Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — Page 4

Self Sacrifice the Source of All Lasting

By Rev. Dr. W. S. RAINSFORD,

Eminent Divine

WE have had it dinned into bur ears by essayists, learned professors and the clergy that our age was given over to materialism and that the modern man’s god, whether he carried a

Rev. Dr. W. S. RAINSFORD.

eternally true, and only because it is true, the nations are steadily trooping forth today, old men and boys, nobles and common born, rich men forsaking their riches and poor men braving deeper poverty. And what for ? Just to give the best they have to the best they know. SELF SACRIFICE MAY BE AND SOMETIMES HAS BEEN MISDIRECTED. IF SO IT WILL FAIL OF ITS IMMEDIATE PURPOSE, BUT IT IS THE ROOT AND SOURCE OF ALL LASTING RELIGION.

America’s Ideals of Human Welfare More Advanced Than Those of Europe

By CHARLES W. ELIOT,

Emeritus of Harvard University

TIIE principal difference between } the people of the United States and the nations of Europe is a difference of ideals of human welfare and the means of promoting it. THE IDEALS OF THE UNITED STATES CONTAIN A MUCH LARGER ELEMENT OF LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND OF PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE FRUITS OF IN DI VID-1 UAL LIBERTY THAN ANY EU-1 ROPEAN NATION EXHIBITS' EXCEPT SWITZERLAND. Within the last few months 1 have been often asked in letters what America owes England. AMERICA OWES TO ENGLAND JOHN MILTON’S PREACHING OF CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY, A PREACHING CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH MANY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THAT GROUP OF BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO RISKED THEIR ALL IN THE LITTLE COLONY ON THE DESOLATE COAST OF MASSACHUSETTS, NOT IN SEARCH OF GOLD OR TRADE, BUT ONLY HOPING THAT THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN MIGHT BE FREE.

Man Made Laws Frequently Fail to Protect Women and Children

By Miss JULIA LATHROP,

Children's Bureau, United States Department oi Labor

JT really seems to me suffrage is one of the fundamentals of democracy. Certainly, if we are going to reach that higher plane of settling national and international differences by intellectual conferences rather than in the manner it is now being done in Europe, we mtist have the opinion of tire whole people as to what course to pursue. MAN MADE LAWS DO NOT ALWAYS COVER THE PROBLEMS. New Zealand for many years has been able to show the lowest infant death rate in the world. Women have had the suffrage in New Zealand for a generation. WE CANNOT GIVE ABSOLUTE PROOF IN THE MATTER, BUT IT IS VERY SIGNIFICANT THAT WHERE THE WOMEN HAVE THE MOST TO SAY IN THE NATIONAL HOUSEKEEPING THE BEST PROTECTED CHILDREN ARE FOUND.

dinner’ pail or hired a French c o'o k. was his bcllv. WE KNOW BETTER NOW. IT IS BEFORE ALL PRECEDING AGES AN IDEALISTIC AGE. Jes u sssa d, “Man cannot dive by bread alone,” and because this is mysteriously.

President

Head of

BAKERS OF THREE STATES GATHER

5,000 Delegates Are Expected to Attend Meeting. i - ' SESSIONS FOR THREE DAYS J Entertainment Features Include Automobile Race at Speedway— Headquarters Will Be at Hotel Severin. Indianapolis.—One of the biggest conventions that Indianapolis will have this spring will be the tristate convention of the Master Bakers’ association, on May 24, 25 and 26, An attendance of 5,000 is expected. Headquarters of the delegates will be at the Hotel Severin. Arrangements have been tentatively outlined by Robert Bryce, general chairman, and the chairmen of other committees. It has been decided that one day shall be given over to special automobile races at the Speedway, with prizes aggregating nearly SI,OOO, and that there will be theater parties and a banquet at the Hotel Severin. There will also be an elaborate exhibit of tools and machinery at the hotel. The association will pay all bills contracted by the delegates while in Indianapolis. In addition to Mr. Bryce, the local men in charge of the convention are C. R. Russ, general secretary; August Thau,' chairman finance committee; J. CConsodine, secretary finance commitee; A. L. Taggart, chairman entertainment committee; W. J. Slate, chairman ladies’ entertainment committee; C. R. Russ, chairman badge committee; P. A. Bessire, chairman publicity and program* committee. Officers of the association are: Chairman, Frank Middleton, Marion; secretary, W. G. Herbold, . Cincinnati, O.; treasurer, George C. Schneider, Cincinnati, O. On the evening of February 9 the executive committee, of the association will hold a special meeting at the Hotel Severin to complete arrangements.

