People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Page 8

REPUBLICAN RECORD.

On Finance and Why it Should be Placed in Power. Its Favorite Policy is Contraction and What That System has Hone for the Welfare of the Laboring Classes—How do You Like itt—This Should be Placed in Y'our Hat and C'sed as Vade Mceeum.

It has reduced the price of wheat from 82 to 50 cents per bushel. It has reduced the price of cotton from 25 cents to 6 cents per pound. It has reduced the price of property to one-half its former

value. It has doubled the value of all railroad stocks. It has doubled the value of all bonds and other evidences of debt. It das doubled the value of all s ilaries. so that a Congressman, on a salary of -$5,000 a year, is receiving, practically, twice as much as he did twenty-five years ago.

It has increased the burdens of the producing, classes and doubled the fortunes of the bondholding and moneyed classes. It has made 7,000 millionaires and 1,000,000 tramps. It has robbed the aged of the employments of life and the young of the advantages of education. It has thrown 3,000,000 out of employment. It has put 1,500,000 children under 14 years of age to work in the factories.

It has placed 9,000,000 mortgages on the homes of the people. It has made the rich richer and the poor poorer. It has robbed the people of liberty at the ballot boxes and denied them justice in the courts. It has created more suffering than war, pestilence, and famine put together. It has ignored the suffering of the people and mocked the laws of God. It has trampled upon human rights, violated constitutions, and murdered justice. It has sent poverty and distress to homes of millions. It lias stood in high places and under the plea of an “honest dollar” boldly robbed the producers of millions of their sweatearned products. —N atio na 1 Watchman.

Electric Bitters. This remedy is becoming so well known and so popular as to need no special mention. All who have used Electric Bitters sing the same song of praise—A purer medicine does not exist and it is guaranteed to do all that is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure all diseases of Liver and Kidneys, will remove Pimples, Boils, Salt Rheum and others effections caused by imdure blood..—Will drive Malaria from the system and prevent as well as cure all Malarial fevers. —For cure of Headache, Constipation and Indigestion try Electric Bitters —Entire satisfaction guaranteed, or money refunded. —Price 50 cts. and <I.OO per botile at F. B. Meyer's Drug Store. Iron fences are becoming popular here. A number of our ■citizens ace adorning their homes with them. W. B. and Mel Laßue :attended the Republican state •convention at Indianapolis, this week. Anyone wishing vaultscleanc d ’please call on Harry Wiltshire, For a good smoke try the Crown Jewel cigar. Fowler is to have a §16,000 school building. Indianapolis has two cases of 'small pox. Go and see the old folks to-

Iroquo's Ditch.

Mr. Editor: The comments of the Republican of last week seem to call for a few further remarks on land and water rights. The question of whether the lower land is bound to receive water from the upper, has vexec neighbors, lawyers, legislatures and courts ever since the dawn of civilization. The Supreme court of this state have tried to define and adjust these rights. If the higher land hath an out let by a well defined natural water course with a sufficient channel and banks to protect the lower from overflow, or the upper hath procured the right to keep a channel open by purchase, by ditch proceedings, or

by long usage on a claim of right, then the lower must take the water. See Reed vs. Cheney 111 Ind. 387. The mere flowage of water however long gives no right. See Conner vs. Woodfall 126 Ind. 85. The upper owner cannot gather the water from his land into ditches and discharge it upon lower lands without a contract or a ditch proceeding. See Weddell et al vs. Hapner 124 Ind. 315. A ditch improvement settles the vexed question. Is it not better to ditch than to law? Any man may, in the absense of a right secured by purchase or gift, erect on his own land such barriers, as he pleases, to ward off the surface water and floods.

