People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1896 — Page 1

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mmm Tbe Direct Line to Chicago, ' : Indianapolis, Cincinnati LaFayette, JLoutsvllle, West Baden, French Lick Springs * All Polnt6 South. Fbank J. Reed. G. P. A., Chicago. Monon Time Table No. 28, in Effect Sept. 13. NORTHBOUND. I SOUTH BOUND. No 4, 4.30 a m Nc 5.... 1055 a No 40, 7.31 a mNoB3.. v . 1.63 p.m N 032, 9.55 a m N039..........6.03 p * ; No 6 .3.30 p to No 3 11.20 p na No 30, 6.19 p m No 45 2.40 p m No 74 7.40 pm No 46, ,9.30 am no 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. _ No. 30 makes no stops between Rensselaer ahdEnglewood. ■- No. 32makes no stops between Rensselaer and Hammond. . _ _ Train No. 5 has a through coach lor Indianapolis and Cincinnati, via Roachdale; arrives Indianapolis 2:40 p. m.; Cincinnati, 6 p. m. No. 6 has through coach returning; leaves Cincinnati 8:30 a. m.; leaves Indianapolis 11:50 a. m.: arrives Rensselaer 3:30 p. m., daily. Tickets can be purchased at regular rates via this new route. W. H. Beam, Agent.

CHURCHES FIRST BAPTIST. Preaching every two weeks, at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. m.; Sunday school at 9:30; B. Y. P. U. 6 p m. Sunday; prayer meeting 7 p.m.; G. E Vollva pastor. *** CHRISTIAN. Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching. 10:45 and 8:00; Sunday school, 9:30; J. Y. P, 8. O. E.,2:30; S.Y. P. S. O. E-, 6:30; Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 Rev. Findley, pastor. Ladies* Aid Society meets every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. . PRESBYTERIAN. Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday School, 9:30: Junior Endeavorers, 2:30p. m.; Y. P. a. C. E., 6:30. Prayer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 Ladies Industrial Socletv meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Society, monthly. *** METHODIST E. Preaching at 10:45 and 7; Sunday school 9:30; Epworth League, Sunday 6: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:30 alternate Sundays. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Dr. R. D. Utter, pastor. LADIES AID SOCIETY every Wednesday , afternoon by appointment. *** CHURCH OP GOD- Corner Harrison and Elza. Preacbine. lo:45 and 7.30; Sunday school, 9:3o; Pmyer meeting, Thursday, 7:30 Rev. F. L. Austin, pastor. Ladies Society meets every Wednesday _ afternoon, by appointment. *** CArR/STJANr—BARKLEY CHURCH OF C HRIST. Preaching every alternate Lord’s Day. Morning, Sunday School 10:00; Preaching ll:oo. Evening, Y. P. S. O. Em 7:3o; Preaching,B:oo. Rev. R. 8. Morgan, Pastor. LODGES MASONIC. —PRAIRIE LODGE, No. 126, A. F. and A. M„ meets first and third Mondays of each month. O. G. Spltier W. M.; W J.lmes,Secy. EVENING STAR CHAPTER, No. 141. O. V.. S.. meets first and Third Wednesday each month. Nellie Hoykius, \\. M. Maud E. Spitler. Sec’v. *** CATHOLIC ORDER FORESTERS - Willard Court, No. 418, neets every first and third Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. E P. Honan, Secy., Frank Maloy, Chief Ranger. *** ODD FELLOWS. IROQUOIS LODGE, No 149,1. O. O. F„ meets every Thursday. W. E. Overton, N. G„ 8. O. Irwin, Sec’y. RENSSELAER ENCAMPMENT, No. 201, I. O. O. F„ meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. T. J. Sayler, O. P.; John Yannattl. Scribe. RENSSELAER REBECCA DEGREE LODGE No. 346. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs. Mattie Bowman, N. G.; Miss Alice Irwin, Sec’v. *** I O. OF FORRESTERS. COURT JASPER, No. 1703, Independent Order of Forresters. meets second and fourth Mondays Geo. Goff, O. D. H. C. K.; J. W. Horton. O. R.

Rensselaer Victorious.

The last foot ball game of the season, played Thanksgiving day, at the stock farm, resulted in a victory for the home boys, the score beiing 10 to 0. It was one of the best games played here this season, and though Battle Ground did not score, they played a very fast game. Several brilliant plays were made, the , work of Brinley, Tucker and Brown being the feature of the day. The .bad weather kept the crowd down, but those that attended were very enthusiastic and enjoyed the game very much.

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THE PEOPLE’S PILOT.

F°R THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER AND GOLD AT THE PARITY RATIO OF SIXTEEN TO ONE WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ANY OTHER NATION ON EARTH

PUBLIC FORUM

Letters and notes on all subjects of Interest to the general public will be published In this department. Contributions requested. Name of writer must id all cases be given to the editor thottgh it need not be published. A Patriotic Friend. Mt. Pleasant, lowa, Nov, 20, 1896. F. B. Craig; Respected Friend.—Your note of recent date requesting remittanc of $1.50 due you for subscription to People’s Pilot was duly received and enclosed please find postoffice order to liquidate the same. I am in hearty symphathy with you in your heroic struggle to down plutocracy and enthrone the people in their stead. lam sorry that we could not have f won the battle in the late campaign, but it seems it was not to be, and we bow in submission to the verdict of the people and trust that 1900 will reverse the late decision. Wishing you abundant success, and with kind regards to yourself and Mrs. Craig. lam very truly yours. G. L. Chandler. * # * Confidence and Taxes. A farmer, an old man, a delinquent taxpayer, who had on a gold hat and a half jag stepped into the county treasurer’s office Saturday and said: Look’er, ’ere boss, we now have confidence and will get McKinley and prosperity after the 4th of March, can’t you let that little tax of mine run till next harvest without any extra charges? County Treasurer, —“Can’t accommodate you, partner, I know confidence is established, and we’r all mighty glad of it. but j. tell you sir, it still takes money to buy whiskey and pay taxes in Jasper county.” Delinquent taxpayer.—“ See here boss I voted’er straight, always do, now you fellows told us we had plenty of money, did not need any more; you said confidence was the only thing lacking, now we have abundance of confldenc, as you agree, and you wont take it when offered, but say it is money you want. Lord! Lord! if we only had free silver how I would like to pay you fellows off in 50 cent dollars. Well, Well, if the price of my truck and stuff don’t double by the 4th of March I’m busted sure. Yes, Yes, protection and sound money; sound money and protection; for the life of me I can not tell which it is that’s most needed at present; guess, I’ll go over and ask ’Ligion and Law, our Rev. county chairman, I know he can tell. Good day Mr. Taxer.” County Treas.—“ Good by partner.”

Abide The Result.

Rensselaer, Ind. Nov. 20, 1896, Editor Peoples Pilot.—lt ought to be a source of gratification to all the people that the election is past and an end to the excitement that usually marks the closeing days of the campaign. All who believe in majority rule will bow to the will of the people and abide the resuet with the same readiness, (even though the decision was contrary to their wishes,)that they would expect of others had the result been reversed. Speaking from the stand point of a Democrat, it is np time to pout or to indulge in a buse of methods that td me may have seemed wrong, but to act as becomes an American citfeen, and by our every act show that McKinley is no.t the president of a part, but- of all the people of the United States,

RENSSELAER IND., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER. 26, 1896.

and inasmuch as the prosperity of the people ought to be mutual let it not be said of aDy democrat or populist that if the incoming administration is a successful one, that it was so in spite of our opposition, but that it succeeded with our assistance. Nothing is more plain than that if the policy of McKinley’s administration is good for republicans, all of whatever political faith, will share in its. benefits In reviewing the contest those, who have stood for the coinage of silver, have no cause for discouragement, for, if one should be allowed to anticipate the legislation of the next fou;r years, we may with reason expect that an effort will be made to procure bimetalisim by international agreement, and, if in this we are successful, the advocates of silver have won a victory, for no doubt it i&.a fact that the plank in the republican platform, pledgeing the party to the bimetallic policy, which ic did, was largely forced upon it by men in the party who fovored the reinstatement of silver to its rightful place in our monetary system, and it will not be denied that the money question was not the issue of the republican party by choice, but that the issue was forced upon it, and, being forced to take' a position, the people may with reason demand that it make its promises good, and in the event that efforts are made for international bimetalism and they results in failure, the people will then know on whose shoulders to lay the blame. If the blame be with the republican party it will then be brought to the bar of judjment in 1900, and if the people learn that international bimetalism cannot be had then will they assert their independence and secure it for tiie-u selves.

Those, who have been told that a high tariff was the one thing needful to restore prosperity, are very likely to be disappointed, as even among republicans, there are but few who favor the reinstatement of the former McKinley law, acknowledging as a fact that that law was in some instances so high as to be prohibitory, and a failure as to the procuring of revenue. Then too the people have learned that the benefit of a high tariff is almost entirely in the interest of manufacturers and corporations, who have already grown rich under the system while the laboring people have been but little benefitted, if any. The people will look with suspicion on any effort, to legislate in favor of the moneyed class, for they already are suspicious that McKinley is indebted, largely, to that class for his election, as they gave liberally to the campaign, and but few can be made to believe but that they expect a return, in some way, for favors shown. It is a fact, much to be regretted, that we have among us a class of people, who expect unreasonable things of the party in power, and, without considering the circumstances, become dissatisfied if they do not realize all their expectations. While all should now hope for a revival of , business, it would be unfortunate for it to come as a boom and of sufficient magnitude to satisfy the average crank. It would be by far better that it come to us gradually and continue, than to come with a bound and then go back as rapidly as it came. It will become us all to be patient and hope that the people’s choice was a wise one, and let every one encourage our president all he can, and'then if he fails let it be not our'fault, but the fault of the principles in-

augurated, and then can we set ourselves to the correction of them in the next campaign. W. R. Nowels.

A FALSE START.

An Episode of Feminine return— In Which the Railroad Won. They were two pretty girls, and they were evidently In high spirits when they entered an almost empty earette the other day. They carefully inspeoted the tubes which carry the fares along the sides of the vehicle to the box; then each one opened her purse. “Tell you what,” said the tall one. “Let’s raoe our niokel down, and the one that loses pays for both?” “All right, let’s,” said the short one. “Got your nJokAl ready? Got” “Mine’s first!” cried the tall one. “Five cents, please. ” “Why, look,” cried the short one, “we didn’t start fairl The box is oa your side I” “Why, so it is,” said the tall one. “Funny we didn't notice that before! Let’s toy it over, and yon stand that much nearer the box ” Again they each put in a niokel, and they dropped into the box simultaneously. “Who has won, I’d like to know?” said the tall girl. By this time the driver as well as the one other passenger was interested, and she spoke impartially to them all. Bnt the driver turned suddenly to his horses, and the other passenger looked oat of the window, with a queer noise in his throat. “I’m sure I don’t know who has won,” said the short girl snappishly, ‘ ‘but one thing I do know—we have each paid 10 oents for a ride down town I” And, after the driver had been appealed to and assured them that he oould not return the superfluous coins, they rode on to their destination in silenoe.—Chicago Tribune.

MISSING RELIC FOUND.

Louisburg Cross of Harvard Said to Have Been Located. There is considerable excitement among the students and faoulty of Harvard over the rumor that the celebrated Louisburg oross has been discovered in the rooms of a oertain secret society. The crows i 3 of real historic value. It was taken from the old Catholic cathedral at Louisburg by tbe Englisb under Shirley in 1746, and after a varied career in Massachusetts was put up over tbe entrance to the Harvard library, where it remained until abont a year ago, when it mysteriously disappeared. ' Now it is thought that it was stolen by some oandidate for admission to a society, which requires ail its neophytes to do something the discovery of which would cause the candidate to be expelled from the college. The faoulty has been putting forth every possible effort to learn tbe whereabouts of tbe missing refio.

The Nose.

The nose is intended for breathing, the month for speaking and eating. Who has ever seen a horse breathing otherwise than throngh bis nostrils? Minnte scientific investigation has revealed the fact that the number of people who breathe through their nostrils are becoming gradually but surely fewer in number. The consequenoe is' that the nostrils decrease in size, while it has been found that the prevailing nose is quite an inferior organ to that of our forefathers. Doctors at the present time are frequently asked to operate on noses and to enlarge them. Their owners have found that they do not fulfill their functions as well as they used to. It is beginning to be feared by scientific people that if matters grow much worse we shall lose the use of our nasal organs entirely. It is a well known physiological fact that unused muscles and bones gradually disappear. Pish who live in the dark, for instanoe, or the mole, who resides underground, become blind. Thus, if we cease to use our noses for breathing, they will oease to exist They will beoom e so perfl nous I—Pearson ’ s Weekly.

Harvard to Expel Students Who Crib.

The penalty in future for “cribbing” at Harvard has been decided upon, as is Bhown by the following announcement by the faculty: » “The administrative board of the college, holding that the handing in by a student of written work not his own is proposes to separate from the college a student guilty of such conduct and to post his name on the college bulletin boards.”

Queer.

Mm C.—Doctor, you were aft the last illness of my eldest boy? Doctor—Yes. Mm o.—You also tended professionally my first husband, who died? Doctor—Yes. Mm C.—Well, my second husband is ill, and I would like you to see Him. —London Fun. Amateurs who undertake to lay a floor should remember that one-fifth more siding and flooring is needed than the number of square feet of surfaoe to be covered because of the lap in the siding. • ‘ The Erie canal, in Hew York, was the first artificial waterway begun in this country. Ground was. broken for this enterprise Jnly 4, 1817.

HER HORDE OF FOES.

CUBA’B STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM COMPARED WITH OUR OWN. Fore— AmjreA Against the Island Patriot* Five Times More Numerous Than Our Revolutionary Foes—The Tremendous Discrepancy In Armies. The inability of the tremendous Spanish forces in Cuba to end the revolution has oaused a good deal of admiration for the heroism of the Cuban patriots in their struggle for independence. A Cuban sympathizer in Washington, alluding to the heavy forces that Spain has sent into the island, makes an interesting comparison between the struggle in Cuba and that in the American colonies, whioh resulted in the independence of the United States. He says: “The population of the united colonies during the Revolutionary war has been estimated at about 8,000,000. The present population of Cuba is given at about 1,600,000. As at least 600,000 of these are Spaniards, who are either nonoombatants or are aotually assisting Spain, it will be # seen that the population of the oolonies in rebellion against Great Britain was about three times the present population of Cuba in rebellion against Spain. “The following extract from the correspondence of John Adams, written in Deoember, 1809, will be read with interest as showing tbe foroea against which our Revolutionary forefathers oontended. He says: “ ‘Great Britain, in our Revolutionary war, never had in North America, including the Canadas, at any one time more than five and twenty thousand men. During some part of the war 1 thought they had 40,000, but upon examining their most authentic documents and memorials I have long settled an opinion that they never exceeded 96,000. ’ “Mr. Sparks, who takes his figures from the state papers, gives the number more exactly as follows: June, 1777, 80,057; August, 1778, 84,064; May, 1779, 87,808; August, 1780, 87,918; May, 1781, 88,187; June, 1782, 89,089, or an average of not quite 80,000 men for each of the years named. “On tho other hand, I have never seen tbe number of Spanish troops in Cuba stated at less than 800,000, to say nothing of the 16,000 or 80,000 Spanish Cuban volunteers or militia. To properly appreciate, therefore, the enormous disparity between the number of troops sent by Qreat Britain to subjugate America and the number sent by Spain to conquer the Cuban patriots we should oontrast the figures as follows : Cuban patriot population 1,000,000 Spanish troops 200,000 Amorioan patriot population 8,000,000 British troops... 80,000 “But historians have everywhere conceded that without the assistance of France the American patriots would have failed in their struggle for independence. What, then, would have been the outcome had Great Britain sent against her colonies in rebellion 600,000 troops? This would have been the number our forefathers would have had to contend against, and that, too, without the aid of France, if we contrast the situation in Cuba today with that of tho American oolonies during tbe Revolution. “It is, moreover, to be remembered that tjaUßrltish troops were armed with flintldwmuskets, 1° which respeot they were Jw no way superior to our own people. On the other hand, the Spanish infantry of today are armed with the best modern rapid fire, breeohloading guns, to oppose whioh 86 per cent of the Cubans have nothing better than the machete. “That these men, insignifioant in numbers, poorly armed, barefooted and ragged, are able under such adverse circumstances to ‘put up. a fight’ and maintain it for two years against such unprecedented odds is one of the marvels of patriotic effort. ’’—Philadelphia Press.

SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

lb* law tha Goldbng* Invoke, bat Which, Aided by Intelligence, la Their Bain. It is qneer how the gold standard advocates lay down a proposition and then seek to avoid the conclusions to whioh It points. In seeking to establish the assumption that silver has depreciated because of its increased production they refer their readers to what they call the inexorable "law of supply and demand." They say that the Increased production of silver has caused Its value to decline—its value now and always being its purchasing power. This would account for one end only of the natural law to which they refer. The supply has increased, but what about the abolition of the demand? Is this great natural law a one sided affair? Do its results refer only to supply, or are they concerned also with demand? It is a matter of history that the demand for silver as money of final payment in Europe and the United States was obliterated before there had been any increase in the output of silver bullion. Did the law of supply and demand suspend its operations until after the "supply" had begun to increase? Is it true in theory or fact that the cessation of "demand" has no effect on values? This is the position the gold organs and expounders take. They refer confidently to the law of supply and demand, and yet place themselves in'the attitude of insisting that it is solely a law of snmiv. Rn* if "ncihalf the people who

NUMBER 23.

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now eat beef should conclude to eat another kind of meat, would that have any effect on the prioe? The gold standard expounders would no doubt insist that there had been a sudden overproduction in beef. But, silver being a money metal, lta value relates exclusively to its purchasing power. It is oapable of demonstration, and has been demonstrated time and again in these columns by means of official figures, that no gold standard expounder has ever undertaken to eet aside, that the purchasing power of silver has not decreased by so much as half a cent in spite of the dosing of the mints and the increased output of the mines. An ounce of it will buy just as much cotton, wheat, iron, calico and all other staple commodities as it ever would. It is only when we come to buy gold that we find that a tremendous dislocation has occurred. This dislocation is made manifest whether we try to buy gold with silver, or with cotton, or with wheat, or with any staple product of human labor. The inevitable conclusion must be that gold has doubled in value, and that is what has occurred,-the difficulty in perceiving this being entirely due to the foot that a dollar is called 100 cents no matter how largely its purchasing power is increased. Measured by itself, gold appears to have remained stable, while everything else has depreciated. As this depreciation would be an impossibility, we know that gold has doubled in purchasing power, which is all the value that a monev metal can oossess.

The Grand Ball.

The fifth annual jaall given by the boys at Ellis opera house, Wednesday Nov. 25, 1896, was a swell affair, having a Chicago orchestra of six pieces, playing some of the nicest musiq ever heard here. There were many people from Chicago, Lafayette, Monticello Delphi and other places present. and there were about 100 couple in the grand march. The dancing lasted until 4 a. m. and on the whole was a grand success.

Bonding a Yacht For Explorer Nansen.

"Mr. Colin Archer of Lanrvig," says The Field, "is preparing the plans fora 80 ton yacht for the celebrated arotio explorer, Dr. Hansen. The little craft is to be need for trips to Spitsbergen and for cruises on the Norwegian fiords. Mr. Archer, who designed and built the From, though a Norwegian by birth and citizenship, is of Scottish descent and has spent a number of years in the United States and in Australia."

Subtle Flattery.

A certain reotor in a Suffolk village, who was disliked In the parish, had a curate who was very popular, and, oa his leaving, was presented wfth a testimonial. This exoited the envy and wrath of the reotor, and, meeting with an old lady one day, be said: "I am surprised, Mrs. Bloom, that you should have subscribed to this testimonial.” "Why, sir,” said the old lady, "if you'd bin a-goin, I’d ’ave subscribed doublet"—London Tit-Bita.