Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — Page 4

THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. E. BIBGOCK, tDIIOR AMB PUBUSHtR. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter June 8, 1908, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ■ .-I . ■ __ , . f ■ Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday Issue 8 pages.

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Peterson Rivals Humorist George Ade.

.John B. Peterson, until March Ith the Tenth district congressman, had as a rival in the -last campaign Will 11. Ade. Now, Mr. Peterson, perhaps without expecting the public to see the joke, is rivaling Mr. Ade’s brother, George Ade, as a humorist. The joke lies in the fact that Mr. Peterson has been in Indianapolis TALKING FOR A PRIMARY LAW. Such laws are made so that the WILL OF THE PEOPLE—NOT THE BOSSES—MAY RULE. Just when Mr. Peterson became a. convert to such doctrine is not known here, but, presiimbly, it was after he went back to Washington last December, or since both Bryan and Kern made their declarations to the Indiana general assembly. ..'?■• '■ The voters did not show a very strong regard for Mr. Peterson in the election last fall —his vote being short of that of the previous campaign in every county in tho district.. ’ . - As for the right of the people to have a voice in the affairs, no public official ever showed less regard for the will of the people. and none ever was; a more alsoluto'slave of the will of tlie BOSSES than Peterson. .. 'We have yet to hear of a single community. in the district where ;■< [ergon I?J.mi—. OR f ABE.i) FOR—• the.desires of the voters of his party in making appointments, and if there is a single one we should like for the Alurphjr-Peterson-Gavit-Etc., ,;n.■!chihe ■ to? prodnee tlie • evidence. . In fact - , just the opposite is true. No effort was made to learn the desire of the voters, and the M urphy--I’et er son -G av i t -Sai nan s-e 1 e., ni achi n 0 look all appointments for either themselves or some of t heir inner (*ir< i of l;<.ss allies. Ami the aniusIrig feature es it all was that Mr. Peterson really deluded himself into believing rhat HE WAS - MAKING the appointments, ' when, in fact, he was but as wax in the hands of Murphy, Gayit? Saffians & Co.. ;>m: (hey MOLDED HI ■) TO TIIE'II OWN SWEET AyjLfj. If. he seemed to hesitate a trifle-there was that baii o ■•. nomination fotrovern. r." ?ml j >... erscm would fajJbor. if. lio?d not appear to have awakened YET to the fact that they were making a “dupe” of him, merely to accomplish their ends. He appears to really believe .that he MIGHT be nominated for governor. If he does he has forgotten to ? figure some things, among which are these; The democrats will nominate a -man who is known to be a democrat —not a man who will seek to run solely on the record of Woodrow AVilson, and the fact that hr- did not dare, vote against the administration. ■ >■■?<■' Not a man. who ;>?■ member of congress, came out in the public press and opposed the Wilson proposed currency reform, but “got in line” when he saw the likely fate of those who opposed such. legislation Not a man who for fifteen or eighteen years so completely deserted'his party that few of his closest friends know how he was voting. Not a man who for twenty years or more gave all his support to remiblican nepers—bpth Ills legal .business and subscriptions--contribut-ing not one cent to the support of the press of his party, but aiding and strengthing the enemy.

Not a man who. during fifteen or eighteen years of ignoring his party, REFUSED IN 1 896 .to contributt one cent to get AV, .J. Bryan to Crown Point (his home town ), leaving it to others, nearly every one of whom was less able financially, to raise the needed $l5O. Will he say he supported Bryan for president? Not a man whose practice as a corporation lawyer was the sole cause of his nomination for congress—the promoters hoping his past employment- by the steel companies, Standard Oil Co., and railroads would bring to the party the support which had invariably been against it. John B. Peterson asking a nomination from a democratic state convention ! When, pray, until he was being boosted for congress, had he taken enough interest in state politics to even attend a state convention? When, until he got into the ring for congress, had he shown sufficient interest in the life or death of the democratic party to attend even a county convention or take any part in party organization or campaigns? Is the democratic party of Indiana composed of men who will seriously consider a man who awoke from a political Van Winkle sleep of twenty years, when others aspire to the same nomination who have spent time, money and energy in keeping life in the party while he slept that perfect sleep of indifference as to whether the party lived or died?

