Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1908 — Page 2

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REPUBLICAN TICKET.

• ••••••• • » • » « Y For Governor, Y JAMES E. WATSON, h —° ft For Lieutenant-Governor, Y FREMONT GOODWINE. h For Congress, 10th OotagramtonaJ |> District, Y EDGAR D. C&UMPACKER. Y o—Y For Judge 30th Judicial Ctronit, Y CHARLES W. HANLEY. (■ For Prosecuting Attorney COth h Judicial Circuit, Y FRED W. LONGWELL. | r For Treasurer, Y JESSE D. ALLMAN. ► For Recorder, h JOHN H. TILTON. ► For Sheriff, ► LEWIS P. SHIRER. h For Surveyor, Y W. FRANK OSBORNE. H For Coroner, Y WILLIS J. WRIGHT. Y For Commissioner Ist DtsL, Y JOHN F. PETTET. (■ For Commissioner 3rd rant Y CHARLES T. DENHAM. Y —o— Y MARION TOWNSHIP. Y ' For Trustee, Y H. E. PARKINSON, h For Assessor, Y GEORGE SCOTT. • For Justice of the Peace, • PHILIP BLUE. • o ■ BARKLEY TWP. TICKET. • For Trustee, • WILLIAM FOLGER. • For Assessor, • CHAS. REED. • o—— • WALKER TOWNSHIP. • For Trustee, » FRED KARCH. • For Assessor, ► HENRY MEYERS. ■ ■ o ■ • HANING GROVE TOWNSHIP ■ TICKET. » For Trustee, ■ GEORGE PARKER. - . 1 For Assessor, ► J. P. GWIN. 1 o 1 JORDAN TOWNSHIP TICKET* 1 For Trustee, A. J. McCASHEN. . 1 For Assessor. JAMES BULLIS. o WHEATFIELD TWP. TICKET. For Trustee, M. J. DELEHANTY. For Assessor, | < A. S. KEEN. . ( jf, ; r~r KEENER TOWNSHIP.. For Trustee, TUNIS SNIP. £ For Assessor, C. E. FAIRCHILD. "O' UNION TOWNSHIP. For Trustee, ' * ■ JAMES L. BABCOCK. For Assessor, ■ ' ED McCOLLY. • 1

For Exchange! 127 acres of land, level fair land, good buildings and fencing, cn free mall route, near school and t miles to good town. Price S4O. 80 acres, nearly all black land In cultivation, fair Improvements, near gravel road, free mall and telephone. Price S6O. 40 acres two miles of station, on main road, no Improvements, dear, title good. Price $25. 14 acres, near station In Dearborn eounty, Ind., clear. Price SX). Six room house on Improved street, dear. Five room house, on two good lots, good barn, well, cistern and fruit. Two blocks from court house. Six vacant lots In Rensselaer, two lots In Roach dale and one In Gas City. Also $2,600 in mortgage notes. Will trade any or all of the above lor land, town property or Uve stock and pay cash difference. Special bargain tor cash. IPO acres land, all In pasture and set to grass, lanced with hog and sheep tight fence, cross fences the same? has six room house, fair barn, cribs, large sheep sheds, wind min and tanks An buildings and fencing nsw. Lies near two stations. Will be sold at suitable terms at the low price of |ML a. f. unu. Office Leopold Bkwk.

SUICIDE STATISTICS.

