People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — Page 6

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URNALISTIC JABS.

C ops, interest and railroad charges promise to be good.— Farmer's Voice. The railroads are expecting to make a strike in moving the large crops. Farming pays—the railroads. —Farmer's Voice. “I am for sound money,” shouted a democratic orator. “Yes." shouted an old strawhatted American on a back seat, “and you only want to wait until European bosses tell you what sound money is to do their bid ding." He about covered the ground.—ln ter Ocean. It is estimated that the very wise men of this country feed 20,000,000 people in Europe. But then they are not slaves who feed their master. O. no! They are the greatest, strongest, wisest, and becoming the most war-like people on earth! And the boot-black around the corner felt so proud he was an American that he thanked a man for giving him a job cleaning shoes.—Way land's Appeal to Reason.

A wave of genuine democraticrepublican “prosperity" bucked up against the Bank of Tacoma, Washington, last week, and caused it to make assignment. Its liabilities were only $379,000. Lucky depositors hold the sack for £IOO,OOO and the remainder, £279.000, was city money. Grand and glorious banking system we have. The president, officers and directors of this bank will live the balance of their lives, without a doubt, in brown-stone fronts, hire tine liveries and pass the heat of summer in favorite watering resorts. while the cheated depositors can keep on voting for political partiesand men who will perpetuate these glorious conditions. Logansport Advance. W hat a grand thing it is to be a workingman in a “free country! A free and independent sovereign in a “republic!’'A wage slave in a land of “liberty." where, if you can’t live on the wages a gluttonous corporation chooses to offer you, you can “go to the devil the soup house or the grave! Hurrah for humbug, can't and hypocrisy! It's a glorious thing to be a slave, with the liberty to steal or starve. -Coming Nation.

There are supposed to be £346.000,000 of greenbacks in circulation, the result of the greenback agitation of the early seveties, which called a halt to the destruction of all non-interest-bearing obligations of the government and the establishing of an interest-bear-ing burden in their stead. Now the question is, where are the greenbacks? Do you ever get hold of one? Please give this statement your attention.— Thornton's Monitor. Goldbug Cleveland has announced that the greenbacks must all be destroyed to give room for more government bonds and national banks, and says that if the next democratic national convention don’t make that kind of a platform he will vote the republican ticket. How do you like that, you democrats who are opposed to national banks and government bonds and who believe in greenbacks? —Tipton Union Dispatch. Most of the presidential candidates are keeping mum on the silver question. It makes a political trimmer as uncomfortable ds green apples make a boy in mid-summer.—Farmer's Voice. Judging from present indications, the attitude of democracy in the six states where elections will be held will be about as follows: Silver candidates on goldbug platforms. That is a good, straight, consistent democratic straddle—one that won't elect anybody worth mentioning, nor interfere with the national platform to be adopted a year hence. —Chicago Sentinel.

In this country we possess a wealth of <26 per head more than any other nation except France, Rockefeller has $200,000,000 for his head and several millions of people have not a bungtown copper per head. But it looks w’ell on paper to tell how rich we are as a people. It is uplifting to a starving man to tell him that the country has more wheat than it knows what to do with, even bushels for every man woman and child that there is in the country.—Farmer’s Voice. Benj. F. Tracy, Harrison’s secretary of the navy, is visiting one Andrew Carnegie in •Scotland. They seem to be 1 close friends. Carnegie made our buttle ships and plated them with defective plate.-. so that

the work had all to be done over again. But Tracy “O. K.”-ed the bill and Carnegie got his money, and both are now in Scotland spending it. Of course, they are close friends. Why shouldn't they be'? —Chicago Express. The St. Louis Republican says. “One of the many good results of the democratic state convention in Ohio is an increase in wages in manufacturing establishments." If the goldbug convention in Ohio caused a raise of wages, what about the silver convention in Missouri? They were directly opposites: were they both good?

