People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — Page 1

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

VOL IV.

£ iff urn, feed $ sale stable, 3 MAIM L SBANABARGEB, Proprittor. First-class Rigs at Reasonable Prices. Special Attention given to Transient Trade. Patronage Solicited. The Brick Barn. Terms Cash. Good Bread Is something we all have a taste for. It is an essential for a good meal. I bake nice fresh bread every day. I also do all Kinds of fancy baKing. Everything good, fresh and clean. Give me a call. J. E. LAKEY. One door east of Morgan’s Barber Shop.

MONON TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. No. 5 10:52 A. M. No. a 11:23 P. M. No. 39 6:21 P. M. No. 1 45 3:25 P. M. NORTH BOUND. No. 6 3:25 P.M. No. t 4 4:45 A. M. No. 40 7:39 A. M. No. J 46. 10:00 A.M. No. 74 9:56 P.M. + stop on signal, t daily except Sunday.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT. Rensselaer Market. Oats 26-29 cents. Wheat 45 cents. Corn, new 34-35 cents. Hay $5-6.50. Potatoes 50 cents. Butter 12$ cents. Eggs 15 cents.

Obituary.

Abraham Freeland died at th e home of his son, A. J. Freeland, in Newton township, Jasper county, Dec 23, 1894. He was born in Maryland, April 11, 1800, where he lived until married. He afterward moyed to northern Ohio where ■‘ r he lived many years. He came to this state in 1847, not long after bought the property on which he lived until death. He was the father of seven children four daughters and three sons. John; a soldier in the war with Mexico, died soon after returning ho|ie; Charles died later in Newtem county, Mrs. John Moyer and Mrs. Philip Cole live in Kansas, Mrs. Petty resides in Nebraska and Sarah, wife of Samuel Long, parents of A. F. Long, the druggist, live in Newton county, Ind. Tne deceased was a man of great liberality and of the strictest integrity, and one who hated what he thought was wrong, and loved what he believed was right. The remains were buried in Weston cemetery, last Monday.

A surprise party was given at Mark Hemphill’s Tuesday night.

Lee Catt is on the sick list this week. See J. E. Lakey’s “ad” in this issue. A. H. Hopkins, of Chicago, spent a few days in Rensselaer. Lawdie Martin, of Cincinnati, spent Christmas here with his mother. John Smith, of Chicago, son of William Smith, is visiting in Rensselaer. The Rensselaer band gave the town a general serenade on Christmas day. John Nowels' little boy fell and broke his left arm Saturday Dr. Alter was called. Misses Cora and May Wood, of Battle Ground, are visiting Henry Wood and family. The two daughters of Schuyler Sigler, of Englewood, are visiting at Geo. W. Goff’s. Zimri Dwiggins, and family, of Chicago, spent Christmas with relatives in Rensselaer. J. P. Hammond and family, of the DeMotte schools, are spending the holiday vacation here. The Presbyterian ladies cleared over S2OO last week at the Bazaar held in; John Eger’s old stand. Good singing and dancing go with Tilden- Steele Comedy Co. at opera house beginning Tuesday, Jan. 1, The Catholic fair held a<> Remington last week was a profitable intertainment, over S9OO being cleared. John Nowels took his daughter to Chicago Wednsday, to consult Dr. Dowie. She has been an invalid for some time. Vance Collins drew the music box on exhibition at Fendig’s drug store, rafflled off by George S trick faden, Monday. John Summers died at the home of his son-in-law, Fred Saltwell, in Milroy township Wednsday morning Dec. 26. age 75. Mrs. Jeff Trees and daughter, and Miss Cora Chandler, of Greenfield, Ind., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lee Catt.

RENSSELAER, IND. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1894.

Advertised Letters: Mr. John Scherlrow, Miss Violet Watson, Bromslow Doeigwillo. Miss Mabel Doty, of Chicago, is spending the holidays with the Misses Chilcote. Our Goodland letter came too late this week for publication. Will appear next week. There are 21,000 bushels of corn stored away already in the new cribs that have lately been built near the depot. Christmas entertainments were held at the different churches Monday night and the town was full of happy children. J. E. Lakey has opened up his bake shop in the new room recently prepared for Jean Spitler. Everything is new, fresh and clean call and see him. See the card of Martin Shanabarger, the new liveryman, in another column. Mr. Shanabarger is well prepared to accomodate his customers. Give your best girl a New Year's treat. You will find it at the opera house, beginning next Tuesday night, in the TildenSteele Comedy Co. Good specialty, lots of fun. A dispatch from Indianapolis to Goodland states that John L. Carr was dangerously ill at his home in that city, recovery thought to be very doubtful.

