Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Page 3

COMING TO RENSSELAER Associated Specialists will be at Makeever Hotel Friday, December 6 ONE DAY ONLY Remarkable Success of These Talented Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. OFFER THEIR SERVICES FREE ( OF CHARGE. <, The Associated Specialists licensed by the State of Indiana for the treatment of deformities and all nervous and chronic diseases of men, women and children, offer to all who call on this trip, consultation, examination, advice free, making no charge whatever, except the actual cost of the medicine. All that is asked in return for these valuable services is that every person treated will state the resqlt obtained to their friends and thus prove to the sick and afflicted in every city and locality, that at last treatments have been discovered that are reasonable, sure and certain in their effect. These doctors are considered by many former patients among America s leading stomach and nerve specialists and are experts in the treatment of chronic diseases, and so great and wonderful have been their results that in many cases it is hard indeed to find the dividing line between skill and miracle. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver, blood, skin, nerves, heart, spleen, kidneys or bladder, rheumatism, sciatica, diabetis, bed-wetting, leg ulcers, weak lungs and those afflicted with long-standing deepseated, chronic diseases, that have baffled the skill of the family physicians, should not fail to call. If you are troubled with piles you should be sure to call. Don’t wait for more serious complications to tell you of the dangers of this cruel disease, act now. The Associated Specialties have cured cases where doctors and even operations have utterly failed. A cure in the most severe case is practically certain. According to their system no more operations for appendicitis, gallstone, tumors, goiter or certain forms of cancer. They were among the first in America to earn the came of “Bloodless Surgeons,” by doing ?way with the knife, with blood and all pain. If jou have kidney or bladder trouble bring a two ounce bottle of your urine. Deafness often has been cured in sixty days. REMEBER, this free OFFER is for this trip only. Married ladies must come with their husbands and minors with their parents. Notice Of Final Settlement. State of Indiana, County of Jasper, ss: In the Jasper circuit couft, November Term, 1912. . .In the matter of the estate of Michael Zick, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as executor of the estate of Michael Zick, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate; and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said court thereon on the 7th day of December, 1912, at which time all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause, if any they may have, why said account and vouchers should not be approved. And the heirs of said estate and* all others interested therein, are also hereby required, at the time and place aforesaid, to appear and make proof of their heirship or claim to any part of said estate. ROBERT ZICK, Executor. Dated Nov. 20, 1912.

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Jf BUSINESS SYSTEM OF GCVERXMQIJ PUBLISHED BY THE BUSINESS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT STATE COMMITTEE OF THE INDIANA FEDERATED COMMERCIAL CLUBS