This is apparently a very good year for the political bosses, especially those who have bad odors about them. The republicans of Pennsylvania, in a tit of temporary honesty, sough to overthrow Senator Quay, but everything indicates that Quay is on top. The democrats bow to Brice and Gorman, and the republicans have their hats off to .1/at Quay. The parties are reforming with a whiz.—Progressive Farmer. The world breathes easier. A British oracle has spoken just a few words only—on the subject of bimetallism. Lord Balfour. first lord of the treasury of Great Britain is reported as saying: “I am in favor of an international agreement but I do not believe that an international agreement would result from an international conference." And the London Daily News interpets this as meaning that Mr. Balfour is opposed to bimetallism, and rejoices greatly thereat, believing that “bimetallism spells ‘ruin' for the great creditor nation of the world.' Chicago Sentinel. The Evansville (Ind.) Courier calls it “the crazy fiscal policy that has made the treasury department the victim of the most powerful and accomplished bunco-steerers in the world.” The drain of gold out of the treasury promises to continue' until another issue of bonds will be necessary. All this talk about the patriotism of the Shylocks is the merest rot. If they intend to produce another panic let them do so at once, as nothing will educate the people to the true cause of panics as will a repetition of the experience of 1893. By all means let us have another genuine Simonpure panic.—Nonconformist. We have yet to hear of the first attempt to enact a Sunday closing ordinance against the usury mill. It grinds on Sunday as well as on Monday and never stops for repairs. Interest eats continually and never sleeps. Its action is one of perpetual motion. -Chicago Express. J. Sterling Morton has been named in connection with the presidential nomination. And now since the nomination has struck that level, we propose the name of George Francis Train.—Farmer’s Voice.

Obituary.

Died at her home five miles southwest of Calista, Kingman county, Kans., August 9, 1895. Mrs. Elizabeth Tapp. She was born near Franklin, Johnston county, Ind.. Oct. 9, 1829, and her age was 62 years and 10 months. She resided in Johnston county until after her marriage with Evan M. Tapp Dec. 20,. 1849. She united with the Baptist church soon after marriage and ever after lived a devoted Christian. She was the mother of eight children, five boys and three girls, five of whom preceded her to the better land. She lived a life of suffering and was an invalid for seven years preceding her death. Her last days were days of intense pain, after all that loving hands could do aided by the best medical skill, she yielded at last to that terrible disease, catarrhal consumption. She leaves a mourning husband, three children, and a host of friends. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. S. Miller of Cairo. | Her remains were taken to the [Rural Cemetry. followed by a : large procession.

Notice to Non-Residents. QTATEOF INDIANA. JASPERCOUNTY—KJ In the Jasper Circuit Court. October Term. 1805. Thomas Aker.' vs. Calperna Akers 1 'omplaint No. Now comes the plaint ill'. by Thompson & Bro., liis attorney's, and tiles his complaint herein for divorce, together with an affidavit i hat the defendant. Calperna Akers, is a nonresident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant that unless she he and appear on the first day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be hidden on the Third Monday of October. A. D. 1895. at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and .State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in her absence. I Io witness wittereof. ( hereuntoset my hand and affix the Seal of -aid court, at Kenssv- I laer. Ind., this 2(ith day of August. A. D. 1895 f [sEAr..| Wm. h. coover. Clerk, i Subscribe for the Pilot.

THE PEOPLES PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, SEPT 5. 1895.

STATE CROP REPORT.

