Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1912 — Page 2

College Education

N 1791 Daniel Webster’s father, who was a captain under Gen. ■'John Stark in the Revolutionary war, was made a judge of the local court at a salary of about $350. This success turned his attention to giving his children that which he had irretrievably lost —an education. Such was the genius of the new institutions to which our independence gave rise and so, great was the controlling power'of the people in political affairs, through the elective franchise, that it was apparent to all thoughtful men ' that general intelligence among the masses of the people was essential to the healthful "working and the perpetuity of the

new form of government. Not only therefore (lid state legislatures and the municipal officers of the various towns give special consideration to educational matters, but men of wealth, under the influence of patriotism, contributed freely of their own private funds for the endowment of schools and colleges. When Daniel Webster was fourteen years of age his father took him to Exeter academy. Daniel’s education was determined upon because of the fear that the heavy work of a farmer would be, too severe a task for Daniel, who was weakly as a boy, and Daniel was sent to school that, according to the custom of the times, he could teach school in winter and work on the farm, if his health allowed, in the summer. After a year at Exeter he was sent to the school of Rev. Samuel Wood, who prepared boys for college at one dollar a week for tuition and board. It was while on their way to Mr. Wood’s that Daniel’s father first held out to him the hope of sending him to college, an advantage Daniel had never aspired to in his most ambitious moments. Daniel wept from excessive joy. How different were his feelings from those of many at the present day, who when the privilege of a college education is offered them, regard the proposition as an affliction so great that they cry from sorrow. The golden opportunity thpy throw away and when too late to repair the disaster deeply regret their folly. . k You will not always be boys. In a few years you must take your place among men and in order to be qualified to exert much influence over them you must know something. Every boy now in school, every young man now in college is placed in an enviable position; by rightly improving his advantages he will qualify himself to occupy important positions. If you would have your opinions respected, your advice sought, and hope to be looked to to fill places of trust, you must be educated. Who would have supposed that the puny, awkward, backwoods lad, in homespun clothes and rustic manners, who was made the object of ridicule, would astonish mankind with his eloquence, settle through the skillfulness, of his diplomacy some of the most difficult problems of international government and attain

Speed Limit Law Is Really Only Remedy

By W. O. JENKINS

hurtianity cries out against the conditions that make such accidents possible. : Certain kinds of accidents have occurred in the past that today are impossible because the conditions under which such accidents could occur have been eliminated. The locomotive engineer, when he has a warning signal of danger, is required to have his engine under perfect, control. This means that he can proceed only at such speed that when the danger is realized his engine can be brought to almost an instant stop, and th is on a private right of way. Why are these life destroying engines allowed to use the crowded public highways at a speed absolutely beyond the control of the operator, and our newspapers publishing’the death list of their victims day After-day. -A speed limit law consistent with safety'and the strict enforcement of that law is the only remedy.

Great Prize of Life Comes by Accident

By GEORGE B. BRUCE, Chica

Some are moved forward to eminence by chance, sickness, accident, death or having kinship with the men they work for, while a more worthy worker is left behind. ' * Yow know what it means to be in the right place at 'the right time, although your being there was not of your own calculation. I oo many people in this world take great credit upon themselves for what they are, when if'it were not for the fact that they were lucky they would be no better off than their less fortunate neighbors. For that matter, they are lucky to be well, strong and of good, sound mind. It is of none of their doings they are such, because if a man is born of good health and strength it is chance. If he does not dissipate and drink he is lucky^—lucky not to have the disposition to do so. * 7

By MADISON C. PETERS

an eminence immeasurably higher than any official distinction within the gift of the people ? It is no more unlikely now that you may acquire distinction than it was in his case when he was pf your age. Mere money makers can succeed without education. But money making is not the highest kind of success. The demand for thoroughly trained men today is greater than the supply. The best jobs go begging for the right men to fill them.

