh, Tessa, don’t cry!” Miss Mason expostulated as the small pink, aproned atom flung herself at full length on the floor. ¥ Tessa did not move. “Well, I shall have to let Mary Brannlgan do it,” said Miss Mason. Mary Brannlgan and Tessa Votoldl being sworn rivals In tbe affections of the settlement teacher, tbe small Ital lan raised a calculating eye. Mary, every red curl bobbing, every freckle radiant, already had hold of one comer of the Infinitesimal sheet. Then Mary pulled and Tessa pulled. "Perhaps you’d better let Tessa finish It, Mary,” said the teacher weakly, Mary blazed wrathfully. “Aw, she don't know bow!” “Oh, well,” Miss Mason sighed, “see If you can make it, Mary. Tessa can watch you and tell you If you don’t do It properly.” Tessa, sobbing a soft accompaniment to Mary’s bedmaking, squealed suddenly: “She’s gotta the hem out-a side.” “Oh, Mary,” said Miss Mason reproachfully, “I thought you could do It" “An’ I can," said Mary, “but *1 won’t,” and straightway, like a small fury, she tore the bed to pieces and flung the mattress on the floor. The twenty small girls of the little housekeepers’ class looked at the teach er with expectant eyes. “Oh, Mary!” quavered Miss Mason. She felt unequal to discipline. It was

“I LOVE-A YOU," SHE MURMURED FERVENTLY.

very hot, and the room was close, and the children had been restless and fussy all the morning. —» “Oh, Mary,” she quavered again as a young man In a panama hat and round clerical collar poked his head In at the window. “Can't you and the little girls come over and have lunch with my boys In the parish office?” he asked. A sigh of blissful anticipation issued from twenty throats. “They have been so naughty!” Miss Mason hesitated. “I don't know whether I should let them.” Twenty pairs of eyes reproached her, and the young rector said, “No one ought to be naughty on such a day.” “Well, if you will promise to be very good,” Miss Mason finally decided. And, like lion and lamb. Tessa and Maty led a decorous procession. The young rector’s class in woodcaning were having sandwiches and cake and lemonade, provided by the ladies of the parish. There was a big pitcher of lemonade, and the ice tinkled deliciously as the biggest boy filled twenty glasses for the twenty little girls. The young rector, beaming with enthusiasm, sat down beside the little settlement teacher. “It’s lovely work. Miss Mason,” he said. Marlon shook her head. “Oh, no, It Isn’t,” she said; ‘it’s horrid. They are so ungrateful. I wish I was out on a hotel porch In my best linen frock, with my hair marcelled and with the waves beating a soothing accompaniment to the conversation of some intelligent masculine.” With a twinkle in bis eye, the young rector asked, “Can’t I Masquerade as an Intelligent masculine?” “Oh,” Miss Mason conceded, “yon might. But I’m not dressed for the part. Shirt waists and serge skirts and jtan shoes, and dusty ones at that”— khe poked out a small- foot In a shabby Bhoe—“are not the attire of attractiveness. We planted Vegetables in the school garden all the morning—beans and things—ufatil we were grubby." “I don’t believe you would be really happy on that hotel porch,” the young rector as he sat on the edge of his desk and looked down at her. “I should! I want to be care free and frivolous—and to forget the problems of the suffering and the sole

merged people. I want to go where every one ia clean and the air ia pore and where I can breathe.” As she caught her breath abarply be bent over her with a sudden tender light In hla eyes. * ’ '*

