Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, December 3,1891.

ZDZZeZSdOZES'Z' CORPORATION OFFICERS : Marshal H I. WIRRTN. Cl wk Chaki.es Spitlek. Treasurer c.c <tcrb " (Ist Ward.J. K. Vakatta, • | 2d Ward ,'N , 11. Warxkb. Couix-ilmon-; Warn J. Il S Ei.i.is. | IthW-ard......-Paki' IlAKßirnt;*. I sth Ward.. Ancil Woodworth. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION r <•_ <;«(■• Trr.sti Manging <i.rovt• tp. Michae'. liobuis<in, Trustee......, Gil Jam tp. " ILJ<uaa. irusl>■. ..... W niter tp.J. F.j Hit. Twe- ' BarMcy-tp. **<i. Greenfield. Trustee, .Marion tp. Janie- 11. carr. Tru>■ tee.., ......—„. h>rAan tp. NehrMdab HopiiinsTruste*.. L.. .Newton tp. J. F. Rrimrr. 1 rri-.c,- Keei.ertp. Har s Pairtsojlpj'rt&lee..;.. ... KajdaLee tp--.S. D. IlLarit. TriiMee... .rdZr;:. !r 'Wteatt!>’'.<t tp. Win O, Roadift‘r,Tr;;.-tee. i ..:...ltJtr;Aeiitcttl , > HezekHl. Kesler. Trustee..." Milroy <l>. STm.Cooper. Trustee Union tp. ■V. H Go IV. T Remington, 'lrra L. Clark '. Rensselaer.. J . F. Warren.. .J.. . Coui.ty Supt*JUDICIAL .Kdwix it—Uammiixd, Prowtibny-AtP.rrev 4onx'T_ltK<»irx. f «r»>« nf (•ei.'rf- F7r«l h< Jtn’Stry; TMird MMHlawin .Varck; Firvt Jd ondafy in Jtmt; •aMrd Monday in October. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jams* EJuxin Shenfl ... . I’m i i.i r Bi.vr.. Auditor ..... ....... Hfxky B. Mi ukay. Treasurer :.. . ..M auk Recorder, . James F. Antrim, Surve ,r . James C. TiikawlSv Coror.v K.l' Bis.iamik. Buper-ntendcn i PnSi’tSchools J.F Wimc <ls» IHstrict.. P. M.Qierky. CAnini!»si.,uers a£<! District .J .F. WATSON. Old District .O.P.Taboii. C ' '• >< >'o<”ir!—Firit Mundayein March $e, September and Pecember

Mr. Polk, the National Alliance president, in an address to the recejit Alliance and People’sparty convention, at Indianapolis, declared, among other things* that the “traiiceridentlj paramount” - demand of the Alliance was that the national bank system be abolbe issued direct to the people. Here is a painful lack of unanimity on the part of the People’s party’s most eminent leaders, „_fep,--as is well known. Senator Peffer, in his speech in Rensselaer last summer, so far from demanding the wiping out of the national bank currency, actually favored its increase bynearly 3(H) mil hoi is of dollars.

A most remarkable project i|| that of Prof. Garner, a distinguished scientist at Washington, D. C., who is making elaborate preparations for a protracted visit to the gorillas of central Africa, - with a view to studying the language of those gigantic and most ferocious apes, and also, if possible, to induce some of them to accompany him back to this country. And, although he does net say so, he may even cherish a hope of inducing several of theyounggorillas to enter upon a college eourse in some of our American universities. As a well developed gorilla has a chest measure of 70 inches and muscular developement in proportion, their strength being equal to tbat of four of five men, it will be seen what an irresistible “rush line” half a dozen of them would make in a game of foot ball.

The gorilla is about the most ferocious of wild beasts as well as the most formidable, and the professor is proceeding with a good deal cf circv.msi'ection in Ins preparations to settle in their conn try. A niong other featu res of his preparations is an immensely strong aluminum cage, in which he will vpsci nse Limself wh’ n in the depths oi the gorilla forests,- and thus be out of their reach in case their demonstrations become 1 lireateninj., and all the bars of which he can heavily charge with elec'iiciy. as occasion may require. The expedition is a reality, end is t ecating great interest among scionlists, everywhere;

WHY I AM A PROTECTIONIST.

BY HUGH N. CAMP.

