Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — Page 4

HIE REPUBLICAN Thursday, January 2,1890.

DIHSCIO3V COUNTY OFFICERS (Mrt .. J *mesF.lbwin. Sheriff I’hd.lip Blue. Auditor Geqjrae M. Robinson Tfijunrer X. B. Washbcbn Recorder ..-.James F. Antbim. Surveyor ‘ ...James C. Tubawls. Coroner < R. F. Benjamin. SuperintendentPublisSchools. J-F. Waseem r (Ist District; . .P. M. Overhy. Commissioners ?2d District ...J -F. W atsos <Bd District OP. Ta bob. Uommfesiofiers’ Court— first Mondaysin March sane, September and December CORPORATION OFFICERS : :arshal Abraham Simpson ,erk Fred L. Chilcote. Vreasurer C.C stark (Ist Ward N. W. Reeve. | 2d Ward.......... Hibam Day. Coiincllmeu -( 3d Ward.... .Hugh W Pof.tbr I uhWard Simon Phillips •sth Ward.. ..... Emmet Kannal JUDICIAL Circuit Judge Peter H. Ward. Prosecuting Attorney .. ■ ..R. W , Marshall. Terms of Court—First Monday in January; Third Monday in March; First Monday in June; Third Monday in October. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION . J esseGwin,Trustee Hanging Grove tj>; James R. Guild. Trustee Gillam tp. FredS .Meiser, Trustee .....Walker tp. J. F.lliff. Trustee ■ ■.. Barkley tp. - Win. Green fleW, Trustee " , .......■ Mai hm tp; J. A.McFarland, Trustee Jordan tp, jackstmTreeiand .Trustee Newton tp. J.F.Bruner.TrUstec........... .Keener tp. Edward Biggs. Trustee Kankakee tp. L. P. Snirer, Trustee Wheatfield tp. Wtn. O. Road i fer, Trustee........ Carpenter tp. Hezekiah Kesler, Tru5tee.......... Mt Wm. Cooper, Trustee Union tp. W. H. C00ver............... .... M L'Spttler Rensselaer. Frank J. Warren County Supt.

Republicans Attention.

In accordance with a call of the Republican State Central Committee, the republicans of the several townships of Jasper county and all who wish to co-operate with them will meet at the usual place of township meetings in their respective townships, on „ . Saturday, January 11th, 1890, at 2 o’clock r. M. for the transac- ■ tioffof the foliowiHgbusiness: First. Elect from each voting precinct a member of the county central committee. The committeemen so chosen will meet in the office of M. F. Chilcote, in Rensselaer, on Saturday, Jan. 18, 1890, at 2 o’clock p. m., and elect the usual officers and an executive committee of three or five members. Second. Elect delegates and alternate delegates to attend a district convention of the 10th congressional district to be held at Hammond on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1890. The different townships will be entitled to delegates as follows: Barkley. a ..... 1 Marion 3 Carpenter 2 Mi1r0y...... 1 Gillam.. 1 Newton..... .1 Hanging Grove 1 Union 1 J0rdan........ 1 • Walker...... 1 Kankakee 1 Wheatfield.. 1 Keener 1 Total 16 The business of the convention at Hammond will be to . elect a member of the State Central Committee for the Tenth Congressional District. M. F. Chilcote, Chairman of Jasper Co. Rep. C. C. G. E. Marshall, Secy. The Supreme court of New York has made its final decision on the constitutionality of the electrical execution law, to the effect that the law is valid, in the case of one Kemmler, a convicted wife murderer from Buffalo.

