Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — Page 2

TIE«GOBIIT DEMIT. F. E. BIBC9CK. EBITOH MDPBBUSHtH. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JABPER COUNTY. Published Wednesdy'e end Saturday's. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8. 1908, at the poet office at'Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March 8. 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 815. - Residence 811. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1009.

In a recent issue of the Indianapolis Star the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, the state head of the Anti-Saloon League, Is quoted as follows; “We have many complaints relative to ‘blind tigers’ and 'bootleggers’ in different parts of the state. The offlccers, particularly at Frankfort, Flora, Lebanon, Rockville and Sullivan, are having considerably trouble with the ‘suit-case brigades' of ‘bootleggers,’ and it appears that the officers at Delphi and numerous other places are going to have considerable trouble.” This is an evil which seems to follow naturally in the wake of prohibition leglslaton, whether county or state. It Is a sneaking, disreputable business and leads to sneaking and disreputable practices. So long, however, as the federal government issues its licenses and Interstate railways and express companies carry liquors, as the United States supreme court has decided they have a right to do, the “blind tiger,” the “bootlegger,” the “suitcase” peddlar, the “original package” dealer, and similar venders will do business.

THE “NON-PARTISAN” PROGRAM.

There are signs that the Republican politicans and the leaders of the Anti-Saloon League are laying the ground work for a new game which they hope to play successfully in the next campaign. Fearful of the open support of their old allies, the Republican politicans hope to profit through a “non-partisan” program that the league is now mapping out. The Indianapolis Star, the Republican state organ, has this to say of the league's plans: “Profiting by their experience in past temperance fights, the officers of the league believe that a fight for state-wide prohibition should be wholly of a non-partisan character. They maintain that the only reason they supported the Republican party last year was because it declared tor county local option, whereas the Democratic party was in favor of only the ward and township unit. They believe it unwise to allow the question to be made a partisan political one.” The Democrat is party, of course, will pursue the even tenor of its way, and it can only do it with being honest with itself. It cannot hope for any support from the AntiSaloon League unless it commits itself to state prohibition, which it has never thought of diong. ExGovernor Hanly has bespoken for that issue for the Republicans. And then there is the old-fashioned Prohibition partjf, which has a prescriptive monopoly of the issue on which it bases its rights to live.

COULD IT BE WORSE?

The Republican majority ip congress has worked nearly four months on their tariff bill. When the bill shall finally be passed the average of duties will be much higher than they are now under the Dingley law. The Dingley rates are admittedly higher than was necessary for “protection,” even according to the Republican idea in 1897, when the “protection” craze was at high tide. Having, in the last campaign, promised a revision which they made the people believe would be downward, the Republicans have not only revised the tariff upward, as the Democrats declared they would, but they give the president authority to increase' the rates 25 per cent additional. } A commission is to be created to advise the president about this 25 per cent increase- This commission is to be appointed by the president, and he fixes the salaries and the term of service. The members of this commission will all be Republicans and "protectionists.

A Democratic senator asked that the commission be made non-parti-san- thls proposition was, with the exception of Senator LaFollete, unanamously opposed by the Republican majority. The Republicans have shown that they Intend to keep everything relating to the tariff in their own hands. One would think that those Democratic senators who voted with Aldrich would feel that they had sold their political honor for a mess of pottage—and then didn’t get the pottage.

Legal blanks for sale at The Democrat office.

THAW’S LIBERTY SEEMS AT HAND

Assistant Attorney General Is Impressed Favorably. HIS WIFE WILL HELP HIM Evelyn Postpones Her Vacation In Order to Go on the Witness Stand For Her Husband—Strong Probability That Commission of Experts Will Examine Prisoner and Declare Whether He Is or Is Not Rational. White Plains, N. T„ July 13—If counsel can agree, a commission of three alienists, mutually selected, will pass upon the question of Harry K. Thaw’s sanity. This was practically decided at a continuation of the hearing before Justice Mills in which coun-

EVELYN NESBIT THAW.

