Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — Page 5

GBO.. K. HOLLIMG«*OB«r —— AXTKUXH. HOWTW. HolliogsvorUi & Hcpkins, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. i Rensselaer - • ’ - - Ind second loot Ot LtofoWfU Block earner WMbinxtoD *° : Praettoein *U the oourta,Md purohMe, WO and teaxe <•*»» estate. Atty’s for L. N. A. * c" Bw. Co. B. L A 8. AmocUUod and Ben#.* laer Water, Light A Power Co. Simon P. ThoMkon Davit j. Thompson ~ zumuA.tav. Jfoton PWU " A BKO ATTORNEYfc aI lam fgyuaaelaor, Ind. Prseuo* is *ll toe court*. We p*y particular nttenti*. to paving taiee, nailing and . leasing lande. M. L. * PITLER Collector an<; AUntraetoi fti W. MARSHALL, A TTOI&EY -4 T LA H Practices In Jasper', Hew ton and adjoining Bounties; Ftpecial attention v.ven to settimrni oi Decedent’* Mutate* Collection* Conveyance*, Jurtict*' OaSM, . Etc. Etc. Etc. Office Over Chicago Bargain Store Rensselaer, - Indian* FERGUSON & WILSON REFSSELAER, INDIANA. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice in all the courts. Careful attention given to any and all kinds ot Legal Business intrusted to them OFFICE West Side of Public Square. GROUND FLOOR. mordecai f. ohjlcotk. attorney AT LAW Rensselaer, Inn. Attend* to all business in the proiemiu* w»«.k promptness and dispatch. Office it eecon. 1 •t«>rv of the Mskeeyev hnlldl'n* OHIRLM I. MILLS, •A'T’TOZiSTE'Sr AT I Beasselaer, Indian*. Pensiona.DoUectlons and Beal Estate. * Abstracts carefully prepared. Titles If rami nail W Farm Loans negotiated at lowest rates Offias ap stair* over Citiiaa* Bask. J. H. CHAPMAN & CO. ABSTACTORS OF TITLES. Farm Loans, Insurance and real estate. Money to loan In large or small amounts, on real estate, personal or chattersecurity. Special attention Riven to collecting notes and accounts. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. RENSSELAER, - . - INDIANA. JAMES W.DOUTHIT ATIOR/LEY Al LAW Rbnm«la«s. - umuM*. Office over Laßue Bros., grocery. KV-48 . ALFRED BATES ATTORNEY LAW. RENSSELAE R - IND over Western Union Telegraph Ofs. J. F. Warren. J. F. Irwin. WARREN & IRWIN. Real Estate, Abstracts and Collections, Farm & Loans-Fire Insurance. Office Odd-Fellows Block, •r. H. I*. Brown, DEHTIST RENSSELAER INDIANA. Crown Bridgework. Teeth mi Specialty* all THE LATEST METHODS 111 DENTISTRY. office over PorterlA Wlshard’s. Qas administered for painless extraction of teeth.

These are not bargains»»» course.. if you don’t buy th m. .../..if you do buy them you cant help but agree with us your dollars neverjbrought such values before. Rasina 6 lbs far.. * 25 cents. Dried Peaches, 8 cts per pound nice bright stock. Tomatoes, full pack canned 3 for 25 cents. Kankakee brand canned corn, 4 for 25 cents. Star City soap, 7 bars for 25 cents. These values listed are onlyC a few of many. -Our stock is complete in every detail and strictly fresh and new. We cantO keep goods on our shelves long enough to get musty. We sell it. FRANK ITALOY.

ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

TmvisDay of Tolona, 111., is visiting his sons, Hiram and Lewis Day. J. P. Warner has been quite serious- ■ ly sick with a stomach trouble but is now improving. a All American born Patriotic Ladies are requested to meet at G. A. R. Hall Friday afternoon in' Odd Fellow’s block at 2 o’clock sharp, to listen to' Dr, Mary E. Jackson explain the principles of the Order of Daughters o* Lib*. rty, that Will be organized in Rensselaer. Mr. Hall, of Fort Recovery Ohio, was in town the latter part of last week, figuring on renting the Makeever Hous?, if the present managers are disposed to sell their lease. Albert Tolles, who a tempted to kill his 9 months old child at Brook, a few months ago, was indicted by the Newton Co. Grand jury, at Kentland last week, and his trial is now in progress. The Dexter vs Rensselaer easels put off until next term on account of the death of Alfred Thompson, brother of S. P. Thompson, attorney for the town. Dr. Berkley operated on Geo. Kesf inger’s foot, one day last week. Mr. Kessinger has never recovered from a cut he accidentally gave himself, several months ago. S Sheriff Hanley reports the arrival at his place Wednesday morning, of still another young deputy sheriff. This one will not go into active service at once, but will be put in training for a place under Nate Reed, when be takes his office next December. The County Commissioners are holding their regular March session, th's week. The consideration of claims, and road and bridge matters have occupied most of the session, so far. One saloon license has been granted to August Rotenbaum, of Rensselaer. Marriage licenses since last reported. J Jules Nicolet, ' ] Emma Portener. —■ ( Jonas Vandusen, | Phebe A. Charles. ( William J. Zellers, I Pollie A. Parker. ( John L. Adams, | Lillie A. Smith. ( Alva Nichols, ( Mahala Walker, j Albert McNeal, { Nelia B. Havens. In this age of almost universal mutability, it is comforting to think that two orders of things still remain practically the same now as they were a generation ago. They are the jokes and tricks of the circus clowns, and the “phenomena” of spiritualism. In the case of spiritualism the tests and the tricks, the table tippings, the slate writings, the floating and sounding musical instruments, the mindreadings and all the rest are practically the same as they were thirty years ago. The phenomenon of “materialization” is indeed a more modern invention, but the trickery of this has been exposed so often, that even spiritualists themselves seem generally to have recognized that it is a fraud; and it is Lot very often heard of in these days. And what we wish to call attention to in this paragraph is the evident fact that this very failure of spiritualism to make any advance worth mentioning in the ‘-‘tests” and phenomena by

which they think they prove the reality of their belief , is the strongest proof of the reality of their delusion. Now, as 30 years ago, the spiritualist mediums can do nothing more wonderful in the way of material phenomena, than any ordinary sleight ofhand performer can do; while nothing in the way of their mental or psychological phenomena are more wonderful than the mind-readers: and hypnotizers are doing also._ If spiritualist phenomena were what it claims to be, the fact would have been clearly established long before this, by indubitable evidence. Opportunities arise every day, by which the truth of spiritualism might .easily and effectually be demonstrated. Such opportunities, for instance as telling where Pearl Bryan’s head is or the whereabouts of lost or demented people; or of giving reliable information of the doings and circumstances of exploring parties. They might tell us for instance where Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer is now, and what he has accomplished. Detailed information on this point might be given, and when the explorer returns, if be ever does his records would indisputably prove the reality of the spiritualists’ revelations. They might bring reliable information from the moon or the planets, and specimens of the matter which composes them. In fact there are countless ways by which they might prove the truth of spiritualism—if there were any truth in it to prove.

Thinks Mr. Gifford Should Dredge the River.