SERIAL NO. 2. Business System of Government Non-Partisan. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities is non-parti; san. The hatching-place and the refuge of the entire brood Of abases and vices in the government of cities is the party system of election and control. Any plan by which these evils are to be overcome must bebased upon non-partisan conduct of of the government after it is installed. In the Business System of Government the only elective body is the Board of Councilors. Each councilor is nominated by petition. He is placed on the ticket through a primary in which a non-partisan ballot must be voted and he is chosen at an election in which the ballot is also non-partisan. Party organization and machine, boss and henchman, are blotted out together. City government cannot be madj what it should become until this is done. Efficiency is impossible and complete freedom from corrupt practices is unlikely so long as there remains the system of parties and spoils through which to choose officials and operate government. Considerations of politics will continue to submerge questions of the public good. To remedy this situation the nonpartisan plan in the Business System was devised. It puts the politician down; it puts the citizen up. The voter can choose his own men. He does not have to take what a conclave of bosses has picked out for him. He does not have to mix in the dirt and turbulence of city politics in order to have a word as to whom his public servants and what his government shall be. He need no longer be bulldozed by heelers, threatened by bullies or outvoted by the organized riff-raff and colonized hoboes who play leading roles in “practical politics.” With his fellow citizens who are of his mind.he may peaceably join to do what shall to them seem best for the community. The merit of this cannot be overestimated. It will be the means of uniting, not continually dividing, the sentiments and opinions of men who, under normal conditions, are not apt to widely disagree upon what course will most greatly serve the public welfare. They will be concerned only with efficiency and progress in the city’s government. The government will go in with no political promises to make good, no bargains to fulfill, no deals to complete. The administration wifi be without debt or obligation. ItYwlll have nothing to look out for but'thii kind of government it renders the people. It will owe nothing to party; it cannot be terrorized by bosses; it cannot be. coerced by fear of future elections. It is the people’s government, by the choice of the people. Such a government cannot be molested or made afraid. Its whole duty Will be to the people. Failing in this, it will have to answer to a people no longer divided by the folly of partisan politics in their home government. The Board of Councilors. In the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities the Board of Councilors is the only elective body. The membership of this Board varies from nine to twenty-five, according to the class of the city. Any citizen of good character, three years resident in his city, is eligible. Councilors are elected at large from the city, and each is representative of the whole people, not a small fraction of the people, as in the ward system. At the first election half of the Councilors are elected for two years and half for four years. Every two years thereafter Councilors are elected for terms of four years. This makes the body continuous, with always men of experience on the hoard. The duties of the Councilors are: To appoint a Mayor and four Commissioners, the five to compose the Board of Administration and each of them to be head of one of the five executive departments of government; to appoint a board of two Election Commissioners and a Board of three Civil service commissioners; to fix the salaries of the Commlaslomers of these three boards; to finally approve all ordinances. franchises and public i grants; to finally pass upon the tax levy; to remove |the Mayor and any or all commissioners for cause; to receive.! require and publish reports upon city affairs; to cause the auditing of departments by experts- to order and conduct investigations of affairs concerning the city. The Board of Councilors makes no appointments other than the members of the Board of Administration, Board of Election Commissioners and Boai d of Civil Service Commissioners and therefore cannot convert the public service into patronage and spoils. It does not frame or 1 originate ordinances, execute the laws or apportion the revenues. There can be no log-rolling within the Board of Councilors for places of higher emolument in the service of the city. No Councilor is eligible to appointment as Mayor or Commissioner of Administration. The Board of Councilors is answerable to the people at all times. All or any part of the body may be recalled through petition and election. Under these checks the Councilors can serve no interests but those of the people. They must apFor further information addre { BUSIN E

point a Board of Administration that can make good and keep in office the men who do make good. They will search for expertness; they will require efficiency. They must exact satisfaction of the operating branch of the government for the people will demand satisfaction of the Councilors. A Councilor receives the nominal salary of S2OO a year. He may be reelected any number of times, and his services may become the source of great personal distinction and honor j as well as public affection by reason of prolonged and eminent usefulness to his city. The office will attract superior men of all classes. Honesty, common sense and public spirit qualify any citizen for the duties of Councilor. He may be a candidate if one hundred of his friends desire him to be and his campaign may be waged on his own merits independent of organizations and bosses. Why the Ward System is Abolished. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities abolishes the ward plan of representation in councils. The ward system in American cities has been the nursery of much that is dirty in politics, crooked in government and w-asteful of public money. No single feature of municipal rule of America has contributed more to the rise and spread of bossism and the growth and practice of corruption than this system of wards. It sets apart an arbitrary section of a city as a political unit with separate interests and concerns and with ! a representative of its own. If the ward plan had been invented to serve ! political corruption and public plunder it could not have better answered than it has the use that has been made of it. The ward is a minor fraction of the city. Control of it is comparatively easy, because the element that in a bossed ward makes up the balance of power is readily handled. The ward organization makes machine domination of the city possible. Dike the divisions of a great army their movements are commanded and controlled. Partisan division is what makes the ward birss powerful. Nevtheless, voters of the ward divide, according as they may be democrats j or republicans, and Mhese “good citizens” in about equal proportions go different ways, leaving the forces of .corruption to capture the fraction that is the easier to take. Patronage and spoils, petty bribery, unlawful privilege, free beer, free lunch, free lodging and the like control the elements that swing wards. This system of ward politics clears the way for that class of councilmen who, in many cities,have made the office a reproach. But not all nor even the worst of the evils of the ward system are politi- i cal or corrupt. The system of wards I disunites a city. It is apt to create and often does create as many separate, conflicting and mutually hostile j interests as there are wards. Legislation for the city becomes a matter of log-rolling and dicker, bargain and trade. The ward, each in the measure that its councilman is able to grab something for it, is legislated for, when the city as a unit should be looked after. The councilman i feels that he is charged directly with ! the concerns of only his own small j constituency and section. His re- j sponsibility being small, his vision is i narrow. Teamwork for the city is al-J ways difficult and frequently impos-! sible because the legislative and executive branches do not pull together. Often the two bodies are hostile, each i attempting to hamper the other. This is almost without exception true when, as frequently is the case, the councilmanic majority is of one party and the mayor and executive branch of another. Such a situation is confusing, demoralizing and permanently harmful to a community. The wards should be abolished. The system has in it nothing worth keeping and it has many things that do great hurt. The Business System of Government wipes out the wards in city rule. Each member of the Board of Councilors is elected at large and stands for the city as a unit, representing all the people sftid serving all the municipal interests. Worth of Clethee. Tho influence of clothes most continue to be. as It has been from tho beginning of hlstroy, either "sacred or or profane," a foremost factor la those foroes by which man’s destiny is golded. HU health and comfort, alms and purposes, social standing and business prosperity; everything indeed that makes his life worth living may be affected by It In directions never dreamed of by the tailor who, if he does not actually make man, is largely Instrumental In making him what he Is. The Peanut Flux. The last thing to recover from the effects of a big celebration 1b the flvecent bag of peanuts. It dwindles painfully during the ipflux of great crowds. Other foods remain comparatively stable In quantity for a fixed price, i but the mob diminishes the allowance i of peanuts for a nickel by half. Whence the Term “Gazette.’' The name “gasette” as applied to a newspaper is derived from a small Venetian sola, the price of the first aows sheet published there. w 3S SYSTEM COMMITTEE, Fort Wfivne. Ind.