The long article from the pen of our young student friend, S. E. Sparling, which we republish from the Indiana Student, will be read with pleasure and gratification by _ talented young man’s many personal friends, among our readers, and with profit by all. It is a well written article, full of sound thought and instructive information. Jasper county Republicans are again reminded of the call for the first organizing conventions of the great campaign for the redemption of Indiana from the misrule of Gerrymander injustice. There i 8 nothing so important as a right start, in everything, and a right start in this case, will be a general turning out of Republicans to these meetings, and the selection in each township and precinct, of the most reliable, discreet and active man in each, for township committee man. At a meeting of the American Geological Society, in New York, Prof. Orton, State Geologist of Ohio, exposed the fallacy of the idea that natural gas is an inexhaustible fountain of fuel, and that it is a substance constantly being produced in nature’s laboratory, as fast as it is withdrawn. He not

only holds that it will be exhausted eventually, but says that at the present prodigal rate of consumption, the Ohio fields will be used up in a very few I years. This is only a plain, common-sense view. Natural gas, of the usual inflammable character, is, without doubt, a product of organic substances, either animal or vegetable, produced after the analogy of coal and petroleum, and, like those substances, the supply in any given locality must be limited, by the very nature of things. It would be just a s rational to suppose that a bed of coal could be inexhaustible and self reproducing as to think the same of a deposit of natural gas.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE.

■B. E. Sparling, of Rensselaer, in Indiana Student. j In the last few day we have been more or less interested in the occasion of the Pan-American Congresi?. This in itself ia. an event of great consequence not only to our own country and the South American States, but to Europe and the world at large. It is to be signaled as one of the great events of modern times. As the expression of an amicable feeling on the part of the American governments, the work that it accomplishes will have a lasting effect, either for good or evil, in molding the policies of the nations represented. The idea of this scheme, which is being realized in all its fullness, had its birth in the early history of pur country, and its advocates have been our unbiased and progressive statesmen. The one great barrier that hindered its earlier consummation was the existence of human slavery. This being wholly obliterated from the face of the American continents has opened the way for the first assembling of the American nations in one Congress. Those who recall the career of Henry Clay remember how his impulsive nature not only responded to the idea of the independence of the South American States, but his all-grasping powers as a statesman conceived the idea of a general congress of all. This was received at the time as a visionary offspring of Clay’s overwrought imagination. The revival of this scheme during the administration of Mr. Garfield, with Mr. Blaine as Secretary i of State, caused considerable dis- i cussion as io the motive of its re-' vival. Accusation and odium of j the foulest kind were heaped upon , Mr. Blaine by partisan enemies, j who said that the scheme had in - it the germs of political and per- i sonal capital. With the assassination of Mr. Garfield and the resignation of Mr. Blaine the plans that had partly matured were abandoned and the agitation of the subject died away. But his political opponents once in power took up his masterly scheme and pass-

ed the act calling for the present congress. Insignificant as it may seem he has been called to the position through which he may direct the consummation of the project which he did so much to revive. Ido not utter this from any partisan or personal standpoint, but when facts are viewed in an unbiased light and honor given where honor is due, James G. Blaine will be universally acknowledged as the great champion of this movement. Having as its paramount idea the advancement of commercial enterprise between the different nations, and the promotion of an amicable spirit in their realizations of that great ideal toward which the world seems constantly moving—the universal brotherhood of man. In the past this was a theme of visionary statesmen and the dream of poets. Yet this idea can be clearly traced in the trend of events in the last few ceutuiies. When peoples and nations were placed upon an antagonistic basis, when wars formed their principal business, these ideas found little expression. But through the quickening influence of commerce, nations were made to realize that benefits can accrue to both parties jattrade, destroying to a great extent the old feeling of enmity. Their selfish ideas were softened; their military roads were converted into highways of commerce. Heretofore the generous feelings of nations were circumscribed by their territorial under these noble influences their ideas were broadened and they began to realize that their purpose was cbmmdn; that the same impulse throbbed iu each breast This has followed necessarily from the discovery of America, which gave such an impetus to commercial activity; which had such a tendency to stimulate the ambitions and emigrations of men and nations alike. Nation contending