sei tor Stanford White’s slayer is trying to establish his right to release from the asylum for the criminal insane at Matteawan. With all of the testimony so far offered in favor of Thaw and with the Indication that his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, will take the stand in his behalf; with District Attorney William Travers Jerome eliminated, Thaw’s chances for release appear bright. Roger Clark, deputy attorney general, informed the court that he had been so much impressed by Thaw’s intelligent interest in the issues at stake that he was willing to concede Thaw’s right to a full and impartial examination. Justice Mills favored the suggestion for a commission. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has been living in retirement of late, may take the stand today. She has abandoned her vacation plans, it is announced, to appear for her husband. The testimony which was given by jailers, innkeepers, real estate dealers, clergymen, a dentist and a reporter—all called by Thaw—was uniformly to his advantage. Witnesses related conversations with him on music, dogs, cigars, literature. electricity, geology, prison life, sport, religion and the personality of the late pope, Peo XIII. A watchman learned from Thaw that the stone age should be placed some 500 years back. An innkeeper thought Thaw perfectly sane except that on one occasion he refused the witness' invitation to take a drink with him. He admitted under cross-examination that he had known rational persons to decline a drink.

CORPORATION TAX IS TO BE ONE PER CENT

Income Question Is Now Up to i State Legislatures. I Washington, Jtriy 13.—At a conference at the White House it was definitely decided that the rate to be I levied under the new corporation tax i shall be reduced from 2 per cent to II per cent. j It now is up to the legislatures of the several states to say whether there shall be an income tax amendment to the constitution. j By the decisive vote of 317 to 14, more than the necessary two-thirda, the house passed the senate joint resoi lution providing tor the submission of I the question to the states.

BIG STICK GIVEN TO TAFT

Donor Hopes President Will “Bwat” Tariff Bill. Washington, July 13. President Taft has been presented with a sure enough “big stick”—a bludgeon six feet long and shaped much like the big emblem of Rooseveltian authority which became famous In cartoons during the last administration. The donor was J. E. Forbes of Ottawa, Kas., who sent with the stick this message: "The Almighty probably grew this big stick for some good purpose, and I suspect that it was to allow you to swat the tariff bill and other schemes * criminal extortion."

Keep Smiling.

Don’t leave laughter out of your life. Bear in mind what Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. dare, moroseness, anxiety, all the rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.” Laughter, indeed, is a wonderful tonic and youth preserver. “The power of laughter,” says Dr. Marden, “was given us to serve a wise purpose in our economy. It is nature’s device for exercising the internal organs and giving us pleasure at the same time.” This is no fanciful assertion. Read what the Lancet, one of the most authoritative medical journals in the world, has to say about the therapeutic value-of laughter and joviality: “This power of 'good spirits* is a matter of high moment to the sick and weakly. It is therefore of the greatest importance to cultivate the highest and most buoyant frame of mind when the conditions will admit The same energy which takes the form of mental activity is vital to the work of the organism. Mental Influences affect the system, and a joyous spirit not only relieves pain, but Increases the momentum of life in the body.” And, it might be added, helps to keep one not simply strong and well, but also young. H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.

News that the Arctic ocean is to be explored for undiscovered islands between Alaska and the pole makes us ready to drop the subject of undiscovered fauna in Africa for awhile. Firm of aeroplane makers agrees to deliver a machine to order in forty days. General Accident has been known to deliver one without orders in forty seconds. Sociologists should take note of the amount of individual worry sidestepped whenever a potato patch meets the expectations of the man with the hoe. We can outwit middlemen who put prices up 50 per cent by wearing clothes 50 per cent longer and eating 50 per cent less. Suffragettes may find marrying a man who agrees to vote right as risky as marrying a man to reform him. Better for bathers looking on to be fooled than to see companions drown before their eyes in dead earnest. The corporation can put its income tax on the ultimate consumer just as it does tines and bad bargains.

"Hides of Cattle."

Only about one-third of the hides and skins of animals imported into the United States pay Import duty. Not all of the duty paying stock goes into shoe leather. The average man and average woman are very particular and very sensitive as to shoe leather. A walking trip that isn’t “worth shoe leather” is a popular standard of good-for-nothingness, so that high priced shoes may, act as a damper on enterprise, whether for profit or pleasure. The dutiable group of hides and skins under the present law is known on the schedule as ‘‘hides of cattle.” Other groups which pay no duty include skins which are used in manufacturing the finer and lighter grades of shoe leather. The government estimates that imported hides and skins represent but one-third of the value of this material used in. this couptry. We export annually leather and manufactures from leather equal to about 50 per cent of the value of the hides and skins imported. The duty of 15 per cent upon “bides of cattle” has been maintained in the hope that protection would develop the hide industry up to the point where it would supply the home demand. Many congressmen and senators continue to favor the duty on the ground that it encourages home industry and has no vital bearing on the price of shoes or other articles made from leather.