Because, having studied the effect of Protection, I find that it has been mainly instrumental in making my own land the best-hind' under the sun to live in. ♦ Because it has and does enable us to pay our laborers r.nd artisans, the very bone and sinew of our . land, the largest wages and ehabies them to ft to, to clothe, to educate the.met-ivcs and their families latter than those of any other laud. Because all the rest of the world wants our trudy, and is mad that

we will not “cat off oar tails” tq enable! hem to work for ns, instead of oar own citizens. Because it has enabled us to build up in oar inidst industries of all kinds, so that in case of war we could “laugh our enemies to scorn” and find within our own lines everything essential to our comfort and our lives.

Indiana’s Big Crops.

Hon. William A. Peelle, chief of the Bureau of Statistics, has compiled the tables relating to the cereal crops of Indiana for the year 1891, and, in discussing the r< suits, declares that the several crop yields are the best that have been known for years. “Hardly in the history of Indiana,” says he, “and certainly not since the Indiana Bureau of Statistics was organized, has there been such a generally prolific yield of the cere <1 crops as that which'characterized the present year. While tire conditions were at times unfavorable and there were strong probabilities that the growing crops would be more or less injured, the changes in climatic conditions came in time to overcome, or, at least, greatly ameliprate the threatened damage, and the results show a crop year which may properly be called phenomenal. Indiana has harvested some magnificent crops of wheat, some excellent crops of corn, and has grown some exceptionally large crops of clover and timothy hay, oats, barley and rye, but it is seldom that all of these crops have been as abundant as in 1891, when each' outstripped the average of former years.” The number of bushels raised according tp Mr. Peolto’s estimate were: Wheat 58,305,766; corn, 125,093,649; oats, 23,123,189; barley, 808, 148; buckwheat, 151,450; flaxseed, 116,460; clover hay,tons, 2,109,814; timothy hay, 2,034,542; Irish potatoes, bushel. 7,888,701; sweet potatoes, 247,085.

Advice to Indiana Republicans.

From an article in the Indianapolis Journal under the above heading, we make the following extracts: “Assuming that the principles of jibe Republican party are just and right, and that it deserves success, tbe question remains, how is it to achieve success? Certainly not by trusting to the excellence of its principles to make v their way among the people while the advocates of false and dangerous doctrines are working night and day to disseminate them. The advocates of right must be as active and aggressive as their opponents if they expect the right to win. The two most potent and effective agencies for reaching the people and winning votes are the press and the formation of local clubs, and, without reference to tbe merits of political issues, the chances are that the party which makes the best use of these methods during the next ten months will elect a President and Vice-president in 1892. If the Republicans of Indiana are really in earnest and anxious to carry the State next year they cannot begin too soon to organize local clubs and adopt measures to largely extend the the circulation of Republican papers.

There is reason to believe there has been a radical defect in the Republican organization of recent . years. There has been a marked, though, perhaps, not conscious tendency to exclusiveness. The Republican party is not in as close ac ord with the asses and with the plain people that it was a dozen Or fifteen years ago. It has been getting out of touch with the people. This is not so much the fault of its principles as of its leaders and methods. It is as much the people’s party as it ever was, but its leaders do not seem to have the same Knack of reaching the people, and its methods are not as popular as they used to be. There is need of a change in this

regard. We must get nearer to the people. To. this end our club organizations should be more numerous and less exclusive. A polity ical club that charges an admission fee is no good so far as making votes is concerned. The doors of a political club should be wide open, and there should be a standing and cordial invitation to ru.ernt ership. Every member should be a committee of one to solicit new members, and newcomers should be made to feel that they are welcome. Special effort should be made to secure the membership of young mni, workingmen, mechanics and day laborers. There are thousands Vl of Republicans in Indiana who do not take their county paper. These should" be seen and urged to do that much for the good <»f the cause. There are other thousands of doubtful voters who either t<k

ANNOUNCEMENT. There will be a concert before the holidays for the benefit of the Catholic Church. It promises to be a most enjoyable evening for all those who will attend, since Prof Haas, whq is a pianist of rare merits and excellent abilities, together with Mrs. M. Haas, mi accompoltshed lady, ■ who established herself by concerts given under her management in the eastern states, will conduct it. Pfof. Haas and M rs ’ Hlaas will be sk-h---ported by the best vocal and instrument talents of this place. One of the Profs, cf the college will deliver a lecture. Petit titions will also be rendered and everything will be done to make it a most pleasant evening.

no paper at all or donot care much what sort they take. These should be induced to take Republican papers. At the same time, if clubs and committees can raise—the money, they should pay for large blocks of Republican papers and send them to Democrats. This work should be commenced at once: So should the formation of new clubs of the kind above indicated. The Republicansc~n carry Indiana next year if they do enough work of the right kind, but they must begin immediately. If they wait till next spring or summer it will be too late. Tariff PicturesWhen the tariff “reform demagogue tells the farmers that free trade will extend foreign markets for farm produce they should call to his attention the fact that we exported. $32,844,772 in breadstuffs during the single month of September this year whereas we exported in breadstuff only $24,422,310 during the whole of the fiscal year ending 1860, the last of the “pros perous” period of revenue tariff. Fine theories never did stand any show against rough shod facts. —-New York Press.

