Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — Page 4

Justice Not Force Is the Only Basis of Permanent Peace

By LAWRENCE Y.

From Illinois*

MERE denunciation of war does nothing. The war now in progress must be concluded in the time honored way. Justice, not brute force, is the basis of permanent peace, and the decree of

an international tribunal is the efficient instru ment. Let no mistake be made about disarmament. This can only be done as the voluntary act of the nations concerned. The federated

nations for peace purposes should retain only such military power as may be necessary as an international police force to restrain a disorderly nation that insists on disturbing world peace. Disarmament for the United Stales now would be a crime. Joint action with other powers is the indispensable condition before reducing our defenses. NOT ONLY HUMANITY, BUT THE TREMENDOUS ECONOMIC BURDEN ON THE PRODUCTIVE ENERGIES OF THE PEOPLE ARGUE UNANSWERABLY FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

Tendency Toward Easy Divorce Indecent and Immoral

By Rev, Dr, W, T,

of Trinity Church, New York

DIVORCE is the shameful luxury of the rich and well tc do. Reliable statistics show •that there is one divorce to every twelve marriages. These statistics misrepresent the situation. It is really far worse. The poor man can’t afford divorce, and so he simply follows the example of the illustrious names he reads about in the papers and deserts Ids home. THAT IS HIS WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING THE SAME THING THE RICH MAN CAN ACCOMPLISH BY LAW. I’ll E STATISTICS SHOW ONLY THE PERCENTAGE OF WEALTHY PEO§ I’LEWHO ARE DIVORCED. The tendefu?y toward easy divorces is due to the trend of modeni literature, drama and so called reform movements disguised under the names of progress and advancement. Indecency is no more respectable when it comes to- us in flic garb of intellectual cleverness than in the garb of the gutter, and it is infinitely more dangerous. THIS SO CALLED PROGRESS AND ADVANCEMENT SHOULD BE STRIPPED OF ITS MASK AND CALLED WHAT IT IS—INDECENCY AND PLAIN IMMORALITY.

Athletics Improve Men Mentally, Morally and Physically

By HARRY L. BUERMEYER.

York Athletic Club

K'S lias worked wontiers for America. The sport has- made our men better physically, morally and mentally. FROM A WEAK, UNDERSIZED, NARROW CHESTED PEOPLE TO A STRONG, HEALTHY AND AGILE RACE MAS BEEN THE TRANSFORMATION SINCE THE AMERICAN , YOUTH TOOK UP ATHLETICS. When we founded the. New York Athletic club in 18G8 our boys, especially those attending college, were pale, weak, long haired youths of the type one might now see in the foreign settlements of this city. Of course there were many big healthy fellows, but the average boy. of those days was a weakling compared to our boys of today. HE IS ALSO BETTER MENTALLY AND MORALLY. BETTER PHYSIQUE HAS MADE HIM BETTER ABLE TO MASTER, MENTALLY, MORE SERIOUS AND BIGGER PROBLEMS, AND ATHLETICS HAS MADE HIM LEAD A CLEANER AND simpler LIFE.

SHERMAN, Senator

L. Y. SHERMAN.

MANNING, Rector

New

BALDING MYSTERY NEAR A SOLUTION

Alphonso Lewis Taken in Charge by Authorities. HOLD HIM ON BLANK CHARGE Police Have Employed Every Means at Their Command to Apprehend Person or Persons Responsible for Fiendish Killings.

Terre Haute. “We feel confident that the solution of the mystery in the Balding murder case is near at hand,” said Detective Frank Fedderson. The detective refused to make any further statement regarding the case. When asked if Alphonso Lewis, forty years old, of 2717 North Seventeenth street, which is in the neighborhood of the Balding home, had supplied the police important information, Fedderson refused to be interviewed.. Lewis was taken into custody by Detectives Armstrong and Fedderson, and after being questioned for several Hours in the office of the superintendent of police was taken to the temporary jail. No charge was placed against him on the police blotter.