with nation for territorial spoils of the new world, hindered to a great extent the humantaiian ideas that were fast beginning to find place in the breast of man. Surely as history records itself these nobler feelings have tenaciously withstood the assault of man’s baser nature. The Napoleonic wars, which bathed Europe with the blood of her best sons and threatened every throne with destruction, was the last significant expression of the old time feeling of enmity'among nations. Wars of lesser magnitude have occured from time to time. Our nation was almost severed by civil feuds and the faint clash of arms have been heard on European fields of battle. The martial spirit of nations may continue to manifest itself, yet we believe that it will be curbed by a wiser and higher ideal

than wholesale destruction of life and property. This feeling has been extended wider and has been more far-reaching in its influence in the last twenty-five years than : any other period of equal duration. But recently the idea that radical change must be accompanied by the devastations of war, received a terrible shock in the overthrow of the only monarchy that the Americas sustained. The insurgents with love and sympathy for their fallen monarch provided him with a stipend, by which he might support himself in luxury and ease in a more congenial land. Peaceful revolutions are the product of our age. It may redound to the credit of this Republic that it has done so much to cultivate this sentiment. Through the influence and advice of the founders of our government we have pursued a “let alone’’ policy with our foreign neighbors, thereby stimulating peace and good will toward them, and avoiding complications in international disputes and wars; holding ourselves in the position of a friend and arbiter instead of a silent enemy ready to take sides at any moment. This policy has educated our people to settle disputes with foreign nations on the basis of arbitration instead of resort to force of arms. It has found expression on the part of our government in offers to arbitrate between belligerent nations and also in the settlement of disputes with Great Britain. There is an argument against this view in the repeated mutter- ; ings of war in Europe to-day. ; Monarchs meet and separate. • Some trivial act is construed by : alarmists and political gossips as a ' menacing sign of war if not a decj laration. Have we no higher con- ! ception of the manhood of these i nations than to think that it is so ; frail as to be lead into contention and warfare by the stubborn will of an ambitious monarch? Although the continent has been one huge military camp for the last few years, yet the lessening grasp of Bismarck’s power and the stalwart champanionship of Gladstone, sustained by the noblest manhood of Europe, are driving back the threatening omens of war and the effulgent light of peace and Christianity are shedding abroad their beneficent rays, warming and softening the hearts of men. There may be rumors of war, yet the idea that a nation exists by conflict does not mean physical conflict alone. There may be conflict and a healthy good will existing between nations. Benefic- , ial commercial conflict ; conflict of ideas and thought. The persons who advocate that wars will always be, and are a necessity from the fact that man is selfish and warlike, fail to grasp ■he idea .that man is capable of throwing off his savage nature and stepping into a higher being. Wars may be, but let us have faith in the power of man to preserve peace. Systems of communication, as railroads, telegraphs and ocean travel have obliterated sectional differences and made the ideas of the thinker the common heritage of all, and have done most to bind the human family together save possibly the art of printing. . The same civilization molds our ideals. Territorial acquisitions‘no longer furnish the same impulse for aggressive wars that they have in the past. Russia may watch with jealous eye the possessions of England, yet the chances for war in that direction are diminishing with the years. The only question of consequence for nations to wrangle over is their commercial relations. This will be settled easily in proportion to the friendly feeling existing between nations. The assembling of the marine conference at Washington in the last few weeks may do a good work in unifying the action of the world in commercial affairs. It is to be hoped that the present Congress now in session will

STATE AND COUNTY TAXES FOR 1889. M IS _ Gi y E N, that the Tax Duplicate for the year 1889 is now in my hands and that lam now ready to receive the taxes charged thereon. ’ y . Pod for the W 1 S^° WS - taXation OD eacb slo ° Taxable Property, and on each Taxable e year ’ . . i

