Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1902 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Official Paper of Jasper County. ; & • : - -7 OEoe In Republloauiliufidlng on the corner of Washington and Weston Streets. _ ISSUED .EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL EDITOR AND PUBLISH ER. One Year. $1.50 Six Mon'hSf.. T...... .75 *Three Months -50 Friday, May 23. 1902.

REPUBLICAN TICKET.

THE STATE TICKET. Secretary of State — DANIEL E. STORMS. Jkudltor of State — DAVID E. SHERhtCK. treasurer o; state — * NAT U. HILL. JLttorney General — CHARLES W. MILLER. Clerk Supremo Court — I ROBERT A. BROWN. Buperintendent of Public Instruction—- # F. A. COTTON. State Statistician—- , BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Judges Appellate Court—- - FRANK R. RODY. I U. Z. WILEY. i W. J. HENLEY. [ JAMES R. BLACK. [ D. W. COMSTOCK. W. E. ROBINSON. DISTRICT TICKET. v.-.-..... QongteSS ELG YR D. CF.UMI* ACKER, Valparaiso. Ind Fo. Judge 30. h Judicial Circuit, Charles r. hanley. For Pd s cut n; Atty 30th Judicial Circuit, JOHN D. SINK, For Joint Represent;)’ ve, JE.SE E. WILSuN. COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer. SAMUEL R. NICHOLS. For Sheriff, ABRAHAM G. HARDY. For Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE. For Coroner. W. J—JJ'RIGHT. F< r Commissioner 'lst District. ABRAHAM HALLECK. For Coinr. iss ouer 2nd District, FREDERICK WA.YMIRF. 1 or Commissioner ‘.rd District. CHARLES T. DENHAM. For County Councilnien, 2n< district .. HARVEY E. PARKISON 3rd district JOHN MARTINDALE 4th district WALTER V. PORTER l Ed. T. BIGGS At Larue EKHARDT WEVKIHNER ( . ANDREW J. HICKS

How Are Your Kidneys

Dr Hobbs’ Sparacus Pi’2s 'AI M’lney Ills. Sa.rotie tree Add SterLua A- c 3 1

Closinp'Out Sale. Queensware. China, Glass* ware and Lamps. The beet staple stock at lees than cost. This ie no fake. I am going to quit this line of my business. If you want to buy, come and me, C. C. Starr. (M ItDch’t Pay.... to buy t. e cloth ami make Sum uer Wash -Dresse® and Suits when \uu can buy v Ready to Wear ones tor $1.50. Better ones at lietter prices—but all bo cheap (in price) that you can't afford the bother to make them. Tailor Made Suits. Waists, Skirts, * Petticoats, Wraps, * and Children's Clothing • Alm a fine line of Mackintoshes etc. • All made by reliable and up-to-date • • nouw Mid guaranteud. Pmw Remarkably cheap. Call at reel lenoe over the Republican office. \ Call Phone 287. MRS. H. J. BARTOO.

CORRESPONDENCE

»j< ii* ’l*v ********••*•****s* •**•** **• **■* *♦* *♦*v Fair oaks. A _. L ■ ■ - Jaok Kight was in Chicago Mqn,.<lny "ti l.itTs: tii-ss. Mrs. Brohardt did slioppit.o at-the county seat Mondavi A number of people from here expeet to spend Decoration Day with friends an.' r.‘ ; ativc*s out of town. Postmaster Thompson attended G. A. R meeting at Rensselaer last -Friday evening, A good program is being prepared for Children's Day exercises to be held at the M, E. church Sunday evening June 15th, Everybody invite ! Some of tiie boys from here attend e!f>■ Id Fellows loctgF - at Mt, Ayr last Saturday evening, .Mrs. Ruth Littlefield, of Retning- ■ ton, spent the latter part of last week with her son N. Littlefield” and other relative-, *Mrs. N. Littlefield and children, and Mrs. Felix Erwin visited friends infiW^l^t\’sS7at - BTOuirTiDd Morcgrcr a few .'davs this week', . ’ - ■ -> * . ■ I ■■■' ... Dr, G. W. Proudly, the druggist, has just improved the appearance of his store room with a fresh coat of paint and calsomine. Chas. Ferguson, the Manon section foreman, is unable to be on duty on account of an abscess on his left arm. and he with his family are visiting relatives at Monticello, John Iliff, of Rose Lawn, is filling his plac e for a couple of weeks.