Woman Member of G. A. R. Dies. New Albany.—Lucy Nichols, sev-enty-two years old, the only negro member in the United States who is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and pensioner as an army nurse, died here. She came to the camp of the Twenty-third Indiana regiment, known as the New Albany regiment, in Tennessee in 1861 and remained with the regiment throughout the war, coming with the soldiers to this city, where she had since resided. She had been a conspicuous figure at the annual reunions of the Twenty-third regiment and at the Memorial day exercises at the National Soldiers’ cemetery here. Several years ago she was made an honorary member of Sanderson Post, G. A. R._ and members of the post obtained for her a, pension by a special act of congress. Shot Ten Times, Unhurt. Hammond.—Friends of Frank Wiroski, head of Erie- detective force for the Huntington-Chicago division, say he bears a charmed life. After a thrilling revolver battle with car thieves, he found ten bullet holes in his clothing, but he escaped unhurt. Wiroski surprised ten men, who were stripping an Erie freight car in the Griffith yards. He. opened fire on them and in a running battle 30 shots were fired. The thieves escaped.

Traction Car Kills Aged Man. Scottsburg.—John West, seventy years old, was struck and instantly killed by a northbound local car on the I. & L. traction line at a road crossing near Scottsburg. C. E. West, a son, has been in the employ of the traction company as conductor for seven years. West leaves a widow, one daughter, Mrs.*Louis Donohue of Oolitic, and the son, C. E. West of this city.

Diseased Hogs Are Killed. Terre Haute.—Dr. L. E. Northrup, state quarantine representative, killed 28 hogs on the farm of Joseph Mullikin, south of Terre Haute.. The hogs were suffering from the foot-and-mouth disease. An area of three miles’ radius wa's placed' under quarantine until the ,source of the disease can be determined and the plague eradicated. Woman, Believed 107, Dies. Boonville. —Mary Wagner, believed to have been one hundred and seven years 'old, died here. She was a colored woman, who has lived in Boonville nearly all her life and had seen the building of three court houses here, the first a log house built in 1818. A husband and two sons survive her. ■ Fracture of Skull Kills Skater. Goshen. —Robert Knisely, fourteen years old, son of E. A. Knisely of Wakarusa, died from a fracture of the skull, sustained Sunday, when he fell and struck his head on the ice while skating on a pond. Chauffeur Saves Auto. Fort Wayne.—Breaking through a mass of flames, Russell Moody, chauffeur for E. C. Rurode, suved the Rurode touring car from destruction when the garage in which it; was located burned.

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News

The visit of Emperor William to Wilhelmshaven to inspect the German fleet is. thought to mean that the long-awaited naval battle in the North sea and a serious attempt to land a great "briny on the shores of England are at hand. ** * ; With a successful Russian advance on the Hungarian side of the Carpathians behind the sources of the San river, the period of elaborate reconnaissance is over and the southern army has taken the offensive along the entire front from below the Dukla pass to the east of the Beskld mountains. The Austrians are yielding imI portant positions. ' ♦ ■ ♦ ... Seventy-eight officers and 4,065 men of lower rank in the Austro-German armies operating in the Carpathians were captured by th® Russians, it is officially* announced at Petrograd. Germans are. making anbther attempt to move on Warsaw.

Werner Van Horn, who dynamited the railway bridge over the St. Croix fled from Canada into Maine, was arrested. He immediately proclaimed himself an officer of the Ger - man, army and set up a claim that he had committed an act of war and, having fled to a neutral country, could not be legally surrendered to an enemy of Germany. . * * ■' British transports are to be the next target of the German submarines, according to word from Berlin. * * • Lieut. Egop von Kluck, aged twen-ty-eight, eldest son of General von Kluck, commander of one of the German armies in France, was killed at Middlekerke, in Belgium, during a bombardment of that port by British warships. ” The batteries in Admiralty harbor protecting Dover opened, fire on what was thought to have been another German raid, but whether by Zeppelins or submarines, or both, has not been ascertained. The raid didn’t occur. * * ♦ Germans have followed up their ■submarine attack on shipping in Irish sea by a similar exploit in English channel, where steamers Tokomura and Icaria were torpedoed and sunk. Steamers Kilcoan, Ben Cruachen and Linda Blanche sunk in Irish sea. Crews rescued. • Domestic The jury in the trial of Malcolm Gifford, Jr., the Hudson county youth charged with the murder of Frank J. Clute, reported a disagreement at Albany, N. Y. * * * • William Gibbs of Denison, Crawford county, la., was killed on the Boston & Albany road in West, Springfield, Mass.