From The I*. S. Weather Bureau at Purdue University. WEEK ENDING MONDAY, SEPT. 2. Cooler, generally . cloudy ; weather and numerous rains i were most beneficial and improved everything in all parts of the State. The early planted corn or that on poor land had matured too fast and “fired." and rain came too late to be of benefit; in some counties some of it has been cut, but the late planted corn and the corn on favorable ground, especially the replanted, will undoubtedly be improved by the rains, and in general an excellent crop is still promised everywhere, especially if heavy frosts will be delayed until after the middle of September. Pasturage and meadows are beginning to show green again, promising, with more rains in the future, a good fall pasturage. Tobacco, only raised in a few of the southern counties in larger crops, ripened too early to be heavy, and much has been housed: that still remaining out is improved by the rains and looks well. Clover is nearly all cut and threshing continues, although interrupted during the rains; the yield is fair. Potatoes in the central and southern portions are not very promising, but in the northern" portion the crop promises to be fair. Tomatoes. in general, promise a good crop: in some counties they are late and subject to injury by early frosts. Beans are in good condition. Fall plowing has been resumed after the rain, and most of the fields are ready for sowing wheat; the sowing" will begin soon; rye is being sown nearly everywhere. Apples and pears are in great abundance, and cider making has begun in some localities. CENTRAL PORTION. Cooler, cloudy weather predominated, and good rains fell nearly everywhere, -improving growing crops, and the ground for plowing and seeding. Corn, in general, is in good condition, promising a large crop if not injured by frost within two weeks: the late corn is helped by the rains, the ears will fill better, but the rain came too late for the early planted, which matured too fast, especially in Rush, Union and Randolph counties, where some of the corn is cut for fodder. Clover is. nearly all cut, but in some counties the rains prevented threshing, especially in Parke, Henry, Madison and Johnson counties; the yield of seed is good, especially in Rush and Madison counties. Melons, cabbage, beans and vegetables are in good condition. Potatoes do not promise a good crop; in some fields rain improved the late planted. Early tobacco in Wayne county is not in good condition. In general the tomato crop is large and in fine condition; it is improved by the late rains. Pasturage has been improved by the rains and begins to turn green again nearly everywhere. Fall plowing is nearly done, and wheat sowing will begin soon, with the ground in good condition. Rye has been sown and is coming up in many fields, helped by the rains. Stock, in general, is in good condition; in Johnson county it is still being fed. Many hogs are dying in Rush county. Stock water is still scarce in Rush county; many wells are drilled from one to two hundred feet deep. NORTHERN PORTION. Cool, cloudy weather prevailed. with numerous local rains nearly every day of the week, and growing crops were much improved, except early corn, which had become too dry; some in Warren, Kosciusko and Elkhart counties has been cut; late corn is in good condition, and promising large and good crops if not injured by early frosts within two w’eeks. especially in Carroll, Starke, Elkhart, Cass. Marshall, Adams. Tippecanoe and Kosciusko counties. Not much clover has been cut yet in several counties, and newly sown clover is germinating well in Whitley county. Late potatoes are doing well, promising a fair crop in Mar shall. Carroll, Elkhart and La Porte counties. Buckwheat is in good condition in Adams county. Tomatoes promise well in Starke county; they are late’ and subject to injury by frost. Cabbage, beans and melons are in good condition: melons are scarce in Grant county. Pastu rage and grass in general much improved by the rains and growing green again. Fall plowingprogresses; in some counties they are done; the ground is in excellent condition for seeding.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE S REPORT WALKER TOWNSHIP. Report of Receipts and Expenditures by the Trustee of Walker Township from Au". I, 1894. to Aug. 5. 1895: ROAD TAX FUND. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report $65 65 Am't received from county treas.. 16 62 Am’t received from county treas.. 261 93 Total receipts road tax fund $344 20 Total expenditures since last rep’t 143 47 Balance. <5200 73 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom Paid. For What Paid. 1. H B Murray, road receipts.... <1 57 .2, H B Murray, road receipts.... 114 02 3, M H Hemphill, road assessm't. 3 00 4, L. N A & C. freight charges.. 88 5, 111 RR. freight charges.... 24 00 Total. <143 47 ADDITIONAL ROAD TAX FUNDS. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report 1822 51 Am't received from county treas.. 28 84 Am't received from county treas.. 271 83 Total receipts additional road.. .. 1,123 18 Total expenditures since last rep't 1,056 86 Balance <66 32 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom. For What. 1, Charles Staulbaum. grading .. $26 78 2, D H Yeoman, bridge lumber.. 7 50 3, C Nelson, surveying road 5 00 4, C E Hershman, nails 1 64 5, Philip Kerns, grading 20 32 6, Wm Rinehartz, grading 35 55 7, W H Lewark.bldg bridge & gd 64 32 8, John Wenrick, grading 13 00 9, Charles Stalbaum, grading ... 20 00 10, James R Hershman. grading.. 65 91 11, Charles Stalbaum, grading.... 65 66 12, Lars Gilbransen. road work.. 10 00 13, Charles Stalbaum, grading.. .. 132 58 14, O H Eldred, grading 27 61 15, G N Wineland, grading 30 89 16, Chas Stalbaum, cleaning road. 16 00 17, James L Smith, grading 8 75 18, O Darner, labor on highway . 23 60 19, J F Spriggs, labor and lumber 43 80 20, James Brown, grading 10 40 21, David Lough, sewer pipe 139 00 22, James Brown, grading 12 00 23, David Lough, sewer pipe 120 00 24, Fred S Meiser, staking road.. 3 00 25, H Record, repairing bridges.. 6 75 26, Chas Stalbaum, grading road. 39 75 27, J R Hershman, grading road.. 39 15 28, Walter Darner, grading road.. 25 00 29, J M Spriggs, bridge plank .... 1 50 30, Oliver Darner, grading road,. 25 00 31; Monroe Grymes, grading road. 16 40 Total, $1,056 86 TOWNSHIP FUNDS. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report $4Ol 74 Am’t received from county treas.. 129 87 Amn’t received from county treas. 19 62 Am’t received from county treas.. 172 38 Total receipts township fund $723 61 Total expenditures since last rep’t. 315 29 Balance S4OB 32 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom. For What. 1, F M Hershman, service account $lO4 00 2, H B Murray, making road tax list and for papers filed, etc. 11 22 3, H B Murray, qual. to road rep't 50 4, G N Wineland, serv. as sup’v’r 35 00 5, David S Alter, staking ditch.. 1 90 6, John Wenrick, serv. as sup’v’r 31 25 7, Wm Lewark, “ “ 33 00 8, Lars Gilbransen “ “ 27 00 9, D H Goble, office blanks 55 10, G N Wineland. serv. as sup’v’r 15 00 11, J R Linton, stationery 2 50 12, John Hershman, serv. sup’v’r. 10 00 19, Leroy Armstrong, “ 20 00 14, Fred S Meiser, ditch work.... 19 62 15, Lars Gilbransen, serv. sup’v’r. 3 75 Total <315 29 SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report $672 27 Am’t received from county treas.. 98

Rye is still being sown inMiami, Cass and Starke counties: in LaPorte and other counties it is all sown; wheat sowing has commenced in Warren county. Apples are very abundant in Wabash and Kosciusko counties; apples are so plentiful that the fruit has no value; the trees are heavily laden and hundreds of bushels. lie on the ground. Stock is in good condition, but stock water is still scarce in Cass, Grant and Elkhart counties.

Late Literary News.

Fiction and travel are the strong points of the September Cosmopolitan. which, by the way, illustrates better than any previous number the perfection of its plant for printing a magazine of the highest class. Conan Doyle. H. H. Boyesen, and Clark Russell are among the storytellers. A well-known New York lawyer relates the story of “A Famous Crime” the mur-

der of Doctor Parkman by Professor Webster. A delightful sketch of “An English Country House-Party" is from the pen so Nina Larre Smith— the house at which she visited being no less than the historic Abbotsford, still occupied by the direct descendants of Sir Walter Scott. “The Realm of the Wonderful” is descriptive of the strange forms of life discovered by science in the ocean’s depths, and is superbly illustrated in a surprising and marvelous way by the author, who is a member of the Smithsonian staff. An article on Cuba is timely. Without bothering the reader with unecessary description of the famous yachts now so much talked of, The Cosmopolitan presents four full-page Illustrations showing these noted boats. Thomas Moran again contributes a series of the most exquisite landscapes of western scenery, twelve in number, illustrating an article by Col. John A Cock

