Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — Page 2

The Song es the Hair There are four verses. Verse 1. Ayer’s Hair Vigor stops falling hair. Verse 2. Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Verse 3. Ayer’s Hair Vigor cures dandruff. Verse 4. Ayer’s Hair Vigor makes the scalp healthy, and keeps it so. It is a regular hair-food; this is the real secret of its wonderful success. The beat kind of • testimonial — ‘•Sold for over sixty years.” 9 sarsaparilla. yers ERRY PECTORAL. |

m min dmii. f I. BABCOCI. mm ill Millllil Official Democratic Paper es Jaaper County. Entered at the Post-office at Eeusselaer, Ind as second class matter. Office on Van Reneaeiaer Street O.st.eos TsusrHO.se } SI.OO PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Adrertisinr rates made known on application SATURDAY, SEPT. 21,1907.

The Illinois state board of pardons has denied the application of Paul Stensland, the convicted Chicago bank wrecker, and he will have to serve out .his full sentence, some seven years yet. He was sent up for fourteen years. A. bulletin was issued by the officials of the Anti-Saloon League a few days ago showing that this is rapidly becoming a “dry” state. Since the enactment of the Moore remonstrance law two years ago 955 saloons have been put out of business, There are now 723 dry townships as against 547 when the law took effect. There are now 50 dry city wards, seven dry counties and 21 dry county seats There are only 293 “wet” townships. The bulletin says that 1,284,853 people now live in dry territory, where as but 810,099 lived two years ago in localities where there were no saloons.

THOSE PRACTICAL POLITICIANS.

The mystery concerning the campaign fund raised by Edward Henry Harriman on Oct. 29, 1904, “at the personal solicitation of President Roosevelt has been cleared upby the New York World and is set forth below. The amount of that fund, names of the subscribers thereto and the manner of its collection by Mr. Harriman and United States Senator Chauncey M. Depew have been obtained from a source that leaves no room for question. The exact amount of the fund was $260,000, not $200,000, as has been stated. The names of the subscribers to it and the amount given by each of them are as follows: Edward Harrimansso,ooo H. McK.Twomblv (representing the Vanderbilt interests),,.. .25,000 Chauncey M. Depew (personal). 25,000 James Hazen Hyde, 25,000 The Equitable Life Assurance Society.... 10,000 J. Pierpont Morgan 10,000 George W. Perkins (New York Life Insurance Company).. 10,000 H, H. Roger% John D. Archbold and John D. Rockefeller (Standard Oil Company)... 30,000 James Speyer and Banking Ininterests .. io.oOo Cornelius N. Bliss (personal).. 10,000 Seven Friends of Senator Depew, $5,000 each...; 35,000 Sent to Mr. Harriman in smaller donations 20,000

Total $260,000 This sum of money, exceeding by $60,000 the amount estimated by George B. Cortelyoa, Chairman of the Republican National Com* mittee, and B. B. Odell, jr., Chairman of the Republican State Committee, to be necessary to insure the election of Mr. Roosevelt as President and Mr. Higgins as Governor, was collected by Mr. Harrigan and Senator Depew and turned over by Mr. Harriman to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer, of

the Republican National Committee. Mr. Bliss gave his check for the full amount to Mr. Cortelyon. The latter retained $60,000 of it for his own uses in the State and gave hie check for the remaining $200,000 to Mr. Odell.

COL. R. G. INGERSOLL ON ALCOHOL

“I am aware that there is a prejudice against any man engaged in the manufacture of alcohol I believe from the time it issues from the coiled and poisoned worm in the distillery until it enters into the hell of death, dishonor and crime, that it dishonors everybody who touches it—-from its source to where it ends. I do not believe anybody can contemplate the subject without becoming prejudiced against the liquor crime. All we have to do, gentlemen, is to think of the wrecks on either side of the stream, of suicides, of the insanity, of the poverty, of the ignorance, of the destitution, of the' little children tugging at the faded knd withered breasts, of weeping and despairing wives asking for bread, of the men of genius it has wrecked—the men struggling with imaginary serpents produced by the devlish thing! And when you think of the jails, of the almshouses, of the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaffolds upon either bank, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against the damned stuff called alcohol! Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength, age in its weakness! It breaks the father’s heart, it bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affection, erases conjugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights paternal hope, and brings down weary age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not health; .death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and ,all of them paupers and beggars! It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imports pestilence, and embraces consumption! It covers the land with idleness, misery, and crime! It fills your jails, supplies your almshouses and demands your asylums! It crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes victims to your scaffolds! It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels, and cherishes riots! it is the lifeblood of the gambler, the prop of the highwayman, and the support of the midnight incendiary! It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer! It violates obligations, reverences, fraud, and honors infamy! It deforms ffenevolences. hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence! It incites the father to butcher his helpless offspringrhelps the husband to massacre his wife, and the child to grind the paricidal ax.

