Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 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-fedhair will be strong,and will remain where it belongs—on the head, not on the combi The beet kind of a testimonial—- “ Sold for over sixty years.” 4 Msds by 3. 0. Ayr Oo„ Lowsll. Mess, yi Alfto Dumuhotunri of Mjk 9 SARSAPARILLA. liners CHERRY PECTORAL.

jispeb cooirr demit. f i. BIBCOCK. EDITOR UD WUSIH. Offlolal Demooratio Paper as Jaapar County. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind as second class matter. Offlee an Van Reneaei aar Street Seas OISTAMOB TtLBMONBI j OSSIOS lit. *I.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application SATURDAY, AUGUST 31,1907.

If mere talk about the enforcement of the law against criminal trusts causes such a hullaballoo in Wall street what would actual enforcement do? At last, after many years, all intelligent men are beginning to see clearly who the sacred Dingley tariff works for. It is not only the “hand-maiden,” but is the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and all the rest of it for the trust. The footpad warns the victim he robbing not to make a noise because he does not want to be disturbed. On precisely the same principle the trusts warn the people against saying anything about their wrongs for fear that they will cause a panic and interrupt the thievery. The Roosevelt Republican papers of the state are wanting the Hon. C. W. F airbanks to express some intelligible opinion on some public question. But the vicepresident won't do it. He is not that easy. He knows where he stands and so do his backers. And what business have the Roosevelt Republicans to pry into so private a matter, anyway. The harvester trust, the sewing machine trust, thewatuh trust and the other bloated "infants,” which the Republican tariff “protects” against outside competition, all ship their goods abroad and sell them cheaper to foreigners than they sell them at home. Having control of the American market they fix their own prices and levy such private tax on consumers as they see fit.

The telegraph companies have prospered. They have paid enormous dividends on their stock—most of which is water. But the telegraph companies did not let their employes share in their prosperity. They did not increase the wages or lessen the hours of service of the operators, and the operators, on account of the increased cost of living, found it hard-to get along. It is not any wonder, therefore, that the strike oatne.

As harmony and good feeling within the party are essential to a successful management of the campaign, the Democrats in eaoh district; knowing the time of aotion, should go about the selection of their state committeeman in a perfectly fair, open and businesslike way, in order that no man oan possibly have cause to complain of

the result. It is the duty of every Democrat to attend the primaries, and it is equally his duty to yield to the majority. An observance of these things will mean that the party will enter the next campaign absolutely free of internal strife and in the best possible shape to make an elbow-to-elbow assault on the enemy.

SHIVELY TO RUN FOR CONGRESS

It was announced Saturday from democratic headquarters at Indianapolis, that B. F. Shively of South Bend, will again make the race for congress. Mr. Shively ran for congress in 1906 and was defeated, but he had the satisfaction of knowing that as a statesman he had the endorsement of thousands of republicans who repudiated the corrupt machine of his opponent, whose majority was reduced at the ballot box from 7500 to 207, Mr. Shiveley’sfrienas are confident that he can win and the people who are desirous of making a change, will help him to victory. It’s a pretty hard matter for a man with a splendid record as a statesman to carry on a campaign against an opponent, whose political managers, according to their well understood and established custom, assess every post office in the district, several rural route carriers and offlee employes ten per cent, of a year’s salary for funds to make the candidate victorious. This money is collected by members of the several county organizations of the district and at the proper time is used to purchase the floating vote in which the carbon envelope proposition is used. This ‘‘system” is carried on in the 13th district and by these uninterrupted methods ‘.alone has the present congressman been able to hold his job against the protests of the people. That’s why Brick, who controls postoffice appointments, rural route jobs lV *nd office positions, wins. That’s why Shively, the people’s choice, loses. Line up with the bosses and help them manipulate their nefarious plans and they will ridicule your weakness. Repudiate their tactics by standing for decent politics and you are branded as a ‘‘sorehead” by the big chiefs who style themselves your superiors—Francisville Tribune (Rep.)