Editor Republican: I desire| through your paper, to call the attention of our esteemed cooperat or in the development of Jasper county, Benjamin F. Gifford, whose great work of reclaiming the wet lands of this locality is fully appreciated, to certain conditions that have •resulted from the changing of the Pinkamink, and which greatly damage lands situated in Marion, Barkley and Union townships, in the valley of the Iroquois river. The lands have not only been inundated where they were previously free from water, but travel has been made almost impossible at the crossing at Bark’s bridge. The grades at this bridge have been quite impassable and dangerous most of this winter from overflow of water and ice Lands along the Iroquois have now become worthless, though they were good hay and pasturage tracts before said drainage was done. The county has spent a great deal of money at the road crossings for bridges and grades, which would have been efficient had not the Pinkamink channel been changed, which is about five miles north of the original course. Mr. Giffords’s cutting a large dredge ditch through Barkley has been a great help to portions of the county, but it has flooded other portions mentioned. Now I think the Hon. Board of County Commissioners and the several Township Trustees should call Mr. Gifford’s attention to these facts at once and ask him to take the waters of the Pinkamink down as far as the old mouth of that stream where it originally emptied into the Iroquois, and explain to him the damage it is doing to all concerned and the remedy for iL.^ T think.be continue his dredge on down the Iroquois to the point suggested, and I also think that if that was done it would solve the question of taking out the rock in the rapids at Rensselaer, rendering such work unnecessary to thoroughly drain the Iroquois val> ley. I realize that Mr. Giffoni has done much for Jasper county and there is a reluctance of the people to embarass him in any way in his great work of reclaiming the worthless swamps. It is my opinion that when the matter is properly presented to him he will willingly remedy the defect in his drainage system and thereby remove all cause for complaint, as it will not be of serious expense to him.

Our Clubbing Offers.

Our clubbing arrangements with both the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and the New York Weekly Tribune have been renewed for 1896. The Republican and Inter Ocean both one year for 11.85. The Republican and New York Tribune, both one year, for *1.75. All three papers 12.10* These rates are open to all, old subscribers as well as new.

D. H. Yeoman.

Anarchistic Preacher Called Down.

Delubi ‘Journal. I Dever saw J. A. Mi’bu' u, who preaches down in Indianapolis, but 1 Lavn read seveial of his sermons as reported in the papers and I can not lYelp being impressed with the fact that he is scraping the earth and sky to get something to talk about that will cause people to talk about him. I should judge that he is a young man • He lacks discretion and is a little shy on information. He could study up <u> politics and politicians with good results. - mon and went to great trouble to establish the proposition that the public men of the present day are selfish, U’lpatrioifc and degenerate. He said; “Think of the names of our presidents in the years gone by, howriuminous their ability, how justly entitled to immortality, and then think of the men who stand before the world to-day as claimants for the next presidency. Here and there a man who has made a name for himself and here and there a really great and noble man, but for the most part the applicants are men wholly without other distinction than their millions,” There are three really prominent men who may be said to be applicants for the Republican nomination for the presidency. They are McKinley, Reed and Allison. So far as I know Matthews and Olney are the only Democrats who may be classed as applicants on the other side. If any one of these men possesses millions I am not aware of it. They have all earned by individual effort whatever distinction they have won. And so far as the Republican hide of . the house is concerned there has never been a time in the history of the Republican party when it was so rich in splendid presidential timber and when the candidates measured higher in character and sterling manhood. When Rev. Milburn gets older he will learn that great men are not appreciated until after they die. He speaks of Washington. If he will read up bn the political campaigns when Washington was a candidate he will find that no man was ever made the target tor viler abuse than was George Washington. And the same thing is true of Hamilton and Jefferson and Calhoun. Comipg down nearer the present, I’d advise Rev. Milburn to talk with the old men in his congregation about the stories, the shameless, cruel stories by which it was attempted to blast and break down the character of Lincoln. That patient, kindly man was hounded and traduced as no man in public life in the history of American politics. And how they assaulted Grant and branded him a butcher and a drunkard. Garfield did not escape, neither did Blaine. But now that they are dead we deify them. These men were traduced and villified without excuse. And the lives of public men today are cleaner and purer than the lives of the public men of any era in the history of the nation. There is less immorality, less corruption. There is less lying about public men, less slander, less abuse.

