Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1889 — Page 4

THE . Thursday. Fkbuary 14, 1889.

DI»3EOTOIB"3r f?-' ■ COVWTY 4rHCEBa' ~ C‘«k > JAMy-fr lawia. MMlff IXIM-lP BIVB. Artiter ••• «MWa. Robiwron ;;_®UMWWr,-.. ... J, B. Wahhbcun Rwwrter .... .J.mks F. Iktkih. .«umjMr... ...Jmiks C. Tfimas. Coroner . F Bbnjimin. SuiwrtntoiMtent T- übHc Sckoel- JFkW.mkn ,1-t DlMrtcV T. M. QCBMtY. $K* .J r.J*™™ _ lid IMrtrict . . O.P.Tabob. Ctwl Fir* Jfo«ufay» fa M«rc* D»c*<*btr j' J VI) 14 LAL CinuitJadm PtTBBII. W*BB. KmmmUdk Xttoraay R Mauawai*. nr«M <VC«mr»-/w»l JfoMfay fa Jmyny; ftM *«•*•»<- X-"*; JWrrtXwufatfa^—K YMrt Jfoixfaß fa (Mofar. CORPORATION UmOtM: BtnUl AUiSU SIMPKOM Clark .. -Itefi I- Cwiuxitb. treasurer ..C.C Stbbb list Wart N. W. Kbbvb. |W Wart Hibab Day. * Qouneilmen (kiWint. Kn D :a*»M. 1 athWart Simom I’uiLLir* lath Wart..ALFB«» TUOMPIMfa. EMTI. u T't.7"j ; r ' • ■..^•■— — JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF. EDUCATION Jesae G win. Trusts®........ Han ai n g Greve tp. jpw*. Greenfield, Trustee Marfaa tp. J A. NcFsrtana. Trustee Jordan tp. Jackson Freeland. Trustee ton tp J F Bruner, trustee Keener Ip. E<l wart Biggs. Trustee Kankakee tp. L. F.Hmrer, Trustee - WhenUteM tp. Wm O. Rnadifer,Trustee ..Carpentertp. Hezekiah KeJter, Trustee MHroy tp. Wm. Cooper. Trustee,.... Vnioutp. W. H. Coover. ....Remington. Dr. I. B. Washburn KensocJaer Frank J. Warren... County Supt.

An item in our interesting budget of news from Remington, indicates that the good people of that town are on the point of successfully solving the problem of a new school building. A fact which The Republican is glad to makes note of. ■ , !—E - j There is every reason for believing that Sullivan, the absconded clerk of Marion county, has robbed the Insane Asylum of many thousands of dollars, but the dem-1 ocrats in the Legislature nnaniinously voted against a proposal to investigate the matter. I Senator DeMotte has charge of ' a bill in the state Senate looking to compulsory education. The senator does pot claim its exclusive authorship, it being largely the I work of some of the best and most «• experienced educators in the state. The fate of the bill is problematical A most commendable law now working its way through the Ind-; iana Legislature provides that 1 hereafter the death penalty for crime shall only be executed in one or the other of the penitentiaries of the state, and in a very private manner. Such a law has been in force in Ohio, for several years. The Indiana legislature has 27 democrats and 23 republicans in the senate and 57 democrats and 43 republicans in the house. On a joint ballot the democrats have 18 majority. As to the members of the legislature there are: Farmers 35; lawyers 25; physicians 8; manufacturers 6;, printers 3; editors 3; pgarators 2; merchants 2; apd one of the following:. School teacher, florist, surveyor, Commercial traveler, contractor, hotel keeper, tinner, miller, foreman of coal yards, agent United States Express company, United States claim agen,t stock dealer, insurance agent, and druggist The farmers predominate.

A war between the United States and Germany over the Samoan Islands would, so far as the importance of the matter in {Contention was concerned, and the relative extent of property and lives squandered, be about on an equality with the two nations of mediaeval Italy, wfiigh went to war over an old bucket Such a war would be a piece of unspeakable folly and in which both nations wtHild have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Happily the danger of such an umitagated ralßmity is very remote. This country will soon be m charge of a Republican administration, with a statesman at the head of the State Department, and the matter will be satisfactorily adjusted, without the danger of war and in a mauner that will not sacrifise the self j-espectof the American people.

•• ■ . The Andrews election bill is almost absolutely-certain to become a law. It is largely modelled after what is known as the Australian system, and this system is reported to work very satisfactorily, wherever it has been adopted. In the Andrews bill the sytem has been modified in many particulars, with the result of making more complicated, incomprehensible and expensive a system which was already too heavily burdened with those objectionable features. In the nutter of expensiveness especially, the Andrews bill is objectionable. It creates 5,000 new officers, and makes heavy expenses at every turn. In fact, in the opinion of many competent judges the added expenses that will be occasioned in conducting elections under the provisions of this bill are nt least five times greater than they would be under the provisions of the substitute bill, offered by the Republicans, while the latter would not be less but more effective in bringing about the reforms promised by the authors of the Andrews bill.

H&te is Senator DeMotte’s opinion of the Andrews Election bill, as expressed in a letter in the Crown Point Register: I am pretty well satisfied that an election law will be passed. For forty years the Democratic party has presented a solid front against any proposition to guard the ballot-box against fraud. They have finally agreed upon one which I think will prevent everything except importing voters, and tallyrsheet forgery. These seem to be left open for Kentucky Democrats, ad Coy, Bernhamer & Co. The bill creates over 5,000 new officers, and is exceedingly cnmbeisome and expensive, but we had better have it than the law as it now is. \ The Republicans have also framed a law which it is believed accomplishes as completely everything sought to be accomplished by the Democratic bill and prevents importation and tally-sheet forgery. It makes no new officers and does not cost one dollar where the other costs five.”

SOME OF THE DIFFICULTIES.

Under this caption, that veteran editor, Gen. Reub Williams, of lhe Warsaw Indianian, indulges in some observations that should be brought to the attention of the readers of every weekly paper published outside the large cities. It is the it flexible rule of the Indianian office to send at the end of each year, a statement to every patron of that establishment showing their indebtedness to the firm. Dwelling upon the subject, the Indianian says: “While the vast majority of our patrons would never think of getting angry, but respond as quickly as possible, there are others who take offense at the reception of such statements and indignantly order the paper discontinued. It is only the country newspaper—the one whose editor and publisher are personally known to almost every one of their subscribers, who are subjected to such treatment With the distant publication the subscriber knows that the money must be forthcoming at once when they send in their names. Credit with a distant paper isbot even thought of, and would not be "granted if it was. The country publisher however, in the goodness of his heart, fully believing that it would be an accommodation to let the paper run beyond the time paid for, thinking that this, or that individual could not, for various reasons, send iu their money at the expiration of the time paid for, permits it to run on, granting a favor that no distant publisher would think of doing, only to be snubbed when be merely sends a statement of the account between him and the individual who has received his paper long after the amount first paid in is used up. There is only one consolation to the country publisher, and that is that the number, of such persons is comparatively small, and that the great majority of the people—knowing that the country paper fills a want that no other (Joes; that it is the invariable advocate of every worthy enterprise, as well as the uncompromising foe of every wrong, affecting the people among whoiq it is published—respond in a liberal, enlightened way; often remarking that they did not know they were so’far behind, and regretting that they had not been more prompt It is these persons who keep the country publisher from getting

the 'blues,* and make it possible for a newspaper to be fublished in a country town at tie these who think it right to treat their home publisher just the same as they wopld bp, compelled to treat the distant one, if they expect to receive the latter’s journal at all. It is a difficult thing to publish a country journal and keep ite receipts ftbove the expenditures, and it is those who fly in a passion, stop theft paper, and curse the publisher of the country journal when he asks only for his own, who cause some of the difficulties of journalism.”

At The Presbyterian Church.

The meetings at tfie Presbyterian church still continue night and day with unflagging interest and will probably continue into next week. »We are glad to see such a marked interest in s the religous sentiment of tbe people and we believe much good will be done. The coming of Dr. H. H. Wells will, we think, prove a great blessing, because he is a very able man and presents the truth to men with such conviction as few other men can. All are invited to come out and hear, especially those whoare earnestly seeking salvation. Too much can not be said of the pastor and his people for their untiring energy to accomplish good. A Member.

PUBLIC i>ALE. Farming Implements and Horses. On Saturday, March 2, A. will make a public sale of two full sets of farming implements, almost new and in good condition; also several head of work and driving horses. Sale to take place in wagon shed, in the rear of the Nowels building, Rensselaer, Ind. All kinds of rocking chairs at Williams’.