McCoysburg.

Mrs. ElJri.lae is much better from her recent illness, McCoysburg is still growing; if it keeps on it will be as big as Chicago, Judy Woodville o- some other big city. The increase was in the form of a boy. born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Arnott last Sunday. Farmers are getting pretty well done planting corn, Mrs. Godfrey Wachtef returned from a several days visit at Winamac last Wednesday. Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Johns at this place Wednesday an Si pound boy. ' -..• ... .■. Miss Lilly the telephone operator from Fowler is hete visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. J, Lilly west of town. Several people got off of the after, noon mail, due here at 3:18, think, ing it was Rensselaer. They surely must have been dreaming. A young man of this town was proposing to his sweetheart a short time back. He seemed to be very much in earnest. Oh! he said, if mv breast was only a window so you could see my heart and— just then the old man stuck his head in at the door and Wotdd'nt a pane in the stomach do just as well. Quite a few intend going to Monticello Friday from here.

Newland

We are having fine weather. Harry Gifford and family visited F. H. Gifford and family at Laura Sunday. John Richmond, Earl Newland and A. B. Dunfee took in the sights at Medaryville Saturday. Jesse Wilson, Delos Thompson and the Lawler boys took in the sights of Newland Sunday. Joseph Portman who has been

engineer on the C. & W. V. for about two years gave up bis job last week and returned to his home at Kankakee, 111, Mrs. Joseph Haddock went to Chalmers Tuesday to consult a doctqr at that place. Mrs. T. M. Callahan visited her parents at Francesville one day last week.

Mrs. Drake and Miss Maggie Healy, of Rensselaer, visited Owen Callahan and family one day last week.

Will Collins and family left last Wednesday and will work for the Ipe Dredge Cd. in Newton oounty.

Lee and East Jasper.

the M onon High School being closed Mites Arty Gilmore is home for the summer vacation. MX Myers fell forward from a plow last Thursday and split Ins forehead c,n a bolt.. He is very old but is recovering nicely. Thursday seems to have been an unlucky day- .Elmer Gilmore aged nine years while tightening bis hat band pierced his eye bfill at the edge of the pupil. It was thought to have been very serious" but it is improving rapidly. It inow thought bis sight will be fir-' jured some but fEe~TxacT rtsuTfte can not yet be told. Mrs. Elr Woods is some better at this writing. Mrs. Monroe of Indianapolis attended the funeral of Mrs. Enoch Max tv e 11. She is Mrs; Maxwe 1 i’s adopted sister.

Hanging Grove.

Rev. O. 11. Chi vington preached at McCoysburg Saturday niebt. Mr. Robert Drake and family were in Rensselaer'Saturday. Miss Martha Cords visited her j> a refits” easTOf Fr a n ces vil 1 e Saturday to Sunday. Mr. August Malchow visited his 1 parents in Pulaski Co., Suhday, Mr. Ed Barr’s baby has been dangerously sick /or several days, but is getting better. i Mrs. Skinner from-Christman, 111., was culled here Saturday on account of the sickness of her sister’s baby. She and her little daughter will remain at Mr. Barr’s several days. Several of our young people attended the entertainment at Barkley Saturday night, Mrs. Johnson’s baby has the German measles. Mrs. Leonard’ and little daughter, Ann. were the guests of Mrs. Stalker Tuesday afternoon. Milroy and Hanging Grove commencement exercises will be held at Bonty June 7th. The so-called “Worldliuns” of Hanging Grove, have quite an interesting Sunday school at Parker. Don't forget to come.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,

