Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1894 — Page 2

WHO GETS THE VOTES CONTEST MAY BE IN THE NEW STATES. t'tah, Arizona and New Mexico, with Their Six Senator's, May Determine the Political Complexion of the I pper House—Political Classification of Governors. Point Overlooked. According to a Washington correspondent a point that has been overlooked in computing the political complexion of the next Senate is the admission of Utah with two United States Senators. The act of the last session of Congress admitting Utah provides that in March, 1895, the constitutional convention shall be held. On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of that year the constitution is to be submitted to the people, and if ratified and found by the President to be in accordance with the act he will issue a proclamation admitting it as a State. The act also provides that a representative of the LlVth Congress shall be elected at the same time the vote is taken upon the constitution, also that State officers and a legislature shall be chosen, and that if the constitution is ratified the legislature shall immediately meet and elect two United States Senators. As there is about a month from the time the electior is held until the LlVth Congress meets, there will be ample time to have all the formalities complied with and Utah proclaimed a State in time for its Senators and Representatives to participate in the organization of the next Congress. This would make in all ninety Senators, and, as the new Senate now stands, the politics of the Utah Senators would cut an important figure. Another probability which arises is the admission of both New Mexico and Arizona, which may be accomplished in time, so that four more Senators would participate in the organization of the next Senate. Bills have already passed the House for the admission of both these Territories. The Senate Committee on Territories has reported them favorably to the Senate and they are now on the calendar. Senators of both parties have been urging their passage, and it is more than likely that neither party would oppose them, because of the effect it would have upon the elections, as the people are anxious for their admission and would resent opposition by any party to that end. It is, therefore, quite likely that the battle for the control of the Senate will yet be fought out in Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona next year. The admission of these new States would make a total of ninety-four Senators, and any party to control would need forty-eight for a majority. With the Vice President the Democrats could control the Senate with forty-seven Senators. STATE LEGISLATE KES. Political Complexion of the Various State General Assemblies. The following States will have Republican Legislatures: California, Nebraska. Colorado, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, New York, Idaho, North Dakota, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Oregon, lowa, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Rhode Island. Maine, South Dakota, Massachusetts, Vermont, Michigan, Washington, Minnesota, West Virginia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Montana. Wyoming.—3o. The following States have Legislatures controlled by the Democrats and Populists: Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nevada (pop.), Florida, North Carolina, Georgia. South Carolina (pop) Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Maryland, Virginia.—l 4. GOVERNORS OF STATES. Their Political Classification for 1895. Colorado, Democrat. Republican, Alabama. Connecticut, Arkansas, Delaware, California, Idaho, . Florida, lowa, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Maine, Indiana, Massachusetts, Kentucky, Michigan, Louisiana, Minnesota, Maryland, Montana, Mississippi, New Hampshire. Missouri, New York, Nebraska, Norin Dakota, New Jersey, Ohio, North Carolina, Oregon, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Texas, Rhode Island, Virginia, South Dakota, West Virginia.—l 9. Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.—23. Populist: Nevada, South Carolina.—2. The States which will elect Governors next year are lowa, Kentucky, Louisiana. Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio. Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Virginia. Washington, and West Virginia will elect Governors in 1896. VOTE OF THE HOUSE BY STATES. The Situation of the House If Called On to Elect the President. The Constitution of the United States provides that in the event of failure of a candidate for President to obtain a majority of all the votes in the electoral college then the choice of President shall be made by the House of Representatives. The House, however, does not vote in the usual way in passing laws; the vote is taken by States, each State having only one vote. How that vote shall be cast is determined by each State's delegation, the majority ruling. In case of a tie in the State delegation, then the vote of that State does not count. In the event of the next Presidential election being cast into the House the Republicans will have the choice of President, as will be seen by the following lists. Twenty States have elected Republican delegations: Colorado, New Hampshire, Connecticut, North Dakota, Delaware, Oregon, Idaho, Rhode Island, Indiana, South Dakota, lowa, "Vermont. Maine, Washington, Michigan. West Virginia. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana, Wyoming.

