Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Page 2

The Republican. OFFICJAL PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY SSUED EVERY TUESDAY * FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. OFFIOK In Republican building on corner at Washington and Weston Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Year , $1.50 Six Months 75 Three Months 50 Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1898.

The County Ticket.

For Prosecuting-Attorney, ALBERT E. CHIZUM, of Newton County. For County Clerk, ESTIL E. PIERSON, ofUnion Township. For County Auditor, WILLIAM C. BABCOCK, of Maxion Township. For County Treasurer, ROBERT A. PARKISON, of Barkky Township. For County Sheriff, NATE J. REED, of Carpenter Township. For Countv Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marion Township. Commissioner Ist District. ABRAHAM HALLECK: of Keener Township. Commissioner 2nd District, SIMEON A, DOWELL, of Marion Township.

Call For Republican State Convention.

To the liepublicans of Indiana and All Others who desire to Co-op-erate with them-. You are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in Indianapolis, on Wednesday and Thursday, August 3rd and 4th, 1898. The convention will assemble at 3:80 p. m. on Wednesday, Aug. 3, for the purpose of adopting a platform and for the transaction of all other business except the selection of candidates. The convention will reassemble on Thursday, Aug. 4th, at 9 a. m. for the selection of candidates for the following state offices; Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney-General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, Superintendent of Public lustrine-

tion, State Statistician, State Geologist, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Second District, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Third District, Judge of the Supreme Court for the Fifth District. The convention will be composed es 1616 delegates, apportioned among the several counties on the basis of one delegate and one alternate for each two hundred votes anti each fraction of one hundred or over cast for Hon. Henry G. Thayer, first Elector at Large, in 1896, and are as follows: TENTH DISTRICT. No. Vote Delegates. 1896. Benton 10 1,998 Jasper 10 2,032 Laporte 23 4.691 Newton....- 8 1,545 Porter 14 2,853 Tippecanoe 31 6,239 Warren 10 2,045 White 12 2,883 Total ....142 The delegates from the counties composing the several districts will meet in Indianapolis at 11:30 a. tu., Wednesday. August 3rd, at the fol. lowing places, to select officers and committeemen: Tenth Dist., State House. Roopt 54, Second Floor. Tickets to the Convention will be distributed by the District Committeemen at the district meetings. Delegates should be in their seats ready for business at 3:30 p m. sharp, Wednesday, Aug. 3rd. Doors

to the conventiou H&H will be open at two o’clock. Charles S.Hernly, S. H. Spooner, Chairman. ’ . Secretary. The commercial failures of 1897 were 2,000 less in number than those of 1896, and the liabilities $90,000,000 less. « In 1897 the output of pig iron was 9,654,680 tons, an increase of a million tons of the out-put, of 1896, and for this year the unprecedented production of 12,000,000 tons is predicted.

Total earnings of 201 railroad companies, owning 150,000 miles of road, to January, 1898, $1,037,000,000, an increase of $58,000,000 over 1896. In 1896 thirty-four railroad companies, controlling 6.441 miles of road, went into receivers’ hands, while in 1897 only eighteen, owning 1,551 miles, suffered that fate. The trouble with the Democrats in figuring out Republican revenues in order to show that the Dingley bill is falling short of predictions, is that they neglect to substract the increased expenses on account of the war from the receipts, though the average school boy would probably see the propriety of the rule. Annexation is not a new thing in American history. The Alacrans Islands were annexed under the last Democratic administration, and altogether we have been annexing and acquiring seventy islands since October 23, 1856. Fif-ty-seven of these are in the Pacific and thirteen in the Caribbean Sea. Among other insular assets, the United States owns the Aleutian Islands, extending a thousand miles west of Hawaii.

It took a woman to trap Hon. Champ Clark, one of the demagogues of the House of Representatives. A Missouri woman wrote to Mr Clark and requested him to urge her pension claim. He replied that it would be useless, as only the claims of Republican members were allowed to pass the House. The woman thought this rather queer and forwarded the letter to the chairman of the committee on pensions. The latter read the epistle to the House and pointed out that the committee had passed favorably on three of the pension bills introduced by Mr. Clark, and that he had made no effort to secure legislation in the case of the Missouri woman. This case will give the country a very fair idea how party capital is manufactured by the present leaders of the Democracy. Hon. Champ Clark is regarded as one of the shining lights of the Democratic regime.