"Poor little woman!” he murmured. , “Don’t pity me,” Miss Mason said, with flaming cheeks, “but i do like pretty things. Why, lam a different creature in my pink dimity. You’ve never seen me In It, have you?” He smiled down at her Indulgently. “No,” he said slowly, “but I saw you once In an old white linen that had been torn and trampled, and you held in your arms ,a little child that you had saved—and you were beautiful”— “Oh, that was Tessa,” Miss Mason •aid quickly, “the morning the fire engine horses ran aw r ay. It was a wonder wp weren’t both killed.” “I saw you for the first time, and I knew then that I had found what I had been looking for all my life." Her startled eyes read the meaning in his. “Oh, no, no,” she protested, “I am not good enough. I am vain and frivolous—and I long for the fleshpots,” He went on steadily. “I have seen you since then every day teaching your little girls to be tidy and sweet and good, and i have wondered at your bravery—when you might be in luxury, cool and comfortable.” “So might you,” she reminded him. “How many men of your talent and Influence would have chosen a downtown church?” “Oh, that,” he put It away lightly, “I like it, and I am a man—but not many women would do It.” “Don’t,” she said tremulously; “don’t praise me.” And she rose and went to meet Tessa, who was coming toward her, sobbing. “Oh, Tessa! Crying again?” It was discovered after some questioning that Tessa’s conscience was hurting her. She was sorry, she whispered, that she had been bad. “Poor baby!” Miss Mason crooned as she gathered the small culprit In her arms. “Dear heart!” And the wet cheek lay against her own. As thfcy sat In the alcove the stained glass window of the parish office made a background of sapphire light, against which Miss Mason’s fair hair shone like a halo. Tessa, smiling and forgiven, lay with her limpid eyes shut The rector, still seated on the comer of his desk, looked at the pair with thoughtful eyes. “Do you really think you would be happy on the hotel porch?” he probed. “It would be cool,” Miss Mason said wistfully, “but I should miss the love,” and her eyes went toward the children playing peacefully at the end of the room. “Whose love?’ he asked boldly. Tessa’s eyes opened sleepily. “I love-a yon!” she murmured fervently. Tbe eyes of the rector held the eyes of the little teacher masterfully. “You say it like that!” he commanded. “Oh, I—l can’t,” she breathed, all pink and white and tremulous, “but Tessa shall be—my proxy!”

About Strawberries.

Many persons have wondered how strawberries got their name- They have been so called by Anglo-Saxon people for hundreds of years, but no corresponding name for them appears In other languages. On the contrary, their, fragrance mainly is set forth in the names by which they are called In non-English speaking lands. The old Anglo-Saxon form -was “streawberige.” It seems probable that the “straw” is the long stem of the vine, which rnns along the ground. Some have thought, however, that in ancient times the Anglo-Saxon berry hunters brought the berries home or sent them to market upon straws. The explanation that the word Is a corruption of “strayberry,” due to the running habit of strawberry vines, Is believed to be erroneous as well as that which would derive the name from the habit of placing- straw among the plants to keep the berries off the ground. Coronets of dukes are adorned with strawberry leaves, though authorities on heraldry insist that they are not strawberry leaves at all, but merely conventional leaves which popular fancy has turned into the foliage of the favorite berry. However, strawberry leaves are actually borne by the house of Fraser of Lovat as a punning allusion to the family name, since “fralses” Is French for strawberries.

“Joking."

When Richard le Gallienne first visited this country he was introduced at one of the clubs to a gentleman who delights in elaborate funmaking and does it all with an Intensely sober face. After the first formalities were over the humorist asked the poet abruptly: "Well, Mr. le Gallienne, how is the poetry business?" Mr. le Gallienne surveyed the face of his questioner and, seeing nothing In the countenance to enlighten him, replied, with dignified seriousness: "I should hardly speak of poetry as a business." “Why not?” said his interlocutor. “The grocer soils groceries, the merchant dry goods and you sell rhymed Stuff. Thd market rates you obtain vary with conditions and the quality of the article offered for sale. The grocer is complimented when inquiry Is 'made as to the conditions of the grocery trade. Why not the poet when asked about his business—his sonnets, lyrics, ballads and other forms, which are often sold at a ruinous sacrifice?** Mr. le Gallienne stared, still perplexed at this harangue, when the half suppressed laugh of the listeners cleared the air and the humorist himself smiled. The poet woke up and said, with an air of great relief: “Oh, I see; you are joking!”—Jufge.

CLARA A. PETERS EVES TESTED E-KEE.

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