Since the fiendish murder of four members of the family of William C. Balding and the probably fatal wounding of two others, the police have used every means at their command to apprehend the person or persons responsible. The skulls of the six members of the Balding family were crushed by a flatiron. Clifford, twelve years old, and Irene, three years old, are still at the hospital, suffering from fractured skulls. A close watch on the two victims has been maintained by the police, who believe they will be able to tell something of the crime. At intervals Clifford lias recovered consciousness, but little or no information has been gleaned from him by the authorities. William C. Balding, who was near Centralia, 111., working as a lineman, when the killing of his wife and children occurred, watches by the bedside of the survivors of his family.

What W. H. O’Brien Says. Lawrenceburg.—W. H. O'Brien, formerauditor of state, speaking of the proposed suit against him on his bond by depositors of the Farmers and Merchants’ bank of Cicero, says: “During my term as auditor we made every effort to protect depositors in all banks,, and the records of the office will show every precaution was taken to safeguard and protect depositors in all of the Hamilton county banks. The law will not permit the auditor to divulge anything growing out of an examination. The examinations were thorough and complete and the .banking department was kept in full touch with the management of the banks. The banking department never at any time during my administration approved of any of tlie so-called ‘questionable’ securities. We always dehiandod the securing of ample paper wherever it was possible to do so, and the records will show that we compelled the banks now in trouble, to substitute sectired paper for doubtful paper and in-every instance the directors of the banks were fully and completely informed of the result of such examinations,”

Beaten After Firing Shot. Richmond.—Alfred Underbill of this city, a stockman and farmer, was severely beaten by J. A. farmer, after Underhill had- shot at Weidenbach, it is alleged. Underhill was not seriously injured. Underhill’s farm is situated east of the city, near the Ohio line. Cattle from his farm, it is alleged, roamed over fields of other farmers recently and complaint was made. Weidenbach. it is said, figured in the protest and the trouble became so acute that Underhill threatened to shoot him. Underhill drove along the road in front of Weidenbach’s home, and is alleged to have shouted at Weidenbach. who started toward the roadway. Underhill is said to have then fired at Weidenbach with a double-barreled shotgun, which he carried with him in the buggy. Weidenbach was not wounded. He attacked Underhill, pulling him from the buggy and beating him. it is said. Prosecutor Reller is investigating the affair.

John Lusk, Pioneer, Dead. Bloomington.—John Lusk, age sev-enty-eight, died at his home, one mile east of Bloomingdale Glens. Although he was the owner of this camping grounds visitors knew little of Mr. Lusk. On his farm of 1,300 acres is found one of the finest tracts of virgin forest to be seen in the state, massive oak, poplar and walnut having been"preserved here.

Injured in Auto-Accident. Indianapolis. top of their electric brougham after being run into and capsized by a speeding automobile driven by an unknown man in Twenty-fifth and Alabama streets, Miss Helen Stansfield, eighteen, and her sister, Elizabeth, fifteen, received painful bruises and cuts. The young women were rescued from their overturned car by pedestrians who witnessed the accident, the driver of the automobile and his companions having fled without offering to render assistance.

WORLD’S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD

European War News The congress of representatives of the nobility, now holding its annual sessions in Petrograd, unanimously adopted the following resolution: “The vital interests, of Russia require full possession of Constantinople and both shores of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles and the adjacent islands.” ♦ » * A force of allied troops was landed on the peninsula of Gallipoli from transports in the Gulf of Saros. * ♦ ♦ Five allies’ aviators bombarded German shipyards at Hoboken, three miles south of Antwerp, dropping bombs on German submarines. The works were set afire and heavy damage was done. • ♦ • The London Times’ correspondent at The -Hague, in a dispatch concerning recent seizures of Dutch steamers by a German submarine, says: “The government of Holland has received no reply from Germany regarding its request for an explanation concerning the Batavler V. and the Zaanstroom. The situation arising therefrom is considered grave.” ♦ » * The capture of 3,000 more Russians by German troops Is announced in the official report from the general staff at Berlin. Five hundred were captured by the Germans pursuing the Russians who were driven from Memel, while 2,500 were taken west of Ostrolenka. * • « The Russian town of Krottlngen, about twelve miles north of Memel, has been captured by German troops pursuing the Russians who were forced to retreat; "three thousand civilians were from prison. ♦ • ♦

