Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — Page 4

NAMES ARE SUPPRESSED

The spectacular arrest of a gang of blackmailers who have been preying upon rich men and women of the metropolitan cities furnishes us new food for thought—and skepticism. When the arrests were made in Chicago a few days ago it was heralded broadcast that millionaire men and women had been caught in compromising positions. It was even said that many social families of prominence would be rocked to their very foundations. Federal prosecutors gleefully announced that no one caught in the net of the blackmailers would be shielded—that everything would be laid bare to the world. The public gasped with anticipation, and the victims shivered with apprehension. And then an order suddenly came out of Washington directing that the names of the victims be kept secret. Money, money, money! The overpowering influence of money! If poor men and women had been caught in the net of exposure no consideration would have been vouchsafed them, no mercy would have been shown them. The searchlight of publicity would have been turned on to the full. But not so with the socially prominent, not so with those of the swollen bank accounts. Money and position give them influence, and influence grants them immunity from publicity. Skeptical? We are just skeptical enough to wonder if the time will ever come when the law will be for all people alike— not a law for the poor man and none for the rich.

WHY ADVERTISING PAYS

Everybody reads the ads and nearly everybody remembers what they read. Mrs. Jones remarks to Mrs. Smith that she simply must go to the store and get a new dress pattern, or a winter cortt, or possibly a new hat. Mrs. Smith hag read of the latest creations at some store and immediately springs her knowledge upon Mrs. Jones, who simply can’t resist the temptation to go and see for herself. Once there she generally /buys. .' .

Farmer Hankinson needs a new harness, or a plow, or some other implement for progressive farming. His neighbor has read the up-to-date ad of the implement house in the local paper and incidentally mentions that So-and-So carries a good article, which he is advertising quite heavily. This excites Farmer Hankinson’s curosity and he “just drops in to see it.’’ He, too, often ends with a buy. The woman s club, or the sewing circle, or the pink tea ladies get together and spend the afternoon or evening in gathering up stray bits of information. Anything that has attracted the eye. of any member comes in for discussion, and nothing is more dear to their hearts than those delightful things that ere advertised in the last issue of the paper. Of course, they all want to know all about them, and then they must see them, and in the end they buy them. Bill Doolittle wants a new overcoat, and the well written overcoat ad never gets by him. He drops in and looks over the coats of which the merchant has spoken so glowingly. They are as represented, and he buys. Yes, they all read the ads, and they talk about the goods they read about, and they buy when they are sufficiently interested ts talk about them. Of course advertising pays. Everybody knows it pays.

GOOD ROADS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.

Perhaps no other feature of civic reform or improvement of recent years has attracted so much attention as has that of road building. All Over our broad land, from ocean to ocean, from the lakes to the gulf, the wave of enthusiasm is -rolling. The people are realizing that they must have better roads, and the machinery of government in its taxing capacity is being ever more and more strained to meet this demand. But while there is a certain responsibility resting upon the state in the maintenance of our highways, we are in danger of forgetting that an even greater responsibility rests upon us, individually, as citizens. The reason why we sometimes lose sight of this responsibility is that •we Americans have gotten into the habit of working out all such matters through the medium of taxation. If we want - a new road ■opened, we levy a tax. If we want an old road macadamized, we tax some more. Is a bridge to be built? We impose another tax. We tax and keep on taxing, and this regardless of the fact that we all know that the hardest money to give up is. that which is paid in taxes. Many a man will come to town and spend in a day enough to

pay his yearly taxes and think nothing of it. But he will sweat drops of blood, as it were, when the tax gatherer rounds him up. We depend too much upon taxes. We should depend more upon individual and personal effort. A lively neighborhood interest in good roads is worth all of the taxes you can wring from unwilling pocketbooks. A determination by a united citizenship of a county that their roads shall excel is worth more than all of the road commissioners in existence. Road commissioners work through devious ways to reach their object. The united sentiment of a people works direct to the object. It determines what is wanted and then takes the most direct route to accomplish its ends.

Do you favor better roads in this community? Then go to work and arouse a healthy community sentiment that will demand them. When that is accomplished good roads will be the result. And just a few words more. Realize your own responsibility. Say to yourself, “The roads of this community belong partly to mer, and I owe a duty to them.” Don’t depend upon a benevolent government, national, state, county or township, but shoulder your own responsibility. Then you will be in a fair way to get your neighbor to do likewise. Try it!

PHILOSOPHY OF WALT MASON

To Woodrow’s office I went faring; he talked a while of vital things. “The hangdowns Charley Hughes is wearing, must shock the thoughtfursoul, by jings. Shall we have whiskers in high places? This is the question paramount; the voters call for shaven faces—all other themes are no account. There’s no excuse for wearing clover like Fairbanks, Hughes and other gents; the days of spinach long are over—a shave now costs but fifteen cents. My foes would fain obscure the issues by talking things that cut no ice, and think that wild and wooly tissues of sophistries should well suffice. They are accomplished verbal friskers, and dodge around from theme to theme, but, friend, the crucial theme is whiskers—make note of that; it is no dream. Shall whiskers desecrate this dwelling, that mighty statesmen used to know? If once it starts, there is no telling how far the whiskers fad will go, My friend, the issue’s plain before us, and never to the rear it drops; let us, our bright flag waving o’er us, stand up for razors, mugs and strops.’’

BANK CASES ARE BEING HEARD

Came Up Before S|»e<*ial Judge Pollard at Fowler Monday. William T. Wilson of Logansport executor of the estate of Daniel P. Baldwin, and E. Grant Hall of Fowler, attorney for William H. Dague, have filed joint exceptions to the report of the receiver filed in the cases of the Citizens’ bank of Ambia and the Bank of Fowler, which went defunct some time ago. The exceptions were filed with Charles R. Pollard of Delphi, special judge. The reports and the exceptions came up for hearing before Judge Pollard at Fowler .Monday. A bitter fight is being waged. The two banks were private institutions and were operated by the late Daniel P. Baldwin Logansport and William H, Dague of Fowler. Both hanks were closed by Auditor of State Bilheimer when the law providing for examination of private banks went into effect on December 1, 1907. The cases have been dragging through court for nine years.

The exceptions to the report in each case charge that the receiver hag not charged himself with the inventory and that his final account is so involved that the exceptors cannot determine in what particulars it is wrong and ask that the receiver be ordered to file a new report according to law. The exceptions are quite voluminous and make serious charges against the : receiver and his attorney. It is charged that the reports are so drawn as to conceal from the court the true state of account and that in a great many enumerated items the receiver has neglected to charge himself with money he hag collected belonging to said trust. It is also charged that he seeks many credits to which he is not entitled; that he has transferred money from one bank to another and seeks credit for such transfers without charging himself when the money is restored. It charges that in his credit claimed for dividends paid to depositors that in many cases no money was actually paid, but that such payment was made by crediting on the notes of the depositor ■his dividend without charging the receiver with the note. The exceptors say that over $20,000 has been paid out to receivers, attorneys and agents for conducting said receivership, and that because said receiver

has mismanaged his trust and used the money that should have been paid depositors in his own- private affairs that he should be charged interest thereon, and that no allowance should be made him for his services.

A change of venue was taken from the late Judge Saunderson and Judge Lairy of Logansport assumed jurisdiction and appointed Willard Elliott of Logansport as receiver of both the banks. McConnell, Jenkins & McConnell of Logansport were and are the receiver’s attorneys, but Albert G. Jenkins has been in charge. About a year ago Governor Ralston appointed the Hon. Charles R. Pollard of Delphi special judge in these two bank casds, and ever since his appointment .fudge Pollard has been doing his best to dispose of the matter and is determined to prpceed with the hearing at once.

German Writers of Note Appear Two at a Time

"It is a striking coincidence that the most significant figures in the history of German literature have appeared upon the scene two by two. As far back as the ninth century,” Dr. Otto Heller says in .his “Studies in Modern German Literature,” “we find side by side as its greatest poetic monuments two religious epopees of almost equal Importance, the Heliland and the ‘Evangelienbuch’; among the popular epics of the Hohenstaufen times the German Iliad, the ‘Nibelungenlied,’ is matched off by the ‘Lay of Kundrun’ as by a German Odyssey; and among the chivalrlc poems of the same period the pre-eminent works of Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg lend expression to diametrically opposite views of life.

“After the literary life had lain in catalepsy for many generations it was reawakened in the eighteenth century through apparently antipodal forces which may perhaps be most fitly brought to mind by the mention of Klopstock and Lessing. Then the dazzling flood of light, which, at the close of that century, suffused the culture of Germany, was shed from the twin luminaries, Goethe and Schiller. “Although in the ensuing century the catalogue of the poetae Germaniae grew to an unexampled magnitude, its best-known names at successive periods stood in contrasted couples: Kleist and Korner, Uhland and Hauff, Heine and Lenau, Geibel and Freillgrath, Grillparzer and Hebbel, Reuter and Scheffel, Freytag and Keller, Heyse and Spielhagen,, Wilbrandt and Wildenbruch, Marlitt and Werner, and, if the truth must be confessed, Hacklander and Gerstacker. “To the great mass of the people the literature of the post-Bismarckian era seems epitomized in two names — Gerhart Hauptmann and Hermann Sudermann, for undeniably these two have exercised the greatest formative influence on contemporaneous German letters.”

The World Over.

The law in Switzerland protecting rare plants is so strict that to be found in possession of specimens illegitimately collected is a penal offense. In Turkey it is unlawful to seize a man’s residence for debt, and sufficient land to support him is also exempt from seizure. The ten countries with the largest population are, in the order named, China, India, Russia, the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Austria. The largest volcano crater in the world is in Asosan, in southern Japan. It measures 14 miles across one way and more than ten miles the other. A flash of lightning lights up the ground for one-millionth of a second, yet it seems to us to last ever so much longer. What happens is that the impression remains in the retina of the eye for about one-eighth of a second, or 124,000 times longer than the flash lasts.

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IH 11 u 51T Ihnfl Tl fnTT Uri sLLw 11 111 II uJ Abe Martin says: “It’ll soon be time fer th’ family t’ gather around th’ fireside, but we doubt if it gathers. Joe Kite hit his thumb while makin’ a Republican speech t’day.” Hughes says the eight-hour railroad act is a blow at the railroads, while Fairbanks says it is a gold brick to the employes. These ambitious gentlemen should get together on this question. The post office at Hebron was entered Friday night by thieves, who dynamited the safe and obtained SB, a few stamps and one registered letter. The robbers stole blankets from a neighboring store to muffle the explosion. Vice President Thomas R. Marshall will speak at Hammond tomorrow. So far as the speakers’ bureau at Indianapolis knows now, this will be the only address the vice president will make in the Tenth district. A monster Democratic rally will take place in White county October 12. John A. M. Adair, candidate for governor, and Senators John W. Kern and Thomas Taggart will be the speakers. A tour of the county will be made during the day with speeches at various points, and will conclude with a big night meeting at Monticello. The Home ’ Packing company of Terre Haute has announced that the first consignment of an order for 1 2,000,000 pounds of pork to Canadian firms will be delivered October 1. The meat is to be supplied at the rate of 1,000,000 pounds a month. The plant has been enlarged, and the force of employes increased to care for the order.

Pickpockets got in their work at the Hughes meeting at Lafayette last Thursday, several men being robbed while the Republican presidential candidate was speaking. Edward Munger, a lumber dealer, lost his purse containing $22; John Perry of Cramer lost SB3, and J. W. Brinkley of Stockwell, $3.50. Several others lost smaller amounts. Tynge Lester, living north of Morocco several miles, sold his 677%-acre farm last week to Dr. Emil Besser and Charles Brand of Remington, the deal having been made by Emery Hagen. This is an exceptionally good farm and Besser and Brand are planning to make it still better as they are now engaged in building a large cement stave silo on th? place-—Morocco Courier. E. I. Ingles and W. E.* Shirt, both of Indianapolis, were injured Sunday afternoon when at automobile in which they were riding turned over a few miles south of Wolcott, on the Jackson highway, when the steering gear broke. - The men were on their way to Chicago. Ingles was caught under the car. His nose was broken and he was badly bruised about the body. Both men were taken to a hospital in Lafayette*. White county will hold a threeday centennial celebration at Monticello October 5 ,6 and 7. The first day will be women’s day. One of the events that will be enjoyed by everybody will be the old-time melodies concert, at which songs and music that was popular when Indiana was young will be rendered. This concert will be given at night of the first day and will follow an illuminated automobile parade. It is said that the establishment of golf links on George Ade’s farm has made several “daffy” citizens in and around Goodland, and now, instead of asking you whether you have had your appendix removed they want to know if you “ever played golf on George Ade's grounds.” If you haven’t you might as well pass on. You can never bask in the refulgent and affectionate rays of the purple.—Fowler Tribune. John W. Wright, a farmer of Sugar Creek township, Clinton county, had the honor and we suppose the pleasure also, of shipping tb the Indianapolis stock yards the largest number of hogs that ever sold as high as $11.30 per 100 pounds. There were 391 hogs in the drove, their average weight was 253 pounds, their total weight 99,150 pounds, and the check he received from the buyers was for $11,503.95. General Passenger Agent E. P. Cockrell and Chief Engineer Kent of the Monon railway were in Monon Wednesday. They made a very careful inspection of the new passenger depot, which is rapidly nearing completion in that city, and expressed

themselves very well pleased with the work of construction in Its present stage. The building is now under cover, the foundation for the floor laid, partitions made and plastering in progress. Boyd Slater, the young man held at the jail in Fowler charged with burglarizing the Messner store at Oxford, was visited last week by his wife and mother from Chicago. Slater insists that he is innocent -and that he will be cleared when the case is tried. He admits that he was in Oxford on the day of the robbery, but that he was there for the purpose of selling fly dope. He will be defended by Charles Erbstein of Chicago and Fraser & Isham of Fowler. Meadow on the John Howarth farm, seven and one-half miles southeast of Fowler, caught fire Thursday morning from the sparks of a C. & E. I. train, and before it could be extinguished the entire field of twenty acres, and a stack of hay containing about fifteen or twenty tons of good timothy had been burned. The clover field of Simon Vanderwalt, one and onehalf miles south of Fowler, caught fire Friday also and owing to the high wind the flames spread into the surrounding fields. Mr. Vanderwalt will probably sustain a loss of forty acres or more of clover. Pete Woodlock, living east of town, also fought the fire all afternoon Friday on his farm. Watson Plumbing co., pnone 204. The only reliable concern drilling water wells in this part of Jasper county; will drill wells any size and anywhere. ts Use a Grabler Check Protector on the checks you issue and you need have no fear of the amount being raised. Nicely nickle-plated, simple and convenient. Only 20 cents each in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. ts NOTICE After October 1, 1916, my office days will be as follows: Rensselaer Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday. Wheatfield Thursday, Friday, Saturday. P. R. BLUE Law Abstracts Loans • o-12 When you want a real good lead pencil—something better than you can get elsewhere—try the pencils for sale in the fancy stationery de-, partment at The Democrat Insure Your Automobile If you have never had an accident it simply means that your time is drawing that much closer. Get our rates with the Auto Owner Fire Protective Exchange of Kankakee, 11l It’s the cheapest. LEE ADAMS, Agent.

ClhssifieacVd Fngpgdqgnt 1 [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 — Slabs for sale at saw mill of JOHN ZELLERS, at Carr Bros. farm. o _is For Sale— My residence property on Forest street.—MßS. CLARA COEN. ts For Sale— l 2 good yearling steers, half of them white faces.—W. W. SAGE, Rensselaer, R-4. Phone 943-D. s-28 For Sale— Saturday, September 30, 60 good thrifty spring shoats, averaging about 100 lbs. Shoats are mostly Poland-China; some are fine young sows. Also nine last fall hogs, weighing about 200 lb§., fine ones for fall butchering.—SAGE BROS. FARM, 7 miles south and 4% miles west of Rensselaer. For Sate or Trade—l9l2 model E-M-F Studebaker auto in fair condition.—ALEX MERICA, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 176. o-6 For Sale— Good re-cleaned timothy seed, $3 per bushel, at RENSSELAER GARAGE. ts For Sale— lmproved farm of 55 acres, one mite from railroad station, 7 miles from Rensselaer. Easy terms. Will take small town property or automobile in on deal. A bargain if taken soon. $2,500 residence in Argos, will trade for residence in Rensselaer. Address C L. PARKS, Argos, Indiana, or call on Charles Parks at Surrey, Indiana. For Sale— Three houses of five and six rooms; in good condition and well located. Can oe sold on monthly payment plan. Also small farm, with fair improvements; on stone road and well located; small

payment down and balance in annual payments.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. ts For Sale— Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west of Rensselaer, on county farm road.—• A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, Zellers, sawyer. if For Sate— Bo-acre farm, three miles north and one mile east of Mt. Ayr, good improvements, good apple and peach orchard and other small fruits; 4 acres timber, remainder in cultivation. Good soil. —WILLIAM COATNEY, Fair Oaks, Indiana, R. F. D. o -12 For Sale— l am offering to close an estate, farm of 147 acres one mile from nice little city; mostly black land, fair improvements; a little off main roao; S2OO land adjoins. Quick sale $l2O per acre. See J. A. BAILEY, at Clem Hipp’s blacksmith shop, or address 119 Pettit street, Wabash, Indiana. For Sale— One of the best located residence properties in Rensselaer, 75x300 feet, corner lot fronting on two improved streets; good two-story house, with cistern, drilled well, bath, barn and other out-buildings, etc. Ground alone is worth price asked for entire property. Terms if desired. For farther particulars call or address B. eare THE DEMOCRAT. For Sale— Good, modern six-room dwelling, with pantry, full size basement, macadam sreet, cement walks, well, cistern, good barn, chicken house 12x80, cement floor; 7% acres of ground, lies just inside north corporation limits of Remington. Possession can be given in November. For further particulars and terms call on owner—MRS. J. B. THOMPSON, Remington, Ind. o-6 For Sale— New York dairy farm of 135 acres, i/ 2 mile from small town with stores, postofflce, school, church, cheese factory, etc. Has lots of good buildings, including good large house newly shingled, big basement barn 40x60, hop house, wagon house and other buildings all in good repair; is wejl watered, has maple sugar grove and other timber. Owner will throw in sugarmaking utensils and sell the farm for $3,000. Fourteen , cows and other stock now kept on farm, but 20 to 25 cows can easily be kept there. This is a dandy improved farm, lies w’ell and is dirt cheap at the price offered. For further information address E. D. BABCOCK, Maple Valley, Otsego County, N. y’. FOR RENT ~‘ To Rent— Eight-room house with city water, electric lights, etc.; 3% blocks from court house, in good neighborhood. Enquire at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE. ts wanted" \\ anted to Rent— Five or sixroom cottage, centrally located, with lights and city water.—THE DEMOCRAT. ts Under Agents Wanted— Catholic, to introduce Benziger’s Magazine, ’Arnica's greatest illustrated Cath°Lc \family monthly. Excellent premium feature. High commission —BENZIGER BROTHERS, 36 Barclay St., New York. o-10 anted—Well-known men in this community to sell pure bred Farm Seeds, excellent opportunity for hustler, good commission. Write today to BLAIR, HARPER & COMPANY, Aurora, Illinois. s-28 LOST.

Lost—Glass and rim for head' light on Studebaker car last Saturday. Finder please leave at Democrat Office or notify DAVID S. BARE, Rensselaer, R-3. Phone 945-J. s-28 Lost— Lid off of tank of gasoline truck in Rensselaer. Finder return to Indian Refining Co. s-27 Lost— Last Tuesday, on road south of Pleasant Ridge, a pair of child’s glasses in case with Dr. Catt’s name on case. Please leave at this office, or notify EDWARD JENKINS, McCoysburg, Ind. s-30 FOUND Found— Physician’s medicine case in front of the E. S. Rhoads residence. May be recovered at The Democrat office by paying for this advertisement. Found—l9l6 auto license number. Owner may have same by calling at DEMOCRAT office and paying 25c for this ad. Found—North of Rensselaer, near Aix, recently, Illinois auto license number 72447.—Ca1l at DEMO- * CRAT OFFICE. MISCELLANEOUS Storage Room—For household goods and other light weight personal effects. Large, dry Quarters, and will take goods for storage by month or year.—THE DEMOCRAT. FINANCIAL Money to Loan—s per cent farm loans.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. ts Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M. I. ADAMS, phone 533-L. . Farm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans—Money to loan on •^ r A D !>AA roperty in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I flftf Ihn) Wlth<rat Delay ’ 11l I lllr w,th °ut Commission I UUI IllU Without Charges for H Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PABKUreon