The financial condition of the Government and the country at large has been immensely improved in the fifteen months that President McKinley has held office. In support of this statement attention is invited to the following figures: GOVERNMENT RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. Receipts from July 1896, to April 1, 1897 f 242,785,051.25 Expenditures from July 1, 1896. to April 1, 1897.... 281,690,332.10 Deficiency 88,105,280.93 Receipts from July, 1. 1897, to April, 1,‘1898807,516,723.36 Expenditures from July 1. 1897, to April 1, 1898 303,370,270.44 •Surplus 4,146.442.82 May 1, 1898, amount of money in the United States ..2,424,148,473.00 May 1,1896, amount of money in the United States.. 2,347,306,008.00 Increase in two years 76.842,467.00 New three room house to rent. Four dollars per month. W. B. Austin.

LOVE A DISEASE.

The Tender Passion Regarded by Science as a Malady. When a Man Falla in Love He la in a State of Physical Diaturbance, According to a Learned Physician. Science is making itself obnoxious. As if it were not enough to discover to a germ-fearing world that there are microbes in kisses, it now declares that love is itself a disease. It adds, moreover, that the lover, whom all mankind has held in tender esteem, is a being almost as unsound and out of health, in body and mind, as a person with parefeis. Love may be caught, like measles or pneumonia, by exposure to pertain influences when the system is run down or exhausted. With all the gravity that medical language can throw around a simple statement, science describes love as a fever, a malftdy of the human tissues,' with wellrecognized symptoms and often mortal results, and may be treated from the materia medica like any other illness. This discovery means cruelty to many individual feminine hopes. Man is not often in a condition to fall in love; he is too healthy during the greater part of his life. So, instead of expecting that any male person who comes her way may be struck with desire for hpr, a girl hereafter will know that only men who happen to see her first when they are in a rare, peculiar state are likely th take the fever. How Jn uc h that reduces a girl’s chances of marriage may be imagined when, under the old supposition that every man was a possible husband, a girl could not count on more than one chance m 3,000. But about the new discovery. When Mrs. Reis drowned herself in the Park reservoir Dr. Nagle, the eminent student of causes of suicide, told a Press reporter that love is a morbid state — a state of sickness. This theory has been accepted by many physicians since a scholarly Frenchman, Dr. Janet, published “L’Automatisme Psychique” a few weeks ago. It is a theory easily justified from what medicine has learned in the last ten years through discoveries in bacteriology and physiological chemistry. Dr. Van Gieson, chief of the new pathological institute of the New York state lunacy commission, is conducting that great laboratory on the belief that disease in general is due to toxic, or poisonous, secretions in the body. He and his staff are studying dementia particularly. They are analyzing the, secretions of several insane patients in the hope of isolating an organic poison which is supposed to be at the bottom of the difficulty. Dr. Janet asserts in his new treatise that “We can only fall in love at special moments, when we are in a peculiar condition. When a man is fit and well, morally and physically, he can expose himself to the most inflammatory circumstances, but he won’t fall in love. But if he is fatigued or intellectually overworked or upset by grief or trouble, played out, sad, absent-minded, nervous, below par, he will fall in love on the most paltry provocation. A face, a gesture, a word, takes him and is the germ of a long, amorous complaint.” “First,” continues Dr. Janet, “there is, as in all virulent maladies, a period of incubation. The new idea flits vaguely through the dreams of enfeebled consciousness, then seems to depart; but it has done its work and provoked actions whose origin is not in the personal consciousness,” These actions generally are sufficient to give ground for a breach of promise suit if not adhered to. In support of the suggestion that love comes like a disease. Dr. Janet cites this: “What is the amazement of a man of intelligence when he comes pitiably to himself under the window of his lady, whither his wandering steps unconsciously have led him? What is the surpriseof a clever man. when, in the midst of work he hears his lips ceaselessly murmur a name, always the same name?” He holds, in short, that we arc automatic when we are iri love, and are out of our own control, as though we were highly intoxicated, or had delirium, or some fever.

“Such,” goes on Dr. Janet, “is real passion, not as idealized in fantastic descriptions, but as reduced to its essential psychological symptoms? Novelists have deceived us about love. So for the most part have poets, though pome have come near to forestalling science. “Love is like a dizziness,” says one. and another observes: “Who loves, raves—’tis youth's frenzy." Historians give strong evidence in favor of the new theory. They relate that although Alexander was fit and well (his father wanted to enter him in the Olympic games), he despised women. Prince Charles, according to Lord Elcho, “had a body made for war,” but women invariably bored him. Everybody knows that love is epidemic in spring. Tt comes just as inevitably as that tired feeling—in fact, that tired, played-out feeling seems to be the prvmotive cause. One’s blood is at its worst then; one’s entire system is at n low ebb; melancholia and malaria nre more prevalent, and suicides, from discouraged, love or mental depression, due to physical illness, become numerous. But in summer the health improves. Is that why seaside flirtations nre seldom serious wooling?' Yes. if one accepts the new theory that love Js a morbid condition, due to a microbe or a damaged nerve cell.—N. Y. Press.

