Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — Page 4
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PANIC THAT ROOSEVELT CAUSED.
In the forests Africanlc, there's a really dreadful panic. 'Mong the beasts and birds and snake* and reptiles rare. For a frightful rumor rang, worse than any boomerang, That a rosyveld was quickly coming there. • Said the lion bold, “What Is it that will make us all a visit Is it snake, or beast or creature of the air?" Answered back a gray old monkey, who was really not a donkey, "Why, a rosyveld’s a creature very wild, And it has a pair of eyes of a most tremendous size And a nose that doesn’t look so very mild; And not very far beneath is a frightful set of teeth, That can hurt a creature worse than any trap. And the damage they've been doing, on the octupus a-chewlng, Proves a rosyveld’s a wild, ferocious chap!” In thg forests Africanlc, there’s a really dreadful panic. In the Jungle and the river and the air, And they’re hurrying away and they're scurrying away, For they dread the frightful thing that’s coming there. Said the tiger with a smile, "I will hide myself a while In a very safte and distant Jungle lair, For I think there is more danger in this quite ferocious stranger Than there is in any other beast or man. For a Roseveld has eyes of a most tremendous size, And his teeth are built upon a diff’renlt plan.” « Then the tiger slunk away, and the beasts In deep dismay Decided that he’d very wisely done. Said the owl, “That tiger’s quaking proves he isn’t Nature Faking!” So the beasts to farthest Jungles all did run. —Lippincott’s Magazine.
A WORD ON THE “OTHER SIDE.”
Should Investments Be Destroyed Without Kedress Or ComNation? While The Democrat never has defended the liquor business and is not defending it now, yet that there is another side to the question which is generally lost sight of, in view of the general recognition of the business by our national government and the various states, cannot be denied by any fair minded individual, and the logic of the following editorial from the Cincinnati Enquirer cannot be entirely overcome by any amount of Sophistry: The old saying that the King can do no wrong was not true. That Kings can do wrong has been proved in thousands of instances. The world rejects the statement in toto to-day. In our republic that old, discredited saying relative to the King’s doings h.as been more or less applied to the state, and some of our good and trustworthy citizens are almost ready to accept as true that the state can do no wj-ong. Unfortunately for many equally good and worthy citizens the state can do wrong and the power of the state often is used directly and indirectly to work an injury to individuals and sometimes to a class. The state should do no wrong, that we can all aver and conscientiously affirm. When the state, through its legislators and officers, recognizes the existence of an evil, the utmost care should be taken that in elimina- . tion and cure of such evil other evil is not done by the wronging of its own citizens. We have in mind those citizens, and good and worthy ones many of them are, who put their money in and improved their realty for the purpose of manufacture or sale of liquors, and are now suddenly confronted with a situation in a numof states which threatens ruin to their investments and their holdings. States protected the traffic for years; states drew their revenues in part from such traffic. It was not only recognized by them but so safeguarded by ttieir laws and regulations that the states made it a safe and profitable business for individuals, firms and corporations to enter. Is it right now that at one fell swoop those investments be detroyed, without compensation or redress to those who by state action are driven out of business, and not only their capital deprived of all earnings, but their real property, where they own it, rendered almost valueless? If a citizen of Ohio, of New York or of Pennsylvania Mas invested his money in distilleries in the state of Tennessee, for instance, can his interests be virtually confiscated by the laws of Tennessee without redress or compensation to him? King» should do no wrong. States should do no wrong even to eradicate other wrongs. There are some means that are not justified by , the ends attained or attempted.
STEPHENSON’S AIDS PAID
Office Holders and Old Soldiers Figure In Expense Statement. Madison, Wls., Feb. 26. —That office holders, present and past, were paid to further the interests of United States Senator Isaac Stephenson as candidate in the recent primary election was shown In a statement of election expenses filed by Rodney Sackett with the legislative committee investigating the senatorial primary. Among those ■who figured prominently and the amounts received are: Levi H. Bancroft, speaker of the assembly branch of the legislature, $250; J. W. Stone, state game warden, $2,EDO; L. B. Dresser, member of the state board of control, $2,100; W. G. Wheeler, United States district attorney, $600; John T. city attorney of Milwaukee. $500; Rock Flint, United States marshall, $80; George Gordon, an attorney, La Crosse. $1,600; Solon Perrine, attorney of Superior, $3,000; D. E. Riordan, ex-state senator, $1,300; C. C. Wellensgard, assemblyman, $250.80; Hugh Lewis, doorkeeper United States senate, $360; T. Purtell, state fire marshal, $175. Others received smaller sums. Items described as "touches” show that “old soldiers” and ‘‘heelers’’ received $2.