“Seventeen Belgians, most of whom were young peasants, were shot at daybreak in Ghent barracks, after having been found guilty by a German court-martial of espionage in the interest of the allies,” says a dispatch, to the Exchange Telegraph company at London from Amsterdam. * * * The size of the garrison at Przemysl and the number of men who surrendered to the Russians greatly exceed all estimates. The garrison originally consisted of 170,000 men, of whom 40,000 were killed. Thousands more succumbed to disease. Just under 120,000 surrendered when the fortress capitulated. The Russians captured 2,400 guns, of which 1,000 are heavy cannon. ♦ * • Land operations on a grand scale are about to be undertaken by the British and French forces in the Dardanelles. ' • • ♦ . Domestic The house of the Michigan legislature was thrown into uproar through the introduction by Charles D. Symonds of a resolution assailing Charles Cunningham, member of the state railroad commission, for “publicly upholding the appeal of the railroads for a higher passenger rate.” • ♦ ♦ After hearing arguments for both sides in the senate ’ election contests in the Oak Park and Englewood districts in Cook county, members of the senate elections committee of the Illinois legislature voted unanimously to seat the Republican contestants, Percival G. Baldwin and Henry W. Austin. Republicans will have a majority of "one vote. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, is in Chicago trying to adjust the trouble between the building trades unions and employers. • • * Scores of fashionable visitors from the North, including Speaker Champ Clark, Mrs. Clark and Miss Genevieve Clark, escaped uninjured when flames destroyed Lynne castle, a renowned hostelry at Pass Christian, Miss. ■/ *■

A silent battle for life that did not even wake her year-old baby girl sleeping in a crib by her bed ended when the pretty nineteen-year-old wife of Samuel Kovich of Chicago lay dead under the hands of a strangler in her room. The murderer vanished after robbing the body. *•* • ' ' Richard Randolph, president of the Torchon Lace company and the Central Merchandise company of St. Louis, was assassinatel mysteriously in the offices of the company. His widow, who recently was sued for divorce by her husband, was arrested. ♦ • • Chief of Police John J. Finnell and Detective Sergeant Charles Grawell were shot and instantly killed when they questioned Edward Westervelt and “Jack” Cramer concerning a recent series of burglaries in Elmira, N. Y., Westervelt was captured. * • * Passengers and crew of west-bound steamer Denver, which was leaking badly and in Imminent danger of sinking, 1,300 miles from New York, were rescued by the liner Manhattan. Once more the wireless proved the salvation of many lives at sea.