A Pigeon Race.

In France pigeons nre regarded ns valuable messengers in case of wnr. nnd recently the French ministry of wnroffered n prize sos the winner of n pigeon mce from Perigueux to Paris. 260 miles. No less than 2.746 birds were entered in the contest. The winner made the distance in seven hours and 34 minutes, tin nvernge of over 34 miles nn hour.— Youth’s Companion.

Real Estate Transfers.

Explanatory Note: All are warranty deeds when not otherwise specified. The date, given in the different items, are the dates of the deeds tnemselves, showing when execut’ ed. The’’nw” ••ne”“Be’ 1 “sw,” mean Northwest quarter, Sortheast quarter, etc., and denote a quarter section, or 160 acres; “nM nw” would mean half of a quarter section, or 80 acres, "ne sw” means the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter, or 40 acres The figures as 30-29-7, mean section 30, township 29, range 7. Wm. B. Austin to Benj. J. Gifford, June 30, s end ne 4-30-6, 45 acres, Barkley, $914. Albert S. Alexander to Minnie Schatzley, June 21, sw 29-32-6, Wheatfield, $298. Geo. F. Bloom to Caroline E. Bloom, Nov. 12, ’95 Its pt 10 It 11, bl 5, Remington, $2,000. John Wall et ux to Wm Bowser, Feb. 4, It 3 bl 7, Sunnyside Ad. Rens. S2OO. John M, McConnell to Ruth M. Mills, Apr. 12, wA se 17-29-6, Marion, $4,000. Henry Mackey to Emmet L. Hollingsworth, July 6, It 3, bl 11, Leopold’s Ad. Rens. $225. John H. Spindler to George Haskell, June 28, It 4 bl 15, Remington, S4OO. Rial P. Benjamin to Benj. F. Magee, July 16, pt se 24-29-7,5 acres, Rensselaer, $3,600. Wm. H. Owens to Thos. 0. Chestnut, July 18 Its 8,9, nw 19-29-6, Rensselaer. SI,OOO. Jos B. Greenhut to Nelson Morris, June ?0 240 acres in 21-22-37-7, Keener, quitclaim, SSOSame to Same, June 20, 2,360 acres in 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30-32-7, Keener, sl. Same to Same, June 20, 1200 acres in 8,9, 10, 32-6, Wheatfield, sl. Francis S. Horner to Elizabeth C. Reeve, May 16, bl 12 Newton’s Ad. pt nw nw 30-29-6, Rensselaer, $1,600. Amanda P. Reeve to Mary E. Kolb, July 25, It 2, blk 1, Rensselaer, S6OO.

** .■ > ' y; ‘ " ' * PURE BRED Poland China. Pigs FOR SALE. Either sex, at prices that any farmer can afford to pay. O. C. HALSTEAD, Rensselaer. Ind. Sheriffs Sale. No. wm. By virtue of h certified copy of Decree and Execution to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Andrew laris ia plaintiff, and Phillip Eberle, j.lllian K. Eberle, bls wife: William Faris, John F. Smith. Anna M. Smith, his wife; Frank Fay, and Fay,, his wife; C. O. Jenkins, and Mrs Jenkins. Iph wife, are defendants requiring me to make the nun of two thousand, six hundred two deliars and eight cents (t-Wr2.oHi and Interest and costs accrued and to accrue. I will expose at public sale to the highest ami best bidder, on Thursday, the 18th day of August. 1898, between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 o'clock i> m. of said day at the door of the court house of Jasper county. Indiana, in the city of Rensselaer first the rents and profits fora term not exceeding seven years of the following real estate hereinafter described, and if said rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said execution and Interest and costs, I will at the same time and place ex|s»se at public sale the fee simple of said real estate or so much thereof as may be necessary to discharge said execution and Interest ami costs, towlt. The south half (',) of the south east quarter (HI of section one (1) also the north east quarter (Hl of north east qliartei (>*) of section twelve (i 2 in township thirty (30) range five (lowest In Jasi>er County, Indiana. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from the valuation or appraisement laws of the State of Indiana NATE J. REED, Sheriff of Jasper County, Indiana. By O. F. Robinson, Deputy. Hanly * Hunt. Attorney for Plaintiff. July -Bth, itfiv.

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