The Demoorat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer each a full year for only $1.50; The Democrat and St. Louis Twice-a-Week Republic $1.50; or all three papers for $2.00. Care of Stoves. If stoves are blackened while hot the blacking burns on and will not take a nice polish. Wash off all grease spots with soapsuds, and if there are any rough places where something has horned on the stove rub with sandpaper. A small paint brush is very handy to blacken the stove with, as you can reach the smallest corner with It. Orange Float. Mix one cup sugar with four tnble■poonfuls of cornstarch and juice and pulp of two lemons. Pour over this u quart of boiling water. Cook fifteen minutes, stirring constantly. Turn into a dessert dish over five oranges cut In thick slices. When cold decorate with a meringue of three egg whites, sweetened and flavored with vanilla. To Drive Out Ant*. If at auy time ants make their appearance in the pantry, smear a saucer with lard and set it overnight on one of the shelves. In the morning It will be found covered with tiny insects, which can be scalded or killed in any way. After a few days of this treatment not an nut will be seen.

Just Received! keant Hominy Meal is made from the best grade of PURE WHITE CORN ! and is principally the j hearts of the same. It contains double the | amount of oil or fat in ground corn. We especially rec o m m e n d Hominy Meal for fattening hogs aed cattle. r «“’.s24 Pir Ton * . . - .. " ~ ' ' l "~ 1 ,7 - l " ll< '~ ri 1 Rensselaer Feed Store. PHONE 273

WASHINGTON LETTER

Political and deneral doaalp of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. While the Republican political kettle is already boiling, boiling over in some instances, the Democrats are calmly surveying the situation, confident that there is plenty of time before their national convention and determined to profit by any mistakes their political opponents may make. Mr. Bryan’s friends are rejoiced at the attention paid to their leader by Secretary Taft, and argue that Mr. Taft and the President must be confident that Mr. Bryan is to be tne next Democratic candidate. t t t What they term "the spineless character” of Secretary Taft’s advocacy of tariff revision is prdving a source of comfort to many democrats who believe that the country is now ripe for genuine tariff revision along Democratic lines. Mr. Taft, it will be remembered, advocates a revision of the tariff at a special session of Congress to be called for the purpose immediately after March 4, 1909, but he asserts his belief that the tariff should be revised along tariff lines, and that doubtless means that the protected pets of the Republican party must not be permitted to suffer any great inconvenience. The Massachusetts Republican papers are greatly upset because the man they regard as most likely to be the presidential candidate of theirparty is not more emphatic in his declarations that the tariff should be revised downwards, although they try to find some comfort in the fact that he openly and frankly advocates some kind of revision* t t t President Roosevelt’s Provincetown speech is a source of renewed annoyance and anxiety to the old line, conservative members of his party who insist that it is an outrageous thing for a Republican president to hamper and harry the men who have always contributed so generously to Republican campaign funds, even if they have erected monopolies and practiced extortions on the people. To these men Theodore Roosevelt is nothing less than an iconoclast, some go so far as to pronounce him an anarchist, and judged from their point of view, perhaps he is. ttt

Silly reports continue to appear in the public prints relating that Japanese have been caught, first here and then there sketching American forts. The latest of these comes from Atlanta, where two Japanese are reported to have been detected in the act of making piolbres of the buildings at Fort McPherson. If any Japanese were so caught th y were undoubtedly seeking models with which to scare away their enemies, according to the old-fashioned methods of Oriental warfare when soldiers wore masks to scare their enemies off the field of battle. Correctly epeaking, Fort McPherson is not a fort at all. There are no fortifications there, only a collection of barracks and officers’ quarters most of them excellent models of bad aichiteoture, which anyone is privileged to copy, should he be so ill-advised. Certainly there is nothing there which would be of the slightestuse to the Japanese government. Moreover, military officers in Washington declare that there is nothing which they would seriously object to having the Japanese sketch, even our fortifications. Japan has in Washington, in connection with her embassy, a military and a naval attache. These men doubtless forward to their government drawings of our battleships and fortifications before even the general public has seen them. The United States maintains in connection with its embassy at Tokio, similar officials who send all available information to the militay information bureau in Washington. When Japanese army or navy officers come to the United States, they are shown our battleships, fortifications, gunfactories and navy-yards, and any. thing else they may ask to see, except, of course, the plans and military records of the General Staff, if any Japanese are so foolish as to make worthless drawings of Amerioan military posts, say the general officers here, it is from some silly idea that they may receive a reward from their government, or else, as has been suggested in the case of Fort MoPberson, in order that they may send to their military architects some samples of what not to imitate; tt t - I Governor Magoon is about to promulgate in Ooba with the approval of the President and the Secretary of War, a deoree creating a national bureau of sanitation