The object and purpose of making a public ditch is to settle cheaply the rights of land owners touching direct drainage and an outlet. Above the r: pids it is questionable whether the Iroquois hath had a legal channel. Above Alter’s mill it is an artificial ditch. Above the Groom’s bridge there was no channel before the mill dam was removed. The law of 1891 requires the court to find a sufficient outlet. The judgment of the court will protect land owneis. The payment of any sum however small fixes one's right to use the ditches constructed from the nearest available point, to the outlet. The costs of location have been incurred. The ditches are described. The whole cost has been estimated. The land owners have been notified. They have a right to be heard, and be bound by the court’s decision. It seems to me that now’ is the accepted time to order the work done. Each should pay pro rata, for the probable effect, on the value of his land. The county commissioners have decreed that the improvement

ought to be made. I believe each membei’ of that court desires that justice be meted to each of us. The levels show that my land in township 30, range 7 west is on a much higher plain than the Loughridge marsh in township 29, range 6. My land has been adjusted to artificial ditches. I am willing to pay my share tow’ard the construction of the one common

outlet. We are at the crossroads. If the improvement is made the rich, deep soil along the lower Iroquois and Pinkamink will be greatly increased in value. The cheap, then, sandy lands can pot bear the assessment as well. Put yourself in the other fellows place and dp as you would have him do. The stoppage of the improvement will sound a retreat, in our march toward a better condition. I am not in favor of taking the backward step. It is as easy to lessen or cheapen the excavation now as at any time in the future. Undei* the statute we can have twenty-two years to pay our share of the net ! cost. I wish we could all proceed in mutual peace and har|mony to a “consummation so devoutly to be wished.” Simon P. Thompson.

Say, Farmers, G. M. Wilcox at Surrey, is selling galvanized two point hog wire at $2.50 per 100 pounds.

The May Arena closes the ninth volume of his leader among the progressive and reformetive reviews of the Eng-lish-speaking world. The table of contents is very strong and inviting to those interested in live questions and advanced thought, Among the important social and economic problems discussed and ably handled in a brave and foundamental manner, characteristic of this review, are “The First Steps in the Land Questions,” by Louis F. Post, the eminent Single-Tax leader; “The Philosophy of Mutualism,” by Professor Frank Parsons of

the Boston University Law School; “Emergency Measures for Maintaining Self-Respected Manhood,” by the Editor of The Arena. The Saloon Evil is also discussed in a symposim. One of the strongest paper on Heredity that has appeared in recent years is found in this issue from the pen of Helen H. Gardener. Rev. M. J. Savage appears in a very thoughtful paper on “The Religion of Lowell’s Poems;” a fine portrait of Lowell appears as a frontispiece. James R. Corke contributes a striking pa■>er on the “The Power of the Mind in the Cure of Disease.” A strong feature o this number is a brief character sketch by Stephen Crane entitled “An Ominous Baby.” Stinson Jarvis’ series of brilliant papers on “The Ascent of Life” closes with this issue.

The Arena has made steady progress; its circulation having increased during the panic, and it has necessarily enlarged .to one hundred and foAy-four pages. There is, also, in addition to this, the book reviews, which cover over twenty pager, making in all a magazine of over one hundred and sixty pages. The steady increase in circulation of this 85 magazine during a period of unprecedented financial depression shows how deep rooted and far reaching is the unrest and social discontent; for this review has steadfastly given audience to the views of the social reformers of the various schools of thought.

Those who never read the advertisements in their newspapers miss more than they presume. Jonathan Kenison, of Bolan, Worth, Co., lowa, who had been troubled with rheumatism in his back, arms and shoulders read an item in his paper about how prominent German citizen of Ft. Madison had been cured. He procured the same medicine, and to use his own words: “It cured me right up.” He also says: “A neighbor and his wife were both sick in bed with rheumatism. Their boy was over to my house and said they wfere so bad he had to do the cooking. I told him of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm and how it cured me, he got a bottle and it cured them up in a week. 50 cent bottles for sale by F. B. Meyer, druggist.

That $50,000 press of the Chicago Inter Ocean is being utilized in a unique and instructive manner by that great newspaper. It is being used to print a “Little Paper for Little People” with four full pages in colors, and beginning with Sunday, April 29th, this paper will contain the first installment of a Children's story, written especially for it ,by a Chicago newspaper man, Sam Clover. A unique feature of this story is that it is to be named by the Chicago school children after reading. This with the “Musical Supplement,” a netv art feature, makes The Sunday Inter Ocean a most interesting and welcome visitor for every member of the family.