It burns up man, consumes woman. desolates and devastates life; curses God, despises heaven! It suborns witnesses, nurses perjury, defies the jury box and stains the judicial ermine! It bribes votes, disqualifies voters, corrupts elections, pollutes our institutioss and endagers governments. It degrades the citizen, debases the legislator, dishonors the statesman and disarms the patriot! It brings shame, not honor; error, not safety; despair, not hope; misery, not happiness, and with the malevolence of a fiend it calmly surveys its frightful desolation and, unsatisfied with havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays reputation and wipes out national honor; then curses the world and laughs at its ruin. It does all that and more. It murders the soul! It is the sum of all villiapies, the father of all crimes, the mother of abominations, the devil’s best friehd and man’s worst enemy.”

Special Bargains in Improved and unimproved lands within the fruit belt of Michigan. For particulars see or address D. L, Halstead, Rensselaer, Ind., R. F. D. No. 3. 3t, FORTY-TWO ACRE FARM FOR SALE. As I contemplate moving to Michigan I will offer my 42 acre farm in Barkley tp., for sale at a very reasonable figure. Has good six room house, good large barn, cribs and other out-buildings, all well painted and in good repair, well tiled And fenced with 300 rods of hog*tight wire, drilled well, wind-mil), seven miles from Rensselaer, gravel road all the way, R F. D., and telephone, fruit of all kinds and a most desirable well located farm. Thomas Driver, R-R-l. Rensselaer, Ind. A good 120 acre farm for rent Jones Bros., Remington, Ind.

WASHINGTON LETTER

Political and General Go»»lp v of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. Third term talk, committee talk, and all the other signs point toward a reassembling of Congress. The appointment of the House Committees is one of the most important jobs as well as the most tiresome that the speaker has after Congress assembles, and the man who is going to be elected as Speaker usually has his slate all made out, before the session begins. There is no question .that Speaker Cannon of the last honre will be the Speaker of the next, if he so desires, and unquestionably he so desires, for be said recently in an interview that he thought the job of Speaker was about as important as that of President, and that was One of the several reasons why he had not been stung by the Presidential bee. One of the Other reasons was that be could not get the nomination if he wanted it, but that is a side issue. .Nobody knows yet how the committee jobs are going to be apportioned, but there is one thing certain, that Speaker Cannon has a big contract on hand. There are sixty-two committees that will have to be filled, and the most of these places will go to the men who held them in the 59th Congress, there will be a number of changes necessary in the 60th. There are fourteen committee chairmanships that have been made vacant through death or the elections. It is needless to godnto detail over these, but the most important of their number only three. They are the Committee on Agriculture, that on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, and that on Public Lands. The Committee of Agriculture Chairman in the last House was Wadsworth of New York. He it was who so strenuously defended the packers in the beef investigation and tried to block the Administration at every twist of the trail in passing the Meat Inspection Bill. This was the cause of his defeat, but it is said that he has lost nothing materially by it. The probable successor of Wadsworth is E. Stephens Henry of Connecticut. If he does not get the appointment Representative Haugen of lowa will.

The most important of all the committee appointments from a is that on Merchant® Marine and Fisheries, for that Committee will have to deal with the Ship Subsidy Bill when one is introduced, as it unquestionably will be. This committee was made up last year purposely so as to be hostile to ship subsidy legislation, and as there is no prospect of great political pressure for the passage of such a bill this year, the complexion of the committee is likely to be materially changed. The ranking member of the committee is Green of Massachusetts who is favorable to subsidy and if be is appointed the chairmanship, it is fair indication of what may be expected in this line of legislation during the session.

The last of the important committees that will have to have a new chairman is that on Public Lands. Mondell of Wyoming is the ranking member, but it is known that he is bitterly opposed to the President’s public land policy, so that it is not likely he will get the appointment. At least the President would not willingly see him (appointed, and it will be an indication of how the understanding is between the President and the speaker whether he is appointed or noi.