Wm; B. Austin to Wyllys K Blyss, Feb, 21, nw 22-31-5, Gillam SI,OOO John Kellner to Louise Klous, Mar. 21. It 6 bl 2, Western Add. Rem 900 Mary D. Sturges to Delos Thompson, Apr. 30, ne, s-J se, 25-29-3, ne ne 36-29-6. Marion. 10,000 John F. Warren to Chas. J. Dean, May 1, Its 9, 12, 13, bl 10, Leopold's Add, Rens6,ooo K, of P, by trustees to Rensselaer Castle Hall Asso’n, pt Its 15, 16, bl 4, Rensselaer4,soo Zeri Miller to Lemuel Chambers, Jan. 22, nw ne 12-32-6, 40 acres, Wheatfield 890 Joe F. Pauley to Jacob Kirkpatrick, May 3, s| nw 29-28-6, 240 acres, Jordan 1 Chas. D. Nbwels to Mattie J. Phillips, May 12, It 6, bl 7, South Add. Rens2so Robt. Parker to Elizabeth Eckman. Apr. 3, It 4 bl 10, Western Add. Rem'.. 140 Louies Ruth to Kellogg Hardware Imp. Co. Dec. 21, se ne, sw ne 33-29-5, Hanging Grove. .4,000 Harret Zea to Jennie J. Sheppherd, May 14, und | Its 4,5, 6, 7Gilmore’s Add. Fair Oaks 500 Ray D. Thompson to Thos. H. Grant May 17, Ite 3, 4 bl 14, Newton's Add. Rens2,ooo Otto T. Langbein to Louis Ambler, Apr. 1, e| se 7-81-7, sw nw, ae nw, s| ne, sw ne, pt ne nw 17-31-7, n| ne 18-31-7, Keener.24,ooo

Marion C. Coover to Frank Howard, May 17, It 12 pt It 11, bl 3, Stratton's Add. Remington. 1030 Robert Parker to Martin Riser Jr. Jan. 9, sw se, e| se 20-28 5, 120 acres, Milroy 4,200 Martin Riser to Emma Riser, Mar. 4, und J. same as above. 1,400 Sallie O. Kenoyer to James Shaffer May 13, s| nw, aw ne 2528.7, 120 acres, Jordan ......4,000

INDIAN MAPLE SUGAR

THE RED MAN'TAUGHT THE WHITE MAN TO MAKE THE DAINTY. Its YJ’Hunfaetur.e Wan Practiced by ” All Northern Indiana and Wax Known to Those Livln» aa Fur South an Florida and Texas. Very few of the people to whom maple sugar is an entirely familiar and ■foinrnonpl.ice ilttng are aware—of-the 1 fact that method" of making sugarJ Wais ’taught i n the white people by the 1 Indians .and that i’oy iaade sugar long bes. reTht- drset 'very*of America. This is <.::e of ti. ■ inai.y tilings that-the whi.e p’>opje Jearm <1 from the Indians. wive the w of cotton, cullivati.m o? ImE.-m corn and the use of tvbatisH.. -— ——l——;_i—:—Some of the early writers tell us that the French were tiie first to make this sugar and that they learned how to make it from the Indian women. The sap was collected in a rude way, a gash being cut in the tree, and into tills a stick was thrust, down which tiie freely flowing sap dripped into a vessel of “birch bark or a gourd or into wooden troughs hollowed out by fire or tiie ax. Then into larger wooden troughs full of the sap redliot stones were thrown, just as in old times they used to be thrown into the v.a;er in which food was boiled, and by constantly throwing in hot stopes and taking out those that had become cooj tile sap was boiled and evaporated, and at length sirup was milde, which later became sugar. This mst nu fact ure of the -sugar-was. not confined to any one tribe, but was practiced by all northern Indians and was known to those living as far south as Florida and Texas. Among tiie sugar making tribes a special festival was held, which was called tiie maple dance, which was undoubtedly a religious festival in the nature of a prayer or propitiatory ceremony, asking for an abundant flow of sap and for good fortune in collecting it. Among many if not all tiie Indians inhabiting the northern United States maple sugar was not merel.y a luxury, eaten because it was toothsome, but was actually an important part of their support. Mixed with pounded, parched corn, it was put up in small quantities and was a concentrated form of nutriment not much less valuable in respect to its quality of support than tiie pemmican which was used almost down to our own times. Among all the older writers who had much familiarity with the customs of the Indians accounts are given of-the manufacture of sugar, and this custom was so general that among, many ; tribes the month in which the sap ran best was called the sugar month. By the Iroquois the name Ratirontaks, meaning tree eaters, was applied to the Algonquin tribes, and an eminent authority, Dr. Brinton,* has suggested that they were “so called from their love of thg product of the sugar maple.” On the other hand, A. F. Chamberlain has very plausibly said “that it is hardly likely that the Iroquois distinguished other tribes by this term, If its origin be as suggested, since they themselves were sugar makers and eaters.” A more probable origin of the word is that given by Schoolcraft, in substance as follows: “Ratirontaks, whence Adirofidacks, was applied chiefly to the Montagnais tribes, north of the St. Lawrence, and was a derisive term inI dicating a well known habit of these tribes of eating the inner bark of trees in winter when food was scarce or when on war excursions.” This habit of eating the inner bark of trees was, as is well known, common to many tribes of Indians, both those who inhabit the country where the sugar maple grows and also those in other parts of the country where the maple is unknown. *, On the western prairies sugar was made also from the box elder, which trees wfire tapped by the Indians and the sap boiled down for sugar, and today the Cheyenne Indians tell us that It was from this tree that they derived all the sugar that they had until the arrival of tiie white man on the plains something more than 50 years ago. It is interesting to observe that in many tribes today the word for sugar is precisely the word which they applied to the product of the maple tree j before they knew the white man’s sugar. It is Interesting also to see that | among many tribes the general term for sugar means wood or tree water—- ! that is to say, tree sap. This is true of ; the Omahas and Poncas, according to | J. O. Dorsey, and also of the Kansas, Osage and lowa, Winnebago, Tuscarora and Pawnee. The Cheyennes, on the other band, call it box elder water. A. F. Chamberlain, who has gone with great care into the question of the meaning of the words which designate the maple tree and its product, is disposed to believe that the name of the maple means the tree —in other words, the real or actual tree or the tree which stands above all others.—Forest and Stream.