Charmed by a Rattlesnake. Andy Austin, a 16-year-old lad, was released from a painful position in front of a gun store on Wall street, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Austin had remained in a fixed position for over an hour before it was discovered that he was powerless to move. His face seemed to be glued to the window, lie was noticed from inside the store by the glassy stare of his eyes, which seemed bursting from the sockets His nose was flattened and his mouth firmly set against the glass. Inside the window was a big rattlesnake on exhibition. The snake had coiled, himself, raised his head and charmed the boy through the glass. Austin was pulled away from the window and taken into a drug store. It was half an hour before he could speak. r The Road to n Man’s Heart. ° A girl in town married a very particular and exacting man six months ago. Her girl friends predicted at the time that she would fail to satisfy him, and consequently they would not live together six months. That period having elapsed and there being no evident signs ’of any separation between the happy pair, the girl friends felt called upon to visit the young wife and ask her how she managed to please the man who had never been known to be pleased before Mustering all their impudence they called upon her in a body and asked her for her secret. “What is the receipe?” Xhey asked. “We may .need it.” “Well, I’ll tell you,” sne replied, “if you’ll never tell—feed the brute. ”

Enouirh Caplial. It is a mark of true commercial genius to begin operations upon a small capital in money, and a large capital in enterprise and confidence. A gentleman going home one evening in a large city was accosted by a ‘ little boy, who earnestly begged for a penny. “Why don’t you go to work?” demanded the gentleman, severely. "Ides try in’ to git 'nough money to buy some papers,” was the “Oh pshaw!” sternly exclaimed a little colored newsboy, "yu’ got six cents now —’nough ter buy to’ papers. Dat’s cap ital ’nough fo’ anybody!” The African Laud of Promise. The well-known saying that Africa is a land which contains rivers without water, birds without song, and flowers without smell, is doubtless true. It is a strange country, ancient and mysterious, yet it is a rich country. Abounding as it does in tha best of nature’s gifts, rich in its mineral stores, and for the greater part a healthy region, it but awaits the spread of civilization to make it an equal with its sister continents. Here, then, is a field for the surplus population of overcrowded Europe.

A Fearful Sentence. * New York Judge—Have you anything to say in mitigatiojjj&f' your sentence? Murderer—Nothing your honor. Judge—You know that executions are now done by electricity? Murderer—Yes, your honor. , Judge—Then it is my painful duty to sentence you to work as a lineman for the Overhead Wire until you are dead, dead, dead. Murderer faints. ■ (J - Prompt Punishment. Maine is a bad State in which to commit a crime. In most cases punishment is swift and sure, but it is claimed that the conviction and sentence of Sawyer and Campbell, at Augusta, beats tbe record. In just one week after the crime was committed the prisoners were in jail, sentenced to prison for lift

CABLES FOR UNDERGROUND.

The Interesting Invention of a Pittsburg Physician./ olas< cables as a solution of tile underground telegraph problem is the novel invention of Dr. Penney-of Pittaburr. The results of twenty years' experlufcuts with aile embodied in tills device. The new idea underlying it is the perfect insulation of each wire, and the means to be employed in carryitfg it out is a compact layer of plates of grooved glass. A plate about half an inch in thickness and of any desirable length or breadth is grooved to a depth varying with tbe size of the wire. In each groove n single wire is placed and cemented in place with pitch, which is as perfect a non conductor as glass and lhe only other Insulator used. A second layer of glass plates is secured to the first by the same adhesive material and the grooves in it likewise filled, and so on until tbe conduit contains the desired number of wires. Tbe whole is then boxed in wood and afterward cemented on all sides, with the exception of the openings left for the pur pose of making connections. - At every twenty five feet, or greater or less distance if desired, the grooves bend at right anch s and lhe wires exle d outside rfu ir glass enclosure; without being .broken ibey hen return, leaving a curve of wire about an inch and a half in lensrth, which is bent down - clo.<e to the side of the compact mass, This is true of each and every wire, and at any time the ex. posed portion can be cut and a battery attached. The convenience of this plan of connecting is greatly increased by the accurate registry of the wires which the I discarding of all coils facilitates. Tbe number of ordinary electric wires which can be laid by this method is 100 to the square of four and one-half inches.

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