Certainly not. ‘‘Peterson for governor” will continue to be a joke so long as he continues to not let enter his brain that he was duped into this by the bosses whose pliant tool he became and for whose fool flattery he was gullible enough to fall. The democrats will nominate a man who is a; vote getter-—not a vote loser.-—Lake County News.

Commenting on the above, the Kentland Democrat says: The above—coming from one of his party’s papers in his home, countl —and on the day of his retirement from the office of congressman to private life—has a tendency to make one feel sort o’ sorry for Mr. Peterson. Yes it does, really. In his first two campaigns for the congressional seat in 191(1 (when he failed of election) and in 1912, when he was elected—Mr. Peterson had the most hearty and untiring support of every democratic paper in the district, but in his third campaign (last year, by which time he had in so many instances demonstrated that he was a willing tool for a band of deceiving and selfishly aspiring party bosses, rather than a true and trustworthy servant of THE PEOPLE, whom he Was ejected to represent—-and thereby had made himself obnoxious to the rank and file of his party) he had the support of not to exceed two of the several papers of his party in the district, and the Lake County News' was one of these. It was soon after .his election and entrance to office that Peterson began “showing his hand”—distributing, as the “bosses” directed, the “spoils” that were at his command, and shamefully ignoring the honest and correct advice offered him by life-long loyal and worthy party supporters. These, and the party press—who in 1912 urged him to make his second race, And helped elect him—tried to steer him rightly,” for his own as v ell as the party’s best good, but he listened to the “bosses” only, doubtless thinking them able to again hoodwink , and herd the rank and file up to the polls and vote them in numbers sufficient to re-elect him. But the individual voter has grown to. vote more nearly as he thinks (rather than, as party heelers advise) than they did in former years, and the party press has come to stand more firmly as against, corrupt politics , and unworthy candidates than .they used to. So when Mr. Peterson and the “bosses” again name forward jn the last campaign they found that neither the people or their ever true friend, the party press, had any further use for them. The News-—niore for sake of many yea rs ’ hequ ain tan ee andsoc ial association of its editor and Air. Peterson, and for “slaying by . a home man”—-was one of the two of all the napers in the district that supported him, but; now “cuts loose” from hin, and tells “about him? things tii.a.t: were, no* known before outside of. county.. With the News' also again't b’m new, and the fact that future nominations for all state officers in this slate will be made by (tolevatbs of primary election instead of ‘‘boss selection", as heretofore: Air? PetersoiFs chances for gubernatorial honors are not very promising.

Only a Dad.

<-lily a d'vd. with a tired face Coming home from the daily race, ’ rin"in :. little of gold or. fame To show how well lie has played The game, But glad in his heart that his own rejoice To see hint come and to hear? his voice. Only a dad, of a brood of four. One of ten million men or more, p lodding along in the daily strife,? Bearing the whips and scorns of Hie Witli never a whimper of pain or bate For the sake Of those who at home await. Only a dad, neither rich or proud, Merely one of the surging crowd. Toiling, striving, from day to day, Facing whatever may come his way; Sileht. whenever the harsh condemn, And bearing it all for the love ot then? ? Only a dad, but he [gives his all To smooth the way for his children small. Doing, with courage stern and grim, The deeds that his father did for him, r| 'iii; i< the line that for him I pen, Only a dad, but the best of men. —Detroit Free Press.

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On Its Reputation.

You know that little automobile that everybody has “a new one” about? Well, here’s another they’re passing around: A fellow wished to buy one. He couldn’t wait to get it from the local agent, so he went to the factory at Detroit and asked the man to sell him one. ‘‘All right,” said the ! man. “Sit down and I’ll run out into the factory and have them assemble one. It’ll only take a minute.” So, out into the factory he went and in less than a minute was back agaih with a brand-new machine. The customer passed over his check, climbed in the car and was gone. When he was about twenty miles Out of Detroit the machine suddenly stopped. The new owner got out, lifted the hood, and, to his surprise, found there was no engine in it. “Well, I’ll be darned,’* he said, with a half-sore chuckle, “he ain’t put no engine in it and it’s run twenty miles on nothin’ but its reputation.”