i In the following States the majority of 1 the Congressmen in each are Republican: 1 California, Nebraska. I Illinois, New Jersey, I Kentucky, New York, I Maryland. Ohio, I Massachusetts, Pennsylvania. I Missouri. This makes a total of 31 out of the 44 States, leaving the Democrats 13 States, or a Republican majority in the House of Representatives on a vote for President of IS States. TO SETTLE THE WAR. Cleveland Willing to Act as Arbitrator Between china and Japan. Tokio advices say that United States Minister Dun has communicated to the ministry the substance of an important cipher cable proposition received from Secretary Gresham at Washington. It suggests that if Japan will join China in requesting the President of tb«* United States to act as a mediator in settling the war he will exercise his good offices in that capacity. A similar proposition has been sent to China. The cable was presented to a special meeting of the ministry. The proposition presents a grave question, to the ministry. They are urged on one hand by the popular sentiment to continue the war and crush China; on the other hand European powers are threatening to intervene. As between these conflicting influences the. ministers find great difficulty in reaching a decision on the American proposition, but the prospect is that it will be accepted. It is learned that four days before I'rance made a proposition to the United States to intervene. It is the belief in Washington that China wil readily accept the mediation of the United States, and Japan will do so after she is assured of the indemnity China will yield. China has already gone so far as to notify this government that it will join Japan in recognizing the complete independence of Corea, which would result in the Japanese evacuation of Corea and the re-estab-lishment of the former reigning powers. China has also made known to this Government that it was willing to pay a cash indemnity to Japan. It has not stated how much the indemnity will be, and this promises to be a serious problem. Japan does not intend to be robbed of the fruits of her victory by any indefinite arbitration Therefore she. in effect, asks: “What do you propose doing, and how much will you give? It you will offer enough, then’ we will accept the United States as the intermediary to execute the agreement. But we will not go into any blind arrangement by which a third party will determine the whole basis of peace.” Being a victor, Japan does not intend to go in on even terms with the vanquished. Mr. Gresham’s cable inquiries to China therefore contemplate, first, China’s acceptance of the United States as a mediator; second, a statement of China’s exact offer to Japan of the terms and amount of cash indemnity she will pay. As to the amount of cash it is not likely that Japan will accept the mediation unless $100,000,000 is offered. This will about represent what Japan has actually spent on the war. She does not ask for exemplary or punitive damages as the term is used in law, but merely the damages which will reimburse her outlay. When France paid Germany an indemnity for the Franco-Prussian war it represented not only what Germany had spent, but exemplary or punishment damages as well. Japan does not expect this, but she will insist on actual damages. This is roughly figured as follows: Japan had a reserve fund of $25,000,000 on hand when the war began. This has been spent. Then she negotiated a war loan of 50,000,000 yen (a yen being about equivalent to our dollar). This makes $75,000,000 actually used in the war. Besides this Japanese citizens have contributed large sums. The total outlay, including obligations incurred. is estimated at about $100,000,000. The extra session of the Japanese Diet resulted in a law authorizing a war expenditure up to $150,000,000, but this limit has not been reached. YERKES’ BIG MANSION. Chicago Street-Car Magnate** New York House Nearly Completed. The residence which C. T. Yerkes, of Chicago, has been building for several years at the corner of Fifth avenue and 68th street, New York, is very nearly completed, and will be one of the handsomest houses in New York. The material is brown stone, the design is simple and dignified, and the mansion when completed will represent the very highest type of residential architecture. It is said that the house will cost $2,000,000 when it is finished and ready tu live iu, that the designs for decuiatiiig Mrs. Yerkes* bed-room and bath represent an investe Wfrnlj CHAS. T YERKES’ RESIDENCE, NEW YORK. ment of $50,000, and that a quarter of a million will be expended upon the walls and ceiling of the lower floor. But there are now nu signs of such extravagance. The building has a solid and permanent look, and what impresses one most is the choice material used and the absolute perfection of every detail. The walls are firebrick and and the floors are of steel, tera-cotta and cement, surfaced over with marble and mosaic. There is no wood used in the construction except the cabinet work about the doors and windows, and it is thought Mr. Yerkes couldn’t burn it down if he tried. Telegraphic Clicks. —Gen. Osman, Peruvian Minister of War, has resigned. —An attempt was made by incendiaries to burn Addison, W. Va. —Ernest Huhn, mine superintendent at Nevada City, fell 60U feet into a shaft and was killed. —W. J. Cornell, the Los Angeles (Cal.) baby farmer, has been convicted of fraudulently using the mails. _ —Hoskier, Atwood & Co. will ship 500,000 francs in gold to Havre by the steamer La Bourgogne. —Sparks from a passing >ngine set fire ro a paving block factory at Bay Uity, Mich. The loss is SB,OOO.