BARBARA’S INVITATION

S REALLY don’t see how we could go out to Aunt Barbara's for Thanksgiving dinner this year,” Mrs. Maddox said thoughtfully. "You are sure she intends to ask us?” "Yes,” Mrs. Lawler returned. “Just as I was leaving town I met her on the street. She spoke of our being neighbors, and then she told me that she was going to ask you all out to an old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner. I wouldn’t have men* tioned it, but I supposed that you had your invitation.” “It would be fine to go there,” Marion remarked. “Her pumpkin pies are about three inches deep, and her turkeys are always cooked to a Titian brown and her cranberry sauce is so delicious—■” The youngest of the Maddox family was overcome by the fervor of this description. "Oh, let’s all go to Aunt Barbara’s for Thanksgiving!” he cried. "But I had hinted to Mary Thomas that we might ask her here,” said his mother. "Somebody else is sure to ask Mary,” declared Mariocl. "We have tickets for the Thanksgiving matinee." “Take ’em back.”

country for Thanksgiving. “I don’t see how I can get away,” Mr. Maddox said. But Mrs. Maddox had gone over to the enemy, and she proceeded to show how they could all leave the city late on Wednesday afternoon and return early on Friday morning, send regrets to the Grangers, return their matinee tickets and defer Mary Thomas’ dinner Invitation until Christmas time. “After all, Aunt Barbara is getting old and we ought to make an efTort to go,” Maddox said. So all the details were arranged and the famfily settled back in a state of expectancy, awaiting the written invitation. Every day the youngest Maddox met the postman, demanding a letter from his great aunt, but the days passed, and none came. During the last week before the holiday the Interest of the family became almost feverish. Four days before the feast Mrs. Maddox spoke of writing a note to Aunt Barbara accepting the alleged invitation conveyed by Mrs. Lawler. But the others argued that if Aunt Barbara had forgotten to send a formal invitation, she was not expecting a formal acceptance. "She takes silence for consent, and she’s too busy making pies to write,” Jack said. The day before Thanksgiving came around, but no letter from Aunt Barbara. The family held council at breakfast. “Of course, she expects us,” Marion observed. “She’s absent-minded, and she probably wrote a letter and stuck it behind the clock, waiting for somebody to go to the postoffice.” It was agreed that Maddox and Jack should return early from the office, then they would all take an evening train to the country and drop in on their aunt Just at bedtime. Mrs. Maddox told the cook and housemaid that they could go away immediately after lunch and not return until Friday. r 1: The Maddox family were almost ready for the train when the postman

left a letter in Aunt Barbara’s cramped writing. “H o w fortunate that we are all ready,” Mrs. Maddox said, as she tore open the envelope. “Here is our invitation now.” Aunt Barbara sent greetings to all and then went on to say that she bad lately seen Mrs. Lawler and told her that she was going to ask the Maddox family out to the country to Christmas dinner. “You must be sure to come,” she ended. “That’s why I am asking you so long before.”