I have no patience with preachers who get up in the pulpit and rail about the “degeneracy of our public men” or the “degeneracy of the 1 ” The standard of both is higher today than ever before. Men still live and are not very old either who can testify that political conventions of the “good days” of which Rev. Milburn speaks were scenes of debauchery that today would not be tolerated for a moment It has only been a short time since the whiskey jug had a place in every harvest field. And when a barn was raised maudlin men lay thick around like so many swine. Only a few years ago ruffians with brass knocks ruled small towns and no attempt was made to stop gambling in ’cities. The standard of manhood and womanhood and citizenship and statesmanship is higher today than ever before. And Rev. Milburn ought to know it. “The country has not only ignored morality, the soverign faculty of the soul, but it has taken away from it what food was rightfully its own by abolishing the Bible from the public schools” says this minister. Going on'further Rev. Milburn states that the country has abolished God from the constitution as an unnecessary postulate of well being.” He then goes on and laments the fact that m every city in the country there are men. who are willfully transgressing the laws because they are confed-

erated in such numbers that political parties dare not disturb them. “There such a coofederatioi} of men its almost every city a r ;d hamlet in this country Ahs? are perpetual and persistent violators of the laws and yet whom the law, by reason ot politics, is afraid to touch,” he says. What nonsense. - Bill iisttn to this and then wonder why We have such fellows as Debs: ; “Aud a further illustration of this truth, that our nation is not so democratic as it might be, nor so democratic as it ought to be, is manifest to every man who thinks or who sees with his eyes when ha beholds the myriad and arrayed dominion of wealth, a dominion whose baleful hand is seen in many of our laws, in the laws that favor the rich as against the poor, that fav< >r the strong as against the weak, that favor the millionaire as against the artisan, that favor the corporations as against the people.” This is riotous rot. It is such talk as this that content and breeds anajrchy. It is not truthful. It is at once a falsehood and a slander on our institutions. And if this minister continues in this line unrebuked by his congregation, I expect to see him marching at the head of howling political and social malcontents carrying a red flag, and this at no far distant day either. No congregation interested in law and order and good government should permit a minister to unfload such stuff from the pulpit.

Death of Alfred Thompson.

The long sickness of Alfred Thompson has reached the end which has long been seen to be inevitable. He died last Tuesday morning, Mar., 3rd 1896, at about one odock. His sickness has been of many months, and indeed of yean duration, and neither the best medical skill, change of climate nor long sojourn and treatmeut in noted sanitariums, availed to stay the progress of his disease. The nature of his disease, as diognosed in life and 3onfirmed by a post mortem examination,held Tuesday by Dre. Washburn, Long bridge, and Berkley, was dilitation of the stomach, that oigan being found more than three times the normal size. This diseased condition of the stomach, by destroying the powers of digestion involved severael other vital organs in a diseased condition. The funeral will be held this, (Thursday) afternoon, at 1:30 o’clock at the residence; and the particulars of which, together with a more extended biography of this honored citizen, will be given next week.

Have you tried it? If not why not? The Lord’s best flour. For sale by John Eger. Finely bred Plymouth Rock chickens for sale by N. Warner. Just received another car load of the Lord's best flour. Made from the best Minnesota spring wheat. For sale by John Eger. If you wisn to secure nice lots or beautiful houses, call on A. Leopold, at The Model* for prices and term*. Money to Loan on Farms. In amounts to suit the borrower. Terms as low as the lowest. Office in Leopolds Block, Rensselaer, Ind. J. H. Chapman 4 Co.

Remember that after next Saturday Feb. 29th Laßue Bros’, grocery will be located in the Trade Palace building. Please Settle Blacksmith Bills. All parties knowing themselves to be endebted to the firm of Bates <t Wartena, are .requested to call and settle their accounts, before March Ist. Bates A Wartena. Hollingsworth <fc Hopkins have recently completed arrangements by which they can meet any competition in the farm loan business. They also make a specialty of collections and abstracting. Give them a call. Office upstairs m Leopold’s Block. We are now alt home in our new store room and Would be pleased xo have you call and see us, with our two floors of goods. Making one of the most complete grocery stores in Jasper Co. We carry the largest and most complete lines of groceries and queen aware to be found anywhere. John Eger. After next week you will find LaRue’s big grocery store located across the street in their big new quarters in the T ade Palace building. Ho lingsworth & Hopkins proprietors o t Riverside Park Addition offer the m nt centrally located lots in town on eaiy terms. Call upon them for partK ulars.