HE AL RUB AI READING A/ILL BE FOUND IN THIS PARTMENTWheat More Valuable Than Corn-How to Avoid Overflowing Cisterns— Wheeled Flatform for Driving Posts—Device to Prevent Waste of Lumiier. iTo Avoid the Overflowing of Cisterns. Farmers often have trouble during heavy rains in keeping their cisterns from overflowing. A dampness near the house causes a damp, wet cellar, which should lie strenuously avoided. The accompanying illustration, from a sketch in the American Agriculturist, presents a plan for avoiding such overflowing cisterns A foiked pipe is fastened into the rain gutter or receiver from the roof. At the junction of the two arms or switch pipes there is a shut-off wh ch is operated by a wire rod. which as it appears in the illustration turns the obstruction plate within the pipe and stops its entrance into the cistern when the latter is considered full enough. The other pipe carries the 1 p' DEVISE FOB FBEVEXTINC, CISTEBXS FBOW OVRBFLOWING. water away into a drain or ditch that is pioperly made and covered. This keeps everything dry about the house, and the annoyance so often seen on the farm in wet weather is avoided. The cistern is located back of the kitchen, under the platform and step of the porch, being at hand when water is wanted, adding much in the convenience to the housewife and saving the labor of carrying it from a barrel or other receptacle near the house, set out to catch the water. A Broomstick Table. Very few boys might think that three broomsticks, a square and triangular piece of board and a few nails, if use I in the right places, will produce a table. Saw the sticks from three old brooms of the same size, making the cut close to the broom, obtain a square and a triangular piece of pine hoard; the square one should be twelve inches and the triangular one twelve inches on a side. With a bit the size of the large end of a broomstick, bore three holes in the under side of the top or // i w // \v //Sa If vl f// i BBOOMSTICK TABLE. square board at an angle, fasten the sticks in these hoses and nail or screw them securely from the top with screws passed through the broomsticks; recure the triangular piece half-wav between the top and the floor to form a sort of undershelf, and. with a coat of paint, the finished table will look like the lllustratiou. A Wheeled Platform for Driving Post. In driving fence posts a platform of some kind is required for the operator to stand upon when manipulating the siedge. This is usually a cumbersome box that is rolled and tumbled from one post to another as the work progresses, and if the ground is’uneven the support is very unsteady rendering the work unnecessarily tiresome for the operator. It takes but a little while to construct a wheeled platform like the one illustrated herewith, ’lhe top or plat77 fl F MOVABLE FABM PLATFORM. form is three feet in length and two and a half feet wide and twenty-eight inches from the ground. The wheels should be six or eight inches in diameter and may be of wood or iron, the handles are four and a half feet long with a step nailed on top of them as shown in the sketch. This arrangement will prove handy in gathering apnles from the lower branches of trees and for many other purposes about the farm. Hint to Butter Makers. Farmer’s wives who make butterat home, and a iirsi-ciass article, may . often make an extra price by selling

to families who are unable to secure butter salt enough for their tasts. Some customers, will pay an extra price for butter in small prints of in dividual squares. It is also advisable to wrap the butter in butter paper. It is not expensive and the butter handles much more hicely. lie careful to use best of salt and make that dissolves easily, otherwise the butter may look streaked. Churn est ten and use a thermometer to test the temperature of the cream. I rom 6‘i° to <>4° F, is about right, but it deponds partly on the warmth of the room the butt, ris churned in, and partly on the kind of grain the cows are fed. Builalo gluten