QUEER TRUCES DURING BATTLES

Maoris Who Were Fighting British Decided to Take a Day Off When Ammunition Ran Out. What President Wilson and the Pope of Rome failed to accomplish, the soldiers fighting in France and Flanders this Christmas —the Tommies, the Piou-Pious, and the Bosches —did of their own accord. All the world knows the wonderful story by now. How at first one or two men on either side, greatly daring, peeped above the death trenches at one another, and smiled dumb greetings. How then, by degrees, confidence once established grew, until both sides were fraternizing, helping to tend one another’s wounded, burying each other’s dead; and how when these sad and grim tasks were accomplished, they started playing football, shared their little luxuries, forced cigarettes and cigars on each other, and generally had a “high old time” together. It seems passing strange in these days, but it has often happened afbretimes. In the Crimea, for instance, various .observers have recorded how, on several different Sundays, a similar truce by consent was arranged. The Russians had tobacco in plenty, which our Tommies lacked. They gave their enemies in exchange tallow candles, which were plentiful in the British lines. The Russians did not want them for lighting. They ate them; sucking and biting the tallow from the wicks, as children do sugarsticks.

One of the queerest informal truces on record occurred during the first Maori war. For three days the Maoris strongly entrenched ia one ol their stockaded camps, or “pahs,” had been firing at the British, who were similarly entrenched behind their own lines, and who, of course, returned the enemy fire with interest.. \

On the morning of the fourth day, which chanced to be a Sunday, our soldiers were amazed to see the Maoris, dressed in their best clothes, come trooping out of their pah, unarmed, -and making friendly gestures. Thinking, naturally, that they wished to surrender, an officer hurried forward to meet them, carrying : white flag. But the Maori chief explained that they had no intention whatever of throwing up the. sponge. Only they did not wish to fight that day, and hoped that the British felt likewise. ’ officer, hardly knowing, wlmt to do, demurred? at first, but eventually fell in with the suggestion, adding jjs an afterthought that he was J'Jjßtmed to see that they had so great a respect for the white man’s Sabbath. ?; ": ' . "Oh,, it is not that,” promptly re-

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plied the chief. “The fact is that we have run out of ammunition, and so cannot fight today. Tomorrow we have a fresh supply coming in. Then we will go ahead again with the war.’’ - “Tell you what, though,’’ he resumed, after a moment’s pause, struck suddenly by what he evidently conceived to be an exceedingly brilliant idea, “if you will lend us some ammunition we can start, again, and the day won’t be wasted.” ' Naturally the officer was- obliged to decline this naive proposal, and on reporting the matter he was censured for not at once making the whole lot of them prisoners. His reply was that he would rather be cashiered than take so mean an advantage of a brave and chivalrous enemy, who had trusted him, and who, after all, as their conduct plainly showed, were in some things little more than grown-up children. Towards the end of the last siege of Paris by the Germans in 1870-71, the custom grew up of observing an informal armistice of about an hour’s duration at sundown, when the hungry citizens, or some of.them at all events, used to come out and purchase sausages from the Prussians and Bavarians in the advanced trenches at about 10 times their normal price. After a while, however, the custom came to the knowledge of Von Moltke, who effectually and promptly put a stop to it by shooting some half dozen or more of the amateur truce makers.

Finally, it may be mentioned, that during the American civil war the commanders on both sides had the greatest difficulty in preventing their men from fraternizing after the day’s fighting. Even the sentries, in many instances, used to meet together and exchange gossip and “chaws” of tobacco on moonlight nights. But then, of course, these men, though nominally enemies, were really brothers, citizens of the same country, speaking the same language.—Pearson’s Weekly,

Sex of the Insane.

Of approximately every 50b persons in.the United States in 1910, there was one an inmate of an insane asylum. 'The exact figures expressed in a recent report of the census bureau state that in a typical community of 200,000 persons, equally divided as to sex, 208iof the males and 200 of the females would be found in the insane asylums. Ip the course of a year, 72 males; and GO females would be admitted to the asylums. In 1880 the total number of inmates in insane asylums in the United States included 20,635 males and 20,307 females. Thirty years later the number of male, inmates had. increased to 98,695 and the number of female inmates to 80,-

096. The excess of men among admissions in 1910 indicated a still further increase in the proportion, namely 128 males to 100 females. An analysis of these admissions as to the specific forms of insanity involved brings -to light the interesting fact that if alcoholic psychosis and general paralysis are deducted, the proportion of the sexes is practically the same.—American Medical Journal. /

Continuous Performance.

“That kid of mine is practically automatic.” “First he gets his face dirty. Then cries and that washes it.”—Kansas City Journal.