FEAR NOT *• " . ~ O child of God? wilh an assurance dear That as you journey o’er tifo’s road • The angel of the Lord ia ever near To give thee strength to bear thy toad. And whate’er you do, where’er you be, This guardian angel is still with thee. ’Midst a.l that go to make up this strife Where joy and sorrow alternately reign; ’MiJst all the ups and downs of life. Its many pleasures, its mucn pain, C ’ This messenger divine will over be At thy side to deliver thee. * when the shades of night are gathering At the close of life's great day, And the light of time is fading, Leaving naught but mist and spray, —Do thou trust; this friend will be Still at thy side to deliver thee. KATS ROPGHJRB. * ■ ... Call at S. Healy’s for anything In the line of fine shoes. We have some desirable town property for sale. Vacant improved property. Wabbbd <fc Irwin. Wood For Sale. Good dry hickory stove wood for •ale, at my place on Division street, one block south of Henry Harns* residence. 2tp. Anson Stewart. The Rensselaer Republicaa *>HOFES6IONAL CARDS. PHYSICIANS. w . HARTBELL, M. D . HOMEOPATHIC - mxjFMlclffiax ffixxd, B-a-xg-woa, tamraiAin..... amuju •WChronic Dit eases a In Stockton-Williams block, opposi techtirt Hoose. tW-Telephone No. 80. t.jS. WARffI»WN. '■HVBICIAN amd HDRGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. dpucti>l attention given to the treatment ec Oi .-eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat sad i wus iof Women. Testa eve* for itlmsm, I, , fa. , f ■ DR. A. L BERKLEY, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office in Leopold’s Arcade Building, ’Phone 126. Rtnaselaer - Indiana. HANKSs. aicuoy. T, J. McCoy. A. R. Hopkins, Pres. Cashier. As.-t. Caahlst. A.McCoy&Co’B.Bank BKXMXLAKB. INDIANA. THE OLDEST BANK IN JASPER COUNTY Established 1854. Transacts a general banking business, buys notes and loans money on long or short time on personal or real estate security. Fairaad liberal treatment is promised to all. interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLICITED. Patron* having valuable papers may deposit them for safe keeping.

Addison Pukison, Geo. K. Hol 'lngs worth President. Vlee. President. Emmet L. Hollingsworth, Cashier. Commercial State Bank RENSSELAER. IND. ONLY STATE BANK IN COUNTY. Directors: Addison Park Ison, James T. Randle, John M. Wasson, Ge .. K. H.ilingsworth r ad Emmet L. Hollingn worth. This Bank is prepared to transact a geaer al Banking Business. Inter.*' allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share Of your patronage is solicited. WAt the old stand of the CITIZENS* STATE BANK. Rensselaer Bank, We make farm loans at 6 per cent, interest, payable annually. * OHARRBB. President. Vice President, J.C. HARRIS, Uaanier. Hooey loaned in stuns to suit borrower Exnangebought and sold on all banking points Colleation made and promptly remitted. Deposit* received. Interests bearing eertidcatee of deposits issued. MISCELLANEOUS. **/<***wm*www*.sj JAMES A. BURNHAM, u. s. PEHSIoiTjITTORNEY AND JUS TICE OF THE PEACE. Thoroughly equipped and abreast of the tUM Expert in Pension matters Odioe with County Treasurer, Cour*. House. Sept. Ist, 1890. J. C. THRAWLS, Surveyor Jk Engineer, Office with COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. In Williams A Stockton block, gensselaer - Indiana. ~ i— —■ ■ -• jf. J. JYA2VWAL, As. 1> C. - - VETERINARIAN. - - Office with ■ krn W. A. Huff, the Jeweler. IND. Graduate of Chicago Veterinary college.' TRUSTEES’ h. MARION TOWN . I will be in my office upstairs In the Odd Fellows' building every Sai urday toatteud totownshlpbimlnem,. , p Trustee Marion Township