“You are going to tax the workingman’s dinner pail!” shrieked the free trader when the tin-plate duty went into effect on July 1. The facts show that the freetrader disregarded them, as usual. During the month of September, 1890, we imported 69,883,100 pounds of tin-plate; during September, 1891, we imported only 17,861,837 pounds. Was the price raised 9 Well, the total imported in September, 1890, was valued at $2,180,791, or an average of ZJ.26 cents a pound, while the total imported in 1891 was valued at5545,791, or only 3.06 cents a pound. So: after all the hue and cry about the tin-plate, the result has been to transfer the market for 52,021,261 pounds from the foreign workingman to the American wage worker, and to reduce the price to the consumer. No wonder the Evening Post is obliged to admit that “just what McKinley set out to do has been accomplished to a great evtent.”

Trouble Ahead for the Menon Ditch.

Winamac Democrat. Frances W. Kepler, by Borders <fc Dukes her attorneys, Tuesday served notice upon the men running the dredge in the big Monon ditch to not enter upon an eighty acre tract belonging to her, the dredge is now nearing. This notice is pi eliminary to injunction proceedings if the dredgers persist in going on without making some kind of amicable settlement with her. Her claim is that she did not receive notification of the location or digging of the ditch. Parties representing the other side, who want to see the ditch go on, say that when it was located the land in question belong to David Wood, and that he was properly notified. A good sized legal fight will probably be the result. The cost of the ditch to the Kepler land is $3 or more per acre.

What to Buy to Save Money.

What is the use to buy a second grade of flour and pay $1.25 per sack when you can buy the Rensselaer mill flour for the same money and every sack warranted to be as good as any straight grade flour in the market you can buy our White Rose Flour at C. C. Starr, Berry Bro’s,Laßue Bro’s, John Eger, Chas Simpsou grocers or at the rhiil for $1.25 per sack also buckwheat flonr at $3 per cwtgauranteed to be pure, also corn meal all at the above named places.

Facts About the "Pen"

. I Interesting Statistics Gleaned From the Annual Report of Warden French The fiscal year of the Indiana State Prison North has just end and Clerk Driscoll is busy with his annual report to Warden French and the board of directors. The statistics relative to the inmates of the itstitution are of unusual interest, and as such are set forth in an exhaustive form. The penitentiary has been in existence since 1860, and since 1867 the institution has shown a steady increase in population. During the thirty-one years of the prison a total of 7,234 convicts have been received within its walls. In the same period ninety-three men have escaped from the prison and of whom twenty-seven have been retaken. The pardons number 551, and the deaths 184; the presidents also pardoned thirty-two men in these thirty-one years. The statistics for 1891 are: Received, 416; discharged 334. pardoned by Governor Hovey, 11; by President Harrison, 3; escaped 2; died, 9; granted new trial, 4; total number out, 363; net increase for year, 53. Marion county, of which Indianapolis is the county seat and state capital, has sent 237 ot her people to swell the population; St. Joseph coming next with 144; Alien, th r rd, and Laporte fourth. Several counties, of which Jasper is one, have one representative. 148 are serving terms for grand larceny, 131 for petit larceny, 131 for burglary and 77 for murder. The period of sentence ranges from one year to life imprisonment. A large proportion of the convicts will serve sentences of two years and six months, six will serve terms of twenty- one years each, while fifty-nine will die behind prison walls. Eveiy pursuit of life is represented in this motly throng; the noble calling of journalist and art perservative of arts having a total representation of twelve. 144 of the 800 are laborers. The cause of agriculture has 64 representatives. Two lawyers and two school teachers represent other prominent callings. Of the place of birth, Indiana has the honor of 348, Ohio 103. New York and Pennsylvania 38 each. Of the foreign born Germany is represented by 24, Ireland by 15, Canada by 13, while there are comparatively few Swedes, Frenchmen, Italians and Scotchmen. The age at the time of conviction is givto in the table herewith appended: 20 and above 15 .... 103 25 and above 20 248 30 and above 25 164 35 and above 30 108 40 and above 35..... 73 45 and above 40 39 50 and above 45 22 55 and above 50 17 60 and above 55...., 12 65 and above 60 16 70 and over . 8 670 can read and write, 17 can read, only while 113 can not do either; SJI ■ are intemperate, 209 are temperate.! 510 are single, 238 have wives at I home, and 52 are widowers.

