Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1902 — Page 2

THE REPUBLICAN Official Paper «f iatpar County. Oft** to RapubUomnXniUdlng on the corner of W entagtoa and Weston Streets. XS3OBD KVKRY TUESDAY AMD FRIDAY BY GEORGE E. MARSHALL EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. __ , r*r»«>f Swbtcriptio*. One Tear. . ..$1.50 lx Months 75 Xhree Months 50 Tuesday, December 30. 1902.

Indiana’s Share.

With $500,000 additional for rnral routes, made available between now and the first of next July, the general superintendent of the free rural delivery system expects to put in at least 2,500 new routes before May 1. Indiana will probably get about 125 of these new routes, possibly 150. This will bring the total number of routes in Indiana up to more than 1,000, and the total number in the whole country to 15,000. Ship Canal Scheme Revived. The Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin commenting editorially on the prospective drainage of the Kankakee valley in northern Indiana offers the suggestion that the big ditch be made of ship canal proportions and extended to Lake Michigan, that the farmers of the reclaimed regions may get the benefits derived from the shipping facilities of the great lakes.

Money on Farms.

We are prepared to make any size farm loans on short notice. We have private and eastern funds

to loan on personal or chattel security. Call and see ns before yon close a deal elsewhere Our terms will be satisfactory, dwtf Ferguson & Wilson.

Money On Farms. At 5 Per Cent.

' A speoial fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per ct. interest, with privilege to make partial payments any interest paying time Also loans on omr property at low rates- Call or write Commercial State Bank, Rensselaer, Ind No. Side Fub. Square.

Public Sale.

The undersigned will offer at Pnblio Sale at his residence, 4 J miles Southeast of Rensselaer, on the old Malchow farm, on Friday, Jan. 2,19J3, 4 head of horses and 1 span of blaok mules consisting of 1 team of grays 9 and 10 years old; 1 bay mare 7 years old; 1 blaok mare ooming 3 in the spring; 4 head of oowa, one with calf at her side, others to come fresh in February 18ow with 7 pigs. Farm Implements, consisting of 1 narrow tire wagon; 1 carriage; 1 buggy, good as new ; 2 sets of work harraeas; 1 set duble buggy harness; 1 set of single harness 1 buckeye binder 1 Champion planter with 100 rods of wire; 3 cultivators; 2 barrows; 1 steel disk; 1 Endgate oats seeder; 1 riding and 1 walking plow; hay raok and slide; I heating stove and other household goods, Etc., Eot. Sale will oommenoe at canal time, 10 o’ clook a. m. Thos. Knight & Son. Fred Phillips, Auctioneer. O. Gt Spltler, Clerk. Hot Lanoh on grounds. HOMINY MEAL Ik Fihk s Feed fer Fatten* lop Or Stock of Aay KM. It is not a patent * medicated food; just simply the hearts of the com: Extracted at Hominy Mills; from tb# beet of white corn. By mulysts It has been shown that mssjWttrirtt found in the qMterportsona of the grain Intelligent progressive feeders in as well •? other oartf rftrflStoJh fbed inf? if vii n * firntif Ainh VywitV!hi Why not ' fUmember it ’rj: . „ lr<w N |n nf rHi II A. L. Branch.

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS

The Democratic state organ gives os an interior view of its apparatus for manufacturing statistics, when it "saysr "As the Sentinel has shown from Careful estimates of the amount of soot distributed over the north end of the city by the blind asylum smokestack, the daily waste of fuel is $57.43, or in one year $20,955.95." These soot-made statistics are the more appalling in view of the fact that If the state would build a, pipe line to the Sentinel sanctum it would have a ready-to-wear hot-air plant with a source of supply both free and never failing. "The tariff is an issue; it is a live Issue,” remarks the Greeneastle StarPress. From the effect the tariff question has had on the Indiana Democracy every time the party leadership has boldly taken hold of It, it might better be described as a live wire. The New England Anti-Imperialist League met in Boston on December 2nd, “two hundred ladies and gentlemen” being present The most important business transacted was the acknowledgement of a thousand dollar contribution from Mr. Carnegie, and the issuing of a call for more money with which to carry on the work. Next in Importance, probably, was the league’s announcement of its purpose to “destroy the Republican party.” If one . thing was conclusively demonstrated during the last campaign it was that the mythical issue of Imperialism Is a dead one, but If there are two hundred ladies and gentlemen left In New England who want to sit up with the corpse and collect money from Andrew Carnegie and other cheerful givers with a view to providing decent burial, that is their own happiness, and far be It from us to Jostle it.

Professor H. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department of agriculture, an Indiana man by the way, is giving free meals to a dozen men in Washington for the purpose of trying out some theories of his on the pure food Question, and has had some difficulty In getting volunteers who were willing to be experimented on. If the government at Washington had made its free meal offer under the last tariff reform administration, half the population of the country would hava rushed to the banks of the Potomac.

President Roosevelt’s tariff recommendations have earned the criticism of the newspapers which were active In bringing upon the country the Wil-son-Gorman tariff law and what followed It. Since the country indulged In the tariff reform debauch of 1893 to 1896 it is not inclined to take seriouslv the editors who want the country to take another round of that variety of pleasure.

The Albany Argus Is not pleased with the result of Mr. Hill’s campaign In New York, and has started the cry: “Overboard with our Jonah.” In view of the fact that our Democratic friends do not seem to have any votes to spare, it is perhaps not unkind to suggest that it would be better to hunt for a Moses than for a Jonah, although the Jonahs may be plentifully present and the Moses hard to find.

The Commoner denies that Mr. Bryan sent letters to ills Indiana friends advising them to do things to the state ticket of the Indiana reorganizers, bu.t intimates that his followers in this part of the country knew what to do without it being necessary for him to use any postage stamps In pointing the way. “The harmony in Indiana.” he writes, “was a one-sided affair.” The only way to have two-sided harmony Is for Mr. Bryan to have his way. and for the other fellows to be good. Earthquakes are reported from Guam and the Hawaiian Islands. There is no reason to believe that If our Eastern possessions were seismically shaken off the fttp, Democratic leadership would go Into mourning over the loss of the expansion Issue. In fact, somg of the gentlemen ■who were most vociferous on the subject In the early stages of the present congress, have for some time been looking around furtively In the hope of finding a spot where they might gracefully get off.

"It la beyond quaatlon that the ne*ro la becoming a Tery serious problem la all parta of the country,” aaya the Indianapolis Sentinel. Why not parasaouat the laaue and make the Hon. B. Pitchfork Tillman the peer laaa leader In 1104? The gentleman can carry hla state on this platform, while It has been recently demonstrated that this fa more than Governor Hill, Mayor Johnson, Senator Gorman. General Olney or Cokftiet Bryan can do la their respect)re commonwealths on that or any other issue. The report es State Fish Commlsatoner Z. T. BwSeney of Colnmbus. ■our In press, will he distributed tlmmgh members of t*a legisUtare. ■SOhKM&JStISSSSi ons hundred colored pictures of flah and gains win accompany articles by •pednUsts an banting and Ashing la Indiana. It will dlacass the river and

lake systems of Indiana, baits and teres, hunting dogs, the Audubon society and nature study In the schools. A decision by the supreme court at Washington on the Indiana mortgage deduction law is hoped for during the present term. This law, passed by the Indiana legislature of 1897, and successfully defended by Attorney Genoral Taylor in the courts up to the present time, has benefited 80,000 taxpayers in Indiana who have secured deductions aggregating $40,000,000. Not only has this prevented double taxation of small householders, but It has encouraged persons of moderate means to acquire homes by lifting an unjust burden from their shoulders. An Associated Press dispatch from Mexico City says, in discussing the movement for the abandonment of silver basis in the republic to the south of us: "In one respect the struggle outlined over the gold standard Is one of city against country; the large farmers and planters, it is said, fear the gold standard, even though the present dollars are retained and given an artificial value, will cause a rise in the wages of their laborers, and hence they are strong partisans of silver.” As an interesting bit of history it may be remarked that there is a political leadership still seeking to do business in this country which no longer than two years ago deliberately proposed to put the United States where Mexico is now, from a financial standpoint, on the ground that such action would be In the interests of the wage-earner! A considerable group of these leaders are already trying to forget it, but how long will It be before the American people will be ready to trust a leadership which went so far wrong in 1896 and 1900?

The representatives of British labor unions who have been Investigating industrial conditions in the United States, publish the following conclusions concerning the condition of the American wage-earner: “Counting the extra outlay in rent and clothes — for food and all else are cheaper—the American workman is 25 per cent better off than the workman in England. On the whole he is far better cared for in respect of good sanitation, general comfort and better equipment than we are, and on the whole he lives as long or longer in harness than the English workman. This ‘too old at fifty’ principle does not prevail among the workmen wherever if may be found. We speak from observation. Here pauperism or penury in old age is almost unknown. The records of the English workhouses speak for themselves.”

Land Land Land.

We have 10,000 of land in t r iots frgn 40 t > 700 acres, choicest Indiana furmsin Whitley, Koecuisko, Lagrange, Noble and Elkhart counties. Corn lauds, wheat land and grass Lands, we offer for sale or trade on easy terms from 1 to 15 years time, only small payments required. We have seveial farms in the choicest farming region of Indiana known as the How Patch in Lagrange county. We take pleasure in showing lands to any prospective purchaser. We are the oldest as well as largest Real Estate dealers in northern Indiana Write or call for discretion circular of farms, information cheerfully given. Banking House of Sol Mier Co., Ligonier, Ind. C J. Dean, Rensselaer, tnd. Agt.

five Fer Cent. Loan* Irwin &Trwm loan the funds of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., which has made more loans in Jasper County than any other Company or person. Loans made promptly. No “red tape.” No extra charges for making papers; examination of land or abetraot. Partial payments accepted. Offioe in Odd Fellows Temple Rooms 1 and 2.

California... Excursions. in Pullman tourist sleepers on fast trains, tn-weekly, personal. It conducted. New oars, oourteous employes, satisfying meals. The cheap and comfortable way to go. ‘ Chicago to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Why stay at home? The California tour described in our books; mailed for 100 in •tamps. Address General Passenger Office, Atchison, Topeka ' A Santa Fe Railway, Chicago. Santa Fe. notg ti 'id 1 "grf t rii v J:’"a 1 MajS*. 7

Deaths by Violence in Indiana.

The reports of the State Board of Health show there were in all 125 deaths by violence in Indiana in November. Of these 9 were males'and females. The suicides numbered 13 and 7 were males and 6 females' The methods of self murder need were: hanging, male 3, females 1; gunshot, males b, oarbolio aoid, females 2; strychnine, females 2, not named 8. The accidental deaths were: Asphyxiation by gas 4: scalds 3; burned to death 16, males 4, females 12; killed by street cars 4; steam railroads, 25. males 23, females 2; crushed by machinery 13; guns and pistols 15, poisons 9; kioked to death by horses 2; fall from bicycle 1; fishbone 1; and fall.

New Lodge Officers.

Iroquois Lodge No. 143, Odd Fellows, elected the following officers, Thursday night: Noble Grand Geo. Babcofok Vice Grand Ed. Hopkins Recording Secy... .E. G. Warren Financial Secy A. B. Cowgill Treasurer T, W. Haus Trustee 0. E. Mills The new officers of the Encampment are: Chief Patriarch.... Geo. Babcock High Priest..... .Sidney JHolmes Sr. Warden L, H. Bamilton Jr. Warden ...J. E. Tyner Scribe A. B. Cowgill Treasurer G. W. Goff Trustee P. C. Wasons

To Exchange

Three flat briok house dear, fer land. Two, two flat frame houses, rent S2B per month in Chicago, well located. Will trade for any gooij property. ' Butchershop with building and residence complete. Want land. Fine residence and big paying business. Want farm. 120 acres fine prairie land. Want hardwaie or general merchandise. 11 acres joining town, all black land, seven room house,-good out buildings, lots of fruit. Want Rensselaer property or farm. 320 acres fine Kansas land and cash for farm. 340 acres level, blaok land, well located, will take half in town property, merchandise Or small farm, remainder time. 80 acres pasture land, well drained, well located and ready for farming. Want good property and cash. For full particulars, call on or address Q\ F. Meyers, Kniman, Ind.

Monon's Holidays Rates.

The Mcnon route will sell holidday round trip ticket, between all Stations on its line and on connecting lines, at one and one third fare for the round trip. Ticffets will be sold on De 0.24, 25. and 31, and on Jan. 1, Good returning until Jan, 2nd.

Bargains in millinery for a short time. Mrs. Imes will offer a reduction on all trimmed goods. If in need of anything in her millinery line yon could not afford to miss seeing her goods and the prices she is offering them at before baying.

Farms for Sale. In tae Beautitnl Blue Grass Region ot Nortn Missouri. Mexioo is a oounty seat, has Military Academy, Hardin Seminary, four yean high school oourse, beautiful ohurohee and homes, 6,000 good people, no debt, good telephone spelem and free mail delivery in town and oonnty. Audrain is the bkfiner fine bone and oattle oonnty of the ’ State, producing four million dollars worth of surploa productsthis year, no debt, big surplus school fund loaned out, one hundred and five school houses iA the county property assessed at one-fonrth Its value, taxes extremely low and last of Btate debt disappears this year. The Wabaah lines or the Chicago A Alton railroad will bring yon to

Mili Ji :: ik|teKttia» aw * *f ■ - v \ lam now sending Laundry work on Monday and ip Wednesday and delivering it on Wednesday and Saturday. I call for and deliver your Laundy work and will give you as pretty work as you ever have seen—Satisfaction Guaranteed. Christie H. Vick, AGENT FOR ' American Steam Laundry. Telephone me your call.—Phone 254. Laundry office next door to American Express offiie. RENSSELAER. IND,

Rensselaer Bargain Store.

STOVES and PRICES.

9 Don’t forget that I sell the \ Best Soft £oai and Stack Burner s | In Town. Prices from SIB.OO to $30.00 St | No. 18 Oak Stores SI3.M No. 8 Wood Cook, 1 only. .$0 | No. 16 Oak Stoyes 11.10 Steel Range 35.00 ♦ 2 No. 12 Hot Blast for coal.. 9JO Sheet Iron wood stoyes $3 to 100 2 5 No. 12 Hot Blast for coal.. 10.00 12 ga Shells .gs 5 o Shells Loaded to Order, o Always a good stock of Guns on hand. ? Blue Rock-and White Flyer Targets for sale. a,. I C. E. HERSHMAN. !

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J. O. G-WIN -LUMBEBM EBCHANT - LUMBER SHINGLES. DOORS. Of all kinds. Lath. Sash. . Blinds, SEWER PIPE . Ail sizes -ly * ' ; 4%. jk "" v » *4, % ■ . | 4 -»4 (4 41.4 ,<*» ? f i, jU® its ' I ! ■ ft' Paxton’* old stand. J. C. Qwill