The bill intended to provide pensions for widowed mothers passed the assembly of the New York legislature 129. to 8. It previously had passed the senate and now goes to the governor for signature. The governor said he was undecided whether he would sign the bill. . r • • * , Because his wife refused to kiss him good-by Matthew Webster, a vaudeville actor, known as “the Dancing Webster,” shot her to death and then committed suicide at Quincy, 111. • * » iiThree bodies were recovered from the ruins of the county infirmary near Muncie, Ind., which burned. Thirteen are missing and are believed to have perished in the fire. Loss $60,000. * • ♦ Matthew Bradley, twenty years old, son'of Mrs. Anna Bradley, who shot and killed Arthur Brown, former United States senator from Utah, at Washington, in 1906, died at Price, Utah, of knife wounds inflicted in a quarrel by Arthur, his half-brother, fifteen years old, who is a son of the former senator. ♦ • Reading of the Bible and recitation of the Lord’s prayer at the opening of the public schools in Caddo parish is prohibited under a decision of the supreme court of Louisiana just announced at New Orleans. “ ♦ * * Approximately 100 of the 611 saloons in Kansas City, Mo., will close “for the mofal good of the community” as a result of action taken by the board of police commissioners. • * * Police officials of Monmouth and Peoria, 111., obtained a confession, according to police, from Annie Marie Knight, a negro woman of Monmouth, that it was her husband, John Knight, and Lovey Mitchell who murdered William E. Dawson and family at Monmouth September 30, 1911. This was one of the famous ax murders. ♦ * ♦ February exports at the port of New York were $113,203,000, an increase of $9,117,000 over the month of January. This was the largest for any single month in history. ♦ * * Mexican Revolt t Leonard Worcester of Jefferson, 0., employed as foreman by the Granby company, St. Louis, is being held ,for $9,000 ransom by General Villas' forces and is in prison in Chihuahua, Mexico, according to word received from Mrs. Worcester.

♦ * • Gen. Lucio Blanco has been executed by a firing squad of Villa troops after trial on a charge of treason to the convention government of Mexico. • * • The first important battle in General Villa’s march against Tampico took place near Montgomery, Mex., and resulted in a defeat for the adherents of Carranza. Two thousand Carranza troops were captured. * * * Arthur Pierce, British consul, and Estaban Ailloud, French consul, have been expelled from Yucatan by order of General Carranza. The former arrived in Galveston with 214 other refugees. Mr. Ailloud is said to have gone to Havana. * * ♦ Despite assurances given by the Zapata government in Mexico City that the soldiers who killed John B. McManus, originally of Chicago, „would be punished, none of the men has been arrested or punished, said officials of the state department at Washington. ♦ S -♦

Personal Mrs. Mary Anna Jackson, widow of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, the famous Confederate leader, better known as “Stonewall” Jackson, died at her home at Charlotte, N. C. Mrs. Jackson had been in failing health for a number of years. • ♦ * Mrs. Sarah Ellen Richards Smith, sixty-five years old, wife of President Joseph F. Smith of the Mormon church, died at Salt Lake City, Utah. ♦ * ♦ Judge L. S. Roan of Atlanta, Ga., presiding judge at the trial of Leo M. Frank, died at the Polyclinic hospital at New York, following a long illness due to cancer. • • ♦ Rear Admiral Michael C. Drennau, U. S. N. (retired), died suddenly-of heart disease at Easton, Pa. He entered the navy in 1863. ♦ ♦ * Washington A total of 30,053 bills and joint resolutions were introduced and seven hundred were passed during the Sixtythird congress at Washington. * ** • V Proposed increases in lake and rail freight rates, bbth east and westbound, Were Suspended by the interstate commerce commission at Washington for investigation of their reasonableness.

* * * The condition of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is “very serious,” it was stated at his office in Washington. The secretary suffered a relapse following his removal to his home from Providence hospital where he was operated on for appendicitis. ♦ ♦ ♦ Attorney General Gregory at Washington instructed the United States district attorney of Porto Rico to institute libel proceedings against the German steamship Odenwald, which attempted to leave San Juan harbor without clearance papers.

EX-CHAMPION FAILS TO WED

Fitzsimmons Unable to Get Copy of Decree From First Wife; Will Take New Bride Today. New' York, March 26. —Bob Fitzsimmons, the pugilist, visited the county clerk’s office to get a copy of a divorce decree which was granted his former wife in 1894. He said he wanted the decree to show to a minister in Brooklyn, who was about to marry hi'jn to Miss Teno Zellen, address not stated. County Clerk Schneider started the machinery going, but Fitzsimmons discovered it would take too long and announced that he would come back later for the certificate. “How about the wedding supper?” he was asked. “I guess we’ll have to eat that,” he said. The fighter stated lie had married three times and had three children. If you want results from such advertising, try The Democrat’s want ads.

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FOR SALE For Sale — Southeast Missouri lands where 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, hag 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, 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 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 wh<ole 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.— ♦ See C. H. PORTER or phone 13U. For Sale—Good timothy hay.— RILEY 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. 1200, sound, priced right if taken at once.-—Enquire Democrat office. — - 1 1 -n ■ I I igsv For Sale—2,o 00 white oak poster SB.OO per hundred.—RANDOLPH WRIGHT, Rensselaer, R-R-3, phone Mt. Ayr, 54-C. ts For Sale—Full blood Shorthorn bull coming 3-year-old, elegible to register.—Write or telephone GEO. PUTT, 212-J, Goodland, Ind. For Sale—lto San and Early Brown Soy Beans and Hungarian seed.—J. M. YEOMAN, phone 915D. 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 shoj>. For Sale—Two bushels of good, clean red clover seed. —JOHN SCHANLAUB, Rensselaer, phone 930-D. For Sale —Reed’s Yellow Dent seed corn.—CHARLES SPANGLE, Kentland, Ind. m-28 , -For Sale—-1915 Ford touring car; “Radiant Home” base burner; 9x12. rug; carpets; Mason fruit jars, onehalf price; roaster; cook table; clothes rack; garden tools; 1 to 8 gal. jars; good milch cow. —A. E. BRAND, phone 332.

Five different grades of legal six* typewriter paper kept in stock in Th« Democrat’s stationery department Also abstract and legal document backs, printed or blank. Don’t pay fancy prices for your typewriter paper when you can buy it here of as good or better quality for much less money. Our typewriter paper is put up in boxes of 500 sheets, but will be sold in smaller quantities if desired.

Another new supply of correspondence stationery, calling and invitation cards, correspondence cards, etc., has just been received at The Democrat’s fancy stationery department.

Makes Officers Tired.

Copenhagen,March 26—The Munich (Germany) police have asked parents to stop dressing their children in military uniform. The children’s habit of saluting officers, which compels an acknowledgment has become irksome to the soldiers.

For Sale— For rest of season 14 large white eggs for sl, from my full blood Blue Andalusian hens, classed among the world’s heaviest layers.—MßS. J. W. KING, phone J. O • | For Sale— lmported French cornet, 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. ff

hor 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 Oaks 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 chouse, 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 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—For several months, two furnished rooms in Rensselaer.— R„ Care The Democrat, phone 315. Wanted—Mare 3 or 7 years old, weight 1600 or more, must be absolutely sound and good worker; black preferred.—FßANClS T. HILTON, Gifford, Ind. 1 - 1 -- ’ -J! I’. L-W-En Wanted— To borrow $4,000 oh good real estate security on 5-year loan; will pay 6 per cent interest, semi-annually .if desired.—Enquire at The Democrat office. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room— Storage room foil household goods, etc., on third floor! of The Democrat building. Priced reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Painting Wanted—l am again prem pared to do painting either by jo<or day, and in town or Have my own means of conveyance! C. M. BLUE, Box 304, Rensse-j® laer - a-6 ’ Auto Livery— “Frenchy” Deschand I - A new car just Purchased.’l Will drive any where at any time. Phone 319, financial Mutual Insurance— Fire and lightainf- . Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. Adams, phone 533-L. Farm Loans— l can procure you a hve-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 on «property In any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans— l am making farm loans at the lowest rates of interest. Pen year loans without commission and without delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. flnt fhnl with<)ut Dt3ay ’ nil Illi Wlthout Commlseon, Uy I llju Without Charges for UOkirV | Mak,ng or Recording If! Illi I fnstruments. I'lvllL I J W. H. PARKUfSQK """" ' » i rrrn n Calling cards, the correct sizes, both plain and linen finish, constant, ly in stock in Tho Democrat’s fancy stationery department