Day after day the modern juggernauts sweep through our crowded streets, claiming their human victims without a hand effectually raised in protest. The other day in Chicago a young and talented girl, just budding into womanhood, dn her way to the high school where she was soon .to finish her work to fit her for life’s duties, was suddenly hurled to the pavement and her crushed and bleeding body hardly removed before life was extinct. ' The coroner’s jury exonerated the driver of the automobile. Perhaps the verdict was legally correct. It was an accident. But

The great prize of life may come by accident. Shakespeare says: “Fortune brings in somb boats that are not steered.” We must all admit that happenings and unforeseen events -over which a man has no control often change the whole course of his career. Good positions do not always come by merit, as the result of one’s own direct es--1 forts. Many a poor laboring man is raised to wealth by the death of some rich relative or some poor washerwoman is raised to high position by marrying a man of fortune. ■"

Demand for Trained Men Greater Than Supply

THE SAVIOR'S TEACHINGS BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

“ABOUT MY FATHER’S BUSINESS.” Luke ii, 40-52—Feb. 11. “2fotz>i 4s it that ye sought Met WUt ye riot that- I must be about Uy Father's business f”—V. 49. CHE WONDERFUL 3A BE of Bethlehem “grew amt waxed strong, filled with wisdom: turd the grace of God was upon Him." The perfect boy was of course far in advance of imperfect children. The schooling privileges of today were unknovvn. The education gleaned by the masses came to them chiefly through contact with their elders; history itself being handed down from generation to generation, except for the scholarly. Few had more opportunities than this—few were able to read; but Jesus was amongst those few—not because

of schooling privileges in His youth, but because of

His brilliant mind, which retained everything that came to it. The superiority of the abilities of Jesus are attested by the . fact that when He entered the synagogue of His home city, Nazareth. His tal-

ent as a reader and exponent wasi so generally recognized that the service was usually turned over to Him., (Luke iv, 16.) Yet the people marvelled, saying, How comes it that Jesus is a man of letters, having never gone to school? And they all bare Him witness and wondered at the grace of His speech. (Luke iv, 22.) ' The explanation is that Jesus was perfect, while all aboyt Him were imperfect. Our lesson relates particularly to an incident which occurred when Jesus was twelve years old. His “parents” obeyed the Mosaic Law by attending the Feast of Passover at Jerusalem every year, and on this occasion Jesus was with them. The expression, “parents,” does not imply that Saint Luke supposed Joseph to be the father of Jesus any more than that Mary so considered the matter when she spoke 6? Joseph as being His “father.” He was the foster father of Jesus. The language is in exact harmony with what we would use under such circumstances today. Jesus knew of His peculiar birth and of the great prophecies which centered in Him, related by Gabriel to His mother, and He was on the alert to fulfil His mission—the will of the Heavenly Father. He surmised that since at twelve years of age Jewish boys came under the requirements of the Law Covenant, this arrangement might possibly have been made as an indication of His proper course. Therefore He resolved to consult the very highest authorities respecting the teachings of the Law on this subject. He sought intercourse with the learned

Scribes and Pharisees and Doctors. ■ During a considerable part of the time of the Passover Feast the great men | of His nation were engaged in public functions, and lienee His best opportunity for conference with them was at the close of the feast, and whenever He could gain their attention. When the time came for the return journey He had not finished His investigations of the Scripture teachings on this point. His parents, thinking that He was in the company with some of their relatives, went a day’s journey homeward before they ascertained that He was not in the company. Then they returned and sought.. Him and finally found Him in the temple dis-

“They found him in the Temple.”