FREAK FEATURES BARRED
General Bell Will Insist Upon Dignified Inaugural Parade. Washington, Feb. 26.—N0 "freak” features, such as cowboys throwing lassos, w ild animals and various mechanical devices, will mark the Taft inaugural parade. General J. Franklin Bell, grand marshal, has served notice that all organizations will have to conform to the dignity of the occasion.
TO KILL CARMACK HAD HE KILLED MY SON
Colonel Cooper’s Explanation of Why He Drew His Gun. Nashville. Tenn., Feb. 26. —After nearly two days under one of the most searching cross-examinations ever heard in a Tennessee court, Colonel Duncan B. Cooper will be in the hands of his own counsel today. The case against the Coopers and John D. Sharp
COLONEL C. T. FITZHUGH.
for the slaying of former Senator E. W. Carmack will be resumed with the aged defendant still upon the stand. His counsel have decided upon a redirect examination, promising t<| be brief. Whether the state will cross examine again, and if so, how long It will last, will depend, of course, upon what Colonel Cooper’s own counsel bring out. Immediately after Colonel Cooper is finally dismissed from the stand, Governor Patterson and his adjutant general, Colonel Tulley Brown, will be called to tell what part , they played in this political tragedy. For the state Colonel C. T. Fitzhugh asked Colonel Cooper whether he gambled. The reply was: "Very often Mr. Fitzhugh, just as you do.” Fitzhugh, returning to the actual tragedy, asked: “When did you pull your gun?” “After the firing began," was the reply. “Wny did you draw it?" “In order to kill Carmack if he had killed my son.”
IF WE LIVE LONG ENOUGH
A Planet May Collide With the Bun and Hurt Us. Boston, Feb. 26. —“A collision of an unknown dark planet with the sun will terminate life on the earth,” said Professor Percival Lowell, director of the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Aflz., tn a lecture before the students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The event will be prophesied fourteen years before the catastrophe occurs,” continue! the astronomer, “and chaotic confusion will reign in the world during the days preceding the calamity.*' t
FRENCH TO PROTECT BEEF
Fear of Hom* Market Invasion Cause* Action by Tariff Commission. Paris, Feb. 26.—The tariff commission has issued a statement explaining Its refusal to agree to the government’s proposition to retain a minimum duty of thirty-five francs (37) per 100 kilograms on refrigerated meat French cattle men fear an invasion of foreign products. ▲ general tariff of fifty francs (310) is opposed on the ground that It would be prejudicial to foreign relations,
NATION’S AIDS UNREWARDED
Retiring Embassy Secretary Writes Letter. THANKS HIS BENEFACTORS Beys Government of the United States Doesn’t Give Even as Much as a Blue Ribbon to Those Who Give It Their Talent and the Beat Years of Their Lives —Hopes That What He Has Stated Will Create Interest In Bubjeetc. Paris, Feb. 26.—Henry Vignaud, first secretary of the American embassy, who resigned at the age of seventynine, after thirty-four years of service, has addressed a letter to the twenty prominent Americans whose generosity in subscribing a fund of $20,000 insures the last days of the veteran diplomat against want. In part the document reads: "To Levi P. Morton, Whitelaw Reid, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Henry White, James Gordon Bennett, Ferdinand Blumenthal, David Cahn, Coudert Brothers. Andrew Carnegie, .John H. Harjes, Alfred T. Heidelbach, S. de Jenge, Duke de Doubat, J. Pierpont Morgan, Munroe & Co., George R. Ostheimer, Seligman Brothers, Tiffany & Co., Edward Tuck and H. A. Van Bergen : x "The American government, having neither the right to bestow a pension upon its old servants, nor even that of honoring them with one of those bits of ribbon whereby the older governments of the world are enabled to show appreciation of faithful services, my retirement at my advanced age and without personal fortune might have placed me in a precarious situation —straitened circumstances, If not actual want “Your ‘generous initiative is bound to call attention to this grave question which remains unsolved for so many others, equally worthy of Interest”
SHRUBB BEATS DORANDO
Englishman Easily Wins In Race Originally Arranged For Longboat. Buffalo, N. Y.. Feb. 26—Alfred Shrubb easily defeated Dorando Pietri in a fifteen mile race. The Italian took the place of Tom Longboat whose terms were rejected by the local promoters. Pietri had no chance to prepare for the contest. He stepped from a train only a few hours before getting into his running togs. Every American indoor record from the first to the fifteenth mile was smashed, the time for the race being 1:24:06 4-5.