Remember when in need of hard lumber for any purpose, sawed from white oak, burr oak, or hickory, do not fail to call on D. H. Yeoman & Son. They will fill your order on short notice. Work guaranteed.

Important to Voters.

Voters may well ask the question: How can we atone for the terrible results of our delinquency or our wicked remissness on this great question in the past? How much misery and wretchedness could have been averted by a proper use of our moral influence and political opportunities? How many wives and children have suffered and died, and what terrible crimes have been instigated by this dreadful demon of intoxicating drink, and who are the parties responsible for these legalized allurements to crime and misery.

There is but one answer: The voter -whose ballot sanctions in the most effective way throws around this awful curse all the safeguards of law and protection. The legalization of the liquor traffic is a perversion of the objects of law, or, rather, a moral depravity that challenges .the world for its enormity; and who can wonder that we are having our financial interests so paralyzed with uncertainty, our com mercial industries depressed with idleness, and that every branch of trade is in a state of despondency, when the resources of the people are so largely used and exhausted by the vicious indulgence of an alluring, deteriorating poison,—a poison that reduces their ambition, their moral strength and their physical strength, to the lowest limit of human endurance.— From “A Strange Anomaly,” in Demorest’s Magazine for May

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Bcnzout. Benzout is an imported French draft horse, dark dapple gray, and weighs about 1,700 pounds. Has good style. Will make the season five and one-half miles northeast of Rensselaer, at the farm of Perry Malatt. Charge for season, $5 to insure. An excellent breeder and shows some good colors. Perky Marlatt, Owner.

Pasture. J. A. Timmons has a good pasture to let and will take in stock the coming season. Location eight miles south of Rensselaer. 42-3 t. Our better halves say they could not keep house without Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. It is used in more than half the homes in Leeds. Sims Bros., Leeds, lowa. This shows the esteem in which that remedy is held where it has been sold for years and is well known. Mothers have learned that there is nothing sp good for colds, croup and whooping cough, that it cures these ailments quickly and permanently, and that it is pleasant and safe for children to take. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by F. B. Meyer Druggist. What makes a house a home? The mother well, the children rosy, the father in good health and good humor. All brought about by the use of DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla. It recommends itself. A. F. Long & Co., Druggists. Hundreds bought their umbrellas one year ago, sale day, and you will be wise again if you attend this great special sale, Saturday, April 28th. Chicago Bargain Store.

Our Honor Roll.

The following persons have our thanks for the amounts following their names, subscription to the Pilot, since our last issue: W. I. McCullough. Lochiel 1 00 W. 11. Roed. Goodland 2 00 J. 11. Green, Remington 1 00 Mrs. Mary Travis, Rensselaer 25 P. W. Clarke, Rensselaer 1 00 Warner & Sliead. Rensselaer 1 00 Matt Worden, Rensi>elaer 1 00 Geo. Steiuble, Wheatfield 1 00 Alfred Collins. Rensselaer 1 00 M. A. Meyer. Rensselaer 1 00 John Swartz. 25

A rather novel ornament adorns the roof of the mill of the Sayler Milling Co. It is a large fish made of wood, on which are the words: “River Queen on,” and underneath is a large wooden top, which is certainly significant that their best brand oi flour stands at the head of the line.

Senator Aldrich was the fir--' to “reply” to Senator Voorhe< But what was there to reply to? What is the sense of a controversy over percentages? The Indiana and the lowa senator both advocate the republican doctrine protection to trusts. — Evansville Courier. (Democrat.) Lost—Sunday April Bth, an account book with two letters, by John R. May. Somewhere in Barkley, Hanging Grove or Milroy township. The finder will infer a favor by sending it to Wheatfield or directing where " may get it. Will pay finder for listrouble. Aurthur Fleming.