which shall have power to prescribe and enforce sanitary regulations throughout the island. Governor Magoon has found that the local administration us sanitary matters whioh was provided during the former American occupation of Cuba, is not to be relied upon, and Jo-day the island is threatened with a serious outbreak of yellow fever. Sanitary regulations and precautions are naturally repugnant to the Cubans, and the local authorities, either through a lack of appreciation of the responsibilities devolving upon them, or through being too amenable to local influences, having permitted most unsanitary conditions to exist. It is believed, however, that with a national sanitary board to make the regulations and to enforce them, ail further danger can be eliminated. The authority to issue and to enforce this decree, even after the present occupation of Cuba shall have ceased, is found in Section 5 of the Platt Amendment. ttt 'The President has approved the pkovisiohs of the Army graduated pay bill, which will be introduced next session, and which provides for increases of pay for the army as follows: lieutenant general, 10 per cent; major and brigadier generals, 15 per cent; colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors, 20 per cent; captains and lieutenants, 25 per cent; and enlisted men and non commissioned officers 30 per cent. It is expected that this bill, with possibly some modifications, will become a law next session.

SHEEP BREEDING.

Dorsets, Cheviots and Oxford Downs Prove Satisfactory. At present I am breeding three different varieties of sheep—Dorset, Cheviot and Oxford Down. The Dorsets are my money makers, the Cheviots the admired and the Oxfords my show

YEARLING DORSET LAMBS.

sheep. The Dorsets are money makers because of the early lambs they give, explains a writer in New England Homestead. I have sold* twin lambs when eight months old for $24 a pair, bht l will no longer sell for that price. I find that the demand is still increasing for the Dorsets, and I can find ready sale for my ewe lamb 3 at double that price. I think the Cheviots are the best looking sheep that walk. They have very clean cut faces and small Mead and limbs and make a tidy looking animal. I believe they will be kept by those who wish to keep a cosset In preference to all other breeds. The Oxfords are the show sheep, since they are the largest, and that is what takes the premium at our agricultural fairs nowadays.

PICKING FRUIT.

It Should Not Be Allowed to Get Too Ripe on the Tree. Many growers do not know the proper time to pick fruit—that is, the stage of maturity that puts It on the market In good condition. Very often one sees fine large pears and peaches that are rotting when the packages are opened because the fruit has been allowed to get too ripe on the tree before picking. Sometimes when the early market Is slack there is a demand for immature fruit for cooking purposes.

The Early Apple*. The first early summer apples may be profitably picked when they get big enough for cooking. This will be when the weeds are still white and before the fruit shows signs of coloring. The market Is-always looking forward to the earliest apples. Dessert and winter apples should not be picked until well colored. Those that stay on the tree are better flavored than those picked early. Win* ter apples will usually keep better If allowed to ripen in the cool weather of the fall. The ease with which some fruit separates from the twig by a nip sidewise gives a good idea of maturity. Apples should not be separated from the twig by a straight pull, but by a twist upward or sidewise. Peaches For Market. Peaches are picked for market When they show the clear, bright colors. They should not be pinched to test maturity. The experienced picker has a way of rolling the flat of his hand over the ridge of a peach, and the feel ' means the same to him as grain in the sack does to the miller's hand.—W. & Hutt _____ Hogs In tho Orchard. Hogs and poultry are good scavengers in an orchard, as they destroy many of the ibsect enemies and also the fallen fruit, which is often a harbor for protecting and developing myriads of these pests. Cattle and horses should never be allowed to run In an orchard--

CLARA A. PETERS Baomklor or Opthalmoloqy i - y A. J Master or OrrHALMOioav tEhStrh f*rbe. Ov.r Chicago Bargain Stor.

* STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RBNSSBLAER. IND., MARCH *6. 19*7. 1 1 ——— H4SOCBCM. LIABILITIM. L0an5........ .. .9325,9*4 72 Capital Stock $ So, ooo 00 U. S. and County Bonds... 39,400 00 Surplus and Profits 22,496 81 Bank Bulldlnx 8,000 00 Circulattn K Notes 7,500 00 Cash andduefrOm banks 93,074 68 Deposits . 406,442 59 9466,439 40 9466,439 40 directors. A * PAR n!222I_A JOtfN WASSON, a. L. HOLLINOSWORTH, Prssidsnt. Vice-President. Cashier. JAMBS T. RANDLE, QEO. B. nURRAY. ——— -V | Form loons o specioity I snore 01 Your Poironoge is solicited

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