amenable to the Law, none could enter upon a teaching or preaching service until thirty years of age. Jesus Increased In Wisdom. In the last verse of our study we read: "Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” It was not a boy who was to be the Redeemer, even as it was not a boy who had sinned. Jesus, therefore. to be a “corresponding price” for Father Adam and the race which lost life in Him, needed first to be developed into manhood. ( • For eighteen years He kept growing In wisdom and in grace of character. He did not grow inf the Father's favor in the sense of becoming less sinful and more righteous, but In the. sense of becoming developed—reaching human perfection. Just so a piece of ■ fruit in growing may be as perfect of its kind at the beginning as at the end. but it grows in size and in rich-, ness of flavor and therefore in the appreciatipn of the owner. So with Jesus. The perfect babe became, the perfect boy; the perfect boy becanie the perfect youth; the perfect youtl;'became the perfect man; and at -thirty years of age was ripe and ready to be offered as an acceptable sacrifice of sweet savoi to God, on behalf e£mankind—“the Just for the unjust”

“They went up to Jerusalem."

cussing the question which to Him was the allimportant one of the hour the tiine_ .at which public ministry might be begun, according to the Law. Evidently He had just finished His quest and found that, although a boy at twelve became

FARM BARGAINS. 60 acres—Near station and school, at heart of dredge ditch, all level productive land, in cultivation except five acres in timber. Improvements are a good two-story fourroom house, good small barn and good well. Price 145. Terms, S7OO down. 80 afres—-All black land in cultivation, near school and churches, touches large ditch, a fine outlet for drainage and is'all in cultivation. Improvements are a good two-story six-room house, good barn for ten horses, steel tower windmill, with good well and 25 bearing fruit trees. Only $45. Terras, $4,000 down. 21 acres—Four blocks from the court house. - 1.65 acres—Highly improved, half mile of the corporation of this city. Will sell in small tracts from ten to 80 acres at right prices.. 599 acre ranch—Good improvements. Will trade or sell on easy payments. 160 acres in Kansas, 160 acres in Arkansas, a $5,000 mortgage and other property to trade rot land or property. Will put in cash or assume. GEO. F. MEYERS.

BIG PUBLIC SALE The undersigned will sell at public sale at his residence on the H. O. Harris farm 5% miles west of Rensselaer, % mile south and 1 % miles east of Mit. Ayr; IT miles east of Morocco, beginning at 10 o’clock a. m., on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1912, 7 Head of Horses— Consisting of 2 black colts coming 3 years old; 1 brown horse 8 years ojd, good one, automobile broke wt. 1000; 1 gray mare 5 years old, wt. 1400; l.gray mare 5 years old, wt. 1200; .1 bay horse* 9„ years old, -wt. 1100, lady broke .9 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 1 Hereford cow 5 years old, fresh in spring; 1 black, calf by side; 3 heifer summer calves, Herefords; 4 steers summer calves, Herefords, good ones. . 28 Head of Hogs— Consisting of 25 shoats, wt. about 80 to 100; 3 brood sows, 2 Poland Chinas and'' 1 Duroc, bred to pure blood Berkshire boars. 10 Head of Sheep— Consisting of 10 ewbs bred to pure bred Hampshire buck. Farm Implements— of 1 Deering binder, 8 loot cut; tongue trucks, good as new; 1 Superior disc drill, 7 .foot practically new; 1 McCormick mower 5 foot cut; 2 corn planters; 1 Oliver gang plow; 1 John Deere potato digger; 1 Case check rower, 80 rods wire and fertilizer attachment; 1 Moline, with 80 rods wire; 1 farm wagon, broad tire trippie box; 3 riding cultivators, good ones; 2 sets farm harness; 1 7-foot Budlow spader, good as new with trucks; and other articles too numerous to mention. This sale is given to reduce stock on account of dividing the

WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABOUT THIS ’