’ v ; ~ " ", —~~ —tg— ■llin lll—i ; 0N EA - CH 8100 VALUATION. RATE ON EACH POLL. \ &S§ g » ‘ a; g ceJ H H TOWNSHIPS Ifeft §gi gggft g £ S-B B£ T E CORPORATIONS. [ J j Fj - i • • h; g i i ; * f E !? • l— 'i 2 Sc *;; i—2 •hi ■—■; ; m ; X ; a th i if „ . „ Hanging Grove township.: 12; 16; 5^60.25; 05i 15: 401....1 25:1.99p 50; 50LJ1.00 Gillamtownship. 12. Ifii 5:60.5i Walker township ...: 12 16; 560. 5 25: 10i 1£“50:i....; 2512.14 i 50i 50 ....... Jl.oo Barkley Township:......j 12i 16j 5i60.5i 15; 10: 15: 30^.. .L-gsil.Mt 7 Rensselaer, Town of ; 12; 16 560.5 ... J... J... .■ 50[ 20; 30h.89,| 50: 50S .. J 25T.25 Marion township j 12: 16: -Jordan township : 12: 16i Newton township : 12: 16: 560.5: 20; 10[ 15i 25L..J 251.84 i; 50; 50L.. J... JI.OO Keener township. ; 12: 16[ 560.5 i 30; lOi 15i 501.tJ 25:2.19 : 50J 50 ... J... JI.OO Kankakee township.. ...J 12; 16; 5f10.5[ 30: 10; 15: 20;...J 251.89 h 50| 50 ... J... JI.OO Wheatfield township : 12; 16: 5;60.5; 30; 10i • 15j 25i....i 251. M 50: 50L.. J... JI.OO Carpenter township i 12| 16j 5;60.5i 25; 10: 15i 30|...J Remington, Town of i 12; 16; 5:60.5 ... J... d... .; sff’ 3$ 251.99 j 50: 501.00; 2i5i2.25 Milroy township. ; 12i 16j 5;60.5: 30; 10; 30i 50L..J Union township i 12: 16; 5i60.5; 30i g 30: 25;....; 252.04;;

The first installment, including all Road Taxes, is payable on or before the Third Monday in April 1890, and the second installment on or before the First Monday in November, 1890. If the first installment is not paid when due, then both installments become delinquent, and ten per cent, penalty will be added to the full amount. ' ALL ROAD TAXES must be paid in first installment. The Treasurer is responsible for the taxes he could have collected. Therefore, Tax Payers should remember that their taxes Must be paid every year. No County Order will be paid to any person owing delinquent taxes. The sale of lands for delinquent taxes begins on the Second Monday in February, 1890. i For the collection of which I may be found at my office in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, as directed by law. Tax payers should count their change and examine their receipts before leaving the office, to be sure they are correct. PURCHASERS OF PERSONAL AS WELL AS REAL PROPERTY SHOULD REMEMBER THAT TAXES FOLLOW THE PROPERTY, SHOULD THE TAXES REMAIN UNPAID. Call on the Auditor or Board of Commissioners for rebate of taxes. The Treasurer must collect as he finds them charged upon the duplicate. If you pay taxes in more than one township, mention it to the DO NOT ASK TO HAVE RECEIPTS MADE UP AND HELD FOR WEEKS AND MONTHS. I especially urge all tax payers to pay promptly and prompt payers should use their influence upon delinquents so that the rate of taxation may be reduced to the minimum. Preserve your receipts, especially if you move from one township to another, in the county. . Persons living at a distance can send bank or express draft. Enclose postage stamp when answer is expected by mail. I. • Treias-drer Tasper Co.