Damage from flood was reported from Logansport, Ind., where the Eel river flooded business and residence districts. * * ♦ William Black of Bellaire, 0., a traveling lecturer, and John Rogers, a contractor, are dead, and John Copeland, bank cashier, is not expected to live as the result of a shooting affray at Marshall, Tex. Black, who claimed he formerly was a priest, delivered a lecture in which he attacked the Catholic church.

State Engineer E. E. Haslan of Pennsylvania issued warnings to residents of the Shenango valley to prepare for a flood worse than that of March, 1913, at Evansville, Ind. With the Ohio past the 30-foot mark, the flood stage of 35 feet is expected and a stage of at least forty feet is probable from the water already in sight. * ♦ ♦ The steam suction dredge Eastern, at anchor in Long Island sound. New York, was blown over and four of her crew of 11 men, penned fast in the bunkhouse, were drowned. * * * Woman voters gave Joliet, 111., the commission form of government. Their majority 0f.552 in favor of proposition offset male majority of 175 cast against It. ♦ ♦ ♦ The “shipping trust” won a victory in the United States district court'at New York when a decision was handed down dismissing the government’s petitions brought under the Sherman antitrust law against the Prince line and three other steamship companies. ♦ » ♦, .By 42 to 10 the lower house of the Nevada legislature voted to repeal the law requiring a whole year’s residence in the state before divorce proceedings can be begun and to pass the bill requiring only six months’ residence. Salt river, ordinarily a small stream which runs through several Missouri counties opposite and below Quincy, 111., is now a raging torrent four miles wide. Many of the farm buildings have been washed away.

Three persons are dead and several injured in a tornado that struck San Francisco. The storm came after 48 hours of almost Incessant rains. It was the worst storm in 12 years. Chicago's registration yielded a rec-ord-breaking poll list. “New” names numbering 134,747 were added to the books. Qf these 58,864 were names of feminine voters. The men registering were 75,883. hives Chicago a total of 690,720 men and women who can casptheir ballots at the primaries Fifteen round boxing bouts would be legalized in Delaware by tjie passage of a bill introduced in the lower house of the Delaware legislature. Foreign Three of the conspirators in the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austrain throne, were executed in the fortress at Sarajevo, Bosnia. The men put to death were Veliko Cubrllovic, Mieko Jovanovic and Danelo Die. • * * Dr. Tonio Riedemann, director general of the German-American Oil company at Hamburg, in an interview denounced not only the American government but the American people as “a pitiful sfst of weaklings” because of what he called the truckling of the United States to Great Britain! over the petroleum and other, embargoes.

The oil tank steamer Romana, flying the American flag now, but recently under Roumanian registry, loading with cotton at Philadelphia, 'is to be seized by the British cruisers should she sail for Bremen, as planned. ♦ ♦ ♦ Paul Preusler, who, left Dresden, Germany, 11 years ago to walk around the world, arrived at Hoboken, N. J., after walking 102,900 miles. He left Dresden with 11 companions. Eight died Of fever, two were murdered and another wa,s killed accidentally. * * * Pope Benedict’s efforts to bring about an agreement between the warring powers to exchange invalid prisoners have come to naught, Vatican diplomats reported at Rome. V♦♦ ♦ A ' Sporting Egg and Verri- captured the Chicago revival of six-day bicycle race. Moran and McNamara were second, and Corrj- third. A new world’s record of 2,804 miles and 8 laps was established by Egg and Verri, beating the old record by 12 miles and ten laps. * ♦ * Mexican Revolt Roque Gonzales Garza, the conventionalist provisional president of Mexico, has been executed by the Zapatistas at Cuernavaca, it is reported at El Paso, Tex. ♦ * * Francisco Villa has proclaimed himself in charge of the presidency *of Mexico. Villa appointed three ministers to take charge of the civil government. • * * * \ Official reports of the capture of the city of Guadalajara were received at General Obregon’s headquarters in Mexico City. The battle 'occurred January 20. Five hundred of Villa’s men were killed, Including the three generals, the report says. Villa is reported to have died. ♦ ♦ • Gen. Jesus Carranza, his son, Abelarso, and Ignacio Peraldi, members of his staff, were executed by General Santibanez, former constitutionalist general, who defected to Zapata. Washington