The third term talk is in the same general line that it has been for the past two years. The President has not made any further announcement of his position. Every politician who comes into Washington, however, has something to say on this subject, and there is a general report of “overwhelming Roosevelt sentiment” all over the country. This is supposed to be particularly true in the North and Middle West. Now these gratuitous interviews may be looked on with some suspicion. The Roosevelt sentiment may be there, all right, but the interviews are given out almost without exception for reasons that’ are personal to the interviewers. In the weak districts, where the Congressmen know that they were carried into office under the shad-" ow of the Roosevelt coat-tail, they feel that if he were nominated and elected again, they would stand a much bettef chance of succeeding themselves than if there were a new Richmond in the field. Then on the other hand there are a number of men who are violently opposed to the Taft candidacy and who figure that if the President

could be forced to some public expression in tne matter, there wonld be more chance of defeating Taft. As it is, the Taft managers are also worried, because they find it very hard to get delegations instructed for Taft, while there is any possibility of Roosevelt being the nominee again. Regarding the real possibility of the President accepting the third nomination, it may he said that it is distinctly against his personal wishes. Nearly eight years in the White House is enough physically and mentally to make any man, however rugged his constitution, wish for a rest. He knows he could be elected to the Senate, to the governorship of New York, to the Presidency of any university, or to any other job that he wanted, and also after a term out of the White House, he could come back for re-election if he so desired There has never been a case oh* record of a man refusing the nomination of the Presidency if it were offered, and if the convention should be stampeded for Roosevelt, there is a question whether he would decline. But he is an rmconventional person, and he is liable to do anything.

There is a good deal of discussion over the location of the negro troops, many of whom are about to be shifted. The 24th Infantry is coming home from the Philippines, and there are two calvary regiments to be taken care of besides the ever undesirable 25th Infantry which now that it has a bad name, is not welcomed anywhere. The changes will have to be made by Assistant Secretary of War Oliver While Secretary Taft is out os the country, and he had planned to put all the negro/troops in the north as being sectionally the least offensive. But the garrisons are as little desired in the north as in the south, and the Acting Secretary is faced with a pretty problem. There is nothing inherently undesirable in thecolqxed troops but the War Department has a reckon with popular prejudice.

CATARRH IS CURABLE.

Successful Experiments In Abating and Curing This Disease. Catarrh is an entirely unnecessary disease and should not be tolerated for a single day now that Hyomei is so generally known and has made so many cures in Rensselaer and other towns. Until comparatively recent times catarrh was thought to be a blood disease and stomach dosing the only treatment. Modern science finally disproved this idea of the cause of catarrh, and found that it was a germ disease and, after many experiments, the remedy was decided to be Hyomei. Hyomei medicates the air you breathe; it kills the catarrh germs; ifheals the smarting and raw membranes of the passage in the nose and throat; it cures all catarrhal 'troubles. As there is life and health in the air in the mountain-tops where the pine forests give off their fragrant and healing balsams, so thete is life and health in breathing Hyomei. There is no need of suffering from catarrh if the simple and natural treatment of Hyomei is used. ' .v So sure is the prescription to cure even the worst cases of catarrh, that B. F. Fendig selis a it under an absolute guarantee to refund the money if it does hot do all that is claimed for it. Remember that The Democrat handles the genuine “Quaker Brand” parchment butter wrappers, the best paper for this purpose manufactured, and that we charge no more for this than others charge for inferior paper.

STUB-TOE LAND.

How would it be to steal away, When sunny is the weather. And leave the town, all dull and brown, And Jog alone together, Down the road In the old-time way, /by lanes and fields a-smiling, —— Until we came to Stub-toe LandNow Isn’t the thought beguiling? It seems to me'twould ba sogood J. To go where nothing’s hurried, When clanking bells and all that tells Of strife is dead and buried : To Just forget the whistles’ screech, And things that’s irritating. And where the style of clothes you wear Don’t indicate your rating. / I think—don’t you?—this din and roar Just makes a fellow wonder If ail those things he used to know Still live in Old Baek Yonder. I'm not dissatified with life, And mind, I’m not fault-finding, But how would it seem to forget. Just once, This everlasting grinding? How would it be to drop the mask That we’re forever wearing, And be ourselves in Stub-toe Land— Back of the hills of Caring ? To follow the barefoot trail along, By lanes and fields a-smiling, It seems to me it would be so good— Now isn’t the thought beguiling ? -Milwaukee* Sentinel, Subscribe for the Democrat.

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