To the People of Jasper County: “THIS TELEPOST MUST BE CRUSHED OUT, REGARDLESS OF THE COST.” In these words a prominent Wall Street financier announced that the ’lnterests” had declared war on us and on you. Why he wished to crush it, —the many attempts to ruin it, —why they failed, —the great benefits of the Telepost to you and to the entire country,—and how, with your co-operation, it can never be crushed,— prompt me to address you. It concerns you. It is your fight as well as ours. The Telepost is an independent telegraph company owning a system of automatic machine telegraphy recognized as the highest development to date in its field. It is in active commercial operation between Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities of the Middle West, with the lowest rates and best service ever given in the United States. Its purpose is to extend these advantages to all parts of the country. It gives a flat rate, regardless of distance, of one-quar-ter cent to one cent a word, according to service furnished. It sends 1,000 words a minute on one wire and allows telephone conversation over it at the same time. By all other methods it requires iroir. seventeen to ixty wires to do what the Tercpust does on one. For over thirty-five years there has been no real competition in telegraphy. The Interests behind this utility control it more completely than the Steel, Beef/ Tobacco and Oil Trusts control their respective lines and products. By means of “Gentlemen’s Agreements,” admitted under oath to the New York Legislature, they have stifled competition, extorting, according to former Postmaster-Geperal John Wanamaker, $100,000,000 from the people in exorbitant charges for an indifferent service. The purpose of these “Agreements” is to maintain present high charges, and to block (the introduction of any better system by others. The metho'ds employed to destroy the Telepost have been notoriously unfair, and un-American:—Spies dogging the footsteps of visitors to our offices; men of prominence, associated with us, threatened; employees bribed to betray us; timid shareholders stampeded into sacrificing their shares; our wires mysteriously cut, and our customers urged to leave us; Periodical*, and other publications, in alliance with the money powers behind the telegraph interests, have maliciously attacked us in order to discourage popular support for our enterprise, in much the same manner as they did Alexander Graham Bell when he introduced the telephone. .(. ' | With the low rates of the Telepost, the wires will be used almost as freely as the mails. We plan to build a line from our terminal in Chicago to New York, having secured entrances into both cities and practically all of the right-of-way. This line will pass near your town, with which we shall ultimately connect it. The New York-Chicago line will put the Telepost on such a solid and big dividend-paying basis that exten- , sions to all parts of the country will rapidly follow. The opposition has declared that it will make it impossible for us to build this extension by PREVENTING OUR GETTING THE MONEY NEEDED. In this they do not reckon on your having anything to say, and seemingly forget that the original telegraph lines were built,—not by Wall Street, —but, with profit to themselves, by the merchants, farmers and small investors of the country who were independent of capitalistic •

farm, and all the articles enumerated With ’ positively be sold. A credit o 10 months ill be given on sums over $ 0, wirh usual conditions; 6 per cent T cash. P. B. DO' NS. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G. Spitler, Clerk. Hot lunch on ground. BIG PUBLIC SALE The | undersigned will sell at public auction on the V illiam Washburn farm in Jordan tp., 4% miles south and 4 miles west of Renisselaer and 4 miles east of Fcresman, commencing at 10:30 a. m„ on WEDNESDAY, FEB. 28, 1912, 11 Head of Horses and Mules— Consisting of 1 bay mare. 7 years oi.d, wt. 1400; 1 black mare 7 years old, wt. 1 400, in oal; 1 black mare 8 years old, wt. 130 O’; in foal; 2 black geldings coming 3 years old, wt. 2300; 1 black gelding comling 2 years, wt.. 900; 1 black driving mare 11 years old, wt. 1100; 2 mules 12 years old, wt. 2300; 1 bay house foaled by Nelson. coming 1 year old; 1 black mare colt by Gabon, coming 1 year old.