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FOR SALE For Sale- —Southeast Missouri lands w'here they get two crops from the same land in the same year. Corn from 40 to 90 bushels. Wheat from 18 t) 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 flesh 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 time 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 fine black alluvial soil which grows in abundance corn, wheat, alfalfa, cloyer 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 wooden ware enterprises. The farm products marketed in Charleston reach very large proportions and the general merchantile business would be a credit to any city twice its size. The population is growing steadily and substantially. Most of the inhabitants own 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., Rensselaer, Ind.

For Sale— Good timothy hay.— R.ILEY TULLIS, phone 927-E. For Sale — New swinging typewriter table. —Phone 13. For Sale— Some Red Clover Seed. —WM. MARKIN, Parr, R-l. For Sale— 9-year-old gelding, wt. 1 200, sound, priced right if taken at once.—Enquire Democrat office. For Sale or Will Trade for live stock, my E-M-F Studebaker automobile.—Dß. A. R. KRESLER, phone 370. For, Sale— Full blood Shorthorn bull coming 3-year-old, elegible to register.—Write or telephone GEO. PUTT, 212-J, Goodland, Ind. For Sale — 1 4-year-old mare, wt. 1200; 1 good work mare, wt. 1500; some .hay in mow.—REUBEN C. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 20-M, Mt. Ayr. For Sale— 2 lots, good house, barn, wood and coal house, chicken house and park, good well and cistern. all kinds of fruit, cheap for quick sale.—Enquire at HEMPHILL BROS.’S BLACKSMITH SHOP. y For Sale— Two bushels of good, clean red clover seed.—JOHNSCHANLAUB, Rensselaer, phone 930-D. , For Sale— Seed oats of the “Silver Mine” variety.—O. C. HALSTEAD, R-3, Rensselaer, Ind. m-25 Ji J— _l_. For Sale— Reed’s Yellow Dent seed corn.—CHARLES SPANGLE, Kentland, Ind. •"*’ m-28 For Sale— Single comb white leghorn eggs, 50c per setting of 15. A. G. W. FARMER, phone m-211

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For Sale— Gopd timothy hay.— ♦ See C. H. PORTER or phone 130. For Sale— lmported French coronet, silver satin finish, in fine condition. Will be sold for almost half its original cost a few months ago.— Call at Democrat office and see instrument. ts For Sale— 6 room 2-story frame house, well finished, 3 rooms above and 4 below, including pantry, and other conveniences, 4 closets, 17 large windows and 2 larger windows, including one bay window in front; front porch, etc.; on concrete foundation with cellar. Is conveniently located and ten lots go with place. No incumbrance. Good well of water; will give immediate possession. Cheap as dirt for quick sale at SSOO cash down or S6OO with S2OO down, S2OO, 6 months, S2OO. 12 months'at 8 per cent interest. Mortgage security or bankable note. Don’t write but call on MARTHA J. DICKINSON, Fair Qaks, Ind' Box 56. 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. House 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 evapAator and sap buckets goes with "rm, all for $2,160. Reason for selling, poor health and too old to farm.—Address L. J. SHELLAND, Worcester, Otsego county, N. Y.

WANTED Wanted— Job on farm by month; am a good hand, single >and of good standing.—JOHN BLOUNT, Monon, Ind., R-18. : t - Wanted— Mare 3 or 7 years old, weight 1600 or Vnore, must be absolutely sound and good worker; black preferred.—FßANClS T. HILTON, Gifford, Ind. Wanted—/To borrow $4,000 on good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent Interest, semi-annually if desired.—-Enquire at The Democrat cftfice.

MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room —Storage rooin for household goods, etc., on third floor es The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Painting Wanted—l am again prepared to do painting either by jon or day, and in tow r n or country. Have my own means of conveyance. —C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensselaer. a -6 Pasture— Good bluegrass pasture for horses and colts, plenty of shade and water; $1.25 per head per month, all ages; 3. miles south of Rensselaer.—W. P. GAFFIELD, R-4, Rensselaer, Ind. m-25 Auto Livery— “Frenchy” Deschand, prop. A new car just purchased. Will drive any where at any time. Phone 319.

FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans— l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans—Money to loan os v farm property In any sums an to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of Intereat Ten year loais without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP I flnt lhnl w,thout nl Illi w,tllout on, I Uul lIIU ,Without Charges for n Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINBOK