Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — Page 1

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DOfiTOR MnrißP Jtgives great satisfaction to know 1 that Consumption, Bright’s Disease The careful Specialist of over ° f the Kidneys and many of the ... . . „ .. Heart troubles, all of which were * v wear a vonmtant Practice, formerly considered incurable, with ■ Treats with remarkable new methods, can now be cured. A *' following specialties’ large percent of Epilepsy and CanT tt i 0 . „ , . cer can be permanently relieved Lungs, Heart, Stomach, Nose The best of reference given. and Throat, Nerves, Kidneys s—and Bladder, Private Diseases, , n „ ~ ..... Hemorrhoids, Epilepsy, Cancer, *^ offlce over Fend, B'B City Old Sores and Ulcers, Ear and Dru 2 Store. First Stairs all diseases of women. West of P. O. «to U A. M°Tto E 5 ?.°M UE ?to 8 P : M HOME A ~ HOUSE. SUMDATB. > ALL CALLS 2to 3 P.M. 7toß P. M Promptly Answered. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. ’Phone 251.

You Can Buy Just what You Need of lls and on Easy Terms. We Wish to call the attention ofthe people of Jasper and adjoining Counties to the fact that we have a full line of J Horses, Buggies. Harness, Wagons, Farm Im- £ plements. Groceries and Dry Goods J ° Which we will sell on EASY TERMS and at LOW PRICES. Our goods are bought direct from the factory at the right price. We are prepared to take care of our customers. Our Special Sale Days are Tuesday and Thursday of each Week. JUDY & WOOD, Parr, Ind. ■■■aaaa.iiiaaa RAY WOOP’S Five CUoilr Barker SKoji> The Largest and Finest In Jasper County. Go there for a Fine Smooth Shave and Fashionable i Hair Cut. Boot Black Stand in Connection .... I-

f JACOB M. IROXEliri Justice of the \ . Peace. - - - f \ Collections elven Prompt Attention. \ f Office N. of Public Square. f FOR SALE. Good farm horses and mares for sale for cash or on time. A. L. Padgitt, at Stock Farm, Rensselaer, Ind. New Scales. I have recently put in new scales at my Wood and ooal yard in Rensselaer and will do weighing for the public at the usual charge. All weights guaranteed to be oorreot. A share of your patronage solicited. J. H. Cox.

Mr. Sun and His Minstrels.

Gua Sun’s Minstrels are all right. They played to a large audience at Clark’s last night and gave excellent satisfaction. There are no fillers in the troupe—every member is an art.st. The excellent band and orchestra gave especial vim to the show. The old favorites, Henry J. Yorker, John Lynch, Gus San, Marion and Pearl Lambert, Anderson and Julian Walsh were the more worthy stars with the show.—Press, Norwick, N. Y. This company will appear at Ellis’ Opera House, Friday, March 8.

MONEY ON FARMS AT 5 PER CEN 7 . A special fund to loan on iaims for five years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Also loans on CITY PROPERTY at low rates. Call or write to tho COMMERCIAL STATE BANK, North Side Public square, Rensselaer, tnd. Job work at JoVRNAt office.'

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The Rensselaer Journal.

Picked Up Around Town

A woman whom we know is never real happy because she is continually worrying for fear some of her friends will get sick. * There is a man in this town who is so mean folks are anxious to have him go into business so he will find out how unpopular he is. * * • We met a man the other day- who said his wile did not object to him having a good time, nut she did get awfully mad if he paid any attention to any of the girls. What kind of a woman is she, anyhow? % * We heard of a man the other day who had always been rather weak and sickly. His frierris expected him to die before he'*Sjggkto be grown up. Then they thottjjgc sure he would not live to be middle aged. Finally, they decided that it was clear out of the question to think of his reaching fifty, and the other ay he celebrated his golden wedding. Beware of the invalid. We heard of a girl near here who wears shoes that are at least two sizes too small. But we do not believe it, so we merely relate the story to show what strange things folks will tell. You may believe it or not, just as you like. Her envious neighbors say she wears her shoes so tight that she can hardly walk till she has worn them awhile. When she starts from home she minces along like a Chinese belle in Pekin. By the time sh» gets up town she is used to the agonv and torture, and she gets along pretty well. * * * It is the rule of railroads that to ship a corpse, one must buy a full fare ticket and then the body is shipped in the baggage car. That is to say, the friends buy the ticket. Not even a railroad company expects the corpse to buy its own ticket. A funeral party got on at a country station where they were selling excursion tickets, and the man buying the ticket, being a saving man, bought a round trip ticket for himself and in order that he might do justas well by the corpse, he bought a round trip ticket for the corpse. We did not learn wheather he used the return ticket for the corpse or not.

An old Darkey was in a saloon in a southern town, He was pretty well “hooked up” as the boys say. He had abont as big a load as he could carry and was quoting Scripture freely. He told the barkeep about the story of Daniel, who was alone in the wilderness and how the ravens brought him food. He said, “If the ravens hadn’t done brought the prophet Daniel stuff to eat, he would have stahved, sah.” And the old barkeep was a florid faced, bald headed old sinner who didn’t know Daniel from John L. Sullivan, and does not know yet whether the Darkey was right or wrong. A loafer in the saloon told a story about a man having been tracked to a henhouse in town and the colored gentleman changed the subject immediately and wanted to talk still more about the prophets and things. * * The train was speeding towards Indianapolis. Two young men came into the car that was full of Bleeping passengers, about midnight. It is not a very cheerful prospect at best. Bill was about to sit down by a window. His pard admonished him thus: “Don’t set down by one of them winders.” And he did not “set down,” but said he would go to the smoker. The young, husky fellow had on his store clothes because he had been on a trip. There was a big package marked with the business and location of some firm in Peoria. They talked abont “Peory.” He also wore a celluloid collar and a pair of double knit yarn mittens, knit of three kinds of yarn, like mother used to make. He kept them on, so his hands wouldn’t get cold. He surveyed the crowd awhile and then concluded to go into another car. When we got off he was snoring away like a good fellow, evidently dreaming of the boss time he had in “Peory,” and he still had on his double knit mittens that mother made. Whether Bill “set down by one of them winders” we can not say.

RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1901.

A SOUTHERN TRIP.

No More Pleasant Trip Can Be Made Than to the South in the Winter. From the zero weather of the north to a land of sunshine and flowers in a few hours is the experience of one taking a trip to the south during this time of year. We left Rensselaer February 10th and saw the last of the heavy snow which covered the ground here at that time at Bedford. We arrived at Louisville in the evening and found a vast difference in the temperature, the weather being almost springlike m comparison to the zero weather which we left a few hours before. Leaving Louisville about 3 o’clock the next morning over the L. &N. railroad, daylight found us at gow Junction, Ky., where the first snow of the year was falling. Here we took the dummy line to the Mammoth Cave. The distance is eight miles and the fare $2 for the round trip. A trip to the Cave is well worth all it costs and a person could speud a few days there very profitably. - A visitor has the choice of two routes through the cave—the long and the short—the former at a cost of |3 for each person and the latter at a cost of $2 for the guide. In addition to these a trip can be taken over the dome route for an extra dollar. The long route is about 18 miles and the short route 8 miles. The trip over cue short route, which we,took, can be made in five hours or less. In order to keep our article within a limited space we can only touch briefly upon the many sights to be seen here. There is but one entrance to the cave. In the war of 1812 the goverment used the clay from the cave in making salt peter which it used in making gunpowder, and the timber used in the mining is still to be seen in the cave, as well preserved as the day in which work was stopped. Among the points of interest on the short route are the entrance, salt peter works, rotunda, large circle room, audibin avenue, olive’s bower, stalagmite formation, main cave or broadway, 40 feet high, 60 feet wide and four miles long; exit of corkscrew, church, Booth’s theatre, where Edwin Booth oncj delivered a recitation from Hamlet; gothic avenue, seat of the mummies, where two mummified Indians were found in 1817; post oak pillar, resembling an oak tree; stalagmite hall, catacombs, buffalo head, pillars of Hercules, Pompeii and Caesar; Washington’s hand, hornets nests, arm chair, drop curtain, elephant’s head, lovers’ leap, main cave, fat girl, hen and chickens, standing rocks, statute of Martha Washington, foi\>ed by the different angles of the cave; giant’s cpffin, 42 feet long, 20 wide and 19 deep, sanitarian, consisting of 20 stone houses, where consumptives livenin'lß42, but the treatment proving a failure, they were deserted; star chamber, day break, Dante’s gateway, wooden bowl room, steps of time, Richardson’s spring, lover’s retreat, the dome, bottomless pit, etc. A description of these various points would fill a book. The next night we stopped over at Nashville, Tenn., where may be seen one of the finest depots in the United States, recently erected by the L. & N.road.

Birmingham, Ala., in the heart of the iron and coal region, is probably the most lively city in the south, and is called the “Pittsburg of the South.” At Flomaton, where the L. & N. branches off to Pensacola and other points in Florida we were within a few hundred yards of the Florida line, and while the train stopped we ran over the line and set foot on Florida soil. After an all-day’s trip through desolate fine lands and gloomy swamps, and over large rivers we arrived in the evening at Mobile, Ala., one of the important seaports of the gulf coast and said to be the third oldest city of the United States. It is the largest city in the state and is a quaint old Spanish town, reminding one of the pictures he sees of Cairo or other cities of the far east. Its streets are very narrow and dirty and nearly every civilized and half civilized nation on earth iB represented on them. The ships of niany nations unload their cargoes at her wharfs and take away loads of cotton, lumber, turpentine and other products of this region. Out from the business portion are many palatial residences built after the old style of architecture peculiar to the south, with massive pillars and wide verandas extending around the house at each story. Beautiful lawns spread

out before them covered with roses and other flowers already in bloom and many kinds of semi-tropical trees .and plants. The streets in this district are bordered with live oak and magnolia trees, their spreading green branches presenting a delightful contrast to the northern tourists who have just left the region of ice and snow.

Leaving Mobile on Wednesday afternoon we passed through a chain of beautiful gulf coast resorts, viz: Scranton, Ocean Springs, Biloxi, Mississippi City, Gulfport, Long Beach Pass Christian and Bay St Louis, all in Mississippi. We also passed through Beauvoir, Miss., the late home of Jeff Davis, and where his widow still resides. These little resort cities are kept up by the residents of New Orleans and other large southern cities in the summer season and by northern tourists in the winter. The same evening we reached New Orleans, the Crescent City, and’ the Metropolis of the South. Here we found all bustle and push in prepara tion for Mardi Gras, the greatest festival of all of the year in the South. It is estimated that 40,000 strangers were in the city to witness the festivities, which took place Monday and Tuesday, February 18th and 19th. A description of the mardi gras would take up more space than we have to devote to it. However, it is a grand sight, and worth going many miles to see.

New Orleans is a strange city. It is wholly unlike any place we have in the North. They do everything differently from us. We heard an Orleanian say that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east and one can believe it in this city. The streets of the city are all in the form of a crescent and nobody, not even the natives, can tell in what direction they are going at any time. The water of the Mississippi river flows northward there and it is said that the river actually flows up hill from N. Of to the Gulf. The water is higher than the land and levees are necessary to keep it from overflowing everything. They bury their dead on top of the ground and bulla tombs over them Their cisterns, from which they get their supply of drinking water, are built up into the air instead of down in the ground, as with us. The people you meet on the street invariably turn to the left instead of -to the right and thus a Hoosier is always running into someone. The people of New Orleans and in fact the whole South are the most hospitable, courteous and accommodating to i e found anywhere, but those in business in the Crescent City know their opportunity. They imagine every northern visitor has lots of money and they ask fabulous prices for everything. Lodging especially is at a premium during' the Mardi Gras and some who arrive late and do not know where to go have to pay as high as $5 a night for a chair to sit in or $lO for a cot in so:ne hall way. The hotels are all jammed during Mardi Gras and the proprietors make the most of it.

It would be impossible, to give the reader much of an idea of the many points of interest visited in the great French-American city. We spenc two weeks in sight seeing and did not see it all, either. It is like a trip co another world to leave the zero weather of the snow bound North and step off the train a few days later into this city, lying here sunning itself in the lap of spring on the elbow of the j?reat yellow river. Long before reaching the place the beautiful roses and many other kinds of flowers are seen nodding a greeting from beside the railway and the traveler is carried right through the midst of a region of growing gardens that make the land scape %ok like May instead of February. The longer a person stays in New Orleans the longer he would like to stay. The nitv has numerous public parks and private lawns that are now covered with green grass, flowers, banana plants and semi tropical trees. A stranger can wander about 1 to his heart’s content, for'it is impossible to get lost, as all the streets open into Canal street, the main thoroughfare of the city, except the cross streets, and they all lead to the river. The electric cars all start from and return to Oanal street, and thus a person could not lose himself if he should try. A 160 mile trip up the Mississippi river to Bayon Sara was one of the pleasures of our trip. The trip took three days, but was well worth the time spent. Plantations are about all that are to be seen on a trip of this nature. Only two cities were passed —Donaldsonville and the state capital

—Baton Ronge. At each point we landed and made a short trip. The passengers on the boat were mostly northerners. We found a bride and groom from Indianapolis, a man and wife from New York, two couples from Michigan, and others from near by states. We left New Orleans on Monday evening of last week by the Queen & Crescent Route, and on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday forenoon we took in the sights of Chattanooga, Tenn., including a visit to Lookout Mountain and Chicamauga Park, where were fonght some ofthe most important battles of the civil war. After an all-day’s trip over the Cum berlain chiin of mountains we arrived in Cincinnati, where we realized that we were again in the frozen North. Thursday evening, nearly three weeks after our departure, we arrived home, well repaid for the time and ex pense incurred.

Arrow Points.

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to the earth; I know not where. Every man will tell you he is trying to do right. Any chump can have three initials in his name. Sickness is the excuse for not paying many a bill. Some men never dress up during week, unless they are sick. 9^ The man who figures on having bad luck, usually does not have it. Some very trifling men are named in honor of great and good men. When a snowstorm starts in with very large flakes, it usually does not last. Generally the bigger beard a man has, the less hair grows on top of his head. We never know how much we miss butter on the table till we are clear out of it. A woman 'cannot make a fool of herself without making her husband a laughing stock. A woman dressed in white always makes folks think she is rather inclined to be pretty. The way to get along smoothly with folks is to agree that their family physician is the best. ; It is no wonder some girls marry the fellows they do. They do not know them well enough. When a man starts out to lie, he never seems to think that folks might try to verify what he says. Somehow we are always suspicious of the man who says he is trying to make his wife’s work easier. Lots of people have good meals when there is company, but have mighty little to eat when alone. When a man acquires a son-in-law he always thinks, at first, that he was the favoriceeon in his father’s family. When a man says his friends are urging him to do a certain thing, we want his friends to tell us more about it. We never yet heard of a fellow marrying anybody but a “little wife” although she may be as big as a meeting house. Some people couldn’t think of anything to say if they were not allowed to kick about everything that comes along. If there is a person in town who makes you very tired, investigation will show that he makes other people very tired also. It is queer, but hardly anybody goes to the nearest church, on the ground, perhaps, that the farthest way around is the safest way to heaven. Lots of men fool away so much time trying to get hold of some relative’s estate that they neglect what little bnsiness they have of their own. If you are a publisher, do not flatter yourself that you were the first to be offered the chance to print an article. It may have been refused a half dozen times.

DEATH OF WELL KNOWN CITIZEN.

James W. Pierce Expires After a Week’s Illness. James W. Pierce, a well known citizen living south of town, died last Saturday morning after an illness of only a week’s duration. He was taken sick on Friday of the preceding week with lung fever, and the following Thursday passed into a comatose condition, from which he never rallied. The ftmeral was held at the Christian church in Rensselaer on Tuesday at 10 a. m. Rev. A. L. Ward conducted the services, which* were under the auspices of the Iroquois Lodge I. O. O. F., of which deceased was a member. James W. Pierce was born in Rensselaer, June 10th, 1860, and his age at death was 40 years, 8 months and 22 days. When one year old his parents moved to the farm 2J miles south of town, on which he has lived ever since, and which he died the owner of. He married Miss Ida Coons, Oct. 13, 1886, who now mourns his untimely death, as do their three children, Carrie, Mary and Gladys. He was a member of the Rensselaer Christian chuich, also of Iroquois Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Modern Woodmen of America. He leaves his family in comfortable circumstances.

BARN BURNED.

T. J. McCoy Loses His Fine Barn on McCoy Avenue. Tuesday night about ten o’clock fire was discovered in T. J. McCoy’s barn at his residence on McCoy avenue and the building was almost totally destroyed. The loss was probably SI,OOO, with an insurance of |450. The stock and other property, excepting the harness and grain, was saved. The Are started from a defective flue in the quarters occupied by the stable help. Notwithstanding the severe cold the fire company was promptly on the ground and prevented the spread of the flames to the surrounding buildings. Owing to the cold, the firemen had a difficult time and the water freezing made them resemble a mass of ice. Mr. McCoy, who had been out of the city, arrived home on the train while the barn was burning, and presented the ten members of the company present with |25.

NOTICE. To Building and Loan Association Stockholders. Notice is hereby givin that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Rensselaer Building, Loan and Saving Association will be held at the office of the secretary in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Monday, March 18, 1901, at 7 o’clock, p. m. for the purpose of electing directors and transacting such other business as may be lawfully brought before the meeting. Jambs H. Chapman, Secretary.

County Council.

The county council met in special called session Tuesday with all members present and made the following appropriations: For expenditures of 1900, not paid during year. Per diem County Superintendent... 4 00 Postage for County Surveyor 1 00 Clerk C. C., making reports 4 00 Supplies & repairs Poor farm 61 20 Supplies & repairs Court House and Jail 202 4g Gravel Road Repairs Marion townshiP 78 35 “ “ “ Keener “ 23 25 “ “ “ Carpenter “ 22 50 Election expenses allowances made and not drawn 166 33 Election expenses additional for meals 81 45 Election expenses additional for rent of rooms 8 00 Interest on Bonds 900 00 Expense of Ditches 27 50 “ “ Highways 4 50 Amt advanced on Gravel Roads.. 96 70 Expense Poor, under sec 7 page 249 acts 1897 12 65 Salary County Council 10 00 These items do not increase appropriations already made bat reappropriate amounts reverting to general fund Jan. Ist not having been paid out: Additional appropriations 1901. School manual for county 45 00 Teachers* report 1000 Expense suits pending against county too 00 New Bridges. 2700 00 Poor under Sec 7 P 249 Acts 1897.. 75 00 Bounty on Wolf Scalps. 250 00 ** “ Fox Scalps 10 00

CLUBBING OFFER. Journal and Toledo Blade, per year... .$1.25 Journal and N. Y. Tribune, per year,..51.25

ELLIS' OPERA BOOSE. J H S ELLIS, Pro. One Night Only, Friday, March 8. Special Engagement of America’s Greatest Minstrel 00. TIE CIS SUN' AMERICAN MINSTRELS, Introducing 6rand Spectacular Transformation First Part Setting Henry J. Vorkey, Billy Pearl, E. W. Chipman, H. Marion, The Musical Bells, The Great Lynch, Julian Walsh, Lambert & Anderson, Nugent Bros. GUS SUN, In conjunction with 50 All Star Artists 50 Two great bands and symphony orchestra. Striking and most elaborate street demonstration extant. Seats on sale at Huff’s—2s, 36, 60c.

Miss Sarah Cowglll Found Dead Near Her School. This community was shocked Tuesday morning by the receipt of a telephone message announcing the sudden death of Miss Sarah Cowgill, a sister of Undertaker Cowgill, while on her way to her school house in Kankakee township, wnere she was engaged in teaching. Miss Cowgill had been boarding with the family of Mr. Belcher, and left at the usual hour for the school house to prepare it for the day’s work. She had been more or less troubled with her throat and some time before at her place of boarding had had an attack that came near choking her to death. Since that time Mr. Belcher had been in the habit of sending one of his children to the school with her, but on the morning of her death failed to do so. She left her boarding house in good spirits and Bhortly thereafter Mr. Belcher noticed that no smoke was issuing from the school chimney, and sent his little girl to see if anything was the matter. Near the school building the girl discovered Miss Cowgill in an unconscious condition She was removed to the school house and expired in a few moments, before medical aid eould reach her. The body was allowed to remain in the building nntil the arrival of the coroner and her brother, who brought the remains back to Rensselaer, arriving here at 2 o’clock yesterday morning. Dr. Ira Washburn, who accompanied the coroner to the scene of her death, pronounced the caupe of her death to have been acnte congestion of the lungs and the verdict of the coroner, who held an inquest, will probably be in accordance with the doctor’s opinion. Dr. Washburn also says that Mißs Cowgill was undoubtedly dead before her body was discovered by the roadside. When found it was in a sitting position with the hands on the head. Miss Cowgill with her mother came here from Pana, Til., only last sum mer, but during her short stay all who had made her acquaintance had learned to love her, and her untimely death is a blow to all. Her brother and others started with the remains last night to Pana, her old home, where interment will be made.

Joseph Winslow and Hope Spitzer. Thomas A. Ulyat and Ella Lewis. Moses Sandusky Porter and Angela Ethel Crlsler. John Amos Sellie Bull and Carrie Belle Ballivan. Francis Marion Baker and Laura Jane Dunkan. Harry Kresler and Mattie McColly. Ruben Yeoman and Rosetta McColly.

Private funds to loan on farms, also city property for 6 years or longer at a low rate of interest with privilege of making partial payments. Also money to loan on personal, second mortgage and chattel security. No delay. Call or write. A complete set of abstract books.

NUMBER 89

A SAD DEATH.

Marriage Licenses.

Money to Loan.

JAMES H. CHAPMAN.