“The youngest Maddox s«t up a loud wail. Marion called Mrs. Lawler “a stupid thing,” and the rest looked at each other with foolish smiles. This is the reason that on Thanksgiving day the Maddox family sat down to steak, boiled potatoes, and a sticky rice pudding.

Appropriate Souvenirs.

Homemade table souvenirs of any ort are especially appropriate for .iunksgiving.

And your father and I are asked to a whist party at the Grangers’ in the evening.” , “Send regrets.” “Well, wait and hear what your father and Jack say,” Mrs. Maddox said. When Maddox and Jack came home to dinner they were met with the news that Mrs. Lawler had seen Aunt Barbara, and that they were all to be invited to the

FARMS FOR SALE. $2,500 livery stock for farm. 160 acres, finely improved, near courthouse, at a bargain. Terms $5,000 down. 225 acres, in W«*-bington comity, Ind., n*ne miles north of Salem. This farm has 150 acres of bottom land, has house, good barn, 4 acres of peach orchard, is on R. F. D., and township high school 80 rods from farm. Will trade for property or farm near here. Large brick mill and elevator in Converse, Miami county, Ind., in first-clas3 condition, doing a good business. Will trade this plant clear for farm land or good property, 21 acres, five blocks from court house, cement walk and all nice smooth black land. 35 acres on main road, all good soil, has good small house, new barn and in good neighborhood. Price SSO; terms SSOO down. 80 acres, good house and outbuildings, all black land, all cultivation, large ditch through the farm, lies near station and school, gravel road, and in good neighborhood. Price $65, terms SSOO down. 97 acres, near station, school, on main road and lies between two dredge ditches giving fine outlet for drainage. All black land in cultivation. Good six-room house, large barn. Price $55. Terms. 99 acres, all good corn land and all in cultivation. Has large dredg ditch along one end giving fine outlet for drainage. This farm has fiveroom house, barn, good well, and orchard. Price S6O. Sell on easy terms or take good property or live stock as first payment. SO acres at a bargain. This tract of land lies in good neighborhood near school and station and on main road. It is level, a good part prairie and remainder timber, containing considerable saw timber. Wtl sell at the low price of $27.50 per acre Terras SSOO down. 190 acres, all black land, tiled, on gravel raod, telephone, al builinjrr as good as new, seven-room house, large barn, cribs and granery, wind mill and tanks, fine shade and lawn, woven wire fences and a model farm. Lies close in. Price only SIOO. A dredge boat for doing all kinds of dredge ditch work, in as good condition as nets, % size. Owner will trade for land or property and assume or pay difference. 160 acres—We have three 1 60-acre farms all well located on main roads near stations and school, nearly all black land and on dredge ditches, giving good drainage. Each farm has good house, good bare and good well. Can sel either farm for $47.50 and take SI,OOO as first paw rnent. Might take some live stock. Onion land as fine as the best, on dredge ditch adjoining station and on main road. Wil sell in tracts of 20 acres or more at $45. GEORGE F, MEYERS, - Rensselaer, Ind.

Holiday Oranges I will send to any address select oranges nicely packed upon receipt ©f $2,50 per box or $1.25 per half E- PEACOCK, Tarpon Springs, Fla - V Dec. 20. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT FOR COUNTY FARM SUPPLIES. is hereby Riven that on Mondav December 2. 1912, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county. Indiana, will receive sealed bids Up to 2 o'clock p. m for furnishing groceries, dry goods ami meat for the use of the county poor Asylum. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of eimmlsston ers of Jasper county. J- P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF BRIDGE LETTING. No. 1710. , Notice is hereby given that on Monday, December 2. 1912, the Board of Com missioners of Jasper County, Indiana wil! receive sealed proposals for the construction of a Steel Bridge in Barkley Township across the Jungles Ditch, on the line South of the n% of the nw quarter of Section 20, Township 30, Range e. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor s office, same to be aboqj feel long and 1C foot roadway. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law, and to be on file by ’ o’clock of said date. . The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners, of Jasper County. J P. HAMMOND. Auditor Jasper County.