bring mutual benefits to all parties, and will bind them with closer ties than now exist and make them as one people. It is to be hoped that they will furnish a system of arbitration that will forever banish wars from the American shores. What a noble and Inspiring example that would be to the peaceloving nations of the world! We will send our South American visitors home with new and quickened ideas concerning our country’s granduer and her vast resources; ideas of our development that may lend civilization a helping hand in their own advancement. A nation is strong because of her moral and natural resources, not in her armed forces. The mission of this congress, as spoken by one of the representatives, is peace and good will toward men and the nations of the earth. Let us not meet this in a trivial nght, but let us gather inspiration from the philosophy of history, and assign this event its. true place in the progress of mankind toward a higher ideal of reciprocal interests than selfish ambitions and unworthy schemes. With the constructive forces of civilization society is moving, with steady and sure pace, toward universals. From the chaotic and conflicting elements of the dark ages, when every man was his neighbor’s enemy, have evolved the nobler sentiments which attune to a common chord in the hearts of men. The present Congress is but an expression of that common feeling for the adjustment of reciprocal interests. But one act in the consummation of that wonderful ideal which the Poet of Lockeley Hall so admirably expresses: Yet I doubt not tliro’ the ages one Increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of thq suns. • * • • When I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,

Saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be. : * * * * * »» * Till the war-drum throbbed no longer, and the Imttle flags were furled In the Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universaLlaw. — 1 " "X

A Fortunate Woman.

Mrs. Mary L. Baker, of (Ovid Mich., has reason to be very thankful. She was a dreat sufferer from heart disease for years. Was short of breath, had hungry spells, pain in the side, flutter ing, faintness etc. After taking two bottles of Dr. Mills’ New Heart Cure, she says, “I am better than for 20 years; my mind and eyesight have improved wonderfully. I advise all persons thus afflicted to get this remedy.” B. F. Fendig & Co., druggists, recommendsand guarantees it. Dr. Mills’ work on Heart disease, containing marvelous testimonials, free.

Suffering Women. Pains and weakness of females are always due to want of vital force, Miltou’s Nerve and Lung Food supplies that force. It works a cure by building up the whole system. Sample bottle free. 12-3 m. F. B. Meyer. A Remarkable Letter. The following letter from Mr. W. A. Thompson, of Columbus, Wks... is peculiarly interesting: * “My wife” says he, “has been treated lor her head stomach and nervous prostration by three doctors in New York, two in Chicago, one in Philadelphia, one in Cincinnati, and at the large institution in Buffalo lor 16 months. They all failed but one bottle of Dr. Mills’ Restorative Nervine helped her wonderfully.” This should be used in all headaches, backaches, changes of life, nervous disturbances. fits, rheumatism, etc. Ask at B. F. Fendig & Co’s., drug store for a free trial bottle and Dr. Mills’ new book on Nerves and Heart. > ‘ • W TT ■■ Itch, cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. Sold by Long & Eger, druggists, Rensselaer. Shiloh’s Vitalizer s what you need for consumption, loss of appetite, dizziness, and all symptoms of Dyspepsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bottle at Long A Eger’s.

Hemphill Bros. BlacksmitH -ANDWood Repair Shops. (Successors to Yeoman & Hemphill.) All Work done Promptly and Cheaply, and W auanWti First Class Quality Front Street, South of Washington, (The old Erwin Shop,) Rensselaer, - Indiana. ~Ti. NELNIOK, Notary Public and Real Estate Agent Lands of all descriptions for sale or lease. WHEATFIELD, IND.

Cotton Root Compound.—Ottoposed of Cotton Root, tansy and Pangs- ■ BfQM royal. S«cce*,/uUy uwed monthly. Sam, ■ ■T*\ Effectual, Pleasant. »1 by mall, ordnutWfr* f Rists. Sealed particular* 2 stamps. Ladtan I CURE FITS! When I say Curb I do not mean merely to stop them for a time, and then have them return again. I mban A RADICAL CURE. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS, A life-long study. I warrant my remedy to Curb the worst cases. Because others have failed is no re aeon for not now receiving a cure. Send at once for a treatise and a Frbbßottu of my ImrALUBLB Rbmbdt. Give express and Post Office. It costs yon nothing for a trial, and it will cure you. Address H.G.ROOT, M.C., iB3 Peak. Br, Nev fM