A Christmas Present.

From each negative taken during the month of December from which a dozen of pictures are ordered, I will make an extra picture fora Christmas present. There is no present so acceptable at this happy time of the year as a picture of a relative or friend, w - Please call at my gallery and I will give you my best work and an ex/ra picture with each dozen, taken during this Christmasmon th. Respectfully,

P. S. Be sure and bring the baby.

DON’T Think of buying any kind of a stove until you have seen our New Stock The handsomest, latest and ' most economical of coal and wood direct draft and base beaters, and the celebrated h. EARLY BIRD COOK The very best all-around kitchen stove ever sold in the _county. FINE FARM WAGONS And all kinds of shelf and builders’ hardware at N. WARNER & SONS.

GEO W. GOFF Bstaurant £ Bakery BREAD, CAKES, CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, CANNEL SOODS, TOBACCO AND CIG A IS VMSM MEMES *r ULffOVM —ALSO A GOODLUNCH COUNTER Everything Best and Cheapest. NORTH SIDE WASHINGTON STREET, RENSSELAER, INDIAN A. ~ SEND BILLS TO Delphi Lumber Co. 7 FOR ESTIMATES ON Interior Finish and Veranda Work. Refer to numerous specimens of work, in all the best new bonce in Rensselaer.

Notice of Election. Notice is hereby given that on the evening of the-21st day of December, 1891, A. L. 5890, an election will be held by Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. <fc A. M. of Indiana, at its Lodge Hall, in Rensselaer, Indiana, for the purpose of electing officers for the year 1892qwhich will include three trustees of said Lodge. , —■— , Witness my hand and *■< seal 1 the seal of said Lodge this ' —. — ' 24th day of November,lß9l Chas. G. Spitler. Secretrary. Strictly Cash Prices. Men’s Candee hip boots 3.25 Men’s Candee knee b00t5.......2.65 Men’s Candee short boots 2.50 Boys’ Candee short bootiF* 2.00 Women’s Candee rubber boots. .1.75 Women’s Candee sandals 35 Men’s Candee sandals.. 65 Boy’s Candee sandals 40 Hemphill <fc Honan,

Fell Dead. These words are v ety familiar to ou re aderS and not a day passes without the report of the sudden death of some prominent citizen. The explanation is ‘•Heart Disease,” There is reason to be careful if you have any of the following symptons: Short Breath, Pain .in Side, Smothering Spells, Swoolen Ankles, Asthmatic Breathing, Weak and Hungry Spells, Tenderness in Shoulder or arm, Fluttering ct Heart, Irregular Pulse. These symptoms mean heart disease. The most reliable remedy is Dr. Miles’ New Uttart Cure, which has saved thousands of lives, Book of testimonials free at B. F. Fendig’s & Co., who sells Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure.

J. BARTOO.

Houses to Rent. For a term of years, m the town of Rensselaer, at a reasonable monthly rental, and at the expiration of the tame, the tenants will be given warranty deeds for the property, without further payments. Inquire of i'LETCHER MoNN ETT, ts Agent A Safe Investment. Is one guaranteed to bring you Fatisfactory reriSlts er in case o failure a return ot purchase price- On this safe plan jou can buy from our advertised Druggist a bottle of Dr. King’s New Discovery for comsumption It is guarantied to bring reliej in eveiy case, when used for any affection of Throat, Lungs or Chest, such as Consumption, inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis. Asthma, Whoopn g Coufib. Ctoup. etc., etc. It is pleasant and agreeable to taste, prefectly safe, and can always be depended upon. Trial bottles free ac F. B. Meyers Drugstore

Fail Io do Our Duty. Everybody has at times failed to do tbeir duty towards themselves. Hundreds of lady readers suffer from sick headache, nervousness, sleeplessness and female trcnbie<. Let them follow the example of H. Herbechter. Stevens Point, Wis., who for five years suflered greatly from Neavous Prostration and sleeplessness, tried physicians and different medicines without success. But one bottle of Dr. Miles Nervine caused sound sleep every night and she is feeling like a new woman person. Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler. Laramie, City, Wyoming, who tried all other remedies, declares that after three week s use of the Nervine for Headache, Nervous Prostration, etc.* she was wonderfully relieved. Solp by B. F. Fendig & Co. Trial bottle Bottle Free.