10,000 BACK TO WORK
Rubber Plants to Resume Operations Middle of Next Week. Boston, Feb. 26.—More than 10,000 rubber mill operatives in New England, who have been idle for a month, will be at work again by the middle of next week, orders having been issued by the United States Rubber company to resume operations at most of its plants. The Malden and Melrose factories of the Boston Rubber Shoe company, subsidiary to the United States company; are running today. The Malden factory employes 1,700 hands and the Melrose plant 1,300.
URGES PLANTING OF TREES
Governor Willson of Kentucky Issues Proclamation to Children. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 26.—Unique among proclamations is one Issued by Governor Augustus E. Willson to the children of Kentucky to commemorate Arbor day, Friday, April 2. He dwells at length upon the deforestation idea and pleads with the youngsters to follow the advice of Sir Walter Scott and “stick in a tree here and there; it will be growing when ,you are sleeping.”
TORTURED TO DEATH
Korean Bound and Then Seared With White Hot Irons. Merida, Yucatan, Feb. 26. —Helplessly bound, and then burned and seared with white hot irons until his screams of agony brought in the police and citizens to batter down the door, a Korean laborer named Yunea Nldo Is dead from his Injuries. Trouble started among Korean laborers. Nldo was seized by one of the factions
HARRIMAN 61 YEARS OLD
Celebrates Birth Anniversary With a Pistol and ■ Rifts. San Antonio, Feb. 26.—Admitting today that he is one day over the six-ty-one mark, E. H. Harriman declared that his outing here is doing him “a world of good,” and that he “felt as chipper as a bluejay." He celebrated the anniversary of his birth by Indulging in pistol and rifle practice. x
Pioneer Presbyterian Church Burned. Snow Hill, Md., Feb. 26.—Fire of unknown origin destroyed the lumber mill of Smith, Moore & Hargis, and damaged the Francis Makamle Presbyterian church, supposed to be the first Presbyterian church erected in Amerlea.
Tne Weather. Following is the official weather forecast: Illinois and Indiana —Fair today; rain probable tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Fair today; rain probable tomorrow. Wisconsin and lowa —Partly cloudy; rain probable tomorrow.
THINKS SPERRY IS TO QUIT
Gossip President Before Retirement Will Name Admiral’s Successor. Fort Monroe, Va., Feb. 26.—Rear Admiral Charles 8. Sperry, who brought the American "battle fleet” from San Francisco to Hampton Roads, is in Washington and the ship’s carpenter on board the Connecticut has boxed up the admiral’s belongings. The Impression grows that Sperry soon will haul down his flag. It is common gossip that President Roosevelt intends to name the next commander in chief of the fleet before he retires from office.
PEARLS STILL MISSING
Miss Crocker Doesn’t Suspect Any Guest at Society Ball. San Francisco, Feb. 26.—Detectives vainly searched the St. Francis hotel for the $50,000 necklace stolen from Miss Jemiie Crocker at the Mardl Gras ball. Miss Crocker declares she does not believe any of the guests at the ball rtole the necklace.'