The most attractive, entertaining, instructive and popular exhibition now before the public, is the Gouger-Lease combination. The man or woman who fails to hear those talented and eloquent speakers, misses one of the gpqd things pf life. If dull, spiritless and stupid; If your blood is thick and sluggish; If your appetite is cap-, ricious and uncertain. You need a Sarsaparilla. For best results take DeWitt's. It recommends itself. A. F. Long & Co., Druggists.

The Quaker evangelists, Nathan and Esther Frame, are confidently expected at the M. E. Church next Sunday, April 28th. They will certainly be present unless sickness or accident delays their coming. Moses Stevens, a seventeen-year-old boy, living southeast of Remington, accidently shot and killed himself with a revolver, on Wednesday, of last week. For Sale.—7 good cows, 3 have calves by their side, and the other 4 will have calves in 2 weeks. Call or address Fred Kroeger, Kniman, Ind. 1,000 umbrellas and parsols from 25 cents to $4.00. Special low prices, Saturday, sale day, April 28th. Chicago Bargain Store.

Substantial iron crossings were put put in by the marshal this week in front of McCoy’s bank and Ellis & Murray’s store. B. F. Ferguson is agent for Gaar, Scott & Co.’s steam engines and threshers and solicits correspondence. Go and hear the best music of the season at the Opera House, to-night, a chorus of twenty trained voices. D. A. Stoner received several barrels of cracker dust this week, which he uses as chicken feed. John Waymire’s residence on South Van Rensselaer street is receiving a fresh coat of paint. Frederick I. Dalton and Alice H. O’Meara have been granted a license to marry,.

Ira Washburn was here the first of the week from Purdue University. The paper that will soon have the largest circulation will be fly paper. Business among our merchants has been rather slack this week. Rev. Baech was at Monon last Tuesday,

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Mrs. Martha J. Sharp died at her home in the east part of Rensselaer on last Tuesday morning at 1 o’dock, of lung trouble. She had been ill but a short time and her death was a surI prise to all. The funeral services were held at the residence o i last Wednesday morning at eight o’clock by Elder J. L. Brady, and her remains were taken to the Osborne cemetery in Hanging Grove township for burial. She was aged 45 years, 11 months and 19 days. One of the most pleasing features of the concert to-night will be the patriotic song “Our Flag is There,” to which will be added as a special effect, twelve charming little misses carrying flags and dressed to represent as many different nations. They will execute a beautiful drill, and it will certainly be something well worth going to see. Great pains have been taken to have this a special feature. Some thing wrong when you tire too easily. Some thing wrong whpn the skin is not dear and smooth. Some thing wrong when the Blood is impure. Everything right when you take DeWitt’s Sarsaparilla, It Rec= ommends itself, A. F. Long & Co., Druggists.

To tax raw materials is to handicap our manufacturers, to limit the demand for labor and to increase the cost of all goods produced from them. The policy of free raw materials is explicitly adproved in the Chicago platform.—N. Y. World (Dem.) Chas. Price, of Middlesborough, Ky., a former resident of this county, and at one time clerk of this county, was in this section of the state last week. Senator Voorhees is having a hard time to harmonize his recent speech on the Wilson bill with his past record on the tariff question.—Attica Democrat. W. I. McCullough, of Lochiel, J. W. Swan, of Wadena, and Sheldon Smith, of Morocco, attended the Lease-Gouger meeting here last Thursday.

B. Forsythe, the popular pro« prietor of the Chicago Bargain Store, gave a dinner to his several clerks at the Makeever House last Sunday. Harry Wade came over from Morocco last Sunday and spent the day here. He moved his family to that place last Wednesday. A family Of colored people have moved here from Morocco, and are occupying Jas. Passon’s property in the south-east part of town.

Elder J. L. Brady was at Lowell last week where he assisted in a series of protracted meetings now in progress there. Vai Seib, M. F. Chilcote, T. J. McCoy and Alf Hopkins are at Indianapolis attending the Republican state convention. Say, farmers, G. M. Wilcox, at Surrey, is selling galvanized two point hog wire at $2.50 per 100 pounds. Did you ever see a silk umbrella for $1.00? Come to the sale, April 28th. Chicago Bargain Store; Isaac Kepner’s two oldest children are having the measles,