The yield of the tourist crop doesn’t all go to pamper effete Europe, thanks to our White mountains and Yosemite and Yellowstone, our orange groves and olive groves and our Adirondacks and plain Maine woods. The oil can which hurries up the fire and the candle which finds the gas leak seem woefully out of place In a generation that boasts of having forgotten more than Its daddies ever knew. The fact reported by an exchange that "butter 200 years old is frequently served in India” Is further proof that American ships her choicest products to foreign markets. Baldwin’s scheme to float to the north pOle on an Ice cake probably occurred to him In a summer night’s dream. Some of the satisfaction that the day is over would be lacking after a denatured Fourth. As to a tax on Incomes of $5,000 and over, every man you meet is saying, "I don’t care.”

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Robert Gordon Valentine, the new commissioner of Indian affairs, got hist first training in the bureau be now' heads as private secretary to former Commissioner Leupp. During his four years’ connection with the bureau he has made an exhaustive study of the Indian problem. A great part of his time has been spent in travel, visiting the various tribes that make up the 300,000 Indian population of Uncle Sam’s domains. To do this he had to visit twenty-six states in which the Indians are scattered, and a great part

ROBERT G. VALENTINE.

of his travels were made in the saddle. It is Mr. Valentine's intention to keep up this policy, so far as his new duties w ill permit, with a view to developing the red man along social and economic lines. “We will try to make the Indian help himself,” he says. The new Indian commissioner is a native of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard and is thirty-six years old. Before going to Washington as a newspaper man be was successively an instructor in the Boston Institute of Technology, a bank clerk in New York and a railroad statistician in the west. Hedin’s Experience In Tibet. Sven Hedin. the celebrated Swedish explorer, who has just returned from a journey through the unknown parts of Tibet, has had many narrow escapes from death in the course of his adventurous career. He was once rescued by an auxiliary expedition when he had been lost for several weeks on the "roof of the world.” The doctor In the party describes his appearance at the time he was found, “His tongue was white, dry and swollen, his lips bluish, bis cheeks sunken, his eyes dull and glassy.” Speaking of that experience, Dr. Hedin tells that be found a small pool of water after going three days without a drink. In ten minutes he had absorbed five pints of the fluid. End of • Gould Romance. Mrs. Howard Gould, who has just secured a decree of separation from her husband, will in the future be compelled to struggle along on a paltry $30,000 a year. That was the amount of alimony allowed her by Judge Dowling of the New York supreme court. During the trial of the case it was shown that Howard Gould, who is the third son of the late Jay Gould, was in receipt of an income of about SI,OOO, ■ 000 per annum. The court decided

MRS. HOWARD GOULD.

that Mrs. Gould could live comfortably on $3,000 a month, although she demanded about eight times that sum. Before her marriage to Mr. Gould in 1898 Mrs. Gould, then Katherine Clemmons, bad been on the stage a number of years. She had been successful iu California and later for five years bad tcored in London under the patronage sf “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Since the wedding the Howard Goulds have been much in the public eye in one form or another. When they were abroad several years ago the kaiser and the czar were entertained on their yacht. But they never secured entry to the smart set of New York.

[Under this head notices will be pubished for 1-cent-a-word for the first nsertlon, %-cent per word for each additional Insertion. Figure five words the line, and to save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents.,] For Sale or Exchange— Farms in Missouri. S. L. Smith, Moline, Mo. For Sale— Hungarian or millet seed in any quantity, at home farm, Parr, Ind. S. P. THOMPSON.