PEACE SOCIETY TO DINE ROOT TONIGHT
His Work For Arbitration Is Recognized. New York, Feb. 26. —Recognition of the services of former Secretary of State Ellhu Root in the cause of universal peace is the purpose of the dinner to be given to the New York senator elect by the Peace Society of New York tonight. Over 500 persons, guests and members of the society, will attend the dinner at the Hotel Astor. Among the guests who wilL-address the society will be President Elect Taft, Governor Hughes, James Bryce, ambassador from Great Britain; Senor Nabuco, ambassador from Brazil, and Baron Takahira, ambassador from Japan. The chairman in charge of the dinner Is Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent, and the presiding officer will be the Hon. Joseph H. Choate, former ambassador to Great Britain. Root will deliver one of the addresses.
LIFE TERM FOR WOMAN
Another Jury Acquits Bride Who Put to Death a Brutal Husband. Jackson, Ky., Feb. 26.—Mrs. Amelia Allen has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mrs. Fannie Tutt. When the jury returned the verdict of guilty, Mrs. Alien’s mother created a sensation by rising in her seat and bitterly denouncing Judge Redwine, who acted as prosecutor. New York, Feb. 26. —Rose Gratzione, twenty years old, who when a bride of six months shot and killed her husband, Domenico, because unable to endure his brutaj conduct, was acquitted of the charge of murder.
THE MARKETS
Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Feb. 25. Winter wheat by sample: No. 3 red, |1.21%@1.23%; No. 3 red, 3L18%@ 1.22%; No. 2 hard, [email protected]%; No. 3 hard, [email protected]%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, 3L16%@ 1.18%; No. 2 northern, $1.15%@ 1.17%; No. 3 spring, [email protected]%. Corn by sample: No. 3, 63%@64c; No. 3 white, 65@65%c; No. 3 yellow, 64 @ 64 %c; No. 4, 62%@63%c. Oats by sample: No.’ 2 white, 53c; No. 3 white, 53%@54%c; No. 4 white, 51@53c; standard, 54@54%c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 18,000. Sales ranged at [email protected] for choicb heavy shipping, light mixed, >6.55@ 6.65 choice light, |[email protected] mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 6,500. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, 34.35 @5.50 good to choice beef cows, >7.75 @8.50 good to choice calves, |[email protected] selected feeders, 34.00@ 4.65 medium to good Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 14,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to choice lambs, [email protected] choice ewes, |[email protected] western fed lambs, 36.50 @ feeding lambs. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y-, Feb. 25. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants. East Buffalo, N. Y„ quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 2 cars; market steady. Hogs— Receipts 20 cars; market strong; heavy, [email protected]; Yorkers, 36.50@ 6.75; pigs, 36.30. Sheep and Lambs — Receipts 20 cars; market strong; best lambs, 37.90; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, 35.00@ SXO. Calves—Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. 4 Elgin, Feb. 25. Creamery, extras, 28 %c; prints, 32c; extra firsts, 27c; firsts, 25c; dairies, extras, 25c; firsts, tie; packing stock, 13a.
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EDITORS LISTEN TO BEVERIDGE
Senator Makes Address at . Association Banquet: CALLED LEADER OF PARTY He Declares Himself Against Bossism and Cliques and States He Will Do AU In His Power to See That Any Yc. rg Man Can Enter Politics Withcv* a Pul!— He Expresses Himself as r.-eji j In Favor of Direct Primary . (i.n.aticns For Al| Offices. -.ap.-ds, Feb. 26. —Senator Al>i J. Lee- ridge was enthusiastically ■" ..lii.t,d :he leader of the Republiea.i part; in Indiana at a banquet in tile Claypool hotel, given by the State Republican Editorial association. The Republican members of the legislature were present and Beveridge was the guest of honor. Harry Strohm of Kentland, president of the association, was the toastmaster and when he said that the mantle of the party leadership in Indiana had fallen upon the shoulders of Beveridge there was a storm of applause. The senator’s speech In part follows: Condemns Machine Politic*. “A man should belong to a party only because he believes that its deeds, purposes and tendencies are bsst for the nation. Where a party degenerates into a mere organization, trying to keep voters together not for the welfare of the nation, but for mere partisan success and the personal advancement of particular men, it becomes unworthy of the support or respect of the thinking citizen. Candidates are now as important as platforms. The whip of an organization can no longer drive citizens into line.” The speaker said that the man who tries to create a faction within a party is a . traitor to the party, and that a faction within a party means death to the party. He continued: “One instrument for organizing factions and building machines is the distribution of patronage for those purposes instead of for the purpose of the public service. That part of the spoils system which still remains must, in its turn and in the ripeness of time, also give way to a simpler and juster method which will better serve the people.” Talks of Tariff Legislation. “Opposing senators will have the absolute power to prevent any bill passing that keeps a tariff on lumber- hides, wool or sugar, but I say that they will wage only a sham battle against duties on those articles, if Indeed, they wage that; and that they will take practical measures to see that protective tariff duties are retained on things produced in their pwn states, of which the above are illustrations. I say now that the only real fight for a reduction of duties on steel, hides, linnber, wool and sugar will be made by Republican senators. “We propose to modify the power of the fedora! courts in issuing injunctions so that no citizen beneath the flag can feel that courts have been oppressive, and yet that the property of no citizen shall be in ganger.” The senator said he favored a primary law for the state by whieh the people at the ballot box will nominate every officer from constable to congressman and senator, and also nominate the party’s state committee and state chairman. He. declared he would do all in his power to help any young Republican to get into politics without a pull.