We call the attention of our readers to Ephriam Sayers’ notice of sale in another column. This will be a big sale, everything in the way of stock and farming implements will be sold. The Tilden-Steele Cornedjr Co. at the opera house beginning Tuesday, Jan. 1, in a repretoire of choice plays, specialties introduced every night. Ladies’ tickets will be issued first night only.

From January Ist ’95 to May Ist, ’95, the Rensselaer post office will be closed at 7 p. m. of this, patrons of the office can take notice and govern themselves in accordance with the same. It is said that a woman living not a thousand miles from here has named her twin daughters Gasolene and Kerosene. Of course the mother is of the opinion that two finer girls has never “benzine.” —Ex. There was a Christmas tree'at the Catholic Foresters’ hall Tuesday afternoon. A tine time is reported, a full house, plenty of presents and good music by Healy’s orchestra.

Cards are out announcing the marriage of Miss Genevieve Huffman to Mr. Frank Davison both parties reside in Greencastle. The bride is well known in Rensselaer having spent great deal of her time here.

Jake Wagner, our Jake of drayman fame, carried off the gold headed cane at the Catholic fair at Remington, and Mrs. Wolfe, whom all our Rensselaer readers know, won the $25 silver set, beating her opponent, Mrs. Dr. Traugh, eight votes. No matter how brutally the horse is punished, how excruciating the pain inflicted upon him, he suffers it all mutely. He does not cry out like a dog, but by reason of his fine organization he suffers even more acutely. This characteristic of the horse should be remembered, and his unvoiced protest against abuse should be to his keeper the most pathetic appeal for kind treatment and humane consideration,—Bath (Me.) Enterprise.

Miss Jessie Adams has returned to her home in Monon. D. H, Yeoman and daughter, Hattie, are attending the state alliance meeting this week at Indianapolis. Mr. Yeoman intends visiting the gas regions, touching at Anderson and other points before returning home. Tilden-Steele Comedy Co. will be with us five nights beginning Tuesoay, Jan. 1, they have an excellent repetoire, on Tuesday night they will preseet the “Golden Giant Mine” to this performance one lady will be admitted free when accompanied by person holding one paid reserve seat ticket. The Lowel Tribune says: “There is no use of turning up your nose at the north end of Jasper county. It is improving rapidly. They have a canning factory, a creamery and are putting in 20.000 head of steers this season.” Does the Tribune mean to tell us that the 20,000 steers are in any way connected with the creamery? The following Rensselaer students are home spending vacation: George Mitchell and Ray Thompson, State University; Kirgie Spitler, Wabash College; Warren and Ira Washburn, Purdue; Clarence Sigler, Jay Stockton and Ellis Iliff, Caden Business College, Lafayette; True Alter, of the Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati.

Mr. Barten was here the last of last week and the first of this working in the interests of the Chicago Times. The Times is to-day the leading paper of Chicago, it is truthful, newsy and nearer to the common people than any of the great dailies in the United States. Farmers wanting a Chicago weekly paper, independent voters who want political facts should take the Times. If you should chance to run up against an editor who is trying to live a Christian, don’t ask him to state the circulation of his paper. The lie told in answer to your question, although it may be the first since his joining church, would, if it did not result in his going entirely back to the beggarly elemeuts of the World, sorely cripple him as a Christian.—Ex. The following from an exchange may interest some of our readers: “There is no use walking the floor with a felon,” says a gentleman who has had some experience in that direction. “Wrap a cloth closely around the felon, leaving the end open. Pour gun powder in the end and shake it down until the felon is covered, then keep it wet with camphor. In two hours the pain will be relieved and a perfect cure will follow.”

Never has Rensselaer had such ' a holiday trade as this year, j Anyone going into the stores I here the first of last week, and visitiDg them again to-day might be lead to think they had been raided by thieves. There will be but few, if any holiday goods carried over in Rentselaer this vear. The trade has not been confined to holiday goods alone, but in every line of merchandise there has been an activity never before equaled in this town. Our merchants are deserving of this short season of trade boom, for they have sold goods right down to the lowest notch, just as cheap as they are sold anywhere. The people learning this have spent their money at home this year. Thus the heavy trade the past week.

Politeness.

Written for the Pilot. True politeness is something | that is both commendable and desirable, Without this accomplishment no education is complete. no Christian measure full, yet it is something with which a great many are only partially acquainted. We call the man or woman polite who in every act, word or look follow the arbitrary rules of etiquette. They bow just so low, grin just so broad because rule 10 page 61 of some book on manners says for them so to do. They sip tea from a spoon and carve a bean with a fork simply because some seemingly polite person choses to do so. When in company these “apera” are in constant toil trying to observe arbitrary rules, they go feeling their way along like blind people; nothing natural in their acts, the rules they are following making of them mere machines. All the pleasure there is in association is often lost by the constant fear of violating rules of book politeness. Go to some fashionable party, or banquet and notice how the guests are on trial, how straight they sit, how sickly and silly they smile, if it is fashionable to “tee hee” they all “tee hee,” if it is stylish to “ha ha,” they all “ha ha,” everything is said apd done according to rule nothing natural, all rigid and formal. Now, is there any real politeness in this, is there any pleasure in making ourselves slaves to such rules of conduct?

Good manners or politeness, according to our ideas, consist in making ourselves agreeable to others, making others feel at ease in our company, avoiding the doing and saying of those things that we know will be offensive to those with whom we are associating. We may, unfortunately, be adicted to bad habits such as swearing, chewing, smoking and the like, but if we are truly polite we will not practice these things in the presence of those to whom we know such to be offensive. The young man or woman who is boisterous, either in public or private, to most people, is not desirable company. The boy who is forever laughing like a hyena, kicking like a horse, and yelling like a wounded “yaeho” is not polite, is not desirable company, but is really a great burden to civilized society. To be genteel it is not absolutely necessary that we know how to move gracefully and talk fluently.

The old illiterate and uncultivated rustic who gives us a welcome shelter beneath his thatched roof and who by his conduct makes us fed that it does his heart good to share his frugal faie with us, is really pflite. He makes us feel that every word and act is prompted by pure motives; we know he is not trying to follow rules, not trying to appear polite, but trying to actually please us.. We have but little respect for the man or woman who tieates us politely for mere manners’ sake. They give us this tieitnent through respect for themselves and not for us.

With these ideas of politeness we would say to our young readers, be polite not selfish, not in order that you may appear ( intelligent and refined, but that you may be agreeable and desirable company. Mrs. Ira Gray returned to her home in Monon yesterday, after a three weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Thrawls,

The Salvation Army.

The Jubilee Band of the Salva- : tian Army is conducting special meetings at the M. E. church. At their first meeting Wednesday night the church was crowded to excess. Captian Kemp, the leader, spoke on the work of the Army. He said the foundation principles of the Army’s teachings are, (1) we can be forgiven, (2) we can be holy. (3). we must live to save others. These truths, ho continued can only be w'orked out by means of faith in God, hard work, sacrifice and discipline. He said the Army had no new doctrines but new|andextensive{methods. They realized they must use extraordinary methods to reach an extraordinary class of people. They seek to reach the unreached he said, 47 per cent of the working class of America are un re ached by the sound of the gospel. To call this class together he beat his drum while others pulled a bell, he failed to see the material difference between a piece of bell metal and a piece of parchment their methods were merely a means to attract the people there to preach the gospel. The army has 11,000 commissioned officers or military evangelists, 35,000 local officers and bandmen, 2,000,000 soldiers or members. The work is carried on in 42 countries and colonies. Salvation is preached in 24 languages. They hold three million meetings yearly. In the social work they have 261 institutions, with 1,050 officers at work day and night for the social and moral salvation'of the people. They have work shops, factories, coal and wood yards, laundries, bakeries. match factories, farm colonies, etc. (Since the inauguration of the social work in 1891, 11,000,000 meals, from 1 cent to 8 cents per meal, have been supplied to the poor; 8,000,000 lodgings supplied; 20,000 fallen girls have passed through the 55 rescue homes and 80 per cent, have proved satisfactory. The # 207 slum officers in 81 slum posts visit annually 60,000 families and nurse and care for 3,000 sick in the dark places of the great cities. Captain Kemp and the band will remain here a few days longer, at the M. E. church. An Indian Dubar will be held tonight and Saturday night a musical festival and battle of song, and special meetings Sunday at 2:33 and 7 p. m. Watch night service Monday night.

A certain preacher said no. newspaper that told the truth could make a pecuniary success. We say by way of returning the compliment that the minister who will at all times and under all circumstances tell the whole truth about his members, alive % or dead, will not occupy the pulpit more than a Sunday, and then he will find it necessary to leave town in a hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand with with whitewash brushes and pleasant words, magnifying little virtues into big ones. The pulpit, the pen and the gravestone are the great' saint making triumvirate.—Ex.

Some naughty, naughty man says there is scarcely anything a woman cannot do with a hairpin. She uses it to pick her teeth, button shoes, clean fingernails, punch bed bugs out of cracks, fastens up strayed bangs, clean out her husband’s pipe, scratch her head, pick ]aer toe* : nails, run into cakes to see if j they are done, and about a million other things the poor deluded men know about. Ex.

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