meal will make the butter softer than any other feed and the cream need not be as warm, unless cottonseed meal is used to balfance it, as the latter makes hard butter. Do not fail to give the cows plenty of sale Experiments have shown that cows do better salted daily, than less frequent,as is usually done. Some keep a lump of “horse salt” in each cow’s stall. This she can lick every day if she likes. Better Than Corn. Wheat is more valuable than corn, j pound for pound, as a feed, where muscle and lean meat are wanted. It is not quite I as valuable to feed to fattening 1 hogs, unless steamed or soaked thorI oughly. But ground half and half . with corn it will excel corn as a straight feed, as it furnishes the necessary food to grow lean meat, making better ] ork for food than the too fat hog product. For nearly all | other feed wheat is better than corn. It should be crushed for cattle and ! horses, though horses if their teeth are good, will do wellon entire wheat. ! .Sheep do well on it ted whole Tens I of thousands of sheep in the Northwest are fed each winter on wheat , and fitted f r the markets. Chickens i thrive wonderfully well on wheat, in fact, 1 know of no better feed for hens desired to lay. unless itbegreen bone ground.—L C. Wade, Noitb Dakota. Device for Fellini; Trees. In felling leaning trees they generally split and waste so much lumber that some way of preventing the splitting should be adopted, says the a ■osi A i y' B TO FBEVEKT waste of LUMBEB. Orange Judd Farmer. Get your blacksmith to bend a bar of iron about aa inch thick and sixteen inches long in the shape of Fig. A. Cut the side of the tree at C, withdraw the saw, drive in the iron with the points B B and the tree is ready for sawing from the opposite side. When the tree is sawed nearly through the saw may be withdrawn, tne iron removed and the sawing completed from the first cut. Spring Crop* vs. Fall Crops. I'nless the season is unfavorable, the markets are almost invariably glutted with fruit and produce in the fall and winter. Everybody then wants to sell, to realize money for current expenses, and prices are too often jweak and unremunerative. The production of early stuff—asparagus, strawberries, and other vegetables and fruits, is not so common as the staple crops, and wh?n a good market is convenient, this early truck ,is generally the most profitable. The I Spring and early summer market is I better paying one than the fall ; marKet. This is a great point, and well worthy the farmers 1 best consid e ration. Waste of ’Fodder. Nothing ever occurred to bring the lowa farmer to a realizing sense of tne wicked wastefulness he has been practicing in not saving his corn fodder, like the drought of the present season. The early drought injured the hay crop very greatly, and now corn fodder is being sold in the streets of the cities and villages in place of hay.—Hoard's Dairyman. Farm Notes. Better hire a little more help than to keep the boys out ot school It is well to remember that it is muscle rather than tat that is needed bv breeding stock, as fat leads to loss of energy, if not of health and vigor. The tin cans tilled with sweetened water and placed at various points in the orchard of the Oklahoma Experiment Station proved very efficient bug traps. Fili, your hotbeds with litter in the fall so that the ground will not freeze. Replace this with manure in the spring and the planting can proceed without delay It is authoritatively stated that the white pine of the Northwest is sc nearly exhausted that there is practically no further supply for timber. We have certainly reached the joint where timber culture holds out a fair promise of profit. A writer in Home and I arm says that the best wav to keep sweet potato seed from rotting is to dig them after the first light frost and pile them in a round heap: stack cornstalls around them four inches thick: then cover about four inches with dirt and put a dry shelter over them; never put over thirty bushels in a hill.