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ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. Mark ix, 14-29—Dec. 1. "And Jesus said unto Sim. If thou const boMere; all iking* are possible to him that bolicreth.' Hark id. ti. JTyrnEN Jesus and the three faI vored Apostles came down from the Mount of Transfiguration where they had been enjoying the vision of the coming glory, they found the other nine Apostles at the foot of the mountain surrounded by a multitude. They had made several Ineffective attempts to cast out a demon from a boy whose father had brought him for the purpose. Jesus came promptly to the re-

lief of the Apostles and Inquired the nature of their trouble. The father explained. And Jesus answered. O faithless generation: How long shall I be with, you and in-ar with you? Bring him to

Me." They brought him, and immediately the spirit caused him to fall to the ground, wallowing and foaming. Jesus questioned bow long he had been tbns. The father answered. “From a child," and that often the spirit attempted to cast the boy into the fire or into the water to destroy him. “But if thou enlist do anything, have compassion on ns and help us.” “To Him That Bclieveth.” Jesus replied, "If thou canst believe; all things are possible to him that believeth.” How great stress the Lord lays every where Upon the exercise of faith in the Divine Power! “Without faith It is impossible to please God.” Those who cannot exercise the faith ennuot have the blessing which others may have who do exercise faith. This does not imply that {>eople who cannot now exercise faith will never get any blessing. On the contrary, by and by. during Messiah’s Kingdom, the way of faitii and obedience will be made so plain, so simple, that all will be able to follow it and to gain a reward—but a lesser reward than that now extended to those who can and do exercise faith and obedience. The reuson for this is manifest God Is now seeking a special class of the specially faithful and obedient, to be heirs of God and Joint-heirs with Jesus In His glorious Messianic Kingdom, and whom by aud by He will use in bestowing His blessing world-wide; and H© desires that in this class shall be only such as can exercise absolute faith in Him. lu this and other miracles the Lord required faith as the condition of the healing. He thus manifested forth His coming glory. During the Kingdom reign there will be such manifestations of Divine Power, and such assistance given to those willing to exercise faith, that all may profit thereby and experience the healings of their flesh and the casting out of every power of Satan and sin. The poor father retffifzed from Jesus’ words that he must exercise faith else

“Jesus took him by the hand. "

dered why the Master permitted the evil spirit to tear the boy and cause him pain, in leaving him. If He had power to cast him out. Fie also undoubtedly had power to control the manner of bis coming out. We can only surmise therefore that Jesus, on this and other occasions, allowed the evil spirit a measure of liberty in the method of leaving, and that this was for the very purpose of demonstrating how malicious and evil the spirit was which bad control; and thus the miracle was the more clearly seen, and the Lord more praised. "Many Said, ’Ha la Dead.*” The boy was left in an apparently dead condition, but Jesus took him by the band and raised him up. The lesson for os In this is that it is not only that the Adversary and his power be caat out from humanity, that the poor world needs, but they need Divine power for their uplift out of the mire of sin and death. According to the Scriptures, we are near the time when Satan will be bound, when all the influences of evil amongst humanity will be restrained. According to tbe Scriptures. also, this binding of Satan will be accomplished in a great "time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation.” and humanity* will be left in an almost dead condition. Tbe pride, tbe hopes, the ambition of men will perish in that awful trouble time; but the Master will be present in Kingdom power to uplift them.

Messiah’s Kingdom will not only bind the Adversary and forbid him to re-enter humanity and interfere with their affairs, but will for a thousand years do an uplifting work amongst the fallen and degraded members of our race, lifting tbeni up. up. up. until they will fully attain the Divine standard represented in Father Adam — from which condition he originally fell through disobedience.- and return to which condition has been secured for all through the merit of Jesus* sacrifice at Calvary.

"My son is possessed of a dumb spirit.”

his sou could not be recovered. With tears lie cried out, “Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief!” His faith got Its reward. Jesus commanded the evil spirit to come but of the boy aud enter no more into him. It may be won-