BRYAN IN INDIANAPOLIS
Scheduled to Make Address Before Members of Legislature. Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—W. J. Bryan arrived here. He Is to address the leg-
islature today. He will go on east, filling lecture engagements in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. He will return to Lincoln for the banquet to be tendered in his honor on the 10th of March, his fortyninth birthday.
THREE MORE “DRY"
Hendricks, Fountain and Fayette Counties Vote Against Saloons. Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—1 n three more counties of Indiana the voters expressed by large majorities their disapproval of licensed saloons, and as a result fifty-three of these places in the three counties will be closed. Hendricks, Fountain and Fayette counties were the three. -Gibson and Carrol counties will vote today, and it Is conceded that these counties will go “dry” by big majorities.
Man and Wife Killed.
Michigan City, Ind., Feb. 26. —Edward Langinan and his wife were killed on the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend interurban road in this city. They had just moved here from Laporte and went back to their former home to look after the remainder of their household effects. While returning and crossing the interurban line at the limits of the city their bug- - gy was struck and demolished.
Centenarian Is Dead.
Sullivan, Ind.,- Feb. 26. Sarah Hiatt Mason, one hundred years old, is dead at the home of her son. Her father lived to be one hundred and” three and her mother was ninety-six when she died
LAURIER’S NOTE OF PEACE
Say* Strife of Anglo-Saxon* Would Amount to Civil War. Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 26.—At an artillery luncheon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada, said: “Canada has little reason to fear that she will ever be invaded. We have but one neighbor on this continent, the United States. While our frontier has been crowed in the past, my belief and the belief of Canadians generally is that among the great Anglo»Saxon nations civilization has reached a point where the shedding of blood among them would be regarded with a horror equal to that with which a civil war woiild be contemplated.”
BROKER ACTRESS WEDDING
Brown’s Ex-Partner to Marry Edna Wallace Hopper’s Chum. New York, Feb. 26. —Lewis Ginter Young, a former partner of A. O. Brown, whose brokerage firm went into bankruptcy last fall, has obtained a license to marry MJss Leona Aronson. Miss Aronson is a chum of Edna Wallace Hopper, whom Brown married some time ago. She is known on the stage as Leona Anderson.
ROBBER KILLS GIRL
Shoots Sister of Young Woman Who Was Delivering Purse. Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 26.—Ethel Kinrade, daughter of T. H. Kinrade, principal of the Cannon Street school, was shot dead by a robber. She and her sister Flossie were alone In th°l" borne when a man walked in and demanded money. Flossie was in the act of handing the man her purse when he drew a revolver and shot her sister.
ELIOT [?] ACCEPT
Ex-Harvsrd President Denies British Ambassadorship Report -Austin, Tex., Feb., 26. Former President Eliot of Harvard university, discussing a report that he would likely be offered the ambassadorship to Great Britain, said he believed the report was without foundation. He said it would be impossible for him to accept the post should it be tendered him.
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