The W-F ta the Orient. The King of in a ! than was suppose*. . imj-W \ork wonu. Chang much everything em[ ,l,,ye<! nowadays, might I’r''’‘, 1 ’ r ''’‘, ' ll ,j|. r ald.— as a living I'n iuve. V , hl will The predict*. about to some day overrun E F ausj , )U , to get be realized— tncy art —Philadelphia away fruiu the ‘ The capture Us the 'if another Chinese l*’ r *_ - before China can fight.heoug (k atb.-PhU*-she has been ciuouw delphia Inquirer. of die Chinese may now be readily un dersto.xl.-SL Louis Post-Dispat. h The Chinese have concluded that. iff th Japs are so awfully stuck on Arthur they may have it. lherel , they themselves have left-per mfi , some quieter tuwn.-Nevr Fork Morning Journal. Beeent Train Bobberies. The promptness with which the authorities are catching the I irginm tran robbers—in their jntervtews-will only strengthen the public belief that if the outlaws are ever captured it will lx- by accident.— Pittsburg Dispatch. Train robbers are operating dangerously near Philadelphia. The audacious rascals who held up a train near Richmond, Va.. will doubtless be unrelentingly pursued and punished. Prompt retribution may prevent further trouble.Philadelphia Call. For scientific train robbing. California is entitled to the palm over Indian lerritory. Two of the bandit gentrj not on»y cleaned out an express ear with neatness and dispatch but used the loeoin ntive to carry them beyond the reach of pursuit. Kansas City Star. The California and Virginia train robberies occurred almost simultaneously with Dr. C*naa Doyle's arrival in this country. The brigands were probably desirous of seeing how a story of the robberies would read after being touched up by the eminent writer of detective tales. —Baltimore Herald. Ingersoll on Suicide. Col Ingersoll’s remarks will also apply to political suicide.—Washington Post. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll has let up on Moses long enough to s;»eak a good word for suicide.—Philadelphia Call. Col. “Bob” Ingersoll has come out in favor of suicide, which is another of "Bob” Ingersoll’s bobirgersolls.—Springfield Republican. Col. Ingersoll’s article is virtually a plea for suicide as a justifiable and even commendable way of ending one’s career if it is not satisfactory to one’s self.— Buffalo Enquirer. The law in New York which punishes an attempt at suicide with imprisonment is attacked in his most vigorous fashion by Col. Ingersoll. The law is of course barbarous, for a person despairing or in sane enough to attempt suicide assuredly needs other treatment than imprisonment if he fails.—Boston Transcript. Th* Crar’s Death, Alexander 1 IT. from the opening of his reign was harassed by morbid dread of assassination. At last comes Death, the cynical scene-shifter, alike indifferent whether life is comedy or a tragedy, and rings down the curtain.--Tribune. It is impossible to think of the death of the Czar except as that of the peacekeeper of Europe-ru autocrat who was nevertheless an exemplary ruler in many ways and one whose private virtues earned the respect of all men—Philadelphia Ledger. He was not a great man. and fortunately not a bad one. Destiny had pla. ed him in the groove of a great machine, which, with all his autocracy, he had not the power to change; ami he did the Inst that any Czar can do when he moved decorously and decently down the groove to the end.—New York Journal. I'p Higher. It is well that the police commission* rs are to be examined. They can explain many things which stand sorely in of explanation. The public s i luui(l k ,„ llv the worst.—lndianapolis News Isn’t Mr. Goff a little indiscreet in an nouneing that he may call Mr. Ri vhar ,] Croker to the Lexow stand? Mr Croker’s health is very precarious ami there are steamers starting for Eurow constantly.—Providence Journal. It does not take much effort to imagine ‘thaTnf “o rtahl, ‘ State of “in'l than that of the big men” iu N ew York wh., fee the Lexow committee drag-net slowaround themI biladelphia Bulletin. Election Echoes. No one can blame the weith.. „ He played his part weTiflX an ' American. We u--Baltimore Tn a day or so the excitement will b->v. died out and neighbors will a ea i„ u speaking terms.-Wnshingtop ° n The next thing to unset "ill be Christmas, when it wiil'^" t , P' ~s turn to CTai y4t*> As a tribntp to h■.mn .r -i the brass band will pi Pa J."‘ ’- ai " l ‘ ,it ‘te» Home Again" while the " P are being Star p c L,, r Hawaii. Pair her unsettled abl, ‘ to tied pension claim.- W L bia ' 7 an ’«- Ex-Queen Liliuokalani who n "* poeUc license be styled a'f , , ? ay wit h estly requests of Cm-le W L ‘ ’’ $40,000. This petition ai> ‘" Sionof offered as a compromise uwn h.c' "’ WI,lr lTila'l..|phia ItX'.r'l."'' 1 f Eur.? that the brash young F mn T "“•‘P'eion * gradually workta7 d' ° f Gpr ‘ figure-head ehuneellor.-^ 8 1 ° Wn » Dispatch. Loma PostCount Caprivi has . creditably, aild the himself «1 hng to bend his convicti n h f Was notions of the voumr . ? to R,it ‘he Emperor °howf that zette. 's Ga-

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