4 Head of Cattle— Consisting of 1 fresh cow, calf by side; 1 cow 3 jeans old, will be fresh in April; 1 steer calf 2 years old, 1120 lbs.; 1 steer 1 year old, 500 lbs. 7 Head of Hogs— Consisting of 1 brood sow due to farrow April 1; 6 shoats, wt. 90 lbs. each. Farm Tools, Implements, Etc.— Consisting of 1 Deering binder, 8 fqpt with trucks; 1 Osborne mower, 6 foot; 2 Oliver sulky breaking plows; 2 Avery cultivators; 1 Janesville No. 5 corn planter, 80 rods wire; 1 J. I. Case cultivator; 1 disc; 1 spike tooth harrow; 1 Advance endgate seeder; 1 Cordon wagon, with double box and combination bed; 1 2-horse sled; 1 open top buggy; 1 buggy pole; 1 set of britching harness; 1 Oliver steel breaking walking plow, No. 4 04; 1 double shovel plow; 1 scoop board and other too numerous to mention. A credit of 10 months will be given on sums over $lO, with usual conditions; 6 per cent off for cash. JAMES W. BROOK. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. C. G.. Spitler, Clerk. Hot' lunch on ground. "■ ——— ll 1 j . Contracts for the Sale of Real Estate The Democrat now keeps in stock 'n—-its legal blank department contracts for the sale of real estate, just what real estate men have oeen wanting for a long time. Saves much time and labor and are in the best legal form. In quantities of 100 or more, one cent each; 25c per dozen; two for sc. Subscribe for The Democrat

control or influence. We propose to build the Telepost lines in the same way. However determined the “Interests” may be to stop us we want you to help us show that in spite of Wall Street opposition there is enough manhood and civic pride in this country to insure the completion of a monumental work of this kind without either the help or sanction of any moneyed combination, however powerful. . There is more telegraph business between these two cities than between any other two cities in the world. Our lower rates and better service will give us the hulk of this profitable business. The old line companies estimate the average cost to them per message to be about thirty cents. On the same volume of business the cost to the Telepost would be only eleven cents over sixty per cent. less. Thus with the people behind us our position in this fight is impregnable. • The profits will.be unusually substantial and increasingly large from year to year. Every sr,ooo invested by the original shareholders in Western Union in iBsB received up to 1890 cash and stock dividends amounting to 5150,000. Original investors in telephone shares fared even better. Telepost cannot be bought, sold or merged by Y als ’. Its . sh a r es are safeguarded frqm stock market manipulation by its Board of Voting Trustees ■among whom are Rear-Admiral Sigsbee, U S N • General Buffington, U. S. A.; Rev* Dr. Charles H Parkhurst, former Senators Faulkner of West Virginia and Blair of New Hampshire. Could be fairer, safer or more desirable to the small investor? The New York-Chicago line will cost only S9OOOOO I%, ra / Se 5900,000 we offer 90,000 shares at $lO each (Par value). These shares are full-paid and nonassessable. The company has no bonds or preferred stock. This sum may look large, but if only a small s* Um i£ r J n ea - Ch co . mi ? lunit y invited to join our 15000 stockholders m building this line, take a few shares each, the entire amount will be easily raised and she line completed and in operation by the Fall All Te'» post progress achieved to date is due to the support of ffi their hand? 1 V IZenS and itS futUre is n their hands. You may buy as many as you choose ten t /h r r StimUl k tlng siness 9.000 men and women with ten shares each would mean much more for the Telepost than one subscriber with the entire 90,000. If you are with us in this fight,—and if you desire to share in the great profits and credit which will follow the completion of this line, write your name, address and the num- *, sh y e 8 wanted, on the attached coupon, and mail New York.° r m ° ney order tO me direct . care Telepost. President. ——-- > ’ _ .Name Address ... ... • ’ _ ♦ ' ' J No. Shares 1 -;'

"A Welcome Chance to Those Who Suffer” Coming to Rensselaer, Indiana > Saturday and Sunday * Feb. 17-18,1912 To stay at Makeever House • DR. ALBERT MILTON FINCH of Jamestown, Ind. Consultation and' Examination Cofidential; Invited and FREE. - - - \ ■■ A From a late snapshot. I will be in your city at Makeever House on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 17 and 18, to see people that are afflicted with chronic diseases. I have visited your city every month for a long time. I have ’ treated and cured many that were given up to die. Why suffer when you can get cured. Come and I will examine you free of charge. If l you wish will put you on treatment at once. I charge by the month, and prices so low the’very poorest | can be treated. If incurable I will . not take your case, but will give you advice that may prolong life many years. Have cured more hopeless cases than any doctor in Indiana. Hemember I treat all Chronic-' Cases.

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