Am't received from county treas.. 76 84 Total receipts special school fund. $750 09 Total expenditures since last rep’t 411 00 Balance . $339 09 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom. For What. 1, Continental Ins Co, insurance. $3 60 2, A D Hershman. cleaning house 2 00 3, J R Linton, school supplies. .. 3 90 4, Chas. Manter, wood 9 10 5, L H Hamilton. 6 daily registeis 3 65 6, C E Hersh man. school supplies 2 90 7, R Ryse. 3 complete charts.... 39 00 8, R Jasperson. repairs on school 5 00 9, W A Olmstead, 5 globes 37 50 10, Asa Brown, 15 cords wood .... 11 25 11, Meyers Bros, school supplies. 2 52 12, Louis Zick, wood 10 40 13, A D Hershman. attending inst. 8 75 14, Alfred Bates, attending inst.. 12 00 15, Rilla Osborn, attending inst... 8 25 16, Isaac Rogers, wood 25 00 17, P O Kennedy, attending inst.. 7 00 18, L H Hamilton, attending inst.. 16 45 19, D Gillespie, attending inst.... 7 40 20, Birdie DeArmond, “ 4 20 21, G N Wineland, wood 8 40 22, J Hershman. repairing house. 11 00 23, Ed Perwitz, plastering & rep. 22 00 24, R Bradburn. 12 cords w00d... 9 00 25, Jones & Redinbo, paint, etc... 41 75 26, W Darner, 14 cords wood 11 20 27, J Wenrick. del. paint, rep., etc 6 00 28, “ paint. 4 school houses 57 50 29, “ oil, lead & turpentine. 10 60 30, J Hershman, plastering & rep. 2 00 31, Sam Linton, lime and hair.... 4 40 32, E M Spriggs, premium Cont’l. 7 28 Total $ 41100 TUITION FUND. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report $1,045 22 Am't common school fund received 185 67 483 89 257 10 465 79 “ rec’d from dog fund. 105 60 Total of tuition fund $2,543 27 EXPENDITURES. , Paid out since last report <1,692 50 Balance SBSO 77 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom. For What. 1, A D Hershman, teaching No. 7 <262 50 2, Alfred Bates, teaching No. 8.. 290 00 3, Rilla Osborn, teaching No. 4.. .239 25 4, P O Kennedy, teaching No. 6.. 168 00 5, L P Hamilton, teaching No. 5. 352 50 6, Dellie Gillespie, teaching No. 2 268 25 7, Birdie DeArmond, teach. No. 3 112 00 ‘ Total <1,692 50 DOG TAX FUND. RECEIPTS. Amount on hand at date last report * ’ SB6 80 ' Am’t received from county treas.. 68 80 Am’t received from county treas..... 58 80 Total receipts dog tax fund <214 40 Am't turned over to tuition f’d $lO5 60 Balance 108 80 EXPENDITURES. No. To Whom, For What. 1, Tuition fund, excess over SSO. <lO5 60 SUMMARY. Receipts. Expenditures. Bal. Road fund.... <344 20 143 47 200 73 Addition’l road fund 1,123 18 1,056 86 66 32 Township fund 723,61 315 29 408 32 Sp’l school f'nd 750 09 411 00 339 09 Tuition fund.. 2,543 27 1,692 50* 850 77 Dog fund 214 40 105 60 108 80 T0ta1<5,698 75 <3,724 72 $1,974 03 SERVICE ACCOUNT OF TRUSTEE. From Aug. 6th, 1894, to Aug. sth, 1895, fifty-eight days '.. <ll6 00 To handling books for 1894 and 1895 10 00 State of Indiana, Jasper County: I, F. M. Hershman, Trustee of Walker Township, in said county, do solemnly swear that the foregoing reports are true and correct, as I verily believe. F. M. HERSHMAN, Trustee. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this sth day of August, 1895. HENRY-B. MURRAY, Auditor Jasper County.

erill, on “Modern Utah.” And it may be said that no more beautifully illustrated number of The Cosmoplitan has ever been given to the

The editor in chief of this paper having taken an outinggoing to Boston to the terminal conclave of Knights Templar—the management of this week’s issue is left to the “devil" and one of his imps, who are doing the very best they can to make this the banner issue of the season. We would have dressed the paper in colors had we been adepts in the art decorative.— vVolcott Enterprise. From reading the paper one would think that Eli Perkins had been engaged as proofreader. Vital statistics prove that, taking the world over, there are 109 women to every 100 men. Out of every nine sudden deaths reported. eight of the number are men.

When the Cat's Away.