“There is a shortage of food in the world now. That shortage will be more serious a few months from now than it is now. It is necessary that ■we should plant a great deal more. It is necessary that our land should yield more per acre than it does now.” In these words President '•Wilson addressed the people of the nation" through business men attending the conevntion. of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States held at Washington. • * Reappropriation of $1,000,0D0 of an unexpended balance to the credit of the navy department for aeronautics under former appropriation bills was cut down to $500,000 in the house at Washington after a long argument on an amendment by Representative Mann. * * * Secretary Bryan made public at Washington a reply to the recent German protest against the sale by an American manufacturer of hydroaeroplanes to belligerents as an unneutral act. The state department dissents from the German view that “hydroaeroplanes' must be regarded as war vessels.” ..• S • Ambassador Page at London cabled the state department* at Washington that the British fleet had been ordered to treat cargoes of grain and flour destined for Germany or Austria as conditional contraband, subject to seizure and confiscation. * * .♦ The United States supreme court decided at Washington that a woman transpprted for immoral purposes in violation of the Mann white slave act may, if a guilty participator, be convicted as a conspirator with the person who caused her to be transported.

VETO UPHELD BY 3 VOTES

Party Lines Lost in Debate and Vote on Immigration Bill in the House. Washington, Feb. s.—By the narrowest of margins, following a debate in which the floor leader urged all Democrats to override the objection of the president, the house of representatives voted to sustainxthe veto of the immigration bill.' . The final count showed that the opponents of the bill, who numbered 261, lacked six votes of the two-thirds necessary to overcome the veto. Opponents numbered 136 with Representatives Kahn of California and Steener-« son of Minnesota present but paired. A change of just three votes in favor of the bill would have overthrown the veto. The consideration of the bill consumed more than five hours, during which time were heard a score of speakers under the generalship of Representative Burnett of Alabama, chairman of the immigration committee, and Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, against the veto, and Representatives Moore of Pennsylvania and Sabath of Illinois, supporting the president. Party lines were disregarded.in the debate and the voting;

Botha Plans Invasion.

London, Feb. s.—Gen. Louis Botha is expected soon to invade German territory in South Africa. Lieutenant' Colonel Maritz’s surrender is reported imminent, forecasting the end of the revolt against the British.

Lyceum Course Dates.

February 25.—The Boyds. March 17.- —Weatherwax Bros. April 7.—Bargelt & Co.

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[Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-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-five 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 replies are sent in The Democrat’s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale— Southeast Missouri where they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 9.0 bushels. Wheat from 18 to 45 bushels, followed by a crop of cow peas which makes from $25 to $35. Alfalfa makes from 4 to 6 cuttings and pays from SSO to SBS per acre. Cow peas are sowed in cornfield last cultivation and will produce as much hog tiesh as an acre of corn. Go there and see if we have told the truth; if we have not we will pay your round-trip railroad fare, which is $7.96 one way from Rensselaer. Unimproved lands can be bought from $25 to S4O; partly improved from S4O to SSO; improved from SSO up, according to location and improvements. Terms: Onethird down, balance on at 6 per cent. Charleston is the county seat of Mississippi county, Mossouri, and is situated in the heart of the finest farming country in the>world. Charleston has three railroad connections and ten trains daily. Mississippi county comprises 265,000 acres of fipe black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, clover hay and in fact all kinds of farm products. It is a city of beautiful homes, churches (all denominations) and is not surpassed by any city of like size in the state for general neatness and an attractive appearance. It has a population of 4,500; has great thrift and enterprise. Three newspapers, three banks, large flouring mills and woodeyf' ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston, reach very large proportions and the general merc'hantile business would be a credit to any city twice its. size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants their own homes. They have excellent schools. There are no saloons/They have the finest water. A healthful climate the whole year round. Mississippi county corn exports, 1,500,000 bushels. Mississippi county wheat exports, 1,100,000 bushels.—JOHN O’CONNOR, ex-sheriff of Jasper county, L. B. 475., Rensse-. laer, Ind. >