Childless Marriages a Cause—Rata High Among Germanic Nations. Among 1,000,000 suicides of all classes, it has been found that 305 . married men with children! destroyed their lives; 470 married men without children; 526 widowers with and 1,004 widowers without children. "> With respect to the women, 45 married' women with and 158 without children committed auicide, while 104 widows with, and " 's3B' without offspring, completed the list. On the race of things, says the Illustrated London News, it would appear that In childless marriages the number of men suicides is doubled and in women trebled. Leaving the case of actually insane persona out of count, it would also appear that in males suicide is more frequeut than in females. Equally interesting is that phase of the subject Which deals wttn the causes. One table dealing with 5.782 cases Bhows one-seventh caused by misery, one twenty-first part by loss of fortune, one forty-third by gambling, one nineteenth by love affairs, one-ninth by domestic troubles, one sixty-sixth by fanaticism, and by foiled ambition and remorse one-sev-enth and one tweotyseventh respectively. The geography of auicide is also of high interest.. Weetcott says the highest proportion in Europe Is shown by the Germanic races, Saxony having "the largest suicide rate of any country." In Norway the rate was very large for a time, its decrease being attributed to the greater restrictions now. laid on the liquor traffic. * The Celtic races have a low rate, and this is evinced by the figures for Ireland and Wales. Mountainous regions are said to show a lower rate than lowlands.r In the highlands of Scotland and Wales, and in the high areas of Switzerland, suicide Is rare. , 1 unes and seasons also operate, apparently to influence the act of selfdestruction. Roughly speaking, the curve line of suicide, calculated through the year, rises from January to July,-and decrease® for the second half of the year. The maximum periods have been found to fall in May, June and July. I believe indeed June is found to show a marked predominance- as a suicide month. One reason-tor such preeminence in the warm season of the- year is set down as represented by tae onset of hot weather affecting the- system and tending to disturb the mental equilibrium of the subjects. In 1.993 cases noted in Paris the prevailing hours of self-destruction were from 0 a. m. to noon and from 2 t<> 3 P- mPerhaps one of the most curious phases of this study Is revealed in j the fact already alluded to —namely, that different countries appear to show preferences for different means of committing suicide from other j lands. The most common European i methods is by means of nanging. but ! in Italy this mode of self-destruction is rare. Drowning comes next in order, and twice as many women as men perish in this - way each year in Europe, Shooting is frequent in Italy and to Switzerland. Chit throat is common IS' England and Ireland; it does not seem to constitute anywhere else a frequent mode of ending life. Poisoning i 3 a specially AngloSaxon method of suicide, we are told; while suffocation by the fumes of carbonic acid gas, inhaled in a dosed, room, is very typical of_suteide tnFrance.

SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS.

They Run East and West Instead of North and South. Although to the North American exponents of that project there has seemed a discouraging Tack of interest in the Pan-American Kailroad men, there baa really been no cessation of the activity of the latter in pushing development in their more immediate spheres. “Let us build the lines the country needs,” they say, “and don’t ask ns go out of cmr way to further a scheme which, however practicable from an engineering point of view, would not pay ns dividends In this century, and possibly not in tbe next. "We concede that we might benefit indirectly through the increased stability of government that would follow the building of an intercontinental line, but that benefit Is too remote to Interest us at a time when we have ample opportunity for expending all our available funds in the construction of lines that will yield returns from the day they are opened.” So It happens that while there has never been so much activity in railway construction In South America as at the present moment, almost without exception th* new lines are following the parallels rather than the meridians, running east and west rather than north and south.—Review of Reviews. Mr. Huntem—l’m going to India to hunt six months. Miss Catchem —And I suppose you will forget all about poor me. Mr. Huntem —My dear. It will take a terrible fierce elephant to make me forget you. Tou can't make a nagging woman believe that she hasn't the sweetest disposition U) the neighborhood.

NEW YORK’S HISTORY IN FLAGS.

Dutch, English and American Emblema That Have Waved over the City. The first. European visitor to Manhattan Island was Henry Hudson who in 160 J» sailed up the river now bearing his'name. The flag under which he sailed was that of the Dutch East India Company, which was the flag of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, orange, white and blue arranged in three equal horizontal stripes, in the centre of the white stripe being the letters "a. (X C.’’ — Algemeene Oust —Indise Compagnie (General East India Company). From the time of the discovery no visitor came Into these waters of which there is record until 1612, when Manhattan was settled under the East India Company, which continued In possession until 1622 when the government fell into the hands of the West India Company. The flag of the Dutch West India Company was the same as that of its predecessor save that it bore the letters “G. W. C.” —Gooectroyeore West-Indese Compagnie (Privileged West India ComI pany). j This was the dominant flag till 1664, when this island was surrendered to the English, and the Union Jack (crosses of England and Scotland) of Great Britain supplanted the tricolor of Holland and the name of New Amsterdam was changed to New York. The Union Jack at present is derived from the union of the three crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick, adopted in 1801, when the act of union with Ireland was passed. In the month of July, 1673, the Dutch again took possession of the city, which they occupied until November 10, 1674, when by virtue of a > treaty of peace between England and \ Holland the Union Jack again floated over the city. From this time there was no interruption in the supremacy of the English until the year 1689, when the memorable rule of Leisler, speedily terminated by his death, occurred. He was a warm supporter of William and Mary, and it is possible that, while he held possession of the fort, the flag of William, not then proclaimed King of England, might have floated over New York. But there la no record of this. Were it so however, it could have been but for a very brief period, and the English flag waved undisputed until the eta of the American revolution. At the beginnixg of tbe Revolution here, aa in New England, the people although agrieved, were loyal, and upon the* same day, June 25, 17TS, New York witnessed the double entry of George Washington, just elected by the Provincial Congress General-in-Chief of the American Forces, and on his way to take command at Cambridge and Tryon, the English Gov. ernor, who had arrived the diay before. It was about this time that the first raising of any but the English flag in New Yprk occurred. Before this, indeed, liberty poles had been raised and cut down again; but now, March, 1775, a Union flag, with a red field, was hoisted tu New York upon the liberty pole on tbe Common bearing the inscription “George Rex and the liberties of America,” and upon the other side "No Popery.” The British, under Gov. Tryon, vacated New York in 1775. but there is no record which gives any - positive date as to the raising of the American flag here The city was held by American troops, after this event, until September 12, 1776, when 'Washington retreated to Harlem and afterward from the island, and the city was occupied by Sir Henry Clinton and from that time held by the British until the close of the war. They evacuated the city November 25, 1783. Since then no flag but the Stars and Stripes has waved over the city In token of power and authority.

THE WALLS OG JERICO.

important Discoveries Being Made by an Austraifan P-ofessor. Professor Sell in’a excavations on the site of the ancient city of Jericho are yielding unexpectedly rich treasures. in his last letters to the Vienna Academy of Science the professor writes that over a hundred men are digging at five different points. One of the most Interesting finds Is the historical city wall, built of burnt lime bricks. It was some ten feet in thickness, rising from a stone foundation. On the western side of the city the wall was nearly forty feet in width. At another point a private house was found built over another house of a still earlier epoch. Other discoveries include lamps, plates, cups, needles, weights, mortars and mills of bronze and stone, some of very rough and primitive handwork, and others very finely executed. In the inner city remains of rows of houses have been discovered, and the ancient Hebrew lettering proves that the old Hebrew characters were in use. Professor Sellin hopes to renew the excavating work next winter. In the mean time he says that the work already done has opened up a wealth of material for the student of the preIsraelite and Canaantte period. Pall Mall Gazette. Two Kinds—“A drowning man will catch at a straw.” “And so will « thirsty man."

Classified Column.: V-. v ■ - ;.H -WT'-VVL.; ; LOOT. : LOST—A package containing a ladies lawn black waist, between Belle Center school h&use and Rensselaer, last Saturday. Leave at the Republican office. - jne6 STRAYED. ■ ■ ——— - - 1 STRAYED —Seven spring calves from my farm 11 miles north of Rensselaer. Finder communicate with J. W. Faylor, Phone 526 F. | ~ ~f6undT FOUND —A pair of spectacles in a case. Inquire at this office. HELP WANTED • 1 WANTED —An experienced girl for restaurant work. No other need apply; Mrs. T. W. Haus. .

WANTED. WANTED—To olean your wall paper; look as good as new; ordinary size room. W. A. Davenport, tel, 437. : WANTED—-Family washings to da WU) call for and deliver it. Mrs. 1 Mary Chupp, across street from N. j Warner’s residence. List your farms with ns to exchange tor good rental property or merchan- | disc. We can get you anything you 1 Want. * Evans Brothers, J 1 June Hartford City, Ind. A good dwelling will be accepted as part payment on a farm of 120 1 acres near Rensselaer; high grade land, all to cultivation; tiled, and! good improvements. Win exchange equity in farm of 00 acres In Union township for dwelling; j price $2,400i mortgage S7OO. For Ren*—4 rooms; 2d floor busl-| ness building well located, desirable for residence, city water. Junlfl IA.MR9 H. CHAPMAN. WANTED—At once, 25 second hand refrigerators and ice boxes. Highest prices paid fior same. Phone 64. C. Kellner. . mylltl

COR BALE. FOR SALE—One good team of work horses, will weigh 2,500. William No wets. lw Rensselaer, Ind. ROAD MARE For sale. Everybody knows the sheriff’s black Bell, not afraid of autoe, as good as the best. Reason for selling is my term of office will soon expire and 1 have a good deal of work to do at my hrnna i want to buy a good light team Weighing each about 1100 pounds. Call on or address John O'Connor, Rensselaer, Ind. CHICKEN#- —Standard bred Barred Plymouth Bsaak chicks, from registered bind* from 1 to 4 weeks old, that I wtU aafl from $3 to $5 per dozen. The OKI fowls on inspection at any time. 1 also have the full blood settings tap gale at $2 per setting of IS eggs. 4. & Holden. Jne 4 ~JTOR BALE One 40 ssb farm near gravel road and school, g good fruit and poultry farm will m 8 at a bargain. One T 8 farm, good buildings good orcfcsga and nearly all tiled, near grew*! road and small town, price *65.00 ipr acre. One 70 SSM farm good improvement wall tiled, a gplandid grain farm two and ane-haU miles from elevator, prtoe $9040 pv acre. Lumber ttxd coal yard in town of 000 Inhabttafffiß In good farming country and the only one in town. Ad dree# W» B. Yeoman, Rensselaer, Ind., R. R I>. No. 8. May FOR SAUB*—Forty acres of pasture land throe tastes west of Surrey along the gravel read. This la a bargain at SBO per acre. Inquire of D. & Makesver, Renewlaer, Ind., or Mrs. Mary Olbbon, Lewisville, Alberta, Canada.

K>R RENT. FOR RENT—Residence property in Rensselaer* 7 rooms. Inquire of C. G. Kissinger a* of A. J. Harmon, at his office* jne6 FOR RENT —6 room cottage; water and lights; bam. Inquire of The Rensselaer Lumber Co. PASTBRE—I can accommodate about 50 head of cattle on good pasture on the Geo. Nichols’ old farm in Walker tp* Plenty of good water. Inquire of FRED KARCH, June 6 Wheatfleld, Ind. ROOMS TO RENT—Vwo suites of rooms that may be occupied together or singly with water and lights, in Hollingsworth Building on Van Rensselaer street Inquire of First National Bank. PROFESSIONAL NURSING. Persons needing the service of a professional nurse can arrange with tbe undersigned. Please call phone 509 L MRS. MARY A. HOWE. A sink In your kitchen makes your work easy, and saves you steps. We lnstal them at a moderate cost E. D. RHOADEB ft SON. SnbecrflM lor the Republican.

_ - www , La.— Merchant* and fanner / Tte saleslady F 7 r thecferK. Will find that SpeaMioh or Will\4ry Seldom work SPECULATION In BUYING Generally burns up your money, you take no chances if you trade at this store. Cloaks, thread, calicoes, muslins, sheetings, ginghams, and wash dress goods.’ Prices down to the rock bottom times of two years ago. Ladies’ oxfords at reduced prices, and a line -of ladies shoes for $1.50 per pair. Sizes from 2% to The G. E. Murray Co. iiinitmimtHmMiHiwnHtimmiHiHiiiiii

Wall Paper, Paints, Oils, Brushes, Etc. We have the largest stock of wall paper in Jasper county, and can show yon patterns of any style and price you may desire. Don’t fail to see it before buying as we are sure to please yon. A. F. LONG , DRUGGIST Rensselaer, Indiana

Buggies Staver and Patterson .. HARNESS.. | Scott Bros. BINDER TWINE Wagons Peter Schuttler

MONEY TO LOAN loansjon second mortgage real estate, chattel mortgages, and personal security. Loans on city property made for one, two, and three years, repayable in monthly installments if desired. Sale notes purchased. Money on hand for above loans, no delay. Loans on farms negotiated it a low rate of interest, without commission. A complete set of A.bstract > Books Call personally or write. James H. Chapman, "TCSEJST*

THE STATE BANK OF BENSSELAEA. Corner Washington and Van Rensselaer Streets. OPENED FOR BUSINESS JUNE IST, 1004. DIRECTORS. John Eger. President. Delos Thompson, Cashier, Loans Steono, Granville Moody, James H. Chapman. Does General Banking Business, Loans money on all kinds of approved security. Buys notes, pays interest on savings, pays taxes for customers and others. This bank will be glad to extend every favor to its customers consist sot with safe banking principles. Telephone 41. —