For Sale—Oklahoma Real Estate First Mortgages in amounts of SSOO to $50,000, three to ten year term, bearing six to eight per cent, semiannual, or annual interest. Security worth three to ten times the amount of the mortgage. Write us for particulars, stating amount desiring to invest. A. C. FARMER & CO., 132% West Main St., Oklahoma City, Okla. For Rent— Eight room house and two lots centrally located. A. H. HOPKINS. Wanted— -Stock to pasture, good bluegrass pasture and plenty of water at all times, 5 miles west, 1 % miles north of Rensselaer.— GUS PRATT, Rensselaer, D-r-D. Farm Loans— Money to loan oi farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. E. P. HONAN. Wanted—Parties who contemplate buying farms in the northwest, either for occupancy or investment, to address F. D. G., care Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. >« Farm For Sale— Bo acres 2 miles east and 4% miles north of Remington. A. B. C. care Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. For Rent:—32o acre improved farm for next year. 1 mile of Rensselaer, cash or grain rent. Enquire of Andrew Gangloff, Rensselaer, Ind. EGER BROS, are selling "Standard" or "Sisal" Binder Twine at 8 l-2c. Slump In Prices and Traae. A falling off of about $200,000,000 in the export trade of this country for the year 1909 as compared with the average of 1908 and 1907 is apparent from the figures gathered by the bureau of statistics. The causes announced for this decline are a reduction in demand and a reduction in price of the articles exported. In some cases the prices are the same as they were one or two years ago, perhaps higher, so the slump in totals is due to reduction in the quantity bought tjy foreign countries. Where the old figures of quantity are maintained the prices are lower. The decline in demand for American goods is not exceptional. All exporting countries have felt it more or less. Exports to our heaviest foreign customer, the United Kingdom, declined $68,000,000 in the ten months ending April. 1909. but the total decline in imports by the United Kingdom was $123,000,000. In the decline foodstuffs and manufactures share equally, and these two items represent fully ninetenths of the fall in values, the remaining tenth standing for the loss on cotton. For this item the quantity exported shows marked increase, but the drop in prices will cause a slump of about $20,000,000 in the total value for the current year.

Semiofficial investigators declare that one-third of the “Help Wanted” advertisements are fakes, a fact which puts the excuses of the unemployed tn a better light. Three times and out—one, extinguish your campfire; two. drown it with buckets of creek water; three, bury it under a foot of wet earth. “Peace at any price” is a good motto for the nation that can put up the price without smashing peace. Using the roof of the White House for entertainment dinners is a decided reaction from raising it. Chicago isn’t investigating what’s in her pies, strictly, but asks “what else is in them?"

Anyway, some few books not found on Dr. Eliot's list should never be put on the shelf. Some of the matrimony a la balloon will be likely to end in divorce via parachute. Easy to convict .flies of vagrancy, out another thing to catch them on ;helr job. If the duty on cocaine gets revision upward out of sight the ultimate consumer needn’t look for public sympathy. So near and yet so far is by no means an unhoppy situation if you ! mean the north pole in dog days. ! It is not the consumer that Is the myth so much as it is the stuff Which he ought to be at work on. The Democrat for good work.

Well Drilling and Repairing We have just purchased a brand-new well drilling outfit and solicit patronage in our line bf work. Phone 298 or 354. MOORIE & HOCHSTETLER

J. W. HORTON DENTIST Opposite Court House

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Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springe. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect March 7, 1909. , SOUTH BOUND. <o.3l—Fast Mail 4:45 a. m. No. s—lxuilsvllle Mall (d*Hy) *- m. No.33—lna polls Mail (daily).. 2:01p.m. <o.39—MUk accomm (daily).. 6:02 p m NORTH BOUND. <o. 4 —Mail (daily) 4.59 a. m. No.4o—MUk accomm. (dally) 7:81a.m. No.B2—Fast Mail (daily) 10.05 a. m. No. 6—Mail and Ex. (dally).. 8:17 p. m. No.3o—Cln. to Chi. Ves. MaU 6:02 p. m No. 4 will atop at Rensselaer to lot off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowaii, Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct con.ection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, O. P. A„ W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen’l Mgr., CHAS. H, ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr 4 Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor. . j. h. 8. EUla Marshal) W. 8. Parks Clerk Chas. Moria n Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councilmen. Ist1 st Ward H. L. Brown 2nd Ward J. F. Irwin 3rd Ward mi Gerber At Large..C. G. Spitler, Geo. F. Meyers. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred LongweU Terms of Court-Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. *Warner Sheriff Louis P. Shirer Auditor James N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D. Allman Recorder J. w. Tilton Surveyor.....-.' W. F. Osborne Conmer w. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District ..Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' Court—First Monday of each month.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley Charles Mayl Carpenter J. W. SelmerGillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. WortleyJordan Tunis Snip. Keener John Bhirerivankakee Edward ParkisonMarlon George L. ParksMilroy E. J. Lane Newton Isaac Kight..........Uni0n 8. D. ClarkWheatfield Fred KarchWalker Ernest Lamson, Co. Suptßensselaer E. C. English. Rensselaer James H. Greenßemington Geo. O. Stembel........Wheatfield Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan township attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month; also at George Wortley’e residence, on the west side, the second Wednesday after the first Saturday of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. Telephone 52#-F. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-t. E. P. LANE. Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township attends to official business at his store In Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT