People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1893 — Page 8

A free for all fight occurred on the Monen at the state line last week between the crew of the milk train and some toughs from Hegewisch. The toughs refused to pay their fare and one of them was flourishing a revolver, when Conductor John Long secceeded in getting it from him. The quarrei led to a fight in which ten persons look part. One of the participants got a bad scalp wound from 'being hit on the head with an iron wrench and several had black eyes. No ex-soldier will be permitted to join in the parade at the time of the national encampment at Indianapolis unless he is in good standing with the G. A. R. Members who have been suspended, or who have lost the right to consider themselves in good fellowship will be barred the same as those who have never joined the order. The commanders of the various posts will be held responsible that the men in line are in good standing. This is likely to cause sore disappointments on the day of the parade, but the remedy lies in the hands of the ex-soldiers, who have yet time enough to join the posts in their respective districts.

The bane of the newspaper office is the man who wants things kept out of the' paper. He is usually the person who insists on the news fully when it concerns other people. The reason customarily assigned by those who wish the news withheld is that its publication will bring disgrace and sadness to others. The matter of disgrace and sadness should be thought of earlier by those inclined to wrong-doing and criminality. The newspaper should not be asked to suppress news which th -se most interested in having kept quiet, have failed to suppress when they had the opportunity —by behaving themselves and doing right.—Ex. The Milford Mail says: “It is a new idea, but why isn't it, practical? A farmer down in central Illinois tried the experiment of using wheat instead of corn to fatten hogs, with the result that he realized *I.OO per bushel lor his wheat thus transformed into porlc. It has been tried by Dakota farmers with the same satisfactory result. They sold their hogs at a price which brought them more than *>i per bushel for their wheat which had been condensed into a more salable article... It is said that the quality of the pork is superior to that of corn-fed animals. Why not put cheap wheat into hogs instead of into elevators and make a specialty of wheat-fed pork in the eastern market?” It is a mistake to suppose that any card with handwriting upon it bearing a one-cent stamp can be lawfully transmitted by mail as if it were an official postal card. The first paragraph of the 273 d section of the postal laws and regulations run thus: “Postal cards cannot be issued by private parties. All cards other than those issued by the department, containing any writing are subject to letter postage; but if cards contain printed matter only to constitute a circular, but one cent is required on each of them.” When this regulation is not properly complied with, there is very sure to be a tedious delay in tue transmission of the card by the post office department. A year ago the United States .<rovernin°nt can-sod some experiments to be made in making rain jail by exploding dynamite in ihe air. It was believed that the disturbance in the upper atmosphere were the direct cause oi i he showers which often followed these experiments. The same test was made in Kansas the other day. By an arrangement made, several days before, a lot of powder was burned in cannon and anvils in the principal towns of eiirhfc counties surrounding The result was most satisfactory. After an hour or w;> > -.M.inuous firing clouds began to gather, and soon rain commenced falling and continued for several hours. The benefit to growing crops was verv great, and the cost of the bombardment was only a very suralj part of the stun which the people of those counties will realize from the rain. Mr. J. C. Boswell, one of the best known and most respected citizens of Brownwood, Texas, suffered with diarrhoea for a l >ng time and tried many different remedies without benefit, until Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was m«ja; that relieved him at once. For sale by F, B. MeyetyMhc ■druggist

TABOR’S GREAT SPEECH.

Recommended for 3>eiiverance at the Regular September Session. Gentlemen: As president of the board of county' commissioners it becomes my solemn duty to preside over your deliberations, and as one of the leaders of our party it is your duty to pass, favorably and without question, any measure I may see fit to approve. It is sometimes prudent to adopt a specific policy in the transaction of public business, but no policy should be adopted by this board which can not be reversed to meet an emergency'. As an example of the ideal policy 1 will cite you the cases of Charles Armstrong and Grover Smith. Armstrong was the proprietor of a saloon at Kniman. He was indicted by the grand jury and fined for the violation of the liquor laws. Subsequently he made application for license, which this board very properly refused on the ground that the court records were sufficient evidence of a bad moral character.

Grover Smith is the proprietor of a saloon in Wlieatfield. He was indicted by the grand jury for several offenses and con tributed much more to the school fund of Indiana than Armstrong, yet on application this board granted him license. We have no right to take cognizance of court records where such records would injure our friends. Now these two cases seem parallel, yet there is a difference. Grov er Smith is one of our own party uid did us some sly work during last campaign, while Armstrong is a member of the . hated Democracy', hence you see the necessity of adopting a policy chat can lie changed to meet an emergency and reward ourfriends. The question of taxes is a very important one. It has been the policy of this board to increase our taxes each year so as to leave healthy balances in the county treasury. The balances in the treasuyy June Isl last was more than $47,000. which, if properly invested, would yield our county officials i handsome revenue. On the expenditure of these revenues no one can accuse us of niggardly economy. We have never i’efused an appropriation when petitioned by the proper persons. The expenditures for the poor farm for the year ending Maylist amounts to *5,259.71, to which should be added the income from the farm, which will make the cost of maintaining each pauper about *lO per week. Such a record is certainly one to be proud of. One of the most important duties which confront us is devising some plan to protect our friends, the county officials and ex-officials. We must see that there is no investigation of the public records. White county is at present engaged in an investigation, but then White county is a Democratic county and any deficiency would injure no one but the Democrats, and what is good politics for that county might injure us in this and turn our party out of the court house and God forbid this may not happen. You will remember, gentlemen, that this board entered , into a contract in 1892 with J. H. Perkins, of the firm of Fleener & Perkins [after said firm had been dissolved] for an investigation, but Perkins understood the situation, having formerly served our party as auditor of Boone county, Ind., and said contract wag lo signed as a blind to hoodwink the people until after the election. If we are compelled in the future by the unreasonable demands of the people to order an investigation it is the duty of this board to see that the investigation is made by our friends under our immediate instruction and that the report of such investigation shall not compromise our friends. There has been a recent decision in the Pulaski circuit court, which, if affirmed, will rob our officials and ex-officials of thousands of dollars iu fees which this board has allowed them in case' an effort was made to compel them to convert back into the treasury the amount received. These meddlesome circuit judges are the curse of the state, for they seem to have no regard for partyemergencies. Let us. therefore, use our' official capacity to see that our officials and ex-officials are not harrassed by a vexatious investigation of their accounts. Rely 7 on me, your natural leader [applause by FarisJ, to lead you out of the wilderness in case seemingly unsurmountable barriers arise before you [Faris applaudsj. Thank you, gentlemen,

for your applause. The People’s Pilot in <Jerision calls me a bald headed statesman. Very often truth is told in a sarcastic way. A bald head is evidence of brains, for wasn’t Soloman bald headed. Isn’t the emblem jof our country, the eagle, bald headed. Most certainly. The Pilot knew what it was talking about when it attributed to me the qualities of statesmanship [Martindale groans]. Gentlemen, I cannot boast of a long line of illustrious ancestors. My ancestry, gentlemen, were just common people like yourselves or these we meet with every day upon the street or in the marts of trade. All the latent powers that lay dorment in them for centuries sprang into life and developed in me, their illustrious son [Martindale faints]. Follow- my lead and all will be well. I now declare this session of the board of county commissioners open and ready for the transaction of business. [Enter S. P. with petitions under his arm. ]

At Rett.

Hattie (Osborne) Onstott, youngest daughter of Lemuel A. and Olive Osborne, w-as born in Jasper county, Indiana, August 3, 1870: Died at Rochester, Ind., August 7, 1893, aged 2d years and 4 days. She was left an orphan at the age of four years, after which time she made her home with her brother John L. Osborne for several years and later with her sister Mrs. Ella Cole. She was married to Isaac Onstott. of Rochester, Ind., Oct/20, 1892. At the age of fifteen she was converted and united with the John’s street M. E. church, of New 7 Albany, Ind. She remained a faithful member, in full:fellowship with that church until February 20, 1893, when she, w’ith her husband, united with the First Baptist church of Rochester. She leaves behind to mourn her early departure, her young husband, two brothers and six sisters, together w 7 ith a large circle of friends and relatives. Her virtues were striking, her words were moulded in kindness and her deeds were enacted by loving motives. Her purity of heart enabled her to see , the pure and good in others, and thus she lived apart from the false and the eVii of this life. None who have known her will forget the sweetness of her disposition. The funeral services were held in the First Baptist church of Rochester Tuesday afternoon and were largely attended. Interment in Odd Fellows’ cemetery. She was a member of Rensselaer Lodge No. 346, Daughters of Rebecca, and w 7 as remembered by them with a token of beauti - ful flowers. Evergreen Lodge D. of R. of Rochester attended in a body, and the sister was laid to rest with the beautiful and impressive ritual and ceremony of the order. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. To the Rensselaer 1). of R. Lodge Xo. 81f.fi. —We, the special committee to whom was referred the preparation of a memorial tribute to the memory of our beloved sister, Hattie Onstott, of Rochester, do respectfully submit the following: Whereas: The Lodge, having heard, with deep sorrow, of the death of our sister, it is meet and fitting that the lodge of which she was a faithful and worthy member, and to which she gave such efficient service, should express its sorrow at her death and pay a loving tribute to her memory. Therefore, Resolved , That the stroke of divine providence ’ to which w 7 e bow, has deprived her family of the sunlight of their household and our order of one of its most honored and respected members. Jiesol red, That we tender to her bereaved husband and friends our fraternal sympathy and deep condolence in their irreparable loss. Resolved, That these resolutions be spread upon the records of the Lodge, a copy sent to | each of the county papers and a j copy sent to the bereaved fami] y- ( Rebecca Porter. Committee - L. Ida Benjamiif. ( Anna Hopkins.

Williams has a full line of goods at his store and can please you all in prices and styles.

CORRESPONDENCE.

QOODLAND. Eggsllc. Oats 20@25. Corn 32@33. Butter 20(525. E. Bringham is in the city. Fred Gilman and -wife are at the White City. Miss Myrtle Oram is visiting at Rensselaer. Miss Shaffer,, of the Herald, is in Pennsylvania. Mr. “Pet” Clark, of Morocco, was in town Monday. Born, August Ist, to Mr. and Daniel Mead, a girl. Jas. Banes and wife, of Chicago, are the guests of his brother William. Jas. Pittigen and wife drove over to Lafayette last Sunday and returned Monday. Miss Watson. ofGoodland, has been employed as teacher to succeed Miss Bell.

Mrs. Climer, formerly Mrs. Dora Wilson, iv home for a few weeks visit with her mother. Master Dumont Peck is able to be about again after a long and lingering illness. The residence of Got Mead’s, just south of town, is receiving a new coat of paint by Father Cook. Mr. Barcus, Rensselaer’s gentlemanly traveling agent for the Rensselaer marble w 7 orks, w-as in town last week. County Treasurer Jenkins and Rev. Matthews were at the Kankakee last Friday, and came home with some very fine fish. Miss Ruba Babcock will not go to Attica now as was stated by us last w-eek, because the school board of Kentland concluded to pay her more than she w-as offered at Attica. What amount of paint does a good painter suppose it will take to paint each school house in Grant township and count each man’s residence in the bill. Al, can you tell? The bridge over the “Potomac” has been completed after so long a time. Fifty dollars more, the masons inform us, would have arched it, while it took nearly twenty-five to plank it.

Editor Kitt has so completely tamed the editor of the Enterprise, at Kentland, that the fellow [hasn’t cheped since. And Pat Keif has had to keep one or two county officers soaking his head in cakes of ice ever since, for fear he would have some original idea on the removal of the county seat. We were not exactly in error as to A. Murphy’s pension being dropped but gave it as it was first told to us. He has had an order to be re-examined, is all, so he tells us, with perhaps, a motive to cut him down a little or dropping him if he does not appear for re-examiuationj is what he thinks.

Mr. James, our livery man, traded horses some time ago with some fellow near Brook. Things ran along smoothly until last Friday, when a man from Illinois came into his barn and laid claim to the horse. Nothing was left for Mr. James to do but turn over said horse and this he did Saturday morning and then turned his attention to looking after the fellow he had got the horse of. Search in and about Brook developed no clue to his whereabouts and Mr. James is left to hold the sack.

“Jack the Hugger'’ in the Remington Press asks why it is our school board has never made a report as to the cost of our school house, etc. This, Jack, is an impossibility, so one of the school board informs us. Because he says there are certain books that belonged to that board that has never came into the possession of the present one. What this board ought to do, if they have got any sand, is to go into the courts and compell them to produce all the books they used at the time. They are no more the property of those men than the school house is.

Town boards are supposed to be elected by the souvereign will of the people and are therefore the natural servants of the people and not their rulers. But it sometimes occurs that if the people, (we mean those that have a job) don’t stand in with

one or more of the members they may as well move out of town. This seems to have been the case whereby the tow-n wind-mill job has been dealt out. We don’t know as to the exact extent of the improvement to be made or as to the cost, but as rumor has it, it will be immense? We, like a number of others, can’t see where the good common sense is in putting up. a wind-mill on a mill in town that does not belong to the town nor never did. The proper way for the town board to have done in this matter was to have advertised for bids and awarded the' contract to the lowest responsible bidder. It would have satisfied the minds of the people better, at least. Jack the Ripper.

BLACKFORD.

Butter 15c; eggs 124 c. Miss Nancy Price was at home Sunday. Tom Tanner is threshing in this vicinity. Rev. Mcßride preached at the Brushwood Chapel Sunday evening. John Hoosen and wife, of Hammond, are visiting relatives around here. The Nubbin Ridgers were cheaper Sunday night after having to wade the sand. A young lady of Nubbin Ridge has a new fad of drawing her face to one side when meeting people. Christopher Morganegg had all of his hay burned Saturday afternoon. Cause of the fire is unknown. L. Hulce has moved in with his son-in-law, E. Miller. Henry Ropp moved into the house lately vacated by Hulce. Noah has returned from a vis® among relatives at Wabash. He reports that Jasper county has the best pros pect for corn that he saw. The people of this vicinity are terribly worked up over the Gifford drainage system. They think that some person interested should look after the stagnant water that is backed up by the dam in the Gifford ditch, it being detrimental to the health of those living along said ditch. Moon.

GILLAM.

Ed. Mason returned from Chicago last Friday. Ella Sprague, of Medaryviile, is visiting Sylvia Robinson. There is rumor of another wedding in Gillam soon. Mr. E. O. Rathfon and son are visiting at D. A. Rathfon's this week. Mrs. David Rathfon will leave for Chicago this week to visit her son and daughter. Chas. Sebring, of Medaryviile, visited over Sunday with A. P. Rockwell’s family. There will be a quarterly meeting and basket dinner at Independence Chapel, Sunday Aug. 27a McKendree Faris, and Letitia and RillaOsbor ne have gone to Valparaiso to attend commencement. Seventy three persons attended an ice cream supper at F. H. Robinson’s last Saturday night. The Epworth League will render an interesting program one week from next Sunday, at 4 p. m. Everybody invited. Vesta.

A straw hat, plaited entirely by Queen Victoria, has been sent to Chicago for exhibition. A pretty story is told of the widow of the great Schumann. Whenever she is going to play any of her husband’s music in public she reads over some of the old love letters that he wrote her during the days of their courtship, so that, as she says, she “inay be better able to do justice to her interpretations of the spirit of his work.” “Fern doylies” are made of lace bark, a diaphanous, lacelike material found under the bark of certain Jamaica trees. This is bordered with a set pattern cut out of the brown cabbage plant. The dowlies are not only unique and beautiful, but also serve as “promoters” of conversation by leading the talk to foreign lands and quaint fancies.

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have four thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue: - HEXF.WAI.«. Mm Cf*c«»!ia Moore. Frankfort f .*n ‘ !'• H Hayes. Blaekfoni | m itaniri Ci-iinrK. PlcttAantCtwve .. . i mi J. E. Meyers, Kniman .so J" r nnl''Velsh, Rensselaer | mi |J. E. Handle, Pleasant Grove 1 on Robert Michaels. Rensselaer | no Henry Fisher, Reusselaer 1 m» Samueli Elliott. Medaryrille l on Michael Robinson. Medaryviile 1 DO O. I . Corner, Medaryviile l on NEW BCBSCEIBEKS. Meyer Bros.. Kniman.. no file.. 11""" 11 in I!.S. WH iamson. Beaver City, Neb 10 Isabella-Barker, Rensselaer.. U) J. 11. Mitchell, Behring Springs, Mich.. in kydn I otts. Pleasant liiclße.... 10 \\ m. VV liliams. Aix ia H. N. llenkle, Rensselaer.. jo Jane Lour. Medaryviile in Michael Meiser. Wuianiac in IV. 11. Zellers, Wiuamac j„ Ben j. F. Zellers, IV maniac .... hi George Jordan. Motion 11 in James Wiseman, Blackford ]y Mr. Brewster. Remington HI" m Jesse Coen, Rensselaer | lt Rachel E. Scott, Rensselaer 111. 10 George Hinkle. Valina * in Willie B. Hinkle. Valina m Mrs. C. (J. Jones, Lansing, 11l jo E* 7- No name will appear in the above list when otherwise requested by the subscriber.

For and About Women.

Kate Douglas Wiggin is in England, where she has been received with much attention. Lady Caithness gave a ball in Paris, when supper was served at 5 o’clock in the morning. Mrs. Challoner, the widow and the sister of well known horse jockeys, is said to be the only woman who trains race horses. The Empess of Austria, when she travels incognita, uses indifferently the three following names: “Mme. deTofna,” “Mine Nicholson,” and “Miss Simpson.” Princess Louise, in the studies that have resulted in the production of the Queen’s statue at Kensington, had the assistance of Miss Henrietta Montalba, a talented Canadian woman. Mine. Modjeska carries in Henry VIII. a handkerchief which is said to have been the property of 'Queen Isabella. The handkerchief is one of the rarest pieces of old Spanish lace in existence. There seems to be no lack of openings for female medical practioners in this country, for the Indian bureau announces seventeen vacancies for women. Ouida has uttered another plea in defense of her favorites —animals. It is called “The New Priesthood,” and is a protest against cruelty tcufaimals, and especially agajfjj|^ivisecMiss Edith Carrington has written a book called “Workers Without Wage,” dealing with all kinds of animals, including the earwig. She has been asked by the English society for the prevention of cruelty to animals to write another book, which the society will publish officially.

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