Gaudy Acoustics.

“How are the acoustics of that theater r* “The what?" "Acoustic properties.” “Oh, ah, yes; the acoustic properties. Why, It struck me they were rather gaudy.”—Exchange.

Usually the Case.

Little Waldo—Tapa, what la a library? Mr. Reeder—A library, my son, Is a large number of books wblcb a man loans to friends.—Harper’s Bazar. ■' Tea was cultivated In China 2,700 years before the Christian era and tn that country was first used as a bever-

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BANKSTATEMENT ADDISON PARKISON, President. JOHN M. WASSON, Vice President. EMMET L. HOLLINGSWORTH. Cashier. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THK I Commercial State Bank, RENSSELAER, IND., At the close of its business on Apr. 30, 1902. RESOURCES Loansand Discounts ......% ~..* 173822 04 Overdrafts9Bs 70 U. S. Bonds 11.900 00 Due from Banksand Bankers 60927 42 Banking House 5585 00 Current Expenses 484 68 i Currency 4,520 Cash on Hand < 7,562 36 ( Specie 3,042 36 -Cash Items - 1.719 97 —i. ..-.Z. . $262,986 17 LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Paid tn J 25.000 00 Surplus Fund 5,000 «X> Discount, Exchange and Interest. 1.003 42 Individual Deposits on Demand... 151.175 10 Individual Deposits on Time 80,807 65 >.’62,786 17 STATE OF INDIANA, I J ABIBR COUNT T. ( I, Emmet L. Hollingsworth, cashier of the Commercial State Bank do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. EMMET L. HOLLINGSWORTH. “v Subscribed and sworn to before me (air »rA this 7th day of May 1902. JAMES H. CHAPMAN, s-o 6 Notary Public, We respectfully call the attention of the PUBLIC to the foregoing statement of our condition.as reported, according to law to the AUDITOR of STATE. Wehave money to loan on FARM and UITY PROPERTY and on Personal Security on fair terms, reasonable rates and without delay. We nay interest on SAVINGS, sell drafts on FOREIGN COUNTRIES, make Investments on FIRST MORTGAGE SECURITY tor our customers, and. transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. We respectfully solicit a share of the public patronage promising fair and courteous treatment to all. ADDISON PARKIBON, JOHN M. WASSON. JAMES T. RANDLE, GEO. E MURRAY. E. L, HOLLINGSWORTH, Directors. S PER CENT FARM LOAN* A SPECIALTY Why Suffer With Your Kidney’s The discovery of Dr. Geo. Leininger's For-mal-de-hyde Kidney Tablets has proved a blessing to thousands of Kidney suffers who have been restored to perfect health. These tablets drive the kidney desease germs out of the blood, and prevent accumulation or Uric Acid in the system. We urge all sufferers to give this scientific and successful kidney remedy a trial. They come in two sizes 25 and 50 cents. Coma and a trial treatment free at A. F. Long. Ne. 75 A good second band single seat ouggy for sale cheap Also a good tub. dw3tp John Coin,