For Sale— A few S. C. White Orpington cockerels, pure bred.—J. M. ALLEN, Fair Oaks, Ind. For Sale— Remember, I have a nice lot of Barred Rock cockerels for sale yet; can not be excelled, for $2 apiece.—A. D. HERSHMAN, Medaryville, Ind. m-1 For Sale — Ghoice timothy hay in barn; also team of young muleS, wt. 2300.^—CLARENCE GARRIOTT, Parr, Ind., R-l, phone 953-D. For Sa^e—lo or 12 tons of good mixed hay, clover, timothy,-alfalfa and rye, excellent for milch cOw.—E. P. Honan, phone 285 or 34 4. For Sale— 2 Berkshire male hogs, wt. about 125 pounds each; also some white oak and red oak posts.— Phone 935-D, Rensselaer, Ind. f-7 For Sale— 6-horse power gasoline engine, almost new, also Ford touring car in good condition, new motor recently put in; will sell at public auction on the street in Rensselaer, at 2 p, m., Saturday, Feb. r 6. Cash or bankable note.—JOHN W. WARD. |

NOTICE. TO WHOM IT MAY fn the. matter of the application of the City, .of Rensselaer, ...Indiana, for authority to change the water hental from a flat rate to a meter rate. Before the Public Service 'Commission of Indiana. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of , the. City of Rensselaer, Indiana, that sajd city has applied to the Public Service Commission of the State of Indiana <or authority to change the water rental from the flat rate ijow in force to. the following meter fateSr to-wit: .monthly METER RATES. 1 he-first 9,000 gallons, 25 cents per 1,000 gallons, per month. The next 20 - 000 gallons, 20 cents per 1000 gallons per month. 150,000 gallons, 15 cent's per I.oob gallons per month. Tl } e n <,A ext „ 300 > 000 gallons, 10 cents per 1,000 gallons per month. ' Tt ?/„ n next l , soo ’. ooo gallons, 7 cents per 1,000 gallons*per month. Afl -over 979,000 gallons. 5 cents per 1,000 gallons per month. Minimum rate, SO.OO per year. Said city will at the same time and place mentioned below ask for authority to furnish the meters to be used in measuring said service and to charge the cost of installing the same to the property owners receiving the serviceand with further authority to make all charges for said service a lien upon the property receiving the same. That said petition is set for hearing before said. Commission on the 10th flavor February, 1915. at 10 o’clock a. m„ at Indianapolis, Indiana, in the room of the Commission in the State House. THE CITY OR RENSSELAER, INDIANA rc.T-*?X CHARLES G. SPITLER, Mayor.' [SEA*L] Attest, CHAS. MORLAN, Clerk.

Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court Of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of David Hilton, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate, is supposed to be solvent. THE TRUST & SAVINGS BANK, Rensselaer, Indiana, Administrator. January 2.6, 1915.

Sale bills printed While you wait at The Democrat office.

For Sale— Bo acres good corn land in cultivation, well located, splendid buildings. Price $75. Terms, SI,OOO down, long time on remainder.— ARTHUR G. CATT, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale— 6o acres, ten acres timber, remainder black corn land In cultivation; on main road near school and station; fine outlet for drain-, age. New four-room house, barn and i well. Price $75, Terms, SBOO down, long time on remainder.—Enquire at First National Bank. For Sale— lo acres godd 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; miles Rensselaer.—J. DAVISSON, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale— lo 7 acre farm in Otsego county, N. Y.; 8 acres maple, beach and hemlock timber, including sugar grove, balance in good state of cultivation; good living springs in pasture lots, good well of water at house, land is gently rolling but not hilly and is easy to work. Mouse recently remodeled, and practically good as new; 2 large barns in fair condition, and other outbuildings; farm well fenced, wire fencing; on R. F. D., and telephone. New evaporator and sap buckets goes with farm, all for $2,100. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y.

WANTED Wanted— Place on a farm by a married man. Address Box 23, Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted— Man past 30 with horse and buggy to sell Stock ConditionPowder in Jasper county. Salary S7O per ■ month. Address 9 Industrial Bldg., Indianapolis/ Ind. Wanted— To borrow $4,000 on good Teal estate security on 5-year Ioan; will Pay G per cent interest, semi-annually if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Oak Lumber— All kinds for sale, or sawed to order, at farm, 2 miles south and 4 miles west of Rensselaer.— ARTHUR POWELL, Rensselaer, Ind., phone 29-M Mt. Ayr ex» h change. . m _i Auto Livery— “Frenchy” Deschand, prop. A new car just purchased. Will drive any where at any time. Phone 319. Storage Room— Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning, Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. FINANCIAL Farm Loans—Money to loan on L a Z n \„ property ln any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans— I am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Ten year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP I Onl thnl Without DUay ’ I nil Illi Wlthout Commls* on, I UDI lIIV [Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINBOR