Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — Page 4

I JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT f. S. BABCOCK, EDITOR HMD PUBLISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 811 Advertising rates made kiYown on application. Entered as Second-Class Mall Matter June 8. 1908, at the postofflce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March A 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 25, 1914.

CONSTITUTION VOTE COUNTED.

•Official Figures Show 235,140 for Convention and 338,947 Against The tabulation of the official vote •on the questions of holding a constitutional convention and of appropriating money for a centennial memorial building was completed Friday in the office of the secretary of state. The proposition to call a constitutional convention was defeated by a majority of 103,SO7, the vote being 338,947 against the convention and 235,140 for it. On the centennial question the vote was 97,718 in favor of the appro priation and 406,700 against it.

BILLS INQUIRY NEARS END.

<4raa<l Jury Expected to Report on (Investigation This Week. Indianapolis, Jnd., November 22. --Although no announcement has been made as to when the grand iury will report it is expected by thoe in the court house by the middle of this week. Prosecutor Baker and James E. McCullough, assistant at-torney-general, who was with the prosecutor in the grand jury room when the evidence was heard, were before the grand jury yesterday. It is undertsood that for several days they have been looking into the questions of law involved, but whether those were discussed yesterday is not known. Plans are being made for the grand jury to begin its routine work this week. Those duties have been put aside since Oct. 8, when the legislative Inquiry begun. c ■

New Piano and Music Store Coming.

U. It. Lange, of li. it. Lange ii -on of I..aporte, was here yesterday and has leased temporarily quarters 'or a music store in rooms over the Home Grocery, in the rear of Geo. K. Meyers real estate office, and will open up about December Ist with a full line of pianos and other musical instruments, sheet music, phonograph records, etc. A> soon as be can secure downstairs quarters on a •several years’ lease, he will move into same, and the business now be log run at Laporte, which for the present is in charge of his son. will be moved here as soon its his lease expires there. Mr. Lange hits had years ex perience in the business, and repairs Pianos and other musical instruments attaches "piano players, etc. -He expects to locate in Rensselaer permanently and make this his home.

Card of Thanks.

We. wish to thank our friends and relatives lor their kindness and sympathy and floral offerings during the last illness and death of our dear mother, Mrs. Nancy Isahellb Yeoman —THE FAMILY.

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AT PUBLIC AUCTION 250 Ladies’, Children’s and Misses Winter Goats, All sizes and styles, to be sold at Public Auction on the street in RENSSELAER, IND. Saturday, November 28th. AT 2:30 P.M. HENRY HOGAN.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. —— c Most of the Rensselaer teachers will spend their Thanksgiving at their homes. Among the number Miss Rhuiley will accompany Miss White to the latter's home at Union Mills, Laporte county; Miss Dyer will go to her home near Lafayette, and Miss Stover to her home at Downer's Grove, 111.

Benjamin F. Hopkins, a son of S. 11. Hopkins formerly, of Barkley tp,, thid county, but resident of Wabash county, sends us $1.50 from Kremlin, Mont., and asks to have The Democrat sent to him for a year. He writes that he is holding down a claim of 160 acres, 5 miles south of Kremlin, which is a nice, good sized town, 15 miles west of Havre. Kremlin is the county seat of Hill county. He says: ‘‘l have a good-sized house and 20 acres ‘broke* ready to put in flax in the spring. We had a very dry season this year and no crops, but every one is looking for a good crop the coming year." ... *

About $1,800 Worth of Dressed Poultry Shipped From Parr.

About SI,BOO worth of dressed poultry was Shipped out of Parr on the milk train Monday and yesterday mornings, the shippers being farmers I hereabouts. There was 000 pounds in all, 4,000 Monday morning and r.,000 pounds yesterday morning. Practically all was turkeys. As it is expected to net the shippers about 20c per pound, the rwo days’ shipments will bring in about SI,BOO to the shippers. All was shipped 10 (’.hicago commission houses

Box Social.

There will be a box social at tilt Surrey school on Saturday evening, Nov. 28. Everybody welcome.

Multiplicity of Laws a Present Day Evil

By ELIHU ROOT, United plates Senator From New York

AMERICAN procedure ought to follow as closely .as possible the methods of thought and action of American farmers and business men and workmen. THE LAW IS MADE NOT FOR LAWYERS, BUT FOR THEIR CLIENTS, and it ought to he administered, st> far as possible, along the lines of laymen’s understanding ail'd mental processes. There is one special field in which I think we can greatly reform ourselves. That is in the application of our rules of evidence. There is no country in the world in which rules fur the exclusion of evidence arc applied with the rigidity and techniealitv obtaining iit tlit* I■ nited States. OUR TRIAL PRACTICE !N THE ADMISSION AND EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE DOES NOT AGREE WITH THE COMMON SENSE, THE EXPERIENCE OR THE INSTINCTS OF ANY INTELLIGENT LAYMAN IN THE COUNTRY. And as a consequence, while we are aiming to exclude matters which our rules declare to lie incompetent or irrelevant or immaterial, we are frequently also excluding the truth.

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Circumstantial

By DONALD CHAMBERLIN

The lawsuit between the MacGregor and MacAlLster estates bad been decided in favor of Fergus Mac Alister, cousin to Alexander MacGregor, who had been long In possession of the estate. Both were bachelors, and, neither having children, the property would have gone In any event to MacAlister had his cousin continued to live single. But Fergus had heard that Alex was about to be married, and, since there was a doubt as to whether he or his cousin was legally entitled to the estate, he bad commenced suit to gain It MacGregor was too honorable to permit Helen Cameron to become his wife till It was decided whether he would be rich or poor, and when the case was decided against him he released her. He made preparations to leave the liomestead to his cousin, and when all was ready and he was about to leave Fergus drove np to the homestead, alighted aud went Into the house. Andrew Cummings, a cobbler, was passing that way at G o’clock in the evening. He noticed Mac Alister’s chaise before the gate, and at the moment Alex MacGregor came out evidently In a rage and passed down the road. Mac Alister did not return to his home to dinner, and, since it was known that be bad gone to the homestead during the evening, a servant was scut to lind out if possible if he was there. He found his master lying on the floor of the library dead. His skull had been fractured, apparently with an iron poker that showed signs of having inflicted the blow. Alexander MacGregor was suspected, but it was not till Andy Cummings told of what he had seen that Alex was arrested. His story was that just before leaving the homestead his cous in had come in. The meeting was a trying one to Alex, who had just been dispossessed He had upbraided his cousin, saying that he had not a cent in the world and knew not where to go for a lodging. Fergus had taken out a ha Dd ful of gold pieces and offered them to him. Alex tiad scornfully declined to take them and bad left the house in an excited state of mind MacGregor’s misfortune was too much for Helen Cameron, who, despite her father’s commands, visited him In jail and sat lieslde him during the trial, declaring that she would marry him. whatever the verdict might be. Since no one saw the murder committed her lover was not convicted, but there were few but believed that he had killed his cousin. Indeed, there was a special for Ids putting Fergus out of theVvay, for at Fergus’ death he came agaiu into possession of the estate he had lost.

For a time Alex refused to permit Helen to make the sacrifice of marryinc a man who had been convicted hr opinion if not by the courts. But when it was found that if she were not per niitted to bear her burden with him her life would still be wrecked his parents begged Alex to withdraw his opposition. The pair were married privately and lived, uot where the minder had been committed, but at Hel en’s borne. Alex drooped under the stigma of lie ing considered his cousin’s murderer He was cut by his old friends, and liad it m»t been for his wife not a human being would have crossed bisthresh old. Life to him was an intolerable burden. He preferred death t<> such a life. <>ne day his wife went to the homestead to examine the room where her husband had told her he had had an interview with Fergus with a view to discovering a clew to the real mur derer. She made a search of the room where the corpse had been found and under a baseboard caught a glimpse of something yellow. Withdrawing the object it proved to be a gold sever eign. MacGregor had told of the offer of the gold pieces by his cousin, but had no proof of his story Helen, without a word to her husband, took the sovereign to her lawyer. He earned it to t!ie only bank in the vicinity, and after an investigation it was learned that they had received a considerable number of sovereigns of the sa mc'coln age (IS4S) just before the date of the murder and on the morning of the day Mac Alister was killed had paid him lif ty of them. The piece Helen had found was the only one that was traced up to this time. Andy Cummings some time aft er the murder was remembered by one of bis neighbors to have offered a gold sovereign to be changed into silver The attorney got out a warrant to search Andy’s premises, and five sover eigns, ertnage of 1848, were found in a stocking hidden under the eaves of his cabin. • 1 Andy was arrested. He at first ex plained having the sovereigns in his possession by the statement that Mac Allster had owed him money, but when pressed for What the debt was for he broke down and made a confession. . Ou seeing MacGregor come out of the homestead curiosity had moved him to go in and investigate the cause of his wrath. In the library he had found ou a table the gold 4 Fergus had offered Alex. Cupidity seized him. He was gathering them In when Fergus appeared. A struggle followed. Andy seized the poker by the flrepiaee, struck his opponent on the head and killed him. To divert suspicion from himself be had told what be had seen.

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Appeal For Fairness In Judging Warring Nations

By Professor FELIX ADLER, Author and Lecturer

TULL neutrality is a disposition to be fair minded toward those against whom we are biased. Many, however, wishing to assume a spirit of fairness blame the war on the German emperor, holding

the .idea that at the mere wave of an autocrat’s ha n (1. millions will march. This is absurd. It is childlike to suppose that the emperor is an absolute ruler, lie stands merely for national unity. In view of this fact it is impossible to condemn th e emperor with-

out condemning the German people. If you are going to condemn the German people and hope for their dissolution as a nation you must ask, How is it that these unworthy people have given to the world a philosophy more like that of the ancient Greeks than anv other na* tion has succeeded in doing? Again, are we to forget her contributions in art and music? If so we arc unfair. TO BE TRULY NEUTRAL IN THE HIGHER BENSE OF THE WORD WE MUST HAVE AN APPRECIATION OF WHAT EACH NATION HAS CONTRIBUTED TO CIVILIZATION. MINGLED WJTH AN UNENDING GRIEF FOR THE PRESENT SITUATION.

Notice to Our Patrons and Friends. Our store will be open from seven until wine o'clock a. in., Thanksgiving day, November 26.—E. VANARSDEL & CO.

The Democrat still has a Tew copies of Rev. Father Krnll’s book, “A History of Religious Denominations,” left, and until the supply is exhausted a copy will be given free with all paid-in-advance subscriptions, new or old.

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[Under this head notices will be published for l-eent-a-word for the first insertion, 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-(lv« cents, but short notices coming within the above rate, will be published two or more times — as the case may be—for 25 cents. Where rep Hes are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sal©—White oak posts, extra good ones.—J. C. BORNTRAGER, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 929-A. For sale—A nice lot of White Holland gobblers. Your choice for S4.—Phone 30-D. Mt. Ayr, MRS. JAMES ELIJAH. n-30 For Sale or Trade— One 3-year-old l ay gelding, wt. 1300; one 2-year-old black mule. For sale or will trade for stock cattle—FßED PHILLIPS. For Sple—-A Webster’s international dictionary, indexed, full sheep binding, in good condition, at onefourth regular (‘•ost.—THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale—Two Shorthorn bull calves; pure bred; also brown leghorn chickens and white African guineas.—W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, R-4, phone 949-H. ts For Sale—My farm of 120 acres in Jasper county, 2% miles northeast of MeCoysburg." A bargain if taken soon.—J. H. PURSIFULL, Poneto, Ind. dec-1 For Sale—lo acres good black land, all in cultivation, fair buildings. fruit, etc.; onion land close that can be rented, $1,500; SSOO cash, time on balance to suit; 7% miles Rensselaer. —J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Tnd.

For Sale—Farms or different sizes in this and adjoining counties, and some for exchange. Also city and town property for gale and exchange. List your property with me and 1 will promise a squ re deal. Choice alfalfa, wheat, corn and pasture lands for sale from $25 and up.— JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff Jaspor county. Rensselaer, Inu.

For Sale—22o acres Improved Newton county land, four miles from market, 160 acres Under cultivation and best tiled quarter in western Indiana, balance meadow and timber pasture. Fair improvements. Price $75 per acre for quick sale. Reasonable terms to right party. If Interested write or wire.—J A. WELLS, Aledo, Illinois. Subscribe for The Democrat.

WANTED Sewing Wanted—At my. home in Parr, at James Longstreth’s..—MßS. MYRA CASEY. . d-6 Wanted—A couple of family washings, good work done.—For name of party inquire at this office. Wanted at Once—Local and traveling salesmen in this state to represent us. There is money in the work for YOU soliciting for our easy selling specialties. Apply now for territory.—ALLEN NURSERY CO., Rochester, N. Y. FOR RENT

For Rent—The rooms over Rhoads’ grocery, which wil be vacated by the telephone company by October l Enquire at RHOADS’ GROCERY. LOST. Lost—Nov. 4, between Reynolds and Rensselaer, one pillow and a large basket of clothes. A reasonable reward will be paid the finder. —JOE WILSON, Parr, Ind. n-26

Lost—Handbag containing two ladies’ handkerchiefs, >sß in small envelope, and small purse containing $5 in paper money, between Center school house and Rensselaer. Return to this office and receive reward.— MRS. C. B. WELLS. miscellaneous. Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., oh third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Rug Making—Hand-made Eureka rugs, colonial rugs, rag rugs and carpets made to order at residenoe on south Scott street.—T W rk. SBNDEN. **

Mutual Insurance—Fire and light"f^ 80 B * ate cyclone. Inqulrb of M. I. Adams, phone 633-L. FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on [y.® . property in any mi ms H p to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans-r-i am making farm loans at the lowest rates of Internal Ten year loans without commission and without delay.— JOHN A. DUNLA r. ~ I flnt lhftl wltlloul DUay * if I I r Commlsr on, I UOI lIIU ( Without Charges foi H Making or Record in* Instrumenta. W. H. PARKINSON ,